US10124254B2
A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game is provided. In the video game, a plurality of players addresses a common task. The video game processing apparatus includes a processor and a display controller. The processor specifies a task corresponding to a task providing request of a first player and generates player related information of a second player corresponding to the specified task. The display controller displays, on a task screen, an image including a character string in association with the second player. The character string satisfies a display condition during progress of the specified task. The task screen indicates the specified task.
US10124246B2
Facilitating a user to provide inputs to a computing platform by applying varying pressure to one or more external points on a pressure sensitive peripheral device is disclosed. The pressure sensitive peripheral device may include one or more pressure sensors disposed within a housing body or housing bodies of the pressure sensitive peripheral device. The pressure sensors may provide pressure signals conveying information associated with compressive forces applied to the housing body or bodies of the pressure sensitive peripheral device. Inputs to control one or more aspects of a computing platform coupled to the pressure sensitive peripheral device may be provided based on the pressure signals. The one or more aspects of the computing platform may include one or more aspects of a graphical user interface on a display associated with the computing platform, operational aspects of the computing platform and/or any other aspects of the computing platform.
US10124245B2
A quiz game content producing method enables a quiz creator to make, register, and publicize a quiz game set so that other people are able to use the quiz game set in the unit of the quiz game set which comprises one or more quiz steps and game progression material. The present invention also relates to a system and a method for providing a quiz game for a quiz participant who is connected to a quiz channel by enabling a quiz operator to use a publicized quiz game set. In addition, the present invention relates to a system and a method for providing a quiz game using a bidirectional quiz step. The present invention enables a quiz creator to: compose each quiz step by using a unique creative technique in the arrangement of quiz questions or the progression schedule of a quiz game according to selections or difficulties of the overall quiz questions; and develop quiz game content of a quiz game set unit which includes the quiz step. The creation of a quiz game set can be activated by accumulating points or providing a prize for a quiz creator and a quiz operator in a process in which the quiz creator creates the quiz game set and the quiz operator provides a quiz game for quiz participants. The present invention is able to provide a quiz solving game based on the quiz game set by enabling anyone to easily open a quiz channel and invite acquaintances as quiz participants.
US10124241B2
Automatic card shufflers may include a card input mechanism for inputting cards into the card shuffler, a card storage device for receiving cards from the card input mechanism and temporarily storing cards within the card shuffler, and a card output mechanism for outputting cards from the card shuffler.
US10124221B2
Examples of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion with a toe portion, a heel portion, a rear portion, a front portion with a strike face, a sole portion, and a top portion with a plurality of weight ports. The body portion may define a periphery of the golf club head. The golf club head may also include a plurality of weight portions with each weight portion disposed in one weight port of the plurality of weight ports. Other examples and examples may be described and claimed.
US10124220B2
A putter having a body with a striking surface, an upper surface that is visible to player when in the address position and a sole plate that is coupled to a bottom surface of the body. The upper surface includes at least one aperture and the sole plate includes a sightline projection that extends into the aperture to form a sightline on the putter that is visible to the player.
US10124219B2
A golf club head comprises a sole, a recessed sole port in the sole; and a rotatably adjustable sole piece adapted to be at least partially received within the sole port and comprising a central body having a plurality of contact surfaces adapted to contact the sole port and being offset from each other along a central axis extending through the central body of the sole piece. The sole piece can be positioned at least partially within the sole port at five or more rotational and axial positions with respect to the central axis, wherein at each rotational position, at least one of said contact surfaces of the central body contacts the sole port to set the axial position of the sole piece. The sole port and/or the sole piece can be generally pentagonal in shape.
US10124214B1
Golf ball incorporating mixtures of thermoplastic polymers and polymethyl methacrylate (MMA) copolymers. The thermoplastic polymer and MMA copolymers may be included in weight ratios of from 98:2 to 50:50. The mixture may have different hardness than that of the thermoplastic polymer, a glass transition temperature Tg-m greater than a glass transition temperature Tg-tp of the thermoplastic polymer, and a modulus, tensile strength and ultimate elongation greater than that of the thermoplastic polymer.
US10124213B2
The present invention is directed to a golf ball that includes at least a portion of its dimples having a plan shape defined by superposed curves. In addition, the present invention is directed to golf balls having improved aerodynamic performance due, at least in part, to the selection of the dimple plan shapes and resulting dimple patterns.
US10124211B2
A device is used for carrying out movements by shifting the center of gravity and/or actuating muscles of a human body. A user lies on the device and shifts the center of gravity by moving his or her hip region in order to incline a movable part of the device including the user's own body in different directions. Furthermore, the user wears video goggles or the like during the process and can move in a virtual environment using the overall system, which includes the video goggles and the movement device and can interact with these. The movements caused by the user can be generated solely using gravity by shifting the center of gravity. Additionally, the movements of the device are influenced by motors or dampers arranged in or on the device.
US10124202B2
An exercise device including two foot platforms riding on elongated rails for longitudinal motion relative thereto. The platforms are directly connected to each other by one or more elastic elements. The platforms are also connected by linear and/or rotary dampers to provide motion damping. In addition, weights and/or flywheels may be used to smooth the oscillations. When the two platforms are side-by-side, the elastic elements run in a substantially crosswise direction. A seated user may place the user's feet on the platforms and move his/her feet and lower legs back and forth in a scissoring motion to move the platforms in opposing directions along the rails. In so doing, the user overcomes the resistance of the elastic elements and dampers connecting the platforms. This provides the user with exercise and its accompanying benefits.
US10124201B2
A retractable wall mounted exercise rack system for providing an exercise rack that may be easily and compactly stored when not in use. The retractable wall mounted exercise rack system generally includes one or more brackets attached to a wall, a pair of support members, and a plurality of arms pivotally extending from the brackets and pivotally connecting to the support members. One or more actuators are connected between the brackets and the arms to assist in lifting the structure into a compact retracted position for storage.
US10124200B2
A trampoline game has a trampoline with a trampoline frame and a trampoline bed. The trampoline bed is connected to the trampoline frame by a plurality of springs. A gun has an infrared emitter emitting an infrared signal. A target has one or more infrared receivers capable of receiving a signal from the infrared emitter of the gun. A second gun also has an infrared emitter emitting an infrared signal, and the target is capable of receiving an infrared signal from the second gun. A bounce sensor can be used for sensing user bounces. The bounce sensor outputs data which could be sent to a microprocessor. Defined game parameters may be stored in memory programmed into a microprocessor that receives data.
US10124195B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for thermally-induced renal neuromodulation. Thermally-induced renal neuromodulation may be achieved via direct and/or via indirect application of thermal energy to heat or cool neural fibers that contribute to renal function, or of vascular structures that feed or perfuse the neural fibers. In some embodiments, parameters of the neural fibers, of non-target tissue, or of the thermal energy delivery element, may be monitored via one or more sensors for controlling the thermally-induced neuromodulation. In some embodiments, protective elements may be provided to reduce a degree of thermal damage induced in the non-target tissues.
US10124174B2
An example of a system includes an implantable medical device (IMD) for implantation in a patient, where the IMD includes a cardiac pace generator, phrenic nerve stimulation (PS) sensor, a memory, and a controller, and where the controller is operably connected to the cardiac pace generator to generate cardiac paces. The controller is configured to provide a trigger for conducting a PS detection procedure and perform the PS detection procedure in response to the trigger. In performing the PS detection procedure the controller is configured to receive a signal from the sensor, detect PS using the signal from the sensor, and record the PS detection in storage within the IMD.
US10124167B2
Apparatus and methods for installing a magnet into a cochlear implant.
US10124159B2
The present invention relates to electroporation (EP) devices that are able to generate an electroporation causing electrical field at the mucosal layer, and preferably in a tolerable manner. Further, it includes the generation of a protective immune response, cellular and/or humoral, using the oral EP device along with a genetic construct that encodes an immunogenic sequence.
US10124154B2
Balloon catheter, guide catheter and method for dilating openings in paranasal sinuses. A non-removable guide member (e.g., guidewire) extends from the distal end of the balloon catheter. The non-removable guide member initially passes through the opening of the paranasal sinus and is followed by the catheter body on which the balloon is mounted. The balloon is then inflated causing dilation of the opening of the paranasal sinus. In some embodiments, the non-removable guide member may be shapeable so that the operator may place the non-removable guide member in a desired shape prior to insertion of the balloon catheter. In some embodiments, the length of the non-removable guide member may be adjustable such that the operator may adjust the length of the non-removable guide member prior to insertion of the balloon catheter.
US10124153B2
A balloon catheter including a shaft and an inflatable balloon attached to the shaft, the catheter includes an open sleeve having a proximal end sealingly attached to the catheter shaft and an open distal end. The sleeve surrounds at least part of the balloon. The sleeve and the balloon are arranged such that inflating the balloon expands the sleeve into an expanded state and deflating the balloon when the sleeve is in the expanded state forms an open cavity between the sleeve and the deflated balloon and creates suction to capture and retain debris within the cavity.
US10124146B2
The various embodiments herein relate to a boosting catheter for positioning through a conventional guiding catheter into the vasculature of a patient, the boosting catheter having a distal tubular member and a proximal elongated shaft coupled to the distal tubular member.
US10124145B2
Catheters, sheaths, or other tubular devices are provided that include a proximal end, a distal end sized for introduction into a patient's body, and a steerable distal portion. The tubular device includes a primary lumen extending between the proximal and distal ends; an auxiliary lumen adjacent the primary lumen; and one or more reinforcement members including windings extending helically along at least the distal portion, at least some of the windings passing between the primary and steering element lumens and at least some of the windings surrounding both the primary and steering element lumens. In one embodiment, a steering element is slidably disposed within the auxiliary lumen. Apparatus and methods for making such tubular devices are also provided.
US10124129B2
The invention relates to a dispensing device, a storage device and a method for dispensing a medical formulation. Multiple doses of the formulation are stored in a carrier having multiple storage members, each storage member containing a single dose. Each storage member comprises one duct or nozzle for dispensing the respective dose. The dispensing direction of the ducts or nozzles is directed in a lengthwise or indexing direction of the carrier. The storage device of the carrier is a peelable blister strip, wherein the ducts or nozzles can be opened one after the other by peeling the blister strip.
US10124127B2
A wearable wrist inhaler includes a wristband having a first end and a second end configured for wear about a user's wrist. An inhaler unit is removably coupled to the wristband displaced from the first end and the second end, the inhaler unit including a housing having a plurality of walls defining an interior area and an outlet port in communication with the interior area. A watch assembly is positioned atop the housing of the inhaler unit, the watch assembly energized by a battery and includes a display configured to indicate a time of day. A dosage chamber including a medicament is positioned in the interior area of the housing. A dispensing assembly is communication with the inhaler medicament that is configured to dispense an individual portion of the medicament via the outlet port upon demand by a user.
US10124124B2
A method for assisting subchondral injection comprising creating a model of bone and soft tissue of a patient. At least one void is modeled in the bone from the model of bone and soft tissue. An injection site is identified from the model of bone and soft tissue and modeling of the at least one void. Data is output for guiding at least in the locating of the injection site and drilling of the bone to reach the void. A patient-specific jig for subchondral injection may be created based on the injection site location.
US10124116B2
An injection device with a feedback mechanism includes a housing for a medicament container having a stopper, a plunger rod for acting on the stopper, a button interactively connected to the plunger rod, an activation member having a flexible locking device releasably connected to the plunger rod, a drive force device, a locking member slidable between positions in which the locking member either completely or partially surrounds the flexible locking device, and a guide rod. Audible and tactile information that an injection has started is provided by the plunger rod's hitting the stopper.
US10124115B2
A push button safety injector includes a housing having a proximal end, a distal end spaced from the proximal end, and a longitudinal axis. An injection ram is positioned along the longitudinal axis and configured to actuate a fluid chamber. The injection ram is biased toward the distal end in an initial position. A sliding member is configured to retain the injection ram in the initial position. A safety member confines radial movement of the sliding member in the initial position and allows radial movement of the sliding member in an armed position. A button is moveable between an initial extended position and a depressed position. The button is engagable with the sliding member and configured to move the sliding member radially in the armed position. The sliding member releases the injection ram when the button is in the depressed position.
US10124105B2
A device (1) for the extracorporeal oxygenation of the blood of a patient, comprising a containment casing (2) which has at least an inlet port (4) of the venous blood and at least an outlet port (5) of the arterial blood, at least an inlet channel (6) and at least an outlet channel (7) of a work gas intended to provide oxygen to blood and/or to remove CO2 from the same, at least a bundle of hollow fibers (8) arranged within the casing (2) and placed between the inlet channel (6) and the outlet channel (7), the hollow fibers being in communication with the inlet and outlet channels (6, 7) and being intended to be crossed by the relative work gas, at least a first and at least a second filtering elements (12, 13) arranged inside the bundle of hollow fibers (8) and spaced apart the one from the other, the filtering elements (12, 13) being able to trap any air bubbles present in the treated blood, where the first and second filtering elements (12, 13) define a relative open profile and where the hollow fibers (8) cross the first and second filtering elements (12, 13) uninterruptedly.
US10124101B2
A fluid resistant electrical connector for an implantable medical device includes a first connector assembly and a second connector assembly. The first connector assembly includes a first housing, an elongated coupling member, and first electrical contacts distributed around the coupling member. The second connector assembly includes a second housing, second electrical contacts, and a retention member. The second housing has a coupling member receptacle and a retention member receptacle. The coupling member receptacle is shaped to accommodate a distal portion of the coupling member. The retention member is partially accommodated by the retention member receptacle and movable between an insertion configuration accommodating coupling of the first and second connector assemblies and a retention configuration retaining the coupling member to prevent inadvertent uncoupling of the electrical connector.
US10124086B2
A composition includes polydioxanone and/or a copolymer thereof and at least one carboxylic salt. A molding includes the composition. A thread includes the composition. A medical kit includes the composition and a medical product includes the composition.
US10124078B2
Lipid-based nanoparticle compositions are provided. The compositions generally comprise lipid-hydrophilic polymer-amyloid binding ligand conjugates, and may be liposomal compositions. The compositions, including the liposomal compositions, may be useful for imaging and/or the treatment of amyloid-β plaque deposits characteristic of Alzheimer's Disease.
US10124076B2
Compositions and methods useful in connection with magnetic resonance imaging are provided. Metabolites hyperpolarized by dynanic nuclear polarization are used as reporter molecules in nuclear magnetic resonance (“NMR”) spectroscopy to study metabolic pathways and diagnose disease states. The reporter molecules include hyperpolarized glutamine and hyperpolarized acetate. The invention includes the reporter molecules, compositions including the reporter molecules in pharmaceutically acceptable carriers, methods for studying metabolic pathways that include introducing one or more of the reporter molecules to a mammalian subject and imaging a target substance using NMR spectroscopy, and kits useful in studying metabolic pathways that incorporate one or more of the reporter molecules and instructions for their use.
US10124074B2
Indirect chromoendoscopy is performed by providing a subject with an orally administered composition which includes indigo carmine dye mixed with polyethylene glycol (PEG). Preferably, the subject ingests at least 160 mg of indigo carmine prior to the endoscopic procedure. This is accomplished by ingesting 1 ml to 6 L of a premixed or reconstituted indigo carmine and PEG composition up to twenty four hours prior to the endoscopic procedure.
US10124070B2
The present disclosure provides anti-HER2 antibody-maytansine conjugate structures. The disclosure also encompasses methods of production of such conjugates, as well as methods of using the same.
US10124067B2
A composition for soothing irritation that does not diminish the efficacy of a topical antiseptic is disclosed. The composition comprises an emollient, an emulsifier, and a film-forming agent. Also, a method of soothing irritation without diminishing the efficacy of a topical antiseptic product comprises the steps of providing the topical antiseptic product comprising a cationic antiseptic agent, providing the composition, applying the topical antiseptic product to a target area on skin of a patient to coat the target area with the cationic antiseptic agent, and applying the composition to the coated target area.
US10124058B2
Provided herein are recombinant modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) strains as improved vaccines against infection with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV virus) and to related products, methods and uses. Specifically, provided herein are genetically engineered recombinant MVA vectors comprising at least one nucleotide sequence encoding an antigenic determinant of an RSV membrane glycoprotein and at least one nucleotide sequence encoding an antigenic determinant of an RSV nucleocapsid protein. Also provided herein are products, methods and uses thereof, e.g., suitable to affect an immune response in a subject, or suitable to diagnose an RSV infection, as well as to determine whether a subject is at risk of recurrent RSV infection.
US10124056B2
The present invention provides, among other things, improved influenza vaccines based on hemagglutinins containing one or more alkylated cysteine residues. In particular, the present invention provides influenza vaccines containing hemagglutinins treated with an alkylating agent and methods of making the same. Inventive influenza vaccines provided by the present invention have a remarkable ability to retain potency as determined by Single Radial Immunodiffusion (SRID) assay upon storage.
US10124044B2
The present invention relates to the use of photolyase enzymes to reduce or improve subclinical skin field cancerization associated with actinic keratosis or non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC) and methods for the therapeutic treatment of subclinical field cancerization associated with actinic keratosis and/or non-melanoma skin cancer (NMSC).
US10124043B1
The invention comprises isolated, mutant, non-wild-type organophosphorus acid anhydrolase (OPAA) enzymes having three site mutations, methods of production, and methods of use to effectively degrade organophosphorus compound EA1356 (2-methylcyclohexyl methylphosphonofluoridate) with greater catalytic efficiency than the wild-type OPAA enzyme.
US10124034B2
The present invention relates to a polypeptide, described as a lectin, its encoding nucleic acid sequence and antibodies to the polypeptide and their use in various medical applications, particularly for treating or preventing an autoimmune disorder, an inflammatory disorder or damaged skin in an animal.
US10124031B2
Provided is a functional composition for preventing an Alzheimer's disease, in which the composition includes heat-treated salt that is heat-treated at 800° C. to 1200° C. as an effective component and other pharmaceutically or sitologically acceptable components. The composition can prevent an Alzheimer's disease by effectively blocking the cause path of an Alzheimer's disease in a human body.
US10124026B2
The present invention concerns a lactic composition useful for the prevention or treatment of diarrhea such as antibiotic associated diarrhea or “tourists.” The composition according to the invention contains at least a bacterial strain selected from the group consisting of Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus acidophilus I-1492, Lactobacillus casei and a mixture of thereof.
US10124023B2
The present invention provides for methods and compositions for enhancing the immune response toward cancers and pathogens. It relates to immunoresponsive cells bearing antigen receptors, which can be chimeric antigen receptors (CARS), which express introduced ligands for immunomodulatory molecules. In particular embodiments, engineered immunoresponsive cells are antigen-directed and resist immunosuppression and/or have enhances immune-activating properties.
US10124022B2
Methods for treating cancers, tumors, and neoplasms using a composition comprising one or more generally regarded as safe (GRAS) compounds selected from the group of components consisting of vitamins, selenium, fatty acids, fatty acid salts, and fatty acid esters, and mixtures of two or more said components, either as a stand-alone treatment or in combination with one or more anti-cancer drugs or devices or other anti-neoplastic agents, treatments, or devices are provided. In some instances, concomitant hyperthermia therapy is employed. Also provided are compositions and kits containing the compositions, for implement various aspects of the invention.
US10124017B2
The present invention discloses a new use of ginsenoside M1 for treating or preventing gout.
US10124013B2
Method and composition for treating psoriasis and other skin disorders.
US10123997B2
A method of treating hepatitis B virus includes inhibiting the activities of AKT and/or mTOR, inhibiting the synthesis of 5-phosphate ribose, and inhibiting HBV DNA and HBV cccDNA.
US10123991B2
A therapeutic compound has a modified phenolic compound of the general formula (I) wherein at least one of R, R1, R2, R3, and R4 is an electrophilic group chosen from halogen, aldehyde, haloalkane, alkene, butyryl, flurophenol, sulfonamide, flurophenol sulfoxide and the remaining R, R1, R2, R3, and R4 is are each independently hydrogen, a hydroxyl group, an alkoxy group, a rutinosyl group, a carboxyl group, chromone, benzopyran, a rhamnosyl group, a substituted alkoxy group or a substituted acyloxy group wherein the substituent is chosen from hydroxyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, phenyl, halogen, and amido group. The compound can be used in a therapeutic treatment of inflammatory related diseases and condition.
US10123990B2
Pharmacological compositions containing a hydroxamic acid derivative selected from (2S)-2-((4-((4-((1S)-1,2-dihydroxyethyl)phenyl)ethynyl)benzoyl)(methyl)amino)-N-hydroxy-N′,2-dimethylmalonamide, (2S)-2-((4-((4-((1R)-1,2-dihydroxyethyl)phenyl)ethynyl)benzoyl)(methyl)amino)-N-hydroxy-N′,2-dimethylmalonamide, and (2S)—N-hydroxy-2-((4-((4-((1S)-1-hydroxy-2-methoxyethyl)phenyl)ethynyl)benzoyl)(methyl)amino)-N′,2-dimethylmalonamide, or a salt of said derivatives, and an antibiotic substance are useful in the treatment of gram-negative bacterial infections.
US10123986B2
Provided herein are compositions comprising eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and polar lipids (e.g., glycolipids and phospholipids), and which do not contain any docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) or esterified fatty acids.
US10123982B2
Disclosed herein are methods for treating cancer comprising administering at least one immune checkpoint inhibitor and at least one Retinoic Acid Receptor or Retinoid X Receptor active agent.
US10123980B2
A method of forming an implant in the tissue can include: providing an injectable composition having a neat liquid carrier, wherein the neat liquid carrier is substantially liquid at room temperature and/or about body temperature; and injecting the neat liquid solution into the tissue at the rate of 10-12000 injections per minute and/or at an amount of 1.0E-02 ml to 1.0E-16 ml per needle per injection. The neat liquid carrier can be polymeric or non-polymeric. The neat liquid carrier can be biodegradable. The neat liquid carrier can include a viscosity-modifying agent. The injecting can form an implant with area greater than or equal to 5 mm2. The neat liquid carrier can be injected at a depth of 10 microns to 5 mm. The neat liquid solution can include a drug or other agent.
US10123977B2
A gel patch includes a base fabric, an adhesive layer, and a release liner in this order, wherein the adhesive layer contains a physiologically active substance, a water-soluble (meth)acrylic polymer, water, a surfactant, and poly(methyl acrylate/2-ethylhexyl acrylate), and the surfactant comprises a polyethylene glycol fatty acid ester or a polyoxyethylene sorbitan fatty acid ester.
US10123968B2
Described herein are compositions useful for moisturizing and/or improving the appearance of skin by evening skin tone and/or reducing the appearance of dark spots or hyperpigmentation. The compositions comprise cosmetic ingredients such as lactobacillus ferment; Ferula foetida root extract; Helianthus annuus (sunflower) seed extract; Terminalia ferdinandiana fruit extract, and niacinamide.
US10123965B2
The present disclosure provides formulations, methods and devices for periorbital skin rejuvenation. A periorbital skin serum in accordance with the present disclosure comprises squalane (sugarcane derived), vitamin E (tocopheryl acetate), vitamin C (tetrahexyldecyl ascorbate), and ubiquinone (coenzyme Q10, oxidized form).
US10123963B2
A method of treating the hair including providing a concentrated hair care composition in a mechanical foam dispenser. The concentrated hair care composition includes one or more silicones, from about 1% to about 5% perfume, and is substantially free of high melting point fatty compounds. The method also includes dispensing the concentrated hair care composition from the mechanical foam dispenser as a dosage of foam; applying the foam to the hair; and rinsing the foam from the hair. The foam has a density of from about 0.025 g/cm3 to about 0.3 g/cm3 when dispensed from the mechanical foam dispenser.
US10123955B2
A malodor-counteracting composition comprising (i) a salt of general formula (I) R1R2R3R4N+X− (I) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4 are independently selected from C1-4 alkyl, or R1, R2, R3, R4 may together constitute a nitrogen-containing cyclic system in which the nitrogen is part of a pyridinium or an imidazolinium ring; and X− is a counterion characterized by its protonated form having an acidity constant (pKa) lying between 1 and 6; and (ii) an alpha, beta-unsaturated carbonyl compound of the general formula R5R6C═CR7C(═O)YR8 (II) wherein R5, R6, R7 and R8 are independently selected from hydrogen and C1-10 hydrocarbyl residues which may be saturated, unsaturated, aromatic, cyclic, branched or unbranched, and are optionally substituted, or R5, R6, R7 and R8 may together constitute a cyclic system and Y is oxygen or a single covalent bond, with the proviso that Y is a covalent bond when R8 is hydrogen. The composition may be incorporated into consumer products and is able to remove malodors from the air or from surfaces.
US10123949B2
The group of inventions relates to the field of aesthetic, plastic and reconstructive cosmetology/medicine, and more particularly to meso threads used for remedying aesthetic and age-related changes to the skin, and to methods for producing such threads. Proposed is a multicomponent meso thread consisting of a core and a shell. The core is realized in the form of a fibroin thread, and the shell contains hyaluronic acid or a salt thereof or a polyelectrolyte complex of hyaluronic acid or a salt thereof and chitosan or a salt thereof. Also proposed are a variant of the thread having a plastifying agent in the shell, and methods for producing the proposed meso threads.
US10123948B2
A dental cement hardened by a cement reaction involving the specific polymerizable polyacidic polymer and optionally additional crosslinkable groups, has reduced shrinkage and improved mechanical properties, in particular with regard to flexural strength and fracture toughness. Moreover, the specific polymerizable polyacidic polymer of the present invention contains a high number of acidic groups which is not reduced by the presence of polymerizable moieties, whereby water solubility of the uncured polymer is not impaired by the presence of the polymerizable moieties.
US10123947B2
The present invention provides a dental cement that exhibits excellent adhesiveness to dentin and has high mechanical strength. The present invention relates to a multi-part dental cement containing: an asymmetric acrylamide-methacrylic acid ester compound (a); an acid group-containing (meth)acrylic polymerizable monomer (b); a hydrophobic crosslinkable polymerizable monomer (c); a chemical polymerization initiator (d); and a filler (e). The asymmetric acrylamide-methacrylic acid ester compound (a) is represented by the following general formula (1): where X is an optionally substituted, linear or branched C1 to C6 aliphatic group or an optionally substituted aromatic group, the aliphatic group is optionally interrupted by at least one linking group selected from the group consisting of —O—, —S—, —CO—, —CO—O—, —O—CO—, —NR1—, —CO—NR1—, —NR1—CO—, —CO—O—NR1—, —O—CO—NR1—, and —NR1—CO—NR1—, and R1 is a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted, linear or branched C1 to C6 aliphatic group.
US10123939B2
A closing plug for a sealed sterile vial containing medical or nutritional active substances, which is suitable for the sterile connection to a container of liquid diluent solution. There is also described a sterile connection system between a sealed sterile vial closed by means of a plug and a tube for drawing said active substances, for mixing them with a liquid diluent solution inside a sterile container. The plug requires an internal sterile chamber in which, upon the piercing of an outer film for sealing the plug, a compressible protection cap of a piercing tip of the tube is inserted, which abuts against a seat of the sterile chamber allowing the tip to pierce the end wall of the protection cap and then the inner membrane of the closing plug. An intermediate pierceable membrane placed on the seat of the internal chamber of the vial may be included.
US10123937B2
Methods and systems for providing pain therapy by utilizing cold/heat-assisted distributed vibration therapy. The pain therapy device includes a plurality of vibration motors that are located along a grid. The device is portable and can be adaptable to the body part requiring pain therapy.
US10123932B2
There is provided a motion assist device including a jth link worn on a jth portion of a user, an ith joint unit connected at one end of an ith link in a freely rotatable manner, a (j+1)th link worn on a (j+1)th portion of the user, an (i+1)th joint unit integral with one end of the (j+1)th link and coupled to the other end of the jth link, a single actuator installed at one of the jth link and a link adjacent to the jth link, and a transmission part transmitting a driving force of the actuator to the ith joint unit and the (i+1)th joint unit.
US10123926B2
The biodegradable urn planting system, also called a LIVING URN, is an apparatus capable of rapid degradation in soil that the user can fill with cremated remains, a pH neutralizing and sodium diluting material, soil, planting mix, wood chips, and a living plant (seedling or bare root stock). When one loses a loved one, it is often difficult to discern what to do with the remains (be they human or animal). Many towns and cities do not allow for burial, and storage of cremated remains can be problematic. The present invention seeks to provide a meaningful and tangible way for one to remember the loved one when the cremated remains are buried with a seedling that may be drop shipped and is appropriate for the environment of use. Thus, the seedling grows into a tree, providing comfort and a reminder of the deceased.
US10123924B2
A system for adjusting the height of a patient support surface on a bed includes one or more height adjustment actuators operable to adjust a height of the patient support surface above a floor surface; a controller connected to the one or more height adjustment actuators, the controller including a memory; and one or more user interface units connected to the controller, wherein the controller is configured to record as a stored actuator state a current state of the one or more height adjustment actuators in the memory in response to a first input signal from the one or more interface units, and is configured to operate the one or more height adjustment actuators to automatically return them to the stored actuator state in response to a second input signal from the one or more interface units. Alternatively, or in addition, the controller may be configured to provide an indication to a user when the one or more height adjustment actuators have returned to the stored actuator state during a subsequent height adjustment operation.
US10123921B2
A patient support apparatus includes a base having a length and including a plurality of caster wheels enabling movement of the patient support apparatus across a floor surface. An auxiliary wheel support structure is secured to the base and rotatably supports at least one non-castered auxiliary wheel about a rotational axis transverse to the length of the base for engagement with the floor surface. The auxiliary wheel support structure may be configured to support the auxiliary wheel and to enable movement of the auxiliary wheel out of engagement with the floor surface to a non-engaged position wherein the at least one auxiliary wheel is out of engagement with the floor surface. A control apparatus is in communication with and moves the at least one auxiliary wheel between at least one deployed position and a non-engaged position.
US10123919B2
A disposable absorbent article having a fastening system with male and female components is disclosed. The female component may include a fibrous material having an overall thickness and an overall fiber cross-sectional dimension. The male component may include a plurality of hooks configured to engage the female component, the hooks having features with dimensions relating to the overall thickness and/or the overall fiber cross-sectional dimension of the fibrous material.
US10123914B2
In this diaper (1A), both lateral side edge portions (2a, 2b) of an outer cover (2) to which an absorbent assembly (3) is fixed are bonded together, so as to form a pair of side seals (4). In a fixing part (7) where the outer cover (2) and the absorbent assembly (3) are fixed, the outer cover (2) has a weak-functioning region (WT) in which the elastic function is reduced. In each outer lateral side of the weak-functioning region (WT) and in each side seal (4), a lateral-side adhesion region (IT) and a side-seal adhesion region (OT) are formed, respectively, in each of which elastic members (24) are fixed between an outer sheet (22) and an inner sheet (23) by an adhesive (8). In each lateral-side adhesion region (IT) and each side-seal adhesion region (OT), the basis weight of the adhesive (8) in a section (IP, OP) where the elastic member (24) is arranged is higher than the basis weight of the adhesive (8) in a section (IN, ON) between a pair of adjacent elastic members (24), and sections with high and low basis weights in adhesive (8) alternate repeatedly in the Y direction.
US10123907B2
A mud visor formed by a substantially transparent sheet is attached to a goggle lens. The mud visor may be attached to the goggle lens using a substantially transparent adhesive or adhesive tape. Thus, the mud visor may provide clear and improved field of view for the user. Further, the mud visor may be configured to cover and guide a top portion of a roll-off film as the roll-off film is conveyed across the goggle lens. A top portion of the mud visor may be inserted into the lens groove of a goggle frame along with the goggle lens when the goggle lens is attached to the goggle frame. The mud visor also may stretch across the goggle lens and overlap with film canisters at both sides to provide a seamless coverage to prevent mud from entering behind the mud visor or the roll-off film.
US10123902B2
A patient temperature control system and method are provided for automated temperature control according to a programmed protocol. In one aspect, at least one programmed protocol may be established for each of a plurality of patient thermal therapy phases. In turn, the temperature of a thermal exchange medium may be controlled, based at least in part, upon the programmed protocol, during each of the phases. In another aspect, a plurality of programmed protocols may be established, wherein a selected one of the protocols (e.g. selected by a user at a user interface) may be utilized for automated temperature control during patient thermal therapy. The protocol(s) may include a target patient temperature and/or a set duration for one or more of the phase of thermal therapy. Further, the protocol(s) may be user-definable and modifiable during therapy. In a multi-phase configuration, automatic termination and initiation of successive phases may be selectively established by a user, based on target patient temperature data and/or set duration data on a phase-specific basis.
US10123890B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a preform by means of an electrospinning process. The present invention also relates to the use of the present preform as a substrate for growing human or animal tissue thereon. The present invention furthermore relates to a method for growing human or animal tissue on a substrate, wherein the present preform is used as the substrate.
US10123886B2
A lower limb prosthesis for a person is provided that comprises a foot prosthesis having a heel plate for contacting the ground and an ankle plate extending vertically from the heel plate when the heel plate is in ground contact, a leg prosthesis having an upper end portion mountable to the body of the person and a lower end portion, and a clearance enhancer. The clearance enhancer is in the form of a generally L-shaped plate, the plate including a base plate and an upper plate extending generally perpendicularly from the base plate. The base plate is configured to be connected to the lower end of the leg prosthesis. The upper plate includes a number of mounting openings to receive a corresponding number of fasteners for connecting the upper plate to the ankle plate of the foot prosthesis so that the lower portion of the leg prosthesis overlaps the ankle plate of the foot prosthesis.
US10123877B2
Spacer device for the two-phase treatment of infections of anatomic and reverse shoulder prostheses, including a humeral component equipped with a stem, a head component and means for connecting or articulating the humeral component with the head component.
US10123863B2
A biodegradable device capable of producing a high radial force is described. Such a force will be created in devices made of relatively inelastic materials that are to be deployed to the vasculature or a body cavity in a patient. As the halves of the devices move together subject to a longitudinal force, at the point where they are in contact and unable to move closer together in the longitudinal direction, a radial force is created. The devices may have a tension element that assists in bringing the device halves together and which may partially and optionally remain within the body of the device.
US10123858B2
A palladium-based alloy having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of about 12.0 to about 13.0 and having one or more of the following additive metals: platinum, gallium, molybdenum, tin, silicon, ruthenium, rhenium, indium, tungsten, niobium, boron and lithium.
US10123854B2
The present disclosure provides self-ligating orthodontic brackets with improved control over access to the archwire slot. Access to the archwire slot is controlled by a latch assembly featuring a door rotatable about an axis relative to the bracket body and a lock positioned near the axis to prevent inadvertent rotation of the door. The lock engages a surface of the door and is capable of preventing undesired rotation between an open state, where an archwire is insertable into the archwire slot, and a closed state, where access to the slot is prohibited. The self-ligating brackets may also include a biasing spring to provide active ligation and further inhibit undesired rotation of the door.
US10123853B2
Embodiments include dental appliances, dental appliance systems, and methods of making and using such appliances. In one embodiment, a dental appliance includes a number of tooth apertures for the placement of teeth therein and a tab representing a position of a tooth that has not fully erupted and oriented to be received over the position of the tooth that has not fully erupted.
US10123836B2
Methods and devices are disclosed herein for therapeutically treating atrial tissue to lessen the effects of mechanical stress on atrial tissue, where reducing mechanical stress in the portion of atrial tissue reduces formation of at least one arrhythmia substrate. In one example, the devices and methods are suitable for minimally invasive surgery. More particularly, methods and devices described herein permit creating an ablation pattern on an organ while reducing excessive trauma to a patient.
US10123834B2
An instrument (10) according to the invention comprises a cam mechanism drive comprising a locking cam mechanism (31) and a cam mechanism (40), which serves power-transfer and control purposes, so as to initially create a tractive movement at traction elements (20, 21) and then a sliding movement at a sliding element (23). The concept allows for a tolerance-insensitive, functionally reliable design.
US10123831B2
In one form, a bone compression device is provided having a shape-retentive bone plate with an initial, unflexed configuration and a flexed configuration. The bone plate may be shifted to the flexed configuration and secured to bones using bone screws of the bone compression device. Once the bone plate has been secured to the bones, the bone plate returns toward its unflexed configuration which compresses the bones.
US10123827B2
A distal locking intramedullary nail is provided. The distal locking intramedullary nail includes a distal tip and a hollow inner portion. The distal tip includes two or more blades secured by, and rotatable about, a pin. The hollow inner portion has an internal threading for receiving an inner shaft having a threaded portion. Twisting of the inner shaft, with the threaded portion engaged with the internal threading of the hollow inner portion of the distal locking intramedullary nail, causes a distal end of the inner shaft to advance distally through the hollow inner portion of the distal locking intramedullary nail and to impact a proximal end of the two or more blades, thereby causing the two or more blades to rotate about the pin and to engage an inner wall of a patient's medullary canal.
US10123812B1
A three-dimensional (3-D) orthopedic drill guide device for accommodating a bone drill during an orthopedic surgery is disclosed. By establishing two specific angles in relation to the bone fascia, the device acts as a guide for bone drilling locations. In one specific instance, it is an optimal 3-D drill guide for the direction and Gamma angle (resulting from the devices Alpha and Beta angles of the device) of a drill hole in a femoral bone when used to replace an injured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL).
US10123804B2
Described herein are flexible implantable devices or stents that can conform to the shape of vessels of the neurovasculature. In some embodiments, the devices can direct blood flow within a vessel away from an aneurysm or limit blood flow to the aneurysm. In some embodiments, a vascular remodeling device includes a first section and a protruding section. During deployment, the device expands from a compressed configuration to an expanded configuration. The first section anchors the device in an afferent vessel and/or in an efferent vessel of a bifurcation and the protruding section is positioned in the junction of the bifurcation having an aneurysm and across the neck of the aneurysm or at least partially within the aneurysm.
US10123800B2
Apparatus for closing a surgical incision comprise a base having left and right panels, a force distribution structure coupled to each panel, and a closure component which releasably attaches to the force distribution structure to draw the inner edges of the panels together in order to close adhered tissue edges. The force distribution structures allow the inner edges of the panels to expand while restraining expansion of the outer edges of the panels and limiting elongation of the lateral dimension of the panels. The incision closure appliance may be placed on skin or other tissue prior to forming the incision to be available to close said incision at the end of the surgical procedure.
US10123795B2
A method to perform mini-invasive vaginal ostium plastic surgery and anal tightening procedures, includes: using at least one barbed cylindrical suture with barbs divided into two divergent groups, the sharp ends of the barbs being inclined in the direction of the respective ends, so as to oppose the traction of the thread exerted on both ends, each end being provided with a needle; preparing insertion and emergence cuts in the working plane of the female perineum; introducing the barbed suture thread by inserting needles placed at its ends, at different times, into the same starting hole, in order to emerge from the same outlet hole, thus completing the path in different anatomical planes of the female perineum; tying together the two ends of the at least one suture after having emerged from the same outlet hole, then closing the loop with at least one knot.
US10123793B2
A method for securing a first object to a second object comprising providing apparatus comprising an elongated body having a lumen; an enlargement; a first elongated element, the distal end of the first elongated element being connected to the enlargement and the proximal end of the first elongated element extending through the lumen; and a second elongated element connected to the first elongated element external to the elongated body; inserting the elongated body into the second object; moving the second elongated element proximally so as to cause proximal movement of the first elongated element so as to cause the enlargement to move into a second portion of the lumen, whereby to laterally expand the elongated body; and securing the first object to the second object with the second elongated element.
US10123792B2
Filamentary fixation devices may be used in a variety of surgical procedures to secure soft tissue to bone. The present invention provides various devices, systems, kits and instrumentation for performing such surgical procedures including preparation of soft tissue and bone, preparation and manipulation of such filamentary fixation devices, and insertion and utilization of the fixation devices within a patient's anatomy. In one embodiment, a method for securing soft tissue to bone, the method includes accessing the soft tissue and the bone, passing a filament through the soft tissue, preparing a bore hole in the bone, loading the filament into a filamentary fixation device, implanting the filamentary fixation device, with the filament, into the bore hole, and tensioning the filament so that the filamentary fixation device and filament are secured within the bore hole.
US10123784B2
A specimen collection receptacle formed by a channel disposed within the wall of a toilet bowl. The receptacle is located above the weir water line. The receptacle comprises a channel open to the interior of the bowl having opposed non-parallel side walls. The side walls may be joined opposite the opening. The side walls may be joined by a bottom wall. The bottom wall may be arcuate. The side walls may be non-planar. The walls may exhibit a roughened surface. The receptacle may comprise an optical window. The receptacle may comprise a cuvette. The receptacle may be in communication with one or more light emitting probes. The receptacle may be self-cleaning. The receptacle may comprise a replaceable module disposed in the wall of the toilet bowl. The receptacle may be located at the front of the toilet bowl. The receptacle may be disposed in a toilet bowl liner or insert.
US10123780B2
A medical image diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes a lumen image generating unit, a running line generating unit, an image synthesizing unit and a control unit. The lumen image generating unit generates a lumen image depicting a shape of a lumen having a branch based on volume data. The running line generating unit generates a plurality of running lines based on the shape of the lumen. The image synthesizing unit generates a synthetic image by superimposing, on the lumen image, the plurality of the running lines indicating moving paths of a viewpoint in a virtual endoscopy image. The control unit displays the synthetic image and controls the image synthesizing unit to perform depiction that distinguishes between a range of a running line along which a virtual endoscopy image is displayed and a range of a running line along which no virtual endoscopy image is displayed.
US10123772B2
An ultrasonic data acquisition apparatus includes an inner layer, a guiding rail surrounding the inner layer and an ultrasonic probe positioned outside of the inner layer and connected to the guiding rail. The inner layer includes an inner surface and an outer surface. The inner layer is curved along a circumference direction. The ultrasonic probe includes a far end adjacent to the tissue and a near end opposite to the far end. When the ultrasonic data acquisition apparatus is in working, the ultrasonic probe is movable relative to the inner layer along the circumference direction while keeping the far end consistently abutting against the outer surface of the inner layer. Besides, a system for acquiring ultrasonic data and a control method of the ultrasonic data acquisition apparatus are also disclosed.
US10123771B2
Ultrasound medical apparatus and ultrasound diagnosis apparatus are provided capable of indwelling in the observation object at a desired position of the inner cavity of the subject.The ultrasound medical apparatus according to the embodiments include a sheath, a capsule body unit, and a fixation mechanism. The sheath is inserted into the inner cavity of a subject, having an outer peripheral surface that contacts the inner wall surface of the inner cavity of the subject with a liquid filled inside thereof. The capsule body unit is inserted into the sheath, and configured to store an ultrasound transducer that transmits and receives ultrasound waves to and from the subject. The fixation mechanism is provided in at least one of the capsule body unit and the sheath, to fixedly arrange the capsule body unit at a desired position in the sheath.
US10123769B2
In the ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, the ultrasonic wave transmitter/receiver transmits and receives an ultrasonic beam to a subject to generate reception data; the delay correction unit corrects a delay time of the reception data to align a phase of the reception data; the reception aperture level setting unit sets two or more reception aperture levels of reception data from reception data after correction of the delay time; the image producer produces ultrasound images corresponding to the set reception aperture levels, by performing phase matching addition on the reception data after correction of the delay time; and the image quality determination unit determines image qualities of the ultrasound images corresponding to the set reception aperture levels and selects an ultrasound image having a predetermined image quality.
US10123766B2
A stylet (100) includes a handle assembly (102) with an indicator display (112) and a stiff wire assembly (120) extending distally from the handle assembly (102) having a non-imaging ultrasonic device on a distal end. The stylet includes a circuit assembly having one or more of a pulser (120), a transmit/receive chip (132), a bandpass filter (134), a differential amplifier (136), an ADC (138), and an MCU (140), operable to control the operation of the ultrasonic device and to receive and analyze data from the ultrasonic device to facilitate implantation of a device such as a catheter.
US10123760B2
A method for the reconstruction of planning images is based on a plurality of first respiratory cycles of a patient and tomographic raw data recorded at the same time as the first respiratory cycles being received. A reference cycle is determined based on respiratory cycles of the patient, in particular based on the first respiratory cycles of the patient. A reference cycle is subdivided into temporally equidistant reference phases, a reference amplitude being associated with each reference phase. The reference amplitudes are not equidistantly scanned therefore. Furthermore, the first respiratory cycles of the patient are subdivided into first phases, the temporal positions of the first phases each being based on one of the reference amplitudes. Reconstruction of planning images based on first intervals of the raw data follows, wherein the first intervals correspond to the first phases.
US10123755B2
For position sensors, e.g., a fiber-based system, that build a shape of an elongated member, such as a catheter, using a sequence of small orientation measurements, a small error in orientation at the proximal end of the sensor will cause large error in position at distal points on the fiber. Exemplary methods and systems are disclosed, which may provide full or partial registration along the length of the sensor to reduce the influence of the measurement error. Additional examples are directed to applying selective filtering at a proximal end of the elongated member to provide a more stable base for distal measurements and thereby reducing the influence of measurement errors.
US10123749B2
A blood sugar level prediction device (10) is for predicting the blood sugar level of a user (30). The blood sugar level prediction device (10) is provided with a pattern selection unit (11) that selects one pattern from a plurality of preset blood sugar level time series variation patterns, based on the blood sugar level of the user (30) at the time of fasting, and a correction processing unit (12) that corrects the selected pattern using a plurality of measured values obtained by executing optical measurement of blood sugar levels over a number of measurement dates, targeting the user (30).
US10123746B2
The disclosure provides a heart rate monitor (HRM) circuit. The HRM circuit includes an analog front end (AFE). The AFE receives a Photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal, and generates a fine PPG signal. A motion cancellation circuit is coupled to the AFE, and receives the fine PPG signal and an accelerometer signal. The motion cancellation circuit subtracts the accelerometer signal from the fine PPG signal to generate a coarse heart rate. A peak detector is coupled to the motion cancellation circuit and the AFE, and generates an instantaneous heart rate. A filter is coupled to the peak detector, and generates an estimated heart rate from the instantaneous heart rate, the estimated heart rate is provided as a feedback to the peak detector.
US10123742B2
In some examples, cardiac cycle detection may be used as an approach to cardiac activity tracking, with one or more second approaches to cardiac activity tracking also available for use. Additional rate measurement relying on different sources or analyses may require extra power consumption over the cycle detection methods. Therefore, new methods and devices are disclosed that selectively activate a second cardiac rate measurement. In some illustrative methods and devices, decisions are made as to whether and which previously collected data, if any, is to be discarded, replaced, or corrected upon activation of the second cardiac rate measurement. In some illustrative methods and devices, a cardiac cycle detection approach to cardiac activity tracking may be bypassed by a second cardiac rate measurement.
US10123736B2
A system for monitoring use of knee joint flexibility rehabilitation apparatus comprises a knee joint flexibility rehabilitation apparatus, a sensor and a monitor configured to receive and display a signal from the sensor.
US10123725B2
A method of forecasting subjective efficacy of a hearing prosthesis implanted in a recipient, including subjecting a recipient to a plurality of temporally spaced aural training tasks, the aural training tasks evoking hearing percepts with the hearing prosthesis, obtaining first data indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis based on performance by the recipient of the temporally spaced aural training tasks, and forecasting second data based on the first data, wherein the second data are indicative of the recipient's ability to hear with the hearing prosthesis at one or more temporal locations in the future.
US10123713B2
A patient data sensor device has an implantable patient data sensor and an implantable data transmission mechanism, which is in signal connection with the patient data sensor. The data transmission mechanism has an antenna for telemetric data transmission to an external data collection unit. In addition, the data transmission mechanism has a carrier plate for electronic components. The latter are covered on the carrier plate, at least to one side, by a cover. The antenna is configured in an edge region of the carrier plate and running around the latter and around the electronic components. The result is a patient data sensor device which is more tolerable for the patient.
US10123712B1
Anastomosis leak testers for testing for leaks in gastrointestinal anastomoses in patients include an inflation pump and a conduit part. The inflation pump has a compressible portion and a mechanism for providing a uni-directional flow of air through the inflation pump upon intermittent compressing thereof. Conduit parts have an interior space, a portion to be inserted into an anus of a patient or arm to be mated to a gastric tube, rectal tube or endoscope, a pressure relief valve and an indicator pin, and a rearward arm connected to the inflation pump. Upon actuation of the inflation pump, air flows through the inflation pump and through the conduit part into the patient's bowel. When the air pressure in the bowel exceeds a specified pressure, air is released through the pressure relief valve and ejects the indicator pin, which alerts the surgeon that the desired rectal pressure has been reached.
US10123708B2
A system for facilitating measurement of a person's blood pressure having: a) a cuff that is configured to: i) be operatively situated in relationship to a person's arm; and ii) strategically exert different pressure on the person's arm to controllably restrict blood flow therein; and b) a base assembly that supports the cuff. The base assembly is configured to allow selective placement of the cuff in first and second different positions relative to the person with the person in a measurement taking position. The cuff in the first position is configured to be operatively situated in relationship to the person's left arm. The cuff in the second position is configured to be operatively situated in relationship to the person's right arm.
US10123704B2
A hybrid system is developed using thermal and electrical impedance imaging methods together. The innovation of the approach relies on the frequency dependence of the tissue's electrical impedance which facilitates the acquisition of multiple thermal images with currents at different frequencies injected to the region of the body under inspection. Proposed method without current application (in passive mode of operation) provides images which are obtained by standard thermal imagers. On the other hand, the application of the electrical current (in active mode of operation) increases the temperature contrast on the body surface depending on the electrical property of tissue. Therefore, the technique while increasing the thermal contrast provides frequency dependent conductivity distribution data which can be used as a basis for the detection of the breast carcinoma. The sensitivity of the technique is increased by an infrared camera with dual band (MWIR/LWIR) imaging capability.
US10123703B2
Individuals who suffer from certain kinds of medical conditions, particularly conditions that only sporadically exhibit measurable symptoms, can feel helpless in their attempts to secure access to medical care because, at least in part, they are left to the mercy of their condition to present symptoms at the right time to allow diagnosis and treatment. Providing these individuals with ambulatory extended-wear health monitors that record ECG and physiology, preferably available over-the-counter and without health insurance preauthorization, is a first step towards addressing their needs. In addition, these individuals need a way to gain entry into the health care system once a medically-actionable medical condition has been identified. Here, the ECG and physiology is downloaded and evaluated post-monitoring against medical diagnostic criteria. Medical specialists are pre-identified and paired up with key diagnostic findings, such that an individual whose monitoring data indicates a medical concern will be automatically referred and treated.
US10123698B2
An ophthalmic apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate 3D blood vessel data indicating a blood vessel in a fundus based on a plurality of tomographic image data indicating cross sections of the fundus, a boundary obtaining unit configured to obtain layer boundary data indicating at least one layer boundary based on 3D tomographic image data including the plurality of tomographic image data indicating the cross sections of the fundus, and a determination unit configured to determine a blood vessel intersecting with the layer boundary by comparing the 3D blood vessel data with the layer boundary data.
US10123697B2
Methods and apparatus for automatically aligning a confocal aperture utilize a confocal imaging system and a computer controlled optimization algorithm such as the Nelder-Mead algorithm for imaging an in-vivo eye having chromatic aberration. When using a confocal aperture of 3.4 Airy disks in diameter, images were obtained using retinal radiant exposures of less than 2.44 J/cm2, which is ˜22 times below the current ANSI maximum permissible exposure. The embodied method can be used, e.g., to study RPE morphology in AMD and other diseases, providing a powerful tool for understanding disease pathogenesis and progression, and offering a new means to assess the efficacy of treatments designed to restore RPE health.
US10123695B2
A display, imaging units that capture a subject, an eye gaze detector that detects an eye gaze direction of the subject, from the captured image captured by the imaging units, a gaze point detector that detects a gaze point of the subject in a display region of the display, based on the eye gaze direction, an output controller that displays any of a plurality of diagnosis images on the display, selects the diagnosis image to be displayed next according to a position of the gaze point detected when the diagnosis image is displayed, from the plurality of diagnosis images, and further displays the selected diagnosis image on the display, and an evaluator that calculates an evaluation value of the subject, based on the gaze point detected by the gaze point detector when the diagnosis image is displayed.
US10123688B2
An information processing apparatus includes: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire a plurality of types of images of an eye, including a confocal image and a non-confocal image of the eye; a deciding unit configured to decide a saving format for saving the confocal image and non-confocal image in a storage region; and a saving unit configured to save at least one of the acquired plurality of types of images in the storage region, based on the decided saving format.
US10123687B2
A method for selecting an intraocular lens (IOL), to optimize the results of refractive procedures on the eye. According to the invention, the method for selecting the IOL includes: a) determining the required biometrical parameters of the eye; b) using the parameters for a corresponding eye model; c) evaluating, using ray tracing, the data of an IOL to be implanted; d) selecting, on the basis of said data, an IOL to be implanted; and e) repeating the method steps c) and d) for further suitable IOLs. To optimize the method, different measuring methods are used to determine the biometrical parameters, a corresponding patient-specific eye model is identified, and, when selecting the IOL, additional retinal image metrics are taken into consideration alongside the determined data. The method according to the invention permits the optimized selection of a spherical, aspheric, toric or multifocal IOL for implantation.
US10123685B2
An apparatus includes a power source, a pulse generator, a light source, a guidewire, an optical fiber, and a connector. The pulse generator is in electrical communication with the power source. The pulse generator is also capable of generating an electric pulse. The light source is in electrical communication with the pulse generator in such a way that the light source turns on and off in response to the electric pulse received from the pulse generator. The guidewire includes a proximal end and a distal end. The optical fiber extends through the guidewire from the proximal end of the guidewire towards the distal end of the guidewire. The connector couples with the guidewire while allowing the light source to communicate with the optical fiber.
US10123678B1
A dishwasher appliance is provided having an upper rack assembly that includes a rack that defines a vertical support structure and a manifold base. A manifold cap is attached to the rack over the manifold base such that the manifold cap and the manifold base define a spray manifold. A docking port is defined in a rear wall of the rack for providing fluid communication between the spray manifold and a fluid circulation assembly when the rack is positioned within the wash chamber.
US10123670B2
A byproduct collection system is configured to collect byproducts of a manufacturing operation on a workpiece. The byproduct collection system includes a collection shroud defining a collection chamber, and a securing mount coupled to the collection shroud. The securing mount is configured to removably secure the byproduct collection system to a surface of the workpiece so that the collection shroud is proximate to a working location of the workpiece during a working operation on the workpiece.
US10123669B2
A multi-purpose toilet footrest has a first foot platform, a second foot platform, and a receptacle interposed between the first and second foot platforms. A user places their legs on the foot platforms when using the toilet to place their body in a squatting position and may store or dispose items in the receptacle.
US10123666B2
A method of reducing sheet product waste generated during use of a sheet product dispenser in a particular location and over a broad range of usage rates includes designing a dispenser. The design includes determining a desired housing size to obtain a top to bottom height for sheet product roll storage within the housing, dividing the height by two to obtain a maximum roll diameter, locating two roll holders in the housing so that each holder may accept a roll having the maximum roll diameter, positioning a first roll of the maximum roll diameter in a first one of the two roll holders, and positioning a second roll of the maximum roll diameter in a second one of the two roll holders so that two rolls of equivalent length are configured to be dispensed sequentially from the dispenser. The installation and use of two rolls of maximum roll diameter reduces waste. Dispensers formed according to this method are also described.
US10123654B2
An apparatus for cooking food products is provided. The apparatus includes at least one heating plate having a surface provided with alternate crests and troughs. The apparatus further comprises a fixing system adapted to detachably fix a corrugated protective plate, having a non-stick face, to said heating plate. The corrugated protective plate has a first and a second corrugated edge and alternate crests and troughs extending from the first to the second corrugated edge and adapted to match the alternate crests and troughs of the heating plate when the corrugated protective plate is fixed to the heating plate. Said fixing system comprises fixing elements adapted to exert a force on corresponding portions of the protective plate close to the first or the second corrugated edge so as to push the protective plate against the heating plate.
US10123650B2
A vacuum-type coffee maker includes an upper brewing unit and a lower carafe. The upper brewing unit includes a vessel and a collar disposed around a lower portion of the vessel. The collar includes a magnetic array defining an upper magnetic coupler. The lower carafe includes a vessel having a collar disposed around an upper portion of the vessel. The collar further includes a magnetic array to define a lower magnetic coupler. In assembly, the upper magnetic coupler is magnetically coupled to the lower magnetic coupler when the upper brewing unit is received on the lower carafe. A heating element is disposed in a base portion of the lower carafe. The lower carafe is removeably received on a support stand, and the heating element of the lower carafe is powered by the support stand in use during a brewing sequence.
US10123647B1
A curtain rod bracket attachment member formed in two main sections which are slidably attached to each other. A first main section having an elongated section extending at one end to a first transverse retaining wall which is oriented perpendicular to the elongated section. A curtain rod retaining member extends at an opposite end of the elongated section to a curtain rod retaining section into which a curtain rod is placed and retained. A second main section includes a second transverse retaining wall and is slidably affixed to the elongated section of the main section to enable a distance between parallel first and second transverse retaining walls to be modified.
US10123641B1
A reusable drinking straw that is foldable into a compact configuration for storage and easily transportable in a storage case. The straw comprises a rigid external tube and a flexible internal tubing that is foldable to a compact configuration for storage. In a folded configuration, the reusable straw has a significantly reduced length of approximately one-half to one-fourth of its extended length when in use. The external tube of the straw is preferably formed of multiple rigid segments for supporting the flexible internal tubing in the extended configuration during use as a drinking straw. A simple cleaning device is provided to clean the straw after use. A storage case is provided to store the straw in the folded configuration in a compact form and to store the cleaning device.
US10123640B2
A cover is for a furniture item defining a recess at an upper end. The cover may include a cover layer extending over the furniture item and over the recess and having an inner surface adjacent the recess, and a bladder coupled to the inner surface of the cover layer adjacent the recess and configured to inflate. The bladder is for preventing depressions on an upper surface of the cover layer.
US10123626B2
A manual operating unit for a furniture control, which is provided in particular for seating or lounging furniture, has a housing with a top side and a bottom side. A first and a third operating panel are defined on the top side and a second and a fourth operating panel are defined on the bottom side, which are located opposite to the first and third operating panels. Actuating the first and second operating panels triggers a first operating signal in each case, whereas actuating the third and fourth operating panels triggers a second operating signal in each case. The housing is movably mounted over push-buttons arranged in the housing at least in the region of the first and third operating panels in such a way that a first of said push-buttons is actuated by moving the housing in the region of the first operating panel and a second of said push-buttons is actuated by moving the housing in the region of the third operating panel.
US10123625B2
A reversible adjustable lumbar support and headrest tilt mechanism is provided for installation on a chair. A side bracket is coupled to each side of the back frame, and a back bracket is pivotably coupled to each side bracket. An actuator is pivotably coupled to the back frame that has an extendable and retractable shaft. In a first orientation, with the actuator shaft extending toward the upper end of the back frame, a headrest back insert is couple-able to and between the back brackets, such that extension and retraction of the actuator shaft rotates the headrest back insert. In a second orientation, with the actuator shaft extending toward the lower end of the back frame, a lumbar push bar is couple-able to and between the back brackets, such that extension and retraction of the actuator shaft rotates the lumbar push bar.
US10123624B2
An adjustable chair frame with a back and seating surfaces that flex to conform to the shape, weight and movement of an occupant is disclosed. The chair form and proportions provide for a recumbent position that disperses the weight of the occupant more evenly, thereby reducing external and internal physiological point loading. The form also provides ergonomic articulation to minimize internal physiological stresses such as neck/back vertebral compression. Eccentric connections driven by a motor assembly allow positioning adjustment of the components of the chair. Additionally, an air pump assembly may be included to automatically adjust one or more air bladders provided on the interior of the chair frame.
US10123621B2
A furniture system with a reclining assembly including a modular furniture assembly and a reclining assembly. A passageway in the reclining assembly allows coupling to a slit in the modular furniture assembly with a coupler. The reclining assembly includes a housing and a footrest assembly that moves with respect to the housing. An additional base can be coupled to the front end of the footrest assembly, with one or more (e.g., two) sled rails mounted on an underside of the additional base, such that the additional base slides on the sled rails as the footrest assembly moves from the compressed non-reclined position to the extended position.
US10123614B2
Disclosed is a shelf with a housing having a hollow interior and a tray having a plurality of surfaces, wherein the tray is in communication with the hollow interior of the housing, a holder is attached to the shelf one or more electrical outlets, which are electrically connected to a power source.
US10123607B1
A wearable dispenser device is provided. The dispenser can include a flexible tubular member including a first end and a second end and an interior of the flexible tubular member defines a reservoir. A first end assembly can be arranged at the first end of the tubular member. A second end assembly can be arranged at the second end of the tubular member. The first end assembly can include a valve member configured to allow a liquid to be supplied into the reservoir. The second end assembly can include a rollerball mechanism configured to allow the liquid to be accurately dispensed from the reservoir via a rollerball. The first end assembly is capable of being releasably secured to the second end assembly via a releasable connection thereby allowing the dispensing device to be worn about a body part of a user.
US10123596B2
An adjustable wallet is provided. The wallet has a first plate and a second plate spaced from and overlying the first plate. A cord couples the distal ends of the plate together a predetermined, adjustable distance apart. A first strap selectively couples the proximal ends of the plates together to secure the wallet in a closed position. A second strap having an adjustable body length secures the personal items of a user to the second plate.
US10123594B2
A slider for an article of jewelry is disclosed. The slider includes a body defining a securing channel and a sliding channel. The slider also includes a securing flap extending from the body and configured to be pressed from a first position to a second position such that the securing flap is pressed at least partially into the securing channel to restrain the band when the band is disposed therein. Articles of jewelry utilizing such sliders are also disclosed herein.
US10123592B2
A multi-functional article easily attachable to and adjustable along a strap, without having to either disassemble or modify the strap in any fashion. The attachment article includes a base configured with an interior cutout profile defining a pair of inwardly projecting tabs with contoured opposing edges configured to receive a strap in manipulated engaging fashion in order to mount the article to the strap. An integrally defined end portion extends from an edge of the base, typically in a reverse angled fashion, and defines a catch operable in multiple variants to either prevent abrading of a rifle sling, backpack strap, or the like as well as being operable in a further variant to provide a vertical load supporting article.
US10123588B2
An article of footwear may include a first ground engaging member extending substantially downward from a baseplate, the first ground engaging member may have a substantially triangular cross-sectional shape in a substantially horizontal plane, the first ground engaging member having a first sidewall edge, a second sidewall edge, and a third sidewall edge forming vertices of the substantially triangular cross-sectional shape. In addition, a first sidewall may have a concave portion that is concave in the substantially horizontal plane. Further, the first ground engaging member may be disposed proximate a peripheral edge of the outer member with the first sidewall edge disposed opposite the concave portion of the sidewall, and the first sidewall edge oriented facing toward the peripheral edge. Also, the concave portion of the first sidewall may be oriented in a substantially lateral direction, facing away from the peripheral edge of the outer member.
US10123585B2
Soles for a shoe have a midsole with a base body and a plurality of deformation elements, and an outsole with a first outsole region and a plurality of first outsole elements. Pressure load on one first outsole element of the plurality of first outsole elements leads to a deformation of at least one of the plurality of deformation elements which are associated with the one first outsole element of the plurality of first outsole elements.
US10123557B2
A thermal processing and control system (10) includes a thermal processing station (12) for receiving food products (14) being carried on a conveyor system (16). A first scanning station (18) is located upstream from a similar processing station (12) for scanning the food products being carried by the conveyor (16). A second scanning station (20) is located downstream of the thermal processing station (12). A diverter conveyor (24) diverts selected food products (14) from the conveyor (16) to a transverse conveyor (26) which is capable of positioning the diverted food product onto a temperature measurement station (28), whereat the temperature of the food product is measured, either manually or automatically.
US10123546B2
An in-line shell egg pasteurizer has a clean-in-place system. Empty shell egg carriers are placed in the water bath for multiple cleaning cycles. The cleaning solution level is lowered to expose the shell egg carriers and the top parts of the water bath walls. An air perturbation is used to agitate cleaning solution held in the bottom of the water bath and clean heating coils and other components located in the bottom of the water bath. Sprayers (e.g., nozzles, cleaning spray balls, etc . . . ) mounted on a hood over the water bath clean the top parts of the water bath walls and the empty shell egg carriers placed in the water bath.
US10123542B2
The present invention includes compositions and methods for increasing the absorption of nutrients by plants to increase their growth comprising: identifying a plant in need of enhanced nutrient uptake and growth when compared to non-treated plants; obtaining a whole leaf aloe vera extract and at least one plant nutrient selected from nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), or potassium (K); and mixing the whole leaf aloe vera extract into a plant growth media, wherein the plant absorbs the one or more plant nutrients at a higher rate and the plants have at least one of increased growth, increased grain size, increased grain yield, increased panicles, or an increase in the number of seedlings per plant when compared to the addition of the one or more nutrients alone.
US10123541B2
The present invention generally relates to a synergistic mixture of biocidal effect comprising phenylpropanol and hop extract. Particularly, the mixture of the invention can be used in the fields of cosmetics, medicines and food.
US10123540B1
A disinfectant material may be used to kill bacteria, viruses, mold and fungal contaminants while minimizing toxic risks to humans. The disinfectant material may be effective in killing pathogens and more on numerous types of surfaces including on the skin of mammals. Exemplary embodiments include a copper halogen, such as copper iodide. Exemplary materials may also include a pH stabilizer, a preservative, humectants, or other constituents. Exemplary disinfectant materials may be used as a liquid or a gel, applied via a wipe, sprayed or in other forms.
US10123538B2
A process is provided for preparing a glyphosate salt solution that comprises potassium and IPA cations in a desired mole ratio, and that has a glyphosate a.e. concentration not less than about 400 g/l. The process includes adding glyphosate acid to a glyphosate potassium salt solution having a glyphosate assay of at least about 40% a.e. by weight, to form a slurry. The process also includes introducing isopropylamine, in an amount sufficient to neutralize the added glyphosate acid, to the slurry with mixing until all glyphosate is dissolved, to form a mixed glyphosate salt solution comprising potassium and IPA cations in the desired mole ratio.
US10123526B2
An example mouse and rodent trap includes a base for arrangement over a catch basin. A shaft is supported by the base. A bait drum is mounted on the shaft. A brace rotatably supports the shaft. The brace extends from the base on each side of an opening formed in the base. The shaft is provided between each brace.
US10123522B2
A domed or curved station for monitoring, capturing, or killing crawling insects, the station having a lower member that may be flat, curved or of varying contour, a curved or angled upper member connected directly or by one or more intermediate members to the lower member, an adhesive on one of the lower member or the upper member, the adhesive either being a tacky substance applied directly to the lower member's upper surface/upper member's lower surface or to another piece of material that this secured to the lower member or upper member, a pesticide which is placed opposite the adhesive on the interior of the station, such as being either applied directly to the curved upper member's lower surface or removably secured to the upper member's lower surface, and an attractant placed in between the upper member and the base member.
US10123513B2
A calf weaning assembly includes a first ear tag that may be worn on an ear of a cow. The first ear tag is in electrical communication with cow's skin. Thus, the first ear tag selectively delivers an electric shock to the cow. A second ear tag may be worn on an ear of a calf. The second ear tag is in electrical communication with calf's skin. Thus, the second ear tag selectively delivers an electric shock to the calf. Each of the first ear tag and the second ear tag deliver the electric shock when the calf makes physical contact with the cow thereby inhibiting the calf from suckling on the cow. A remote unit is in electrical communication with each of the first ear tag and the second ear tag. The remote unit controls operational parameters of each of the first ear tag and the second ear tag.
US10123503B1
A novel maize variety designated PH40Y2 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH40Y2 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH40Y2 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH40Y2 or a locus conversion of PH40Y2 with another maize variety.
US10123498B2
Plant genome design method defines DNA markers M1 to M5, for each target region, DNA marker M2 is at an upstream side of a target region, or upstream thereof, DNA marker M1 is upstream of DNA marker M2, DNA marker M4 is at a downstream side of the target region, or downstream thereof, DNA marker M5 is downstream of DNA marker M4, and DNA marker M3 is in the target region; and designs a genome so that a substitution region, containing the target region, in a chromosome of the original cultivar to be substituted with a chromosome fragment derived from the foreign cultivar has an end on an upstream side between DNA marker M1 and DNA marker M2, and an end on a downstream side of the substitution region between DNA marker M4 and DNA marker M5.
US10123496B1
A new and distinct Lepidium virginicum plant named ‘DLEPVERGI’ characterized by abundant production of primary lateral branches, resulting in an above average quantity of harvestable cut flower stems. The harvested cut flower stems are well suited for commercial use as bouquet and flower arrangement filler. Flowering stems are harvested somewhat later than known commercial varieties. Plants have commercial use for cut flower production.
US10123492B2
A center pivot irrigation system adapted for variable depth application of water under the corner sprinkler arm. The system includes a pivot sprinkler arm with a first set of nozzles, and a first set of control valves each provided on the pivot sprinkler arm upstream of a nozzle. The irrigation system includes a corner sprinkler arm pivotally coupled to an end of the pivot sprinkler arm, and the corner sprinkler arm includes a second set of spaced apart nozzles and a second set of control valves. The irrigation system includes a controller transmitting control signals to the first and second sets of control valves to open and close in a pattern that includes a valve pulsing pattern for the corner sprinkler arm, whereby input water is applied at a variable rate under the corner sprinkler arm to apply different depths to various user-defined zones.
US10123486B2
An agricultural harvester includes a grain processing section having a sieve assembly. The sieve assembly includes right and left frames interconnected by a cross member. The cross member has end castings securable to the right and left frame members. An elongated U-shaped sheet metal member extends between the castings. An elongated slot at each of the U-shaped sheet metal member terminates in a circular hole. The slot and circular hole accommodate variations in forming tolerances for the U-shaped sheet member and dissipate stresses.
US10123485B2
A transition cone for a threshing system of an agricultural harvesting machine has an inner surface with a tapering inner circumference between a wider upstream end and a narrower downstream end, and a plurality of vanes in the transition cone. Each vane extends between the upstream end and the downstream end and at least partly around the tapering inner circumference. Each vane includes an upstanding segment extending away from the inner surface, and a base segment extending from the upstanding segment along the inner surface on the downstream side of the upstanding segment. The base segment has a thicker proximal region adjacent the upstanding segment and a thinner distal edge opposite thereto, with a curved exposed surface extending there between.
US10123484B2
An adjustable vane system for use with a rotor cage of a threshing system of an agricultural harvester. The vane system includes a vane having a generally helically curved inner profile; a surface being an outer profile that is opposite the inner profile and is generally helically curved over a portion of the vane; a first flat portion proximate an end of the vane on the outer profile; and a second flat portion proximate to another end of the vane on the outer profile.
US10123478B2
A walk power mower having a cutting deck supported upon the ground by front and rear wheels. The mower includes a biased handle that permits the handle to be pivotally displaced downwardly, against an upward bias force, during operation. The bias force may be provided by a resilient member that compresses as the handle is displaced downwardly. The compression of the resilient member allows downward movement of the handle without initially producing corresponding upward movement of the front wheels of the mower during rearward pulling of the handle.
US10123474B2
A controller is operatively connected to a dispensing system and configured to change the dispensement of an agricultural input from the dispensing system in different predetermined locations within at least one predefined test plot in a management zone of an agricultural field. The predetermined locations have been randomized and replicated for quantifying the agronomic response in a statistically valid manner.
US10130016B2
In one embodiment, a power cell module includes: a high frequency line converter (HFLC) to receive a phase of input power from a utility source, the HFLC including a first silicon carbide (SiC) stage and a second SiC stage; a transformer having a primary coil coupled to the HFLC and a secondary coil coupled to a high frequency motor converter (HFMC); the HFMC to output a phase of output power to a load, the HFMC including a third SiC stage and a fourth SiC stage; and a two-phase cooling system having conduits that are adapted to provide a flow of cooling media through the HFLC, the transformer and the HFMC.
US10130004B2
A network device includes a shelf in which a first accommodation area, a second accommodation area, a first channel, and a second channel are disposed. A third channel is formed between adjacent rear board modules or between the rear board module and the shelf. A first fan and a second fan are both disposed at a rear end of the shelf, the first fan faces the third channel, and the second fan faces the second channel. A first airflow sequentially passes, from a front end of the shelf, through the front board module in the first accommodation area, the third channel, and the first fan to form a first heat dissipation channel. A second airflow sequentially passes through the inside of the rear board module, the second channel, and the second fan after entering the first channel from the outside of the shelf to form a second heat dissipation channel.
US10129997B2
A guide assembly an enclosure-based device such as a computer provided in a rack-mountable chassis. The guide assembly is configured to facilitate blind connector mating such as electrical interconnection between a receiving connector on a previously-mounted board and an edge connector on a circuit board supported in a housing of a module that is slid or inserted into the interior space of the enclosure or chassis. The guide assembly (and devices that include a guide assembly) address the two design challenges discussed above of increasing numbers of circuits in devices that need to be connected and of decreasing pitch between the connectors. The guide assembly is configured, with its mechanical features, to decouple the degrees of freedom (DOFs) between the module being inserted into the chassis and the receiving/mating connector on the previously-mounted board. The guide assembly constrains five out of the six DOFs, which effectively ensures proper connector mating.
US10129996B2
Card locks for securing electronics card in card slots within cages and designed and configured to allow each card lock to impart high uniform pressure between an electronics card and the corresponding card slot to maximize heat transfer from the electronics card to the card cage to efficiently sink heat generated onboard the electronics card. In some embodiments, a high-pressure card lock of the present disclosure has a pair of low-angle wedges and a locking mechanism that effectively pushes one of the wedges along the other wedge to put the high-pressure card lock into its locked, high-pressure-exerting state. In other embodiments, a high-pressure card lock of the present disclosure has a pair of low-angle wedges and a locking mechanism that effectively draws one of the wedges along the other wedge to put the high-pressure card lock into its locked, high-pressure-exerting state.
US10129989B2
An electronic device may comprise a housing including two opposite open ends and at least a portion comprising a light-transmitting material, a bracket disposed inside the housing and having a shape corresponding to the housing, a flexible display device disposed between the housing and the bracket and configured to display information to an outside through the light-transmitting portion of the housing, and a plurality of covers closing the open ends of the housing and supporting two opposite ends of the bracket, wherein the bracket may include an inner space for mounting electronic parts, and the bracket is length-adjustable in at least one direction. The housing may be formed of a glass tube. Thus, the housing may be formed into a desired shape by processing the glass tube. A stretchable bracket structure may be implemented inside the housing to come in tight contact with the housing.
US10129988B2
A display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium layer, first peripheral wires, and second peripheral wires. The first substrate has at least one first side surface. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate, and has at least one second side surface adjacent to the first side surface. Each first peripheral wire includes a first signal line, a first fan-out portion, and a first pad. The first signal lines are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the first fan-out portions are disposed on the first side surface of the first substrate. Each second peripheral wire includes a second signal line, a second fan-out portion, and a second pad. The second signal lines are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the second fan-out portions are disposed on the second side surface of the second substrate.
US10129984B1
In one embodiment, a flexible circuit board includes a plurality of facet locations that each correspond to a particular one of a plurality of rigid sensor facets and a particular one of a plurality of rigid display facets. The flexible circuit board also includes a plurality of wire traces that serially connect the plurality of facet locations. The facet locations are arranged into a plurality of facet columns. When the flexible circuit board is flat, at least some of the facet locations are separated from one or more adjacent facet locations by a plurality of gaps. When the flexible circuit board is formed into a three-dimensional shape, the plurality of gaps are substantially eliminated, thereby permitting the plurality of rigid sensor facets to form a continuous sensing surface and the plurality of rigid display facets to form a continuous display surface.
US10129983B2
A base material includes a pair of end regions located on both sides in a first direction, and an intermediate region located between the pair of end regions. The intermediate region includes a pair of side edges on both sides in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. Both the pair of side edges do not project outward in the second direction from the pair of end regions. At least one of the pair of side edges has a shape recessed inward in the second direction from the pair of end regions. Terminals include end pads and a side pad. The end pads are located in each of the pair of end regions of the base material and arranged in the second direction. The side pad is located at at least one of the pair of side edges of the base material.
US10129979B2
Methods and devices related to the design and fabrication of molded cores for printed circuit board assemblies and system-on-package (SIP) devices are discussed. The discussed printed circuit board assemblies may have multiple electrical components embedded in a molded core matrix and forming electrical connections with one or more printed circuit boards attached to the molded core matrix. Methods for sourcing of electrical components and production of the molded cores and printed circuit board assemblies are also discussed. The methods and devices may increase a volumetric density of electrical components in printed circuit board assemblies and provide improved mechanical properties to the electrical circuit device.
US10129978B2
A printed wiring board includes one or more substrates, the one or more substrates including at least a first substrate, the first substrate being formed with a pad and a ground layer at any one of main surfaces of the first substrate, the pad being to be electrically connected to a connector as another component, the ground layer being formed to surround the pad from a circumference of the pad and have an inner edge at a location separated from an outer edge of the pad with a predetermined distance, the ground layer being to be grounded to a ground contact.
US10129971B2
The present invention provides a standing wave electron linear accelerator comprising a modulator and a magnetron for producing radio frequency microwaves; a plurality of accelerating tubes for accelerating electrons; a microwave transmission system for feeding the microwaves into the plurality of accelerating tubes; a plurality of electron guns for emitting electron beams into the plurality of accelerating tubes; a plurality of targets impinged by the electrons from a plurality of accelerating tubes to form continuous spectrums of X-rays; a plurality of shielding devices for shielding the continuous spectrums of X-rays generated by the targets; and a microwave distributor disposed adjacent to the end of the microwave transmission system, wherein the microwave distributor has a microwave inlet and a plurality of microwave outlets for distributing the microwaves in the microwave transmission system into the accelerating tubes.
US10129968B2
A component, such as a title or a floorboard, has electro-conductive properties for producing a floor covering, or a similar system, in particular for a medium sensitive to static electricity. The component includes a stack of layers integral with one another and including successively: a wearing layer of plastic consisting of granules of conductive material spread out through the thickness of said wearing layer, a first textile reinforcing armature, a middle layer of plastic comprising granules of conductive material spread out through the thickness of said middle layer, a second textile reinforcing armature, and an under layer of plastic material consisting of granules of conductive material spread out through the thickness of said under layer.
US10129956B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods relating to presence based detection and analytics including detecting a first movement associated with a bed; based on the first movement, sending a first signal to turn on at least one light and sending a second signal indicative of the first movement; detecting a second movement associated with the bed; and based on the second movement, sending a third signal to turn off at least one light and sending a fourth signal indicative of the second movement.
US10129955B2
A light source identification system, the system comprising a light source imaging device and a processing device, the light source imaging device comprising a light sensor operable to image at least a portion of an environment in which the light source imaging device is present, wherein the environment comprises one or more light sources, and a transmitter operable to transmit image data, and the processing device comprising a processor that is operable, in a calibration mode, to identify light sources from received image data and locate them within the environment.
US10129953B2
A controlled lamp device (1), comprising: a lamp housing (2) with a light exit opening (3), a sensor unit (4) for detecting a contactless manual intervention (15, 16-1, 16-2, 17) of an operator of the lamp device in an intervention region (5, 5-1, 5-2), and an evaluation and control device (6) for evaluating the intervention of the operator detected by the sensor unit and for influencing a control parameter for the operation of the lamp device depending on a result of the evaluation, wherein the sensor unit (4) is provided in and/or on the light housing (2) laterally adjacent to the light exit opening (3), and the evaluation and control device (6) is designed such that it only influences the control parameter if the evaluation carried out by the evaluation and control device (6) shows that a predefined path in an intervention region has been covered in a gesture-like manner during the intervention of the operator.
US10129949B2
A power drawing device using a single live wire includes a first and second mechanical switches, and a power drawing circuit, wherein the first mechanical switch includes a first contact connected to a live wire, a third contact connected to a first light adjusting circuit, and a fifth contact connected to the first light adjusting circuit; the second mechanical switch includes a first contact connected to the live wire, a third contact connected to a second light adjusting circuit, a fifth contact connected to the second light adjusting circuit, and a sixth contact connected to the first mechanical switch; and the power drawing circuit includes a first terminal connected to the live wire, a second terminal connected to the second mechanical switch, a third terminal connected to the first light adjusting circuit, and a fourth terminal connected to the second light adjusting circuit.
US10129938B2
A system for driving one or more electrical currents includes a current driver operable to cause current to flow to the one or more driven electrical elements, a sensor module for sensing a current at the input of the current driver, a compensation module for compensating an input control signal based on the sensed current at the input of the current driver and an optocoupling module having a grounded side connected to an earth ground and a floating side connected to a floating ground. The grounded side receives the compensated control signal and the floating side outputs a floating control signal corresponding to the compensated control signal. An amplification module connected to the floating ground is operable for amplifying the floating control signal outputted from the optocoupling module. The amplified floating control signal further controls the current driver to cause the flow of current to the driven electrical elements.
US10129935B2
The present invention relates to a kitchen appliance (1) that is operated wirelessly on an induction heating cooker (K), comprising a programmable microcontroller (2), one or more than one electronic circuit (3) that provides the microcontroller (2) to control the communication means, user interface and sensors, providing communication with the induction heating cooker (K) whereon the kitchen appliance (1) is operated, a power control circuitry (4) that supplies the microcontroller (2) and the electronic circuits (3) with low level DC voltage, a receiver coil (5) that partially collects and provides transfer of the power generated by the induction coil (B) in the induction heating cooker (K) to the power control circuitry (4), a rectifier (6) that converts the AC voltage delivered from the receiver coil (5) to DC voltage and a buffer capacitor (7) which filters the DC voltage at the rectifier (6) outlet.
US10129925B2
Technology that allows PDN connections for a UE to be resumed efficiently after WLAN connectivity is lost and then regained are disclosed. A UE can have a multi-legged or multi-access packet-data-network (PDN) connection that is used to communicate with a WLAN and with an eNB. When WLAN connectivity is lost, the UE can send a WLAN-connectivity-loss communication to a PDN-GW via the eNB. A TWAG can also detect that the UE's WLAN connectivity has been lost and can send a suspension communication to the PDN-GW. The TWAG can also store PDN context information for the UE for a predefined period of time. When the UE regains WLAN connectivity, the UE can send a WLAN-link-control-protocol (WLCP) communication to the TWAG indicating that the UE wishes to resume one or more PDN connections that were previously suspended.
US10129920B2
A control apparatus (5) operates to: (a) receive from a first radio terminal (1), through a public land mobile network (100), a start request for ProSe communication (103) to be performed between the first radio terminal (1) and a second radio terminal (2) without communicating through the public land mobile network (100); and (b) receive a QoS requirement regarding the ProSe communication (103) from the second radio terminal (102). This contributes, for example, to ensuring QoS in inter-terminal direct communication required by a requested radio terminal, which has been requested by a requesting radio terminal to perform the inter-terminal direct communication.
US10129919B2
Methods and apparatuses for video headsets are described. In one example, both a Bluetooth link and a Wi-Fi link are established between a video headset and a computing device, the Bluetooth link and the Wi-Fi link in operation concurrently. A user speech is received at a video headset microphone during a voice call, and a far end call participant speech is output at a video headset speaker during the voice call. A video is captured with a video headset video camera during the voice call. The user speech is transmitted over the Bluetooth link from the video headset to the computing device and the video is transmitted over the Wi-Fi link from the video headset to the computing device.
US10129917B2
The present invention discloses a D2D communication method and user equipment. The D2D communication method includes: determining, by first user equipment, a value of a scrambling code parameter, where the scrambling code parameter includes at least one of the following parameters: a common scrambling code parameter and a specific scrambling code parameter; scrambling, by the first user equipment, a to-be-sent bit according to the value of the scrambling code parameter; and sending, by the first user equipment, a scrambled to-be-sent bit. According to the D2D communication method and the user equipment disclosed in the present invention, transmission information can be scrambled and descrambled in a D2D communication process, thereby improving feasibility of a D2D communication scheme and improving user experience.
US10129911B2
A method for processing an uplink PPDU in a wireless LAN system is proposed herein. The uplink PPDU may correspond to a PPDU that is received from multiple users. In the receiving device, a first uplink MU PPDU may be received from a first user, and a second uplink MU PPDU may be received from a second user. In this case, CSD of an enhanced method may be applied to LTF signals respective to each of the first uplink MU PPDU and the second uplink MU PPDU. Additionally, an orthogonal mapping matrix may be applied to the LTF signals respective to each of the MU PPDUs as a method ensuring orthogonality between the streams.
US10129886B2
In a frequency band switching by Fast Session Transfer (FST), a timeout value (link loss timeout: LLT) is determined based on a change in a communication state, a switching setup sequence including a step of transmitting the determined timeout value to a peer wireless station is performed, and frequency switching to the second frequency band is performed when time of the timeout value elapses from when the switching setup sequence is completed. For example, a large timeout value (LLT=T1) is set at time of connection establishment, and the LLT is changed (LLT=T2 to T4) based on, for example, a state of transmission data or a change in a channel state.
US10129883B2
Techniques for spread spectrum wireless over non-contiguous channels are described. In at least some embodiments, a set of channels is selected for wireless communication, with at least some of the channels being non-contiguous (e.g., non-adjacent) from one another. A spreading sequence is selected, such as based on attributes of a selected set of channels. Communication data that is to be transmitted over the set of channels is combined with the spreading sequence to generate a spread spectrum signal. The spread spectrum signal is then divided into multiple sub-signals for transmission over the set of channels.
US10129874B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system, and more specifically disclosed are a method and a device for transceiving a frame comprising a partial association identifier (PAID) in the wireless communication system. A method for transmitting the frame in a station (STA) of the wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises a step of transmitting the frame comprising a PAID field, and: if the frame is a frame other than a control frame when the frame is an uplink frame to be transmitted to an access point (AP), the value of the PAID field can be set as a value other than 0, which is calculated on the basis of BSSID (Basic Service Set ID) of the AP; and if the frame is the control frame when the frame is the uplink frame, the value of the PAID field can be set as 0.
US10129868B2
A communication method, a base station, a radio communication node, and a user equipment are provided. A base station determines first resource configuration information, where the first resource configuration information is used for indicating N radio resource sets that are used when N radio communication nodes separately perform communication with a user equipment UE, and the radio resource includes a time domain resource and/or a frequency domain resource. The base station sends the first resource configuration information to the UE, where the UE communicates with a corresponding transmission point by using respective radio resource sets of transmission points, and the respective radio resource sets of the transmission points do not intersect. Therefore, a base station does not need to schedule a radio resource, thereby lowering a delay requirement on a backhaul link and eliminating interference.
US10129867B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to universal peer-to-peer signaling network virtualization and orchestration. According to one aspect of the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, a universal DIAMETER orchestrator can determine DIAMETER peer nodes to be utilized to handle DIAMETER signaling traffic for a service. The universal DIAMETER orchestrator can allocate transport resources over which a transport connection between the DIAMETER peer nodes can be established. In some embodiments, the universal DIAMETER orchestrator can allocate the transport resources on-demand. The universal DIAMETER orchestrator can allocate DIAMETER resources to provision DIAMETER signaling interfaces to handle the DIAMETER signaling traffic between the DIAMETER peer nodes. In some embodiments, the universal DIAMETER orchestrator can allocate the DIAMETER resources in accordance with a rule to override a traditional DIAMETER routing agent.
US10129865B2
A method operating a telecommunications system including a base station and plural terminal devices arranged to communicate over a radio interface supporting a downlink shared channel conveying user-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices and a downlink control channel conveying control-plane data from the base station to the terminal devices. The control-plane data conveys information on physical resource allocations for the downlink shared channel for respective of the terminal devices. The radio interface is based on a radio frame structure including plural subframes each including a control region supporting the downlink control channel and a user-plane region supporting the downlink shared channel. The method uses the control region of a first radio subframe to convey an indication of a physical resource allocation for a first terminal device on the shared downlink channel in the user-plane region of a second radio subframe subsequent to the first radio subframe.
US10129864B2
Virtualized group-wise communications between a wireless network and a plurality of user equipments (UEs) are supported using UE cooperation. UE cooperation includes receiving, at a cooperating UE (CUE), downlink information from the wireless network destined for a target UE (TUE) and associated with a group identifier (ID). The group ID indicates a virtual multi-point (ViMP) node that includes the TUE and the CUE. The UE cooperation also includes sending the downlink information to the TUE. The UE or UE component can have a processor configured to forward between the wireless network and a TUE at least some information that is associated with a group ID indicating a ViMP node that groups the TUE and the UE.
US10129856B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink control information transmission method, a base station, and user equipment. The method includes: receiving, by UE in a downlink subframe N, a downlink control channel sent by a base station; sending, by the UE, a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement corresponding to the downlink control channel to the base station in an uplink subframe N+4 by using a PUCCH, where when the uplink subframe N+4 belongs to a first uplink subframe set, the PUCCH is carried on a second serving cell of the UE, and when the uplink subframe N+4 belongs to a second uplink subframe set, the PUCCH is carried on the first serving cell, where a duplexing mode of the first serving cell is different from a duplexing mode of the second serving cell.
US10129840B2
The present invention provides a method, a device, and a system for notifying a terminal type supported by a current cell, so that a UE can identify the terminal type supported by the current cell as soon as possible. The method includes: carrying preset indication information in a downlink signal, where the indication information is used to indicate the terminal type supported by the current cell, the preset indication information is agreed upon by a network side and a terminal in advance, and the indication information is a synchronization sequence or a first indicator bit used to indicate the supported terminal type; and sending the downlink signal to the terminal.
US10129838B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described that provide for D2D synchronization. The methods, systems, and/or devices may include tools and techniques that provide for synchronizing a mobile device based on detection of a reliability alarm. A reliability alarm may be used between mobile devices, which is transmitted and/or received on specific D2D resources. Since the resources are reserved for the reliability alarm, a mobile device which was previously isolated from network synchronization will be able to receive the reliability alarm that a reliable synchronization signal is close when it moves within range of a reliable device. Once a reliability alarm is received the mobile device may free other resources to allow it to receive synchronization signals from the reliable devices. The mobile device may then synchronize with the network based on the received synchronization signals and transmit its own reliability alarm for subsequent isolated devices to use.
US10129822B2
Concepts and technologies are described herein for device-based idle mode load balancing. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a mobile device can receive a cell information message that includes load information of a current camping cell on which the mobile device is currently camping and load information of at least one neighbor cell of a plurality of neighbor cells to the current camping cell. The mobile device can also obtain cell-type information of the current camping cell and cell-type information of the at least one neighbor cell. The mobile device can also determine a mobility state of the mobile device, and, based upon the load information of the current camping cell, the load information of the at least one neighbor cell, the cell-type information of the current camping cell, the cell-type information of the at least one neighbor cell, and the mobility state information, select a target camping cell.
US10129814B2
A method and an apparatus for joining a centralized cluster is disclosed. The method includes: receiving a DMG Beacon frame sent by a first S-AP, where the DMG Beacon frame includes cluster information of the first S-AP; measuring, according to the cluster information of the first S-AP, signal quality and a state of each Beacon SP included in a BI of the first S-AP; if a Beacon SP whose state is an idle state is obtained by means of measurement, associating the Beacon SP with the first S-AP as a non-PCP/non-AP station, and receiving an Announce frame sent by the first S-AP; selecting one S-AP from the first S-AP and the second S-AP as a to-be-joined S-AP; and joining a centralized cluster of the to-be-joined S-AP.
US10129785B2
A method for processing media traffic by a Media Processing Function (MPF) entity in a mobile communication system is provided. The method includes installing a media policy when an Internet Protocol Connectivity Access Network (IP-CAN) between a gateway with a Traffic Detection Function (TDF) and a media policy server is established, or an application is detected in the gateway entity with the TDF, and updating the media policy based on a network status after installing the media policy.
US10129782B2
A method for channel state information (CSI) measurement. The method comprises receiving a reference signal that is periodically transmitted in one or more discovery reference signal (DRS) occasions from an eNodeB (eNB) operating in a cell over an unlicensed spectrum band, wherein the reference signal in the one or more DRS occasions is dropped in accordance with at least one of a listen before talk (LBT) operation and a discontinuous transmission (DTX) operation and the reference signal includes at least one of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) and a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS). The method further comprises measuring the received reference signal to generate a CSI measurement report and transmitting the CSI measurement report to the eNB according to a configuration received from the eNB.
US10129771B2
In a wireless communication system (1), a hard AP (10) including a station function (15) activates a soft AP function (22) of a wireless LAN device (20) included in a first combination composed of one or a plurality of wireless LAN devices (20) to check scan responsiveness, activates the soft AP function (22) of the wireless LAN device (20) included in other combination, and activates the soft AP function (22) of the wireless LAN device (20) included in a combination having higher scan responsiveness from between that of the first combination and that of the other combination.
US10129770B2
Methods, systems, and devices for broadcast transmissions in wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit a control reference signal (CRS), a UE-specific reference signal (UERS), and broadcast data (e.g., broadcast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) data) in a broadcast downlink transmission. A UE may identify that the CRS and UERS are associated with the broadcast downlink data, and demodulate the broadcast downlink data in the broadcast downlink transmission based at least in part on the CRS and UERS. A UE may estimate a frequency offset based on a phase difference between the CRS and UERS, combine the CRS and UERS for use in a channel estimation, and demodulate the broadcast data based at least in part on the estimated frequency offset and channel estimation. The base station may provide signaling, such as dynamic or semi-static signaling, that indicates presence of both CRS and UERS.
US10129763B1
A cellular base station and/or associated equipment will detect the presence of nearby public safety communication and, in response, will automatically change the base station's antenna beam pattern to be directed to a predefined safe direction, so as to quickly minimize the likelihood of the base station producing harmful interference to the public safety communication. Further, after thus quickly working to minimize the likelihood of such interference, the base station and/or associated equipment could then more specifically determine a direction from which the public safety communication is arriving and could further adjust the base station's antenna beam pattern to be directed away from the determined direction.
US10129762B1
Systems and methods for adjusting a transmitting-receiving (TR) component of a broadcast cell in a wireless telecommunications network are provided. In some aspects, the TR component can be adjusted along an azimuthal direction to shift the network signal from a first network footprint to a second network footprint. In some aspects, the TR component is adjusted along the azimuthal direction based on one or more network performance metrics.
US10129761B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to managing and accessing a community Wi-Fi network. The community Wi-Fi network can include sharer computing devices in differing local networks that share respective network bandwidth capacities with consumer computing devices. Feedback information pertaining to network bandwidth capacity available at different geographic locations covered by the community Wi-Fi network can be collected and evaluated to enable generation of maps for visualizing coverage of the community Wi-Fi network. A consumer computing device can display a map that includes visual information pertaining to the geographic coverage of the community Wi-Fi network relative to a geographic location of the consumer computing device. Community Wi-Fi network coverage can be analyzed to detect geographic locations at which network coverage is desirably added; network coverage can be added by incentivizing a potential sharer computing device to opt in to share network bandwidth capacity or controlling beamforming of sharer computing device(s).
US10129758B2
Embodiments of a wireless station and method for controlling use of the 60 GHz band are described. The station (STA) can include memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to decode a packet received from a second STA via a microwave wireless channel. The packet includes information indicating that a millimeter wave wireless channel is unavailable for communication. A current geographic location and a mobility status for the second STA may be determined based on an authentication message originating from a third STA. The mobility status may indicate whether the second STA is moving or is stationary. The second STA may be authenticated based at least on the mobility status. Upon authenticating the second STA, usage of the millimeter wave wireless channel may be suspended for a pre-determined period of time.
US10129753B2
A method and arrangements for enabling authentication of a communication device is suggested, where a network node, capable of operating as an authentication server does not have to store all state related information relevant for a roundtrip of an authentication session. Instead of storing all this information, at least a part of it is provided to the authenticator or the communication unit, for later retrieval in a subsequent response. Based on the state related information provided in the response, the network node is capable of reproducing a state associated with a respective roundtrip. By repeating the mentioned process for a required number of roundtrips, an authentication session can be executed, where less state related information need to be stored at the mentioned network node.
US10129742B2
The present application discloses a method for synchronizing encryption information between a SCell and UE, which includes that: the SCell transmits a COUNT value of RB established for the UE to a PCell; the PCell transmits the COUNT value received from the SCell to the UE; and the PCell receives a COUNT value of RB established on the SCell that is saved by the UE from the UE. Or, the SCell and the UE may directly exchange the COUNT value of RB. By the present application, the security and correctness of data can be ensured.
US10129740B2
Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including a communication unit capable of wireless communication with another wireless communication apparatus, a determination unit for determining whether the communication unit is in proximity to the other wireless communication apparatus, and a control unit for performing, in a case the communication unit is determined to be in proximity to the other wireless communication apparatus, a connection procedure between the communication unit and the other wireless communication apparatus.
US10129725B2
A method of transmitting association requests in a wireless sensor network includes transmitting an association request from a leaf node to an intermediate node. The method further includes transmitting the association request from the intermediate node during one of either a shared time slot or a dedicated time slot in response to at least one of the timing of dedicated time slots and data collision rates during shared time slots.
US10129715B2
A method and apparatus for receiving at least one IP-based registration message from a first UE is disclosed. The at least one IP-based registration message may indicate support for short message reception and may include security association data of the first UE, a MSISDN identifier of the first UE, and an IP address of the first UE. Reception of capability information of the first UE is further disclosed. A database may be configured to store the security association data of the first UE, the MSISDN identifier of the first UE, the IP address of the first UE, and the capability information of the first UE. Transmitting, to a second UE, an indication of whether the second UE is or is not capable of IP based short message communication with the first UE is further disclosed.
US10129714B2
A gateway device is enabled to initiate sending of push notifications to an associated device. The push notifications can be sent even when a gateway device related application is not running on the device. The push notifications can also be sent to the device whenever it has internet connectivity, even if the internet connectivity is not being provided by the gateway device hotspot. In an embodiment, a mobile access gateway system can receive a notification from the gateway device that is directed to another device. The mobile access gateway system can determine whether or not the gateway device and the other device are related to each other and then instruct a push notification server to send the device a push notification.
US10129712B2
A floor control method and apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment a floor control method includes receiving, by a server over Long Term Evolution network, a first message sent by user equipment (UE), wherein the first message comprises a parameter indicating that an event type is a floor request, generating, by the server, a second message according to a floor control policy and the first message, wherein the second message comprises a parameter indicating that an event type is floor granted and sending, by the server, the second message to the UE, wherein the second message is used to instruct the UE to notify a user of the UE that a floor is granted.
US10129705B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a first software application of a client system associated with a user of an online social network, background signal-information identifying one or more first wireless signals; storing the signal-information and a client identifier for the client system in a signal-information database; receiving, from a second software application of the client system via a places-API of the online social network, a places-API call indicating that the client system is located at a geographic location corresponding to a first place-entity; recording the places-API call in an API-call log, wherein the API-call log records the first place-entity and the client identifier; determining a correlation between the signal-information and the first place-entity; and updating a place-entity database to indicate that the first place-entity corresponds to the one or more first wireless signals identified by the signal-information.
US10129702B1
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining semantic location information. In particular, one or more computing devices can receive, from an application program executing on at least one of the one or more computing devices, an application programming interface (API) call requesting semantic information about a location of at least one of the one or more computing devices. Responsive to receiving the API call, the one or more computing devices can determine semantic information for the location and can return the semantic information for the location to the application program via the API. The semantic information for the location can comprise data semantically identifying the location and indicating whether a user associated with the one or more computing devices is stationary at the location or in transit from the location.
US10129700B2
A system for estimating the location of a node in a mesh network and predicting future location of the same. Historical RSSI of nodes in a mesh network may be used to determine relative location amongst other nodes. The system may employ statistical approaches to predict future node locations.
US10129693B2
A system of real-time tracking with scribbling information based on a map and an operating method thereof which share multimedia contents information inserted into a selected tracking course of an electronic map while communicating with a counterpart and write an experience and information acquired in a corresponding region as the multimedia contents to share designed tracking course information with the counterpart and allow each counterpart to additionally write multimedia information in designed contents information in person to share the multimedia information.
US10129689B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing machine-type communication and for mobile network memory conservation. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a machine-type communication gateway including a centralized policy engine and a device trigger storage may be communicatively connected to control nodes of a mobile network and to trigger providers of a fixed network. The machine-type communication gateway may be configured to receive device triggers from the trigger providers, store the device triggers in the device trigger storage in queues, and providing the device triggers to the control nodes at rates determined by the centralized policy engine. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, a non-transitory storage memory may store bearer information. The mobile network may be configured to receive an indication to establish a data session, retrieve the stored bearer information from the storage memory, and commit memory resources by establishing one or more bearers for the data session using the stored bearer information.
US10129687B2
Some examples include a plurality of secure low-power compressive sensing sensor blocks able to communicate with each other and with a computing device to perform spatial and/or temporal compressive sensing. As one example, a first sensor block may obtain data by randomly sampling a sensor signal from a first sensor coupled to the first sensor block. The first sensor block may send the data obtained from the randomly sampled sensor signal to at least one other sensor block of the plurality of sensor blocks, wherein the data is distributed to the plurality of sensor blocks. In addition, at least one of the first sensor block or another sensor block may process the data to at least one of packetize or encrypt the data. The first sensor block and/or the other sensor block may send the processed data to the computing device.
US10129686B2
The present invention sets forth a network-centric service distribution architecture that integrates a wireless access system in the residence, SOHO, business or public environment through the use of a local broadband network, such as a Residential-Business Broadband Network (RBN), to the service provider's broadband transport network and to a service provider's broadband packet network. The system includes Media Terminal Adapter is coupled via the RBN to the access port(s) and via the service provider's broadband transport network to the service provider's broadband packet network. The access port is coupled to the Media Terminal Adapter via either a RBN (e.g., a Local Area Network—LAN) or simply via a traditional POTS line interface. The access port receives and sends wireless signals to a plurality of RBN devices, allowing the user to control theses devices remotely from the residence, business, SOHO or public environments.
US10129685B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for processing an audio signal, which synthesizes an object signal and a channel signal and effectively binaural-render the synthesized signal.To this end, the present invention provides a method for processing an audio signal, including: receiving an input audio signal including at least one of a multi-channel signal and a multi-object signal; receiving type information of a filter set for binaural filtering of the input audio signal, the type of the filter set being one of a finite impulse response (FIR) filter, a parameterized filter in a frequency domain, and a parameterized filter in a time domain; receiving filter information for binaural filtering based on the type information; and performing the binaural filtering for the input audio signal by using the received filter information, wherein when the type information indicates the parameterized filter in the frequency domain, in the receiving of the filter information, a subband filter coefficient having a length determined for each subband of a frequency domain is received, and in the performing of the binaural filtering, each subband signal of the input audio signal is filtered by using the subband filter coefficient corresponding thereto and an apparatus for processing an audio signal by using the same.
US10129679B2
Examples described herein involve identifying one or more error conditions during calibration of one or more playback devices in a playback environment. A microphone of a network device may detect and sample an audio signal while the one or more playback devices in the playback environment plays a calibration tone. A processor of the network device may then receive, from the microphone, a stream of audio data. The audio data may include an audio signal component and a background noise component. As a subset of the audio data is received, the processor may identify based on at least the subset of audio data, the one or more error conditions. The processor may then cause a graphical display to display a graphical representation associated with the identified error condition.
US10129677B2
A method is disclosed for sensing, reporting, and correcting microphone proximity for a headset. The method includes determining a current proximity of a headset microphone to a face of a user. The method also includes storing the current proximity of the headset microphone as a calibrated microphone proximity value, and selecting, based on the calibrated microphone proximity value, a range of microphone proximities. Further, the method includes sensing a new proximity of the headset microphone, and comparing the new proximity of the headset microphone with the range of microphone proximities. Still yet, the method includes generating a message for the user in response to determining, based on the comparison, that the new proximity of the headset microphone is outside the range of microphone proximities.
US10129671B2
Hearing device configuration and hearing treatment using categorical perception; systems and methods for categorical perception based configuration of hearing devices and hearing treatment.
US10129670B2
A replaceable filter member for a hearing aid device is disclosed. The filter member comprising an unit with a housing configured to be inserted into the ear canal of a user of the hearing aid device. The filter member is configured to prevent ear wax from entering an opening in the housing. The filter member is a one-piece body that is configured to cover several openings in the unit while being attached to the unit.
US10129668B2
An earmold for an ear canal of a user, the earmold having an earmold shell and extending along an axis, the earmold shell having a tip end, the tip end facing a tympanic membrane of the user when worn by the user, the earmold includes: a first microphone connected to a first microphone opening for receiving sound in the ear canal, wherein the first microphone opening is arranged in a first position at a first distance from the tip end of the earmold shell; and a receiver opening for providing sound in the ear canal, wherein the receiver opening is arranged in a second position at a second distance from the tip end of the earmold shell; wherein the first position is different from the second position.
US10129648B1
Conventional stereo audio recordings do not factor in natural ear spacing or “head shadow” of a user's head and ears. The hinged computing devices disclosed herein incorporate a pair of microphones that approximate the user's ear-to-ear spacing and orientation, as well as a physical structure that approximates the user's head shadow. A resulting recording of the computing device's environment may be conditioned and reproduced as a binaural stereo audio feed for selective playback to the user or other users.
US10129646B2
Disclosed is a display device that includes a display panel, sound generating actuators including a first sound generating actuator in a first area of the display panel and a second sound generating actuator in a second area of the display panel, the first and second sound generating actuators configured to vibrate the display panel to generate sound, and a partition between the first sound generating actuator and the second sound generating actuator.
US10129644B2
Adaptive performance software, operating on a computing device, may be used to control an adaptive loudspeaker system within a venue. In some embodiments, the adaptive performance software may receive a selection of a target area within the venue. The adaptive performance software may then determine a smallest affected zone that includes the target area, and may present the smallest affected zone to the user to indicate what the affected area for the requested changes would be. In some embodiments, the adaptive performance software may take the shape of the venue, the capabilities of the loudspeaker array as configured and flown in the venue, and/or the specific setting changes which are desired in order to determine the smallest affected zone that includes the selected area.
US10129643B2
A vehicle system includes a plurality of speakers and a processor. Each of the plurality of speakers is associated with one of a plurality of vehicle components. The processor is programmed to select at least one of the plurality of speakers to play a sound associated with one of the plurality of vehicle components and in accordance with a location of a passenger relative to at least one of the plurality of vehicle components.
US10129635B1
Example wearable audio devices are disclosed. In one example implementation, a wearable audio device includes a housing defining an interior and an exterior. The exterior can have an ear engaging surface. The wearable audio device can include an audio source located within the interior of the housing. The wearable audio device can include an antenna located within the interior. The antenna can have an arc-shaped conductor with a first end and a second end defining an opening. The antenna can be positioned within the housing of the wearable audio device such that the opening of the antenna is positioned further from an ear relative to a middle portion of the arc-shaped conductor when the wearable audio device is worn in the ear.
US10129634B2
Described is a human-ear-wearable apparatus having a housing, which contains electronic and auditory components for conveying sound into a human hear. An inflatable mounting system is configured to secure the housing to the human ear. The mounting system includes an elastomeric bladder configured to inflate into a customizable counterpart shape of portions of the user's Concha and Meatus areas of a particular user's ear. A pump, coupled to the housing, is configured to pass air through an opening in the housing to the elastomeric bladder. Inflation of the bladder, via the pump, is controllable by a user to form a customized fit of the mounting system's bladder to the Concha and Meatus areas of the user's ear. One or more speakers may be encased in the elastomeric bladder. For example, a dual-hybrid speaker arrangement is described with a cone speaker and a balanced-armature driver embedded in the bladder.
US10129631B2
A configurable headset includes a stock open-back configuration, wherein an audio profile for the headset in the stock open-back configuration is optimized. When the stock open-back configuration is physically modified to a closed-back configuration, the audio profile degrades, but is manually or automatically improved through selection of a pre-programmed compensated audio profile via an audio profile controller in communication with the configurable headset.
US10129630B2
The invention relates to a floating-cup pivot for a head-worn audio device. The head-worn audio device includes an earcup defining an inner cavity. A wall of the earcup includes an aperture. Also, the head-worn audio device includes a pivot within the inner cavity of the earcup. The pivot defines a rotational axis. Further, the head-worn audio device includes an arm having a first end and a second end. The first end of the arm is rotatably attached to the pivot. Still yet, the head-worn audio device includes a stem disposed toward the second end of the arm. The stem is configured to rotate along a path passing through the aperture of the earcup.
US10129629B1
The present disclosure relates to dongle storage for head-worn audio devices. In one aspect, a head-worn audio device includes a headband having a first end and a second end. An ear sub-assembly is disposed at one or both of the first end and the second end of the headband. The headband includes a receptacle configured for removable insertion of a wireless dongle.
US10129625B2
Headphone eartips with internal support components and methods for making the same are provided. Different support components may provide specific amounts and types of additional rigidity at specific portions of an exterior surface of an outer eartip body that may be expected to interface with specific portions of an ear canal geometry when an eartip subassembly is positioned within the ear canal, such that the eartip subassembly may conform to the various shapes of the ear canal while maintaining an acoustic seal.
US10129619B2
The present invention discloses a receiver comprising an outer housing that consists of a first housing, a second housing and a third housing fitting to each other from top to bottom. The third housing is an integral structure, and includes a magnetic conductive piece and a plastic piece integrally injection-molded therewith. The magnetic conductive piece is bonded and fixed with a magnet and a washer. The magnetic conductive piece, the magnet and the washer together form a magnetic circuit system of the receiver, and the third housing is fixed with the second housing by ultrasonic welding through the plastic piece. The receiver of the present invention can realize one-step assembly of the rear cavity housing of the product, simplify the production process of the product, save the production time, and further reduce the production cost of the product.
US10129612B2
A signal sending device, a signal receiving device, and a signal sending and receiving system and method are presented. The devices and system combine a plurality of sense data into a data packet to transmit the data packet. Through the method, the data packet is processed, received, and sent under a transmission mechanism based on independent data packets. Therefore, the plurality of sense data and overhead data are combined into a data packet, and thus the redundant overhead data is reduced, so as to reduce the time spent on sending actual data to a transmission channel, thus improving the efficiency of data exchange and saving electrical energy.
US10129610B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to monitor media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a network interface to obtain media monitoring information from a content publisher. The apparatus further includes a media identifier to determine a first media identifier based on the obtained media monitoring information corresponding to media presented at a media device, map the first media identifier to a second media identifier in a look-up table, the second media identifier based on an audience measurement entity (AME) media analyzer obtaining the media before the media device accessed the media, and credit the presentation of the media to the media device based on the mapping. The apparatus further includes a report generator to generate a media crediting report based on the crediting.
US10129602B2
A method for generating and processing a broadcast signal according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: encoding broadcast data for one or more broadcast services; encoding first level signaling information including information describing properties of the one or more broadcast services; encoding second level signaling information including information for listing the one or more broadcast services; and generating a broadcast signal including the encoded broadcast data, the encoded first level signaling information and the encoded second level signaling information.
US10129586B2
Various implementations process a television content stream to detect program boundaries such as the starting point and ending point of the program. In at least some implementations, program boundaries such as intermediate points between the starting point and ending point of the program are also detected. The intermediate points correspond to where a program pauses for secondary content such as an advertisement or advertisements, and then resumes once the secondary content has run. Once program boundaries are detected, primary content is isolated by removing secondary content that occurs before the starting point and after the ending point. In at least some implementations, secondary content that occurs between detected intermediate points is also removed. The primary content is then recorded without secondary content that originally comprised part of the original television content stream.
US10129582B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for capturing spectator content displayed at live events. Spectator content that includes at least one spectator is captured from a stream of live video that is shown on a display at a live event. One or more time identifiers are determined that indicate when the spectator content is shown on the display. The spectator content and the one or more time identifiers are stored in a database such that the spectator content is linked with the time identifiers in the database. In response to receiving one or more search parameters submitted by a user, the one or more search parameters relating to at least one of the one or more time identifiers, the spectator content is retrieved from the database based on the search parameters. Thereafter, the spectator content is provided to the user.
US10129580B2
The present invention provides a digital broadcast receiver capable of executing functions having higher added values. The broadcast receiver receives a broadcast wave of a digital broadcast service, controls an operation including activation and end of an application that is in cooperation with a broadcast program based on application-related information, and selects control relating to reactivation of the application based on a user's operation. If activation of the application is requested after the end of the application, the broadcast receiver controls the reactivation or non-reactivation of the application in accordance with the selection of control by the user.
US10129578B2
A trigger manager and related processes and systems for managing triggers for a plurality of subscribing set-top boxes in an interactive television environment are provided. In response to receipt of a configuration update request originating from a specific set-top box, the trigger manager accesses a database of subscribing set-top box profiles associating subscribing set-top boxes with respective sets of triggers. The database is processed based on the configuration update request to identify a profile associated with the specific set-top box from which the configuration update request originated. Trigger update information associated with the identified profile is transmitted over a network to the specific set-top box from which the configuration update request originated. In response to receipt at the specific set-top box of the trigger update information, the set of current triggers in the memory unit is updated at least in part based on the information received.
US10129577B2
Methods and apparatus for controlled distribution of program content are described where program content for certain regions may be selectively blocked. The described methods and apparatus allow content distribution to authorized regions while providing control to the content provider to effectively block program content delivery to regions not entitled to receive the program content.
US10129573B1
Techniques for identifying relevance of a video are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises: causing a video to be played on a device of a user; receiving, from the device, an instruction to share the video with another user, the instruction corresponding to a point-in-time in the video; identifying text in a transcript of the video based on the point-in-time; causing the identified text to be displayed on the device based on the instruction to share the video; receiving, from the device, an instruction to include user-approved text along with the video in the sharing of the video with the one or more other users, the user-approved text comprising at least a portion of the identified text; and causing the user-approved text to be displayed on a device of the other user in association with the video based on the instructions to share and include.
US10129569B2
Venue-based data including video from cameras located at a sports venue can be provided to hand held devices authorized by at least one casino. A casino patron's hand held device can enable to view sporting events provided to a hand held device from a server and placement of wagers with the server. Venue-based data including video and statistics are received from server including camera views captured as video by at least one camera located within at least one sports venue. Venue-based data is processed at server for display on a display associated with at least one hand held device operating within a casino. Venue-based data is displayed on hand held devices, enabling casino patrons to view event video. Portable devices can be authorized only when moving about a casino. Casino patrons can also gamble using said hand held device while viewing selected sporting events within the casino.
US10129563B2
A method of encoding a video into a coded video bitstream with temporal motion vector prediction comprises: determining a value of a flag for indicating whether temporal motion vector prediction is used or not used for the inter-picture prediction of a sub-picture unit of a picture; and writing the flag having the value into a header of the sub-picture unit or a header of the picture; wherein if the flag indicates that temporal motion vector prediction is used, the method further comprises: creating a first list of motion vector predictors comprising a plurality of motion vector predictors including at least one temporal motion vector predictor derived from at least one motion vector from a collocated reference picture; selecting a motion vector predictor out of the first list; and writing a first parameter into the coded video bitstream for indicating the selected motion vector predictor out of the first list.
US10129562B2
The present technique relates to an image processing device and method for preventing increases in the processing load of image encoding and decoding. The image processing device includes: a temporal prediction control unit that controls, in a prediction of a motion vector, whether a temporal prediction is to be performed to predict the motion vector by using the motion vector of a neighbor region temporally adjacent to the current region being processed; and a motion vector encoding unit that predicts the motion vector of the current region by performing only a spatial prediction to predict the motion vector from the motion vector of a neighbor region spatially adjacent to the current region or performing both the spatial prediction and the temporal prediction under the control of the temporal prediction control unit, and encodes the motion vector of the current region by using the predicted value.
US10129559B2
A method for compressing images includes identifying a set of image blocks from a plurality of digital images. For each image block from the set, image features of the image block are extracted. The set of image blocks is sorted into an ordered sequence of image blocks based on an average image feature difference between sequentially sorted image blocks. The set of image blocks is compressed into compressed image data based on inter block correlations between image blocks in the ordered sequence.
US10129558B2
This disclosure relates to processing video data, including processing video data that is represented by an HDR/WCG color representation. In accordance with one or more aspects of the present disclosure, one or more Supplemental Enhancement Information (SEI) Messages may be used to signal syntax elements and or other information that allow a video decoder or video postprocessing device to reverse the dynamic range adjustment (DRA) techniques of this disclosure to reconstruct the original or native color representation of the video data. Dynamic range adjustment (DRA) parameters may be applied to video data in accordance with one or more aspects of this disclosure in order to make better use of an HDR/WCG color representation, and may include the use of global offset values, as well as local scale and offset values for partitions of color component values.
US10129553B2
Systems and techniques are disclosed for dynamically and automatically selecting an appropriate compression technique and/or compression parameters for digital images in order to reduce or prevent loss of significant information that may negatively impact the utility or usefulness of the digital images. For example, based on various image characteristics associated with a digital image, the system may dynamically compress the image using particular compression techniques and/or by adjusting compression parameters, to maintain significant information of the image. The system may select compression techniques and/or compression parameters based on one or more compression rules, which may be associated with image characteristics, patient characteristics, medical history, etc. Further, the system may, based on the one or more compression rules, compress the image to a maximum degree of compression while maintaining the significant information of the image.
US10129549B2
A higher coding efficiency for coding a significance map indicating positions of significant transform coefficients within a transform coefficient block is achieved by the scan order by which the sequentially extracted syntax elements indicating, for associated positions within the transform coefficient block, as to whether at the respective position a significant or insignificant transform coefficient is situated, are sequentially associated to the positions of the transform coefficient block, among the positions of the transform coefficient block depends on the positions of the significant transform coefficients indicated by previously associated syntax elements. Alternatively, the first-type elements may be context-adaptively entropy decoded using contexts which are individually selected for each of the syntax elements dependent on a number of significant transform coefficients in a neighborhood of the respective syntax element, indicated as being significant by any of the preceding syntax elements.
US10129547B2
In order to obtain an image processing apparatus whose object is to realize edge detection with utilizing motion vectors calculated during image encoding, included are: a motion vector processing part to calculate, for each macroblock, information concerning a motion between frames, from motion vectors included in an encoded image signal; a motion vector filter to let through motion vectors each having a predetermined piece of information out of the calculated information; a frame counter to output a count end signal when a counted number of frames of the encoded image signal received by the motion vector processing part reaches a predetermined number of frames; a frequency counter to integrate a frequency of the motion vectors let through the motion vector filter over the predetermined number of frames for each macroblock; and an edge determiner to determine, upon reception of the count end signal, whether or not the frequency integrated by the frequency counter for each macroblock exceeds a threshold, and if the integrated frequency exceeds the threshold, judge a macroblock concerned as being an edge.
US10129544B2
The a method and system of making a coding mode decision for a given macroblock of a current frame is disclosed. A codec for making the coding mode decision is provided. The codec disclosed herein performs prediction of the motion vectors in inter-frames. The macroblock may be coded in one of six inter modes, such as skip mode, P16×16 mode, P16×8 mode, P8×16 mode, and P8×8 mode or in intra modes such as intra 4×4 mode and intra 16×16 mode. Each block in the inter-frame is predicted from a block of equal size in the reference frame. In each mode, the codec finds a best match, that is, a motion vector for each block size in the reference frame and calculates a corresponding cost. The codec evaluates each mode based on cost and the mode with the least cost is selected as best mode for coding the given macroblock.
US10129538B2
A controller that may implement variation of the content of binocular images which may depend upon which region of a binocular image a viewer is fixating. An aspect of the present disclosure may include locally controlling the viewer's perceived depth impression which may depend on where in perceived depth in an image the viewer is fixating. This may enable the perceived depth to be optimized across the image for quality and performance reasons.
US10129531B2
An imaging apparatus including an imaging lens, and an image sensor array of first and second image sensor units, wherein a single first image sensor unit includes a single first microlens and a plurality of image sensors, a single second image sensor unit includes a single second microlens and a single image sensor, light passing through the imaging lens and reaching each first image sensor unit passes through the first microlens and forms an image on the image sensors constituting the first image sensor unit, light passing through the imaging lens and reaching each second image sensor unit passes through the second microlens and forms an image on the image sensor constituting the second image sensor unit, an inter-unit light shielding layer is formed between the image sensor units, and a light shielding layer is not formed between the image sensor units constituting the first image sensor unit.
US10129529B2
An imaging system includes a camera, a display panel and a processor for providing image data to the display panel. The camera has a sensor with pixel rows for capturing an image taken by a camera lens through a lenticular sheet with first lenticules, such that each first lenticule covers at least two pixel rows. The display panel is used to show a displayed image based on the image data. The display panel is covered by a viewing lenticular sheet with second lenticules. The displayed image has a plurality of segments, with each segment under a second lenticule and each segment has sub-segments corresponding to pixel rows under a first lenticule. Image data provided to the image display panel is arranged such that image contents in the sub-segments under each second lenticule and image contents in the pixel rows under each first lenticule have different arrangement orders.
US10129522B2
A device is intended to process three-dimensional content for a server. The three-dimensional content comprises at least two image sequences obtained from different angles, wherein a three-dimensional rendering is associated to a level of disparity between said at least two image sequences. This processing device is configured to generate from a content at least two different content versions corresponding to different levels of disparity adapted to different transmission bit rates, wherein the disparity level decreases with said transmission bit rate. A server comprising the processing device, a three-dimensional content-obtaining device, and a content receiver comprising three-dimensional content-obtaining device are further disclosed.
US10129519B2
A naked-eye 3D display processing method includes: receiving source display data for naked-eye 3D display; modifying the source display data, so as to acquire target display data including data corresponding to at least one subpixel separation sequence consisting of one or more consecutive subpixels in a dark state, two subpixels, which are arranged in a row identical to and adjacent to the subpixel separation sequence, corresponding to different views; and outputting the target display data to a display panel so as to display the target display data.
US10129507B2
A network of cameras is disposed throughout a store, such as a grocery store, for example. The cameras are positioned so as to monitor the products available in the store, as well as the entrances and exits to and from the store. Customers are identified as they enter the store, and their movements throughout the store are tracked. The cameras capture images of the products selected by the customer and then send those images to a computer server. The server identifies each product selected by the customer, maintains a total price for all products selected by the customer, and automatically debits the customer's account for the total price upon detecting the customer leaving the store.
US10129502B2
A method of authorizing video contents during a video call initiated by a first device to a second device, includes capturing the video contents of the video call, generating a watermark payload from information about at least one of the first device and the second device, applying the watermark payload to the video contents, and transmitting the watermarked video contents to at least one of the first device and the second device.
US10129496B2
An imaging device includes an imaging unit, a reference signal generation unit, m (m is an integer of 3 or more) number of column delay units, and a plurality of column AD conversion units. The plurality of column delay units is arranged so as to correspond to two or more and less than m of the column AD conversion units. Each of the plurality of column delay units includes a first delay circuit. The first delay circuit generates a plurality of first delay clocks. The column AD conversion unit includes a comparison unit, a latch unit, and a counter unit. The comparison unit compares a pixel signal with a reference signal, and outputs a control signal corresponding to a comparison result. The latch unit includes a plurality of latch circuits that latches the plurality of first delay clocks on the basis of a state change of the control signal.
US10129495B2
Techniques for direct local binary pattern (LBP) generation are presented. An image sensor for LBP generation includes a variable reference signal generator and a sensor pixel array that can generate events based on optical signals on the sensor pixel array and a reference level from the variable reference signal generator. The image sensor also includes an address encoder that can encode the addresses of the sensor pixels that generate events, and a binary image generator that can create a binary image based on the addresses of the sensor pixels that generate the events at the reference level. The image sensor may also include a local binary pattern generator configured to determine local binary pattern labels for image pixels whose binary value changes from a first binary image at a first reference level to a subsequent second binary image at a next reference level.
US10129487B2
An image sensor including an array of pixel elements is operated according to two operation modes to modulate the conversion gain of the pixel to operate the image sensor based on the impinging light conditions. More specifically, an image sensor pixel element is operated in a high conversion gain mode for low light conditions and in a low conversion gain mode for bright light conditions. The low conversion gain mode implements charge sharing between the floating diffusion and the photodiode. The low conversion gain mode further implements partial reset where the photodiode and the floating diffusion are reset to the same potential and to a potential slightly less than the pinning voltage of the photodiode.
US10129477B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a smart image sensor having a memory and a processor that are locally integrated with an image sensor. The memory is to store first program code to be executed by the processor. The memory is coupled to the image sensor and the processor. The memory is to store second program code to be executed by the processor. The first program code is to cause the smart image sensor to perform an analysis on one or more images captured by the image sensor. The analysis identifies a region of interest within the one or more images with machine learning from previously captured images. The second program code is to cause the smart image sensor to change an image sensing and/or optical parameter in response to the analysis of the one or more images performed by the execution of the first program code. Alternatively or in combination, the memory is to store third program code to be executed by the processor and fourth program code to be executed by the processor. The third program code is to store multiple images captured by the image sensor in the memory. The fourth program code is to merge the multiple images in the memory.
US10129476B1
In some embodiments, the present invention provides for an exemplary computer system that may include: a camera component configured to acquire a visual content, wherein the visual content having a plurality of frames with a visual representation of a face of a person; a processor configured to: apply, for each frame, a multi-dimensional face detection regressor for fitting at least one meta-parameter to detect or to track a plurality of multi-dimensional landmarks representative of a face; apply a face movement detection algorithm to identify each displacement of each respective multi-dimensional landmark between frames; and apply a face movement compensation algorithm to generate a face movement compensated output that stabilizes the visual representation of the face.
US10129470B2
System and methods are disclosed for generating an output video stream from a wide field video stream. The wide field video stream may be created from compiling a plurality of video stream capturing different viewpoints of the same environment simultaneously. Upon selecting a wide field video stream, a first geometric function may be utilized to generate individual intermediate points that correspond to locations in a wide field video stream to be displayed on a particular display space. A second geometric function may be further utilized to generate reference points so that a the pixel on the output video stream are determined from the intermediate points of the wide field video stream of the first geometric function. Upon the execution of the first and second geometric function, an output video stream is generated for display on the determined display space.
US10129435B2
An integrated circuit includes a first signal line, a first circuit, a second signal line, and an attaching circuit. A first signal is transferred via the first signal line. The first circuit is connected to the first signal line and performs image processing upon the first signal being transferred thereto. The second signal line is connected to the first signal line, and a second signal indicating that the first signal has been transferred is transferred via the second signal line. The attaching circuit is connected to the second signal line and attaches, upon the second signal being transferred thereto via the second signal line, information corresponding to the second signal to an image resulting from the image processing performed by the first circuit.
US10129434B2
Examples include acquisition of an input image, generation of a first output pixel and a second output pixel based on a first set and a second set of input pixels, selective reassigning of a gray value of at least one of the first and second output pixels, and generation of an output image based on the output pixels at a second resolution lower than the first resolution.
US10129424B2
An image reading device includes an imaging device to capture an image of a document placed below the imaging device to generate a document image and output an image signal based on the document image, circuitry to determine a size of a fed-sheet based on information on the fed-sheet, the fed-sheet being a sheet to be formed with the document image, generate a frame image for the document image, the frame image having a size equal to the size of the fed-sheet, and synthesize the frame image with the image signal output from the imaging device to generate a synthesized image, and a display to display the synthesized image.
US10129421B2
A system and method for generating customized user interface on a multifunction peripheral. The multifunction peripheral has an intelligent controller with a processor and memory, and a document processing engine with functional subsystems subject to software control by the intelligent controller. The intelligent controller functions as a webserver operating through a network interface. A variety of device control applications are stored with each applications configured to engage a corresponding subset of the functional subsystems. Image files generate an interface image corresponding to a device control application on a touchscreen multifunction peripheral interface. The webserver receives selection data corresponding to at least one selected device control application from an associated web client and outputs a web page displaying image files corresponding to each selected device control application image to the web client via the network interface generating a preview image of a customized user interface.
US10129406B2
A system and method provide an indication by a calling device of a transfer preference for an interaction with a called device. The called device is enabled or restricted to transfer the interaction based on the transfer preference. The transfer preference is provided by a session initiation protocol or various other call topologies.
US10129400B2
A language processor includes a parser and an invoker. The parser parses a spoken statement to detect a plurality of words in the spoken statement and generates a parse tree based on the detected plurality of words. The invoker determines, based on the parse tree, a plurality of potential services to invoke to respond to the spoken statement, calculates a confidence score for each potential service of the plurality of potential services, wherein each confidence score indicates a likelihood, that a potential service is a service requested by the spoken statement, and determines, based on the calculated confidence scores, to invoke a potential service of the plurality of potential services in response to the spoken statement. This helps reduce a number of questions that a caller associated with the spoken statement has to answer before the language processor determines a service to invoke to respond to the caller.
US10129393B2
In one embodiment, a social networking system determines a user identifier of a caller placing a call to a receiving user based on the call's phone number, accesses one or more data stores for information associated with the caller, and present to the receiving user the information associated with the caller.
US10129384B2
A method in which an electronic device that has one or more movement sensors and a computer processor may detect events in a way that is convenient for daily use by a person. A behavior detection mode may be activated when the electronic device is physically attached to the torso of the person wherein the electronic device may be disposed in a special article (e.g. an article of manufacture, article of clothing, etc.) designed to be attached to the torso of the person so that it activates a behavior detection mode.
US10129382B2
An electronic device receives a first distance signal from a sensor embraced by a left receiver of a headset, and a second distance signal from a sensor embraced by a right receiver of the headset. The electronic device obtains a first distance between the left receiver and a left ear of the person according to the first distance signal, and obtains a second distance between the right receiver and a right ear of the person according to the second distance signal. The electronic device executes a specific operation according to the first distance and the second distance.
US10129371B2
A serial communication device includes a serializer configured to transmit serial data for each channel via a transmission line for the corresponding channel, and a deserializer configured to receive the serial data. The serializer includes a transmission processing circuit that creates a protocol where pieces of valid data are inserted between a start frame and an end frame for each channel. The deserializer includes buffers for the respective channels to detect the start frame of each channel, store the valid data in the corresponding buffer, set, as a to-be-processed buffer, at least one buffer that stores the valid data on a channel to be deskewed, start externally transferring data from the to-be-processed buffer when a fixed amount of the valid data is stored or when the end frame is detected, detect a boundary between the valid data and the end frame, and extract the valid data from the to-be-processed buffer.
US10129370B2
A gateway device for implementing data security is described herein. The gateway device is coupled between a client device and a server device, and generates a mapping between portions of data received from a client device and interface fields or data elements of the client device. Upon receiving subsequent data from the client device, the gateway device can access the generated mapping to identify portions of the subsequent data corresponding to particular interface fields or data elements of the client device using the mapping, and can encode the identified portions of the subsequent data, for instance based on data protection techniques defined by a security policy. The encoded data can then be outputted by the gateway device to the server device.
US10129365B2
A data-caching system facilitates pre-loading a cache with content objects that are likely to be of interest to a client device, as determined based on their correlation to other content objects served to the client device. During operation, the system can receive an interest for a content object, and can determine whether the local network device can satisfy the interest. If so, the system generates a content-object recommendation that indicates other content objects that are correlated with the received interest, for example, by computing correlation values between the received interest and a plurality of historical interests. The system then provides the content recommendation to a remote network device from which the interest originated, such that the content recommendation indicates the correlated content objects to pre-load into a cache.
US10129360B2
A system is provided for unified data networking across a plurality of heterogeneous networks different ones of which include a source network node and a querying network node. The system may receive a data packet having a payload and a tag that includes a unified identity code (UIC) for a category of information. Content of the payload may be stored in a cache memory based at least in part on the UIC. In at least one instance, a query including the UIC may be received from the querying network node, and the system may retrieve the content from the cache memory based on the UIC. The system may then generate and transmit, to the querying network node, a reply data packet having a payload with the content and a tag that includes the UIC.
US10129354B2
When a user sends a request to access an asset or resource, for example a program code file or a media file, the access request can be processed by a proxy device. The proxy can use directory information obtained from a directory, for example a company-wide Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory, to determine whether or not the request is from an authorized network user listed in the directory. The proxy can use management information obtained from another database to determine roles, subordinate assignment information, and access authorization information associated with the requesting user. The proxy can conditionally route the request to a resource host based on the directory information and the management information. The proxy can also transform a resource returned in response to the request by using pipeline language parameters included in a URL associated with the access request.
US10129350B2
In a first aspect of the present invention, provided are an information processing apparatus including a behavior-history acquisition unit configured to acquire behavior histories of first users identified by first-user identification information, a transmission-history acquisition unit configured to acquire information transmission histories of second users identified by second-user identification information, and a determination unit configured to determine identity between the first users and the second users on the basis of behavior details included in the behavior histories and transmission details included in the transmission histories; a method for processing information with the information processing apparatus; and a program using the information processing apparatus.
US10129343B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus capable of searching for a docking service and a peripheral function incidental to the docking service in a direct communication system. To this end, a method by which a first wireless device searches for a peripheral function provided by a second wireless device can comprise the steps of: transmitting a probe request frame to the second wireless device by the first wireless device; and receiving a probe response frame from the second wireless device as a response to the search request, wherein the probe response frame can include a bitmap for indicating a name of the peripheral function supported by the second wireless device or the peripheral function supported by the second wireless device.
US10129341B2
Systems and methods for managing configuration of a client security application based on a network environment in which the client device is operating are provided. According to one embodiment, a network connection state of a client device with respect to a private network is determined by a client security application running on the client device. The client security application, then selects a configuration based on the determined network connection state. Finally, the client security application launches one or more functions of the client security application that are designated by the selected configuration.
US10129336B2
A method of managing data by a server includes receiving, from a client device, a signal that requests for a content list corresponding to a user account; selecting a content related to the user account and a file name generation rule corresponding to the user account; generating a file name of the content based on the file name generation rule; and providing the content list including the file name of the content to the client device.
US10129328B2
A single centralized metadata repository for an entire enterprise can maintain the metadata pertaining to various different web service applications on application servers of heterogeneous types within the enterprise. The metadata items stored in the centralized repository all can be stored in a same canonical format that can be expected and understood by all metadata accessors. The metadata maintained within the central repository can be given a life span that is linked with the life span of the web service application to which that metadata pertains. When a web service application is deployed on an application server, metadata pertaining to that webservice can be pushed automatically to the central repository for storage. When such a web service application is undeployed from an application server, the metadata pertaining to that webservice can be removed automatically from the central repository so as not to waste storage space.
US10129327B2
A system and associated computer program product for retrieving a file from a distribution of storage nodes. A client computer sends a request for a file to a proxy layer and in response, the proxy layer generates a script for obtaining the requested file and sends the script to the client computer. The client computer executes the script, resulting in portions of the requested file being obtained from respective storage nodes in a storage layer. The portions of the requested file are concatenated to form the requested file.
US10129325B2
A method and system for sharing a user interface of a first device with a second device and enabling a user of the second device to interact with the user interface via gestures received by the second device. The first device (e.g., a smartphone) can host an application and generate a graphical user interface, which it transmits to the second device (e.g., a tablet computer) for display by the second device. The second device can receive input from a user, such as a touch input via a touchscreen of the second device, and transmit a representation of the input to the first device for providing input to the application hosted by the first device.
US10129322B2
A method and system for determining browser compatibility are provided. The method includes: receiving a request for electronic content from a user device; determining browser data associated with the user device; determining accepted browser versions associated with the requested content; determining whether the browser data is compatible with the accepted browser versions; if the browser data is compatible, loading the electronic content; otherwise, determining user factors associated with the user device; generating a notification; and transmitting, the notification. The system includes: a connection module configured to receive a request for electronic content; a compatibility module configured to determine browser data, determine accepted browser versions, determine whether the browser data is compatible with the accepted browser versions and if the browser data is compatible, allow for the loading of the electronic content; and a notification module configured to determine user factors associated with the user device, and generate a notification.
US10129321B2
A system and method are provided for sending a first message to a recipient using a messaging channel, the message including information identifying an electronic news article provided by a data channel; receiving a second message from the recipient over the messaging channel, the second message having been composed in a news application; and displaying the second message in association with the electronic news article in the news application. A system and method are also provided for receiving a first message from a sender over a messaging channel, the message including information identifying an electronic news article provided by a data channel; obtaining the electronic news article using the data channel; enabling a second message to be composed in a news application displaying the electronic news article; and sending the second message to the sender using the messaging channel.
US10129314B2
A media service server for streaming media items with similar media features receives a plurality of media items, where each media item of the plurality of media item is labeled with one or more media features characterizing the media item. Audio content features from the plurality of media items are extracted. Correlations between the audio content features and the media features are identified. A set of media items to be analyzed is received. For each media item of the set of media items, a set of media features based on the identified correlations between the audio content features and the plurality of media features is estimated. Each estimated media feature is associated with a confidence score. The set of media items with the estimated media features is provided to one or more experts for expert analysis.
US10129312B2
In some examples, techniques and architectures for modifying resolution of video displayed on a display device include receiving information from a distance sensor and one or more image sensors, detecting an activity of a viewer of the display device based, at least in part, on the information received from the distance sensor and the one or more image sensors, and transmitting a request to a remote server to adjust bandwidth of media content streaming to the display device to a new bandwidth. The new bandwidth may be based, at least in part, on one or more of the activity of the viewer, size of the display device, or an ability of the viewer to resolve images displayed on the display device.
US10129287B2
Some embodiments provide a self-configuring firewall for automatic detection and mitigation of security weaknesses. The self-configuring firewall performs passive and active vulnerability detection. Passive detection involves scanning software resources and configurations under firewall protection for vulnerabilities present in the software and software configurations. Active detection identifies vulnerabilities by subjecting the software resources and configurations to simulated malicious traffic. The identified vulnerabilities are mapped to attack signatures. The self-configuring firewall enables the attack signatures which in turn allow the firewall to detect traffic containing attacks directed to exploiting the vulnerabilities.
US10129286B2
A technique allows associating host applications and user agents in network traffic and detecting possible malware without relying on signatures of the user agents. A database of host applications and user agents is maintained, allowing automatic update of the database when a new application or new application to user agent mapping is discovered. Partial matches may be made when a change is made to the application, allowing learning the new mapping automatically. If an application is associated with more than a threshold number of user agents, an indication may be generated that the application is suspicious and possibly malware.
US10129284B2
In a system for configuring a web application firewall, one or more parameters of the firewall are adjusted such that a test configured for exposing a vulnerability of an application protected by the application firewall is blocked by the firewall and another test configured to invoke functionality of the application but that does not expose or exploit any security vulnerability is not blocked by the firewall. A notification is provided to a user if such a firewall configuration is not found after a specified number of attempts.
US10129279B2
Techniques for detecting application program spoofing. The techniques include: receiving a communication from an application program executing on a client device different from the at least one computer; identifying from the communication an asserted identity of the application program; and verifying the asserted identity of the application program at least in part by: interacting with the client device to obtain additional information about the application program, and determining whether the additional information about the application program is consistent with the asserted identity of the application program.
US10129275B2
An information processing device and method that monitor a behavior of malware (program), and generate a log which associates identification information of an invoked library function, input data to the library function, output data from the library function and a taint tag for uniquely specifying output data every time the program invokes a library function. Further, the information processing device and method refer to a taint tag set to output data from an information processing device and a log, track a dependent relationship between items of data input and output to and from libraries and specify a library function which has generated the output data from the information processing device.
US10129272B2
A network apparatus for performing a pairing with a user device, with the network apparatus already paired with a broker apparatus is disclosed, the network apparatus including a communicator including communication circuitry; a storage configured to store an RSSI value measured in the network apparatus and broker apparatus regarding a signal being exchanged with the broker apparatus with the broker apparatus at a close position; and a processor configured to determine whether the user device is close to the broker apparatus by as much as a predetermined distance based on each RSSI value measured in the network apparatus, broker apparatus, and user device regarding a signal being exchanged with the user device, an RSSI value measured regarding a signal being received from the broker apparatus, and a predetermined condition regarding a relationship between each RSSI value stored, and in response to determining that the user device is close to the broker apparatus by as much as the predetermined distance, to control the communication circuitry to perform an association for pairing with the user device.
US10129270B2
Implementations of the present disclosure involve a system and/or method for identifying and mitigating malicious network threats. Network data associated is retrieved from various sources across a network and analyzed to identify a malicious network threat. When a threat is found, the system performs a mitigating action to neutralize the malicious network threat.
US10129269B1
A method, system and computer-usable medium for generating a user 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 user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the user interactions and the information about the user; storing information relating to the unique user behavior profile within a user behavior profile repository; and, storing information referencing the unique user behavior profile in a user behavior blockchain.
US10129266B2
A computer implemented method of providing candidate information comprises: obtaining a challenge code from a verification service at a first device associated with an ID candidate; capturing the challenge code from the first device at a second device associated with an ID checker; verifying the challenge code between the second device and the verification service and, if the challenge code is verified, providing the candidate information from the verification service, such that the candidate information is accessible to the ID checker.
US10129262B1
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system. The method includes receiving base attribute values of a registrant device. The method further includes determining similarities of the base attribute values to a reference string to yield base similarity values. The method also includes registering the registrant device for policy enforcement using the base similarity values. Furthermore, the method includes, responsive to a trigger, determining target attribute values of a target device. Also, the method includes determining similarities of the target attribute values to the reference string to yield target similarity values. Moreover, the method includes, responsive to the target similarity values satisfying a similarity threshold in relation to the base similarity values, configuring policy enforcement such that the target device is treated as the registrant device.
US10129260B1
Determining whether a message should be allowed to be sent is determined. A request to send a message to a recipient is received from a sender's client device. A determination is made at a server as to whether the sender is allowed to send the message to the recipient, based on a privacy list. A response to the sender is sent, based on the determination.
US10129255B1
In an approach to device authentication, one or more processors receive a security policy comprising at least a first media access control (“mac”) address and a corresponding time period for determining network access for a device. One or more processors receive a second mac address and a corresponding time of connection of the second mac address for authentication of the device. One or more processors determine the second mac address is the first mac address and, responsive to determining the second mac address is the first mac address, one or more processors determine to grant network access to the device based on whether the time of connection of the second mac address is within the time period.
US10129253B2
Methods and apparatus for allowing an individual to preserve his/her privacy and control the use of the individual's images and/or personal information by other, without disclosing the identity of the individual to others, are described. In various embodiments the individual seeking privacy provides his/her identifying information, images, and sharing preferences indicating desired level of privacy to a control device which is then stored in a customer record. The control device can be queried to determine if an image or other information corresponds to a user who has restricted use of his/her image or other information in a public manner. Upon receiving a query the control device determines using the stored customer record whether an individual has authorized use of his or her image. Based upon the determination a response is sent to the querying device indicating whether the use of the image and/or individual's information is authorized.
US10129251B1
A machine-assisted method for verifying a video presence that includes: receiving, at a computing device of an identity provider, an authentication request initially sent from a requester to access an account managed by a relying party, different from the identity provider; retrieving, from the authentication request, at least a portion of a video stream feed initially from the requester, to the computing device, the portion of video stream feed portraying a face of the requester; extracting the face of the requester from the portion of the video stream feed; providing a directive to the requester soliciting a corresponding gesture; and receiving a response gesture from the requester.
US10129250B2
A method including registering an authority device for an account on an auth platform; receiving transaction request from an initiator to the auth platform; messaging the authority device with the transaction request; receiving an authority agent response from the authority device to the auth platform; if the authority agent response confirms the transaction, communicating a confirmed transaction to the initiator; and if the authority agent response denies the transaction, communicating a denied transaction to the initiator.
US10129244B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for providing access to computing resources. A resource system may receive an access request from a first user. The access request may comprise resource data describing a computing resource and function data describing a requested function to be performed on the computing resource. The resource system may determine that credential data provided by the first user is valid. The resource system may identify secondary data for the access request and generate an access object based at least in part on access object fragment data and the secondary data. The resource system may execute the access object to enable performance of the requested function on the computing resource.
US10129243B2
Embodiments disclosed provide access to Traversal Using Relays around Network Address Translation (TURN) servers using trusted single-use credentials, and related methods, systems, and computer-readable media. In one embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by a TURN authentication agent, a request for a TURN server credential. Responsive to determining that the request is authorized, the agent generates a trusted single-use credential and transmits it to the requestor. Using this trusted single-use credential allows untrusted clients to access a TURN server without exposing a userid/password combination. In another embodiment, a method comprises receiving, by the TURN server, a request for a TURN service. The server challenges the request, and receives a userid and a password. Responsive to determining that the userid and the password constitute a trusted single-use credential and responsive to determining that the request is authorized, the server provides the TURN service for the requestor.
US10129240B2
Disclosed are various examples for facilitating distribution of security codes for a two-factor authentication scheme or one-time passwords. Security codes can represent one-time passwords or shared secrets used to seed one-time password algorithms. The security codes can be sent through restricted communications channel to a client device. Rather than using an insecure communication link such as SMS for communication of security codes, the security codes can be sent through the restricted communications channel to reduce the possibility of leakage of the security codes.
US10129230B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates secure communication between computing entities. During operation, the system generates, by a content-consuming device, a first key based on a first consumer-share key and a previously received producer-share key. The system constructs a first interest packet that includes the first consumer-share key and a nonce token which is used as a pre-image of a previously generated first nonce, wherein the first interest has a name that includes a first prefix, and wherein the first nonce is used to establish a session between the content-consuming device and a content-producing device. In response to the nonce token being verified by the content-producing device, the system receives a first content-object packet with a payload that includes a first resumption indicator encrypted based on a second key. The system generates the second key based on a second consumer-share key and the first content-object packet.
US10129219B1
Methods and systems for securing data are provided. For example, one method includes providing context information for an input/output (I/O) operation to a security module by an adapter communicating with a computing device and a storage device via a network; storing encryption parameters associated to a security association handle by the security module; using a workflow handle by the security module to obtain the security association handle for retrieving stored encryption parameters for encrypting payload transmitted by the adapter and for decrypting payload received by the adapter; predicting a first frame header for encrypting the payload transmitted by the adapter and a second frame header for decrypting payload received by the adapter; providing the encrypted payload for transmission to the adapter by the security module, after discarding the first predicted header; and providing the decrypted payload to the computing device by the security module, after discarding the second predicted header.
US10129215B2
A method and systems for information security threat identification, management, and analysis, including identifying and managing threats posed by senders of unsolicited e-mail, pirates, hackers, and virus-spreaders. Methods are provided for identifying and facilitating legal action against a sender of unsolicited e-mail. A secure evidence repository can be used for storing copies of and information regarding unsolicited e-mails in a forensically sound manner. A relational knowledge database can be used for storing copies of and information regarding unsolicited e-mails such that the information can be queried, manipulated, or analyzed.
US10129207B1
A network device having multiple service units receives an outbound packet of a communication session, where the service units can perform network address translation (NAT) on the outbound packet. The outbound packet includes a private source network address and source port. The network device applies a service unit selection function to a header of the outbound packet to produce a first result, and selects, based on the first result, a service unit to perform NAT for packets of the communication session. The network device determines a port for network address translation that produces a second result equal to the first result when the service unit selection function is applied to the portion of the header when the portion includes a selected public network address and determined port. The service unit can thereby perform session-aware services on packets of the communication session without redirecting the packets between the service units.
US10129206B2
A device is configured to support one or more virtual networking functions at a branch in a network. The device receives from a central control entity a command to deploy a particular virtual networking function, the command including or accompanied by a deployment file that identifies an external port at which the particular virtual networking function is accessed externally at the device. The device maps the external port to an internal port on an internal management network of the device, and stores a portmapping entry for the particular virtual networking function based on the mapping. The device sends to the central control entity a notification containing portmapping information that indicates the internal port to which the external port is mapped.
US10129193B2
A first level of relevance, to at least one interest of a user, of content within a topic message within a message stream can be determined. Responsive to determining that the first level of relevance, to the at least one interest of the user, of the content within the topic message is below a threshold value, each of a plurality of other messages within the message stream can be processed using natural language processing performed by a processor. A respective second level of relevance, to the at least one interest of the user, of each the other messages can be determined. For each of the other messages for which the respective second level of relevance is equal to or above the threshold value, an alert can be presented to bring an attention of the user to the other message.
US10129184B1
Techniques and solutions are provided for detecting the source of link errors in a cut-through forwarding network fabric. For example, a network link that is the source of the link errors can be automatically located by polling a network device a number of times to identify a network interface that has an increasing error rate and tracing network interface error rates back through one or more upstream network devices to locate the network link that is the source of the link errors.
US10129183B2
A method for managing a connection apparatus and a connection apparatus are disclosed. In an embodiment the connection apparatus includes a first connector configured to be connected to a service processing unit, a second connector configured to be connected to a first switching unit, a third connector configured to be connected to a second switching unit, wherein the third connector is further configured to be disconnected from the second switching unit and connected to the first switching unit. The apparatus further comprises a first transmission medium, a second transmission medium, one end of the first transmission medium being directly connected to the first connector, one end of the second transmission medium being directly connected to the first connector, another end of the first transmission medium being directly connected to the second connector, and another end of the second transmission medium being directly connected to the third connector.
US10129182B2
In some embodiments, a non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to be executed by a processor. The code causes the processor to receive, at an edge device, a first data unit having a characteristic. The code causes the processor to identify, at a first time, an identifier of a service module associated with the characteristic in response to each entry from a set of entries within a flow table not being associated with the characteristic. The code causes the processor to define an entry in the flow table associated with the characteristic and the identifier of the service module. The code causes the processor to send the first data unit to the service module. The code causes the processor to receive, at the edge device, a second data unit having the characteristic, and send the second data unit to the service module based on the entry.
US10129178B1
A block of ordered data elements comprising a plurality of sub-blocks each of which is to be processed by a different processing module in segments of the data elements having a particular length characteristic can be received in parallel streams on parallel communication channels. The data elements in each stream can be received and directed to the corresponding processing module. The tail of a segment split between two of the streams and received earlier in time than the corresponding head of the split segment can be buffered until the head is received on the other stream. The head and the tail of the split segment can then be processed as a whole segment in a corresponding processing module.
US10129173B2
In an account association table the account IDs and account names of accounts created at nodes are associated and recorded. In response to an access control list change request including the account name of an account the access control entry of which is to be changed and the contents of the change, an access control list change unit retrieves an account ID recorded while being associated with the account name from the account association table and changes, in accordance with the contents of the change, an access control entry in which the retrieved account ID is recorded among account control entries in an access control list to be changed.
US10129165B2
An electronic device may include first and second antennas and a Bluetooth transceiver. Control circuitry may perform Bluetooth antenna diversity operations by coupling the Bluetooth transceiver to a selected one of the first and second antennas at a given time. The Bluetooth transceiver may transmit a first Bluetooth data packet and may determine whether a scheduled response packet associated with the first packet has been received over the first antenna during a predetermined time period. In response to determining that the Bluetooth transceiver has failed to receive the scheduled response packet during the first predetermined time period, the Bluetooth transceiver may re-transmit the first packet using the second antenna. This may serve to reduce the error rate of the transmitted Bluetooth data over time relative to scenarios where a single antenna is used, without requiring resource-intensive sensor circuitry to actively monitor the performance of the antennas.
US10129155B2
Technologies are described for performing hybrid rate control that switches between a delay-based mode and a passive loss-based mode for a flow of network traffic. The switching can be performed based on the presence of loss-based TCP network flows. For example, rate control can be performed for a flow of network traffic in a delay-based mode. When the presence of a loss-based TCP network flow is detected, the flow of network traffic can be switched from the delay-based mode to a passive loss-based mode and rate control can be performed in the passive loss-based mode. When the loss-based TCP flow is no longer detected, the flow of network traffic can be switched back to the delay-based mode.
US10129147B2
A network-on-chip flit transmission method and a network-on-chip flit transmission apparatus. The method includes: receiving a current flit including an operation ID Op ID, an operation type Op Type, and a payload; when determining that acceleration processing needs to be performed on the current flit, determining, according to the Op Type, whether the payload of the current flit affects an execution result of a destination node of the current flit, where the execution result is a result obtained by executing, by the destination node, a task corresponding to the Op ID; and forwarding the current flit to a next node if a determining result is yes; and discarding the current flit if a determining result is no. Therefore, not only a quantity of flits that need to be transmitted on a network-on-chip can be greatly reduced, but also a calculation amount of the destination node can be reduced.
US10129141B2
A method includes: obtaining, by a mobile terminal, first network connection parameters of a routing device connected to the mobile terminal; according to the first network connection parameters, determining, by the mobile terminal, whether the mobile terminal has a management permission for managing the connected routing device; and if the mobile terminal has the management permission for managing the connected routing device, managing, by the mobile terminal, the connected routing device.
US10129139B2
A source node includes a topology information extractor configured to acquire information of a channel state between nodes included in a multicast network, and extract topology information of the multicast network. The source node further includes a relay node selector configured to select, from the nodes, a relay node to relay a packet transmitted from the source node, based on the topology information.
US10129138B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems for transmitting and receiving data based on multipath for transmitting data based on multipath include: establishing WiMAX connection-based multiple paths between a first device and a second device; transmitting data frames in a data queue in the multiple paths; obtaining the quality condition of the multiple paths; and based on the quality condition, adjusting the transmission of the data frames in the data queue in the multiple paths. According to one aspect, there is provided a method for receiving data based on multipath, which includes: establishing WiMAX connection-based multiple paths between a first device and a second device; receiving a plurality of data frames in the multiple paths; processing the received plurality of data frames based on quality condition of the multiple paths. There are further provided corresponding apparatuses and systems.
US10129136B2
The present application discloses a virtual router cluster, and a data forwarding method and apparatus. A specific implementation of the virtual router cluster includes: a gateway and at least one virtual router interconnected with the gateway; the gateway receiving an externally transmitted data packet; the gateway selecting a first virtual router corresponding to the data packet from the at least one virtual router according to an Open Shortest Path First protocol, and forwarding the data packet to the first virtual router corresponding to the data packet; and the first virtual router receiving the data packet and forwarding the data packet to a destination. This implementation implements network load balancing, thereby avoiding network congestion.
US10129132B2
An IO-Link master includes: an IO-Link communication port that communicates with an IO-Link device according to a predetermined communication protocol; a digital input port that receives a first signal value output from the IO-Link device; and a determiner that determines whether abnormality is generated in a digital input line connecting the digital input port to the IO-Link device based on a second signal value received with the IO-Link communication port and the first signal value.
US10129129B2
A distributed monitoring system and a computer-implemented method monitors and controls locally situated network components through a monitoring and control device or processor querying the network component operating parameters and sending control commands for controlling the parameters queried. Reports of the status of the monitored network components are periodically generated from throughout the network and sent to a remotely located status viewing station configured to generate a monitoring interface and display the operational status of the network based on the status reports. If necessary, the status viewing station automatically transmits instructions, or a user enters instructions into the status viewing station, for instructing action be taken by the monitoring and control device or processor, e.g., to adjust one or more operating parameters queried. The distributed monitoring system may be particularly useful in monitoring and managing the health of a digital signage network.
US10129124B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for controlling mass diagnostic communication in a vehicle capable to prevent a transmission error of a diagnostic message which can occur during mass diagnostic communication. The method of controlling mass diagnostic communication in a controller connected to a vehicle controller area network (CAN) communication network may include calculating a reception time interval between a previously received CAN frame and a currently received CAN frame, calculating a CAN frame processing time in the controller based on a length of data included in the received CAN frame, and determining a separation transmission period of a mass diagnostic message by comparing the calculated reception time interval with the calculated CAN frame processing time.
US10129117B2
Conditional policies can be defined that change based on security measurements of network endpoints. In an example embodiment, a network traffic monitoring system can monitor network flows between the endpoints and quantify how secure those endpoints are based on analysis of the network flows and other data. A conditional policy may be created that establishes one or more first connectivity policies for handling a packet when a security measurement of an endpoint is a first value or first range values, and one or more second connectivity policies for handling the packet. The connectivity policies may include permitting connectivity, denying connectivity, redirecting the packet using a specific route, or other network action. When the network traffic monitoring system detects a change to the security measurement of the endpoint, one or more applicable policies can be determined and the system can update policy data for the network to enforce the policies.
US10129111B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for watch list oriented processing of events in a multi-object event data processing system. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for watch list oriented processing of events in a multi-object event data processing system, can include pre-processing a set of subscriptions against a pool of objects monitored for events in the data processing system to produce a watch list of objects. The method further can include receiving events in the data processing system corresponding to different ones of the objects in the pool of objects. The method yet further can include comparing the received events to the watch list to determine which events pertain to objects referenced in the watch list. Finally, for each one of the received events, a notification can be forwarded to one or more subscribers corresponding to an object in the watch list matching an object implicated by the one of the received events.
US10129110B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of tracking user specific tunnels in wireless communication networks, such as a UTRAN/GERAN connected to a LTE network.
US10129097B2
Provided is a process including: obtaining, with a network controller, a current state of a network; causing, with the network controller, a graphical user interface to be presented that depicts at least part of the network graph and includes user-inputs by which a user requests changes to the network graph; receiving, with the network controller, a request input to modify the network graph; and modifying, with the network controller, the network graph and enforcing the modification.
US10129092B2
A first network adapter is inserted into a first resource server of each tenant of a plurality of tenants serviced by a cloud service provider. The first network adapter is configured to be controlled by the cloud service provider. The first resource server of each tenant includes a second network adapter configured to be controlled by the tenant. Each of the first network adapter is operably coupled with an interconnection network infrastructure. The interconnection network infrastructure is operably coupled with cloud service provider infrastructure. Related methods, techniques, apparatuses, systems, non-transitory computer program products, and articles are also described.
US10129091B2
In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method for providing a hybrid cloud computing environment are disclosed. For example, a system may authorize an enterprise user based on an enterprise identity. Once authenticated, embodiments may use mapping data and a cloud role to determine an identity to use when the enterprise user accesses a cloud.
US10129089B1
A traffic shifting system is described to shift traffic away from one or more network devices or interfaces on those devices. The system ensures that traffic can be safely shifted off of a network device before the shifting occurs. The method is described as broken into several phases for simplicity, such as a discovery phase, a pre-check phase, a shifting phase, and a post-shift phase. Before shifting occurs, the discovery phase is used to obtain network topology and configuration information. In the pre-check phase, that information is interrogated so that a shifting can be performed without negatively impacting the network. If the pre-check phase is passed, then the network shifting can occur through adjustment of configuration parameters, such as a cost parameter. Finally, in the post-shift phase, checks are performed to ensure traffic is shifting away from the network device.
US10129088B2
Aspects of the present disclosure enable a router controller to maintain a default rules table indicating allocation of IP addresses (of GTP packets) to respective output ports. In an embodiment, the router controller receives information indicating the respective tunnel endpoint IP addresses of a control session and a data session of a user. The router controller is configured to determine whether such IP addresses of the control session and the data session(s) are allocated to the same output port. If the IP addresses of the control session and the data session are not allocated to the same output port, router controller is configured to generate a dynamic rule to force packets of both the control session and the data session to the same output port.
US10129086B2
A Data Communication Network couples a Management System to Network Elements. The Data Communication Network comprises a Gateway Network Element and a number of the Network Elements subtended by the Gateway Network Element. A method performed by the Management System comprises: a) determining the number of Network Elements that are subtended by the Gateway Network Element; b) determining a value of an interval parameter for the Network Elements based on the number of the Network Elements that are subtended by the Gateway Network Element, wherein the interval parameter is a duration over which performance data is collected by the Network Element; and c) assigning the determined value of the history control interval parameter to the Gateway Network Element and the subtended Network Elements.
US10129085B2
Systems and methods of determining network configurations for a modular computing entity are disclosed. For instance, a desired functionality to be implemented by a modular computing entity can be identified. Capacity data associated with one or more candidate network devices that are available to join a network associated with the modular computing entity is received. A network combination to implement the desired functionality can be determined based at least in part on the received capacity data. The network combination can include at least a subset of the candidate network devices.
US10129078B2
In some examples, a cloud-based services exchange comprises a plurality of interconnection assets configured to connect at least one customer of the cloud-based services exchange to a plurality of cloud service providers; and an orchestration engine configured to modify the plurality of interconnection assets by receiving an indication of a client request for cloud exchange services offered by the cloud-based services exchange; selecting a workflow for providing the cloud exchange services, wherein the workflow specifies a set of tasks to be performed to fulfill the client request for the cloud exchange services; call one or more microservices to perform the tasks of the set of tasks as specified by the selected workflow; consolidate responses received from the microservices after performing the tasks; and send a response to the client request for the cloud exchange services based on the consolidated responses.
US10129064B1
A wireless device generates a Legacy preamble, a 20 MHz Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) symbol, and a Wake-Up (WU) signal portion. The Legacy Preamble includes a Legacy Short Training Field (L-STF), a Legacy Long Training Field (L-LTF) and a Legacy Signal (L-SIG) field. The 20 MHz OFDM symbol has a duration of 4 μs. The WU signal portion has a frequency bandwidth that is narrower than a frequency bandwidth of the Legacy preamble. The wireless device transmits a frame, which includes transmitting the Legacy preamble, transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol immediately after transmitting the Legacy preamble, and transmitting the WU signal portion immediately after transmitting the 20 MHz OFDM symbol.
US10129049B2
Embodiments provide a data transmission method, including: receiving, by a receiving circuit in a media access controller, N packets; generating, by a distributing circuit, a first data block and a second data block, where the first data block includes a first set, and the second data block includes a second set; distributing the first data block to a first circuit, and distributing the second data block to a second circuit; converting, by the first circuit, the first data block into first data, and converting, by the second circuit, the second data block into second data; and sending, by the first circuit, the first data through a first channel, and sending, by the second circuit, the second data through a second channel. In addition, another method and a corresponding media access controller are further provided. The foregoing technical solution helps reduce circuit resources occupied by an Ethernet interface.
US10129048B2
A method, system and computer program for transmitting at least two payloads in a downstream traffic phase of a time-division duplex (TDD) cycle with a single preamble from a headend followed by concatenated payloads without intervening preambles, whereby the payloads are ranked by increasing modulation profiles. The preamble, and concatenated and ordered set of payloads are then transmitted to two or more predetermined customer premise equipments (CPEs).
US10129039B2
The invention proposes a method of integrating a service of an application content provider in an IMS core network, and the method includes the step of: allowing a network user to click-to-dial a mobile caller by using a network account. Preferably the step of allowing a network user to click-to-dial a mobile caller by using a network account is performed by providing an open application program interface between the application content provider and a call session control function.
US10129035B2
A device identification is generated for a programmable device. A security key is generated to protect a content of the programmable device. A device birth certificate is generated with the device identification and the security key. The programmable device is programmed with the device birth certificate at time of manufacture of the programmable device.
US10129023B2
A method begins by a processing module identifying, for a DSN (Dispersed Storage Network) memory using multiple IDA (Information Dispersal Algorithms) configurations simultaneously, a first IDA configuration with a highest security level relative to each of the multiple IDA configurations. The method continues by generating at least one master key. The method continues by encoding the master key with a secure error coding function to produce master key slices according to the first IDA configuration. The method continues by storing the master key slices in the DSN memory using the first IDA configuration. The method continues by, when storing data with a second IDA configuration having a security level lower than the first IDA configuration, retrieving the master key slices, decoding the master key slices to obtain the master key and encrypting the data using the master key.
US10129019B2
A DisplayPort (DP) High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) version converter that converts an HDCP content protection version from input to output includes a receiver and a transmitter. The receiver receives a serial bit stream transmitted from an upstream device, and decrypts link symbols of the received serial bit stream by use of a decryption unit. The transmitter encrypts, by use of an encryption unit, the link symbols decrypted by the receiver, and converts the encrypted link symbols into a serial bit stream and transmits the serial bit stream to a downstream device. The receiver and the transmitter have the same link configuration.
US10129017B1
The present invention is directed to data communication. More specifically, an embodiment of the present invention provides a technique for detecting loss of signal. An incoming data stream is sampled and a recovered clock signal is generated accordingly. An output clock signal of a higher frequency than the recovered clock signal is generated by a transmission PLL. The frequency of the recovered clock signal is compared to a divided frequency of the output clock signal. If a difference between the recovered clock signal and the output clock signal is greater than a threshold, a loss of signal indication is provided. There are other embodiments as well.
US10129016B2
A serializer circuit may include a recovery circuit, an adjusting circuit, and a multiplexer circuit. The recovery circuit may be configured to receive a first data signal at a first frequency, to generate a first clock signal at the first frequency using the first data signal, and to retime the first data signal based on the first clock signal to generate a retimed first data signal. The adjusting circuit may be configured to receive a second data signal and retime the second data signal based on the first clock signal to generate a retimed second data signal. The multiplexer circuit may be configured to multiplex the retimed first data signal and the retimed second data signal.
US10129013B1
Techniques to operate circuitry in an integrated circuit are provided. The circuitry may include rate detection circuitry, receiver circuitry, and configuration circuitry. The receiver circuitry may receive a data stream with an arbitrary data rate. The rate detection circuitry may receive a reference clock signal that is associated with the received data stream. The rate detection circuitry determines the frequency of the reference clock signal such that an appropriate clock signal may be generated for the receiver circuitry. The receiver clock signal may be generated by clock generation circuitry that is coupled to the rate detection circuitry. The configuration circuitry may accordingly configure the receiver circuitry based at least on the determined frequency of the reference clock signal so that the receiver circuitry may operate at the arbitrary data rate.
US10129012B2
A non-source-synchronous system may include a clock-sending device and a clock-receiving device that communicate via a communications bus. The clock-sending device and the clock-receiving device may perform a tuning operation, in which the clock-receiving device sends one or more data signals on one or more data lines of the communications bus to the clock-sending device. The clock-sending device may delay its internal clock signal by an amount based on the one or more data signals. The clock-sending device may then perform sampling of data signals received from the clock-receiving device based on the tuning operation. The tuning operation may be performed in accordance with SDR or DDR, and thus allow for SDR or DDR communication with optimal sampling for systems that do not use a data strobe.
US10129003B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method for receiving interference information, identifying a plurality of interferers, approximating a location of the plurality of interferers, and adjusting an antenna pattern of an antenna. The method can include determining traffic loads and adjusting the antenna pattern according to the traffic loads. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10128997B2
Provided is a wireless communication device. A PHICH reception unit determines whether a received signal in a PHICH region is an ACK signal or a NACK signal. When doing so, the PHICH reception unit does not receive a PHICH in a subframe in which a terminal monitors an E-PDCCH. A control signal reception unit outputs a retransmission prompting signal to a signal allocation unit when the signal outputted from the PHICH reception unit is a NACK signal and when a UL grant was not detected. Meanwhile, when a UL grant was detected, the control signal reception unit outputs the detected UL grant to the signal allocation unit. The signal allocation unit maps the transmission signal in accordance with the retransmission prompting signal and the UL grant and transmits the transmission signal from a wireless transmission unit.
US10128995B2
A Filter Bank Multicarrier (FBMC) modulation-based signal transmitting method includes mapping, by a transmitter, an original Data Block (DB) with at least one symbol to a first Resource Block (RB), preprocessing the original DB, and mapping the preprocessed original DB to a second RB, modulating, by the transmitter, data of the first RB and the second RB by using a FBMC modulation, and, transmitting, by the transmitter, the data modulated. A transmitter, comprising a mapping module, a modulating module and a transmitting module, wherein the mapping module is to map an original DB with at least one symbol to a first resource block (RB), preprocess the original DB, and map the preprocessed original DB to a second RB, the modulating module is to modulate data of the first RB and the second RB, by using FBMC modulation, and, the transmitting module is to transmit the data modulated.
US10128990B2
If repetition transmission is applied to a response signal for a downlink data signal and an uplink signal, the uplink signal is repeatedly transmitted using a certain number of consecutive subframes starting with a first subframe, at which the repetition transmission of the uplink signal starts, and the response signal is repeatedly transmitted using at least the certain number of consecutive subframes starting with a second subframe, at which the repetition transmission of the response signal starts. The first subframe is set to be the same as the second subframe.
US10128988B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for reporting information about a transmission failure frame. The method for reporting information about a transmission failure frame in a wireless LAN may comprise the steps of: creating, by an STA, the retransmission frame includes information about the transmission failure frame, the information about the transmission failure frame includes timestamp information and duration information, the timestamp information includes information about the transmission start time of the transmission failure frame, and the duration information includes information about the transmission period of the transmission failure frame.
US10128978B2
Provided is a method for eliminating an interference operating on a receiver of a transmitter in a communications system, which includes transmitting at least one user signal; changing user phase information to be separated from interference phase information by a preset difference, when receiving the user phase information of the user signal and the interference phase information of an interference signal from at least one receiver; and transmitting at least one other user signal according to the changed user phase information.
US10128974B2
An optical receiver module that receives wavelength multiplexed light and a process to assemble the optical receiver module are disclosed. The optical receiver module provides a coupling unit to collimate the wavelength multiplexed light and a device unit that installs an optical de-multiplexer and photodiode elements within housing. The front wall of the housing through which the wavelength multiplexed light passes is polished in a right angle with respect to the bottom of the housing.
US10128969B2
A communication apparatus communicates with an information processing apparatus by a wireless communication method by broadcasting an advertising signal based on a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard. In a case where a first advertising signal which includes information indicating an apparatus state is broadcasted and of which a radio wave strength is set to a first radio wave strength and where a connection request is not received even after a predetermined time has elapsed since broadcasting the first advertising signal, the radio wave strength of the first advertising signal is changed to a second radio wave strength that is higher than the first radio wave strength. In a case where a second advertising signal which does not include the information indicating the apparatus state is broadcasted and of which the radio wave strength is set to the first radio wave strength and where the connection request is not received even after the predetermined time has elapsed since broadcasting the second advertising signal, the radio wave strength of the second advertising signal is not changed.
US10128968B2
A satellite monitoring system is disclosed. The system may monitor various downlink signals of various satellites. In response to user queries, the system may provide diagnostic and other data related to the characteristics of the downlink signals. In this manner, an independent verification and validation of downlink signal characteristics may be performed. Moreover, the system may take various actions in response to detected anomalies related to the characteristics of the downlink signals, such as automatically generating alerts for users and/or activating an uplink facility, such as a backup uplink facility and/or providing control signals to user devices, such as antenna controllers, to reorient user antennas in response to the characteristics of the downlink signals.
US10128961B2
An electrode having a first metallic plate; and a second metallic plate arranged at an angle of greater than 0° and less than 180° with respect to the first metallic plate.
US10128957B2
Methods and systems for a distributed optical transmitter with local domain splitting is disclosed and may include, in an optical modulator integrated in a silicon photonics chip: receiving electrical signals, communicating the electrical signals to domain splitters along a length of waveguides of the optical modulator utilizing one or more delay lines, generating electrical signals in voltage domains utilizing the domain splitters, modulating received optical signals in the waveguides of the optical modulator by driving diodes with the electrical signals generated in the voltage domains, and generating a modulated output signal through interference of the modulated optical signal in the waveguides of the optical modulator. The delay lines may comprise one delay element per domain splitter, or may comprise a delay element per domain splitter for a first subset of the domain splitters and more than one delay element per domain splitter for a second subset of the domain splitters.
US10128952B2
High-performance ultra-wideband Receive Phased Array Sensors (Rx-PAS) are disclosed, which have unique capabilities, enabled through photonic integrated circuits and novel optical architectures. Unique capabilities for a Rx-PAS are provided by wafer scale photonic integration including heterogeneous integration of III-V materials and ultra-low-loss silicon nitride waveguides. Novel aspects include optical multiplexing combining wavelength division multiplexing and/or a novel extension to array photodetectors providing the capability to combine many RF photonic signals with very low loss. The architecture includes tunable optical down-conversion, moving a chosen frequency band to baseband with high dynamic range; creating also a single frequency hand channelizer, which is also expanded to create a multiple tunable frequency band channelizer. Simultaneous multi-channel beamforming is achieved through optical power splitting of optical signals to create multiple exact replicas of the signals that are then processed independently.
US10128950B2
A bi-directional coupler assembly includes a first port for connecting to one of an input forward path RF signal line and an output forward path RF signal line. A second port connects to the other of the input forward path RF signal line and the output forward path RF signal line. A relay is connected between the ports and to at least one directional coupler. In a first state of the relay, an input forward path RF signal delivered from the input forward path RF signal line and through the first port is directed through the at least one directional coupler in a first direction. In a second state of the relay, an input forward path RF signal delivered from the input forward path RF signal line and through the second port is directed through the at least one directional coupler in said first direction.
US10128945B2
A receiving device for a multi-input multi-output (MIMO) visible light communication system includes a collimation unit, a metal thin film, a transparent substrate and a receiving unit. The receiving device performs receiving by using optical components, and uses the metal thin film as a main receiving component, which plays a role of filtering and enhanced transmission, and equals to implementing a function of filtering and signal amplification by using electronic components, but overcomes the nonlinear effect of the electronic components, thereby solving the problem of waveform distortion in receiving.
US10128944B2
A device comprising an input for receiving image data representing light captured by a camera, and an image analysis module for detecting a coded light component modulated into the light with a modulation frequency. The camera has an exposure time, and the light is captured over a sequence of exposures each lasting for an instance of the exposure time. The detection performed by the image analysis module experiences a frequency blind spot in said detection due to an effect of said exposure time. To address this issue, the device further comprises an output for controlling one or more parameters of the camera which affect the exposure time, and a controller configured to control the one or more parameters to avoid that the modulation frequency corresponds to the frequency blind spot.
US10128941B2
A method of dimming control for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based visible light communication (VLC). The method includes transmitting, by an optical communication device, an optical signal using OFDM with all active sub-carriers when a first dimming level is observed, transmitting, by the optical communication device, the optical signal using OFDM with a first subset of active sub-carriers and without sub-carrier index modulation (SIM) when a second dimming level is observed, wherein the second dimming level is less than the first dimming level; and transmitting, by the optical communication device, the optical signal using OFDM with a second subset of active sub-carriers and with SIM when a third dimming level is observed, wherein the second subset of the active sub-carriers is smaller than the first subset of the active sub-carriers, and wherein the third dimming level is less than the second dimming level.
US10128932B2
A communication system comprising at least one communication network node having a capacity for communicating with at least one additional communication network node at a given center frequency; and at least one external frequency converter, external to said node, operative to cause at least one communication network node, from outside said node, to communicate with at least one additional communication network node, at least on occasion, according to a given communication protocol, at at least one converted center frequency which differs from the given center frequency, and also comprising beacon functionality.
US10128916B2
A memory device may include an array of closely spaced memory integrated circuits that communicate wirelessly over at least two frequencies using near field coupling.
US10128915B2
There is disclosed a mobile terminal including a housing comprising a first metal case, a second metal case and a first non-conductive case arranged between the first metal case and the second metal case, a battery embedded in the housing, a first coil arranged in an area covered by the first metal case inside the housing, a main board comprising a charging module implemented to recharge the battery using electric currents which flow in the first coil, and a first resonator arranged in an area covered by the first non-conductive case and comprising a first matching circuit corresponding to a first frequency, such that the examples of the mobile terminal in accordance with the present disclosure may enhance performance of the wireless communication unit and wireless charging performance, without design change of the housing having the metal case.
US10128909B2
A pinless connector for subsea data communications comprises contactless connectivity data transmitter coupler, comprising one or more first solid state contactless connectivity data transmitters, and contactless connectivity data receiver coupler, comprising one or more first solid state contactless connectivity data receivers, which can allow for rapid collection and/or download data from subsea vehicles or sensors without having to plug in an external connector or physically remove the data recorder from the unit. Typically, these are operative at a low power level, e.g. less than or around 50 milliwatts, at an extremely high data transfer rate or around 5 GBits/second. The connectors may be incorporated into a subsea system comprising two subsea devices. A slip ring system may similarly comprise one or more first solid state contactless connectivity data transmitters and one or more first solid state contactless connectivity data receivers.
US10128908B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a coupling device includes a circuit that receives a signal. At least one passive electrical circuit element generates an electromagnetic field in response to the signal. A portion of the electromagnetic field is guided by a surface of a transmission medium to propagate as a guided electromagnetic wave longitudinally along the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10128901B2
A method for generating a distributed channel hopping system in cognitive radio networks. The method includes: 1) providing a symmetric asynchronous CH system comprising n periodic CH sequences such that each period of a CH sequence comprises exactly L frames and each frame comprises n timeslots; 2) labelling the n periodic CH sequences in the constructed CH system; 3) hopping, by the CH sequence i, to the channel (lM+j mod N) in each timeslot tt,j,d∈Ui,j of the frame l; and 4) hopping, by the CH sequence i, to an arbitrary channel h∉ {0, 1, . . . , N−1} in each timeslot t∉Zn\ROT(U, i) of the frame l.
US10128899B2
A transmitting apparatus includes an OFDM modulator that generates a first modulation symbol by modulating a first information signal using a first modulation scheme, a signal point of the first modulated information signal being arranged at a first position in an in-phase quadrature-phase plane and a second modulation symbol by modulating a second information signal using the first modulation scheme, and by changing a second position at which a signal point of the modulated second information signal is arranged to a third position in the in-phase quadrature-phase plane, wherein the third position is different from the first position. An OFDM modulation signal includes the first modulation symbol and the second modulation symbol, wherein the OFDM modulation signal comprises a plurality of subcarriers. A transmitter transmits the OFDM modulation signal.
US10128893B2
A multifunction electronic key is provided with at least one wireless communication interface that can function as an access control key to unlock an electronic lock when the key is placed in proximity of an electronic lock that has been previously configured to allow temporal access to the said electronic key, and at least one of the following functions: a) Measure the electric field experienced by the device, process it and optionally send it to a second wireless device; b) A physical button to communicate a distress signal to a second wireless device, in response to which the second wireless device estimates the position of the electronic key and generates a system alarm indicating the identity of the electronic key that generated the alarm and its position estimate; c) Measures the device's motion, process it and optionally send it to a second wireless device; d) One or two way audio communication via the wireless link; e) Measures ionizing radiation.
US10128883B2
An antenna apparatus for a mobile terminal is provided. The antenna apparatus includes an antenna pattern, a first electric circuit and a second electric circuit respectively connected between both ends of the antenna pattern and a system ground, and a third electric circuit disposed between the antenna pattern and a feeding line, wherein the first electric circuit and the second electric circuit extend electrical wavelengths of the antenna pattern and the third electric circuit increases input impedance matching.
US10128882B2
A mobile communications radio receiver for multiple radio network operation includes an RF unit for generating a first down-converted signal from a radio signal received from a first radio network and a second down-converted signal from a radio signal received from a second radio network. Further, it includes a first receiver comprising a paging indicator channel demodulator for demodulating a paging indicator channel of the first radio network based on the first down-converted signal, and a second receiver including a pilot channel demodulator for demodulating a pilot channel of the second radio network based on the second down-converted signal. A first data connection is configured to couple paging information contained in the second down-converted signal to an input of the paging indicator channel demodulator of the first receiver.
US10128877B2
The disclosure discloses Network Assisted Interference Cancellation and Suppression (NAICS), methods and devices for controlling the same, which are configured to reduce processing complexity of User Equipment (UE) in NAICS under the condition of no excessive high-layer signalling overhead and no waste of a Carrier Aggregation (CA) capability of the UE in a CA scenario. The method for NAICS includes that: the UE receives an Interference Cancellation (IC) indication message sent by a Node B, and the IC indication message includes an Identifier (ID) of a Component Carrier (CC) which is targeted when the UE performs NAICS. The CC is a CC which performs CA transmission on the UE; and the UE performs NAICS on the CC according to the IC indication message.
US10128872B2
A communication device comprises a set of filters that are selectively coupled to different groups of front end ports and an antenna port to form a diplexer, a single filter or a no filter connection for transmission and reception of different data signals. A processor operates to selectively determine or combine filters and couple them to the front end ports and the antenna port based on an operational mode and a frequency separation of signals operating in different frequency ranges of different operating bands. The operational mode can alter between a carrier aggregation mode, in which more than one operating band is aggregated during transmission or reception, and a non-carrier aggregation mode, in which only one filter, no filters or the diplexer is bypassed. The insertion loss of the transmissions and receptions can also be actively decreased.
US10128866B2
A current mode sigma-delta modulator comprises an input node; a comparator that compares a voltage of the input node to a reference voltage and outputs a comparison result; an integrating capacitor connected to an input of the comparator; and a switched capacitor circuit connected at a first end to the input node, the input of the comparator, and the integrating capacitor, and connected at a second end to an output of the comparator. The current mode sigma-delta modulator is a component of an analog-to-digital converter.
US10128861B2
An analog to digital (AD) converter includes an AD conversion circuit, and a calibration circuit that calibrates an output value of the AD conversion circuit. The calibration circuit includes a right-shift circuit that shifts an accumulated value of values obtained by removing a deviated value from a plurality of output values of the AD conversion circuit. The calibration circuit calibrates the output value of the AD conversion circuit based on the shifted value.
US10128860B1
A method of increasing SAR ADC conversion rate and reducing power consumption by employing a new timing scheme and minimizing timing delay for each bit-test during binary-search process. The high frequency clock input requirement is eliminated and higher speed rate can be achieved in SAR ADC.
US10128857B1
In one embodiment, a radio receiver includes: a programmable frequency synthesizer to generate a first clock signal; a first frequency divider to divide the first clock signal to generate a master clock signal; a second frequency divider to divide the master clock signal to generate a mixing signal; and a mixer to downconvert a radio frequency (RF) signal to a second frequency signal using the mixing signal. A voltage converter to couple to the radio receiver includes a switch controllable to switchably couple a first voltage to a storage device and a pulse generator to generate at least one pulse pair formed of a first pulse and a second pulse substantially identical to the first pulse, when a second voltage is less than a first threshold voltage, the second pulse separated from the first pulse by a pulse separation interval.
US10128854B2
An oscillation circuit includes an oscillating circuit adapted to oscillate a resonator element having a frequency-temperature characteristic, and a frequency adjustment circuit having a capacitance circuit connected to the oscillating circuit and adapted to adjust an oscillation frequency of the oscillating circuit, and a logic circuit, to which a signal having been output from the oscillating circuit is input, and which adjusts a frequency of the signal, and the frequency adjustment circuit compensates the frequency-temperature characteristic using at least the capacitance circuit in a predetermined temperature range, and compensates the frequency-temperature characteristic using the logic circuit alone outside the predetermined temperature range.
US10128839B2
A multidirectional input device of the present disclosure includes a case, a movable body that is mounted on the case so as to be movable in a plurality of directions with a predetermined neutral position as a base point, a first position detector that outputs a first signal in response to a position of the movable body, a second position detector that outputs a second signal when the movable body is located at the neutral position, and a controller that detects a moving direction of the movable body by the first signal. The controller corrects a threshold value for determination for detecting the moving direction in response to the first signal and the second signal.
US10128836B1
A proximity sensor assembly is provided that includes a proximity sensor comprising conductive circuitry and generating a signal based on a sense activation field. The proximity sensor assembly also includes control circuitry for processing the signal to sense activation of the sensor, the control circuitry further monitoring the signal and comparing the signal to one or more parameters of a prior captured signal stored in memory and determining a fault condition based on a change between the current signal and the one or more parameters of the prior signal, wherein the control circuitry generates a baseline value of the prior signal and adjusts the baseline value to an adjusted baseline value when a fault condition is detected in an attempt to correct the fault condition.
US10128833B2
Circuits and methods for controlling a transistor that has first, second and third terminals, wherein a voltage level at said first terminal controls in part a current flow from said second terminal to said third terminal. A controller receives an voltage existing across the second and third terminals of the transistor, generates an isolated voltage and uses that voltage to power components of the controller. The controller provides a voltage to the first terminal of the transistor, whereby the controller regulates the voltage across the second and third terminals of the transistor by regulating the voltage provided to the first terminal.
US10128828B2
A synchronous clock edge alignment system and method increases detection coverage of transition delay faults that occur in logic circuits that have data released by a clock at an input of logic circuits internal to an integrated circuit and/or released at the output of the logic circuits when testing an integrated circuit. To increase detection coverage of inter-clock transition delay faults, in at least one embodiment, the synchronous clock edge alignment system and method align same transition type edges of internal data releasing clock signals, and at least two of the clock signals have different frequencies. By aligning the edges of the clock signals, transition delay faults that might otherwise not have occurred can be detected by, for example, a conventional circuit testing apparatus. Thus, aligning the edges of the clock signals increases detection of inter-clock transition delay faults.
US10128826B2
A method of compensating for integral nonlinear interpolation (INL) distortion in a clock synthesizer driven by a system clock running at a frequency fsys, involves introducing a selected nominal analog delay I*dt with an actual delay of I*dt+δ at the output of the a first path with a digital controlled oscillator (DCO) and a digital-to-time converter (DTC) and a nominal digital delay I*D with an actual delay of I*D+Δ at the input of a second path with a DCO and a DTC that offsets the actual analog delay in the first path, adjusting the contents x(k) of a compensation module in the second path to align the output pulses of the first and second paths for different values of k, where k represents an interpolation point, iteratively repeating the two preceding steps for all N values of I, and averaging the contents x(k) of the compensation module to derive the compensation values to be applied to a one of the DTCs to correct for INL distortion.
US10128823B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to generating a large electrical resistance. One example circuit generally includes a first transistor having a gate, a source connected with a first node of the circuit, and a drain connected with a second node of the circuit. The circuit may also include a voltage-limiting device connected between the gate and the source of the first transistor, wherein the device, if forward biased, is configured to limit a gate-to-source voltage of the first transistor such that the first transistor operates in a sub-threshold region. The circuit may further include a second transistor configured to bias the voltage-limiting device with a current, wherein a drain of the second transistor is connected with the gate of the first transistor, a gate of the second transistor is connected with the first node, and a source of the second transistor is connected with an electric potential.
US10128821B2
A voltage generator circuit uses a feedback loop to regulate an output voltage at an output node. A pair of opposite conductivity source-follower transistors are coupled to the output node. A first one of the source-follower transistors operates to provide a fast current transient for charging a capacitive load that is switchably connected to the output node. A second one of the source-follower transistor operate under feedback control to regulate the voltage level at the output node.
US10128819B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an N-path filter implemented using a generalized impedance converter (GIC) circuit. The GIC circuit is configured such that the N-path filter has a desired frequency response, which may include a wide passband with steeper rejection than a conventional N-path filter with only a single pole in each filter path. Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an N-path filter having a frequency response with multiple concurrent passbands. In certain aspects, the N-path filter with multiple passbands is implemented using the GIC circuit. In other aspects, the N-path filter may include a bandpass response circuit where an inductance of the bandpass response circuit may be implemented using gyrators.
US10128812B2
An acoustic resonator comprises a substrate comprising a cavity. The electrical resonator comprises a resonator stack suspended over the cavity. The resonator stack comprises a first electrode; a second electrode; a piezoelectric layer; and a temperature compensating layer comprising borosilicate glass (BSG).
US10128799B2
A multi-frequency tunable low-noise amplifier and a multi-frequency tuning implementation method therefor. The amplifier comprises: a system controller (13) and a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) matching tuner (12) connected to the system controller (13). The system controller (13) is configured to respond to a first operation executed by a user via a user interface (15) when in a first mode, to acquire a first matching value produced on the basis of the first operation, and to output the first matching value to the MEMS matching tuner (12). The MEMS matching tuner (12) is configured to be controlled by the system controller (13) and to support the amplifier working on different frequency bands in tuning processing, thus allowing the matching value of the MEMS matching tuner (12) itself to match a current working frequency band.
US10128785B1
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to transient event mitigating systems and methods that can be incorporated into a power generation system. The power generation system can include an exciter coupled to an alternating current (AC) generator that provides electric power to power lines. The transient event mitigating system can include an automatic voltage regulator that detects a transient event in one or more of the power lines and configures a power converter to respond to the transient event by increasing an amount of direct current (DC) voltage coupled into the power converter. The power converter can provide the increased DC voltage to an exciter coil of the exciter for a transitory period of time in order to adjust the electric power generated by the AC generator and mitigate adverse effects of the transient event.
US10128781B2
This variable electric motor system comprises an electrically powered device and a planet gear transmission device. One of a sun gear shaft, a planet gear carrier shaft, and an internal gear carrier shaft of the planet gear transmission device constitutes an output shaft, another shaft constitutes a constant-speed input shaft, and the other shaft constitutes a variable-speed input shaft. The electrically powered device includes: a constant-speed electric motor including a constant-speed rotor that rotates about the axis, and that is connected to the constant-speed input shaft; and a variable-speed electric motor including a variable-speed rotor that rotates about the axis, and that is connected to the variable-speed input shaft. The variable-speed rotor has a shaft insertion hole formed therethrough in the axial direction, the shaft insertion hole having a cylindrical shape centered on the axis. The constant-speed rotor is inserted through the shaft insertion hole.
US10128770B2
An adverse effect on a smoothing capacitor device caused by heat is suppressed. A flow path forming body 240 provided with protruding portions 411, 412 for attaching a capacitor board, a smoothing inductor device 130 mounted on the flow path forming body 240, and a capacitor board 170A on which a smoothing capacitor device 170 is implemented are provided, and the capacitor board 170A is fixed to the protruding portions 411, 412 for attaching the capacitor board, in such a manner that the smoothing capacitor device 170 is away from the flow path forming body 240.
US10128768B2
A method and system are provided for sourcing and sinking reactive power to an electric grid. The control system includes a terminal electrically coupled to a power source that originates from an electric utility grid. The terminal receives a grid alternating current having a real power component and a reactive power component. A power converter is electrically coupled to the terminal, the power converter includes an active rectifier that converts substantially all of the grid alternating current to a direct current and an energy storage device that stores energy supplied by the direct current. The active rectifier sources the reactive power component and the stored energy through the terminal to the electric utility grid. The power converter further includes an inverter that converts the direct current to a load alternating current having at least one of a load real power component and a load reactive power component.
US10128760B2
A PCB planar transformer, comprising: at least one primary winding layer, each formed with a primary winding therein, wherein wire traces constituting the primary winding have a first horizontal width; at least one secondary winding layer, each formed with a secondary winding therein, wherein wire traces constituting the secondary winding have a second horizontal width; and at least one shielding layer, each located between the primary winding layer and the adjacent secondary winding layer, wherein the shielding layer is formed with a conductor therein, and the conductor in the shielding layer has a third horizontal width, wherein at least one of the first horizontal and the second horizontal width is smaller than the third horizontal width of the conductor in the shielding layer.
US10128759B2
A power supplying apparatus includes a first piezoelectric transformer operated at a first operating frequency, a second piezoelectric transformer operated alternately with the first piezoelectric transformer and operated at a second operating frequency, wherein the second operating frequency is a multiple of the first operating frequency.
US10128745B2
An apparatus for coupling to capacitors to form a charge pump includes first and second sets of switch elements, and a controller. Switches in the first set couple terminals of capacitors to permit charge transfer between them. Switches in the second set couple terminals of at least some of the capacitors to either a high-voltage or a low-voltage terminal. The controller causes the switches to cycle through a sequence of states, each defining a corresponding configuration of the switch elements. At least three of the states define different configurations permitting charge transfer either between a first capacitor and a second capacitor, or between a first capacitor and one of the terminals. The configured cycle of states causes voltage conversion between the two terminals.
US10128743B2
Disclosed is an integrated PFC and PWM controller with a plurality of frequency-load curves to minimize the no-load power consumption and maximize 4-point average efficiencies. The controller selects a frequency-load curve among the plurality of frequency-load and controls the PFC stage and the PWM stage to operate in HM, BM, DCM, or CCM based on the combined result from the input voltage and the output load sense signal, fetched respectively from the input terminal of the PFC stage and the output terminal of the PWM stage. The controller has the PSU operate in HM in case of no load, and operate in BM, DCM or CCM as the load increases across the flyback out rail.
US10128738B2
The disclosure describes examples of integrate circuit (IC) chips. An IC chip includes a first detector configured to generate information indicative of whether an input supply voltage or power is greater than or equal to a first threshold, a second detector configured to receive a circuit voltage or current level and generate information used to indicate a status of the IC chip based on the received circuit voltage or current level, and a controller configured to cause the IC chip to enter a safe mode in response to both the first detector indicating that the input supply voltage or power is greater than the first threshold and the circuit voltage or current level being greater than a second threshold.
US10128733B2
A position-detection system for a drive having a rotor, which can move along a path, comprises an encoder unit, a signal-detection unit and a signal-processing device. The encoder unit or the signal-detection unit is arranged on the rotor, and the respective other unit is arranged along the path. Furthermore, the signal-processing device is designed to generate a first position signal and a second position signal on the basis of a relative position of the encoder unit and signal-detection unit. The signal-processing device is designed to determine a longitudinal position of the rotor along the path on the basis of phase values of the first and second position signals. Furthermore, the signal-processing device is designed to determine a distance, directed transversely with respect to the path, between the encoder unit and the signal-detection unit, on the basis of amplitude values of the first and second position signals, and to detect an operating state of the drive on the basis of the distance.
US10128731B2
A linear vernier motor includes a stator and a mover. The stator extends in a first direction. The mover extends in the first direction and a pole interval is different from that of the stator. At least one of the stator and the mover includes: a plurality of permanent magnets arranged in the first direction and a plurality of yokes arranged in the first direction. Each of the plurality of yokes is arranged between adjacent permanent magnets. The plurality of permanent magnets is magnetized to the first direction and magnetization orientations of adjacent permanent magnets are opposite to each other.
US10128719B2
To permit a torque support (4) having the most play-free introduction of force into the supporting structure with a compensation of tolerance at the same time, it is provided that a guide bushing (24), which is arranged in a recess (28) on the second end (13) and a connecting pin (20), which is pivotably mounted in the guide bushing (24) all arranged on a connecting part (10) of the torque support (4), a gap (29) being provided in the radial direction (R) between the guide bushing (24) and the recess (28) and the guide bushing (24) being arranged in a play-free manner in the tangential direction (T) in the recess (28).
US10128704B2
A rotor core includes at least one core refrigerant passage configured to release a refrigerant to a gap between the rotor core and a stator. The core refrigerant passage includes: a central refrigerant passage provided radially inside a permanent magnet so as to extend in an axial direction, the central refrigerant passage being opened on axial end surfaces of the rotor core; an inner refrigerant passage communicating the shaft refrigerant passage with the central refrigerant passage; an outer refrigerant passage communicating the central refrigerant passage with the gap; and dams provided on both axial-end sides of the central refrigerant passage relative to the outer refrigerant passage so as to project toward a radially inner side from a radially outer side in the central refrigerant passage.
US10128694B2
A storage apparatus includes a plurality of storage cells connected in series. Each storage cell comprises a storage element that stores a charge, a container that houses the storage element, a reception antenna capable of receiving power transmitted from a transmission antenna of a feeding facility provided in a wireless power transfer system, and a charging control circuit that charges the storage element using the power received by the reception antenna. The plurality of storage cells are charged concurrently and wirelessly, and therefore charging can be performed on all of the storage cells without overcharging or undercharging.
US10128693B2
Embodiments directed to providing health safety in a wireless power transmission systems are disclosed herein. One embodiment includes a processing apparatus with a processor; a data storage; and one or more wireless power transmitters each including at least two antennas. The one or more wireless power transmitters receive instructions from the processing apparatus that cause the transmitters to transmit RF waves that constructively interfere to provide wirelessly delivered power to one or more receivers. The processing apparatus receives and processes wireless power proscribing data for each respective receiver, respective wireless power proscribing data including at least one user-specified circumstance that a user inputs as to when a respective electronic device coupled with the respective receiver is in use; and the processing apparatus causes transmission of the RF waves by the transmitters in accordance with determining that the at least one user-specified circumstance is not present at the respective electronic device.
US10128684B2
Disclosed are systems and methods to provide energy control via power-requirement analysis and power-source enablement. Both demand-side and supply-side techniques are used alone or in conjunction to determine an optimal number of power sources to supply power to one or more loads. When fluctuations in power requirements are present, measures such as decoupling less-critical loads in order to continue delivering power to critical systems and turning on and off power sources as needed to meet the current power demands of a system are implemented. Power sources are periodically deactivated by the system on a rotational basis such that all power sources wear evenly, prolonging the life of the equipment. A scalable architecture that allows the virtualization of power from the underlying hardware form factor is also provided.
US10128681B2
A non-contact power supply control system includes: an electric transmission pad connected to a power source unit; a control unit controlling current supply to the electric transmission pad; a living body detecting means detecting a living body present around the electric transmission pad; a power receiving pad magnetically coupled to the electric transmission pad to excite power, when current is supplied from the power source unit to the electric transmission pad; and a power storage unit storing power excited by the power receiving pad. The living body detecting means are arranged on the road surface side, and the control unit, when determining that no living body is present around the electric transmission pad on the basis of a result from the living body detecting means, controls the power supply unit to supply power to the power storage unit.
US10128667B2
A method for voltage balancing of series connected capacitors, wherein a voltage in an intermediate circuit of an electric circuit can be easily and safely balanced between a plurality of series connected capacitors and thus these components are operated safely in terms of their voltage strength. This problem is solved in that the voltage balancing is accomplished in that, in a first step of the method, an at least partial discharging of a first or a second capacitor occurs across a first or second winding of a transformer, while thanks to the action of the transformer a current is induced in a second step of the method in the second or first winding which charges the second or first capacitor as a charging current.
US10128666B2
A battery module including: a plurality of battery packs each having a plurality of battery banks; a first wire that connects the plurality of battery packs in parallel; and a second wire that connects battery banks of the different battery packs in parallel. A natural balancing operation may be implemented without a complicated circuit configuration.
US10128654B2
A light-emitting diode (“LED”) lighting unit includes an operational, a sense resistor electrically connected to the input of the operational amplifier, a first field effect transistor (“FET”) whose gate is electrically connected to the output such that the input voltage at the gate of the first FET rises and falls with the output voltage, a second FET whose gate is electrically connected to the output such that the input voltage at the gate of the second FET rises and falls with the output voltage, and a string of LED lights connected such that when the voltage across the string drops below a level to operate, the voltage across a sense resistor drops, causing the operational amplifier to increase its output until the input voltage at the gate of the second FET increases allowing one bank of LED lights to operate.
US10128649B2
A power supply device includes a resistor that limits an electric current supplied from an AC power supply, a switching unit that is connected in parallel with the resistor, a rectifier circuit unit that is connected to a subsequent stage of the resistor and the switching unit and rectifies an AC voltage of the AC power supply, a booster circuit unit, a DC-voltage detection unit that detects a DC voltage output from the booster circuit unit, an AC voltage detection unit, a protection setting unit that compares a first protection voltage calculated on the basis of the boosting level by the booster circuit unit with a second protection voltage calculated based on the AC voltage detected by the AC-voltage detection unit and sets either one as a protection voltage, and a control unit that opens the switching unit when the DC voltage falls below the protection voltage and stops boosting.
US10128646B1
A TV bridge kit including a kit, package, or assembly of components for providing power supply and low voltage cables to a TV or similar electronic device while minimizing disruption to the wall surface. The assembly includes a first and second mounting bracket with associated cover plates and a molded power cable including a male plug end and a female receptacle end. Rotatable clamp arms on the mounting brackets enable rapid installation to existing structural walls. The cover plates include openings and peripheral walls and are adapted for selective mounting of the male or female plug ends and a low voltage device. Mounting of the mounting brackets in vertical alignment in a wall portion sharing a common interior wall cavity between two studs enables rapid installation of power and low voltage feeds to the TV. The TV bridge kit assembly may include trim plates for attachment to the mounting brackets.
US10128644B1
An electrical unit mounting assembly, having a top, bottom, back and front, and including a partial enclosure, made of insulating material, defining a cavity having a mouth at its front and defining a through-hole leading to the cavity, at its back and a panel extending outwardly from the mouth, for at least 4 cm and having a front surface. In greater detail, the assembly is oriented in an upright manner so that its top is topmost, the through-hole is constructed so that liquid cannot be driven by gravity from inside the cavity, through the through-hole and wherein the front surface of the panel includes raised surfaces defining down channels to prevent a foreign surface from blocking liquid-flow down the down-channels.
US10128634B2
Described are various configurations of integrated wavelength lockers including asymmetric Mach-Zehnder interferometers (AMZIs) and associated detectors. Various embodiments provide improved wavelength-locking accuracy by using an active tuning element in the AMZI to achieve an operational position with high locking sensitivity, a coherent receiver to reduce the frequency-dependence of the locking sensitivity, and/or a temperature sensor and/or strain gauge to computationally correct for the effect of temperature or strain changes.
US10128620B1
A conductive module of a high speed vertical connector includes an insulating core and a plurality of conductive terminals fixed on the insulating core. Each conductive terminal includes an embedded segment embedded in the insulating core, a fixing segment and a curved segment respectively extending from two opposite ends of the embedded segment, and a contacting segment extending from the curved segment. The embedded segment has a width within a range of 0.28˜0.42 mm. The fixing segment has a width within a range of 0.25˜0.28 mm. The curved segment has a width within a range of 0.35˜0.42 mm. The contacting segment has a width within a range of 0.25˜0.28 mm. The conductive terminals include a plurality pairs of differential signal terminals and a plurality of grounding terminals each arranged between two adjacent pairs of the differential signal terminals. Any two grounding terminals are not connected to any conductive bar.
US10128615B2
A variable-clocking terminal assembly includes a crimp barrel, a terminal lug, and a locking collar. The crimp barrel includes a crimp portion having a crimp portion cavity sized and configured to receive a cable end of an electrical cable. The crimp barrel includes a conical portion extending axially from the crimp portion. The terminal lug has a cylindrical portion and a terminal tongue extending outwardly from the cylindrical portion. The cylindrical portion has a conical cavity configured complementary to the conical portion. The locking collar has collar threads configured to engage threads formed on one of the crimp barrel and the terminal lug for drawing the conical portion into direct physical engagement with the conical cavity in a manner locking an orientation of the terminal lug relative to the crimp barrel and establishing electrical continuity between the conical portion and the conical cavity.
US10128606B2
In a relay connector, a male terminal is formed in a rod-like shape, inserted into a through hole penetrating a male terminal housing chamber, extends inside a cylinder part, and has a first contact part. A protective plate includes a body part that partitions an internal space defined by the cylinder part and the male terminal housing chamber into a first space portion located on the first contact part side of the male terminal and a second space portion located on the male terminal housing chamber side of the male terminal, a terminal hole that is formed in the body part, and configured to receive the male terminal thereinto, and a filling port that is formed in the body part, and communicably connects the first space portion and the second space portion to each other. The second space portion is filled with a potting filling part.
US10128596B2
An electrical receptacle connector includes a metallic shell and a terminal module in the metallic shell. One or more first leg extends outwardly from two sides of the metallic shell. A first slot is formed on the first leg. When the electrical receptacle connector is soldered to a circuit board, the first slot increases the space for receiving the solders to prevent solder wicking.
US10128594B2
Apparatus and methods are described, including apparatus that includes a connector. The connector includes a connector body including at least one mating surface having a first longitudinal end, and a second longitudinal end that is narrower than the first longitudinal end. A plurality of electrically-conductive terminals are coupled to the mating surface of the connector body. Other embodiments are also described.
US10128589B2
A terminal, wherein the lower and upper arms have a plurality of integral lower flexible arms and integral upper flexible arms respectively, which include at least a first lower and upper flexible arm and a second lower and upper flexible arm that are elastically displaceable independently of each other, the lower striking portions each have a first and second lower striking portion formed on a first and second lower flexible arm respectively, the second lower striking portion at a position that is offset in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first lower striking portion, and the upper striking portions each have a first and second upper striking portion formed on a first and second upper flexible arm respectively, the second upper striking portion at a position that is offset in the longitudinal direction with respect to the first upper striking portion.
US10128587B2
A power connection apparatus assembly has first and second power connection apparatuses. The first apparatus includes a connecting unit and a first circuit board. The connecting unit has a conductive member and a positioning member, the conductive member has a mounting plate portion and an inserting plate portion bending from the mounting plate portion and extending. The mounting plate portion has a positioning hole, the positioning member has a flat plate portion cooperating with the mounting plate portion and a protruding post protruding from the flat plate portion to correspondingly pass through the positioning hole. The first circuit board has an insertion hole corresponding to the positioning hole in position to allow the protruding post to insert therein, the protruding post of the positioning member passes through the positioning hole of the mounting plate portion of the conductive member and inserts into the insertion hole so that the mounting plate portion and the first circuit board are positioned relative to each other. The second apparatus has a second circuit board and an electrical connector corresponding to the connecting unit. The inserting plate portion of the conductive member may insert into an insertion slot of the electrical connector, and after the conductive member and the electrical connector has mated with each other, the first circuit board and the second circuit board are parallel to each other.
US10128586B2
A plug connector has an outer conductor socket to receive a coaxial cable. An inner conductor receiving element receives an inner conductor of the coaxial cable and is arranged in a centered manner within the outer conductor socket. The outer conductor socket has at least one contact-making area which makes electrical contact with an outer conductor of the coaxial cable. At least one separating element is arranged within the outer conductor socket in such a way that making electrical contact with the end of the outer conductor of a coaxial cable that can be or is inserted into the outer conductor socket and the outer conductor socket is prevented or suppressed. In the plugged-in state, the contact-making area is arranged in the outer conductor socket in such a way that electrical contact can be or is made radially with the circumferential wall adjoining the end.
US10128585B1
An audio jack connector includes an insulating housing, a plurality of conductive terminals fastened to the insulating housing, and a switch terminal assembly mounted to the insulating housing. The switch terminal assembly includes a first switch terminal having an elastic arm, and a second switch terminal. A tail end of the elastic arm is connected with a first touch portion. A connecting portion connected between the tail end of the elastic arm and the first touch portion is fastened with an insulating block. The second switch terminal has a second touch portion. An audio plug connector is inserted into the audio jack connector. After contact portions of the plurality of the conductive terminals contact corresponding docking positions of the audio plug connector, the audio plug connector pushes against the insulating block to move downward to make the first touch portion abut against the second touch portion.
US10128584B2
Disclosed is an elastic electric contact terminal comprising: an elastic core; a polymer film which is bonded while covering the core, with an adhesive layer being interposed therebetween; and a copper foil capable of being soldered, which is bonded while covering the polymer film. A metal plating layer is formed on every surface exposed outwardly from the copper foil.
US10128573B2
The present subject matter relates to antenna systems, devices, and methods that provide efficient coverage of low frequency bands (e.g., 700 MHz-bands and 600 MHz-bands) for the new generations of mobile communication. For example, a dual-resonant radiating system can include a ground plane, a radiating coupler spaced apart from but in communication with the ground plane, and a ground plane extension in communication with the ground plane. In this arrangement, one or both of the radiating coupler and the ground plane extension are tunable to tune a dual-resonance frequency response.
US10128559B2
A reflector dish assembly including a support structure, a reflector dish, and a reflector bracket configured for mounting the reflector dish. A support arm supports an electronic device and an elbow bracket is configured for coupling with an end of the support arm. A seat section of the elbow bracket is configured for engaging with the reflector bracket for securing the support arm in relation to the reflector dish. The reflector bracket includes a seat to receive the elbow bracket seat section, with the seat having bosses and support tabs spaced linearly from the bosses. The elbow bracket seat section includes guide slots configured for sliding over the bosses when the seat receives the seat section. The elbow bracket seat section includes support slots for receiving the support tabs of the reflector bracket seat and securing the guide slots with the bosses.
US10128557B2
The present invention relates to a microstrip circuit and a chip-to-chip interface apparatus comprising the same. According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a microstrip circuit. The microstrip circuit includes a feeding line providing a signal, a probe being connected to one end of the feeding line, and a patch emitting the signal to a waveguide. The patch is disposed in a layer opposite to a layer in which the feeding line and the probe are disposed, with a core substrate being positioned therebetween. At least one of length of the probe, thickness of the core substrate, and permittivity of the core substrate is determined based on bandwidth of a transition between the microstrip circuit and the waveguide.
US10128555B2
A digital system has a substrate having a top surface on which a waveguide is formed on the top surface of the substrate. The waveguide is formed by a conformal base layer formed on the top surface of the substrate, two spaced apart sidewalls, and a top conformal layer connected to the base layer to form a longitudinal core region. The waveguide may be a metallic or otherwise conductive waveguide, a dielectric waveguide, a micro-coax, etc.
US10128551B2
An electrolyte for a lithium air battery including a deuterated compound, wherein the deuterated compound is a deuterated product of an organic compound, in which at least one hydrogen atom is substituted with a deuterium atom, wherein the organic compound has a carbon-hydrogen (C—H) bond dissociation energy of 337.2 kJ/mol or more.
US10128550B2
A battery pack for a vehicle is presented. The battery pack comprises a plurality of bricks, each brick of the plurality of bricks comprising a phase change material block, a side of the phase change material block defining a plurality of channels, and a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell being disposed at least in part in the phase change material block; and at least one connector for electrically connecting a first one of the plurality of bricks to a second one of the plurality of bricks, the at least one connector being disposed at least partially in one of the plurality of channels.
US10128547B2
Provided is a method for producing a lithium secondary battery in which localized precipitation of a foreign metal in the negative electrode can be reliably suppressed in a shorter time, regardless of, for instance, electrode type or electrode variability. The production method is a method for producing a secondary battery that includes a positive electrode provided with a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode provided with a negative electrode active material layer, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The method comprises a step of constructing a cell including the positive electrode, the negative electrode and the nonaqueous electrolyte; a micro-charging step of performing charging over one hour or longer, up to 0.01% to 0.5% of the capacity of the constructed cell, in a state of charge such that a positive electrode potential is equal to or higher than an oxidation potential of iron (Fe), and a negative electrode potential is equal to or higher than a reduction potential of iron (Fe), and maintaining the state of charge; and a step of performing an initial conditioning charging.
US10128544B2
Systems and methods for controlling the temperature of an energy storage system are provided. More specifically, a time period of increased battery temperature attributable to, for instance, charging or discharging of the battery can be identified. A control system can be used to reduce the ambient temperature of a space associated with the battery energy storage devices in the time period prior to or immediately before the period of increased battery temperature. The ambient temperature can be maintained at a nominal ambient temperature at other times.
US10128540B2
Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery including: (i) a cathode active material including a lithium metal phosphate according to Formula 1 below; (ii) an anode active material including amorphous carbon; and (iii) an electrolyte for lithium secondary batteries including a lithium salt and an ether based solvent, wherein propylene carbonate (PC) is included in an amount of 1 wt % to 60 wt % in the electrolyte for lithium secondary batteries, based on the total weight of the electrolyte, Li1+aM(PO4-b)Xb (1) wherein M is at least one selected from metals of Groups II to XII; X is at least one selected from F, S and N, −0.5≤a≤+0.5, and 0≤b≤0.1.
US10128526B2
There is provided an electrode assembly including a first electrode laminate having at least one or more electrode units having a first area, stacked therein, a second electrode laminate having at least one or more electrode units having a second area smaller than the first area, stacked therein, and a step portion provided by stacking the first electrode laminate and the second electrode laminate in a direction perpendicular to a plane and having a step formed due to a difference in areas of the first and second electrode laminates, the electrode assembly being characterized in that, the electrode unit is wound by a rectangular-shaped separation film such that at least a portion of the rectangular-shaped separation film covers the step portion of the electrode assembly, and a step having a shape identical to the step portion is formed.
US10128525B2
A process for preparing a fluoro compound of formula: R2—(SO2)—NX—(SO2)—F (III) including: (a) a first step for obtaining the chloro compound of formula: R1—(SO2)—NX—(SO2)—Cl; (II) this first step including the reaction of the sulfamide of formula: R0—(SO2)—NH2 (I) with a sulfureous acid and a chlorinating agent; and (b) a second step for obtaining the fluoro compound of formula (III), this second step including the reaction of the chloro compound of formula (II) with anhydrous hydrofluoric acid in at least one organic solvent; in which: X represents either a hydrogen atom or a monovalent cation M; R1 represents an electron-withdrawing group having a positive Hammett parameter σp; if R1 represents Cl, then R0 represents OH; otherwise, R0 is identical to R1; and if R1 represents Cl, then R2 represents F; otherwise, R2 is identical to R1.
US10128514B2
A fuel cell metal separator structure includes a first separator in contact with a first membrane electrode assembly and a second separator in contact with a second membrane electrode assembly.In the stacking direction of the first separator and the second separator and the membrane electrode assemblies,in an reaction area formed between the two membrane electrode assemblies, an electrically conductive member is put between the first separator and the second separator, and in the sealing portion on a periphery of the membrane electrode assembly, the first separator and second separator are in direct contact with each other so that a space for sealing is expanded due to the increased depth of the sealing grooves.
US10128512B2
The present application relates generally to paper-based magnesium batteries, and the manufacture and use thereof, such as in wearable or point of care devices.
US10128509B2
An electrochemical cell system is configured to utilize an ionically conductive medium flowing through a plurality of electrochemical cells. One or more gas vents are provided along a flow path for the ionically conductive medium, so as to permit gasses that evolve in the ionically conductive medium during charging or discharging to vent outside the cell system, while constraining the ionically conductive medium within the flow path of the electrochemical cell system.
US10128505B2
A method of manufacturing a carbon material comprising a composite of a porous carbon material and a conductive polymer, in which a dispersion solution of the porous carbon material and a dispersion solution of the conductive polymer are mixed to make the composite of the porous carbon material and the conductive polymer. The carbon material has: a specific surface area of 750 to 3000 m2/g, a methylene blue adsorption performance of 150 mL/g or more, and at least three peaks in a range 1250 to 1700 cm−1 of a spectrum obtained by laser Raman spectroscopy with an excitation wavelength of 532 nm.
US10128503B2
There is provided a conductive fibrous material comprising a plurality of carbonaceous fibers, wherein each carbonaceous fiber is fused to at least one other fiber. The carbonaceous fibers may be fused at fiber-to-fiber contact points by a polymer. The process of making the conductive fibrous material comprises mixing a phenolic polymer with a second polymer to form a polymer solution, preparing phenolic fibers having nano- or micro-scale diameters by electrospinning the polymer solution, and subsequent carbonization of the obtained phenolic fibers, thereby generating carbonaceous fibers, wherein each carbonaceous fiber is fused to at least one other fiber. The conductive fibrous material may be useful in electrode materials for energy storage devices.
US10128498B2
A power storage device which has improved performance such as higher discharge capacity and in which deterioration due to peeling or the like of an active material layer is less likely to be caused is provided. In an electrode for the power storage device, phosphorus-doped amorphous silicon is used for the active material layer over a current collector as a material that can be alloyed with lithium, and niobium oxide is deposited over the active material layer as a layer containing niobium. Accordingly, the capacity of the power storage device can be increased and the cycle characteristics and the charge-discharge efficiency can be improved.
US10128494B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to the manufacture of a precursor co-precipitate material for a cathode active material composition. During manufacture of the precursor co-precipitate material, an aqueous solution containing at least one of a manganese sulfate and a cobalt sulfate is formed. Next, a NH4OH solution is added to the aqueous solution to form a particulate solution comprising irregular secondary particles of the precursor co-precipitate material. A constant pH in the range of 10-12 is also maintained in the particulate solution by adding a basic solution to the particulate solution.
US10128492B2
A positive electrode for alkaline storage batteries that enables to improve the active material utilization rate, while suppressing the self-discharge. The positive electrode for alkaline storage batteries includes a support having conductivity, and a positive electrode active material adhering to the support. The positive electrode active material includes particles of a nickel oxide. The particles of the nickel oxide include a first particle group having a particle diameter of 20 μm or more, and a second particle group having a particle diameter of less than 20 μm. The first particle group includes a first component with cracks, and a second component without cracks. The proportion of the first particle group in the particles of the nickel oxide is 15 vol % or more, and the proportion by number of the first component in the first particle group is 15% or more.
US10128488B2
An anode for a rechargeable battery includes a Type II clathrate having the formula MxX136, where a cage structure is formed by X, M represents one or more guest ions, and 0
US10128486B2
A current interrupt device, method thereof, and battery assembly suitable for reducing the likelihood of an overcharge of the battery. The battery assembly includes a busbar electrically connecting an anode of a first battery cell and a cathode of a second battery cell of the battery assembly. The busbar is configured to interrupt the flow of electrical current between the anode and cathode in response to a mechanical impact load, for example an automobile crash.
US10128485B2
There is provided a sealed secondary battery whose current-blocking system yields little change in the actuation pressure even on long-term use. The sealed secondary battery comprises a current-blocking system 80 that is actuated by a pressure rise inside a battery case 12 to disconnect conduction path between an electrode and an electrode terminal. Current-blocking system 80 comprises a pressure-sensitive member having a pressure-sensitive deformable portion 32 that deforms from a first state via snap-through deformation to a second state upon a pressure rise inside battery case 12, and is configured to disconnect the conduction path by snap-through deformation of pressure-sensitive deformable portion 30.
US10128481B2
A lithium-based battery separator includes a porous polymer membrane having opposed surfaces. A porous carbon coating is formed on one of the opposed surfaces of the porous polymer membrane. Polycations are incorporated in the porous carbon coating, in the porous polymer membrane, or in both the porous carbon coating and the porous polymer membrane.
US10128477B2
A cap assembly includes a current interrupt portion; a cap-up electrically connected with the current interrupt portion; and a gasket fixing the current interrupt portion and the cap-up, wherein the current interrupt portion comprises a vent portion comprising a safety vent configured to fracture when a predetermined pressure is applied thereon, and a cap-down comprising at least one hole configured to allow gas to flow in a direction toward the cap-up; and wherein an overall area of the at least one hole is about 0.12% to about 1.61% of a cross-sectional area of the gasket based on an outer diameter of the gasket.
US10128464B2
Provided is an organic electroluminescent display device, including a substrate, an organic light-emitting device on the substrate, and an encapsulation layer formed on the organic light-emitting device and the substrate. The encapsulation layer includes an inorganic layer and a polymer organic layer alternatingly stacked with an intermediate layer formed of a first organic monomer between the inorganic layer and the polymer organic layer, and one surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the inorganic layer through bonding sites on a surface of the inorganic layer and another surface of the intermediate layer is bonded to the organic layer by polymerization.
US10128461B2
A display apparatus includes a first display area including a first display unit configured to generate light and a first encapsulation unit disposed on the first display unit; a second display area including a second display unit configured to generate light and a second encapsulation unit disposed on the second display unit; and a through area disposed between the first display area and the second display area. The first encapsulation unit includes a first encapsulation layer covering a first side of an area of the first display unit corresponding to the through area. The second encapsulation unit includes a second encapsulation layer covering a second side of an area of the second display unit corresponding to the through area.
US10128456B2
The organic electroluminescence device includes an anode, a cathode, and at least an emitting layer between the anode and the cathode. The emitting layer includes a first host material, a second host material, and a phosphorescent dopant material. The first host material is a compound represented by a formula (1) below and the second host material is a compound represented by a formula (2) below.
US10128446B2
An organic electroluminescent device includes a pair of electrodes; and an organic layer between the pair of electrodes, which includes a light-emitting layer, wherein the organic layer contains a compound represented by the following formula (I); and the light-emitting layer contains a iridium complex phosphorescent material: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 each represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and contiguous substituents of R1 to R8 may be bonded to each other to form a condensed ring; R9 represents an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a hetero-aryl group, or a silyl group, and each of which group may be substituted with a substituent; and at least one of R1 to R9 represents a deuterium atom or a substituent containing a deuterium atom.
US10128440B2
A deposition mask assembly includes a frame including a first opening portion and a second opening portion spaced apart from each other in a first direction, a first split mask group including a plurality of first split masks arranged on the first opening portion in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a second split mask group including a plurality of second split masks arranged on the second opening portion in the second direction, wherein a boundary between adjacent first split masks in the second direction and a boundary between adjacent second split masks in the second direction are at different positions.
US10128438B2
Subject matter herein disclosed relates to a method for the manufacture of a CEM switching device providing that the CEM layer comprises a doped metal compound substantially free from metal wherein ions of the same metal element are present in different oxidation states. The method may provide a CEM layer which is born on and capable of switching with operating voltages below 2.0V.
US10128434B2
The present invention provides a Hall element module for achieving miniaturization. A Hall element module includes a Hall element having an element surface and an element back surface, a terminal portion electrically connected to the Hall element and separated from the Hall element as viewed in a z direction, and a resin package covering at least one portion of each of the Hall element and the terminal. The resin package has a rectangular shape with four sides along the x direction and the y direction as viewed in the z direction. The terminal portion includes a terminal back surface facing the z direction and exposed from the resin package. An end edge of the terminal back surface includes a terminal back surface inclined portion opposed to the Hall element and inclined with respect to the x direction and the y direction as viewed in the z direction.
US10128430B2
A method of manufacturing a gyro element as a vibration element is a manufacturing method of processing a quartz crystal substrate to form an outward shape of a gyro element including a vibrating arm and form recessed portions in a vibrating arm. The method includes forming the outward shape of a gyro element from one surface of the quartz crystal substrate using dry etching and forming the recessed portions using wet etching.
US10128429B2
A piezoelectric positioning device (1) has at least one piezoelectric actuator (3) having a first connection contact (4) and a second connection contact (5). A control device (6) with digital/analog converters (12, 16) connected to the connection contacts (4, 5) is used to control the at least one piezoelectric actuator (3). In comparison with a coarse converter (12), a fine converter (16) has a comparatively smaller voltage range and lower voltage levels, with the result that a high degree of positioning accuracy can be achieved.
US10128424B2
The invention relates in at least one embodiment to the production of optoelectronic semiconductor components and comprises the steps: A) providing an intermediate carrier (2) having a plurality of fixing points (23), B) providing optoelectronic semiconductor chips (3) each having a chip upper side (30) and a mounting side (32) located opposite thereto, wherein electric contact points (34) of the semiconductor chips (3) are each located on the mounting sides (32), C) attaching connecting means (4), D) fixing the contact points (34) to the fixing points (23) by means of the connecting means (4), E) producing a potting layer (5), such that the semiconductor chips (3) and the contact points (34) and the connecting means (4) are directly surrounded all round by the potting layer (5), F) detaching the semiconductor chips (3), such that the connecting means (4) are removed from the semiconductor chips (3) and recesses (44) are each provided at the contact points (34) as a negative form in relation to the connecting regions (4), and G) producing electric contact structures (6).
US10128410B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, multiple n-type layers, and multiple p-type layers. The n-type layers and the p-type layers each include a group III nitride alloy. At least one of the n-type layers is a compositionally graded n-type group III nitride, and at least one of the p-type layers is a compositionally graded p-type group III nitride. A first ohmic contact for injecting current is formed on the substrate, and a second ohmic contact is formed on a surface of at least one of the p-type layers. Utilizing the disclosed structure and methods, a device capable of emitting light over a wide spectrum may be made without the use of phosphor materials.
US10128399B1
A lateral-effect position-sensing detector includes a second lateral-current collector layer, an electron barrier layer on the second lateral-current collector layer, an absorber layer on the electron barrier layer, a first lateral-current collector layer on the absorber layer, and a first elongate electrical contact and a second elongate electrical contact on each of the lateral-current collector layers. Incident light radiates a transparent first lateral-current collector layer to be absorbed by the undepleted absorber layer where electron and holes are generated. The depleted electron barrier layer prevents a flow of electrons from the absorber layer to the second lateral-current collector layer but allows electrons to flow to the second lateral-current collector layer. The lateral-effect position-sensing detector is sensitive to a lateral position between the first elongate electrical contact and the second elongate electrical contact of incident light on each of the lateral-current collector layer.
US10128391B2
A solar panel includes a first photovoltaic cell, a second photovoltaic cell, and a flexible electrical connection structure which comprises an electrically conductive connector that electrically connects the first photovoltaic cell and the second photovoltaic cell in series along a connection direction. The electrically conductive connector does not extend from a first major surface of a flexible transparent insulating sheet through a thickness of the flexible transparent insulating sheet to a second major surface of the flexible transparent insulating sheet.
US10128388B2
A method of treating a polycarbonate glass surface, such as a bisphenol A polycarbonate, whereby the glass surface is immersed in a liquid phase polar aprotic solvent, such as dichloromethane, and exposed to a vapor phase polar aprotic solvent, such as acetone thus obtaining a textured glass surface with a hierarchical patterned nanoporous structure wherein the textured glass surface has a higher surface hydrophobicity and a marginally reduced optical light transmittance relative to the polycarbonate glass surface prior to the immersion, the exposure, or both.
US10128383B2
A thin film transistor array substrate includes a first conductive pattern group including a gate line extending along a first direction, data lines extending along a second direction crossing the first direction and spaced apart from each other along the second direction with the gate line there between, and a gate electrode protruding from the gate line, an active pattern disposed on the gate electrode to overlap the gate electrode, a second conductive pattern group including a bridge pattern coupling the data lines, a source electrode extending to an upper portion of the active pattern from the bridge pattern and a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode, facing the source electrode and disposed on the active pattern and metal patterns each stacked between the active pattern and the source electrode and between the active pattern and the drain electrode.
US10128379B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; protruding portions extending in parallel to each other on the substrate; nanowires provided on the protruding portions and separated from each other; gate electrodes provided on the substrate and surrounding the nanowires; source/drain regions provided on the protruding portions and sides of each of the gate electrodes, the source/drain regions being in contact with the nanowires; and first voids provided between the source/drain regions and the protruding portions.
US10128374B2
A semiconductor device in which sufficient stress can be applied to a channel region due to lattice constant differences.
US10128370B2
A semiconductor device capable of increasing a value of current that flows through the whole chip until a p-n diode in a unit cell close to a termination operates and reducing a size of the chip and a cost of the chip resulting from the reduced size, and including a second well region formed on both sides, as seen in plan view, of the entirety of a plurality of first well regions, a second ohmic electrode located over the second well region, a third separation region of a first conductivity type that is positioned closer to the first well regions than the second ohmic electrode in the second well region and that is formed to penetrate the second well region from a surface layer of the second well region in a depth direction, and a second Schottky electrode located on the third separation region.
US10128364B2
Embodiments of a semiconductor device include a base substrate including an upper surface, a nucleation layer disposed over the upper surface of the base substrate, a first semiconductor layer disposed over the nucleation layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed over the first semiconductor layer, a channel within the second semiconductor layer and proximate to an upper surface of the second semiconductor layer, and an enhanced resistivity region with an upper boundary proximate to an upper surface of the first semiconductor layer. The enhanced resistivity region has an upper boundary located a distance below the channel. Embodiments of a method of fabricating the semiconductor device include implanting one or more ion species through the first semiconductor layer to form the enhanced resistivity region.
US10128362B2
A layer structure for a normally-off transistor has an electron-supply layer made of a group-III-nitride material, a back-barrier layer made of a group-III-nitride material, a channel layer between the electron-supply layer and the back-barrier layer, made of a group-III-nitride material having a band-gap energy that is lower than the band-gap energies of the other layer mentioned. The material of the back-barrier layer is of p-type conductivity, while the material of the electron-supply layer and the material of the channel layer are not of p-type conductivity, the band-gap energy of the electron-supply layer is smaller than the band-gap energy of the back-barrier layer. In absence of an external voltage a lower conduction-band-edge of the third group-III-nitride material in the channel layer is higher in energy than a Fermi level of the material in the channel layer.
US10128360B2
A method of producing a semiconductor device is disclosed in which, after proton implantation is performed, a hydrogen-induced donor is formed by a furnace annealing process to form an n-type field stop layer. A disorder generated in a proton passage region is reduced by a laser annealing process to form an n-type disorder reduction region. As such, the n-type field stop layer and the n-type disorder reduction region are formed by the proton implantation. Therefore, it is possible to provide a stable and inexpensive semiconductor device which has low conduction resistance and can improve electrical characteristics, such as a leakage current, and a method for producing the semiconductor device.
US10128354B2
The present disclosure provides a thin film transistor, a method for manufacturing the same, an array substrate and a display device. The method for manufacturing a thin film transistor includes providing a substrate, forming a gate electrode, a gate insulating layer, an amorphous silicon material active layer and a cap layer on the substrate successively, wherein The cap layer is provided with a pattern on a side of the cap layer away from the amorphous silicon material active layer, and the pattern is composed of at least one groove along a length direction of the active layer and at least one groove along a width direction of the active layer, subjecting the amorphous silicon material active layer to laser annealing treatment to transform the amorphous silicon material active layer into a low temperature polycrystalline silicon material active layer, and removing the cap layer.
US10128349B2
A semiconductor device is provided that is excellent in semiconductor properties and Schottky characteristics. A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer containing a crystalline oxide semiconductor with a corundum structure as a major component; and a Schottky electrode on the semiconductor layer, wherein the Schottky electrode is formed by containing a metal of Groups 4-9 of the periodic table, thereby manufacturing a semiconductor device excellent in semiconductor properties and Schottky characteristics without impairing the semiconductor properties to use the semiconductor device thus obtained for a power device and the like.
US10128346B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor pattern on a substrate along a first direction, a blocking pattern on a top surface of the semiconductor pattern, a first wire pattern on the blocking pattern along a second direction different from the first direction, the first wire including a first part and a second part on opposite sides of the first part, a gate electrode surrounding the first part of the first wire pattern, and a contact surrounding the second part of the first wire pattern, wherein a height of a bottom surface of the contact from a top surface of the substrate is different from a height of a bottom surface of the gate electrode from the top surface of the substrate.
US10128342B2
Characteristics of a semiconductor device are improved. An active region including a MOS transistor is structured such that the active region includes, in a plan view, a first side extending in X direction, a second side opposing the first side, an extension part projecting from the first side, and a cut-away portion recessed from the second side. By forming the cut-away portion on the second side opposing the first side where the extension part is formed, the active-region area increase caused by a first rounded portion can be cancelled by the active-region area decrease caused by a second rounded portion. Therefore, even when a gate electrode is disposed near the extension part, gate width variation can be inhibited and characteristics of the MOS transistor can be improved. The distance between the extension part and the gate electrode can be reduced to facilitate miniaturization of the MOS transistor.
US10128338B2
Within examples, a semiconductor device includes a first structure that includes a first doped semiconductor material of a first doping type. The semiconductor device further includes a metal in contact with the first structure, and a second structure that includes a second doped semiconductor material of the first doping type in contact with the first structure. A band off-set for majority charge carriers between the first doped semiconductor material and the second doped semiconductor material is sufficiently large for charge carriers from the second doped semiconductor material to be transferred into the first doped semiconductor material.
US10128337B2
Methods for forming fin structures with desired profile and dimensions for three dimensional (3D) stacking of fin field effect transistor (FinFET) for semiconductor chips are provided. The methods include a structure reshaping process to reshape a shaped structure, such as a diamond like structure formed on a fin structure. In one embodiment, a method for forming a structure on a substrate includes performing an epitaxial deposition process to form a shaped structure on a fin structure disposed on a substrate, performing a mask layer deposition process to form a mask layer having a first width on the shaped structure, and performing a mask trimming process to trim the mask layer from the first width from a second width.
US10128335B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor-on-insulator wafer having a buried oxide layer. The buried oxide layer includes therein opposing etch barrier regions and a gate region between the etch barrier regions. The semiconductor device further includes at least one nanowire having a channel portion interposed between opposing source/drain portions. The channel portion is suspended in the gate region. A gate electrode is formed in the gate region, and completely surrounds all surfaces of the suspended nanowire. The buried oxide layer comprises a first electrical insulating material, and the etch barrier regions comprising a second electrical insulating material different from the first electrical insulating material.
US10128334B1
A method is disclosed wherein a gate, having a gate cap and a sacrificial gate sidewall spacer, is formed adjacent to channel region(s) of a transistor and metal plugs, having plug caps, are formed on source/drain regions. The sacrificial gate sidewall spacer is selectively etched, creating a cavity that exposes sidewalls of the gate and gate cap. Optionally, the sidewalls of the gate cap are etched back to widen the upper portion of the cavity. A dielectric spacer layer is deposited to form an air-gap gate sidewall spacer within the cavity. Since different materials are used for the plug caps, gate cap and dielectric spacer layer, a subsequently formed gate contact opening will be self-aligned to the gate. Thus, a gate contact can be formed over an active region (or close thereto) without risk of gate contact-to-metal plug shorting. A structure formed according to the method is also disclosed.
US10128331B1
A high-voltage semiconductor device is provided. The device includes an epitaxial layer formed on a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes a first doping region having a first conductivity type. The epitaxial layer includes a body region that has a second conductivity type and a second doping region and a third doping region that have the first conductivity type. The second doping region and the third doping region are respectively on both opposite sides of the body region. A source region and a drain region are respectively in the body region and the second doping region. A gate structure is on the epitaxial layer. A fourth doping region having the second conductivity region is below the source region and adjacent to the bottom of the body region. The fourth doping region has a doping concentration greater than that of the body region.
US10128320B2
A display device includes a pixel portion including a plurality of pixels; a display switching function portion that displays an image based on light emitted from the pixel portion, and is capable of switching a three-dimensional display and a two-dimensional display of the image; and a sensor portion that detects whether or not an object comes into contact with or approaches.
US10128315B2
Phase change memory apparatuses include memory cells including phase change material, bit lines electrically coupled to aligned groups of at least some of the memory cells, and heating elements electrically coupled to the phase change material of the memory cells. The heating elements include vertical portions extending in a bit line direction. Additional phase change memory apparatuses include dummy columns positioned between memory columns and base contact columns. The dummy columns include phase change memory cells and lack heating elements coupled to the phase change memory cells thereof. Additional phase change memory apparatuses include heating elements operably coupled to phase change memory cells. An interfacial area between the heating elements and the phase change memory cells has a length that is independent of a bit line width. Methods relate to forming such phase change memory apparatuses.
US10128311B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a memory cell array unit including magnetoresistive elements provided in an array in first and second directions, each including a first magnetic layer having a variable magnetization direction, a second magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and a nonmagnetic layer between the first and second magnetic layers, first transistors provided in an array in the first and second directions, and electrically connected to the magnetoresistive elements, respectively, switching units each electrically connected to corresponding ones of the first transistors in series, and each including at least one second transistor, wherein the first magnetic layers are separated from each other in the first and second directions, and the second magnetic layers are continuously provided in the first and second directions.
US10128306B2
A light-emitting diode package including a body and leads. The body comprising a mounting surface. The light emitting diode package also includes a light emitting diode chip including a substrate and a plurality of light emitting cells disposed on the substrate and positioned to be spaced apart from each other, each of the plurality of light emitting cells comprising an active layer disposed between a first conductive-type semiconductor layer and a second conductive-type semiconductor layer. The light emitting diode package also includes a phosphor member disposed on the light-emitting diode chip and a distributed Bragg reflector disposed on the substrate and between the plurality of light emitting cells.
US10128304B2
A system and method for isolating semiconductor devices is provided. An embodiment comprises an isolation region that is laterally removed from source/drain regions of semiconductor devices and has a dielectric material extending over the isolation implant between the source/drain regions. The isolation region may be formed by forming an opening through a layer over the substrate, depositing a dielectric material along the sidewalls of the opening, implanting ions into the substrate after the deposition, and filling the opening with another dielectric material.
US10128298B2
The invention relates to color-image sensors. To benefit both from a good luminance resolution and a color accuracy that is not excessively degraded by the sensitivity of silicon to near-infrared radiation, the invention proposes to produce a mosaic of pixels comprising colored pixels (R), (G), (B), coated with color filters, which are distributed in the matrix, with white pixels (T) not coated with color filters and which are distributed in the matrix. The colored pixels include photodiodes constructed differently from the photodiodes of the white pixels, the different construction being such that the photodiodes of the colored pixels have a lower sensitivity to infrared radiation than the photodiodes of the white pixels.
US10128295B2
A semiconductor substrate includes a photodiode region, a charge storage region electrically coupled to the photodiode region and a capacitive deep trench isolation (CDTI) structure including a conductive region positioned between the photodiode region and the charge storage region. A contact etch stop layer overlies the semiconductor substrate and a premetallization dielectric layer overlies the contact etch stop layer. A first trench, filled with a metal material, extends through the premetallization dielectric layer and bottoms out at or in the contact etch stop layer. A second trench, also filled with the metal material, extends through the premetallization dielectric layer and the contact etch stop layer and bottoms out at or in the conductive region of the CDTI structure. The metal filled first trench forms an optical shield between the photodiode region and the charge storage region. The metal filled second trench forms a contact for biasing the CDTI structure.
US10128293B2
A pixel sensor device is disclosed. The device includes a shallow trench isolation structure, a well region and a backside isolation structure. The well region and diode region is adjacent to the shallow trench isolation structure. The backside isolation structure is self-aligned with and arranged over the shallow trench isolation structure. The backside isolation structure is adjacent to the diode region.
US10128291B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method of a solid-state imaging device, and an electronic device, which can provide a solid-state imaging device having further improved features such as reduced optical color mixing and the like. Also, an electronic device using the solid-state imaging device thereof is provided. According to a solid-state imaging device having a substrate and multiple photoelectric converters that are formed on the substrate, an insulating film forms an embedded element separating unit. The element separating unit is configured of an insulating film having a fixed charge that is formed so as to coat the inner wall face of a groove portion, within the groove portion which is formed in the depth direction from the light input side of the substrate.
US10128290B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes: a solid-state imaging device photoelectrically converting light taken by a lens; and a light shielding member shielding part of light incident on the solid-state imaging device from the lens, wherein an angle made between an edge surface of the light shielding member and an optical axis direction of the lens is larger than an incident angle of light to be incident on an edge portion of the light shielding member.
US10128284B2
Provided are techniques for simulating a aperture in a digital imaging device, the aperture simulation generated by a multi-diode pixel image sensor. In one aspect, a method includes detecting light incident on a first light sensitive region on a first photodiode of a pixel, and detecting light incident on a second light sensitive region on a second photodiode of the pixel. The method further includes combining, for each pixel, signals from the first and second light sensitive regions, and generating, for a first aperture setting, a first image based at least in part on the light received from the first light sensitive region, and generating, for a second aperture setting, a second image based at least in part on the light received from the second light sensitive region.
US10128281B2
A fabrication method includes preparing a base substrate, the base substrate including a pixel region and a region of gate on array (GOA); forming a pattern including a gate electrode and a pattern of an active layer on the base substrate, and forming a gate lead on the region of GOA, by a first patterning process; forming a pattern of a gate insulating layer by a second patterning process; forming a pattern including a source/drain electrode by a third patterning process; forming a pattern of a planarization layer by a fourth patterning layer; and forming a pattern including a pixel electrode by a fifth patterning layer. Here, the pattern including the gate electrode and the pattern including the active layer are formed by one patterning process, which can reduce the number of masks in the fabrication process of the array substrate, improve production efficiency and save the cost.
US10128272B2
Disclosed are a TFT array substrate, a method for fabricating the same and a display device. The TFT array substrate includes a plurality of pixel units, each of the plurality of pixel units includes a common electrode (9). The common electrode (9), is comb-shaped, and includes a plurality of strip electrodes and a plurality of slits. Each of the strip electrodes is configured for reflecting light incident on the strip electrode, and each of the slits is configured for transmitting light incident on the slit. As the comb-shaped common electrode with both a reflective region and a transmissive region is formed through a single patterning process, the fabrication process is simplified and the fabrication cost and difficulty are reduced.
US10128268B2
Provided herein is a semiconductor device including N stacked groups (where N is a natural number greater than or equal to two) sequentially stacked over a substrate, each stacked group including interlayer insulating films and conductive patterns alternately stacked, and N concave portions each having stepped sidewalls formed in the interlayer insulating films and the conductive patterns of the stacked groups, the N concave portions each having stepped sidewalls being aligned in a first direction.
US10128265B2
Some embodiments include a memory cell which has, in the following order; a control gate, charge-blocking material, charge-trapping material, a first oxide, a charge-passage structure, a second oxide, and channel material. The charge-passage structure has a central region sandwiched between first and second regions. The central region has a lower probability of trapping charges and/or a lower rate of trapping charges than the first and second regions. Some embodiments include an integrated structure having a vertical stack of alternating conductive levels and insulative levels, and having a charge-passage structure extending vertically along the vertical stack. Some embodiments include a NAND memory array having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and wordline levels, and having a charge-passage structure extending vertically along the vertical stack.
US10128259B1
A method for manufacturing embedded memory using high-κ-metal-gate (HKMG) technology is provided. A gate stack is formed on a semiconductor substrate. The gate stack comprises a charge storage film and a control gate overlying the charge storage film. The control gate includes a first material. A gate layer is formed of the first material, and is formed covering the semiconductor substrate and the gate stack. The gate layer is recessed to below a top surface of the gate stack, and subsequently patterned to form a select gate bordering the control gate and to form a logic gate spaced from the select and control gates. An ILD layer is formed between the control, select, and logic gates, and with a top surface that is even with top surfaces of the control, select, and logic gates. The control, select, or logic gate is replaced with a new gate of a second material.
US10128254B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first pattern, a first gate electrode, and a second pattern. The first pattern is disposed on the substrate and extends in a first direction substantially vertical to an upper surface of the substrate, and includes a first part, a second part and a third part sequentially disposed on the substrate. The first gate electrode is connected to the second part and extends in a second direction different from the first direction. The second pattern is disposed on the substrate, extends in the first direction, is connected to the first part, and does not contact the first gate electrode.
US10128241B2
An integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active area extending on a substrate in a first direction, a first gate line and a second gate line extending on the fin-type active area in parallel to each other in a second direction, which is different from the first direction, a first insulating capping layer covering an upper surface of the first gate line and extending in parallel to the first gate line, a second insulating capping layer covering an upper surface of the second gate line and extending in parallel to the second gate line, wherein a height of the first gate line and a height of the second gate line are different from each other.
US10128237B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of fins on a substrate, forming a polysilicon gate structure, and replacing the polysilicon gate structure with a metal gate structure. Replacing the polysilicon gate structure includes depositing a work function metal layer over the plurality of fins, forming a metal oxide layer over the work function metal layer, and depositing a first metal layer over the metal oxide layer. A first portion of the metal oxide layer is formed within an area between adjacent fins from among the plurality of fins. An example benefit includes reduced diffusion of unwanted and/or detrimental elements from the first metal layer into its underlying layers and consequently, the reduction of the negative impact of these unwanted and/or detrimental elements on the semiconductor device performance.
US10128235B2
A method of fabricating asymmetric vertical field effect transistors (VFETs) includes forming mandrels above a substrate comprising a first semiconductor material. A first set of spacers is formed adjacent to each side of the mandrels, and trenches are formed in portions of the substrate that are not below one of the mandrels or one of the first set of spacers. The method also includes filling the trenches with a second semiconductor material that is different from the first semiconductor material and forming a second set of spacers adjacent to each respective one of the first set of spacers. The second set of spacers is above the second semiconductor material. A plurality of fins is formed such that each one of the plurality of fins includes a portion of the substrate and a portion of the second semiconductor material. Gates are formed between each adjacent pair of fins.
US10128234B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second transistors, a pair of first source/drain regions, a pair of second source/drain regions, and a cell. Each of the first source/drain regions corresponds to a first source/drain terminal of a respective one of the first and second transistors. Each of the second source/drain regions corresponds to a second source/drain terminal of a respective one of the first and second transistors. The cell includes a first voltage rail, a pair of second voltage rails, and a cell circuit. The first voltage rail is coupled to the first source/drain regions. Each of the second voltage rails is coupled to a respective one of the second source/drain regions and is configured to be coupled to the first voltage rail. The cell circuit is coupled to one of the second voltage rails.
US10128230B2
An RC-IGBT has a chip area of the semiconductor chip larger than that of a semiconductor chip including an IGBT section but not including an FWD section, as it is provided with the FWD section. It is demanded to reduce the chip area of the RC-IGBT semiconductor chip. Provided is a semiconductor device including: a transistor section including a plurality of transistors; a free wheeling diode section being at least opposite to one side of the transistor section and provided outside the transistor section, when the transistor section is seen from a top view; and a gate runner section and a gate pad section provided to contact the transistor section and not surrounding an entire periphery of the transistor section, when the transistor section is seen from a top view.
US10128228B1
A semiconductor device includes a type IV semiconductor base substrate, a first type III-V semiconductor layer formed over the base substrate, a second type III-V semiconductor layer formed over the first type III-V semiconductor layer. A two-dimensional charge carrier gas forms at an interface between the first and second type III-V semiconductor layers. First and second electrically conductive device terminals are in ohmic contact with the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. A gate electrode is formed on the first type III-V semiconductor layer and is configured to control a conduction state of the two-dimensional charge carrier gas. An electrically insulating region is disposed over the second type III-V semiconductor layer and is laterally between the gate electrode and the second electrically conductive device terminal. At least one diode is formed on the electrically insulating region and is electrically connected between the gate electrode and the second electrically conductive device terminal.
US10128226B2
A package structure is provided. The package structure includes a semiconductor die and a protection layer surrounding sidewalls of the semiconductor die. The package structure also includes a conductive structure penetrating through the protection layer. The package structure further includes an interfacial layer between the protection layer and the conductive structure. The interfacial layer is made of an insulating material, and the interfacial layer is in direct contact with the protection layer. The interfacial layer extends across a back side of the semiconductor die.
US10128213B2
A method includes forming a first through-via from a first conductive pad of a first device die, and forming a second through-via from a second conductive pad of a second device die. The first and second conductive pads are at top surfaces of the first and the second device dies, respectively. The first and the second conductive pads may be used as seed layers. The second device die is adhered to the top surface of the first device die. The method further includes encapsulating the first and the second device dies and the first and the second through-vias in an encapsulating material, with the first and the second device dies and the first and the second through-vias encapsulated in a same encapsulating process. The encapsulating material is planarized to reveal the first and the second through-vias. Redistribution lines are formed to electrically couple to the first and the second through-vias.
US10128199B1
A multi-chip module structure (MCM) having improved heat dissipation includes a plurality of semiconductor chips having a front side mounted on a packaging substrate, wherein each semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips further includes a through-substrate vias located at a backside of each semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips. A plurality of wire bonds is present that provides interconnect between each semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips and is located at the backside of each semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips. A heat sink is located above a gap containing the plurality of wire bonds, and a cooling element is located on a surface of the heat sink.
US10128198B2
An interposer substrate includes a first circuit pattern embedded at a first surface of a dielectric layer and a second circuit pattern embedded at a second surface of the dielectric layer; a middle patterned conductive layer in the dielectric layer between the first circuit pattern and the second circuit pattern; first conductive vias, where each first conductive via includes a first end adjacent to the first circuit pattern and a second end adjacent to the middle patterned conductive layer, wherein a width of the first end is greater than a width of the second end; second conductive vias, where each second conductive via including a third end adjacent to the second circuit pattern and a fourth end adjacent to the middle patterned conductive layer, wherein a width of the third end is greater than a width of the fourth end.
US10128194B1
Methods and systems for a trace stacking structure may comprise a stacked trace including: a first trace that comprises a first seed layer and a first metal layer in a substrate and a second trace that is stacked on the trace. The second trace may include: a second seed layer and a second metal layer, a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and sidewalls extending between the top surface and the bottom surface and may be wholly within the width of the trace laterally. A dielectric layer may be on the substrate and enclose the sidewalls of the second trace. A trace channel may be in the dielectric layer directly above the first trace, with the second trace in the trace channel. The second trace may be identical to the first trace its sidewalls may be perpendicular to the top surface and the bottom surface.
US10128183B1
A method of forming a conductive via comprises forming a structure comprising an elevationally-extending-conductive via and a conductive line electrically coupled to and crossing above the conductive via. The conductive line comprises first conductive material and the conductive via comprises second conductive material of different composition from that of the first conductive material. The conductive line and the conductive via respectively having opposing sides in a vertical cross-section. First insulator material having k no greater than 4.0 is formed laterally outward of the opposing sides of the second conductive material of the conductive via selectively relative to the first conductive material of the opposing sides of the conductive line. The first insulator material is formed to a lateral thickness of at least 40 Angstroms in the vertical cross-section. Second insulator material having k greater than 4.0 is formed laterally outward of opposing sides of the first insulator material in the vertical cross-section. Additional method aspects, including structure independent of method of fabrication, are disclosed.
US10128180B2
A chip package is provided, the chip package including: a chip carrier; a chip disposed over and electrically connected to a chip carrier top side; an electrically insulating material disposed over and at least partially surrounding the chip; one or more electrically conductive contact regions formed over the electrically insulating material and in electrical connection with the chip; a further electrically insulating material disposed over a chip carrier bottom side; wherein an electrically conductive contact region on the chip carrier bottom side is released from the further electrically insulating material.
