US10137384B2
An apparatus includes a set of atomizers, a housing and a separator. Each atomizer includes an inlet portion that receives an inlet flow of a solution and an outlet portion that produces an atomized flow of the solution. The housing defines a flow path. Each atomizer is disposed at least partially within the housing such that the outlet portion of each atomizer is in fluid communication with the flow path. The housing is configured such that a gas flowing within the flow path can be sequentially mixed with the atomized flow of the solution produced by the outlet portion of each atomizer to produce a mixture of the gas and the solution. The separator produces a first outlet flow including a portion of the gas and a vaporized portion of a solvent, and a second outlet flow including a liquid portion of the solvent and a solute.
US10137377B1
A variable vehicle ride switch in accordance with present embodiments includes a base configured to rotate with respect to a ride surface. The variable vehicle ride switch also includes a conveyor positioned on the base that can actuate relative to the base to move a ride vehicle towards or away from an outer edge of the base and to change an angle or orientation of the at least one conveyor within the base, e.g., to rotate within the base. The variable vehicle ride switch also includes a controller configured to receive an activation signal to cause the base to rotate and to actuate the conveyor.
US10137375B2
Methods and apparatus provide for: communicating in respective paired relationships between a network interface and one or more controller devices operated by one or more users, respectively, via wired communication or wireless communication selected by the one or more users; and outputting light emission controls to the paired one or more controller devices, wherein the one or more controller devices each include at least one light emitter that responds to the light emission controls by emitting a selected one of a plurality of colors, outputting a first light emission control to a first of the one or more controller devices that first achieves the paired relationship, and wherein the first light emission control operates to cause a particular first color among the plurality of colors to emit, and outputting a second light emission control to a second of the one or more controller devices that next achieves the paired relationship after the first of the one or more controller devices, and wherein the second light emission control operates to cause a particular second color among the plurality of colors to emit.
US10137369B2
Cellular phone games based on television archives allow users to play games on their cellular phones wherein the games are based on archived television programs. The game is able to be played simultaneously between competitors or on demand. Game data and video data are combined into one file and are sent to participating cellular phones so that the required information is received at the same time at each cellular phone. Each cellular phone contains software to manipulate the game and video data so that the user is able to play the game. The game is played by watching video clips from archived television programs and then selecting choices related to the video clips using the inputs on the user's cellular phone. User scores are determined based on the answers to the questions related to the video clips and results are distributed to the participants.
US10137352B1
A golf putting training device for developing a proper putting stroke includes a base that is configured to position on a substantially horizontal surface. A post is coupled to and extends perpendicularly from the base. The post comprises a plurality of nested sections and is selectively extensible. A line guide is coupled to a front of the base. A frame is coupled to the post distal from the base. The frame extends from the post toward the front of the base. The frame is open-bottomed and is configured to bracket both shoulders of a user who is positioned between the post and the front of the base. The line guide is configured to direct a swing of a putter that is positioned in hands of the user. The frame is configured to contact a torso of the user to notify the user of an improper putting stroke.
US10137348B2
A method and system for using a low resolution image of a golfer's swing for analysis is disclosed. Cameras obtain images of various portions of a golfer's swing. A computer calculates parameters associated with a golfer and a golf club from the images. Parameters include body angles, head position, shoulder positions, arm positions, hand positions, leg positions, foot positions, club shaft angles, and club head position. Different portions of the swing are captured using the cameras, including a static initial address, a backswing, a downswing, a forward swing, and a follow-through. A computer uses measured parameters from two or more portions of the swing to determine comparative parameters during different portions of the swing. The computer uses the parameters to generate swing analysis outputs, including swing characteristic information and/or swing profile information. A correlation table relates identified swing analysis outputs to recommendations to the golfer to improve the swing.
US10137343B2
A golf ball elevator facilitates retrieval of a golf ball by a golfer after the golfer strokes the golf ball into a golf hole cup on a putting green of a golf course.
US10137339B1
The present invention is directed to a modular golf club. In particular, golf club includes a face component that is removably coupled so that the physical attributes of the golf club head may be altered.
US10137336B2
Provided is a golf club head having a sole portion. In the sole portion, first and second grooves are formed extending in a toe-heel direction and recessed toward the inside of the sole portion. The first groove is disposed on a face side relative to the second groove. The first groove includes a first main inner wall and a first sub inner wall shorter than the first main inner wall. The second groove includes a second main inner wall and a second sub inner wall shorter than the second main inner wall. The first and second main inner walls are inclined so as to point upward toward the face side. The second main inner wall, when the sole portion has been placed on a ground plane, is inclined more steeply than the first main inner wall relative to the ground plane in a side cross-sectional view.
US10137335B2
Described herein is a golf club head having a body and a high density metal piece integrally embedded within the golf club head body, wherein a gap is disposed between the exterior surface of the high density metal piece and the exterior of the golf club head body and a method of manufacturing thereof.
US10137332B1
A golf ball with a cover layer composed of a blend of (a) 20 to 99 wt % of a thermoplastic resin, and (b) 1 to 80 wt % of a high molecular weight polysiloxane having a molecular weight (Mn) of at least 10,000 and not more than about 1,000,000 (Mn,), is disclosed herein. The high molecular weight polydimethylsiloxane has blended with it 3 to 35 weight percent of a silica. The high molecular weight polydimethylsiloxane has pendant groups, terminal groups or mixtures of pendant groups and terminal groups selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, trimethyl, dimethyl, methyl, phenyl, fluoro, amino, vinyl, hydroxyl, and methacrylate.
US10137329B2
The present disclosure provides a smart walking recommendation apparatus and a corresponding method, the apparatus includes an information obtaining module configured to obtain destination information and appointed arrival time information, a positioning module configured to obtain a start position of a user, a central processing module configured to calculate a distance from the start position to a destination based on the start position and the destination information, and determine whether to recommended walking based on the distance from the start position to the destination, an empirical speed, and the appointed arrival time information, and an output module configured output a walking recommendation to the user in response to determining to recommend walking.
US10137327B2
A sports training aid is configured to help improve a player's skills in the game of lacrosse. The sports training aid can embody a lacrosse stick with a head and shaft. In one implementation, the lacrosse stick includes one or more sensors that change state. A controller couples with the sensors to administer one or more training modes. Each training mode can cause the controller to associate the change in state of the sensors in response to movement of the head.
US10137324B2
In one embodiment, a method includes contacting a phosphotriester and a halogen salt in a polar solvent. In another embodiment, a method for dealkylating tributylphosphate includes contacting tributylphosphate and a halogen salt in a polar solvent.
US10137322B2
A safety harness comprises shoulder straps, a waist strap, and a weight distribution assembly interconnecting the shoulder straps and the waist strap. The weight distribution assembly is configured and arranged to transfer a load from proximate the shoulder straps to proximate the waist strap.
US10137321B2
A filtering face-piece respirator that has a harness and a mask body where the mask body includes a filtering structure and a support structure. An exhalation valve is attached to the mask body and includes a valve seat that is integral to the mask body. The present invention is beneficial in that it eliminates the need to separately manufacture some or all of the non-dynamic parts of the exhalation valve. There also is no need to subsequently attach the valve seat to the mask body.
US10137319B2
A carrying system is provided for use with breathing apparatus. The carrying system includes a backplate and a plurality of straps adapted to hold the backplate on the back of a user when the carrying system is worn. The backplate includes at least one plate of a plastics material. The at least one plate having a predetermined shape and the at least one plate being adapted to provide impact protection to a user during use by at least partially absorbing and/or dispersing impact forces, and to deform resiliency in response to external forces imposed by bending and/or twisting of a user during use and return substantially to its predetermined shape when not subjected to an external force.
US10137317B2
A system for delivering oxygen enriched air to a selected location on an aircraft may include: a gas separation system configured to output a flow of the oxygen enriched air; an environmental control system configured to output a flow of conditioned air; and/or first, second, and third ducts. The first duct may be configured to direct the flow of the oxygen enriched air to the third duct. The second duct may be configured to direct the flow of the conditioned air to the third duct. The conditioned air and the oxygen enriched air may be mixed in the third duct. The third duct may be configured to direct the mixed conditioned and oxygen enriched air to at least one dispensing station at the selected location that is configured to dispense the mixed conditioned and oxygen enriched air to users of the at least one dispensing station.
US10137313B2
A mirror function display apparatus includes an imager that captures an image of a user, a display that displays the captured image of the user captured by the imager, a light source that emits light including treatment light toward a front side of the display, the treatment light producing a treatment effect, and a controller that controls the display, the light source, and the imager. The controller controls the light source and the imager to capture a first captured image of the user when the treatment light is emitted, and a second captured image of the user when the treatment light is not emitted. The controller corrects, in terms of a hue, the first captured image based on the second captured image so as to cause the display to display a corrected first captured image obtained by correcting the first captured image.
US10137308B2
Systems that integrate electrocardiography (ECG) functions and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) functions, as well as methods of manufacturing such systems and methods of performing ECG and TMS using such systems, are provided. A system can include a hardware component and a software component in operable communication with the hardware component. The hardware component can include or be in operable communication with a TMS machine, and the software component can be configured to receive waveforms from ECG hardware.
US10137302B2
The present disclosure relates to a hearing system. The hearing system comprises an implantable device configured to be implanted under the skin of a wearer and an external device configured to be positioned at an ear of the wearer. The external device comprises a transmit system configured to generate a wireless signal for being transmitted to the implantable device.
US10137298B2
A hand-held device for electrically powered skin treatment is disclosed. The device includes a first outer electrode, a second outer electrode, and a plurality of rechargeable batteries. The plurality of batteries are disposed in a compartment where the compartment is covered by a shell-like housing cover and where an outside of the housing cover is a section of an exterior area of a device housing. The compartment is covered by a removable compartment cover where an inner side of the compartment cover is directed toward the plurality of batteries in the compartment and where a connector socket with at least two poles is disposed on an outer side of the compartment cover. The compartment cover is located within the housing cover. A charging circuit is coupled to the plurality of batteries.
US10137290B2
Therapeutic agents, diagnostic agents and other compositions can be effectively delivered to target tissues using ultrasonic dispersion. For example, a therapeutic agent in solution may be injected subcutaneously in the vicinity of a target tissue in a patient. External ultrasound is used to disperse the therapeutic agent in the target tissue. The disclosed methods provide increased concentrations of therapeutic agents in tissue relative to traditional delivery methods, thereby improving therapeutic outcomes while reducing costs. In addition the methods can be used to deliver effective concentrations of therapeutic agents to tissues with limited blood supply.
US10137275B2
A portable oxygen concentrator is disclosed. An output of a high pressure compressor is fluidly coupled to an adsorbent device that increases the concentration of oxygen gas for storage in a high pressure accumulator. The adsorbent device is purged of the collected nitrogen via a valve fluidly coupled to the outlet of the high pressure compressor and the inlet of the adsorbent device. The outlet of the adsorbent device is fluidly coupled to the high pressure accumulator through a first valve. Additionally, a re-circulation loop fluidly couples the outlet of the adsorbent device to a valved inlet of the high pressure compressor.
US10137272B2
Disclosed is a supporting device for a patient interface on the forehead of the patient. The supporting device has an adjustment by means of a self-acting, incorporated spring element and, depending on the tightening force of the harness, the forehead pad presses onto the forehead of the user as a result of the spring force and thus provides the patient interface at a spacing which is suitable for the patient and provides optimum, fault-free adaptation.
US10137271B2
A nasal cannula for use in a system for providing a flow of respiratory gases to a user is described. The nasal cannula comprises a body made from a pliable material. The body has an inlet and at least one nasal prong fluidly connected to the inlet. In use a conduit providing a flow of gases to the cannula is connected to the inlet, and the nasal prong is inserted into a user's nostril. The cannula is arranged to direct the flow of gases from the nasal prong towards the front wall of the user's nasal passage within the user's nose.
US10137269B2
An interfacing structure for a mask system includes a cushion component adapted to contact the patient's face in use and a cushion-to-frame component provided to the cushion component. The cushion-to-frame component is structured to secure the cushion component to a mask frame of the mask system. The cushion-to-frame component includes a cushion side adapted to interface with the cushion component and a frame side adapted to interface with the mask frame. The cushion side includes a platform to engage and support the cushion component. The platform provides an engagement surface to engage the cushion component and inner and outer flanges provided to opposing ends of the platform to guide, support and/or retain the cushion component on the platform.
US10137268B2
A system and method for supporting a patient gas delivery tube includes an elongated support member having first and second distal end and a living hinge biasing arcuate movement between the distal ends. A generally planar, rigid base configured to secures a lower distal end so that the support member extends from a surface of the base. A mount secured to the other distal end is adapted to secure an associated tube.
US10137264B2
A head-mounted respiratory assistance apparatus configured to provide a respiratory gases stream to a user. The head-mounted respiratory assistance has a main body securable to the head of a user and a blower unit that is operable to generate a pressurized gases stream from a supply of gases from the surrounding atmosphere. A patient interface is provided on the main body that has a gases inlet which is fluidly connected to the blower unit and which is configured to deliver the pressurized gases to the user's nose and/or mouth.
US10137263B2
An airway device (14), that is used to maintain a clear airway in a patient, e.g. for artificial ventilation during surgery, comprises an inflatable cuff (26), which is inflated when in position in a patient's airway (24). The inflated cuff (26) provides a seal to maintain the device (14) in position in a patient's airway (24), and to prevent leakage of infected oropharangeal secretions into the patient's lungs. A method and apparatus (10) for monitoring: leaks in the pressure system of the device (14) that includes the cuff (26); blockage in the pressure system, and/or malpositioning of the airway device (14) during use.
US10137260B2
The present nebulizer kit has a case body having a wall surface with a linear portion. The wall surface can serve as a barrier to change positively toward an aerosol discharge port a stream of aerosol flowing out from an external air introduction path in a direction away from the aerosol discharge port.
US10137256B2
An autoinjector includes a case adapted to hold a medicament container, a needle shroud telescopically coupled to the case, and a plunger slidably disposed in the case. The needle shroud is movable between a first extended position, a retracted position, and a second extended position relative to the case. The plunger is movable between a proximal position, an intermediate position, and a distal position relative to the case. When the plunger is in the intermediate position and the needle shroud is in the retracted position, the plunger abuts the case to prevent the needle shroud from returning to the extended position. When the plunger is in the distal position and the needle shroud is in the second extended position, the plunger abuts the case to prevent the needle shroud from returning to the retracted position.
US10137254B2
Drug delivery device adapted to receive a cartridge, comprising a drive tube with an inner thread, a motor assembly comprising a drive shaft and being adapted to be received inside the drive tube, a drive member attached to the drive shaft and with an outer thread in engagement with the drive tube inner thread. The drive tube is arranged axially displaceable but non-rotational relative to the motor assembly, whereby rotation of the drive member results in axial, non-rotational displacement of the drive tube. To provide flexibility the drive shaft is connected to the drive member via a first flexible joint, and the motor assembly proximal portion is connected to a support structure via a second flexible joint.
US10137248B2
The present invention relates to an autoinjector device (10) for use in combination with a syringe (30), said syringe comprising a movable plunger; a needle; and a tubular needle shield (34). The claimed autoinjector device (10) comprises: an elongated housing having a proximal (11) and a distal end (12); a drive mechanism; a syringe holder (40) in order to support the fragile syringe and to prevent damage to the syringe. The invention furthermore relates to a method for assembly of the autoinjector device according to the invention.
US10137246B2
Some embodiments of an infusion pump assembly may be equipped with one or more components to facilitate wireless operation of an infusion pump via a user-operated mobile device. In some embodiments, the mobile device and/or the infusion pump may prompt the user to confirm acceptance of a wirelessly communicated command to prevent an operation by the infusion pump (e.g., a dispensation of medicine) that is not desired by the user.
US10137245B2
A monitoring and control system, apparatus and method for safe administration, reduction or cessation of administration of at least on medication, fluid or both, which includes at least one Central Source Site (CSS) Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor coupled to means for control of delivery of the at least one medication, fluid or both.
US10137242B2
A portable therapeutic fluid delivery device with a flow detector comprising a heating element and two temperature sensors is presented. Upon activation of the heating element, a flow condition of the fluid inside the delivery tube is determined based on a signal provided by the temperature sensors. A temperature gradient within the therapeutic fluid is detected. The determined flow condition can be one of: air bubbles within the delivery tube, occlusion within the delivery tube, or leakage within the delivery tube. The device can have two parts, for example, a reusable part and a disposable part. Upon pairing of these parts, the heating element and the temperature sensors touch the delivery tube.
US10137241B2
An automated insertion assembly includes a first dermal perforation assembly configured to releasably engage a first subdermal device. A first actuation assembly is configured to drive the first dermal perforation assembly into a user's skin to a first depth and drive the first subdermal device into the user's skin to a second depth. The second depth is greater than the first depth.
US10137239B2
Devices and approaches for monitoring time based photo active agent delivery or photo active marker presence in an eye. A monitoring system is provided for measuring the presence of a photo active marker by illuminating the eye so as to excite the photo-active marker and then observing characteristic emission from the photo active marker. Example systems incorporate Scheimpflug optical systems or slit lamp optical systems to observe cross sectional images of an eye to monitor instantaneous distribution, diffusion pattern, and rate of uptake of a photo active agent applied to an eye. Systems and methods further allow for utilizing the monitored distribution of photo active agent in the eye as feedback for a cross-linking system.
US10137231B2
A circulatory assist apparatus comprising: an inflatable pumping balloon having a proximal end joined to an elongated balloon catheter, the balloon catheter having a distal end joined to the pumping balloon and a proximal end, separated from the distal end by a length sufficient to extend from within a circulatory lumen to the outside of a patient's body, for receiving positive and negative pressure pulses from a pump to inflate and deflate the pumping balloon; and a radially expandable frame, mounted on one of a segment extending distally from the pumping balloon, the balloon catheter, and a sleeve tube surrounding the balloon catheter. The expandable frame is manipulate to expand within the circulatory lumen, and functions to space apart the inflatable balloon from the circulatory lumen, having a first diameter in a collapsed configuration for intraluminal delivery and a second, larger diameter in an expanded configuration achieved by said manipulation.
US10137229B2
This document relates to materials and methods for circulatory bypass of a ventricle in the heart of a mammal. For example, materials and methods for bypassing a permanently or temporarily impaired left ventricle in the heart of a mammal (e.g., a human) are provided.
US10137222B2
A method of forming a fibrin hydrogel composition is described. The method comprises forming an aqueous solution comprising fibrinogen, fibrin-forming enzyme, and a fibrin hydrogel forming salt. The fibrin hydrogel forming salt concentration is greater than or equal to the threshold concentration to form a fibrin hydrogel. The method further comprises reducing the salt concentration below the threshold concentration to form a fibrin hydrogel. In some embodiments, the aqueous solution further comprises a plasticizer. A fibrin composition is also described comprising a fibrin hydrogel having a fibrin concentration ranging from 0.1 to 10 wt-%; and a fibrin hydrogel forming salt. The fibrin hydrogel forming salt has a concentration less than a threshold concentration to form the fibrin hydrogel. The fibrin hydrogel or dehydrated fibrin hydrogel can be in various physical forms such a sheet, foam, or plurality of pieces. Also described are methods of forming a fibrin article, wound dressings and a method of treatment of a wound.
US10137216B2
A system for disinfecting a fluid containing contaminants (chemical and biological) includes a plurality of photocatalytic particles secured to a substrate which contacts the fluid to be disinfected. An agitator for imparting translation and/or vibrational movement is in operational communication with the substrate to increase the contact of photocatalytic particles with contaminants in the fluid. The system can include a source of photons having a wavelength corresponding to band gap energy of the photocatalytic particles to illuminate the substrate. Although the invention can be used to disinfect air in air supply registers of a heating, ventilating and air conditioning system, or in air ducts, the disinfection of any fluid (including water) is contemplated.
US10137211B2
Provided are imaging agents comprising a compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods of their use
US10137209B2
The present invention relates to a new class of high relaxivity extracellular gadolinium chelate complexes, to methods of preparing said compounds, and to the use of said compounds as MRI contrast agents.
US10137205B2
The application relates to a composition comprising a stably integrating delivery vector, a modified mammalian thymidylate kinase (tmpk) that increases phosphorylation of a prodrug relative to phosphorylation of the prodrug by wild-type human tmpk, and a detection cassette fused to the tmpk. The application also relates to use of these compositions in methods of treatment of diseases, such as graft versus host disease and cancer.
US10137195B2
The present invention generally provides a therapy for effectively treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing CLDN18.2, in particular cancer diseases such as gastroesophageal cancer. Data are presented demonstrating that administration of an anti-CLDN18.2 antibody to human patients with gastroesophageal cancer is safe and well-tolerated up to a dose of at least 1000 mg/m2. Furthermore, data are presented demonstrating that the antibody is fully functional in these patients to execute anti-tumor cell effects and evidence for antitumoral activity was obtained.
US10137189B2
Provided herein are chimeric influenza hemagglutinin (HA) polypeptides, compositions comprising the same, vaccines comprising the same, and methods of their use.
US10137181B2
The invention relates to an peptide derived from a polymorphic region of donor MHC class II molecules which induces tolerance and thus prevents transplant rejection in a patient in need thereof. The invention relates to isolated peptide of length ranging between 11 and 16 amino acids comprising the amino acid sequence: SDVGEYR (SEQ ID NO: 1) or a function-conservative variant thereof for use as drug. The invention relates to an in vitro method for determining whether a transplanted patient is tolerant, comprising a step of determining the presence of CD8+CD45RClow Tregs in a biological sample obtained from said transplanted patient, wherein the presence of CD8+CD45RClow Tregs is indicative of tolerance.
US10137177B2
Methods of treating neuroinflammation by administration of a selective protein C activator, such as recombinant human WE thrombin and optionally one or more of its cofactors are disclosed. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions for use in the treatment of mammals that exhibit symptoms of neurological inflammation. The pharmaceutical compositions and pharmacological dose comprise a safe and effective amount of WE thrombin.
US10137174B2
Methods and materials for treating cancers that express reduced levels of wild-type p53 polypeptides
This document relates to methods and materials involved in modulating deubiquitinases (e.g., USP10 polypeptides) and/or ubiquitinated polypeptides (e.g., tumor suppressor polypeptides or mutant versions of tumor suppressor polypeptides). For example, methods and materials for increasing deubiquitinase (e.g., a USP10 polypeptide) expression or activity, methods and materials for decreasing deubiquitinase (e.g., a USP10 polypeptide) expression or activity, methods and materials for stabilizing tumor suppressor polypeptides (e.g., wild-type p53 polypeptides), methods and materials for de-stabilizing mutant versions of tumor suppressor polypeptides (e.g., mutant p53 polypeptides), and methods and materials for reducing cancer cell proliferation, increasing cancer cell apoptosis, and/or treating cancer (e.g., cancers having reduced levels of wild-type p53 polypeptides or cancers having increased levels of mutant p53 polypeptides) are provided. This document also provides methods and materials for identifying agonists or antagonists of USP10 polypeptide mediated stabilization of p53 polypeptides.
US10137166B2
Compositions which self-assemble under physiological conditions are formulated for application to wounds. The formulations include a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or are provided as part of a medical device or coating. The formulations may also include other therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic agents. The formulation can be administered for treatment of one or more disorders or conditions. For example, the formulation may be applied to repair an injury or during surgery of the lung, eye or dura, or following an epidural or spinal tap, to stop leakage of blood, interstitial fluid, or cerebrospinal fluid. The formulation may be administered to a burn or ulcer. In one embodiment, the formulation is provided as a dry or lyophilized powder. In another embodiment, the material is provided in water. In another embodiment, the material is provided in combination with an oil and forms a laminate.
US10137163B2
A Melaleuca quinquenervia extract and its uses are provided. The extract is extracted by a first polar solvent, wherein the first polar solvent is a C3-C6 ethanol. The extract is especially useful for inhibiting the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway.
US10137162B1
The gastroprotective extracts of S. oleraceus L. are ethanol extracts (including the initial ethanol extract and serial extractions of the marc in ethanol), which are concentrated at low temperature to obtain a gummy residue that is dissolved in water. Lipoidal compounds are removed from aqueous extracts by filtration, and serial extracts proceeding from the aqueous extracts using chloroform to obtain low polarity phenolic compounds and n-butanol to obtain high polarity compounds and any remaining compounds. These extracts may be used to treat conditions of the stomach and colon including preventing peptic ulcers and treating ulcerative colitis.
US10137159B2
A method for treating liver fibrosis. The method includes administering to a subject suffering from liver fibrosis a pharmaceutically active extract obtained from a Boehmeria species. Also disclosed is a method for regenerating liver tissue and a method for improving a liver function.
US10137158B2
Compositions and methods are provided for photosynthetic correction of metabolic imbalances that occur in ischemic conditions. In the methods of the invention, an ischemic or potentially ischemic tissue is contacted with an effective dose of a photosynthetic system in the presence of a light source, where the dose or concentration is sufficient to increase oxygenation and simple sugar supply of the targeted tissue or organ.
US10137157B2
A product for use in the treatment of obesity, the metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, dementia, alzheimers disease and inflammatory bowel disease comprising at least one isolated bacterial strain from the species Prevotellaceae, wherein the strain is selected from the group consisting of Prevotella copri, Prevotella stercorea, Prevotella histicola, Prevotella ruminicola, Prevotella Bryantii 25A and Prevotella distasonis. The product may be a food product.
US10137151B2
A three component composition for use in the treatment of an autoimmune disease where the first component comprises a bimodal synthetic carbon particle mixture; the second component comprises a bimodal synthetic carbon particle mixture and an anion exchange resin and the third component comprises a bimodal synthetic carbon particle mixture and a cation exchange resin.
US10137149B2
The invention provides a particle comprising a metal oxide which is doped with at least one rare earth element, wherein the metal oxide is selected from titanium dioxide, zinc oxide, cerium oxide and mixtures of two or more thereof. The invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the particles, and to uses of the particles and composition in the treatment and diagnosis of cancer.
US10137148B2
A method of treating a mammal, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a poly-oxygenated metal hydroxide composition to a mammal to reduce a proliferation of hypoxic carcinoma cells, wherein the poly-oxygenated metal hydroxide composition comprises a clathrate containing free oxygen gas (O2) molecules. The carcinoma cells may comprise colon adenocarcinoma cells (CaCo-2). The poly-oxygenated metal hydroxide material is configured to provide bioavailable oxygen gas molecules to a mammal when administered to the mammal. The poly-oxygenated metal hydroxide composition can be administered intravenously, directly to carcinoma cells, and orally. The composition may comprise a fluid, where the poly-oxygenated metal hydroxide composition is soluble in the fluid.
US10137141B2
A tiacumicin compound, a stereo-isomer thereof, a polymorph thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition, containing a tiacumicin compound, a stereo-isomer thereof, a polymorph thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate thereof, are provided for use in the oral treatment of Clostridium difficile infections (CDI) or Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea or disease (CDAD) in a patient in accordance with a dosage regimen selected from the group consisting of: i. Administering 200 mg of the tiacumicin compound BID for 5 days followed by 5 days of rest and then 200 mg once daily for a further 10 days and ii. Administering 200 mg of the tiacumicin compound BID for 5 days followed by a single 200 mg every other day for 20 days.
US10137139B2
Osteoclast inhibitors, such as zoledronic acid, in an acid or a salt form can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions.
US10137137B2
The present invention provides bacterial ATP synthase inhibitors such as a compound of formula (I): (Formula (I)) (A) in combination with an aminoglycoside antibiotic for preventing or treating a bacterial infection in a subject; or (B) (a) for preventing or treating an infection caused by an electron transport-deficient bacteria in a subject; or (b) for the disinfection, sterilization and/or antisepsis of an object contaminated with an electron transport-deficient bacteria. There are provided compositions and kits using such compounds and inhibitors.
US10137132B2
This invention relates to stable pharmaceutical compositions for parenteral administration comprising dopamine agonists and peripheral acting agents useful for treatment of metabolic disorders or key elements thereof. The parenteral dosage forms exhibit long stable shelf life and distinct pharmacokinetics.
US10137130B2
Provided are methods and compositions for treating cancers in patients carrying an IDH1 mutation or IDH2 mutation.
US10137125B2
Benzenesulfonamide derivatives of quinoxaline that are kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using these derivatives, e.g., for treatment of cancer are described.
US10137119B2
The invention aims to prevent and/or treat malaria using an antimalarial drug comprising, as an active ingredient, a metal chelator represented by the following formula (I), (III), (IV), (V), (VI), or (VII), such as tris(2-pyridylmethyl)amine.
US10137116B2
The present invention relates to the use of benzimidazole sulfide derivatives and prodrugs thereof in the treatment and/or prevention of tuberculosis.
US10137115B2
This invention provides a nucleus-permeable small-molecule inhibitor, L2P4 (where L2 is 4-(4-(Diethylamino)styryl)-N-carboxymethylpyridinium chloride and P4 is an amino acid sequence comprising CAhxYFMVFGGRrRK and they were coupled through amide bond) and synthesis thereof, which effectively targets the dimerization interface of EBNA1, a critical process for the growth of EBVs and the associated tumors. The present invention also provides method of treating and imaging EBV-associated cancers.
US10137112B2
Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions, methods and kits for lowering the serum uric acid level of a subject and for the treatment of a condition associated with elevated serum uric acid levels comprising administering a composition comprising a first urate-lowering agent and a second urate-lowering agent. In some aspects the first urate-lowering agent is (−)-halofenate, (−)-halofenic acid, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. In some aspects the second urate-lowering agent is an inhibitor of uric acid production, a uricosuric agent, a uricase, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US10137111B2
Described herein are pharmaceutical compositions including a proton pump inhibitor and an antiparasitic drug. In some embodiments, the compositions can be formulated as a non-solid for oral administration. The compositions can be used to treat gastrointestinal conditions. Methods of treatment using the compositions are also described.
US10137109B2
Compounds of the general structural formula (I) and (II) and use of the compounds and salts and hydrates thereof, as therapeutic agents are disclosed. Treatable diseases and conditions include cancers, inflammatory diseases and conditions, and immunodeficiency diseases. (I), (II).
US10137095B2
The present disclosure relates to the use of cannabidiol (CBD) for the treatment of atonic seizures. In particular the CBD appears particularly effective in reducing atonic seizures in patients suffering with etiologies that include: Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome; Tuberous Sclerosis Complex; Dravet Syndrome; Doose Syndrome; Aicardi syndrome; CDKL5 and Dup15q in comparison to other seizure types. The disclosure further relates to the use of CBD in combination with one or more anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs).
US10137087B2
Disclosed herein are novel lipids and liposomal compositions prepared using such compounds and related methods of neutralizing or otherwise modifying such liposomal compositions. The lipids described herein are useful for example, as liposomal vehicles to facilitate the delivery of encapsulated polynucleotides to target cells and the subsequent transfection of such target cells. In certain embodiments, one or more of the compounds that comprise the liposomal delivery vehicle may be neutralized or further modified such that the properties of the liposomal delivery vehicle are modified.
US10137077B2
Methods of protecting skin from damage due to cold thermal stress are disclosed. The methods include topically applying a composition that includes an Artemia salina extract from rehydrated Artemia salina cysts to skin at risk of damage from thermal stress, particularly from cold thermal stress or repeated temperature variations. The composition includes a physiologically acceptable medium for delivery of the Artemia salina extract.
US10137073B2
The present disclosure relates to cosmetic compositions, typically in the form of an emulsion, comprising cholesterol, at least one ceramide, and oils. The compositions are particularly useful for supporting natural lipid barrier function of skin. Furthermore, the compositions treat skin dryness, skin damage, and the appearance of wrinkles, dark spots, and uneven skin texture. Also disclosed is a process for manufacturing the cosmetic compositions.
US10137068B2
A method for the color retention of dyed keratin fibers is provided herein. The method includes i. applying a cosmetic composition to dyed keratin fibers as a pretreatment agent for keratin. The method further includes ii. subjecting the keratin fibers to a dyeing and/or brightening within a period of about 5 seconds to about 24 hours after to step i. The cosmetic composition has, based on its own weight, from about 0.01 to about 4.00% by weight of at least one alum and a pH value in the range of about 2.5 to about 5.
US10137067B2
Products for oxidatively changing the color of keratinic fibers include at least two preparations (A) and (B), which are produced separately from one another. The first preparation (A) includes, in a cosmetic carrier, (A1) hydrogen peroxide and (A2) at least one chelating agent chosen from a group of specific chelating agents. The second preparation (B) includes, in a cosmetic carrier, (B1) at least one alkalizing agent. The preparation (A) is produced in a first container (container A). The first container includes at least two layers: an inner layer that includes a layer of a synthetic polymer (I) and an outer layer that includes a metal layer. Preparation (B) is produced in a second container (container B), which includes at least two layers: an inner layer that includes a layer of a synthetic polymer (I) and an outer layer that includes a metal layer.
US10137062B2
The disclosure relates to methods of reducing static on hair or a cloth material, reducing hair frizz and/or increasing shine on hair by wiping the hair or cloth material with a dry wipe product. The dry wipe product comprises a flexible substrate having a first side and a second side; and either an anhydrous composition, or an aqueous composition, disposed over the first and/or second side(s) of the flexible substrate. When hair or cloth material is wiped with a side of the dry wipe product having the anhydrous composition or the aqueous composition disposed thereon, the anhydrous composition or aqueous composition is transferred from the flexible substrate of the dry wipe product to the hair or cloth material. The anhydrous compositions and aqueous compositions of the instant disclosure reduce static on hair and/or cloth, reduce hair frizz and/or increase shine on hair. The dry wipe products of the instant disclosure are particularly beneficial for hair care because they are dry, portable, disposable, may be biodegradable, and comprise compositions that are safe for personal use.
US10137055B2
A sturdy portable massage roller that collapses flat. The roller includes an outer contact skin formed of a plurality of longitudinal stiffeners connected by longitudinally-extending hinge points, the contact skin defining an inner cavity. A collapsible support structure within the contact skin inner cavity is sized to contact and radially support the longitudinal stiffeners in the expanded shape of the contact skin, and is adapted to collapse so that the massage roller converts between a generally cylindrical expanded shape and a collapsed, flattened shape. The support structure may include a series of rigid discs that either pivot or are folded in half to convert the massage roller between its expanded and flat configurations.
US10137048B2
Stretching apparatus consisting of a base plate having a vertically adjustable mast and an upper end of which a lying element is mounted. The lying element is pivotable about a horizontal shaft. Adjustable restraining elements with pads for the arms and the feet are attached to movable slides. A standing surface extending perpendicularly to the lying element is formed thereon. Handle bars for controlling pivoting of the lying element are articulated at the upper mast part. The movable slides are connected with the restraining means on the lying element via cable pulls having a steel cable about a plurality of deflecting rollers. By pivoting the lying element about the horizontal position, the slides with the pads can be moved apart and back toward each other again. By rocking about the horizontal position of the lying element, the back can be alternately stretched and relaxed.
US10137047B1
An automated pilotless air ambulance system. The system includes an air vehicle (AV) having a fuselage coupled to a stretcher for carrying a patient. The system is configured to fly the patient from a point of injury to a medical treatment facility. The system also has a plurality of air lift motors for vertically lifting the air vehicle. The system further includes a plurality of air-lift motors coupled to the fuselage forming a low profile. The air lift motors are centralized motors or de-centralized motors for vertically lifting the AV. The system also has an automated life support and monitoring patient suite having a plurality of life support and monitoring devices, including medical supplies. The system additionally has a bidirectional datalink coupled to the air vehicle for executing various functions such as communicating with a patient's or a first responder's mobile device.
US10137045B2
A patient repositioning system for pulling a patient toward a head end of a bed includes a sheet, a mattress, and a housing which contains at least a part of a drive mechanism for operatively coupling to and pulling the sheet. The housing resides below a head end piece of the mattress, and is secured to the bed deck. The sheet pulling structure extends out of the housing via a slot and releasably attaches to the sheet, in a manner which has a low profile so as to pass through the slot. The sheet is longer than and wider than the mattress, and has beaded longitudinal side edges which are retained within rows of spaced retainers located on opposite sides of the mattress. During pulling of the sheet, the contoured shape of the housing facilitates movement of the sheet into the housing via the slot, even though the sheet width extends beyond the lateral edges of the mattress. The sheet may include indicia for indicating a “loaded” condition, and also usage indicia to indicate that it is time for a new sheet to be used.
US10137041B2
A handy type electric carriage comprises a vehicle body comprising a main vehicle frame, two driving wheels pivoted to the main vehicle frame at two sides, and two front wheel sets provided at two sides in front of the two driving wheels and pivoted to the main vehicle frame; and a footrest unit connected to the vehicle body, the footrest unit comprising a foot board connected to the main vehicle frame, and two first auxiliary wheels at left and right sides of the foot board. The main vehicle frame is situated in an unfolded or folded state due to a positioning mechanism. The front wheel sets and the main vehicle frame are pivoted in a manner of quick-release structure. Thereby, reduction in volume and easier to carry are provided for the handy type electric carriage, and providing easy and labor-saving shifting of the carriage is achieved.
US10137039B2
Substantially planar absorbent core comprising at least 80% and up to 100% by weight of superabsorbent polymer as absorbent material on an absorbent material deposition area and a core wrap. The absorbent material deposition area comprises at least one absorbent material-free channel-forming areas through which the top and bottom substrates of the core wrap are bonded together. An auxiliary glue is applied directly at least to the inner surface of the first substrate on an auxiliary glue application area. The auxiliary glue application area is smaller than the absorbent material deposition area and the core comprises at least one C-wrap seal along at least one edge, in particular along the two longitudinally extending edges of the core.
US10137033B2
A phacoemsulsification needle for use with an ultrasonic handpiece in performing cataract surgery has a plurality of external grooves along its shaft. The external grooves are configured to convert longitudinal drive motion delivered by the handpiece at the base of the needle into torsional motion at the needle tip. The torsional motion at the needle tip has a magnitude greater than the magnitude of the longitudinal drive motion at the base, i.e. the longitudinal to torsional gain is greater than one. The grooves may be helical grooves, wherein the groove configuration is defined by a set of groove parameters including a helical pitch of the grooves, a width of the grooves, a depth of the grooves, an axial length of the grooves, and a total number of grooves.
US10137028B2
A device for securing an eyewear lens to a nasal applique which results in nasal dilation. The device includes a base engageable with the eyewear lens. First and second pivot units are is coupled to the base pivotal about respective pivot axes. The pivot units collectively define a nose adjustment angle therebetween, with the nose adjustment angle being generally conformable to the user's nose. The first pivot unit and the second pivot unit are configured to interact with at least one nasal applique to magnetically couple the first pivot unit and the second pivot unit to the at least one nasal applique. The magnetic coupling between the first pivot unit and the second pivot unit and the at least one nasal applique imparts a dilating force on the user's nose to dilate the nasal passageway when the at least one nasal applique is attached to the user's nose.
US10137024B2
Apparatus, system, and method are disclosed herein for controlling movement of an artificial orthopedic joint prosthesis in a mammalian subject. The apparatus, system, or method includes an orthopedic brace configured to control movement of an orthopedic joint prosthesis. The apparatus, system, or method includes one or more sensors and one or more controllers in communication with the one or more sensors. The one or more sensors are configured to contact the orthopedic joint prosthesis, wherein the one or more sensors in communication with the one or more controllers are configured to detect and control one or more alignment orientations of the artificial orthopedic joint prosthesis.
US10137023B2
This invention is an expandable intragastric device for reducing food consumption and/or absorption. In an example, this device can be embodied in a plurality of longitudinal expandable members which are arranged in a colonnade configuration to form a restrictive food lumen within a stomach. Pumping a flowable substance between the interiors of these expandable members changes the rate of food flow through the stomach, the capacity of the stomach to hold food, and/or the amount of food absorbed by the body. This offers some of the beneficial effects of gastric sleeve surgery, while also being adjustable and reversible.
US10137020B2
Medical device delivery systems and methods of using the same are disclosed. Some of the delivery systems may include a catheter having a proximal end, a distal end, and a sheath. A bifurcated gripping member may be disposed on the proximal end of the catheter and the bifurcated gripping member may include a first gripping prong and a second gripping prong. A deployable prosthesis may be disposed on the distal end of the catheter.
US10137015B2
Disclosed is an assembly for opening a vessel lumen comprising a radially expandable stent configured to open a vessel lumen, the radially expandable stent comprises a curved wall having a proximal portion, a distal portion and a lumen connecting the proximal portion and the distal portion. The assembly further comprises a knitted jacket comprising a plurality of interconnected loops, the knitted jacket further comprising a tubular wall that substantially surrounds an exterior surface of the radially expandable stent, and at least one retainer belt that slidingly passes through at least one knitted loop of the plurality of interconnected loops in the knitted jacket.
US10137009B2
Embodiments herein are generally directed to spinal implants, systems, apparatuses, and components thereof that can be used in spinal fusion and/or stabilization procedures, as well as methods of installation. The spinal implants may be expandable. In some embodiments, the spinal implants may be configured to be backfilled with bone graft material after insertion.
US10137008B2
An orthopedic surgical instrument and method for positioning an acetabular prosthetic component in a patient's surgically-prepared acetabulum is disclosed. The orthopedic surgical instrument has a base configured to engage the patient's pelvis, a first linkage pivotally coupled to the base, a locking mechanism operable to lock the first linkage in position relative to the base, and a second linkage removably coupled to the first linkage. The second linkage has an alignment axis corresponding to a desired abduction angle and a desired anteversion angle of the acetabular axis of the acetabular prosthetic component.
US10137007B2
A geared cam expandable spinal implant. Rotational motion of a rotating portion is translated into linear motion of a yoke, which moves geared cams at the distal end of the implant to mate with, and walk along, teeth of corresponding racks. The walking of the gear cam teeth along the rack teeth creates a regular rate of implant expansion, reduces initial excessive expansion force applied to the implant, and provides fine adjustment of the expansion rate and force. Spikes, pivotally mounted on the yoke, pivot outward as the implant expands, to a fully-deployed position into engagement with surfaces of adjacent vertebral bodies. The engagement between the deployed spikes and the vertebral bodies prevents inadvertent backout of the expanded implant.
US10137004B2
An intervertebral support insertion tool includes a tube having a distal open end for insertion in a patient proximate vertebra and a proximal open end. A shaft is received in the tube proximal open end and has a distal intervertebral support interface for engaging an intervertebral support loaded into the tube. A housing supports the tube and shaft with a first drive mechanism such a linear actuator advances the shaft in the tube. A second drive mechanism such as a rotational drive rotates the shaft. In this way the shaft advances and rotates the intervertebral support to position and deploy it between adjacent vertebrae.
US10137001B2
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a central ramp, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the central ramp capable of being moved in a first direction to move the first and second endplates outwardly and into an expanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed down an endoscopic tube.
US10136998B2
In some embodiments, a revision implant includes a body extending between a first planar surface and a second planar surface and a head extending from the first planar surface of the body. The head is configured to couple the revision implant to at least one additional component of a multi-component prosthesis. At least one coupling mechanism is configured to couple the body to a first bone.
US10136990B2
Systems and methods are provided for improving overall vision in patients suffering from a loss of vision in a portion of the retina (e.g., loss of central vision) by providing a piggyback lens which in combination with the cornea and an existing lens in the patient's eye redirects and/or focuses light incident on the eye at oblique angles onto a peripheral retinal location. The piggyback lens can include a redirection element (e.g., a prism, a diffractive element, or an optical component with a decentered GRIN profile) configured to direct incident light along a deflected optical axis and to focus an image at a location on the peripheral retina. Optical properties of the piggyback lens can be configured to improve or reduce peripheral errors at the location on the peripheral retina. One or more surfaces of the piggyback lens can be a toric surface, a higher order aspheric surface, an aspheric Zernike surface or a Biconic Zernike surface to reduce optical errors in an image produced at a peripheral retinal location by light incident at oblique angles.
US10136989B2
The present invention relates to a prosthetic capsular bag and method for inserting the same. The prosthetic capsular bag helps to maintain the volume of the natural capsular bag, thereby stabilizing the effective lens position of an IOL so that refractive outcomes may be improved with cataract surgery. The prosthetic capsular bag further provides an integrated refractive surface, providing a means for experimentally determining an effective lens position prior to inserting an IOL.
US10136988B2
A tapered sleeve is provided that includes a lubricating coating on an inner surface. An implant (e.g., a pre-filled silicon breast implant) is introduced into a large end of the sleeve and extruded into a surgical pocket of minimal access incision size through a small-sized end of the apparatus.
US10136983B2
A medical device including a first layer having an opening formed therein. A second layer is positioned with respect to the first layer to form a pocket therebetween. A support member is at least partially located in the pocket and reconfigurable for removal of the support member from the pocket via the opening. An affixation element located in the pocket between the support member and the second layer, and secured to the second layer. A method of implanting a medical device is also included.
US10136982B2
Absorbable polyester fibers, braids, and surgical meshes with prolonged strength retention have been developed. These devices are preferably derived from biocompatible copolymers or homopolymers of 4-hydroxybutyrate. These devices provide a wider range of in vivo strength retention properties than are currently available, and could offer additional benefits such as anti-adhesion properties, reduced risks of infection or other post-operative problems resulting from absorption and eventual elimination of the device, and competitive cost. The devices may also be particularly suitable for use in pediatric populations where their absorption should not hinder growth, and provide in all patient populations wound healing with long-term mechanical stability. The devices may additionally be combined with autologous, allogenic and/or xenogenic tissues to provide implants with improved mechanical, biological and handling properties.
US10136981B2
A tissue anchor system includes a support, a suture inserted through the support, an anchor having a fin forming an eyelet, where the suture is engaged with the eyelet of the fin. An introducer is provided having a cannula defining a bore sized to receive the anchor and a slot formed in a wall of the cannula, with the slot sized to receive the fin of the anchor.
US10136972B2
During an intraoral scan session, a processing device receives a plurality of intraoral images of a dental site. The processing device determines that a historical template of the dental site is existent and registers a first intraoral image of the plurality of intraoral images to the historical template at a first region of the dental site depicted in the historical template. The processing device may register one or more remaining intraoral images of the plurality of intraoral images to the historical template at a second region of the dental site depicted in the historical template. The first region may be separated from the second region.
US10136968B2
The present invention relates to devices, kits, and methods for planning and carrying out surgical interventions and/or radiographic imaging, particularly dental implant radiographic imaging or surgical interventions.
US10136965B2
A customized orthodontic bracket system is provided. The system can include a bracket having a customized bracket bonding pad for bonding the bracket to a tooth of a patient and a bracket slot adapted to receive a customized archwire. The customized archwire is adapted to be positioned in the bracket slot to form a precise bracket slot-archwire interface. The bracket slot and the archwire when positioned in the bracket slot can be positioned substantially adjacent the tooth surface to reduce induced vertical error in tooth positioning. The bracket slot can be configured to have a bracket slot width substantially matching a cross-section of the archwire to reduce torque rotation around an axis of the archwire when positioned therein to further enhance end-of-treatment tooth positioning and reduce overall treatment time.
US10136964B2
An orthodontic positioning device and methods for making an orthodontic positioning device including a first patient removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth provided in one of an upper jaw and a lower jaw. The first appliance includes a hook configured to receive an orthodontic elastic band. The orthodontic positioning device also includes a second patient removable orthodontic tooth positioning appliance having teeth receiving cavities shaped to receive and apply a resilient positioning force to a patient's teeth provided in the other of the upper jaw and the lower jaw. The second appliance includes a cutout operable to expose an orthodontic elastic band receiving member.
US10136961B2
Method for producing a dentist tool formed by an overlay to be used by a dentist in removing tooth structure, said method comprising the steps of: acquiring three-dimensional data relating to a shape of a tooth and at least a part of a neighboring tooth; processing said three-dimensional data with a computer so as to determine an overlay fitting said tooth and fitting at least said part of said neighboring tooth; further processing said three-dimensional data with said computer so as to determine a predetermined part of tooth structure to be removed from said tooth so as to prepare said tooth for further treatment; determining at least two guiding edges of which a first and a second guiding edge are spaced apart from each other by a distance d of at least 0.5 mm, said guiding edges being configured so as to enable said dentist cutting tool to be guided by simultaneously contacting said first and said second guiding edge in such a manner as to enable a guided removal of at least partially said predetermined part of tooth structure; producing said determined overlay having said determined guiding edges.
US10136957B2
Provided, among other things is a leak-resistant elastomeric barrier comprising: an elastomeric barrier comprising elastomeric polymer, having two sides, and coated on at least a portion of a first side with a highly hydrophobic coating such that the initial contact angle with water is about 130° or more, and that contact angle does not decay by more than about 10% over 40 minutes. In embodiments the highly hydrophobic coating comprises hydrophobic silica particles are disposed on a hydrophobic coating disposed on the first side, for example with a hydrophobic coating comprises that a fluorocarbon compound, a polypropylene wax, a polyethylene wax, or a mixture thereof.
US10136954B2
Devices, Systems, and Methods for controlled movement of the robot system. The surgical robot system may include a robot having a robot base, a robot arm coupled to the robot base, and an end-effector coupled to the robot arm. The robot may include a plurality of omni-directional wheels affixed to the robot base allowing multiple-axis movement of the robot. The robot may further include sensors for detecting a desired movement of the robot base and a control system responsive to the plurality of sensors for controlling the multiple-axis movement of the robot by actuating two or more of the plurality of omni-directional wheels.
US10136949B2
Various exemplary methods, systems, and devices for gathering and analyzing data for robotic surgical systems are provided. In general, the methods, systems, and devices can allow data to be gathered regarding use in a surgical procedure of a robotic surgical system that includes a plurality of movable arms each configured to couple to a surgical instrument. The gathered data can be used to determine a recommended initial position of the arms for future surgical procedures using the robotic surgical system. The recommended initial position can be provided to users of the robotic surgical system in the future surgical procedures.
US10136945B2
Devices and methods are disclosed for providing and using an ablation catheter. The catheter may include an expandable member having a plurality of electrodes, where each electrode is in association with at least one contact sensor and at least one light emitting element. Light is emitted in response to the contact of the contact sensor with the tissue to be ablated. A light sensor disposed centrally to the catheter gathers light emitted from the light emitting elements and sends a signal to a system controller for display.
US10136942B1
An RF electrode can have a straight shaft to generate an RF heat lesion that is asymmetric about the central axis of the cannula through which the RF electrode is introduced into bodily tissue. For example, a system for tissue ablation can include a cannula and an electrode, the cannula including an elongated shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, the cannula shaft including an electrically conductive active tip distal to an electrically insulated cannula shaft portion, the cannula shaft including a lumen extending from a proximal opening at the proximal end of the shaft to an exit opening within a distal portion of the cannula shaft, the electrode including an electrode shaft having a proximal end and a distal end, the electrode shaft including an electrically conductive active tip distal to an electrically insulated electrode shaft portion.
US10136941B2
A surgical instrument is provided, namely surgical scissors. The surgical instrument has liquid-tight heat-shrunk protective covering located at the business end of the surgical instrument which prevents contamination and damage to moving parts of the instrument which otherwise typically occurs between an extended tube portion of the surgical instrument and a head portion of the surgical instrument. Further, the liquid-tight heat shrunk protective covering provides electrical insulation all the way to the distal tip of a clevis of the surgical instrument by use of a rubber (for example silicone) seal. The surgical instrument has a first blade and a second blade secured to the clevis. The first blade and second blade both have a triangular-shaped back end which allows the blades to fully extend without the back ends extending outside of the instrument.
US10136934B2
Systems and methods for treating vertebral compression fractures are discussed. In an embodiment, a method includes mixing bone cement precursors thereby causing a first chemical curing reaction characterized by a first time-viscosity profile, controllably applying energy to the bone cement from an external source to modify the first time-viscosity profile to a second time-viscosity profile, and injecting the cement into bone at a substantially constant viscosity greater than about 1000 Pa·s to greater than about 5000 Pa·s over an extended working time. In another embodiment, a bone cement injector system is provided that includes a first handle component that is detachably coupled to a second sleeve component having a distal end for positioning in bone and a flow channel extending through the first and second components. The system includes first and second thermal energy emitters for delivering energy to bone cement flows in a flow channel portion in the first and second components, respectively.
US10136932B2
Fusion plates and interbody fusion devices have been developed that contain slots to allow the use of pins to position and to guide the placement of the plate while the screws are being secured, reducing the likelihood of improper placement and localization of the plate and screws. The slots contain ridges formed of a plurality of teeth that are configured to engage with corresponding ridges and teeth on the shaft of a distraction pin. After the plate is placed over the distraction pins, the plate is immobilized in the inferior and superior directions and also in the anterior-posterior direction even prior to placement of the bone screws in the plate. Optionally, the pins may be compressed together to apply compression to the vertebra prior to placement of the bone screws.
US10136930B2
A flexible fastening device having multiple segments, one or more of which are flexible and one or more segments that also include threads. The flexibility is created through the use of at least one helical slot formed generally in the center segment of the element. Additional flexible segments also have at least one helical slot in either the same helical rotation and pattern or in an opposite rotation and/or different pattern. An elastomeric material can fill the hollow body, extend into the slots and/or encompass the exterior. The flexible fastening device can have a hollow body, including leading and trailing edge, or can have a partially hollow body.
US10136923B2
The present disclosure includes a polyaxial bone fixation element for use in spinal fixation to interconnect a longitudinal spinal rod with a patient's vertebra. The polyaxial bone fixation element preferably includes a bone anchor, a collet, a body, and a locking cap. The polyaxial bone fixation element preferably enables in-situ assembly. That is, the polyaxial bone fixation element is preferably configured so that in use, the bone anchor may be secured to the patient's vertebra prior to being received within the body. Accordingly, the polyaxial bone fixation element enables a surgeon to implant the bone anchor without the body to maximize visibility and access around the anchoring site. Once the bone anchor has been secured to the patient's vertebra, the body can be snapped-onto the bone anchor. The bone anchor preferably also includes a second tool interface so that a surgical instrument can be directly coupled to the bone anchor.
US10136918B2
A laparoscopic port is disclosed which includes a tubular member comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a lumen extending there between. At least one seal member provided in the lumen adapted to prevent pressurized gas flow from the distal end to the proximal end of the tubular member. The laparoscopic port further includes a shielding trigger positioned distal to the seal member in the lumen, the shielding trigger is shaped so as at least a proximal portion of the shielding trigger has a narrowing cross-section that extends towards the seal member, the proximal portion is adapted to actuate a reversibly opening and protection of the seal member upon a proximally projected pressure from a distal end of an artifact.
US10136914B2
An anchoring device (1) for anchoring a boring tool (3) in a lumen (4) for boring through an occlusion (6) in the lumen (4) comprises an expandable element (18) adapted for securing to a balloon (12) of a balloon catheter (8) adjacent a distal end (7) thereof. The expandable element (18) is expandable and contractible with the balloon (12) of the balloon catheter (8) for engaging the lumen and for anchoring the anchoring device (1) in the lumen (4). A guide element (33) extends coaxially from the expandable element (18), and a guide bore (34) extending through the guide element (33) is provided with an internal primary screw thread (35) for engaging a corresponding external screw thread (36) on the boring tool (3). A carrier wire (45) extends from the boring tool (3) through a central lumen (15) of the balloon catheter (8), so that rotation of the boring tool (3) by the guide wire (45) when the threads (35,36) are engaged results in the boring tool being urged through the occlusion (6) for forming an opening therethrough.
US10136905B2
A balloon catheter prevents detachment of a balloon from an inner shaft without using a conventional sleeve or heat-shrinkable tube. The balloon catheter includes a balloon, an inner shaft, and a tip having a proximal end portion that covers an outer periphery of a distal end of the balloon. The distal end of the balloon is sandwiched between the inner shaft and the proximal end portion of the tip, thereby joining the distal end of the balloon to the inner shaft and the tip.
US10136903B2
A tourniquet, a method, and a system that can secure logging of compliance with an external communication apparatus and marry two segregated steps of infusing and logging. The tourniquet has a controller that monitors compliance based on signals received from various switches/sensors that indicate whether a clasp has been inserted in the buckle and thereafter whether a strap is applying pressure, and the clasp has been released within a predetermined time after the clasp has been inserted. The controller initiates communication with the external communication apparatus. Upon receiving a log successful communication from the external communication apparatus, the controller alerts the user that the logging was successful or compliance has been met.
US10136896B2
Devices for treatment of a cerebral aneurysm are described. Embodiments may include a self-expanding permeable shell having a radially constrained elongated state configured for delivery within a catheter lumen, an expanded state with a globular and longitudinally shortened configuration relative to the radially constrained state, and a plurality of elongate filaments that are woven together, which define a cavity of the permeable shell. The permeable shell includes composite filaments. The composite filaments include drawn filled tube wires have an external nitinol tube surrounding platinum concentrically disposed within the external nitinol tube. The composite filaments may have a diameter of between 0.00075″ and 0.00125″.
US10136895B2
The invention provides methods for reducing the incidence and/or severity and/or delaying the onset of heart dysfunction/failure and improving overall survival through the use of remote ischemic per-conditioning and post-conditioning.
US10136892B2
A system for stapling tissue comprises a flexible endoscope and an operative head including a pair of opposed, curved tissue clamping jaws sized to pass through an esophagus, the jaws being moveable with respect to one another between an open tissue receiving configuration and a closed tissue clamping configuration, a first one of the curved jaws including a stapling mechanism and a second one of the jaws including a staple forming anvil surface, the stapling mechanism including staple slots through which staples are fired arranged in a row extending from a proximal end of the first jaw to a distal end thereof in combination with a control handle which, when the operative head is in an operative position within one of a patient's stomach and esophagus, remains outside the patient, the control handle including a first actuator for moving the jaws relative to one another and a second actuator for operating the stapling mechanism.
US10136888B2
A circular stapler includes a staple body and an anvil assembly. The staple body includes an annular staple cartridge and an annular cutter located at a distal end thereof. The anvil assembly includes an annular anvil, an annular cutting pad and an anvil shaft. When the staple body and the anvil assembly are closed, the annular staple cartridge is associated with the annular anvil and the annular cutting pad to form at least two connected fixing spaces having height difference. The circular stapler facilitates fixing the severed staples for easily cutting. A buffer may be formed between the tissues near the new formed staples and the tissue near the severed staples in order to avoid or reduce lateral slipping, thereby reducing dragging the tissues on the end face of the anvil.
US10136883B2
Suture anchors and associated methods are disclosed having suture locking features able to lock multiple suture ends extending from a body tissue, such as from a bone tunnel, with a single device.
US10136874B2
The present invention relates to an X-ray imaging apparatus that includes a bias voltage source that provides a bias voltage to pixels that detect X-rays and an automatic exposure control (AEC) processing unit that detects a current flowing between the bias voltage source and the pixels and outputs an AEC signal.
US10136872B2
A method and apparatus for determining an x-ray image data record of a target location subjected to a movement using an x-ray device. A number of basic images of the target location are recorded using a basic exposure time in each case and the x-ray image data record corresponding to an x-ray image with a longer exposure time is determined by combining basic images registered with one another. At least one quality value assigned hereto and relating to the movement in the target location during the recording is determined for each basic image and the contribution of a basic image to the x-ray image data record is determined as a function of the quality value.
US10136869B2
Presented herein are efficient and reliable systems and methods for calculating and extracting three-dimensional central axes of bones of animal subjects—for example, animal subjects scanned by in vivo or ex vivo microCT platforms—to capture both the general and localized tangential directions of the bone, along with its shape, form, curvature, and orientation. With bone detection and segmentation algorithms, the skeletal bones of animal subjects scanned by CT or microCT scanners can be detected, segmented, and visualized. Three dimensional central axes determined using these methods provide important information about the skeletal bones.
US10136866B2
A radiation irradiation device includes a radiation generation unit; an arm part; a support member having one end to which the arm part is connected; a body part to which the support member is connected; and a leg part on which the body part is placed. The leg part includes first casters that are provided on a front side of the leg part and second casters that are provided on a rear side of the leg part. The diameter of wheels of the second casters and is greater than the diameter of wheels of the first casters, and the gravity center position of the entire device is closer to the second casters side than a center between the first casters and the second casters in a state where the arm part is rotationally moved until the radiation generation unit is located at a vertically lowermost position.
US10136865B2
Radioimaging methods, devices and radiopharmaceuticals therefor.
US10136864B2
An X-ray apparatus for image acquisition and a related method. The apparatus comprises a field-of-view corrector (CS) configured to receive a scout image (SI) acquired by the imager with a tentative collimator setting in a pre-shot imaging phase where said imager operates with a low dosage radiation cone causing the detector to register the scout image. The low dosage cone has, in the detector's image plane, a first cross section smaller than the total area of the detector surface. The field-of-view corrector (CS) uses said scout image to establish field-of-view correction information for a subsequent imaging phase where the imager is to operate with a high dosage radiation cone, the high dosage higher than the low dosage.
US10136863B2
An apparatus for supporting a patient is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first structural member having a first end portion and a second end portion, the second end portion of the first structural member being attached to an operating table. The apparatus also includes a second structural member having a first end portion and a second end portion, the second end portion of the second structural member being attached to the operating table. The apparatus further includes a first connecting member that connects the first end of the first structural member to the first end of the second structural member, the first structural member being disposed at a predetermined distance from the second structural member. The apparatus also includes a first support member supported on the first structural member, the first support member configured to support a body part of the patient.
US10136862B2
A digital processor system having one or more processors and memory obtains a time-domain signal representing brain activity, the time-domain signal having a time varying signal value. The system concurrently generates a set of acoustic parameters, including a plurality of time-varying acoustic parameters, where one or more of the plurality of time-varying acoustic parameters is modulated in accordance with at least the signal value of the time-domain signal. The system combines the concurrently generated set of acoustic parameters to produce a representation of an acoustic signal corresponding to the time-domain signal, where the acoustic signal, in audible form, manifests one or more audibly discernible variations across a plurality of stages of a brain activity event.
US10136859B2
An outpatient ambulatory patient worn apparatus for managing chronic lung disease includes a plurality of sensors configured to be worn by a patient and to measure a plurality of physiological data. The plurality of sensors includes at least an oximeter, a respiratory rate sensor, and at least one activity or motion sensor. A central monitoring unit (CMU) is worn by the patient in an outpatient setting during activities of daily living. The CMU categorizes each recorded measurement of each of the plurality of sensors stored in a set of time stamped primary data by a predominate activity type to generate a set of activity type stamped data, the predominate activity types include rest, exertion, and sleep. A generate report process provides at least one or more reports. An outpatient ambulatory patient worn long-term oxygen therapy (LTOT) apparatus and a method for managing chronic lung disease are also described.
US10136857B2
A wearable system and methods for measuring physiological data from a device worn about a body part of a user is provided comprising a base module, a first sensor module, and a second sensor module. The base module comprises a display and a base computing unit. The first sensor module measures a gravitational force experienced by the device. The second sensor module is spatially positioned relative to the base module and over a portion of the body part for measuring one or more physiological characteristics calibrated based on the gravitational force measured with the first sensor module. The base module is adjustably positioned by the user relative to the second sensor module such that the sensor module maintains its positioning over the body part for sufficient contact with the body part for accurate measurements of physiological data regardless of the anthropometric size of the body part.
US10136844B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a continuous analyte sensor, such as a continuous glucose sensor. One such system utilizes first and second working electrodes to measure additional analyte or non-analyte related signal. Such measurements may provide a background and/or sensitivity measurement(s) for use in processing sensor data and may be used to trigger events such as digital filtering of data or suspending display of data.
US10136831B2
Devices that sense sweat and are capable of providing chronological assurance are described. The device uses at least one sensor to measure sweat or its components and to determine a sweat sampling rate. The chronological assurance is determined, at least in part, using the sweat sampling rate. The sweat sampling rate may be determined, at least in part, using a sweat volume and/or a sweat generation rate, both of which may be measured or predetermined.
US10136830B2
A method of analyzing neurophysiological data recorded from a subject is disclosed. The method comprises identifying activity-related features in the data, and parceling the data according to the activity-related features to define a plurality of capsules, each representing a spatiotemporal activity region in the brain. The method further comprises comparing at least some of the defined capsules to at least one reference capsule, and estimating a brain function of the subject based on the comparison.
US10136829B2
A method for determining electrophysiology properties of tissue comprising acquiring electrical signal data from a plurality of electrodes (130) of one or more catheters, determining at least one electrode clique from the plurality of adjacent electrodes (136), computing local conduction velocity vectors for the at least one electrode clique (138), determining at least one catheter orientation independent indicator from which to classify an arrhythmia source based on one or more of an angular dependence parameter associated with a flow field of the local velocity conduction vectors, an eccentricity parameter reflecting the uniformity of local conduction velocity, and divergence and curl-like sums or closed path integral parameters associated with the local velocity vectors, and displaying a rhythm classification responsive to catheter movement thereby facilitating identification of types and causes of arrhythmia disorders.
US10136802B2
A device for sustained release of optical clearing agent includes a stick-shaped component having at least two supplying passages for supplying gas or liquid formed on the inside with apertures of the supplying passages being formed at positions along the circumference of the lateral surface in the vicinity of the top end of the stick-shaped component respectively, at least two pouch-shaped elastic components placed at positions along the circumference of the lateral surface in the vicinity of the top end of the stick-shaped component respectively to cover the apertures of the supplying passages respectively, an optical clearing agent holding component fixed on the surface of one of the pouch-shaped elastic components and holding optical clearing agent, and a body-fluid absorbing component fixed on the surface of another one of the pouch-shaped elastic components and absorbing body fluid flowing from a target object or dehydrating the target object by osmotic pressure.
US10136795B2
A dish rack assembly includes a dish rack having spaced wire frame elements at least partially defining a side wall, a height adjuster comprising an arm located on an exterior of the side wall and a retaining clip mounted to the arm and located on an interior of the side wall that can limit the relative movement of the dish rack.
US10136784B2
An autonomous vacuum cleaner includes an outer housing, a suction nozzle, and a suction motor and a fan assembly operable to generate an airflow through the vacuum cleaner from the suction nozzle through a debris separator to a clean air exhaust. A fan of the fan assembly is rotatable about an axis of rotation of the suction motor and the fan assembly. The debris separator includes a cyclonic separator operable to separate debris from the airflow, the cyclonic separator located within the housing and includes a cylindrical wall along a longitudinal axis and having a first end and a second end, a dirty air inlet, a clean air outlet, a debris outlet adjacent the second end of the cylindrical wall, and a dust bin in fluid communication with the debris outlet of the cyclonic separator, where the cyclonic separator is coaxial with the motor and fan assembly.
US10136781B2
A cleaning mechanism for clearing a cleaning roller of a cleaner. The cleaning mechanism includes: a cleaning roller for cleaning ground, a clearing component operating to clearing the cleaning roller, and a power unit. The clearing component includes a rotation body and a plurality of clearing elements disposed on the rotation body for clearing a surface of the cleaning roller. The power unit operates to drive the rotation body and the clearing elements to rotate along with the cleaning roller in the same direction. During the rotation of the cleaning roller, the trash is cleared by the clearing elements.
US10136780B2
A low profile upright surface cleaning apparatus has an upright section which includes an air treatment member and a dirt collection region that is positioned laterally from the air treatment member wherein at least 60% of the volume is positioned laterally from the cyclone and/or on only one side of the air treatment member.
US10136774B2
The seat cover presented herein includes multiple inner and outer flaps that extend around a toilet seat, where each inner flap secures to one of the outer flaps to secure the seat cover to the toilet seat. To provide a tight fit, the solution presented herein further includes two hinge flaps that extend around the outer rim of the toilet seat proximate the hinges of the toilet seat and between two outer flaps. The hinge flaps secure to an adjacent outer flap to more tightly secure the seat cover to the toilet seat. The solution presented herein may be used for any conventional toilet seat, e.g., round and/or oval toilet seats.
US10136764B2
A high-speed blending blade for a food-processing appliance includes two opposing upwardly arcuate blades, wherein each of the upwardly arcuate blades defines a continuously-curved downward top surface, two opposing downwardly arcuate blades, wherein each of the downwardly arcuate blades defines a continuously-curved upward top surface, a central blade portion having a central top surface, wherein the top central surface is co-planar with a portion of each downward top surface and each upward top surface and a pair of opposing top blades extending at a predetermined angle from proximate the central top surface.
US10136752B2
A method for translating cooking time and temperatures for prepackaged food products. The sous-vide program allows users to cook to a food manufacturer recommended doneness based on the size, shape and fat content of the food. The program also lets user adjust setting if the users modified the food product like cut it in half. The program can be located on the sous vide cooking device or on person computing device.
US10136749B2
A sous-vide circulator cooker that sounds an audible alarm when the system raises the temperature of the water to a determined temperature. The sous-vide circulator cooker includes temperature sensors, heaters and a pump to circulator temperature controlled fluids. The system also contains a speaker or buzzer that can play alarms or music when the system comes to a predetermined temperature. In at least one embodiment, the sous-vide circulator can also distinguish between self-heating and user-induced temperature changes, and will sound alarms accordingly.
US10136747B2
The present disclosure provides a protective mat and a method for protecting a floor from spillage, debris and/or scratches. The protective mat may also provide other advantages such as impact resistance and/or reduction of foot/leg fatigue. The protective mat includes a web of extruded polymer monofilaments. The protective mat may further include a membrane. The membrane may be made of a liquid impermeable material. The method includes overlaying a portion of a floor with the protective mat.
US10136742B1
A food assembly line is provided for assembling a food item according to an order. The food assembly line includes multiple work stations at which the food item may be positioned, and a display system including a display device at each of the multiple work stations. The display system is configured to display information associated with the order at the display devices. The display system is further configured to update the display devices during assembly of the food item so that each display device displays at least a portion of the information when the food item is positioned proximate the display device.
US10136739B2
A child carrier for carrying two children of different sizes has a first and second child carrier portions including first and second carrier pouches, respectively, each pouch attached at its bottom to a waist support, and shoulder straps. The first and second child carrier portions are configured to be secured between the shoulder straps and directly opposite one another. At least one of the child carrier pouches is configured to extend behind the shoulder straps, such that a heavy weight in the opposite child carrier pouch that presses the shoulder straps tightly against a wearer does not compress a child therein against the wearer. Each of the child carrier pouches is curved towards a wearer to prevent a child inserted therein from facing away from the wearer and is configured to hold a child in a seated straddle position.
US10136735B2
An air temperature control system controls the air temperature inside of an air mattress. The air temperature control system includes an air intake component having inner and outer seals to inhibit or facilitate the flow of air into and out of the air mattress. The air temperature control system also includes a temperature control element in fluid communication with the air intake component. The temperature control element is positioned within the air mattress inside of the outer seal. The air temperature control system further includes a controller configured to direct the air intake component to open and close the inner and outer seals and operation of the temperature control element.
US10136734B2
An electrically-heated wearable blanket with auto shut-off switch that includes a blanket portion disposed between a first edge, a second edge, a third edge, and a fourth edge, the blanket portion having a front surface and a back surface, wherein a person wearing the electrically-heated wearable blanket with auto shut-off switch is in operational communication with a boustrophedonic heating element disposed within the blanket portion by means of a control pad disposed on a first cord in circuit with the heating element, and a second cord releasably interconnects the heating element alternately among at least three external power sources including a rechargeable battery pack.
US10136732B2
In one aspect, seating apparatus are described herein. In some embodiments, a seating apparatus comprises a seating surface, two arms projecting upwardly from the seating surface, and a fastening strap. The fastening strap is operable to be adjusted between a tightened position and a loosened position. When the fastening strap is adjusted to the tightened position, it is operable to restrict motion of the seating surface relative to the chair.
US10136730B2
A chair including structural members having hinge joints at ends thereof pivotally coupling each of the members to one or more adjoining members. The chair is configured to be arranged in a collapsed configuration wherein all of the members are in the same plane and define a substantially planar shape, and configured to be arranged in an expanded configuration to define a seat, armrests, support legs, and leg braces of the chair. A stool assembly includes at least first and second stools configured to be stackable such that the seats of the stools abut face to face and in combination define a composite base. A system for constructing furniture includes multiple joints each having slots configured to receive and retain structural members and configured to be assembled with the structural members to form a piece of furniture with the multiple joints defining corners of the piece of furniture.
US10136729B2
A folding chair includes a seat, a back, an interlinking device, a front leg, and a rear leg. The seat, the back, the interlinking device, the front leg, and the rear leg are interlinked. The seat includes at least one guiding portion, and the interlinking device includes at least one actuating member, which is movably coupled to the guiding portion. A user can fold or unfold the folding chair by a single-handed operation, such as pushing or pulling on the back or pulling a handle.
US10136728B2
A chair having an adjustable backrest and control actuator disposed forward of the backrest hinge, for controlling the backrest angle. The chair has a backrest support hinged to the backrest away from the backrest/chair hinge, and coupled directly or indirectly to track runners which run along elongated support tracks. A positioner is controlled by the control actuator and coupled to the backrest support and track runners, limiting the extent to which the track runners may move along the support tracks and thus control the angle of the backrest.
US10136725B2
A convertible outdoor patio table is provided. The table includes a metallic frame mounted on wheels, the frame surrounding a generally hollow interior, an outer body member which is coupled to and substantially surrounds side portions of the frame, the outer body member being made of a weather resistant material, a railing coupled to the frame and defining a shoulder positioned adjacent the outer body member at the generally hollow interior, a tabletop lid member which removably engages with at least one of the shoulder or the outer body member to close the generally hollow interior, and a functional/storage device which is revealed for access and use when the tabletop lid member is disengaged from the outer body member. The functional/storage device substantially covers a surface area bounded at the top end of the frame to maximize usage of space within the generally hollow interior.
US10136723B2
An oral care implement that includes a handle and a head. The head may include a support structure and a monolithic cleaning unit coupled thereto. The monolithic cleaning unit may include a base portion coupled to the support structure and a plurality of bristles extending therefrom. At least one, or each, of the plurality of bristles may comprise a body having an outer surface and a rib extending from the outer surface. The rib may be longitudinally elongated in some embodiments and it may be helical in other embodiments. Furthermore, there may be more than one rib extending from the outer surface of the body. The monolithic cleaning unit may be formed of an elastomeric material.
US10136716B2
A protective enclosure for an electronic device is provided. The protective enclosure includes a structural member, a cushioning member permanently affixed to the structural member, and a cavity. The structural member has a back portion and a plurality of side portions. The cushioning member has a top section, a bottom section, and one or more side sections. The cushioning member includes an upper edge configured to extend beyond the front surface of the installed electronic device. The cushioning member further includes a protective rim extending beyond the back surface of the electronic device and be in direct contact with the a portion of the back surface of the installed electronic device. The cavity is at least partially bounded by the protective rim of the cushioning member and extends between the inner surface of the structural member to the back surface of the installed electronic device.
US10136709B2
A cantilever umbrella assembly is provided that includes an upright pole, a runner, a transverse pole, and a canopy. The upright pole includes an upright guide surface. The runner is coupled with the upright pole and has a bearing coupled with the guide surface for guiding the runner along the upright pole. The cantilever umbrella assembly includes a deployable tension member with a first end disposed in the transverse pole and a second end coupled with the canopy.
US10136708B2
Light, precious gold-titanium based alloy containing, by mass, at least 750‰ of gold, characterized in that said alloy has the following composition formula: TiaAubMcTd where a, b, c, d are atomic proportions such that: a+b+c+d=1, 0.45≤a≤0.55; 0.41≤b≤0.495; 0.025≤c≤0.13; 0.001≤d≤0.025, where M represents one or more elements taken from among a first group including Nb, V, Pd, Pt, Fe, and where T represents a maximum of two elements taken from among a second group including Nb, V, Pd, Pt, Fe, Mo, Ta, W, Co, Ni, Ru, Rh, Ir, Cr, Mn, Cu, Zn, Ag, Al, B, Si, Ge, Sn, Sb, In, with the exception of said metals M comprised in said alloy. Component for timepiece or for jewellery made from such a light, precious gold-titanium based alloy.
US10136700B2
An article of footwear is provided having a pressurized fluid-filled chamber in the sole structure having a continuous perimeter weld and lacking an inflation channel. The chamber may be formed from opposing polymer sheets, a continuous perimeter weld lacking a weld channel bonding the sheets and forming an interior void between the sheets, and a fluid disposed within the interior void exerting outward pressure on the sheets. A method for making the chamber can include placing a pair of polymer sheets in an opposing arrangement, pressing opposing perimeter weld portions of the sheets against each other to form an airtight seal along a perimeter region of an interior void, supplying a flow of pressurized air between the opposing sheets into the interior void, and, while maintaining a desired fluid pressure, welding the perimeter weld portions of the sheets to each other. A high-frequency welder for forming chamber is also provided.
US10136699B1
An insole for footwear with a built in hydraulic system and magnet that allows for better balance to help avoid falling, better weight distribution, improved massage effect and pain relief. The insole includes a topfoil and bottomfoil which are welded together along their respective edge areas to form a fluid-tight bladder with a fore foot reservoir, flow control means and a rear foot reservoir.
US10136690B2
A fastener for a garment, particularly suited to use in a garment such as a brassiere, comprises a female part and a male part that interlock together. The female part is connected to a first garment piece and the male part is connected to a second garment piece. The fastener is an overlapping fastener of the type in which the male piece is engaged with the female piece by inserting a connector plate of a male part into an aperture of a female part at an angle and thereafter pivoting the male part relative the female part thereby snap-fitting the connector plate in place in the aperture. The male part has a recess formed therein surrounding the connector plate which provides added stability to the male part and significantly increases its tensile strength characteristic.
US10136686B2
A device adapted for handling slippery objects, such as peeled vegetables, is disclosed. The device can include a first finger cover; a second finger cover, in which each of the first and second finger covers includes an outer surface defining an inner volume having an open end; a strap coupling a first side of the first finger cover to a first side of the second finger cover; and a gripping surface formed on at least a portion of at least one of the first finger cover or the second finger cover.
US10136683B2
A three-wire wearable device provided by the present disclosure provides numerous functions, a diversity of uses and convenience by a specific design of a first buckle and detachable second buckles. When the second buckles are fastened to the first buckle, the first buckle mutually communicates with the second buckles by using different pulse signals or digital signals through the three-wire transmission, such that the first buckle can be integrated with function modules of all of the second buckles, such as a touch panel, a screen, a heat dissipation pad, and so forth.
US10136680B2
A shapewear or activewear garment that includes stays carried by the back fabric panel of the garment. In this regard, the stays act as anchors to keep the garment in place. Further, the stays provide tension that pulls the front fabric panel of the garment such that the front panel shapes and smoothes the wearer's midsection and or provides support and also provides resistance to shift when the garment is worn such that the garment does not ride up or down on the wearer.
US10136673B2
An electrically operated aerosol-generating system is provided, including a housing; an aerosol-forming substrate; at least one heating element configured to heat the aerosol-forming substrate and to generate an aerosol; a power supply configured to supply power to the at least one heating element; electric circuitry configured to control a supply of power from the power supply to the at least one heating element; a first switch provided on an external surface of the housing; and a mouthpiece including at least one second, touch sensitive, switch, the mouthpiece being deformable from a first configuration to a second configuration, wherein in the first configuration the at least one second switch is not exposed and in the second configuration the at least one second switch is exposed. The circuitry is configured to provide power to the at least one heating element when both the first switch and the second switch are activated.
US10136672B2
A personal vapor inhaling unit is disclosed. An electronic flameless vapor inhaler unit t may simulate a cigarette. A flow of electrical power may be coupled through solderless pressure contacts to activate a heating element. When the unit is activated, and the user provides suction, the liquid to be vaporized may be vaporized by an atomizer assembly. Vapors may then be aspirated by the user through an oral aspiration tube, where they may be inhaled.
US10136670B2
In accordance with the teachings of the disclosure, a process is disclosed for pitting drupes. In some embodiments of a pitting process, the pitting machine uses a pitting knife that has a longitudinal passageway that extends axially through the pitting knife. The pitting machine has a steam source that provides pressurized steam to the passageway of the pitting knife. Prior to pitting the drupe, the pressurized steam flows through the passageway and onto a portion of a drupe positioned within a carrier in the pitting machine. The heat and pressure of the steam between the drupe and the cutting end of the pitting knife can soften a localized portion of the drupe so that the pitting knife can cut through the flesh of the drupe and eject the pit out of the opposite side of the drupe.
US10136669B2
A nutritional composition is provided which has an effective prophylactic and/or improving effect for various symptoms of muscle mass decrease, decreased basal metabolism, low body temperature, suppression of obesity, suppression of visceral fat accumulation, hyperglycemia, hyperlipidemia and the like in elderly people. The nutritional composition can include n-3 fatty acid and one or more of free lysine, dipeptides containing lysine, and lysine salts, wherein the content of free lysine, dipeptides containing lysine, and/or lysine salts is 0.1 g-10.0 g per 100 kcal of the composition, and the content of the total amount of n-3 fatty acid is 0.17 g-5.00 g per 100 kcal of the composition.
US10136668B2
The present invention concerns an improved balance of the essential branched chain amino acids leucine, isoleucine and valine in infant formula.
US10136666B2
The present invention relates to flavor generation. In particular the invention relates to a process for the preparation of a flavor composition. The process comprises forming a deep eutectic solvent, preparing a reaction mixture comprising the deep eutectic solvent and flavor precursors, and heating the reaction mixture to form aroma compounds. The deep eutectic solvent is a liquid based on a combination of at least two compounds solid at 25° C. and comprises water and/or glycerol in an amount insufficient to dissolve all the compounds solid at 25° C. individually, or in an amount such that all the compounds solid at 25° C. are simultaneously saturated at 25° C. The flavor precursors may comprise the compounds solid at 25° C. on which the deep eutectic solvent is based. A further aspect of the invention is a food product comprising the flavor composition obtainable by the process of the invention.
US10136654B2
The invention relates to an apparatus, designed and configured for stunning live poultry animals which are intended for slaughter and are located in containers, by means of a gas mixture comprising a stunning gas, which apparatus comprises a stunning chamber having at least two stunning zones, an introduction station, arranged on the inlet side of the stunning chamber, for the or each container containing live poultry animals and a discharge station, arranged on the outlet side of the stunning chamber, for the or each container containing stunned poultry animals, at least one transport conveyor for transporting the or each container in the transport direction T through the stunning zones from the introduction station to the discharge station, as well as means for delivering the gas mixture into the stunning zones of the stunning chamber, which apparatus is characterized in that the means for delivering the gas mixture comprises at least one injection pipe which is designed and configured to be movable relative to the container for detachable connection to the or each container and for detachment therefrom, in such a manner that each container can be filled with the gas mixture when it is in the state of detachable connection to the or each injection pipe. The invention relates further to an arrangement comprising such an apparatus and at least one container, and to a corresponding method.
US10136653B2
The flavor and texture of a ground bran and germ component or fraction is improved by subjecting the ground bran and germ component to heating while conveying and mixing the ground bran and germ component in a conveying and mixing device. The heating may be conducted to heat the bran and germ component or fraction to a temperature of from about 285° F. to about 410° F. to volatilize volatile wheaty flavor components and moisture in the ground bran and germ component and to develop a buttery, nutty, caramelized flavor in the bran component. The wheaty flavor components and moisture are removed from the mixing and conveying device during the heat treatment. The use of substantial moisture reduction with high temperature heating at a low moisture content provides flavor development while reducing wheatiness, graininess, or rawness, and also achieves lipase inhibition and stabilization against rancidity from free-fatty acid production.
US10136645B2
The present application describes an antimicrobial composition comprising lauric arginate ethyl ester (LAE) and hydrogen peroxide and the use of this composition for disinfecting and sanitizing different types of surfaces such as food products, human skin or mucosa and hard surfaces as well as a method of stabilizing the composition by including a sequestering agent (citrate salt and/or phosphate salt).
US10136639B2
The present disclosure provides an antimicrobial composition including a polycationic amphiphile compound, and the method of making and the method of using such a compound or composition. The compound having the formula (I) or (II) R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R10, or R11 is H or a C1-12 alkyl unsubstituted or optionally substituted with a functional group such as —OH, —OR′, —NH2, —NHR′, —NR′2, —N—C(O)R′, —N—C(O)CR′═CR′, —SH, —SR′, —O—C(O)R′, —C(O)R′, —CF3, —OCF3, halogen, benzyl, o-vinylbenzyl, m-vinylbenzyl, p-vinylbenzyl, phenyl, allyl, and substituted allyl. R7, R8 or R9 is a C1-12 alkyl unsubstituted or optionally substituted with a functional group such as —OH, —OR′, —NH2, —NHR′, —NR′2, —SH, —SR′, —O—C(O)R′, —C(O)R′, —CF3, and —OCF3. R′ is H or a C1-4 alkyl. X or Y is a halogen, m and n are integers in the range from 1 to 25.
US10136637B2
Many active agents, such as insecticides, herbicides and fungicides are relatively insoluble in aqueous media. In order to apply them efficiently to crops it is thus necessary to formulate them in a manner that facilitates their dilution in the water based spray media used in practice, by the farmer or contract spray operator. The present invention relates to aqueous dispersions of active agents such as insecticides, herbicides and fungicides, in particular such dispersions in which the particles are of sub-micron diameter.
US10136632B2
A mobile vehicle having a burner assembly for movement over a ground surface and directing flame onto the ground surface to incinerate the materials on the ground surface and growing therefrom and including a water spray for reducing air pollution associated with the incineration.
US10136628B1
A fishing accessory in the form of a straight and rigid hollow tubular sheath for containing and storing a fully assembled umbrella fishing rig. The majority of the length of the sheath is straight and is provided with a first open tapered end and a second open flared end. A curved slit extends between the two ends and communicates with a hollow interior of the sheath. A user draws the fishing rig into the sheath by pulling the fishing line which is attached to the head of the umbrella rig through the slit from the flared end to the tapered end. Outwardly biased arms of the rig collapse as they are drawn into the sheath, and the hooks of the rig are stored extended over a flared lip at the flared end of the sheath. The outwardly biased arms hold the rig within the sheath.
US10136620B2
A filtration system for a fish tank includes an upper housing having an inner cavity. The filtration system also includes a lower housing slidingly coupled to the upper housing to permit changes in an overall length of the filtration system. The filtration system also includes a filter cartridge disposed at least partially within the inner cavity, and a pump disposed at least partially within the inner cavity that draws water into the inner cavity and through the plurality of filter cartridges.
US10136616B2
A livestock feed wagon includes a moving frame, a feed container which is fitted on the frame for accommodating animal feed, in particular provided with feed mixer, and a movable arm construction having an operable gripper fitted thereto for grabbing an amount of animal feed. The arm construction is configured in such a way that the arm construction can pivot the gripper only in one plane from a first position for grabbing animal feed next to the livestock feed wagon to a second position for releasing the animal feed above the feed container. This makes it possible to provide a very simple and compact construction.
US10136604B1
A novel maize variety designated PH42YN and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH42YN with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH42YN 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 PH42YN or a locus conversion of PH42YN with another maize variety.
US10136603B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01067535. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01067535. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01067535 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01067535 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10136599B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 15R535B2XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 15R535B2XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 15R535B2XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 15R535B2XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US10136592B2
Described herein are techniques for a hybrid distributed hydroculture system. A set of growing profiles is stored, wherein each growing profile defines a set of growing parameters for a type of plant. Data is received that is indicative of a growing profile being associated with a plant growing unit in communication with the computing device. A set of growing parameters is transmitted from the growing profile to the plant growing unit so that the plant growing unit can execute the growing parameters to grow a plant that is planted in the plant growing unit. Sensor data is received from the plant growing unit indicative of data from one or more sensors locally installed at the plant growing unit. The set of growing parameters is customized based on the sensor data from the plant growing unit to customize the parameters for the plant environment.
US10136588B2
Described is a reflective ground cover sheet material (1) in which longitudinally extending opposite side margins (A) of the sheet material are stronger than a longitudinally extending center section between the side margins of the material. Also described is a reflective ground cover sheet material (1) having longitudinally extending opposite side margins (A) of the sheet material of lower porosity than a longitudinally extending center section between the side margins of the material.
US10136574B2
A suspension system for a row cleaner used with an agricultural row unit. A base is connectable with the agricultural row unit and a support is provided for journaling row cleaner sweeper blades. Links pivotally connect the base and the support for up and down movement of the sweeper blades towards the ground. A pair of coil springs have one end connected to the upper links and the other a free end. A series of holes in the base receive an adjustment pin to provide preselected levels of downward force towards the ground.
US10136573B1
A seed meter comprising a housing including one or more air inlets for receiving pressurized air into the housing. The seed meter additionally includes a first metering disc and a second metering disc, each rotatably received in the housing. Each of the first and second metering discs comprises seed pockets for receiving seeds therein.
US10143120B2
A component mounter is provided with a nozzle shaft holder which includes a through-hole into which a nozzle shaft, a component suction nozzle being installed on the bottom end thereof, is inserted, and bearings which are disposed in two locations separated vertically on an inner circumferential surface of the through-hole and which guide the nozzle shaft in the vertical direction. In the bearings, two ring-shaped guide portions which surround an outer circumferential surface of the nozzle shaft are formed separated in a vertical direction, a grease holder, which has a larger inner diameter than the ring-shaped guide portions, is formed between the two ring-shaped guide portions, and a space surrounded by the outer circumferential surface of the nozzle shaft, the two ring-shaped guide portions, and the grease holder is filled with grease.
US10143118B2
In one exemplary embodiment, an arrangement for protecting electronics from interference radiation includes a housing and a circuit carrier for accommodating the electronics in an interior of the housing. The housing defines an opening for compensating the different pressures inside and outside the housing. The arrangement of the exemplary embodiment is also distinguished by a contact-making element of an electronic component of the electronics arranged between the opening and the circuit carrier in such a manner that the electronics are at least partially screened from interference radiation entering the housing through the opening.
US10143110B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a middle frame member including: a middle frame substrate body; a first metal layer, attached to a first area of the middle frame substrate body, where a coefficient of heat conductivity of the first metal layer is greater than a coefficient of heat conductivity of the middle frame substrate body, the first area includes all or a part of an outer surface of the middle frame substrate body, and the first metal layer is used to conduct, to the entire first metal and the middle frame substrate body, heat generated by at least one of the components that is in contact with or adjacent to the first metal layer; and a passivated insulation layer, attached to a surface of the first metal layer.
US10143105B1
A modular skid assembly is configured to transport a modular electrical component on a platform with removable stabilizing means. The modular skid assembly includes a plate having an upper surface configured to support the modular electrical component. A first side beam extends longitudinally along one side of the plate, and is secured to the plate. A second side beam extends longitudinally along an opposite side of the plate, and is secured to the plate. A plurality of joists extend laterally beneath the plate, extending between the first side beam and the second side beam. A first stabilizing means is configured to be releasably secured to the first side beam, and a second stabilizing means is configured to be releasably secured to the second side beam. The first and second stabilizing means are only required during hoisting, positioning, and transporting of the platform.
US10143097B2
A housing for an industrial sensor comprises integral U-shaped pockets configured to engage with attachment features of a complementary mounting bracket. The bracket comprises an overhang feature on a second end and a snap feature on an opposing first end. The housing can be mounted to the bracket by inserting a mounting boss formed within one of the U-shaped pockets underneath the overhang feature of the bracket, and pressing the housing against the bracket to cause the snap feature to engage with another mounting boss formed in the other U-shaped pocket. These mounting features allow the housing to be mounted easily and quickly without the use for additional tools. The housing can also be quickly removed from the bracket by pressing an extended tab near the snap feature to facilitate disengagement of the housing from the bracket.
US10143096B2
Provided is a rollable display device including a rotatable roller, a fixing portion surrounding the roller and including a first slit, a rotating portion surrounding the fixing portion and including a second slit, a gear assembly transferring torque of the roller to the rotating portion so that a rotation direction of the rotating portion is opposite to a rotation direction of the roller, and a flexible display panel. The gear assembly includes a plurality of gears installed in the roller, the fixing portion and the rotating portion. The flexible display panel includes a first area positioned between the roller and the fixing portion of which one end is fixed to the roller, a second area positioned to pass through the first slit, and a third area extended from the second area.
US10143089B2
A printing system for printing substrates, in particular printed circuit boards, includes a printing device having at least one printing table and a printing template assigned to the printing table. The printing system further includes a first pair of first slide elements and a second pair of second slide elements for aligning a substrate on the printing table. The first pair of first slide elements can be displaced counter to one another along a first axis. The second pair of second slide elements can be displaced counter to one another along a second axis, which differs from the first axis. A drive device is assigned to each pair for simultaneously displacing the slide elements thereof.
US10143088B2
The method for producing a wired circuit board including an insulating layer and a conductive pattern provided on the insulating layer includes the steps of the following: a step (1), in which the insulating layer is provided; a step (2), in which a metal thin film is provided on an inclined face of the insulating layer; a step (3), in which a photoresist is provided on the metal thin film; a step (4), in which a photomask is disposed so that in the photoresist, a portion where the conductive pattern is to be provided is shielded from light, and the photoresist is exposed to light through the photomask; a step (5), in which the portion of the photoresist shielded from light by the photomask is removed to expose the metal thin film corresponding to the portion; and a step (6), in which the conductive pattern is provided on the metal thin film exposed from the photoresist. When exposing the photoresist, reflection is caused by the metal thin film positioned on the inclined face to reduce light projected to the portion.
US10143087B2
A circuit module includes a first and second monolithic ceramic capacitors encapsulated by a mold resin layer on a wiring board. The first and second monolithic ceramic capacitors are lined up along a direction parallel or substantially parallel to the main surface of the wiring board and are electrically connected in series or in parallel through a conductive pattern provided on the wiring board. One of a pair of end surfaces of the first monolithic ceramic capacitor is opposed to one of the width-direction side surfaces as a pair of side surfaces of the second monolithic ceramic capacitor with the mold resin layer interposed.
US10143073B2
A control algorithm for operating a fluid disinfecting system by UV radiation, wherein the UV radiation is generated by at least one UV lamp including a pair of heating cathodes having a discharge voltage (UD), the UV lamp is operated by an electronic ballast unit equipped with the control algorithm for adjusting the UV power of the UV lamp by pulse-width-modulation to reduce UV power. The control algorithm decreases the current to a level (Ikmin), increases the voltage amplitude (U) above the discharge voltage (UD) until a desired UV power level is reached. The pulse width (PW) is decreased with increasing voltage amplitude (U) until PWmin is reached. The decrease in current and the increase in voltage generate an ineffective current-voltage-ratio in which excess current heats the cathode. An electronic ballast equipped with the algorithm and systems equipped with such ballasts are also disclosed.
US10143072B2
A multi-channel dual-mode digital control LED driving circuit and an LED lamp. The driving circuit comprises a current sampling module (10), a comparison and detection module (30), a digital control module (40) and a constant current control module (20). By means of feeding back an adjustment current for the load (70) by the digital control module (40), and feeding back and adjusting a current of the load (70) in real time by the constant current control module (20), the driving circuit adjusts the load (70) in real time, so that dual-mode cooperation working is realized, and thus a response speed is greatly improved, the accuracy of an output voltage and the current of the load (70) is improved, and at the same time, the system stability is enhanced and wide universality is achieved.
US10143057B2
A board-mounted parallel circuit structure with efficient power utilization includes a first substrate, a first constant voltage layer and a second constant voltage layer. The first and second constant voltage layers are connected to a power supply respectively through two power connection points. The first constant voltage layer has at least one insulating zone. Each insulating zone has a light-emitting unit formed therein. One electrode of the light-emitting unit is connected to the first constant voltage layer, and the other electrode thereof is connected to the second constant voltage layer through a conducting wire. When the power supply outputs a low voltage to the first constant voltage layer, resistance values everywhere on the first constant voltage layer are identical. Accordingly, given any distance between a light-emitting unit and a corresponding power connection point, lighting efficiency of the light-emitting unit is not affected and effective power utilization can be ensured.
US10143032B2
The present invention relates to a user device and a network node. Furthermore, the present invention also relates to corresponding methods, a computer program, and a computer program product. A Radio Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) is assigned to a User Device from a radio communication network, wherein the assigned RNTI is valid for a plurality of network nodes of the radio communication network and associated with a common data channel of the radio communication network.
US10143026B2
A communication device may receive a first signal including first identification information and attribute information from a target device via the wireless interface, determine which of a first type device or a second type device the target device is by using the attribute information, execute an authentication of the target device by using the first identification information in a case where it is determined that the target device is the first type device, and execute an authentication of the target device by using the second identification information in a case where it is determined that the target device is the second type device and a second signal including second identification information different from the first identification information is received via the wireless interface, the second signal is sent to the communication device from the second type device in accordance with a predetermined application software.
US10143024B2
When a plurality of managing apparatuses which manage communication parameters exists, there is a case where the wrong communication parameters are set into a communicating apparatus. When the communication parameters are set between the managing apparatus which manages the communication parameters and the communicating apparatus, if a plurality of managing apparatuses in a setting state of the communication parameters into the communicating apparatus is detected, the managing apparatus in the setting state is notified that the plurality of managing apparatuses in the setting state exists. Whether or not the setting of the communication parameters is continued is discriminated, thereby continuing or stopping the setting of the communication parameters.
US10143020B2
One embodiment relates to a method for establishing communication between at least one calling terminal and one called terminal, implemented by the calling terminal. The method comprises detecting the activation by the calling terminal of a request to establish a communication with the called terminal, obtaining a first piece of communication context information related to the calling terminal, and obtaining at least a second piece of communication context information related to the called terminal. The method also comprises determining a communication service to use in order to establish the requested communication with the called terminal, the determining being carried out from at least the first piece of communication context information and the second piece of communication context information, and sending, to the called terminal, a request for communication according to the determined communication service.
US10143018B2
In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes transmitting data over a first wireless connection with a first wireless access point; detecting, by the computing device, a wireless signal from a second wireless access point; accessing, for an account that is associated with a data service, information that identifies a portion of a budget for the account that has already been spent, wherein the budget identifies an amount of data that is available for transmission over a period of time in association with the account; determining whether the account currently has a budget deficit based on a comparison of i) the portion of the budget that has been spent and ii) a usage pattern; determining whether to switch to a second wireless connection with the second wireless access point; and establishing the second wireless connection as a result of the determining.
US10143009B2
The present invention proposes a mechanism to update/include the MAC Control information elements like PHR and BSR etc which are reported to ENB to schedule, maintain and operate the reporting UE. It also provides methods and means to handle Msg3 formation and reformation when RACH fails on one component carrier and is continued on another in Carrier Aggregation. New triggers for BSR and PHR reporting are provided in this scenario.
US10143006B2
An apparatus and method for improved power saving in a User Equipment (UE) supporting enhanced Inter-Cell Interference Coordination/Time-domain ICIC (eICIC/Time-domain ICIC) are provided. The power saving method includes receiving control information including a reference pattern for a power saving mode from a base station, determining whether the terminal is configured to operate in the power saving mode, and determining, when the terminal is configured to operate in the power saving mode, whether to decode a downlink control channel according to the reference pattern.
US10142989B2
Methods and apparatuses providing a visual metric of the efficiency of a network of devices communicating through a wireless access point (AP). These apparatuses and methods may also determine and display pseudo-dynamic error vector magnitude (EVM) information for a network of wireless stations, including displaying a pseudo-dynamic constellation diagrams using EVM information. These methods and apparatuses may transmit a plurality of sounding packets from each of one or more radio devices different modulation types (e.g., BPSK, QPSK, 16QAM, 64QAM, 256QAM and 1024QAM), and receiving at least some of the sounding packets at a second radio device (e.g., an access point) and determining EVM information from the received sounding packets, and displaying (or providing for display) a constellation diagram including pseudo-dynamic EVM information that is a constrained approximation of actual EVM information.
US10142978B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for controlling signal transmission and reception by a terminal in a situation in which simultaneous transmission and reception is restricted, and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: configuring a PCell and an SCell; and restricting signal transmission and reception on the SCell in an subframe when the PCell and the SCell have different transmission directions in the subframe, wherein the transmission direction of the SCell is defined according to first UL-DL information in an SIB when the SCell is not an eIMTA cell, and the transmission direction of the SCell is defined according to second UL-DL configuration information in a PDCCH when the SCell is the eIMTA cell.
US10142976B2
A cellular telecommunications system and method of scheduling a group of user equipments is provided. The system includes a macro cell with a macro base station and multiple associated low power nodes (LPN's). The macro base station and the LPN's share the same cell ID. The system and method provide for scheduling a group of UE's by grouping a plurality of the UE's together, assigning a group identifier to the group, notifying the group and encoding a control channel with the group identifier. A single control channel is delivered to each UE in the group of UE's. The UE's of the group of UE's may be processed by different LPN's. The transmitted control channel may be included in a DCI (downlink control information) and delivers uplink scheduling grants to the UE's. Based on the transmitted control channel, the UE's are scheduled for uplink transmission.
US10142970B2
It is provided a method, including detecting whether or not a terminal has completed a reconfiguration of a radio bearer based on a first reconfiguration message, wherein the first reconfiguration message provides a first configuration of a first radio bearer in a first cell; detecting whether or not a cell update message is received from the terminal, wherein the cell update message indicates that the terminal has performed a cell update from the first cell to a second cell different from the first cell; triggering, if the terminal has not completed the reconfiguration and the cell update message is received, providing a second reconfiguration message to the terminal, wherein the second reconfiguration message provides a second configuration of a second radio bearer in the second cell.
US10142966B2
[Object] To provide a wireless communication device and a wireless communication method capable of further reducing power consumption in a wireless node. [Solution] Provided is a wireless communication device including a wireless communication unit configured to transmit a signal to a base station through wireless communication, a positional information acquisition unit configured to acquire positional information indicating a position of the wireless communication device, and a control unit configured to determine an area to which the wireless communication device belongs based on the positional information acquired by the positional information acquisition unit and control the wireless communication unit to perform the transmission according to radio resources allocated to the area to which the wireless communication device belongs.
US10142965B2
In a method for providing application services to a user in a communications network, a first multi-path transport control protocol (MPTCP) flow is mapped to a first evolved packet system (EPS) bearer associated with a first serving base station for the user, and a second MPTCP flow is mapped to a second EPS bearer associated with a second serving base station for the user. The first MPTCP flow is output on the first EPS bearer for delivery to the user through the first serving base station, and the second MPTCP flow is output on the second EPS bearer for delivery to the user through the second serving base station. Each of the first and second MPTCP flows correspond to a same multipath transport control protocol MPTCP connection for an application.
US10142963B2
A first base station receives from a second base station, an eNB configuration update message comprising MBMS configuration parameter(s) employed by a first cell of the second base station. The MBMS configuration parameter(s) comprise: TMGI(s) of MBMS service(s); a first discontinuous reception inactivity timer; and a first scheduling period start offset. The first base station determines a second discontinuous reception inactivity timer and a second scheduling period start offset for the MBMS service(s) of the TMGI(s). The determination is based on the first discontinuous reception inactivity timer and the first scheduling period start offset. The first base station transmits to wireless device(s), the second discontinuous reception inactivity timer and the second scheduling period start offset. The first base station transmits to the wireless device(s), MBMS transport blocks for the MBMS service(s) based on the second discontinuous reception inactivity timer and the second scheduling period start offset.
US10142960B2
A first communication i) selects one or more respective preliminary identifiers (IDs) for one or more second communication devices, or ii) receives one or more respective preliminary IDs from one or more second communication devices, the one or more respective preliminary IDs having been respectively selected by the one or more second communication devices. The first communication device generates a trigger frame, the trigger frame indicating one or more first frequency resource and/or spatial stream allocations to one or more second communication devices using the one or more respective preliminary IDs. The first communication device transmits the trigger frame to initiate at least an uplink (UL) MU transmission by multiple second communication devices for a ranging procedure.
US10142956B2
A mobile communication device including a wireless transceiver and a controller is provided. The wireless transceiver performs wireless transmission and reception to and from a service network. The controller determines whether the service network is an Isolated E-UTRAN Operation for Public Safety (IOPS) network, and transmits a first ATTACH REQUEST message including an IOPS indicator to the service network via the wireless transceiver in response to the service network being an IOPS network. Also, the controller receives a first ATTACH ACCEPT message including encrypted mapping information from the service network via the wireless transceiver, and transmits a first ATTACH COMPLETE message to the service network via the wireless transceiver.
US10142955B2
A method for controlling device triggering in a mobile communication system includes registering a default urgent level of a terminal when the terminal is connected, receiving a device trigger register including urgent level information transmitted from an application server, and setting the received urgent level in a packet filter, and comparing, upon reception of a downlink data packet from the application server, a default urgent level and an urgent level of the application server to determine whether to transmit a downlink data notification. The method further includes receiving a device trigger register including wait time information transmitted from an application server, and then setting the received wait time in the packet filter, and buffering during the wait time upon reception of the downlink data packet from the application server, and then determining a downlink data notification transmission upon expiration of the wait time.
US10142952B2
A wireless device receives at least one control message comprising configuration parameters of a plurality of cells comprising two or more unlicensed cells comprising a first unlicensed cell and a second unlicensed cell. The wireless device synchronizes a reception timing of the first unlicensed cell employing at least a second received signal of the second unlicensed cell.
US10142938B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and/or computer program product controls downloading of an application to a mobile device based on power consumption of the application. A server identifies a first power consumption level requirement of a first application and a second power consumption level requirement of a second application, a first priority rating of the first application and a second priority rating of the second application, a power descriptor that identifies an amount of power available to a mobile device, and a set of application downloading rules. The set of application downloading rules includes a soft rule, a hard rule, and a medium rule. The server then selectively uploads, to the mobile device, the first application or the second application based on a selected rule.
US10142933B2
Methods for performing communication by a user equipment (UE) and a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system, a UE, and a BS are provided. The method for performing communication by the UE includes identifying a starting orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol for a downlink (DL) channel in a subframe based on higher layer signaling; identifying a bandwidth of the DL channel based on a modulo operation using a cell identity and a predetermined number; and receiving the DL channel in the subframe based on the starting OFDM symbol and the bandwidth.
US10142927B2
An example method of transmitting data to a destination node in a wireless communications network includes detecting, at a wireless device, a plurality of mesh nodes connected to a common communications medium used to access a wireless communications network. The method also includes calculating a score for the mesh nodes of the plurality of mesh nodes, where the score is based on a hop distance between the respective mesh node and a root access point connected to the wireless communications network, the quality of signal between the wireless device and the respective mesh node, the data bandwidth between the wireless device and the respective mesh node, and/or the current number of mesh nodes using the respective mesh node as a wireless access point to connect to the wireless communications network. The wireless device selects a mesh node to connect to as a mesh access point based on the calculated scores.
US10142924B2
In one embodiment, a method for generating a recommended change to a communication behavior of a first user of a network includes identifying a communication pattern in accordance with data extracted from communications collected in the network, wherein the data is associated with at least one of the first user and an endpoint other than the first user, and generating the recommended change based on the communication pattern, where the recommended change is to the communication behavior of the first user.
US10142916B2
A network node (600), a wireless device (602) and methods therein, for enabling access to a radio network. System signatures are associated with corresponding system information configurations that can be used for accessing the radio network in a first area. The system signatures are reused in a second area as associated with system information configurations which are different than in the first area. The network node (600) indicates (6:3) that at least one system information configuration stored in the wireless device (602) is invalid and should not be used. The wireless device (602) then makes (6:4) the at least one invalid system information configuration unusable in the wireless device, e.g. by deleting it from the wireless device (602). Thereby, the risk of using an incorrect system information configuration based on a reused system signature can be reduced or eliminated.
US10142899B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). An apparatus and method for managing a connection point with a data network in a wireless communication system is provided. A method of a terminal in a wireless communication system includes: receiving, from a network entity, a request for a relocation of an anchor gateway for connecting with a data network; and transmitting a message requesting the relocation of the anchor gateway to the network entity at a time which is determined based on a rule instructed by the request.
US10142892B2
A base station includes a controller configured to perform connection reestablishment processing on a specific mobile station in response to reception of a connection reestablishment request signal from the specific mobile station from which a radio link failure with another base station has been detected. The controller performs processing of changing a value of a predetermined timer configured to a subordinate mobile station of the base station or the another base station based on information related to a situation of the connection reestablishment processing. The predetermined timer is a timer configured to define a maximum waiting time from transmission of the connection reestablishment request signal to reception of a connection reestablishment response signal in the mobile station.
US10142890B2
A method and system for minimizing delay in circuit-switched fallback (CSFB) procedure is disclosed. The disclosed method provides two different approaches for optimizing the delay during the CSFB procedure. In the first approach, user equipment (UE) receives a Location Area Identifier (LAI along with the Radio Access Technology (RAT) information from the network (LTE network). The UE uses the received RAT information from the network for switching to the target Radio Access Network (RAN) without informing to the LTE network. In another approach, the UE obtains the RAT information by performing a background scan in idle mode, when the UE receives LAI without RAT information from the network.
US10142889B2
The present application provides a channel type used to support user QoE expectations, which is, in particular, a QoS and QoE guaranteed channel (QQGC). Also provided is a related method and system for providing a QQGC. Effective bit rate (EBR), average bit rate, and maximum bit rate, are determined and used to support the channel. The EBR can be determined based on QoE reports. An application function, such as a network data analytics function provides the indication of effective bit rate. One or more portions of the application function can be provided in potentially different locations of a communications network and operatively coupled. Alternatively, application function portions can be co-located. The EBR is provided to and used by devices in the network to reserve user plane resources to support data flows at the EBR. The EBR can also be used for admission or rejection of requests for a QQGC channel.
US10142888B2
A method and apparatus for enabling near real time analysis of data for a wireless communication network using dynamic allocation backend processing resources. The method comprises, at each of a plurality of distributed components of a data processing system, receiving data from at least one network element of the cellular communication network, parsing the received data to extract a subset of the received data, and forwarding the extracted subset of data to the dynamic allocation backend processing resources for analytical processing of the extracted subset of data for the wireless communication network.
US10142887B2
A scalable virtualized network core is provided to allow for incrementally adjusting network resources in response to changing demand, and for improved flexibility in network management and control. The scalable virtualized network core provides a cloud evolved packet core that has virtual machines performing the functions of the individual server elements. As demand for network resources changes, additional virtual machines can be brought online or virtual machines can be terminated to efficiently address the demand. An abstraction agent can be provided to facilitate the physical to logical connections so that to the perspective of elements in a radio access network, no changes have been made. The abstraction agent also facilitates network control and management of the virtual machines.
US10142884B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The method for achieving very high data rates in wireless communication systems is provided. The method comprises receiving protocol data units (PDUs) by receiving units, providing the received PDUs to processing units, processing the received PDUs by the processing units for extracting service data units (SDUs), providing the extracted SDUs to a sorting unit, processing the received SDUs by the sorting unit to derive one or more lists of sequentially contiguous SDUs, providing the derived lists of sequentially contiguous SDUs to a window processing unit, and processing the derived list of sequentially contiguous SDUs by the window processing unit for sending the in-sequence SDUs to a delivery unit.
US10142880B2
A method and apparatus for configuring a proximity-based services (ProSe) scheduling request (SR) prohibit timer in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives an indication of the ProSe SR prohibit timer from a network, and configures the ProSe SR prohibit timer according to the indication. Upon configuring the ProSe SR prohibit timer, the UE may start or stop the configured ProSe SR prohibit timer for a triggered ProSe BSR which may only correspond to a Regular ProSe BSR. If the ProSe BSR has been triggered and the ProSe SR prohibit timer is not running, the UE may trigger a SR.
US10142879B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting cell load information in a wireless communication system is provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a master eNodeB (eNB) distributes UMTS terrestrial radio access network (UTRAN) cell load response to slave eNBs. According to another embodiment of the present invention, the master eNB aggregates evolved UTRAN (E-UTRAN) cell load response of slave eNBs to a radio network controller (RNC).
US10142876B2
A network node (e.g., base station, eNodeB) is described herein which indicates an implicit reject status in at least one of a frequency correction channel (FCCH) block or a synchronization channel (SCH) block, and transmits the at least one of the FCCH block or the SCH block to at least one wireless device. Further, a wireless device is described herein which receives the at least one of the FCCH block or the SCH block, determines if the received at least one of the FCCH block or the SCH block indicates an implicit reject status is set, and when the received at least one of the FCCH block or the SCH block indicates the implicit reject status is set and when the wireless device has a specific configuration, determines not to attempt to access the wireless communication system.
US10142870B2
A load on a wireless communication system is measured without monitoring communication in a network by acquiring a serving cell RSRP indicating a reception strength of a reference signal received from one cell of an LTE system, an RSRQ indicating a reception quality of the reference signal, and a non-serving cell RSRP indicating a reception strength of a reference signal received from another cell other than the one cell, that are measured within the one cell, and deriving, based on the serving cell RSRP, the RSRQ and the non-serving cell RSRP, an estimate value of at least any of a PRB utilization ratio in the one cell and a PRB average utilization ratio in the one cell and the other cell.
US10142869B2
A method and wireless communication device for estimating wireless signal strength value of a wireless signal transmission for an unpopulated cell in an array corresponding to a geographic area. The method includes populating at least one cell along a route within the array with a corresponding received wireless signal strength value, selecting a number of populated cells within a predetermined distance of the unpopulated cell, identifying one of the number of populated cells within a predetermined distance of the unpopulated cell, determining a maximum wireless signal strength value from among the received wireless signal strength values, estimating a first wireless signal strength value for the unpopulated cell based at least on a wireless strength value for the identified one of the number of populated cells and the maximum wireless signal strength value, and storing the first estimated wireless signal strength value.
US10142868B2
A Core Service Platform (CSP) system is integrated with an operator network and IT system to provide services to subscribers and operators. Based on information collected from the operator network and IT system, the CSP system delivers alerts to a subscriber's device and provides offers to resolve the condition causing the alerts. The CSP system provides customized contextual offers to the subscriber's device based on contextual assessments of a subscriber's current context, such as time in contract, loyalty status, data and voice usage, value of customer, time, location and purchase history. The CSP system also provides an operator a suite of tools for the operator to manage its pricing, offers, campaigns and other subscriber-related issues.
US10142866B2
In a case where testing of uplink carrier aggregation that is a frequency arrangement in which a primary component carrier and a secondary component carrier are contiguous is performed, a control unit 15 causes a call processing unit 12 to configure a transmission signal of a mobile terminal 2 in such a manner that the transmission signal satisfies a prescribed condition for user data transmission, and causes a wireless signal measurement unit 13 to detect a local oscillation frequency from a band that includes a frequency band in which a primary component carrier and a secondary component carrier are contiguous, using a reception signal that satisfies the prescribed condition for user data transmission.
US10142855B2
A user terminal for transmitting data to a plurality of access points comprises a pre-processor to pre-process at least one source data stream and a multi-beam antenna. The pre-processor comprises a segmenting device to segment the at least one source data stream into a set of N data sub streams, N being an integer greater than 1; a K-muxing unit to perform a N-to-N K-muxing transform on the N data substreams to generate N K-muxed data streams, each of the N K-muxed data streams being a linear combination of the N data substreams; and a bank of modulators to modulate the N K-muxed data streams to generate N K-muxed signal streams. The multi-beam antenna comprises beam forming networks to transform the N K-muxed signal streams into transmit beams, and an array of antenna elements to transmit the transmit beams to the access points.
US10142853B2
Certain features relate to systems and methods for planning and optimizing a distributed antenna system (“DAS”) based on measurements taken from the radio environment surrounding the DAS. An operation and management system can determine a mapping of external cells based on measurements of downlink signals taken by a measurement subsystem. The operation and management system can determine a mapping of internal cells as well as a neighboring cell relation table. The DAS element management system or network operator can configure the DAS based on the mapping of external cells, mapping of internal cells, and the cell relation table. Additionally, based on neighboring cell signal power measurements taken by user devices, the a common interface between the DAS and the radio access network can determine a radio environment map estimating positions of the user devices connected to the DAS.
US10142845B2
The present disclosure discloses a network connection method performed by a mobile terminal. The mobile terminal acquires a graphic code on a user-specified intelligent device after receiving a graphic code recognition instruction. The mobile terminal then displays a network connection interface based on the acquired graphic code for configuring a target wireless access point identifier and a target wireless access point password. After receiving a configuration completion instruction through the network connection interface, the mobile terminal sends a user-specified intelligent device identifier, a user-specified target wireless access point identifier, and a user-specified target wireless access point password to a server, so that the user-specified intelligent device can establish a network connection to a target wireless access point. In the present disclosure, the network connection to the target wireless access point is established without the user-specified intelligent device entering a monitoring mode, thereby improving the efficiency of the network connection.
US10142837B2
Mobile device and server for task assignments based on proximity and iris image based identification
Mobile device for communicating arrival information at a waypoint, communicating that information to a server, receiving a set of tasks (statically assigned or dynamically assigned) for the user (for example, from the server or from another user), displaying the set of tasks to the user, receiving a completion response (successful or unsuccessful) from the user, and proceeding to the next waypoint along a route/trip plan. A coordination server facilitates communication of a list of tasks assigned to a user to be performed at a specified location. Using the user's iris image for authenticating the user of a mobile device makes mobile task assignment, and other mobile activities more secure.
US10142833B2
Methods, apparatus and systems are described for identifying potentially counterfeited products or goods.
US10142825B2
A communication apparatus includes a first wireless communication unit, a second wireless communication unit, and a control unit, wherein the control unit performs control to execute processing for sharing a communication parameter with an external apparatus via the second wireless communication unit before a request for connecting via the first wireless communication unit becomes able to be communicated with the external apparatus via the second wireless communication unit, where the communication parameter is used in connecting to the external apparatus via the first wireless communication unit.
US10142822B1
Devices, systems, and method are provided for wireless coded communication (WCC) devices, which are configured for wireless communication with other devices, e.g., over a network. A WCC device is a type of internet of things (JOT) device that can sense data, process data, send data, respond to data requests and exchange data with other WCC device, a network device, a user device, and/or systems over the internet. In some configurations, a WCC device may include a power source that enables usage of low power, e.g., to send data that is sensed, request data and/or communicate data wirelessly. WCC devices maybe function as standalone devices or may be integrated into other devices. In some configurations, a WCC device may include power harvesting circuitry, including power harvesting user controls. A WCC device may be pre-configured or coded to report occurrence of an event, log an event, log state, cause an action, send a message or request data from one or more end nodes. In some configurations, the devices enable communication over a wireless network, which enables access to the Internet and further enables cloud processing on data received or processing for data returned or communicated.
US10142821B2
Techniques of this disclosure include modulating messages by shifting the timing of periodic beacon frames already mandatory for certain wireless protocols without incurring extra traffic. Such a band-free design allows continuous broadcast from a first computing device to reach a second computing device operating on a different wireless protocol than the first wireless protocol. Further techniques of this disclosure enable concurrent broadcasts from multiple computing devices or boost the transmission rate of a computing device.
US10142818B2
Apparatus and methods to reuse wireless circuitry to communicate with multiple wireless networks to support multiple subscriber identities in a wireless communication device are disclosed. A representative method includes receiving signaling messages for a second subscriber identity from a second wireless network while connected to a first wireless network for a first subscriber identity. A portion of radio frequency wireless circuitry is reconfigured to communicate with the second wireless network to establish a signaling channel and respond to signaling messages received from the second wireless network. The portion of radio frequency wireless circuitry is reconfigured between the first and second wireless networks to maintain a connection with the first wireless network while also receiving from the second wireless network limited information that can be provided to a user. Representative information includes an indication of an originator of a mobile terminated connection request and short message service data.
US10142815B2
A mobile station apparatus, in a case where a radio link failure is detected upon a connection for an emergency call, performs a cell selection initiated by the mobile station apparatus, to reestablish the connection and selects a cell as an appropriate cell by the cell selection, whereby the cell is not permitted to access from unsubscribed users and is not included in a list of cells that subscribers are allowed to access.
US10142813B2
A system comprising: a local area network (LAN) device configured to produce a local area network (LAN) signal; and a modem unit configured to produce, based on the local area network (LAN) signal produced by the local area network (LAN) device, a transport modulated format signal suitable for transmission over transport cabling. The modem unit further configured to provide power to the local area network (LAN) device.
US10142801B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a transceiver circuit employing shared digital signal processing circuitry for communicating radio frequency (RF) analog communications signals received by a remote unit in a wireless distribution system (WDS). A transceiver circuit includes downlink digital signal processing circuitry that receives and processes a downlink digital communications signal(s) having a first downlink digital baseband signal and a second downlink digital baseband signal. A first downlink analog signal path and a second downlink analog signal path share the downlink digital signal processing circuitry. The first downlink analog signal path generates a first downlink analog RF communications signal. The second downlink analog signal path generates a second downlink analog RF communications signal. By sharing the downlink digital signal processing circuitry, it is not necessary to add additional downlink digital signal processing circuitry, thus helping reduce digital component costs of the transceiver circuit.
US10142800B2
A method and apparatus for requesting a unicast bearer setup in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a unicast request indication, which indicates that a target cell does not provide a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) service in which the UE is interested to the UE, from a network. Upon receiving the unicast request indication, the UE transmits a unicast bearer setup request to the network.
US10142797B2
System and methods of deploying location tracking tags are provided. A device receives: identifiers of a plurality of tags fixed at locations in a physical space, each of the plurality of tags configured to broadcast: a respective identifier; and identifiers of respective neighboring tags of each of the plurality of tags. The device further receives respective locations of a subset of the plurality of tags. The device determines remaining respective locations of the plurality of tags not in the subset from: the respective locations of the plurality of tags in the subset and the identifiers of respective neighboring tags of each of the plurality of tags. The device can populate a memory and/or a database with the remaining respective locations of the plurality of tags not in the subset for use by a location tracking server.
US10142794B1
A cognitive security service learns regular locations and usage of one or more mobile devices for a user at multiple times based on aggregated location and usage information reported by the one or more mobile devices via a network. The cognitive security service forecasts one or more selected locations and selected usage by the user with a highest probability of predictability at one or more future sequential times from among the regular locations and usage. The cognitive security service, responsive to detecting a current location of the one or more mobile devices for the user deviates from the one or more selected locations and selected usage beyond a threshold, triggers, via the network, one or more secondary levels of authentication at the one or more mobile devices, wherein the one or more secondary levels of authentication prevent data breaches on the one or more mobile devices through real-time, location aware data security.
US10142791B2
A method for detecting a context of a mobile device (100) equipped with sensors (111, 121, 122, 131) and a context detection module (109) in which the sensors (111, 121, 122, 131) are assigned to at least two groups (110, 120, 30), each of which comprises at least one sensor (111, 121, 122, 131), and each group (110, 120, 130) is allocated a group classifier (116, 126, 136) 10 adapted to detect, in a form of a classification result, currently identified, by means of a given classifier, context of the device (100) based on indications of the sensors (111, 121, 122, 131) belonging to the given group, characterized in that with a use of the context detection module, whereas the groups (110, 102, 130) of sensors are ordered hierarchically, and the device context is detected 1 by reading a classification result indicated by the classifier (116, 126, 136) of the currently active group, wherein in case of detection of an identified context in the active group, switching on power supply of the sensors and activating classification in a group (110, 120, 130) with a level higher by one level and reading the context indicated by said group's classifier, wherein based on the 20 results of the classification indicated by the higher groups' classifiers (116, 26, 136), executing adaptation of the configuration of lower groups' classifiers (116, 126, 136).
US10142786B2
A system and method for multi-beacon management including: determining occurrence of a trigger event; determining a beacon to be acted upon; determining the settings to be assigned; assigning the settings to the beacon; and operating the beacon according to the settings.
US10142780B2
A mobile wireless terminal includes a receiver and a controller. The receiver receives communication information including transmission information and destination position information which shows a position of a destination from a base station. The controller is configured to perform control to delay increasingly notification starting time at which the transmission information is started to be provided as a distance between the position indicated by the destination position information received by the receiver and a position of a local station is longer.
US10142774B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for invitational content geofencing. A system first sends, to a server location data associated with the system, the location data being calculated at the system. The system then receives a listing of places of interest within a geofence including a geographical perimeter for identifying places of interest in the listing, the geofence being based on the location data associated with the system. Next, the system selects a place of interest from the listing based on a location of the system. The system then presents a content item associated with the place of interest.
US10142773B2
A system, method, and apparatus for detecting the start of a walk event. The method comprises identifying the location of a wearable device; determining if the wearable device has exited a geo-fence zone; confirming that a wearable device is in a walk mode if it is determined that the wearable device has exited a geo-fence zone and that the wearable device is not connected to a wireless network; enabling a GPS receiver; continuously recording the location of the wearable device received from the GPS receiver while the wearable device is in a walk mode; and transmitting the recorded location of the wearable device while the wearable device is in a walk mode.
US10142764B2
A method of providing an overlay display control performed on an electronic device, the method including: displaying a progress screen of a main service associated with an application through a first virtual layer under control of the application executed on the electronic device; displaying a user interface on a preset area of the first virtual layer, the user interface configured to receive a selection signal on a control function associated with the main service; displaying a second virtual layer for providing an additional service associated with the main service overlapping the first virtual layer in response to a progress of the main service meeting a preset condition; and processing a progress of the additional service, including: hooking a selection signal input on a partial area of the second virtual layer; and calling a control function corresponding to the partial area of the second virtual layer.
US10142762B1
Methods and apparatuses for addressing open space noise are disclosed. In one example, a method for masking open space noise includes receiving a microphone output signal from a microphone, the microphone one of a plurality of microphones in an open space. The method includes detecting a presence of a noise source from the microphone output signal, and determining whether the noise source is capable of being masked with a noise masking sound. The method further includes increasing a volume of a noise masking sound output from a loudspeaker responsive to a determination that the noise source is capable of being masked, the loudspeaker located in a same geographic sub-unit of the open space as the microphone. The loudspeaker is one of a plurality of loudspeakers in the open space.
US10142755B2
Techniques of rendering audio involve applying a balanced-realization state space model to each head-related transfer function (HRTF) to reduce the order of an effective FIR or even an infinite impulse response (IIR) filter. Along these lines, each HRTF G(z) is derived from a head-related impulse response filter (HRIR) via, e.g., a z-transform. The data of the HRIR may be used to construct a first state space representation [A, B, C, D] of the HRTF via the relation G(z)=C(zI−A)−1B+D This first state space representation is not unique and so for an FIR filter, A and B may be set to simple, binary-valued arrays, while C and D contain the HRIR data. This representation leads to a simple form of a Gramian Q whose eigenvectors provide system states that maximize the system gain as measured by a Hankel norm.
US10142748B2
An at least partially acoustically sealing element for retaining an in-the-ear device within an ear canal is characterized in that the element comprises at least one textile layer and that it is manufactured by means of thermoforming.
US10142744B2
A method operates a hearing device. The hearing device contains two acceleration sensors, which each provide a sensor signal and by which an orientation of the head of the user is established. The sensor signals of both acceleration sensors are used in combination for establishing the orientation, and an operating parameter of the hearing device is set depending on the orientation.
US10142735B2
A dual mode headphone has a band positioning the dual mode headphone on one of a head or neck of a user. A pair of first housings is provided wherein one of the first housings is formed on each end of the band. A dual mode headphone circuit is provided and has a dual-output acoustic transducer module positioned in each of the pair of first housings. The dual-output acoustic transducer module allowing for both air conduction and bone conduction of sound waves.
US10142730B1
Noise sources may be identified as either an interference source, such as a television, or a talker source by analyzing phase information of the microphone signals. A phase delay variance may be computed from pairs of microphone signals. A profile of an interference source may be learned over time by updating a stored profile when the phase delay variance is below a threshold. The stored profile may be used to identify interference sources received by the microphones by determining a correlation between the microphone signals and the stored profile. When an interference source is detected, control parameters may be generated to control a beamformer to reduce contribution of the interference source to an output audio signal. The output audio signal may be used for speech processing, such as in a smart home device.
US10142728B2
A contactless, electromagnetic (EM) replacement for cabled Standards-based interfaces (such as USB, I2S) which handles data transfer requirements associated with the Standard, and capable of measuring and replicating relevant physical conditions on data lines so as to function compatibly and transparently with the Standard. A contactless link between devices having transceivers. A non-conducting housing enclosing the devices. A dielectric coupler facilitating communication between communications chips. Conductive paths or an inductive link providing power between devices. An audio adapter communicates over a contactless link with a source device, and via a physical link with a destination device such as a conventional headset. Power may be provided to the adapter from the source device, and by the adapter to the destination device.
US10142727B2
A directivity control apparatus is provided which controls a directivity of a sound collected by a first sound collector including a plurality of microphones. The directivity control apparatus forms a directivity of the sound in a direction toward a position of a monitoring target in an image displayed on a display. Information on the position of the monitoring target in the image displayed on the display is obtained. The directivity of the sound is changed toward the position of the monitoring target in accordance with a movement of the monitoring target by referring to the obtained information on the position of the monitoring target.
US10142720B1
An earphone includes a housing enclosing an acoustic transducer and having a front volume. The housing includes a nozzle that extends the front volume to at least an entrance of a wearer's ear canal, and a groove in an outer surface of the housing, extending at least along a length of the nozzle. A flexible ear tip is configured to attach to the housing. When the flexible ear tip attaches to the housing, the groove and a portion of an inner surface of the ear tip together form a port that acoustically couples the front volume with an environment external to the earphone.
US10142719B2
A microphone includes a head case and an arm that supports the head case. The head case includes a microphone unit and a light emitter. A proximal end portion of the arm includes a light emitter circuit that turns on the light emitter on the basis of potential information of a specific terminal. One end of the light emitter is connected to the light emitter circuit through a wire that passes through an inside of the arm. The other end of the light emitter is connected to the microphone unit in the head case. The light emitter circuit includes a switching element that switches on and off of light emitter. The specific terminal is connected to a control signal input side of the switching element.
US10142715B2
A small speaker for panel mounting in a hole as small as seventy five millimeters diameter in which access to the rear of the panel is not required. The small speaker uses spring-loaded flip dogs that are actuated by rotating a sound disperser that is connected to a hollow cylindrical mechanism having gear teeth on its external surface which engage flip dog gears on the top surfaces of the flip dogs. Internally, the hollow cylindrical mechanism has an indentation that supports a speaker baffle which, in turn supports a speaker bushing. A loudspeaker is attached to the speaker bushing near the speaker baffle. Two housing sections attach, spaced apart, to an annular frame on opposing sides and receive the hollow cylindrical mechanism rotationally therein. The flip dogs operate in the spaces between the housing sections. Methods of mounting and dismounting are described.
US10142710B2
A method and system for providing a second line service (“SLS”) feature to a subscriber using a telecommunications device (“TD”) which includes receiving at a switch on the network of the subscriber's primary service provider a communication made up of a trigger and a directory number. When the communication is received at the primary service provider's switch, the switch parses the communication and detects the trigger. Once the switch has received the communication, the switch additionally transmits a query message to a SLS platform that manages the SLS feature. As a result of the switch's query message transmission, the switch receives a reply to the query message from the SLS platform. Based at least in part on the reply to the query message, the switch can route the communication such that the switch connects one or multiple voice channel circuit between the subscriber's TD and the terminating TD.
US10142706B2
Provided is a method for transmitting a broadcast signal. The method includes generating a plurality of input packets including broadcast data, generating at least one link layer packet using the input packets, wherein a header of the link layer packet includes packet type information and packet configuration information, the packet type information indicates a type of an input packet included in a payload of the link layer packet, and the packet configuration information indicates a payload configuration of the link layer packet, generating a broadcast signal using the link layer packet, and transmitting the broadcast signal.
US10142701B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a controller configured to obtain information associated with media content, to generate a first group of tones representative of the information associated with the media content, and to generate a media stream comprising the media content and the first group of tones; and a communication interface configured to transmit the media stream to a media device whereby the media device presents the media content and a sequence of tones, where the sequence of tones is generated based at least in part on the first group of tones, where the first group of tones comprises high frequency tones and low frequency tones, and where one of the high and low frequency tones represents a binary one and the other of the high and low frequency tones represents a binary zero. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10142689B2
A delay is suppressed that occurs in a period of time from the actual inputting of operation information into a terminal by a user to the forming of image information corresponding to this operation information in a server and the displaying of this image information on the terminal. Provided is a server having: operation information acquisition means configured to sequentially acquire each piece of operation information sequentially transmitted from a terminal through a network; execution means configured to execute an application by executing processing corresponding to the each piece of operation information in accordance with a timing with which the operation information acquisition means acquired the each piece of operation information; execution control means configured, if a first predetermined interval has passed from a moment when the execution means started processing corresponding to first operation information of the each piece of operation information without acquiring second operation information acquired after the first input information, to make the execution means execute processing in accordance with the first input information again; and transmission means configured to transmit image information based on the execution of the application by the execution block to the terminal.
US10142680B2
A client device accesses a video input stream from an intermediate device for display. The client device analyzes the video input stream to determine that the video input stream matches a template indicating a change of speed. In some example embodiments, the analysis is performed while the client device is generating a video output stream that replaces video content received from a content source via the intermediate device. Based on the video input stream matching the template, the client device modifies the video output stream to show the change of speed. For example, commercials transmitted from a national content provider to a smart TV via a set-top box may be replaced with targeted commercials. During the replacement, fast-forwarding of the commercial may be detected by matching a template with the video input stream. While the video input stream is being fast-forwarded, the smart TV fast-forwards the targeted commercial.
US10142674B2
Systems and methods for automatically recording media assets not explicitly scheduled for recording by a user when the user leaves his or her home. For example, when the user leaves home, a media guidance application, being executed on a user equipment device (such as a set-top box), schedules to record media assets that the user has expressed interest in, but has not explicitly scheduled for recording. If the user returns home before a recording has begun, the media guidance application does not record the media assets the user has not explicitly scheduled for recording.
US10142672B2
There is provided a receiver device including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first distribution circuit, a second distribution circuit, a first high-frequency processing unit, and a second high-frequency processing unit.
US10142662B2
A system and method for providing awareness in a hospitality environment are presented. In one embodiment, a vertical and horizontal array of set-top boxes is provided and each set-top box includes an identification corresponding to the room in which the set-top box is placed. Each set-top box includes a wireless transceiver that periodically transmits an identification beacon that is received by a proximate wireless-enabled interactive device. The proximate wireless-enabled interactive device, in turn, broadcasts data packets including an indication of the strength of set-top box identification signals received. The broadcasts are received by a server via an array of wireless routers. The location of the proximate wireless-enabled interactive device is determined based on the signal strength information in the data packets.
US10142659B2
Blocking artifacts at a block boundary between a block and a neighboring block in a video frame are reduced by calculating an offset based on pixel values of pixels in a line of pixels in the block and based on pixel values of pixels in a corresponding line of pixels in the neighboring block. The offset is added to the pixel value of the pixel closest to the block boundary in the line of pixels and is subtracted from the pixel value of the pixel closest to the block boundary in the corresponding line of pixels. The resulting deblocking filter has good low-pass characteristics and is efficient for reducing blocking artifact.
US10142657B2
Disclosed are a transform method based on block information and an apparatus using the method. An image-decoding method comprises: a step of taking information on a block as an input; and a transform method determination step of determining an inverse transform method for the block on the basis of whether or not the prediction mode of the block is an intra-prediction mode, whether or not the size of the block satisfies a predetermined condition, and whether or not the block is a block for a luminance sample. Accordingly, encoding efficiency can be improved by using an appropriate transform method on the basis of the information on a prediction block and an intra-prediction mode.
US10142654B2
A video encoding method is provided in the invention. In such method, after a current encoding frame among a sequence of input frames is received, each coding unit in the current encoding frame may be optionally split into two oblong prediction units, and each of the prediction units may be optionally split into a plurality of sub-blocks so as to thereby improve the matching accuracy for a matching reference block from a reference frame. A video decoding method corresponding to the aforesaid video encoding method is also provided.
US10142649B2
Initial value is selected when motion estimation is performed using predicted motion vector in video codec in which multiple references are allowed, and coding amount of motion vectors is reduced using predicted motion vector. Motion vector encoding apparatus includes predicted motion vector generator that generates adjacent motion vectors of current block with respect to each of reference pictures and generates each predicted motion vector of the current block from the generated adjacent motion vectors, motion estimator that determines final motion vector of the current block and final reference picture corresponding to the final motion vector with regard to search regions of the reference pictures, differential unit that obtains difference between the final motion vector of the current block and final predicted motion vector corresponding to the determined final reference picture among the predicted motion vectors, and unit for encoding information about the final reference picture and the difference.
US10142648B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for interlayer prediction, and the method for interlayer prediction, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: deciding whether to apply an interlayer prediction to an enhancement layer; and performing a prediction on a current block of the enhancement layer based on reference information that is generalized and generated from a reference picture, which is decoded, of a reference layer, when the interlayer prediction is applied, wherein the reference layer information can be encoding information of a reference block, which corresponds to a current block of the enhancement layer, from the reference layer, and residual information.
US10142645B2
A method of video operations includes generating derivative byproducts related to encoded video captured of a scene, initializing a first operation based on the encoded video, and initializing a second operation different from the first operation based on the derivative byproducts.
US10142636B2
A communication system and the method of operation thereof includes: a block size unit for receiving an input digital data stream; a progressive-Golomb encoder, coupled to the block size unit, for encoding a progressive-Golomb codeword from the input digital data stream; and a transmitter unit, coupled to the progressive-Golomb encoder for transferring the progressive-Golomb codeword to an output device.
US10142635B2
Methods and devices for image and video coding using arithmetic coding. The binarization of symbols in an encoder and decoder is adaptive based on changes to the probability distribution as symbols are encoded/decoded. A binarizer may be generated based upon a probability distribution, used to binarize a symbol, and then the probability distribution is updated based on the symbol. Updates to the binarizer may be made after each symbol, after a threshold number of symbols, or once the updated probability distribution differs by more than a threshold amount from the probability distribution used in generating the current binarizer. The probability distributions may be context-specific.
US10142630B2
A method for decoding an encoded video bit stream in a video decoder is provided that includes decoding an intra prediction mode for a block of pixels encoded in the video bit stream, determining, based on the intra prediction mode, whether or not a smoothing filter is to be applied to reference pixel values used for intra prediction of the block, applying a smoothing filter to the reference pixel values when a result of the determining is that a smoothing filter is to be applied, and performing intra prediction according to the intra prediction mode using the smoothed reference pixel values to generate a predicted block of pixels.
US10142624B2
The image coding method for coding an input image includes: converting, into a bin string, an offset value used in an offset process to be applied to a pixel value of a reconstructed image corresponding to the input image; and performing bypass arithmetic coding on the bin string using a fixed probability.
US10142614B2
An omnidirectional three-dimensional scanner includes a first image capturing module, a second image capturing module, a third image capturing module, a fourth image capturing module, and a fifth image capturing module. The first image capturing module, the second image capturing module, the third image capturing module, the fourth image capturing module, and the fifth image capturing module capture three-dimensional images of an object. The first image capturing module has a first image capturing surface. The second image capturing module has a second image capturing surface. The third image capturing module has a third image capturing surface. The fourth image capturing module has a fourth image capturing surface. The fifth image capturing module has a fifth image capturing surface. The first image capturing surface, the second image capturing surface, the third image capturing surface, the fourth image capturing surface, and the fifth image capturing surface form a virtual triangle column.
US10142609B2
An apparatus includes an image collection module that monitors at least one parameter to dynamically regulate an amount of data and resolution to be allocated to at least one object in a scene collected from an image data set. A situational awareness interface (SAI) renders a 3-D video of the scene to an operator based on the amount of data and resolution allocated from the image data set by the image collection module and receives operator commands for an unmanned vehicle (UV) that interacts with the scene.
US10142585B2
System and methods for synchronizing supplemental media content to media content being provided by a different content source. The systems and methods may identify media content from user input, and determine a plurality of associated supplementary media. By monitoring and interpreting a data stream containing information about the primary media content, the systems and methods may interpret indicia of content ceasing and resuming and similarly cease and resume playback of the supplemental media in response, preserving the synchronicity of the multiple content sources.
US10142580B2
A capturing device includes an image sensor that generates an image signal by performing photoelectric conversion for light from a subject, a control unit that generates a setting value for setting a range where an image resulting from the image signal is cut, based on a first instruction input from a user, a setting value storage unit that stores the setting value generated by the control unit, an image conversion unit that reads the setting value from the setting value storage unit, and cuts a specific region specified by the setting value from the image and enlarges the cut region, when there is a second instruction input from the user, and an output unit that converts a signal of the image cut and enlarged by the image conversion unit into an image signal of a predetermined format and outputs the converted image signal.
US10142574B2
An image device. While holding electric charges generated at a photoelectric conversion portion in a first period, a first charge holding portion holds electric charges generated at the photoelectric conversion portion in a second period which is a period that does not succeed the first period and which is different in length from the first period, and a second charge holding portion holds electric charges generated at the photoelectric conversion portion in a third period which is a period that does not overlap the first period and the second period.
US10142567B2
In time-delay-and-integrate (TDI) imaging, a charge-couple device (CCD) integrates and transfers charge across its columns. Unfortunately, the limited well depth of the CCD limits the dynamic range of the resulting image. Fortunately, TDI imaging can be implemented with a digital focal plane array (DFPA) that includes a detector, analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and counter in each pixel and transfer circuitry connected adjacent pixels. During each integration period in the TDI scan, each detector in the DFPA generates a photocurrent that the corresponding ADC turns into digital pulses, which the corresponding counter counts. Between integration periods, the DFPA transfers the counts from one column to the next, just like in a TDI CCD. The DFPA also non-destructively transfers some or all of the counts to a separate memory. A processor uses these counts to estimate photon flux and correct any rollovers caused by “saturation” of the counters.
US10142566B2
An image acquisition system 1 includes: a light source 3 which outputs illumination light; an optical scanner 7 which scans a sample S with the illumination light; an optical scanner control unit 9; a detection optical system 15, 17 which focuses fluorescence from the sample S; an imaging device 19 which has a light receiving surface 19c in which a plurality of pixel rows 19d are arranged, and an imaging control section 19b, and which can perform signal readout of each of the plurality of pixel rows 19d from the light receiving surface 19c; and a calculation unit 21 which calculates an interval of signal readout between adjacent pixel rows 19d, based on a moving speed of an illuminated region on the light receiving surface 19c; the imaging control section 19b controls signal readout of each pixel row 19d, based on the interval of the signal readout thus calculated.
US10142564B2
An imaging device for capturing an image of a scene, comprising: an image sensor; an optical arrangement operable to focus light from a portion of the scene onto the image sensor while preventing light from other portions of the scene from being focused onto the sensor; a controller configured to cause the optical arrangement to focus light from a sequence of portions of the scene onto the sensor so that the sensor captures the said sequence of portions of the scene; and a processor configured to use the captured portions of the scene to construct an image of the scene.
US10142554B2
An electronic device and a method of operating the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes an imaging device configured to obtain an image of a subject, a light source including light-emitting elements configured to emit light in different directions, and a controller configured to determine a position of the subject and a distance to the subject in the image, and control a luminance of the light-emitting elements based on the position of the subject and the distance to the subject.
US10142553B2
Technologies for camera and light source synchronization include an imaging device to detect a current location of an object in a captured image generated by the imaging device. The imaging device predicts a next location of the object in a next captured image, generated by the imaging device, based on the current location of the object. The imaging device determines an illumination interval defining a period of time during which a camera of the imaging device is to expose a set of sensor lines during the capturing of the next captured image and activates a light source of the imaging device to illuminate the object during the determined illumination interval. The set of sensor lines corresponds with the predicted next location of the object.
US10142549B2
An image capturing apparatus and an image smooth zooming method thereof are provided. The image capturing apparatus includes a wide-angle lens and a telephoto lens having different sizes of field of view (FOV). In the method, a wide-view image and a tele-view image are respectively captured by using the wide-angle lens and the telephoto lens according to a zoom scale in a capturing setting. Ratios of the FOV sizes of the wide-angle lens and the telephoto lens to the zoom scale are respectively calculated and used to zoom the captured wide-view image and tele-view image so as to fit the zoom scale. The zoomed wide-view image and tele-view image are aligned according to a shift between view centers of the wide-angle lens and the telephoto lens. Finally, the zoomed and aligned wide-view image and tele-view image are overlapped to output an overlapped image fitting the zoom scale.
US10142546B2
A shake-correction device for a photographing apparatus, which photographs an object image projected onto an imaging surface, includes a mover provided with a movable member, the mover configured to rotate at least one of the object image and the imaging surface relative to a plane orthogonal to the optical axis, and to translate parallel to the plane that is orthogonal to the optical axis and translate in a translation direction parallel to the optical axis; a shake detector configured to detect an angular shake of the photographing apparatus in the rotational direction and detect a shift shake of the photographing apparatus in the translation directions; and a movement controller configured to control movement of the mover so that the object image does not relatively move with respect to the imaging surface when the shake detector detects at least one of the angular shake and the shift shake.
US10142541B2
An image processing apparatus determines whether a feature amount in a partial region of an image satisfies a preset condition, selects a second image to be combined with a first image from a plurality of images based on the result of the determination, and performs a composition process on the aligned first image and second image based on a motion vector between these images. From the plurality of images, the image processing apparatus selects as the second image at least any one of an image having a partial region with the feature amount determined to satisfy the preset condition and an image corresponding to a partial region out of a plurality of partial regions set in the first image with the feature amount determined to satisfy the preset condition.
US10142535B2
A vehicle camera system and method for operating a vehicle camera system comprising a vehicle camera with communication capabilities. The vehicle camera operating in conjunction with other components to provide information to users. The vehicle camera system compiles information from multiple components into a single repository of video recordings with information, such as location information, vehicle status and diagnostic information, alert information and other information.
US10142522B2
A smartphone may be freely moved in three dimensions as it captures a stream of images of an object. Multiple image frames may be captured in different orientations and distances from the object and combined into a composite image representing an image of the object. The image frames may be formed into the composite image based on representing features of each image frame as a set of points in a three dimensional point cloud. Inconsistencies between the image frames may be adjusted when projecting respective points in the point cloud into the composite image. Quality of the image frames may be improved by processing the image frames to correct errors. Reflections and shadows may be detected and removed. Further, optical character recognition may be applied. As the scan progresses, a direction for capturing subsequent image frames is provided to a user as a real-time feedback.
US10142519B2
An image forming apparatus, including: a first reading section which emits visible light to a sheet having an image formed thereon, receives light from the sheet and outputs a read signal having an intensity corresponding to an amount of the received light; a second reading section which emits light including at least ultraviolet light to a ground region of the sheet, receives light from the sheet and outputs a read signal having an intensity corresponding to an amount of the received light; and a correction section which corrects the read signal output from the first reading section by using the read signal output from the second reading section so that a color reproduced by the read signal output from the first reading section is consistent with a color observed by a user.
US10142517B2
An image forming apparatus capable of communicating with an external device which manages print data includes an operating unit and a controller. The operating unit receives a user operation of an operating user. The controller includes circuitry or a processor to execute instructions stored in a memory to acquire unacquired print data from the external device based on a receiving process performed first after start-up of the image forming apparatus among a plurality of receiving processes including a first receiving process for receiving a notification which encourages acquisition of print data and a second receiving process for receiving the user operation by the operating unit.
US10142516B2
An image reading device includes a loading section, a reader, and a document feeder. The loading section receives loading of a document and an identification medium. The reader reads the document and the identification medium. The document feeder conveys the document to the reader. The loading section includes a second contact glass and a medium restriction section. The second contact glass receives loading of the identification medium. The medium restriction section restricts a position of the identification medium loaded on the second contact glass. The document being conveyed by the document feeder has opposite end portions and a central portion therebetween. The opposite end portions respectively include opposite ends of the document in a direction perpendicular to a conveyance direction of the document. Only the central portion, among the opposite end portions and the central portion, of the document comes in contact with the medium restriction section.
US10142507B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a management system that detects a user operation and acquires information input by the operation as data to be supplied to an electronic apparatus; and a setting system that supplies a first sub-module to the electronic apparatus, the electronic apparatus including one or more electronic apparatuses, the first sub-module being to be installed in each of the one or more electronic apparatuses to allow each of the one or more electronic apparatuses to execute a particular function, and executes a second sub-module to cause the management system to acquire setting data, the setting data being necessary for each of the one or more electronic apparatuses to execute the first sub-module, and to supply the setting data acquired by the management system to the one or more electronic apparatuses.
US10142503B2
A feed detection unit which detects a document which is fed is provided at a position between a pinching position at which a feed roller and a frictional force application portion pinch the document and an intersecting position at which a tangential line of the feed roller which is closer to a downstream side in a transport direction than the pinching position is perpendicular to a transport path in the transport direction, which is a different position from the feed roller in a width direction which intersects the transport direction.
US10142496B1
A camera may capture real world content which may be displayed in a mobile device or glasses. This content may be modified in real time. The image capture of objects and transformation of those objects are displayed. The images obtained may be processed and changes may be enacted such that they are displayed virtually different than they are physically. Various micro-expressions and emotions may be detected by the facial expressions of a person. Digital notes may be saved and associated with objects. These notes and environments may be saved by a user and viewable by anyone in the geofenced area or all users. An individual may capture an image of an object using a mobile device/intelligent electronic glasses/headset, tap the object on the display screen, and write or speak notes regarding the object. A keyboard, keypad, image, icons, or other items may be virtually placed on to a surface.
US10142489B2
An Initial Profile Application Apparatus (IPAA) is operable to apply an initial profile to a modem pair connection system, the modem pair connection system comprising a first modem, a corresponding second modem and a metallic wire connection, wherein the first and second modems are operable to establish a data connection between themselves over the metallic wire connection. The IPAA comprises: a receiver; an evaluator; a line database; a comparator; a determiner; and an applicator.
US10142482B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for providing a communications service in a communications network are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a conference call, detects a triggering event during the conference call registered for a particular user, wherein the particular user is not a participant in the conference call, and notifies the particular user of the triggering event.
US10142478B2
Techniques for behavioral pairing model evaluation in a contact center system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for behavioral pairing model evaluation in a contact center system comprising determining an ordering of a plurality of agents, determining an ordering of a plurality of contact types; analyzing, historical contact-agent outcome data according to the orderings of the pluralities of agents and contact types to construct a pairing model; and determining an expected performance of the contact center system using the pairing model.
US10142477B2
A method for prioritizing processing of interactions at a contact center, the method including: identifying an interaction to be prioritized for processing; identifying a person associated with the interaction; identifying an influence level of the person associated with the interaction; and prioritizing the interaction for processing based on the influence level of the person associated with the interaction.
US10142472B2
Apparatus having corresponding methods comprise a microphone configured to produce audio; a hold control configured to select a connected selection or a hold selection; a processor configured to identify the audio produced during the connected selection as primary audio, and to identify the audio produced during the hold selection as secondary audio; and a transceiver configured to transmit the primary audio and the secondary audio.
US10142468B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure allow customers to personalize their phone experience when calling into an organization. In some embodiments, customers who may benefit from this service are identified based on the content of the customer's previous or current phone calls to the organization. The identified customers may be invited to enroll and to provide preferences for a customized Interactive Voice Response experience. In some embodiments, the customer can elect to hear the balances of one or more of his accounts without going through a phone menu or asking a representative to look up the relevant amounts. Once enrolled, when the customer dials into the organization and upon successful authentication, the organization proactively states the customer's account balances with no further customer request.
US10142465B2
An apparatus for providing sender identification information of the communication event on a display is described. In an embodiment the apparatus receives a communication event, for example, a call or a message. The mobile apparatus is caused to output a temporary indication of the communication event and the sender identification information relating to the communication event is not shown on the display. When a user of the mobile apparatus is detected with at least one sensor, the display is arranged to display the sender identification information on the display replacing the temporary indication in response to detecting the user with the at least one sensor.
US10142464B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure receive a call from a caller, generate a first session through a first channel associated with the caller when the call is received and then send a request for authentication credentials to a device associated with the caller. In some embodiments, sending the request for authentication credentials generates a second session through a second channel associated with the caller. The caller can be authenticated to the first session using communication received during the second session through the second channel.
US10142458B1
The device for jamming a cellular phone within a vehicle is configured for use with one or more personal data devices. The device for jamming a cellular phone within a vehicle partially inhibits the operation of a personal data device selected from the one or more personal data devices. By inhibiting the operation of the selected personal device is meant that the selected personal data device is only capable of hands free operation. The device for jamming a cellular phone within a vehicle comprises a safety device, an automobile, an application for the personal data device, and a blocked device.
US10142457B2
A system and method is provided for limiting, disabling and/or activating a wireless communication device during operation of a vehicle or participation in an activity. In one embodiment of the present invention, the system includes a wireless transmission device and a wireless communication device. The wireless transmission device, which includes at least one wireless transmitter, a processor, and a memory device, is configured to transmit a first wireless signal toward a first designated region, and a second wireless signal toward a second designated region. The wireless communication device, which includes at least one wireless receiver, a processor, a memory device, a keypad, and a display, is configured to receive the first wireless signal and, in response thereto, limit or disable certain features of the wireless device. This can be done by disabling certain features (e.g., cellular service, Bluetooth™, telephone calls, text messaging, emailing, its antenna, its keyboard, and/or its display) or disabling (e.g., powering down, etc.) the entire cell phone. The wireless communication device is further configured to receive a second wireless signal and, in response thereto, enable the features that have been disabled or limited via the first wireless signal. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the first wireless signal is a Bluetooth signal, and the second wireless signal is an IR signal.
US10142448B2
The technology provides a mobile communication device having separable components, including a control module configured for only short-range wireless communication and a docking station module configured for both long-range wireless communication and short-range wireless communication. The control module includes a touch-sensitive display, a short-range wireless transceiver and a processor that electrically couples the touch-sensitive display and the short-range wireless transceiver. The docking station module includes a docking area that receives the control module, a docking short-range wireless transceiver configured to communicate with the control module, a long-range wireless transceiver that is configured to communicate with a long-range network and a docking processor that electrically couples the docking short-range wireless transceiver and the long-range wireless transceiver. The technology provides a sleek light-weight control module having full functionality of the docking station module.
US10142440B2
Embodiments for enforced registry of cookies in a tiered delivery network by at least a portion of a processor. Information of a cookie may be extracted at a reverse proxy providing access to an application server. Cookie registration rules provided to the registry by an application on the application server may be obtained such that the registry enables the reverse proxy to enforce compliance with the cookie registration rules for each cookie requesting access to the application. The extracted information of the cookie may be compared against the cookie registration rules provided to the registry by the application. The cookie may be suppressed from being relayed to the application upon determining the extracted information is non-compliant with the cookie registration rules.
US10142435B2
A method for implementing interface cache dynamic allocation is disclosed in the present invention. The method includes: setting, in advance or when a system is running, the corresponding relationship between a free cache block and an interface required to be accessed in the application, and then sending data packets inputted from the interface to the cache block; when the system is running, if the interface required to be accessed needs to be increased, revoked or modified, adjusting the corresponding relationship between the changed interface and the corresponding cache block in real time. A device and computer storage medium for implementing the method are also disclosed in the present invention.
US10142431B2
A computer-implemented method for updating a web user interface on a client device is provided. A router back-boned to the Internet communicates with the client device web-user interface data defined in markup language to dynamically update the web-user interface on the client device. The router contains no logic regarding the web-user interface running on the client device. The client device has a browser server for dynamically updating the web-user interface through downloading and caching the data from the router. The browser server on the client device has (i) a user interface model of the web-user interface running on the client device defined in Javascript, and (ii) a JavaScript Runtime Engine for dynamically converting the downloaded and/or cached web-user interface markup language data into JavaScript objects. The web-user interface is dynamically updated by combining steps (i) and (ii).
US10142425B2
Session reliability can be improved when a USB device is redirected over a remote session. If a remote session is disconnected while a USB device is redirected over the remote session, a server-side agent and a client-side proxy will both receive a session disconnection notification. In response to this session disconnection notification, the agent and the proxy can each queue any I/O requests pertaining to a USB device that was being redirected over the now-disconnected remote session and commence waiting for a specified period of time. If the disconnected remote session is restored within the specified period of time, the agent and the proxy can send the queued I/O requests over the remote session. Otherwise, the agent and proxy can cause the queued I/O requests to be completed with the proper error status or discarded and can take appropriate steps to remove the device from the server and connect the device to the client.
US10142422B2
Embodiments provide clustering of websocket communications with configurable master-slave servers. A centralized document service accessible to each server functions as a repository for cluster server information, cluster master server IP address, and security information. Upon receiving a first input, a server references the document service to create a first websocket handler as the master (e.g., utilizing a flag). Upon receiving a second input, a different server references the document service to create a slave websocket handler. Using master server IP address information from the document service, the slave websocket handler establishes a websocket cluster channel with the master websocket handler. Additional websocket channels with the master websocket hander may be established as further inputs are received and slave websocket handlers created. Allowing configuration as masters or slaves on a per-cluster basis, allows servers to function in dual roles, avoiding the bottleneck of requiring a same master server for all clusters.
US10142416B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and source storage server computing device that mirrors dirty data to a destination storage server. The dirty data corresponds to storage operations not yet committed to one or more data storage devices of an aggregate to be transitioned. Ownership of the data storage devices is released. Teardown processing for the aggregate is performed subsequent to releasing ownership of the data storage devices. With this technology, the flushing or committing of dirty data to data storage devices is performed by a destination storage server after a data container is transitioned to the destination storage server. Additionally, non-critical teardown processing is also performed after a data container or aggregate is transitioned to the destination storage server. Accordingly, the duration of planned data container transitions can advantageously be reduced and aggregates can be brought online by a destination storage server for data access by applications more quickly.
US10142415B2
Data migration data may include analyzing data to be migrated from a first device to identify data blocks containing content that is the same at an abstraction layer and constructing a content map. Entries in the content map may respectively correspond to unique contents found at the abstraction layer, and each of the entries may include a list of addresses at which the unique content corresponding to the entry can be found. The unique contents may be sent from the first device to the second device and written in the second device at addresses selected based on the content map and using the abstraction layer in the second device.
US10142410B2
Generally discussed herein are systems and apparatuses for multi-mode collaboration between entities in different jurisdictions. According to an example a technique can include determining a location of a remote communication device by at least one of a global positioning system (GPS), low frequency (LF) atomic time radio, earth magnetic signature, internet protocol (IP) address, and cell phone tower triangulation, determine regulations regarding communication from an internal network to the remote device based on the determined location, and configure the remote device to transmit and receive communications in a manner compliant with the determined regulations including one of voice over internet protocol (VOIP) communication, hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) communication, text communication, voice communication, video communication, and augmented reality communication.
US10142400B2
A help system includes receives a request from the application running on an end-user device over a data communication network. The request may be transmitted in response to a command by a user to receive help related to the application. The server receives context information associated with the request from the application. According to one embodiment, the context information includes information gathered by the application as the user interacts with the application. The server selects information to be output based on the received context information, and transmits the selected information to the application.
US10142398B2
A method and system for file transfer over a messaging infrastructure are provided. The method includes dividing a file into multiple portions. The method includes generating for a current portion of a file, except for the first portion in a file, a first hash summarizing the state of the file up to, but not including, the current portion and a second hash summarizing the state of the file up to and including the current portion. The method includes sending the first and second hashes with the file portion. The second hash may be used at a target for comparing to a first hash of a subsequent file portion, for example, by recreating the second hash from the current state of the received file on the target.
US10142397B2
A method and associated system. A server computer selects a re-ordering scheme from one or more re-ordering schemes, for re-ordering chunks of an original file. The server computer divides the file into the chunks. After the file is divided into the chunks, the server computer re-orders the chunks according to the selected re-ordering scheme to form an obfuscated file that includes the re-ordered chunks. The server computer sends, to a client computer, the obfuscated file along with a scheme access reference that enables the client computer to access the selected re-ordering scheme.
US10142396B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods automatically determine media content to communicate to a user based on the user's location. The disclosed systems and methods enable novel media content distribution to a user based on 1) the location of the user (i.e., physical location or geo-location), 2) other users' classified relationships to the location; and 3) user generated media content by the classified other users.
US10142393B2
A communication apparatus includes a first acquisition unit and a determination unit. The first acquisition unit acquires a number of messages to be transmitted to another communication apparatus. The determination unit determines, based on the number of messages acquired by the first acquisition unit, a communication protocol to be used for a communication with the another communication apparatus from a plurality of communication protocols.
US10142382B1
A method for identifying a video streamed from a server to a client, includes receiving at a processor of an intermediary between the server and client, a video data packet; determining if the video data packet comprises a separated identification of the streamed video; when the video data packet comprises a separated identification, determining if the separated identification is readable to identify the streamed video; when the separated identification is readable to identify the streamed video, identifying the streamed video; and when the separated identification is not readable to identify the streamed video, performing content analysis of the video data packet, comprising: creating a fingerprint of data extracted from the video data packet, and comparing the fingerprint to reference fingerprints to determine a match.
US10142377B2
A system includes a client device capable of being associated with a number of networked devices through a computer network to: process an embedded object, constrain an executable environment in a security sandbox, and execute a sandboxed application in the executable environment. The embedded object is processed through the sandboxed application. The system also includes a relevancy-matching server to: receive primary data generated from fingerprint data of each of the number of networked devices, match the primary data with targeted data based on a relevancy factor, search a storage for the targeted data, and cause rendering of the targeted data through the embedded object processed through the sandboxed application of the client device. The primary data is any one of a content identification data and a content identification history.
US10142371B2
Application customization enables many different types of customers, from small companies to large multinational enterprises, to use various applications provided by a cloud service provider. To accommodate these customizations, previous systems generally require manual human intervention to identify custom, customized, and cloud service provider authorization policies (also referred to herein as “seed” authorization policies) and to decide how each type of authorization policy should be upgraded. When applications are customized, artifacts that represent those customizations can be created. In some embodiments, the customizations can include new resources or entitlements, and grants to new roles. In addition to new resources, entitlements, and grants, existing resources, entitlements, and grants can be modified and artifacts corresponding to those modifications can be generated. Embodiments of the present invention provide improved techniques for tracking and managing customizations to simplify and automate upgrade processes.
US10142359B1
System and method to identify a security entity in a computing environment is disclosed. Communication between a user computer and at least one destination computer by a security appliance is monitored by a security appliance. Selective information from the communication is extracted by the security appliance. At least one security entity is identified based on a subset of the selective information. One or more selective information is associated to at least one security entity. A knowledge graph is generated based on the associated selective information.
US10142358B1
A system and method for detecting an invalid packet on a Controller Area Network (CAN) bus having a plurality of CAN nodes coupled thereto is provided. The method may include monitoring a CAN identifier (CAN ID) of each packet sent by each CAN node. The method may also include determining whether to detect the validity using a time threshold, historical data, or an acknowledgement (ACK) bit. For example, when the CAN ID is unknown, the method may include the use of validity detection process based upon the ACK Slot bit. Accordingly, the method may include detecting the validity of each packet using the selected method determined. In addition, the method may include storing the detected validity in a database having a listing for valid packets (white list) and a listing for invalid packets (black list). Moreover, the method may include disabling the invalid packets.
US10142355B2
A protection system for a telecommunications network includes an evaluation engine that receives information about threats from user devices using the network and determines a threat level to the network. Threats to the network are mitigated based on the determined threat level.
US10142349B1
Methods, systems and computer programs for verifying permissioning rights to one or more data resources associated with a data processing platform are disclosed, performed using one or more processors. In an example method, the method comprises receiving, from a client device, an assertion statement identifying a user, a data resource and an operation performable with respect to the data resource. Another operation comprises applying the received assertion statement to a network database storing an access control list defining, for each of a plurality of data resources associated with the data processing platform, one or more users having permission to perform one or more operations on the respective data resource, wherein applying the assertion statement is effective to determine if the received assertion statement is true or false in relation to said data resource identified in the assertion statement. In the event that the assertion is false, an error message may be generated for output.
US10142346B2
Disclosed are systems, methods and computer-readable storage medium for extending a private cloud to a public cloud. The private cloud can be extended to the public cloud by establishing a virtual private network between a private cloud and a public cloud, receiving one or more access control lists provisioned by the private cloud, determining contracts between an end point group of the private cloud and an end point group of the public cloud based on the one or more access control lists, and extending the end point group of the private cloud to the end point group of the public cloud across the virtual private network.
US10142345B2
Provide is a device and a method for registering the device supporting home networking, by a server. The method includes receiving a registration request for the device from a user and determining whether the device was registered by the user. If the device has been registered, a re-registration authentication code is obtained based on an initial authentication code of the device, and registration of the device is mapped to the re-registration authentication code.
US10142343B2
In an unauthorized access detecting system, authentication information to be leaked outside is generated. In the unauthorized access detecting system, the generated authentication information is set on an analyzing host, and a program to be analyzed is operated on the analyzing host. In the unauthorized access detecting system, access to a content using the authentication information is detected, and if the access using the authentication information is detected, the access is identified as unauthorized access.
US10142328B1
Systems and methods, which can provide for user enrollment of an account, are provided. The enrollment of an account can be performed in a controlled-environment facility using a system(s) that provides assurance that the user of an account was the person that enrolled the account. A method, which may be employed in various systems and/or facilities, includes, using an enrollment module operating on at least one processor, generating respective confidential codes associated with user accounts. Each of the user accounts has at least one of the confidential codes and is for a respective one user. The method also includes receiving, at the enrollment module, respective enrollment information of each of enrolling individuals. The respective enrollment information is to enroll respective ones of the user accounts. The method further includes, after the receiving, transmitting from the enrollment module the respective confidential codes associated with the respective ones of the user accounts.
US10142315B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of performing automated administrative operations on a mobile device. One example method may include determining via a hosted server that an action needs to be performed by a mobile device under management. The method may further include generating a message via the hosted server, the message includes the action, and transmitting the message to the mobile device under management, and receiving a result message from the mobile device under management responsive to the transmitted message, the result message indicating that the action has been satisfied.
US10142303B2
In an aspect, a method for protecting software includes obtaining a payload including at least one of instructions or data, establishing a realm in a memory device, encrypting the payload based on an ephemeral encryption key (EEK) associated with the realm, and storing the encrypted payload in the realm of the memory device. In another aspect, a method for protecting software includes receiving a memory transaction associated with the memory device, the memory transaction including at least a realm identifier (RID) and a realm indicator bit, obtaining the EEK associated with the RID when the RID indicates the realm and when the realm indicator bit is enabled, decrypting an instruction and/or data retrieved from the realm based on the EEK when the memory transaction is a read transaction, and encrypting second data for storage in the realm based on the EEK when the memory transaction is a write transaction.
US10142294B2
Multiple protocol tunnels (e.g., IPsec tunnels) are deployed to enable an access terminal that is connected to a network to access a local network associated with a femto access point. A first protocol tunnel is established between a security gateway and the femto access point. A second protocol tunnel is then established in either of two ways. In some implementations the second protocol tunnel is established between the access terminal and the security gateway. In other implementations the second protocol tunnel is established between the access terminal and the femto access point, whereby a portion of the tunnel is routed through the first tunnel.
US10142291B2
A device control system is associated with individual devices connected through a network control point to a gateway and thereby to the Internet. The gateway inserts an EDNS0 pseudo resource record into an additional data section in each DNS query initiated by an individual device, the EDNS0 pseudo resource record identifying the initiating device. A dynamic policy enforcement engine in front of the DNS engine intercepts the DNS query, identifies the initiating device, and selects a policy that applies to the device. The dynamic policy enforcement engine may provide parental control and security service to the individual device by blocking the DNS query or passing it to the DNS engine according to the policy. A component that intercepts DNS queries may provide several additional types of services to the individual devices, including advertising, messaging, mobile device tracking, individual device application control, and delivery of individualized content.
US10142286B2
A program which is capable of offering a reward to a user who has registered a simple access means to a predetermined screen is disclosed.The program causes a computer to function as reception means for receiving an access request from a terminal device used by a user; determination means for determining, based on a character string contained in a URL of an access destination of the received access request, whether or not a simple access means to the URL is registered in the terminal device; and offering means for offering a reward to the user who uses the terminal device that performs the access request when the simple access means is determined to be registered.
US10142278B2
Techniques are disclosed for automatically detecting anomalies in the content of a scheduled social media post, alerting a user to the presence of such anomalies before the content is posted and recommending a course of action when an anomaly is detected. A set of keywords is extracted from a scheduled post using an ontological classification technique. At predetermined time intervals, the keywords are compared with information obtained from one or more data sources to determine if an anomaly is present. If an anomaly is detected, the scheduled post is classified into one of at least three categories: supporting the post, neutral, or opposing the post. Once the anomaly is detected and the scheduled post is classified, the author of the post is alerted to the anomaly along with the categorization. Subsequently, the author may reschedule the post to an earlier or later time, delete the post, or change the post.
US10142268B2
Messages containing structured entities may be sent between devices in a way that leverages the existing Short Message Service (SMS) protocol. On the message sender's device, the sender may author a message indicating specific entities such as people, places, dates, or times. When the message is to be sent, an SMS representation of the message is sent to the recipient, and a full representation of the message, including the included entities, is sent to a server. If the SMS message is received at a device that is equipped with software that can retrieve and render the rich representation, then the device queries the server to determine whether there is a rich message that corresponds to the SMS message. If such a message exists, then the message is communicated to the recipient's device and is rendered in place of the SMS message.
US10142267B2
A financial messaging apparatus configured to encapsulate and transmit a financial message along with actions to a mobile device. The actions relate to rules that are associated with characteristics of the financial message.
US10142256B2
Circuitry for use in a network controller comprises a processor and memory. The network controller is operable to control communications in a network comprising a plurality of devices connected via a shared coaxial cable. The circuitry is operable to maintain one or more data structures that hold per-sender-receiver-pair link parameters and per-sender-receiver-pair bandwidth grant status. The circuitry is operable to, in response to receipt of a reservation request on the shared coaxial cable, decide which one or more of a plurality of subbands and which one or more of a plurality timeslots to reserve for the transmission based, at least in part, on the per-sender-receiver-pair link parameters and the per-sender-receiver-pair bandwidth grant status in the one or more data structures. The circuitry is operable to generate a reservation grant message that indicates the decided one or more subbands and the decided one or more timeslots.
US10142246B2
Systems and methods for managing congestion in a network are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving a service tag at a first node, the service tag representing congestion information of at least a portion of the network. If the first node is a boundary node, the method comprises modifying a downstream data rate based upon the congestion information, and if the first node is not a boundary node, the method comprises transmitting the congestion information to a second node.
US10142244B2
Modifying a priority for at least one flow class of an application includes registering flow classes for an application with a SDN controller, determining, with the SDN controller, a priority for each of the flow classes based on other installed applications and network services on the SDN controller, modifying, based on an event, the priority for at least one of the flow classes of the application by mapping a priority key associated with the priority to a new priority value, receiving, from the application, at least one flow modification rule using a priority key as the priority, and validating the at least one flow modification rule against registered parameters of at least one of the flow classes of the application to determine a flow of traffic based on the priority.
US10142240B1
A system includes an analysis module monitoring parameters of a gateway device. The analysis module stores trends of parameters. The analysis module determines a diagnostic time slot when a diagnostic or self-healing method is not performed in response to trends of parameters. The analysis module performs the diagnostic or self-healing during the diagnostic time slot.
US10142234B1
A method, a computing device, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for indexing data on a storage server are provided. A method includes providing, by a storage server, a plurality of sorted keys. A subset of the plurality of sorted keys that include a bit prefix is stored on a memory page. A trie representation is constructed that includes an entry corresponding to the memory page, wherein a position of the entry in the trie representation is determined based on a binary value of bits of the bit prefix. The trie representation is traversed, by the storage server, to access a record stored in the memory page, wherein the record corresponds to a key having the bit prefix.
US10142228B2
A device and a method for transmitting data within a network switch is provided. The method implemented by computer makes it possible to transmit to a receiver network domain only the applicational data necessary for this domain. The method identifies in a frame received solely the data corresponding to each addressee network domain, and then the frame is disassembled so as to write each suite of data into an assigned memory area of the network switch. The method moreover makes it possible to dispatch a frame with only the data of an addressee network domain by constructing a new frame with solely the data necessary for the addressee network which have been stored in a memory area of the switch.
US10142224B2
A path computation method and a related device are disclosed. The method includes: a second network device receives path requirement information and a recomputation condition that are sent by a first network device; the second network device first obtains by means of computation a path meeting a requirement according to the path requirement information, and sends description information of the path meeting the requirement to the first network device; then the second network device constantly determines whether the recomputation condition is met; and when the recomputation condition is met, the second network device performs path recomputation, and sends description information of a path obtained by means of recomputation to the first network device. Therefore sensitivity for triggering path recomputation can be improved and a quantity of communication messages between network devices can be reduced.
US10142213B1
Techniques for providing event driven notifications are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for providing event driven notifications comprising monitoring an electronic media feed for an event associated with a specified criteria, identifying, using at least one computer processor, a plurality of events in the electronic media feed, filtering the plurality of events, identifying an event of the plurality of events matching a specified location, and providing a notification associated with the identified event.
US10142209B2
The present invention relates generally to an information handling system. Aspects of the present invention include a mitigation of a wired backhaul limitation with a single Ethernet on a wireless access point (AP). In embodiments, a wireless controller can monitor the wired traffic on a plurality of wireless access points. In embodiments, the wireless controller can distribute traffic across a plurality of wireless access points, when a wireless access point is going to approach its wired backhaul limitation, by setting up a temporary wireless connection between AP's. Thus, more than one wireless access point can share the wired backhaul load of other AP's and mitigate its wired backhaul limitation.
US10142197B2
A method is described for visualizing distributions of correlated data in a computing environment in a form readable by a computer system operator, such as throughput and response time. Data is collected and a visualized representation is generated that is indicative of system performance.
US10142192B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure call for a method, a system, and a computer program product for managing virtual resources for a virtual machine of interest on a physical server. The method includes monitoring a plurality of physical servers, on a computing system. Each physical server provides an initial level of virtual resources to a plurality of virtual machines. The method also includes receiving a requested level of virtual resources for a virtual machine of interest hosted by a first physical server from the plurality of physical servers. The method also includes determining whether the first physical server is able to host the requested level of virtual resources for the virtual machine of interest. The method also includes determining, in response to the first physical server not being able to host the requested level of resources for the virtual machine of interest, a path.
US10142189B2
A method for monitoring a control device of a vehicle, the control device having an Ethernet transceiver with a link LED output configured to display a network status by an LED connectable thereto, includes: determining a settable diagnosis state of the control device; selecting a signal sequence on the basis of the determined diagnosis state; and controlling the link LED output with the selected signal sequence to output the diagnosis state.
US10142188B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for generating messages guiding a user in creating an integration flow in a cloud-based integration service. The cloud-based integration service can include a web interface application for a current integration flow, and a runtime for executing the current integration flow. A plurality of complete integration flow definitions can be provided, each defining a plurality of integration components for a particular type of integration flow. The system can select a complete integration flow definition based on the type of the current integration flow, dynamically update the complete integration flow definition, and compare the current integration flow against the selected complete integration flow definition. Based on the comparison, the system can generate one or more messages for graphical display in the web interface application, to guide the user in creating the current integration flow.
US10142185B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, analyzing content flow data in a communication network to obtain flow statistics; the statistics are aggregated to construct a model of the content flow based on the aggregated flow statistics. Operations of network nodes are predicted based on the model; a content delivery path in the communication network is identified. A quality of service is detected for network nodes on the content delivery path. The detected quality of service is compared with a predicted quality of service based on the model; a network anomaly is detected based on the comparing. The content flow on the content delivery path is adjusted responsive to detection of the network anomaly. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10142178B2
A system for discovering and mitigating out-of-sync network parameters may determine that a first value for a parameter of a set of parameters of a logical network associated with a host computing system is different from a second value specified for the parameter in a network definition. The system may further presenting, via a user interface, the first value and the second value for the parameter and receiving, via the user interface, a confirmation of validity of the first value for the parameter. Responsive to ascertaining validity of remaining parameters of the set of parameters, setting a validity attribute of the logical network.
US10142165B2
Disclosed herein are hub-based wireless networks employing end-devices at intermediate wireless at ranges of thousands of meters. End-devices may be such things as keypads, door latches, occupancy monitors, sprinkler controllers and other devices controlled or monitored in a campus or a collection of buildings. A device-initiated asynchronous mode may be used to communicate information related to spontaneous events to a hub. The hub receives packet retrial information from the end-devices, determines whether packet retrials are due to interference or some other cause such as collisions, and applies varying levels of redundancy based upon a recent history of success and failure of packet exchanges, which measurement may be a value of badness increased as errors are encountered and decreased as packet communication is successful. Detailed information on various example embodiments of the inventions are provided in the Detailed Description below, and the inventions are defined by the appended claims.
US10142155B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates of Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for operating a base station in a wireless communication system includes transmitting, to a first terminal, a frequency-quadrature amplitude modulation (FQAM) symbol through a plurality resource units that comprises an active resource unit and at least one inactive resource unit. The method further comprises transmitting, to a second terminal, at least one modulation symbol through the at least one inactive resource unit.
US10142153B2
The present invention provides a method of transmitting broadcast signals, the method including, encoding service data, building at least one signal frame by mapping the encoded service data, modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing, OFDM, scheme and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US10142148B2
A method for transmitting frames of a device in a wireless local area network (WLAN) includes generating a symbol in which legacy cyclic prefixes are periodically located and transmitting a frame including the symbol, wherein the symbol includes a data duration excluding cyclic prefix in symbol duration, and the length of the data duration is longer than 3.2 us.
US10142144B2
A transmission method based on multiple antennas with directivity at the information level. In this transmission system, the directivity is introduced in the transmitted information by an optimization of the constellation's symbols only in the desired direction, keeping at same time an isotropic radiation power pattern by the antenna arrayThe method allows the transmission of modulations with multilevel constellations based on M-QAM (M-ary Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) constellations, Voronoi constellations or M-PSK (M-ary Phase Shift Keying), using a decomposition of multilevel modulation into a sum of M′ polar or BPSK (Binary-PSK) constellations that are amplified and transmitted by separate antennas. Therefore it uses up to M′ parallel modulators, each one followed by an amplifier connected to an antenna. This transmission scheme transmits up to M′ uncorrelated BPSK signals, that are added in the transmission channel to form a multilevel constellation.
US10142143B2
This receiving apparatus achieves circuit size reduction and consumption power reduction, while still having an advantage of high-speed processing. In a receiving apparatus (100), a frequency component detector (105) has a Fourier conversion operation unit provided therein, and performs high-speed Fourier conversion with respect to digital signals outputted from an ADC (104), said high-speed Fourier conversion being performed within a range instructed by means of an operation range control unit (106), and the frequency component detector detects a plurality of frequency components (FFT signals) of the digital signals. The operation range control unit (106) sets, using the FFT signals outputted from the frequency component detector (105), the frequency range within which the Fourier conversion operation is to be performed, and instructs the range to the frequency component detector (105).
US10142141B2
The present disclosure discloses a method of transmitting a signal, a wearable communication device and a terminal device. The method includes: receiving, by a wearable communication device, a modulated wave signal transmitted by a terminal device; demodulating the modulated wave signal to obtain a to-be-decoded signal; performing a waveform shaping process on the to-be-decoded signal to obtain a square wave signal, where a high level in the square wave signal is configured to represent a first preset value, and a time interval is existed between two high levels corresponding to any two adjacent first preset values; acquiring time interval eigenvalues in the square wave signal; acquiring a one-to-one mapping relation of the interval eigenvalues and a plurality of coding sequences; and performing, according to the time interval eigenvalues and the mapping relation, a first decoding process and a second decoding process on the square wave signal to obtain original data.
US10142135B2
In the subject system, a receiver includes a feed forward circuit, a phase recovery circuit, and a feedback circuit. The feed forward circuit compensates for near reflections and provides an input to the phase recovery circuit and the feedback circuit. The phase recovery circuit performs phase recovery and provides phase recovery information to the feedback circuit. The feedback circuit adjusts and/or corrects a received symbol based at least in part on the received phase recovery information.
US10142134B2
Embodiments include systems and methods for implementing a multi-rate FIR by using rate-dependent bit stuffing on the cursor, while using rate-independent (e.g., full-rate) spacing on the pre- and post-cursor. For example, in the FIR data path, the cursor bit output is generated using bit stuffing, depending on a selected rate mode (e.g., full-rate, half-rate, quarter-rate, eighth-rate, etc.), but the spacing of the pre-cursor, cursor, and post-cursor are maintained at 1 UI apart (i.e., the full-rate spacing) for all rate modes. Such an approach can appreciably reduce complexity of the logic and can appreciably relieve the critical timing path.
US10142133B2
A radar system for a vehicle includes a transmitter, a receiver, and an interference mitigator. The transmitter transmits radio signals. The receiver receives radio signals. The received radio signals include transmitted radio signals reflected from objects. The receiver also processes the received radio signals to produce a sample stream. The interference mitigator successively (i) generates respective signals corresponding to the transmitted radio signals that are reflected from each of a plurality of objects, and (ii) adds the respective signals to the sample stream to form a modified sample stream. The addition of the respective signals removes interference from the sample stream due to the transmitted radio signals reflected from the plurality of objects. The receiver is configured to use the modified sample stream to detect a first object at a first range which is more distant than respective ranges of the plurality of objects.
US10142121B2
Methods, systems, computer readable media, and apparatuses for providing synchronous supplemental experiences are presented. According to one or more aspects, a video signal may be transmitted to a display device, and a sync signal may be transmitted to at least one other device. The sync signal may include an identifier of a program currently being displayed and a time value indicating a current point in time of the program. In at least one arrangement, the sync signal may cause the at least one other device to access content synchronization data; determine, based on the content synchronization data, that at least one supplemental experience corresponds to the identifier of the program and the time value; and present the at least one supplemental experience to a user.
US10142114B2
[PROBLEMS] To appropriately authenticate a user, a biometric device, and an authentication timing of a client side and prevent leak or tampering of the biometric information.[MEANS FOR SOLVING PROBLEMS] A server device includes: a unit for encrypting information for requesting biometric authentication and identifying the request by using a public key of the biometric authentication device and transmitting the information; and a unit for authenticating the user according to the authentication information containing the result of the biometric authentication. The biometric authentication device includes: a unit for inputting biometric information; a unit for storing a template as biometric information registered in advance together with the user information; a unit for collating the biometric information inputted by the user with the template; a unit for adding a digital signature to the authentication information containing the collation result, information for identifying the request from the server device, and the template user information, by using a secret key of the local device and transmitting the authentication information to the server device.
US10142111B2
A client establishes an cryptographically protected communications session and determines information usable to distinguish the session from other sessions. The client digitally signs the information using a cryptographic key that is independent of the session to enable a server to check whether the information matches the session that it established and whether the digital signature is correct. The server may perform mitigating operations if either or both of the information or the digital signature is/are invalid.
US10142108B2
A method of delivering digital audio and video content and a HDCP source device are disclosed herein. In one embodiment the method includes: (1) receiving an encryption key from a potential receiver of the digital audio and video content, (2) authenticating the potential receiver is an HDCP compliant device and (3) in addition to the authenticating, verifying the potential receiver is a trusted device for receiving the digital audio and video content.
US10142105B2
A hypersphere-based multivariable public key encryption/decryption system may include an encryption module and a decryption module. The encryption module may include a processor and a public key transformation component for transforming plaintext into ciphertext. The decryption module may include a processor, a first affine transformation inversion component, a trapdoor component and a second affine transformation inversion component. The trapdoor component may include a linear equation system construction component and a linear equation system solving component. All components may execute corresponding operations, so that a set of data may be obtained finally, and the set of data may be stored and output as decrypted plaintext. If the decryption module does not produce data, the processor may output warning information about a decryption failure to a user.
US10142102B2
An integrated circuit having a Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) circuit is provided. The PUF circuit may reside as part of a secure subsystem, which also includes a random number generator, a syndrome generator, non-volatile memory, and control circuitry. A predetermined syndrome of a desired PUF response is stored in the non-volatile memory. During normal operation, a current PUF response may be read out from the PUF circuit. The current PUF response may include erroneous bits that differ from the desired PUF response. The random number generator may generator a random number that masks the current PUF response, whereas the syndrome generator outputs a syndrome of the current PUF response. This information may then be passed to a separate error-correcting code (ECC) processor. The ECC processor may return information back to the secure subsystem, and the control circuitry may then obtain a corrected PUF response that matches the desired PUF response.
US10142094B2
A first apparatus comprises: a processor configured to generate a first synchronization message; a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the first synchronization message to a second apparatus at a first wavelength; and a receiver coupled to the processor and configured to receive a second synchronization message from the second apparatus at a second wavelength and in response to the first synchronization message, the first wavelength and the second wavelength are based on a reduction of a latency difference between the second synchronization message and the first synchronization message, and the processor is further configured to calculate a TO between the first apparatus and the second apparatus based on the reduction.
US10142092B2
An optical transceiver configured to interface a composite signal in a parallelized manner includes a plurality of transmitters each configured to transmit a part of the composite signal over a first optical fiber; a plurality of receivers each configured to receive a part of the composite signal over a second optical fiber; a clock forwarding mechanism configured to provide a transmitted optical clock for all of the plurality of transmitters; and a clock recovery mechanism configured to receive a received optical clock for all of the plurality of receivers.
US10142087B2
Provided is a transmission/reception module that includes: a power amplifier that outputs a transmission signal to an input/output terminal; a low-noise amplifier that amplifies a reception signal input from the input/output terminal; a duplexer that isolates the transmission signal, which is output to the input/output terminal from the power amplifier via a transmission node and a common node, and the reception signal, which is input to the low-noise amplifier from the input/output terminal via the common node and a reception node, from each other; and a phase-shift circuit that is provided between an input node of the low-noise amplifier and the reception node of the duplexer, and that adjusts an impedance at the input node of the low-noise amplifier with respect to the transmission signal and the reception signal such that the gain of the transmission signal is smaller than the gain of the reception signal.
US10142084B2
This disclosure describes methods and devices related to self-interference cancellation. A device is disclosed comprising: at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions; and at least one processor configured to access the at least one memory, wherein the at least one processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to cause to send at least one first symbol sequence at least twice on a first transmit chain and at least one second symbol sequence twice on a second transmit chain. The processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to determine at least one third symbol sequence at least twice on a first receive chain and at least one fourth symbol sequence at least twice on a second receive chain. The processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to determine a first impulse response of a first power amplifier on the first transmit chain and a second impulse response of a second power amplifier on the second transmit chain. The processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to determine a first aggregate impulse response associated with one or more first devices on the first transmit chain and the first receive chain. The processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to determine a second aggregate impulse response associated with one or more second devices on the second transmit chain and the second receive chain. The processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to determine a third impulse response based at least in part on the first and second impulse response, and the first and second aggregate impulse response. The processor may be configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to determine an estimate of the third impulse response based at least in part on the at least one first symbol sequence or the at least one second symbol sequence.
US10142083B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting a control channel when cells have different duplex structures in an intra-cell carrier aggregation system are provided. The method of transmitting and/or receiving a control channel by an evolved Node B (eNB) in a wireless communication system includes receiving capability information of a User Equipment (UE) from the UE, transmitting scheduling information to the UE, transmitting downlink data according to the transmitted scheduling information, and receiving an uplink control channel for the downlink data from the UE based on the capability information of the UE.
US10142079B2
A base station is provided. The base station transmits multiple data in a first subframe, receives response signals corresponding to the multiple data, determines a ratio of negative acknowledge (NACK) signals to the response signals, and adjusts or maintains a contention window based on the determined ratio. The present disclosure relates to communication schemes for combining 5th-generation (5G) communication systems with internet of things (IoT) technology to support higher data transmission rate as post-4th-generation (post-4G) systems and systems for the same. The present disclosure may be used in intelligent services (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, or connected car, health-care, digital education, retail business, security and safety-related services, etc.) based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related techniques.
US10142075B2
Disclosed is a method of mapping a demodulation-reference signal (DM-RS) transmitted to a terminal by a base station in a wireless communication system based on multiple antennas. Specifically, the method includes grouping a plurality of DM-RS ports into antenna port groups including a predefined number of DM-RS ports, mapping a DM-RS sequence to two symbol resources of a first slot and two symbol resources of a second slot on one subcarrier, and transmitting the mapped DM-RS sequence to the terminal through the plurality of DM-RS ports, wherein a DM-RS sequence transmitted through DM-RS ports included in the same antenna port group is mapped by applying an orthogonal cover code (OCC) having a length of 2 to the same symbol resource, and the two symbol resources of the first slot correspond to a first antenna port group and the two symbol resources of the second slot correspond to a second antenna port group on the one subcarrier.
US10142073B2
A terminal apparatus, a radio communication system and a communication method are provided each capable of transmitting feedback information indicating a reception result of a DL signal to a base station without reducing the efficiency of transmitting a UL signal. The terminal apparatus includes an error detector that detects the presence or absence of an error in a downlink signal transmitted from the base station apparatus, a configurator that configures a different preamble depending on whether or not there is an error in the downlink signal and a transmitter that transmits an uplink signal including the configured preamble.
US10142069B2
The present embodiments relate to a network node (90), a method thereof; a positioning node (100), a method thereof; a UE (110) and a method thereof, for handling transmission of a reference signal and/or a reference signal configuration. The method in the network node (90) comprises: determining a transmission configuration for use in a cell served by the network node; if at least one subframe containing said reference signal is also configured as a flexible subframe, comparing at least one parameter related to the transmission configuration with a threshold, and deciding based on the result of said comparison whether to operate the at least one subframe as a flexible subframe or as a downlink subframe.
US10142063B2
A hybrid automatic repeat request method includes receiving a packet sent by a transmit end; checking N data sub-blocks included in the packet, and generating feedback information according to a check result, where the feedback information includes N check characters corresponding to the N data sub-blocks, and the check character is an acknowledgment character ACK or a negative acknowledgment character NACK; and returning the feedback information to the transmit end. In technical solutions of the present disclosure, feedback information that includes N check characters corresponding to N data sub-blocks of a packet is used and the feedback information is returned to a transmit end, so that a data sub-block can be selected, according to the negative acknowledgment character NACK, to perform retransmission. Therefore, the transmit end can adaptively retransmit a data sub-block having an error, thereby improving resource utilization and reducing a transmission delay.
US10142049B2
A method of determining a near optimal forward error correction scheme for the transmission of audio data over a lossy packet switched network having preallocated estimated bandwidth, delay and packet losses, between at least a first and second communications devices, the method including the steps of: determining a first coding rate for the audio data; determining a peak redundancy coding rate for redundant versions of the audio data; determining an average redundancy coding rate over a period of time for redundant versions of the audio data; determining an objective function which maximizes a bitrate-perceptual audio quality mapping of the transmitted audio data including a playout function formulation; and optimizing the objective function to produce a forward error correction scheme providing a high bitrate perceptual audio quality.
US10142046B2
In an example embodiment, an N-channel WDM OSA includes active optical devices coupled to a carrier, an optical block, and a MUX or a DEMUX. The optical block may be positioned above the active optical devices and coupled to the carrier. The optical block may include a bottom with lenses formed in the bottom that are aligned with the active optical devices; a first side that extends up from the bottom; a second side that extends up from the bottom and is opposite the first side; a port that extends forward from the bottom and the first and second sides; and an optical block cavity defined by the bottom and the first and second sides that extends rearward from the port. The MUX or DEMUX may be positioned in the optical block cavity in an optical path between the port of the optical block and the active optical devices.
US10142045B2
The present application discloses an interference coordination method and an apparatus, which are applied to the communications field and can determine, among inter-RAT networks that share a frequency spectrum, a physical resource for interference coordination. The method includes: acquiring, by a second base station, time-frequency position information corresponding to cell key information of a first base station, where the time-frequency position information is used for determining a time-frequency position that is corresponding to the cell key information of the first base station and that is on a shared time-frequency resource, and the cell key information includes at least one of a cell-specific reference signal (CRS), a channel state indication-reference signal (CSI-RS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), and a synchronization signal. The method also includes performing, by the second base station, interference coordination on the first base station.
US10142043B2
A time differential digital circuit can detect a time difference between first and second event signals. The time difference measurement can be calibrated to account for transmission path delays. The time differential digital circuit can be implemented using field programmable gate array transceivers.
US10142022B1
Adjustment of one or more control parameters of a section of an optical fiber network involves taking measurements of optical signals in the section, deriving estimated data from the measurements and from knowledge of the section, where the estimated data is a function of optical nonlinearity and of amplified spontaneous emission, and applying one or more control algorithms using the estimated data to adjust the one or more control parameters.
US10142018B2
A solid-state lighting fixture includes a first group of solid-state light elements, a second group of solid-state light elements, and a light control module. The first group of solid-state light elements is configured to emit visible light at a first wavelength. The second group of solid-state light elements is configured to emit light at a second wavelength, which is different from the first wavelength. The light control module is configured to modulate the light emitted from the first group of solid-state light elements and modulate the light emitted from the second group of solid-state light elements, respectively, such that the modulation pattern of the emitted light from each one of the first group of solid-state light elements and the second group of solid-state light elements communicates a first subset of data and a second subset of data, respectively, while being undetectable to the human eye.
US10142017B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method for determining a position of a beacon. A plurality of frames comprising pixel values is collected. Each frame is an image of a location. A static background of the location is determined by averaging the pixel values of the plurality of frames, pixel difference values are determined for each frame by subtracting the determined static background from the pixel values of each frame. Using the pixel difference values for each frame in the plurality of frames, a first subset of frames and a second subset of frames are identified. An average pixel difference is then determined by averaging the pixel difference values of the first subset of frames and an inverse of the pixel difference values of the second subset of frames. Using the average pixel difference, the position of a beacon at the location is determined.
US10142010B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a repeater device having a first coupler to extract downstream channel signals from first guided electromagnetic waves bound to a transmission medium of a guided wave communication system. An amplifier amplifies the downstream channel signals to generate amplified downstream channel signals. A channel selection filter selects one or more of the amplified downstream channel signals to wirelessly transmit to the at least one client device via an antenna. A second coupler guides the amplified downstream channel signals to the transmission medium of the guided wave communication system to propagate as second guided electromagnetic waves. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10142009B2
A distributed antenna system includes at least one master unit communicatively coupled to at least one base station and a plurality of remote units located remotely from the at least one master unit. The plurality of remote units are communicatively coupled to the master unit over at least one transport communication link. The system is configured to distribute uplink and downlink signals between a base station and mobile units. A digital unit generates digital samples indicative of spectrum included in at least one of the uplink and downlink signals. A network interface communicates with an external computer. The digital unit is configured to process the digital samples and communicate information indicative of the spectrum to the external computer via the network interface.
US10142007B2
A device a radio communication device may be provided. The radio communication device may include: an antenna configured to operate in a plurality of operation modes; a receiver configured to receive a first channel signal and a second channel signal using the antenna; and a mode switching circuit configured to switch an operation mode of the antenna if the first channel signal fulfils a first channel specific criterion or configured to switch an operation mode of the antenna if the second channel signal fulfils a second channel specific criterion.
US10142004B2
A method for performing, by a UE, precoding using a codebook in a wireless communication system includes: receiving a reference signal for channel estimation from an eNB; estimating a channel through the received reference signal; determining a precoding matrix related to the estimated channel in a codebook; and feeding back, to the eNB, a precoding matrix index (PMI) corresponding to the determined precoding matrix, wherein the codebook is generated in consideration of at least one of a region to which the UE belongs and the position of the UE.
US10142001B2
Methods and systems for hybrid radio frequency digital beamforming may include, in an electronic device comprising an antenna array including antennas arranged along first and second directions, beamforming signals in an analog domain along the first direction of the antenna array and in a digital domain along the second direction of the antenna array. The antenna array may include subsets of antennas, where each subset has a system-on-chip (SOC) with analog and digital beamforming circuitry. Signals may be beamformed in the analog domain by amplifying signals received by the antenna array using a configurable gain and shifting the phase of at least one of the amplified signals. The phase-shifted signals may be summed and converted to a digital signal. A frequency-dependent coefficient may be applied to the digital signal. The antenna array may have a fewer number of antennas along the first direction as compared to along the second direction.
US10141953B2
A low-density parity-check (LDPC) apparatus and a matrix trapping set breaking method are provided. The LDPC apparatus includes a logarithm likelihood ratio (LLR) mapping circuit, a variable node (VN) calculation circuit, an adjustment circuit, a check nodes (CN) calculation circuit and a controller. The LLR mapping circuit converts an original codeword into a LLR vector. The VN calculation circuit calculates original V2C information by using the LLR vector and C2V information. The adjustment circuit adjusts the original V2C information to get adjusted V2C information in accordance with a factor. The CN calculation circuit calculates the C2V information by using the adjusted V2C information, and provides the C2V information to the VN calculation circuit. The controller determines whether to adjust the factor. When LDPC iteration operation falls into matrix trap set, the controller decides to adjust the factor so that the iteration operation breaks away from the matrix trap set.
US10141929B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by an electrode of a device, a signal from a user's body. The received signal is based on an electromagnetic interference signal generated by an object that is external to the device. The method further includes determining, using machine learning applied to the received signal, one or more of the following: an identity of the object, an interaction between the user and the object, or a context surrounding the device.
US10141928B2
A technique relates to a quantum-limited microwave amplifier. A Josephson ring modulator (JRM) is connected to a first lumped-element resonator. The first lumped-element resonator includes one or more first lumped elements. A second lumped-element resonator is connected to the JRM, and the second lumped-element resonator includes one or more second lumped elements. The JRM, the first lumped-element resonator, and the second-lumped element resonator form a Josephson parametric converter (JPC). The one or more first lumped elements and the one or more second lumped elements have a value that is the same, thereby configuring the JPC to be spectrally degenerate.
US10141925B1
A circuit for strengthening load transient response compensation is provided, including a comparator, a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET. The comparator compares a system voltage of an electronic device with a reference voltage. The first MOSFET is coupled to the comparator and a first power supply. The second MOSFET is coupled to the comparator and a second power supply of the electronic device. When an external device is connected to the electronic device such that the system voltage is lower than the reference voltage, the comparator outputs a low-level signal and the first MOSFET becomes conductive, so that the external device is powered by the first power supply.
US10141916B2
A semiconductor circuit includes a first logic gate that receives inputs of a first input signal, a clock signal and a feedback signal and performs a first logical operation to output a first output signal. A second logic gate that receives inputs of the first output signal of the first logic gate, the clock signal, and an inverted output signal of the first input signal and performs a second logical operation to output the feedback signal.
US10141915B2
A clock driver control scheme for a resonant clock distribution network provides robust operation by controlling a pulse width of the output of clock driver circuits that drive the resonant clock distribution network so that changes are sequenced. The clock driver control circuit controls the clock driver circuits in the corresponding sector according to a selected operating mode via a plurality of control signals provided to corresponding clock driver circuits. The pulse widths differ for at least some of the sectors during operation of digital circuits within the integrated circuit having clock inputs coupled to the resonant clock distribution network. The different pulse widths may be a transient difference that is imposed in response to a mode or frequency change of the global clock that provides an input to the clock driver circuits.
US10141911B2
A high-frequency module includes a plurality of filters, a switch that commonly connects a plurality of paths, and a low noise amplifier that amplifies a high-frequency signal input from the plurality of filters with the switch interposed therebetween, wherein paths in which first and second filters are respectively provided among the plurality of paths connect the respective filters and the switch without connecting impedance elements, and each of the first and second filters has an output impedance located in a matching region between a NF matching impedance at which an NF of the low noise amplifier is minimum and a gain matching impedance at which a gain of the low noise amplifier is maximum in its respective pass band thereof on a Smith chart.
US10141909B2
An apparatus includes a self-coupled transformer, a first band stop filter and a tank circuit connected in series with the first band stop filter between first and second windings of the self-coupled transformer. An inductor of the tank circuit acts as an out-of-phase third winding of the self-coupled transformer.
US10141908B2
A passive device may include an inductor having interconnected trace segments. The passive device may also include parallel plate capacitors. Each of the plurality of parallel plate capacitors may have a dielectric layer between a pair of conductive plates. The parallel plate capacitors may not overlap more than one of the interconnected trace segments.
US10141906B1
A method of fabricating a resonator includes providing a first quartz substrate, forming a metallic etch stop on a first surface of the first quartz substrate; attaching, using a temporary adhesive, the first surface of the first quartz substrate to a second quartz substrate, etching an opening for a via in a second surface of the first quartz substrate to the metallic etch stop, forming a metal electrode on the second surface of the first quartz substrate, the metal electrode penetrating the via in the first quartz substrate to make ohmic contact with the metallic etch stop, bonding the metal electrode formed on the second surface of the first quartz substrate to a pad formed on a host substrate; and dissolving the temporary adhesive to release the second quartz substrate from the first quartz substrate, wherein the first quartz substrate and the host substrate each comprise crystalline quartz.
US10141891B2
A power amplifier with supply switching is provided. The power amplifier detects a magnitude of an outgoing broadband communication signal and determines whether the magnitude exceeds a predetermined voltage threshold. The power amplifier applies a first gain to the outgoing broadband communication signal using a first voltage supply rail when it is determined that the magnitude exceeds the predetermined voltage threshold and a second gain using a second voltage supply rail that is smaller than the first voltage supply rail when it is determined that the magnitude does not exceed the predetermined voltage threshold. The power amplifier produces an output signal from the outgoing broadband communication signal with the applied first gain or the applied second gain, wherein a current of the outgoing broadband communication signal is switched between the first voltage supply rail and the second voltage supply rail in response to the magnitude being detected.
US10141886B2
The present invention relates to the field of energetic, more particularly to generation of photovoltaic direct current followed by its transformation into alternating -AC- or direct -DC- currents. The invention is applicable to photovoltaic power plants and setups connected either to local AC electrical power distribution systems or to energy storage systems, which apply the known from the prior art devices. According to the claimed method selection electricity from photovoltaic module (1) by which the energy of solar radiation is converted to an electrical signal, pre-store energy electrical signal by using capacitor (2) not less than 0.15 Farad, charged to the maximum power voltage photovoltaic module that determined from the current-voltage characteristics, normalized voltage electrical signal using a DC/DC converter and accumulate. At the same time selected energy is converted to alternating current through DC/AC inverter (3) and continuously is served into a AC local grid (6) while power DC/DC converters and (or) DC/AC inverter installed on for at least one of three levels that is not less than the power of photovoltaic module with a minimum insolation, the maximum insolation and for at least one intermediate insolation.
US10141883B2
The invention relates to an input stage (1) for a motor controller (2), especially a motor controller for an electric motor, the input stage (1) being provided with an input (3) for inputting an input signal and an output (4) for connection to the motor controller (2). The input stage (1) is designed to generate a control signal from an input signal between a first voltage Uunten and a second voltage Uoben>Uunten and output said control signal as a parameter to the motor controller (2) via the output (4). In order to be able to simultaneously use the control input (13) for communicating, the input stage (1) comprises a first comparator (5) for comparing the input signal with a first threshold voltage Us1>Uoben as well as a data output unit (10). The data output unit (10) generates a communication signal on the basis of at least one portion of the input signal. When the input signal reaches or exceeds the first threshold voltage Us1, the first comparator (5) outputs an activation signal which activates output of the communication signal to the output (4) by the data output unit (10). The invention further relates to a motor controller, especially for an electric motor, comprising a corresponding input stage, and to an interface adapter for the input stage.
US10141882B2
Apparatus are provided for motor control systems and related medical devices. In one embodiment, a control system includes a motor having a rotor, a modulation module coupled to the motor, and a control module coupled to the motor and the modulation module. The modulation module generates a modulated voltage that is applied to the motor, and the control module adjusts a duty cycle of the modulated voltage to achieve a commanded rotation of the rotor and detects a degradation condition based on the duty cycle.
US10141876B2
A master generator is configured to use a duty upper limit value and a duty lower limit value to perform duty restriction processing on a PWM signal in continuous Y cycles out of generated X cycles, and transmit the PWM signal after the restriction processing to a slave generator. The slave generator is configured to receive the PWM signal after the restriction processing transmitted from the master generator as a received PWM signal, and determine that a reception abnormality exists when the received PWM signal is received as a signal representing a duty less than the duty lower limit value or a duty more than the duty upper limit value in continuous (X−Y+1) cycles.
US10141873B2
The present invention concerns an electronic device comprising a calculation unit capable of generating a signal representative of a physical magnitude, for a motor driving a display device, said motor comprising a rotor in a magnetic circuit, two terminals, one positive and one negative, via which the calculation unit controls the motor, the electronic device further comprising at least one shock detector circuit connected between the calculation unit and a motor terminal for the detection of an external shock applied to the motor, said motor having a first position of stable equilibrium placed at a reference angular position and a second position of stable equilibrium placed at 180° from the first stable angular position, for each direction of rotation, a maximum angular position from which it is no longer possible to return the motor rotor into a prior angular position, the calculation unit using an algorithm which, following a shock, can detect the direction of rotation of the rotor by analyzing an induced voltage detected by said detector circuit and cause to be sent a blocking pulse of reverse polarity to that of the induced voltage.
US10141860B2
A converter with a DC link for converting an input voltage into an alternating voltage with a pre-determined amplitude and frequency for driving a single or multiple-phase load may include a number of modules which are stackable over one another. Each module may have a ceramic cooling body with a receiving surface on which electronic components of one phase are mounted, wherein the ceramic cooling body has channel(s) in the region of the receiving surface for carrying a coolant during the operation of the converter The converter may include a DC link capacitor and input-side and output-side power connections arranged on a first carrier having a arranged perpendicular to the receiving surface. The converter may also include a control unit for driving the electronic components of the phase, the control unit being arranged on a second carrier having a main plane arranged perpendicularly to the plane of the receiving surface.
US10141859B2
A series module assembly particularly for drive technology includes a bus system and series modules arranged in side by side in a row on a mounting base. The series modules each have an electronics housing in which at least one electronic element is arranged. The bus system includes busbars that extend outside of the electronics housing, wherein at least one of the busbars can be electrically connected to the electronic element of one of the series modules via a plug assembly. The series module assembly is designed for wall mounting. The bus bars are pre-assembled with a mounting and bus rail and anchored to the wall. The mounting and bus rail is configured so that the series modules can be mounted on the mounting and bus rail in a direction parallel to the wall in order to establish contact with the busbars. The mounting and bus rail can be adjustably mounted at a selected distance from the wall.
US10141857B2
An energy supply device for providing electric energy, wherein the energy supply device has at least one input interface for receiving electric energy and an output interface for outputting electric energy, and wherein at least one supercapacitor is connected between the input interface and the output interface.
US10141851B2
A direct current (DC) to DC power converter includes a first converter for converting a first DC bus voltage into a first high frequency AC voltage and a second converter for converting a second high frequency alternating current (AC) voltage into a second DC bus voltage. The DC to DC converter also includes a resonant circuit for coupling the first bus converter and the second bus converter and a controller for providing switching signals to the first converter and the second converter to operate the power converter in a soft switching mode. The resonant circuit includes a high frequency transformer coupled between the first converter and the second converter and an auxiliary converter coupled in series with a first resonant inductor and the high frequency transformer. The resonant circuit further includes second inductor coupled across a first winding of the high frequency transformer. An auxiliary voltage generated by auxiliary converter is added in series with an output voltage of the first converter.
US10141848B2
An interleaved power factor corrector includes a first PFC component, a second PFC component, a current sampling resistor, a current detection component, a voltage detection component, and a control component. The current detection component is configured to detect a current I1, a current I2 and a current Iin. The voltage detection component is configured to detect a voltage U1 inputted into the interleaved power factor corrector and an output voltage U2. The control component is configured to generate, according to the current I1, current I2, current Iin, voltage U1, voltage U2 and a preset target output voltage, a first PWM control signal and a second PWM control signal, in which the first PWM control signal is different from the second PWM control signal by a half of a carrier period. The interleaved power factor corrector has lower circuit cost.
US10141844B2
The present disclosure shows ways to use multiple “integrated voltage regulator (IVR) units” to offer IVRs that can cover a wide range of specifications without having to design separate IVRs for different specifications. Instead of designing separate IVRs and paying for separate mask sets for IVRs targeting different specifications (e.g., different design and mask sets for 1 A IVR, 5 A IVR), the disclosed embodiments present ways to design and fabricate large numbers of the same unit IVRs (e.g., 1 A IVR) and decide how many of them to use post-fabrication to deliver different current specifications (e.g., use five 1 A unit IVRs for 5 A, use ten 1 A unit IVRs for 10 A). These disclosed embodiments reduce the mask cost of fabricating IVRs for different specifications and reduce design time by focusing on a single unit IVR.
US10141843B2
A switching converter, including an input interface for providing an input voltage, an output interface for providing at least one output voltage, a voltage conversion device for converting the provided input voltage into one of the at least one output voltage, and a clock generator for providing a working clock, the clock generator being configured in such a way that the clock generator provides a modulated basic clock as the working clock. A control unit including such a switching converter, and a method for operating such a switching converter, are also described.
US10141840B2
Disclosed is a feedback control circuit and a power management module, wherein the feedback control circuit includes a sample analysis circuit, a comparison circuit and a switch control circuit, and the sample analysis circuit samples an output signal of the power management chip, and analyzes a variation trend of the output signal to obtain a first output signal; the comparison circuit compares the first output signal and a reference signal to obtain a second output signal; the switch control circuit comprises a Pulse Width Modulation PWM control circuit and a switch, wherein the PWM control circuit is coupled to the comparison circuit and the switch control circuit, and the switch is coupled to the power management chip, and the switch control signal adjusts a duty ratio of the switch according to the second output signal to adjust a compensation duration of the output signal of the power management chip.
US10141836B1
A control circuit includes a set of alternating-current (AC) power receiver terminals, a rectification unit, a transistor, a switch, a detection unit, a comparison unit and a logic control circuit. The AC power receiver terminals receive and send external AC power to the rectification unit. The rectification unit outputs an operation voltage accordingly. The transistor is coupled between the rectification unit and the switch. The detection unit is coupled to the rectification unit to generate a first detection voltage and a second detection voltage according to the operation voltage. When the first detection signal is equal to the second detection signal, the comparison unit sends a comparison signal. The logic control circuit turns on the transistor and the switch if the comparison signal still has not been received after a predetermined time interval has elapsed.
US10141835B2
A system to regulate an output voltage based on a reference voltage is described. The system has an error amplifier to determine an error voltage by cumulating a deviation of a feedback voltage from the reference voltage, wherein the feedback voltage is indicative of the output voltage. The system has a PWM unit to generate a PWM control signal based on the error voltage. In addition, the system has a voltage setting unit to set the output voltage based on the PWM control signal. The system has a saturation detection unit to detect a saturation situation of the system. In addition, the system has a clamping means to interrupt a further build-up of the error voltage in the saturated direction while allowing a modification of the error voltage in an opposite direction, opposite to the saturated direction, if a saturation situation is detected.
US10141830B1
In an embodiment, a circuit for a Direct Current to Direct Current (DC-DC) converter comprises an input voltage detection circuit, an oscillator circuit, and a burst entry detection circuit. The input voltage detection circuit produces, using a voltage sense signal, a first input voltage indicator. The first input voltage indicator indicates a voltage range selected from a plurality of voltage ranges. The oscillator circuit selects, using the first indicator, a foldback curve from a plurality of foldback curves. The foldback curve is used to determine a blanking time of a gate signal. The burst entry detection circuit determines, using an indicator of an output power of the DC-DC converter, whether to operate the circuit in a burst mode.
US10141829B2
A power unit for producing both alternating current and direct current includes a switcher connected to a direct current source, wherein the switcher includes circuitry configured to produce both alternating current having first characteristics and direct current having second characteristics, wherein the circuitry comprises a plurality of insulated gate bipolar transistor circuits and drive circuits connected to the insulated gate bipolar transistor circuits. The switcher may receive variable voltage and frequency or constant voltage and frequency. In either case, the switcher circuitry is able to provide power of the desired characteristics. The power unit may be used to power aircraft when the aircraft is on the ground.
US10141826B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a linear vibration motor including a stator part including a magnet, a vibrator part including a coil positioned to face the magnet and a printed circuit board coupled to the coil and accommodated in an internal space of the stator part, and an elastic member connecting the stator part and the vibrator part to each other. According to at least one embodiment, the printed circuit board has one end coupled to the stator part and the other end coupled to the vibrator part and at least partially covers the coil facing the stator part.
US10141823B2
The present application relates to the field of motors, and provides a motor, a gimbal and a mechanical are having the same. The motor includes a support, a circuit board installed on the support and including a coil circuit, a rotating shaft, and a permanent magnet. The support is installed on the rotating shaft. The permanent magnet is disposed adjacent to the coil circuit, and there is a gap between the permanent magnet and the coil circuit. The permanent magnet is of an axially magnetized structure. In the present application, the circuit board is adopted as a carrier of the coil circuit to replace an icon core in the traditional technology, thereby eliminating defects such as cogging torque, hysteresis, and eddy-current losses that are generated by an existing motor from the root. More over, the axial size of the motor and the weight and volume of the motor are reduced.
US10141820B2
Method for removing U-shaped winding elements for an electromagnetically excitable core of an electric rotation machine from a setting tool, wherein the U-shaped winding elements are set and are initially located in the setting tool, wherein in one step the winding elements are partially lifted out from the setting tool, so that parts of rod sections of the winding elements are freely accessible from the outside, characterized in that the winding elements are removed from the setting tool by means of a removal device, by gripping the rod sections.
US10141818B2
A winding frame structure for an automation winding machine to conveniently produce the windings of a motor includes two barrier plates, four ceramic heat conductive structures with high heat conductivity, and special-structured grooves. The ceramic heat conductive structures can significantly enlarge the heat dissipation area of the windings. The heat generated by the windings can be swiftly transmitted firstly to the ceramic heat conductive structures, then to the stator inside a space formed by assembling the four ceramic heat conductive structures, and finally to a motor casing. An air-cooling or water-cooling apparatus is introduced to swiftly dissipate the heat at the motor casing. Provided by the winding frame structure, the temperature difference between the inside and the outside of the winding frame structure can be reduced, the heat dissipation process can be more efficiently, and the winding arrangement of the windings for motors can be conveniently performed.
US10141816B2
Disclosed is a method of operating a large electric generator, the generator having a rotor arranged along a centerline of the generator, a core arranged coaxially and surrounding the rotor; a plurality of stator windings arranged within the core; a stator frame arranged to fixedly support the core and rotationally support the rotor; a gas cooling system that circulates a cooling gas within the generator, the method steps including circulating a cooling liquid that cool the stator windings; sensing an output parameter of the generator; comparing via a control system the sensed output parameter of the generator to a predetermined scheme; and sending a control signal to an adjusting device in accordance with the control system comparison.
US10141813B2
A power strut for a vehicle lift gate, has a driver sleeve, a lead screw sleeve, a lead screw and a spring mounted in the lead screw sleeve. A gear reduction mechanism and a motor assembly are mounted in the driver sleeve for driving the lead screw. The motor assembly has a magnet mounting bracket fixed to the driver sleeve and a rotor disposed in the magnet mounting bracket. An end cover and multiple permanent magnets are fixed to the magnet mounting bracket. Each of the magnets is positioned between a corresponding pair of adjacent connecting portions and contacts an inner surface of the driver sleeve, thereby the driver sleeve provides a magnetic path between the magnets.
US10141808B2
A motor includes a stator, a separating member and a rotor. The stator includes an iron core. The separating member is made of insulating material and includes a first separating part, a second separating part and a third separating part. The second separating part is arranged between the first and third separating parts, and the iron core is arranged between the first and second separating parts. The rotor is rotatably coupled with the separating member and includes a permanent magnet unit arranged between the first and second separating parts. As such, the separating member is able to provide an improved insulation effect for the motor, thus prolonging the service life of the motor.
US10141800B2
A magnet-embedded rotor includes a cylindrical rotor core that rotates together with a rotating shaft; and permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core. The rotor core includes core members, and each core member includes a tubular portion into which the rotating shaft is inserted and projecting portions formed to project in a radial direction of the tubular portion from an outer periphery of the tubular portion and arranged apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the tubular portion. The rotor core is formed by assembling the core members such that the tubular portions are arranged on one straight line and the projecting portion of the core member and the projecting portion of the other core member are adjacent to each other in a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The permanent magnet is embedded in each projecting portion of each core member.
US10141799B2
The present invention relates to an outer-rotator-type switched reluctance motor that may provide a shortest magnetic path by configuring a magnetic circuit in stator salient poles and rotor salient poles with circumferential-directional slots formed in the stator salient poles and coils passing through the slots and wound along the circumferential direction of the stator core, may thus minimize magnetic loss in the cores to maximize use efficiency of magnetic energy, and may provide a sturdy structure while simplifying coil winding work.
US10141793B2
A wireless power transmitter includes a source resonator configured to transmit wireless power by resonating with a target resonator, a first power supply configured to supply power to the source resonator, a first switch configured to turn ON/OFF a connection between of the source resonator to the first power supply, and a controller configured to match an impedance of the source resonator by estimating a distance between the source resonator and the target resonator.
US10141791B2
An example system includes: a wireless power transmitter with (i) a processor running a power transmitter manager application; (ii) a wireless communication hardware having a transmitter application programming interface (API), the transmitter API operatively coupled with the power transmitter manager application and controlling the wireless communication hardware; and (iii) a transmitter antenna array that creates pockets of energy near a wireless power receiver, and the transmitter antenna array is partially responsive to instructions from the power transmitter manager application. The transmitter API calls the power transmitter manager application through a transmitter callback function, and the transmitter callback function sends a callback when a communication connection begins, a communication connection ends, a communication connection is attempted, or a message is received. The system also includes the wireless power receiver: running a power receiver application and including receiver wireless antenna array that receives and uses wireless power from the pockets of energy.
US10141788B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dynamically tuning circuit elements. One aspect includes a variable capacitance device. The device includes a first capacitor, a first switch, a second capacitor, a second switch, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to adjust respective capacitances of the first and second capacitors by causing a first control signal to be applied to the first-switch control terminal for a duration of time in response to detecting a zero voltage condition across the first switch, and by causing a second control signal to be applied to the second-switch control terminal for the duration of time in response to detecting a zero voltage condition across the second switch.
US10141775B2
This mobile terminal charging device has a support plate in which the front surface-side part is where a mobile terminal is installed, a charging coil disposed facing the support plate on the rear surface-side of the support plate, a plurality of detection coils concentrically disposed in the charging coil on a surface opposite the support plate, and a control unit connected to the detecting coils. When a charging operation is carried out, the control unit compares the difference between a voltage value detected using a first detecting coil among the plurality of detecting coils, and a voltage value detected using two detecting coils from a group comprising the first detecting coil and at least one detecting coil disposed outward of the first detecting coil. In addition, the control unit executes a safety operation in accordance with the results of the comparison.
US10141774B2
The present invention disclose a charging circuit including: a first input/output end of a wired connection module is configured to connect to an output end, a second input/output end of the wired connection module connects to a first input end of a switch circuit, and the second input/output end connects to a first input/output end; a first input end of a control circuit connects to the second input/output end, and an output end connects to an enabling end of a wireless charging module; an output end connects to a second input end of the switch circuit; a first output end connects to an input/output end; a second input/output end of the shunt circuit connects to the input/output end, a third end of the shunt circuit connects to the output end; an output end of the charging management module is configured to connect to a battery.
US10141773B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for method is provided for controlling power transmission in a power transmitter. Voltage information required by a plurality of power receivers is received from the plurality of power receivers. The voltage information includes a minimum voltage, a reference voltage that is greater than the minimum voltage, and a demanded voltage. Power is transmitted to the plurality of power receivers. A report about a power reception condition while transmitting the power is received from the plurality of power receivers. The report includes a measured voltage at the plurality of power receivers. One of the plurality of power receivers is selected. An amount of the power is adjusted by minimizing a difference between the demanded voltage and the measured voltage of the selected power receiver.
US10141769B2
Disclosed is a wireless power transfer system-charger for wireless power transmission. The wireless power transfer system-charger includes: a power converting unit to convert a DC signal into an AC signal; a control unit to control the power converting unit with a first or second operating frequency; and an induction-type antenna system and a resonance-type antenna system connected in parallel to each other, wherein power is transmitted through the induction-type antenna system or the resonance-type antenna system according to a control of the control unit.
US10141767B2
A microprojection device and a magnetic suspension base are provided. The microprojection device comprises a microprojector and a main suspension magnet. The microprojector is fixed to the main suspension magnet. The magnetic field direction at a magnetic field center of the main suspension magnet is in the vertical direction so the microprojector can be driven to be suspended in a magnetic field environment. The magnetic suspension base comprises: a housing and at least three base magnets disposed therein. The magnetic field direction at the center of a combined magnetic field formed by the at least three base magnets is in the vertical direction; the magnetic intensity at the center of the combined magnetic field is less than the magnetic intensity near the base magnets; and the microprojector can be driven to be suspended under the magnetic field environment by being fixed on the magnet.
US10141765B2
A circuit for use with a Universal Serial Bus (USB) socket includes a power converter coupled to receive an input voltage at an input terminal and coupled to provide an output voltage at an output terminal. A transistor is coupled between the output terminal of the power converter and a bus voltage terminal of the USB socket. A USB communication controller is coupled to the USB socket. The USB communication controller includes an output terminal coupled to a control terminal of the transistor. A bleeder circuit is coupled between the output terminal of the USB communication controller and the bus voltage terminal of the USB socket.
US10141752B2
A battery monitoring unit includes a control IC, a CPU, and a load circuit. In the inside of the battery monitoring unit, the control IC and the CPU each of which is a control circuit are connected to a unit internal ground that is common thereto. The load circuit is connected to a power ground different from the unit internal ground. In the inside of the battery monitoring unit, the power ground and the unit internal ground are connected with each other via a diode. The unit internal ground and the power ground are connected to an external ground that is common thereto via an electric wire extending from a first ground terminal and an electric wire extending from a second ground terminal, respectively.
US10141750B2
A battery apparatus with voltage-balancing control and a method controlling the same employ a voltage-balancing module, which balances voltage values of multiple series-connected batteries of the battery apparatus, and accumulates voltage difference values of each battery relative to reference voltage values to adjust an allowable discharge control parameter Duty for each battery. By virtue of a cycle for updating the Duty, voltage differences of the multiple series-connected batteries can be lowered below a preset value.
US10141748B2
A wireless power transfer system includes a coil assembly including a pair of spaced apart inductive coils positioned on a same side of a ferrite pad, and a switching network. The switching network, in response to an indication of a corresponding inductive coil assembly configuration, selectively operates the coils in a two-pole mode or a three-pole mode.
US10141747B2
An apparatus for transferring electrical power and data includes a primary circuit comprising a source of electrical energy (10), at least a pair of transmitting armatures (100, 100′), a first of the armatures (100) being connected in use to a different electrical potential with respect to a second of the armatures (100′), at least an electric power transmitter (12) connected to the source of electrical energy (10) and to at least one of the armatures (100, 100′), and at least a transceiver (20) connected to at least one of the transmitting armatures (100, 100′). The transceiver (20) is particularly suitable for use in receiving and/or transmitting data via the transmitting armatures (100, 100′) independently of the power transmitted by the power transmitter (12).
US10141744B2
Systems and methods for regulating a short circuit current associated with an energy storage system are provided. In one embodiment, an energy storage system can include an energy storage device and a switching power supply coupled to the energy storage device. The energy storage system can further include one or more cables configured to couple the energy storage device to the switching power supply, and a magnetic framework positioned proximate the one or more cables. The magnetic framework can include one or more magnetic structures and can span at least a portion of the length of the cables. The one or more cables are positioned in a physical arrangement that, in conjunction with the magnetic framework, facilitates a selected inductance between the cables.
US10141743B2
The present invention discloses a Bipolar VSC-HVDC and UPFC Hybrid Topology and its operation method. The first control circuit includes a positive and a negative circuit at the series side, in which the VSC converter can operate in bipolar mode; the second control circuit includes a positive and a negative circuit, in which the VSC converter can operate in bipolar mode; the third control circuit is the same as the second control circuit in terms of structure; the positive electrode and negative electrode of the second control circuit are connected to the DC bus via a DC breaker respectively; the other end of the DC transmission line is connected to the third control circuit via a DC breaker. In addition, the hybrid topology of the present invention can perform multiple operation methods and fast conversions, including the VSC-HVDC and UPFC hybrid operation, UPFC operation, VSC-HVDC operation and generalized UPFC operation, featuring long distance power transmission for high power in VSC-HVDC mode and distribution control of AC power flow in UPFC mode. As a result, the flexibility and availability of system operation can be improved.
US10141740B2
A power converter may be configured to power multiple output loads, including a main output load and at least one auxiliary output load. The power converter may include control circuitry that controls power delivery to output circuits coupled to the output loads. When the main output load is operating in a reduced power mode, the control circuitry may trigger the switching circuitry to increase the supply of power in order to increase the auxiliary voltages used to power the auxiliary loads if one or more of the auxiliary voltages drops below a threshold due to the main output load operating in the reduced power mode.
US10141738B2
A local positioning system can be powered via local and remote direct current sources. The local positioning system may have a power module that selectively activates one, or both, local and remote direct current sources to power a location circuit positioned on a circuit board. The location circuit may attain a position of a user and subsequently transfer that attained position to a remote host via the remote direct current source.
US10141727B2
A wire harness with a fixing member that is provided can prevent a fixing member from becoming shifted a large amount in the axial direction of a pipe, and enables adjustment of the position of the fixing member. The wire harness includes: a pipe (P) into which electrical wires (W) are inserted; an exterior member that has a bellows portion and surrounds the outer side of at least a portion of the pipe (P) in the axial direction, the bellows portion having mountain portions and valley portions that are successively formed in an alternating manner in the axial direction; and a fixing member that has locking portions, is attached to the exterior member, and is to be fixed to a fixing portion (B). The locking portions are locked to the bellows portion.
US10141722B2
Thermally conductive assemblies that provide a heat conduction path include at least one thermally conductive inner member with longitudinally opposing first and second ends and an open center channel and an outer member surrounding the at least one thermally conductive inner member. The outer member is sufficiently flexible to expand outward in response to an outward force applied by the at least one thermally conductive inner member. The at least one inner member can be a plurality of cooperating inner members that have inner surfaces that align to form an inner perimeter surrounding the open center channel.
US10141716B1
A laser diode firing circuit for a light detection and ranging device is disclosed. The firing circuit includes a laser diode coupled in series to a transistor, such that current through the laser diode is controlled by the transistor. The laser diode is configured to emit a pulse of light in response to current flowing through the laser diode. The firing circuit includes a capacitor that is configured to charge via a charging path that includes an inductor and to discharge via a discharge path that includes the laser diode. The transistor controlling current through the laser diode can be a Gallium nitride field effect transistor.
US10141713B2
The present invention relates to a device and a method for performing overall frequency stabilization of a femtosecond laser optical comb by using optical modes directly extracted from the optical comb, and more particularly, to a device and a method for performing overall frequency stabilization of a femtosecond laser optical comb by using optical modes directly extracted from the optical comb capable of stabilizing an overall range of frequencies of the femtosecond laser optical comb by using optical modes directly extracted from the optical comb and generating a cw laser and pulse having an excellent frequency stability and linewidth from the stabilized optical comb.
US10141702B2
The invention relates to a discharge device for discharging electrostatic charges from a shaft comprising a flexurally elastic conductor having a carbon fiber arrangement comprising at least two conductor portions (21, 22), which are arranged on a holder, extend transversely to a longitudinal axis of the shaft and are insulated from the holder and which can be connected to a ground conductor (42) via their portion ends (40, 41), which are accommodated in the holder, each of the conductor portions having a shaft contact portion (30, 31), and the shaft contact portions together forming a contact arrangement for making contact with two circumferential contact regions (33, 34) of a shaft circumference (32, 35) arranged opposite each other in a shaft contact plane W, such that the shaft contact portions are arranged tangentially to the shaft circumference when making contact with the shaft circumference.
US10141692B2
A shielded coaxial connector including a central conductor and a waveguide to shield the central conductor from RF signals.
US10141688B2
The invention relates to a connector comprising a first connector portion and a second connector portion, the first connector portion comprising a seal, a resilient detent element and an outer conductor portion, a portion of the resilient detent element contacting a radially outward facing surface of the outer conductor portion, the second connector portion comprising a counterpart detent element, in a mated configuration of the first connector portion and the second connector portion, the resilient detent element engages the counterpart detent element and locks the first connector portion to the second connector portion, and a compression of the seal in the mated configuration effecting a force parallel to a longitudinal axis of the first connector portion, the force inhibiting play between the resilient detent element and the counterpart detent element.
US10141686B2
A grommet for use in a cable fitting includes a body having a bore substantially therethrough and a resilient membrane located within the bore. The resilient membrane has a thinner membrane portion extending radially towards the bore to provide a controlled tear during cable insertion. The body has an exit opening which comprises resilient gripping teeth projecting axially from the body with an axially extending resilient foldable membrane located between at least two adjacent resilient teeth and foldable therebetween when they are radially compressed. Once force is applied by the axial movement of the fitting assembly onto a tapered surface of the grommet, the flexible gripping members radially collapse towards an inserted cable. The grommet may be assembled in a strain relief connector having a nut, a connector body and optionally an insert.
US10141684B2
A strain relief connector assembly for flexible electrical wiring is provided that includes an adapter that is configured to form a sealed connection to the wiring and a connector and to form a connection with a strain relieving device, which can include an arc of bend control mesh.
US10141674B2
Tamper resistant cartridges for electrical devices are provided. The tamper resistant cartridges include a housing and one or more tamper resistant assemblies configured to normally block access to electrical contacts with the electrical device, and to permit access to such electrical contacts when the line phase prongs of a plug are inserted into the electrical device.
US10141667B2
The present invention provides an electrical interconnection system comprising: a paddle card comprising a plurality of first contact pads positioned on a first surface of the paddle card and a plurality of second contact pads positioned on an opposite second surface of the paddle card; a first wafer comprising a plurality of first conductors each having a first contact portion; and a second wafer comprising a plurality of second conductors each having a second contact portion; wherein the first wafer and the second wafer are assembled together to have the first contact portion and the second contact portion face each other and be able to form a gap therebetween for accommodating at least part of the paddle card; each first contact portion is adapted to be in electrical contact with a corresponding first contact pad and each second contact portion is adapted to be in electrical contact with a corresponding second contact pad when the paddle card is at least partly accommodated in the gap.
US10141655B2
A multiport RF switch assembly with integrated impedance tuning capability is described that provides a single RFIC solution to switch between transmit and receive paths in a communication system. Dynamic tuning is integrated into each switch sub-assembly to provide the capability to impedance match antennas or other components connected to the multiport switch. The tuning function at the switch can be used to shape the antenna response to provide better filtering at the switch/RF front-end (RFFE) interface to allow for reduced filtering requirements in the RFFE. Memory is designed into the multiport switch assembly, allowing for a look-up table or other data to reside with the switch and tuning circuit. The resident memory will result in easier integration of the tunable switch assembly into communication systems.
US10141651B2
An antenna for electrical coupling to a wireless communication circuit includes a first conductive strip segment having a first length, a second conductive strip segment having a second length different from the first length and coupled to the first conductive strip segment at a feed point to be electrically coupled to the drive node, and a third conductive strip segment having a third length less than both the first length and the second length. A first end of the third conductive strip is coupled to the feed point and a second end is coupled to circuit ground. The first conductive strip segment provides a first specified operating frequency range at a fundamental resonance mode corresponding to the first length plus the third length, and the second conductive strip segment provides a second specified operating frequency range at a fundamental resonance mode corresponding to the second length plus the third length.
US10141649B2
An antenna device including: a core formed by magnetic material; a terminal attachment unit arranged on one end side of the core; a coil which is arranged on the outer circumferential side of the core and concurrently, which is formed by winding a conductive wire; a plurality of terminal members which are mounted on the terminal attachment unit and concurrently, each of which is electrically connected with a terminal of the conductive wire or an electronic component at any position thereof; a connector connecting unit provided with a connector hole into which an external connector is inserted; and a partition unit partitioning the terminal attachment unit and the connector connecting unit, wherein a terminal hole is provided at the partition unit, and at least two or more of the terminal members are plugged-in into the terminal hole and concurrently, are mounted in a state of protruding toward the connector hole.
US10141640B2
A multi-polarized phased array antenna includes an element, a first feed line, a second feed line, a first phase shifter, and a second phase shifter. The element is fed with a first polarization signal at first and third angles, and a second polarization signal at second and fourth angles. One of the first polarization signal and second polarization signal is cancelled at a feed point in at least one of a first feed line and second feed line by operation of the first phase shifter, second phase shifter, first angle, second angle, third angle, and fourth angle. The first phase shifter provides a first 180° phase shift between the first and third angles, and the second phase shifter provides a second 180° phase shift between the second and fourth angles. A corresponding method of increasing isolation between polarizations in the multi-polarized phased array antenna is also provided.
US10141639B2
An antenna is disclosed. The antenna has an electrical cable, an antenna body including an element part and a ground part, the element part having an electric wire connecting part electrically connected with the electrical cable, and an antenna holder having an antenna holding part connected to the antenna body and a cable holding part holding the electrical cable.
US10141636B2
A vehicular radar system includes a first printed circuit board (PCB) having a first material. The vehicular radar system also includes a plurality of end-fire antennas positioned on the first PCB. The vehicular radar system also includes a second PCB stacked on or under the first PCB and having a second material that has a greater rigidity than the first material. The vehicular radar system also includes a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) coupled to the plurality of end-fire antennas and configured to control the plurality of end-fire antennas.
US10141632B2
Wireless electronic devices may include a ground plane and metal antenna portions separated by input connector portions improving the metal look and feel of the wireless electronic device.
US10141629B2
A wireless parking meter with an improved antenna location is described. The antenna may be located within a covering protruding from the top of the parking meter, allowing radio frequency (RF) signals to be transmitted through a portion of the parking meter with high permittivity to the RF signals. Additionally or alternatively, the antenna may be located within the parking meter housing above a lower parking meter mechanism housing so that RF signals can be transmitted through the dome covering of the parking meter, which may have a high permittivity to the RF signals.
US10141627B2
A set top box comprises multiple antennae (15) are positioned outside the periphery of the printed circuit board (5). The antennae can be vertically oriented (15V) or horizontally oriented (15H). The antennae (15) are maintained at least 20 mm from a heatsink (6) and the printed circuit board (5) to prevent electrostatic discharge. The set top box includes vents (14) in the bottom frame (2) outside the periphery of the printed circuit board (5) to promote heat dissipation.
US10141625B1
A mobile terminal includes patch antennas forming an array, an integrated circuit (IC) controlling transmission and reception of radio signals of the patch antennas, and a case disposed to cover the IC, wherein the case includes: a base forming an appearance, a heat dissipation sheet attached to an inner surface of the base to dissipate heat generated in the IC and having an opening corresponding to the patch antennas, and a dielectric disposed to cover the opening and formed of a dielectric material to allow radio signals from the patch antennas to be radiated to the outside of the case.
US10141620B2
A phase shift device includes a planar transmission line that is formed by a signal electrode and a ground electrode which are separated by a dielectric substance, whereby the signal electrode of the planar transmission line is divided into several pieces and includes overlapping areas of adjacent pieces that are filled with a tunable liquid crystal material, thereby forming a dielectric tunable component (varactor) with a metal-insulator-metal type capacitor. The several pieces of the signal electrode are arranged at two or more different distance levels with respect to the ground electrode. The tunable liquid crystal material is arranged as a continuous layer between several pieces of the signal electrode that are arranged at two different distance levels.
US10141619B2
A metal-air battery including: a negative electrode metal layer; a negative electrode electrolyte layer disposed on the negative electrode metal layer; a positive electrode layer disposed on the negative electrode electrolyte layer, the positive electrode layer comprising a positive electrode material which is capable of using oxygen as an active material; and a gas diffusion layer disposed on the positive electrode layer, wherein the negative electrode electrolyte layer is between the negative electrode metal layer and the positive electrode layer; wherein the negative electrode metal layer, the negative electrode electrolyte layer, and the positive electrode layer are disposed on the gas diffusion layer so that the positive electrode layer contacts a lower surface and an opposite upper surface of the gas diffusion layer, and wherein one side surface of the gas diffusion layer is exposed to an outside.
US10141614B2
An electrical combination including a power tool and a battery pack. The power tool includes power tool terminals. The battery pack is configured to be interfaced with the power tool. The battery pack includes a battery pack housing, at least three terminals, and a plurality of battery cells. The battery pack terminals include a positive terminal, a negative terminal, and a sense terminal. The at least three terminals are configured to be interfaced with the power tool terminals. The plurality of battery cells are arranged within and supported by the battery pack housing. Each of the battery cells has a lithium-based chemistry and a respective state of charge, and power is transferable between the battery cells and the power tool. A circuit is configured to monitor the battery cells, detect a charge imbalance among the battery cells, and prevent the battery pack from operating when the charge imbalance is detected.
US10141613B2
A battery module system includes at least one cell and a battery module processor. The battery module processor may be configured to receive at least one cell signal associated with the at least one cell, wherein the at least one cell signal includes at least one of a temperature signal, a voltage signal, or a current signal. The battery module processor may be also configured to determine a status of the at least one cell based on the at least one cell signal. The battery module system may be configured to removably connect to a master/module interface, and to deliver power from the at least one cell to the master/module interface. The battery module system may be also configured to communicate, from the battery module processor, the status of the at least one cell to the master/module interface.
US10141609B2
The invention relates to an electrode coil for a galvanic element, comprising a first electrode (4), a second electrode (6), a separator, and a reference electrode (8). The first electrode (4) and the second electrode (6) are insulated from each other by the separator, and the reference electrode (8) is arranged between the first electrode (4) and the second electrode (6) and is adhered to the first electrode (4) or to the second electrode (6). The invention further relates to a galvanic element comprising such an electrode coil and to a method for producing such an electrode coil.
US10141606B2
An electrolyte solution including a solvent and an electrolyte salt. The solvent contains a compound (A) represented by the formula (A) in an amount of 0.001 to 10 ppm in the electrolyte solution: wherein R1 and R2 may be the same as or different from each other, and individually represent a C1-C7 alkyl group.
US10141598B2
An article having (a) one or more stacks of a plurality of electrode plates include: (i) one or more bipolar plates having a substrate having an anode on one surface and a cathode on an opposing surface; (ii) a separator and a liquid electrolyte located between each of the electrode plates; (b) a first end plate having a first end plate internal reinforcement structure, attached at an end of the one or more stacks; (c) a second end plate having a second end plate internal reinforcement structure, attached at an opposing end of the one or more stacks as the first end plate; wherein the first end plate and the second end plate reinforce the plurality of electrode plates during a charge cycle, a discharge cycle, or both the charge cycle and the discharge cycle.
US10141584B2
A separator for a fuel cell includes a plurality of channels; and an inlet hole and an outlet hole formed in a first side and a second side of the plurality of channels, respectively, such that a reaction gas flows into and out from the separator to be exposed to a reaction surface including a membrane electrode assembly. The inlet hole is larger in size than the outlet hole.
US10141577B2
The catalytic electrode of the present invention does not cause electron transfer resistance, unlike conventional catalytic electrodes coated with Nafion or the like, and thus can achieve significantly high electron transfer efficiency. Accordingly, the catalytic electrode can have high power density, and thus has excellent physical properties.
US10141570B2
The present invention relates to a positive electrode active material including a lithium metal composite oxide having a layer crystal structure, and provides a novel positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary cell, which can suppress the reaction with an electrolyte solution and can raise the charge-discharge cycle ability of the cell, and can make good the output characteristics of the cell. There is proposed a positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary cell, including an active particle having a surface portion where one or a combination of two or more (these are referred to as “surface element A”) of the group consisting of Al, Ti and Zr is present, on a surface of a particle including a lithium metal composite oxide having a layer crystal structure and represented by the general formula: Li1+xM1−xO2 (wherein M is one or a combination of two or more (these are referred to as “constituent element M”) of the group consisting of Mn, Co, Ni, transition elements of from the third group elements to the 11th group elements of the periodic table, and typical elements up to the third period of the periodic table), wherein the ratio (CA/CM) of a concentration CA of the surface element A to a concentration CM of the constituent element M is higher than 0 and lower than 0.8, as measured by XPS; the amount of surface lithium impurity is smaller than 0.40% by weight; and in an X-ray diffraction pattern measured by XRD, the ratio (003)/(104) of an integral intensity of the peak originated from the (003) plane to an integral intensity of the peak originated from the (104) plane is higher than 1.15.
US10141567B2
There are provided a cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery, a method of preparing the same, and a lithium secondary battery containing the same. The cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes: a core made of a compound reversibly intercalating and deintercalating lithium; and a coating layer positioned on at least a portion of a surface of the compound, wherein the coating layer is a composite coating layer containing Li3PO4 and LiF, and further containing a lithium metal compound, a metal oxide, a metal fluoride compound, and/or a combination thereof, and the core is doped with fluorine.
US10141562B2
A battery capable of improving the cycle characteristics is provided. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, and an electrolytic solution. The anode includes an anode active material layer containing an anode active material having silicon as an element, and a coating layer that coats the anode active material layer, and contains an oxide of a 3d transition metal element at least one selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt, and nickel.
US10141554B2
An equipment enclosure includes an inner chamber having a top, a bottom opposing the top, and a plurality of sides between the top and the bottom, an outer chamber adjacent one of said plurality of sides of the inner chamber, and a wall extending between the inner chamber and the outer chamber. The inner chamber is configured to house one or more rechargeable batteries capable of releasing hydrogen gas over time. The wall includes one or more perforations to allow hydrogen gas released by the one or more rechargeable batteries to pass from the inner chamber into the outer chamber. The outer chamber includes an exterior wall having one or more perforations to allow the hydrogen gas in the outer chamber to exit the enclosure. Other example enclosures and methods of exhausting hydrogen gas from enclosures are also disclosed.
US10141551B2
A battery system includes a first battery pack, a second battery pack, a bidirectional power converter, and a current controller. The first battery pack includes at least one first battery cell. The second battery pack is connected to the first battery pack in parallel and includes at least one second battery cell. The bidirectional power converter is connected between the first battery pack and the second battery pack. The current controller sets a discharge current limit of the first battery pack based on a state of charge of the first battery pack and controls the bidirectional power converter to cause the first battery pack to output a discharge current that is less than or equal to the discharge current limit.
US10141543B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing an electronic device. An electronic device having excellent moisture blocking property and durability may be provided by the method.
US10141538B2
A sealant, a display panel and a display device are provided. The sealant includes: a main body material and a reflective material distributed in the main body material. In the case that the display device adopts the sealant, due to the scattering effect of the reflective material, the light incident onto the sealant is scattered by the reflective material and the light scattered by the reflective material cannot be continuously propagated along an original total reflection propagation direction, so that the light, which is originally totally reflected, emerges from the display panel, and thus the light extraction efficiency of the display panel is improved.
US10141532B2
The present invention relates to curable barrier encapsulants or sealants for electronic devices that have pressure sensitive adhesive properties. The encapsulants are especially suitable for organic electronic devices that require lower laminating temperature profiles. The encapsulant protects active organic/polymeric components within an organic electronic device from environmental elements, such as moisture and oxygen.
