US10155107B2
This disclosure describes various modular electrode assemblies. For example, an implantable modular electrode assembly may include a hub including a plurality of electrical contacts configured to receive electrical signals from an implantable medical device, a first electrode module including a first substrate and a first plurality of electrodes on the first substrate, and a second electrode module including a second substrate and a second plurality of electrodes on the second substrate. The first and second electrode modules may be connectable to the hub, where the plurality of electrical contacts electrically communicate with the first and second plurality of electrodes.
US10155103B2
A tubular fitting for medical fluid lines includes a hollow body within which a male connector and an opposite female connector are coaxially housed. The male connector is coupled in rotation with respect to the body in a direction corresponding to a screwing with a female connector of the line, while it is normally freely rotatable in the unscrewing direction, in the same way as the female connector is coupled in rotation with respect to the body in the direction corresponding to the screwing with a male connector of the line, while it is normally freely rotatable in the unscrewing direction. The male connector and/or the female connector can possibly be locked in rotation with respect to the body in the unscrewing direction, only following a positive command.
US10155083B2
A centrifuge bowl for separating whole blood into blood components includes a rotatable body, and inlet, and a plurality of vibration reduction members. The rotatable body has a body portion and a neck portion. The body portion defines an interior for receiving whole blood, and the body is rotatable to separate the whole blood into a plurality of blood components. The inlet is in fluid communication with the interior of the rotatable body, and is configured to introduce the whole blood into the rotatable body. The plurality of vibration reduction members are spaced about the neck portion, and are configured to reduce vibration of the centrifuge bowl as the bowl is rotated.
US10155080B2
A renal therapy system with cassette-based blood and dialysate pumping is disclosed. An example system includes a blood pump actuator, a dialysis fluid pump actuator, a dialysis fluid heater, a dialyzer, and a disposable unit. The example disposable unit includes a blood cassette portion configured to be operatively connected to the blood pump actuator to pump blood through the blood cassette portion. The example disposable unit also includes a dialysis fluid cassette portion, separate from the blood cassette portion, configured to be operatively connected to the dialysis fluid pump actuator to pump dialysis fluid through the dialysis fluid cassette portion. The blood cassette portion and the dialysis fluid cassette portion are both in fluid communication with the dialyzer. The example disposable unit also includes a heater bag configured to be placed in operable communication with the dialysis fluid heater and in fluid communication with the dialysis fluid cassette portion.
US10155076B2
A method for treating dialysate solutions used in dialysis wherein dialysate is treated in an early part of a dialysis treatment session by external infusion of bicarbonate solution into the dialysate circuit to eliminate the need for bicarbonate requirements in concentrates used for preparation of precursor dialysate (priming) solutions and/or for a solid bicarbonate layer in a sorbent cartridge. Dialysate is treated in a latter part of a dialysis treatment session by introduction of sterile dilution water to reduce sodium concentration in the dialysate. The method provides a more efficient and reduced use of dialysate fluids, electrolytes, sorbent cartridge materials, equipment scale, or any combinations of these, while maintaining purity standards and applicable physiological ranges for bicarbonate, sodium, and other dialysate solution components over the course of a dialysis treatment session.
US10155069B2
A biocompatible bone graft for implanting into a bone wound site or screening a bone disease drug, comprising a porous scaffold structure made from a tannin-hydroxyapatite resin, a population of osteocompetent stem cells, and a growth medium. Methods of synthesis and physical characterization of the porous scaffold structure are described, as well as biological testing of the osteocompetent stem cells of the bone graft.
US10155062B2
The present disclosure is directed to a thermoresponsive adhesive material. The material comprises a linear, phase-separated polymer having fluorinated polymer units and hydrophobic polymer units. The fluorinated polymer units and the hydrophobic polymer units are randomly ordered along the polymer. The hydrophobic polymer units include a first hydrophobic polymer unit and a second hydrophobic polymer unit. The first hydrophobic polymer unit is chosen from acrylate units or methacrylate units each substituted with one or more linear alkyl groups, linear alkenyl groups or a combination thereof, where at least one of the linear alkyl groups or alkenyl groups has 16 to 20 carbon atoms. The second hydrophobic polymer unit is chosen from acrylate units or methacrylate units each substituted with one or more linear alkyl groups, linear alkenyl groups or a combination thereof, where at least one of the linear alkyl or alkenyl groups of the second hydrophobic polymer unit has 5 to 14 carbon atoms. A peak adhesive strength of the thermoresponsive adhesive material is modifiable and reversible with a change in temperature. Methods of making thermoresponsive adhesive materials, methods employing thermoresponsive adhesive materials and self-adhesive objects that include thermoresponsive adhesive materials are also disclosed.
US10155058B2
The present invention generally relates to fluorescent marking compositions and their use to determine whether a surface has been cleaned. More particularly, the marking compositions comprise fluorescent polymers.
US10155056B2
Disclosed herein are disinfecting caps that can be used to cover and disinfect both a male medical connector and needleless injection site when not in use or when disconnected from each other. The caps contain a disinfecting agent.
US10155053B2
This invention relates to a chemistry branch, particularly to the field of compounds' organic synthesis that belong to the aromatic bicyclic or naphthalene category, used in the detection of amyloid sheets. These new naphthalene derivatives have a general formula: Wherein R represents mutually independent groups. In I: R1: -alkylenyl-C(O)NH-alkylenyl-R3, -alkylenyl-C(O)O—R4, R3: —COOH, —OH, —SH, —NH2, -alkyl-NH-alkyl-N-dithiocarbamate alkaline earth metal salts, R4: H, succinimidyl group, R2: —H, -alkyl. In II: R1: -alkyl, -alkylenyl-halide-alkylenyl-hydroxyl-alkylenyl-O-aryl, —O-alkylsulfonate alkylenyl, R2: -halide-alkylenyl-O-aryl, -alkylenyl-O-alkylsulfonate, -alkylenyl-halide-, —CH(O), —HC═C(CN)2, —HC═CHNO2, -alkylenyl-NH2, -alkylenyl-NH-alkyl, -alkylenyl-alkyl-N-dithiocarbamate alkaline salts. The terms “alkyl” and “alkylenyl” refer to linear or branched aliphatic chains, preferably from 1 to 4 carbon atoms and the term halide to fluorine, bromine or iodine. These compounds are neutral, lipophilic and have low molecular weight and therefore they cross the blood brain barrier and attach to the amyloid sheets. The present invention provides procedures for obtaining naphthalene derivatives with good yields, which can be practical, economical and adapted to a larger-scale manufacturing.
US10155045B2
Derivatives of PSAs are synthesized, in which a reducing and/or non-reducing end terminal sialic acid unit is transformed into a N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) group. The derivatives may be reacted with substrates, for instance substrates containing amine or hydrazine groups, to form non-cross-linked/crosslinked polysialylated compounds. The substrates may, for instance, be therapeutically useful drugs, peptides or proteins or drug delivery systems.
US10155042B2
The present specification discloses pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and uses of treating a chronic inflammation and/or an inflammatory disease in an individual using such pharmaceutical compositions.
US10155036B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection, and discloses peptides, polypeptides, and polynucleotides that can be used to stimulate a CTL response against HBV infection. The peptide and/or proteins of the invention may be used as a therapeutic drug to stimulate the immune system to recognize and eliminate HBV infection in infected cells or as a vaccine for the prevention of disease.
US10155035B2
The present invention relates to modified, live Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome viruses. Viruses were genetically analyzed and selected based on phylogenetic grouping for modification by repeated passage in tissue culture. The modified, live viruses were assessed for the ability to provide protective immunity to heterologous viruses. The modified, live viruses are useful in vaccines, particularly in vaccines which can treat infection of swine by multiple heterologous viruses.
US10155032B2
A method of treating a patient who has prostate cancer includes administering to said patient a composition containing a population of activated T cells that selectively recognize cells in the patient that aberrantly express a peptide. A pharmaceutical composition contains activated T cells that selectively recognize cells in a patient that aberrantly express a peptide, and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, in which the T cells bind to the peptide in a complex with an MHC class I molecule, and the composition is for treating the patient who has prostate cancer. A method of treating a patient who has prostate cancer includes administering to said patient a composition comprising a peptide in the form of a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, thereby inducing a T-cell response to the prostate cancer.
US10155031B2
The present invention relates to a patient-specific tumor treatment targeting individual expression patterns of tumor antigens, in particular shared tumor antigens, and individual tumor mutations. In one aspect, the present invention relates to a method for preventing or treating cancer in a patient comprising the steps of: (i) inducing a first immune response against one or more tumor antigens in the patient, and (ii) inducing a second immune response against one or more tumor antigens in the patient wherein the second immune response is specific for cancer specific somatic mutations present in cancer cells of the patient.
US10155029B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for the manufacture and optimization of modified mRNA molecules via optimization of their terminal architecture.
US10155024B2
Provided is a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating B-cell lymphoma including IL-21 expressing mesenchymal stem cells, and a treating method using the same.
US10155016B2
The present disclosure relates, in part, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more polynucleotides suitable for enhancing, increasing, augmenting, and/or supplementing the levels of Collagen alpha-1 (VII) chain polypeptide and/or Lysyl hydroxylase 3 polypeptide and/or Keratin type I cytoskeletal 17 polypeptide in a subject. The present disclosure also relates, in part, to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use for providing prophylactic, palliative, or therapeutic relief of a wound, disorder, or disease of the skin in a subject, including a subject having, or at risk of developing, one or more symptoms of epidermolysis bullosa.
US10155004B2
The invention relates to 17-hydroxy-17-pentafluoroethyl-estra-4,9(10)-dien-11-aryl derivatives of Formula I with progesterone antagonizing action and method of production thereof, use thereof for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and use thereof for the production of medicinal products for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of fibroids of the uterus (myomas, uterine leiomyoma), endometriosis, heavy menstrual bleeds, meningiomas, hormone-dependent breast cancers and complaints associated with the menopause or for fertility control and emergency contraception.
US10154998B2
The invention provides methods that relate to a novel therapeutic strategy for the treatment of hematological malignancies and inflammatory diseases. In particular, the method comprises administering a compound of formula A, wherein R is H, halo, or C1-C6 alkyl; R′ is C1-C6 alkyl; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient; and administering at least one additional therapeutic agent.
US10154990B2
The present invention relates to the use of indolinones of general formula substituted in the 6 position, wherein R1 to R5 and X are defined as in claim 1, the isomers and the salts thereof, particularly the physiologically acceptable salts thereof, as a medicament for the prevention or treatment of specific fibrotic diseases.
US10154982B2
The subject disclosure provides compositions for reducing serum cholesterol and/or triglyceride levels in subjects. These compositions can comprise racemic β-hydroxybutyrate or D-β-hydroxybutyrate, optionally in the acid form, physiologically compatible salts of racemic β-hydroxybutyrate or D-β-hydroxybutyrate, esters of D-β-hydroxybutyrate, oligomers of D-β-hydroxybutyrate containing from 2 to 20 or more monomeric units in either linear or cyclic form, racemic 1,3 butandiol or R-1,3 butandiol alone and can be, optionally, administered in conjunction with a low fat diet to a subject. Alternatively, compositions comprising racemic β-hydroxybutyrate or D-β-hydroxybutyrate, optionally in the acid form, physiologically compatible salts of racemic β-hydroxybutyrate or D-β-hydroxybutyrate, esters of D-β-hydroxybutyrate, oligomers of D-β-hydroxybutyrate containing from 2 to 20 or more monomeric units in either linear or cyclic form, racemic 1,3 butandiol, R-1,3 butandiol or combinations thereof can be formulated as nutritional supplements (also referred to as nutritional compositions) or incorporated into therapeutic compositions containing a) anti-hypertensive agents; b) anti-inflammatory agents; c) glucose lowering agents; or d) anti-lipemic agents) which are administered to a subject, optionally in combination with a low fat diet, in order to cause a reduction or lowering of: serum cholesterol levels; triglyceride levels; serum glucose levels, serum homocysteine levels, inflammatory proteins (e.g., C reactive protein) and/or hypertension in treated subjects. Alternatively, compositions disclosed herein can be administered alone, or in combination with other therapeutic agents to prevent or reverse vascular disease.
US10154981B2
The present invention relates to the field of reduction of methane emission in ruminants. Particularly, it relates to the use of a feed composition or a feed additive comprising at least one antibiotic and at least one organic molecule substituted at any position with at least one nitrooxy group for reducing the production of methane emanating from the digestive activities of ruminants, and/or to improve the ruminant performance.
US10154977B2
Described herein are compositions and methods relating to particles comprising at least one component of a cellular-derived microparticle. Aspects of technology described herein relate to compositions and methods for treating inflammation, wounds, and pain.
US10154976B2
The disclosed invention provides a system and method of artificially retarding fibrin-based blood clot degradation via the sustained release of a protease inhibitor, such as, for example, aprotinin or tranexamic acid (“TA”). The sustained release of the protease inhibitor is accomplished through incorporation within a biodegradable polymer microsphere to produce a protease inhibitor formulation. Next, the formulation along with fibrinogen and thrombin is applied to a wound site where an outer surface of the polymer microsphere degrades in a proteolytic environment to expose and release the incorporated protease inhibitor to the surrounding hydrogel or sealant or clot matrix at the wound site.
US10154975B2
The present specification discloses pharmaceutical compositions, methods of preparing such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods and uses of treating a chronic inflammation and/or an inflammatory disease in an individual using such pharmaceutical compositions.
US10154963B2
Disclosed herein are controlled-release (GR, e.g., extended-release (ER) or prolonged-release (PR)) oral dosage formulation comprising an effective amount of Torsemide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and at least one sustained release excipient comprising a polymer, wherein the at least one matrix component is selected from the group consisting of: hydroxy propyl cellulose (HPC), hydroxpropyl methyl cellulose (HPMC), glyceryl behenate, and a polyethylene glycol glyceride. Torsemide may be present in the formulation in a range of about 1 wt % to about 20 wt %, or about 5 wt % to about 10 wt % and the matrix component is present in the formulation in a range of about 5 wt % to about 50 wt %, or about 15 wt % to about 35 wt %. The formulation may further comprise at least one binder, lactose, talc and magnesium stearate. Methods of making and using the controlled-release oral dosage Torsemide formulation are also disclosed. A novel mechanism for Torsemide action in diuresis is further disclosed.
US10154959B1
An ophthalmic composition includes a polyaphron dispersion.
US10154955B2
Topical compositions, packaging systems and methods for improving the appearance of skin or at least one sign of aging in skin including Kachnar are described.
US10154948B2
An oral care composition containing a source of stannous ions, a source of fluoride ions and an insoluble source of zinc ions, such as zinc oxide. The composition contains an amount of citric acid sufficient to increase the level of soluble zinc ions.
US10154947B2
An antiperspirant composition including a starch delivery vehicle which includes a starch, a core material, and a lipophilic phosphate ester, wherein the lipophilic phosphate ester at least partially coats the core material.
US10154944B2
A reusable multiple compartment carry case for baby care items. Upper storage compartment contains a pacifier, teether, and baby spoon in an effort to reduce exposure to germs to aid in hygienic practices. Lower storage compartment contains at least one baby care products. The present invention would be made of a dishwasher-safe, hard plastic material, and would contain customized cutouts in the top section to hold each item mentioned (teether, pacifier, and baby spoon).
US10154942B2
An example of a resuscitation system is that includes at least two defibrillation electrodes configured to be applied to the exterior of the chest of a patient for delivering a defibrillation shock, a source of one or more ECG signals from the patient, a defibrillation circuit for delivering a defibrillation shock to the defibrillation electrodes, a control box that receives and processes the ECG signals to determine whether a defibrillation shock should be delivered or whether CPR should be performed, and that issues instructions to the user either to deliver a defibrillation shock or to perform CPR, wherein the determination of whether CPR should be performed and the instructions to perform CPR can occur at substantially any point during a rescue.
US10154933B2
A compressible or retractable support (10, 80, 90, 100) is installed inside an air blower cavity (36) of a body support system (30), such as a medical mattress with forced air flow. The support is compressed or retracted within the cavity when the air blower (40) is inserted in the dynamic configuration of the body support system. The support rebounds to an uncompressed state to fill a greater portion of the air blower cavity when the air blower is removed to convert the body support system to a static configuration.
US10154922B1
A wearable, percutaneous device for suppressing appetite or hunger in a patient includes a microprocessor, electrical stimulator and at least one percutaneous electrode implanted and configured to deliver electrical stimulation through the patient's skin. The percutaneous device includes a pad and at least one needle, in which the electrode is disposed, for secure placement of the device within the skin of a patient. The percutaneous device is adapted to provide electrical stimulation as per stimulation protocols and to communicate wirelessly with a companion control device configured to monitor and record appetite patterns of the patient. The control device is also configured to monitor, record, and modify stimulation parameters of the stimulation protocols.
US10154916B2
A support structure includes strut members interconnected by rotatable joints to form a series of linked scissor mechanisms. The structure can be remotely actuated to compress or expand its shape by adjusting the scissor joints within a range of motion. In particular, the support structure can be repositioned within the body lumen or retrieved from the lumen. The support structure can be employed to introduce and support a prosthetic valve within a body lumen.
US10154914B2
An expandable assembly for insertion into an intervertebral space is presented. The assembly, in particular aspects, includes an elongate body comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, wherein the elongate body defines an internal longitudinal channel extending from a proximal opening to a distal cavity. The assembly may include an expander that is sized and shaped for insertion into the distal cavity, thereby selectively expanding the upper portion away from the lower portion. The elongate body may also include one or more bone graft windows a cap that is sized and shaped for insertion into the proximal opening.
US10154906B2
A method of delivering a prosthetic mitral valve includes delivering a distal anchor from a delivery sheath such that the distal anchor self-expands inside a first heart chamber on a first side of the mitral valve annulus, pulling proximally on the distal anchor such that the distal anchor self-aligns within the mitral valve annulus and the distal anchor rests against tissue of the ventricular heart chamber, and delivering a proximal anchor from the delivery sheath to a second heart chamber on a second side of the mitral valve annulus such that the proximal anchor self-expands and moves towards the distal anchor to rest against tissue of the second heart chamber. The self-expansion of the proximal anchor captures tissue of the mitral valve annulus therebetween.
US10154902B2
Described is a delivery system for minimally invasive delivery of a self-expandable stent to a body lumen, and particularly delivery of a prosthetic valve to the right ventricular outflow tract. Also described is a method of loading a stent onto such a delivery system, and a method of delivering a self-expandable stent to a desired anatomic site.
US10154897B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to intraocular lens systems includes at least one intraocular lens device and methods of using the same. The at least one intraocular lens device includes one or more photodetectors and an intraocular lens exhibiting a modifiable focal length. The one or more photodetectors are configured to detect light that is used to determine a presence of the object or the apparent object distance. The focal length of the intraocular lens can be modified depending on the determined presence of the object or the apparent object distance.
US10154892B2
The invention relates to an artificial sphincter for controllably occluding a urine-carrying vessel of an incontinent patient, including a first electrically driven pump for pumping the hydraulic fluid against the force produced by the inherent elasticity of the reservoir from the hydraulic occlusion device to the elastic reservoir during normal operation, and a second emergency pump for pumping the hydraulic fluid against the force produced by the inherent elasticity of the reservoir from the occlusion device to the elastic reservoir during emergency operation, namely when said first pump does not function properly. The invention further relates to a method for controlling an artificial sphincter.
US10154889B2
The present disclosure includes method, system, apparatus, and indicator embodiments. One apparatus includes an appliance for placement over one or more teeth and a release agent receptacle including an outer portion provided on appliance surface, an inner portion provided within the outer portion, and one or more apertures formed in the outer portion.
US10154874B2
Methods for treating tissue with irreversible electroporation and immunotherapy are described. The methods include placing a probe in tissue within a human body, wherein the probe has at least a first electrode, applying a plurality of electrical pulses through the first electrode and a second electrode, causing irreversible electroporation (IRE) of the tissue within a target ablation zone, and administering one or more exogenous agents into the tissue within the target ablation zone or to the human, thereby stimulating or otherwise modulating an immune system response within the body.
US10154865B2
An orthopedic implant, such as a bone screw with a self-tapping thread, is formed of a biodegradable material such as a magnesium alloy. A bioactive surface coating is provided on the implant, such as at the threading. The coating contains micro-abrasives which assist with screw/implant penetration, and/or contains microcapsules containing lubricant, wherein the microcapsules rupture from pressure and frictional heat as the implant penetrates bone.
US10154864B2
An apparatus and technique for internally securing a plurality of bone segments together. The device incorporates a plate-like structure stabilizing the fracture and integrated fasteners to attach fasteners circumscribing the bone segments.
US10154862B2
Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for vertebral reduction using sleeves detachably coupled to collars of bone fasteners. The reduction can be performed during a minimally invasive procedure for implanting spinal stabilization systems. A sleeve can include internal threads that match threads on the respective collar to form a continuous set of threads. Threads on a closure member can be engaged with the threads on the sleeve and the closure member turned to translate the closure member along the sleeve. The closure member can be used to push a rod relative to the collar to which the sleeve is attached to cause a vertebral body to move.
US10154859B2
An anchor assembly for use in spinal fixation to interconnect a longitudinal spinal rod, which is integrally formed with a body of the anchor assembly. The anchor assembly includes a bone anchor, a collet, a body portion, a rod portion, and a locking cap. The anchor assembly 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 portion. The anchor assembly enables a surgeon to implant the bone anchor without the body portion to maximize visibility and access around the anchoring site. Once the bone anchor has been secured to the patient's vertebra, the rod portion may be inserted into the rod-receiving channel of a second bone fixation element having a rod-receiving channel implanted at a second site and the body portion can be snapped-onto the bone anchor.
US10154846B2
Various systems and methods are provided for reducing pressure at an outflow of a duct such as the thoracic duct or the lymphatic duct. In one embodiment, an indwelling catheter can be configured to be at least partially implanted within a vein of a patient in the vicinity of an outflow port of a duct of the lymphatic system. The catheter can include first and second restrictors each configured to at least partially occlude the vein within which the catheter is implanted and thus to restrict fluid flow within the vein when the restrictors are activated. The restrictors can each be configured to move between an activated configuration, in which the restrictor occludes the vein, and a relaxed configuration, in which the restrictor does not occlude the vein. The catheter can include a pump, such as an axial motor pump, configured to pump fluid through the catheter.
US10154845B2
An anvil assembly delivery system includes an anvil assembly having a center rod and an anvil head assembly pivotally secured to the center rod a flexible tube having a first end configured for oral insertion into a patient and a second end engaged with the anvil assembly, and a retrieval suture connected to the head assembly positioned to extend from the anvil assembly in a direction opposite to the flexible tube. The anvil assembly delivery system also includes a spacer suture tube positioned adjacent the anvil head assembly and defining a suture channel, which is supported on the retrieval suture and is dimensioned to prevent the retrieval suture from becoming trapped in the staple line of a stapling device. In an embodiment, the spacer is a suture tube defining a suture channel which receives the retrieval suture.
US10154842B2
An apparatus for deployment of a hemostatic clip includes a clip assembly releasably coupled to a distal portion of a shaft, wherein the clip assembly includes a capsule releasably coupled to the shaft, clip arms slidably received within the capsule and cooperating with the capsule to provide a first user feedback indicating a decision configuration of the clip assembly and a yoke slidably received within the capsule, the yoke including proximal and distal portions releasably and rotatably connected to one another via a first control wire, a distal end of the distal portion being connected to proximal ends of the clip arms. A second control wire extends from the handle assembly and is coupled to a proximal end of the second portion to move the clip assembly between open and closed configurations.
US10154841B2
A surgical stapling instrument comprising an elongate shaft assembly that defines a shaft axis and includes a surgical end effector that is operably coupled thereto by an articulation joint. The surgical end effector includes a cartridge support member that is configured to operably support a surgical staple cartridge therein. The surgical instrument further includes a longitudinally movable firing beam that extends through the articulation joint and is selectively axially movable from a starting position to an ending position within the surgical end effector. A firing beam locking assembly comprising a biasing member is operably supported on the articulation joint and is configured to apply a biasing motion to the firing beam to bias the firing beam into a locked position wherein the firing beam is prevented from moving from the starting to the ending position unless an unfired surgical staple cartridge is operably supported in the cartridge support member.
US10154837B2
A method and apparatus for surgically repairing a tear in soft tissue is disclosed. A plurality of collapsible tubes are positioned about the suture. The collapsible tubes are pushed through soft tissue and orthopedic mesh on opposite sides of a tear in soft tissue. When tension is applied to the suture, the tubes are compressed to fix the suture to the soft tissue and draw the soft tissue portions together.
US10154835B2
A vascular closure device includes a delivery assembly, an anchor member carried by the delivery assembly, and a suture attached to the anchoring member. A plug member can be disposed in the delivery assembly and attached to suture such that the plug member. The plug member includes a plug body, a pair of ridges that project from the plug body, and a select location disposed between the pair of ridges. The plug member configured to, in response to a force applied to the select location, transition from an insertion configuration, whereby the plug member is elongate along an insertion direction, into a collapsed configuration, whereby the plug member is collapsed along the insertion direction.
US10154831B2
A method for creating a transmural lesion in tissue includes positioning a distal portion of a catheter near the tissue, where an ultrasound transducer is attached to the distal portion and is operatively coupled to a console and processor. The tissue is imaged by energizing the ultrasound transducer at a first power level to produce an ultrasound beam, where the imaging determines a thickness of the tissue, and a gap distance between the ultrasound transducer and the tissue. The tissue is ablated by energizing the ultrasound transducer at a second power level to produce the ultrasound beam. Energy delivered to the tissue during the ablating is controlled, using the processor, where the processor adjusts a speed of the ultrasound beam moving across the tissue based on the thickness and gap distance, to create the transmural lesion.
US10154827B2
A probe for ultrasonic diagnostic equipment includes a cable, a cable outer periphery holder, and a depressed cone shape component. The cable outer periphery holder includes a deformable convex cone shape portion and a supporting surface that holds an outer peripheral of the cable. The depressed cone shape component has a depressed cone shape portion and fits the convex cone shape portion. The cable outer periphery holder has a water proof structure configured to prevent invasion of liquid from a gap formed between the outer periphery of the cable and the supporting surface. The water proof structure is configured to have the convex cone shape portion and the depressed cone shape component to fit so as to deform the convex cone shape portion. The deformation forms a reduced diameter portion to eliminate the gap, the reduced diameter portion having a diameter.
US10154826B2
A method for identifying a target anatomy by use of a device having an ultrasound transducer. Using the ultrasound transducer, a portion of a patient's anatomy is scanned during a scanning process. A voltage trace of the patient's anatomy is determined and compared to a predetermined trace. If the voltage trace of the patient's anatomy matches the predetermined trace, a notification may be output.
US10154822B2
A computer controlled robot system for positioning a patient for radiation therapy or other medical procedures and the like. The robot is mounted at the top of a vertical shaft extending from the treatment room floor and includes horizontal arms arranged to maximize the available work envelope and eliminate “dead spots” in the envelope that the robot cannot reach. A double redundant coupling system for coupling devices to the robot is provided. A vision based docking system is employed for automatically coupling devices to the robot. Various enhanced safety features are provided, including device specific collision avoidance.
US10154819B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for classifying a condition of an entity that includes a conductive medium having multiple conductive paths, using a pattern recognition strategy to classify a signature constructed from impedance-interrogation measurements and optionally including inputs from other informative sources which may be external to the system.
US10154814B2
A personal information system is provided. The system may include a portable information device having a housing including a top surface defined at least partially by a display, a bottom surface configured with a central region in which an optical sensor, electrical connector, and data connector are positioned, the housing enclosing an internal volume in which a processor is provided, the top surface and bottom surface being coupled by a perimeter side edge extending therebetween, and a mounting structure formed at least partially around the perimeter side edge of the housing. The system may further include a frame, which may be connected to a band, the frame surrounding a void and configured to receive the mounting structure, the frame and mounting structure being releasably securable via a tongue and groove connection. The system may further comprise a dock to which the information device may be connected.
US10154813B1
Methods and apparatus for determining the efficacy of a drug by diagnosing cardiovascular health in a patient by monitoring changes in skin redness levels, which is associated with perfusion and ability of circulatory system to adapt to physical exertion. Color detectors including colorimeters and spectrophotometers may be used to monitor and quantify skin color. Wet run solutions such as acetylcholine solutions may be applied to the skin area being monitored. Skin redness can be monitored during the course of exercise or a stress test, as well as during recovery. Wearable color detector devices can be worn by patients during exercise.
US10154811B2
A mobile detection appliance and a method for detecting and evaluating a measuring signal that is indicative of the breathing of a sleeping person are used in connection with the observation of sleep-related breathing disorders. Instruments for detecting signals that are indicative of the breathing of a patient are also used. Solutions that enable an especially reliable examination in terms of the occurrence of sleep-related sleeping disorders, especially in the usual surroundings of the person concerned, are provided. The mobile detection appliance includes a sensor device for detecting a nasal flow signal that is indicative of a nasal respiratory gas flow, and/or a respiratory flow signal that is indicative of an oral respiratory gas flow, in addition to an electronic data processing unit that includes a memory device and processes the respiratory flow signals that are indicative of the temporal course of the nasal and oral respiration. The data processing device stores data that is indicative of the temporal course of the respiratory flow signals.
US10154808B2
A blood separation device that is adapted to receive a multi-component blood sample is disclosed. After collecting the blood sample, the blood separation device is able to separate a plasma portion from a cellular portion. After separation, the blood separation device is able to transfer the plasma portion of the blood sample to a point-of-care testing device. The blood separation device also provides a closed sampling and transfer system that reduces the exposure of a blood sample and provides fast mixing of a blood sample with a sample stabilizer. The blood separation device is engageable with a blood testing device for closed transfer of a portion of the plasma portion from the blood separation device to the blood testing device. The blood testing device is adapted to receive the plasma portion to analyze the blood sample and obtain test results.
US10154803B2
A patient monitor is disclosed for detecting patient movement or abnormal breathing. Images of a patient are obtained by a stereoscopic camera. These images are then processed by a 3D position determination module which determines measurements indicative of positions of at least part of a patient. The obtained measurements are then passed to a model generation module which generates a breathing model of the variation in position of the at least part of a patient during a breathing cycle. Subsequently abnormal breathing or patient movement can be detected by processing further images obtained by the stereoscopic camera to determine more measurements indicative of positions of at least part of a patient. These measurements are then compared with a stored breathing model by a comparison module. If abnormal breathing or patient movement is detected the comparison module sends a signal to a treatment apparatus to interrupt treatment until normal breathing resumes or alternatively to a mechanical couch to reposition the patient to account for the detected movement.
US10154802B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for precisely perceiving an indoor activity. The method may include: receiving a vibration signal on a floor by using multiple vibration sensors disposed according to a preset rule; and determining a location of a vibration source according to a phase difference of a vibration signal of the same vibration source in different vibration sensors. The monitoring performed on the indoor activity in the present invention can be performed without disturbing the monitored person, and can resolve the concern about leakage of privacy of the monitored person.
US10154801B2
Navigation and tissue capture systems and methods for navigation to and/or capture of selected tissue using the innate electrical activity of the selected tissue and/or other tissue are described. In the context of left atrial appendage closure, the systems and methods can be used to navigate to the left atrial appendage and capture/control the appendage while a closure instrument (suture, clip, ring) is placed over the appendage and tightened down or a closure method (ablation, cryogenic procedures, stapling, etc.) is performed to close the left atrial appendage. The use of innate electrical activity for navigating devices may be used in connection with other tissues and/or areas of the body.
US10154800B2
A method comprises identifying connected anatomical structures in stored images of a patient anatomy and generating a plurality of cylindrical linkage elements representing the connected anatomical structures. The method also comprises receiving tracking data corresponding to a point on an instrument positioned within at least one of the connected anatomical structures; and matching the point on the instrument to one of the plurality of cylindrical linkage elements.
US10154798B2
A catheter having a sensor at a distal end thereof, useable to detect and create signals from an electromagnetic field. The sensor is constructed and arranged to leave a lumen of the catheter open such that it may be used to pass instruments therethrough once a target location has been reached.
US10154793B2
Physiological monitoring can be provided through a wearable monitor that includes a flexible extended wear electrode patch and a removable reusable monitor recorder. A pair of flexile wires is interlaced or sewn into a flexible backing, serving as electrode signal pickup and electrode circuit traces. The wearable monitor sits centrally on the patient's chest along the sternum, which significantly improves the ability to sense cutaneously cardiac electric signals, particularly those generated by the atrium. The electrode patch is shaped to fit comfortably and conformal to the contours of the chest approximately centered on the sternal midline. To counter the dislodgment due to compressional and torsional forces, non-irritating adhesive is provided on the underside, or contact, surface of the electrode patch, but only on the distal and proximal ends. Interlacing or sewing the flexile wires into the flexile backing also provides structural support and malleability against compressional, tensile and torsional forces.
US10154792B2
A stimulation device includes an adapter component to increase the usability of the stimulation device. The adapter may be a bipolar adapter arranged to connect to the housing of the stimulation device. The adapter may include a clip having a first channel configured to receive an operative element therein and a second channel having a return operative element therein. The return operative element is in electrical communication with an electrical circuit of said stimulation control device. Alternatively, the adapter may be a percutaneous adapter comprising a connector configured to connect to an operative element of a stimulation device and a lead wire connected to the connector. A needle may be connected to the lead wire to deliver a electrical stimulation signal to a target tissue located beneath the skin of a subject patient.
US10154784B2
A speed measuring device with an optical coherence tomography is provided. The speed measuring device includes an optical coherence tomography that obtains an tomographic image of a sample, a motion contrast calculator, a waveform creator that creates a motion contrast wave indicating chronological change of motion contrast, a time lag calculator, a distance calculator that calculates the blood vessel distance in a sample, and a speed calculator that calculates speed of a pulse wave transmitted inside the blood vessel.
US10154777B2
Computerized information acquisition and processing apparatus and methods. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a sensor and processor with associate storage device(s). In one variant, the apparatus includes data relating to one or more templates associated with various physiological artifacts. The apparatus is configured in this variant to utilize the data to evaluate data collected by the sensor to enable, for example, filtering of data for transmission over a wireless interface of the apparatus.
US10154770B2
The device cleans and disinfects sponges. The device has a tub with a cavity of sufficient space to hold paddles for wringing a sponge, a cartridge for holding a slow-dissolving disinfectant, and a sponge. The cavity is filled with a disinfectant solution. The device can be mounted on the inside wall of a sink or cabinet with an included bracket or can be stood in a base on a countertop. The device includes a warning light programmed to remind the user when to change the slow-dissolving disinfectant. The user inserts a sponge between the paddles, inserts the paddles into the cavity, and squeezes the paddles together. The user then releases the paddles, causing the sponge to absorb the disinfectant solution. When the user removes the paddles, specially-designed fluid channels quickly drain the sponge.
US10154769B2
An apparatus is provided for the attachment of brushes to the drive system of rotary floor scrubbing machines. In one embodiment, the apparatus provides for a scrubbing plate assembly suitable for attachment to the drive system of a rotary floor scrubbing machine. The scrubbing plate assembly has a scrubbing plate and an adapter plate. When the adapter plate is aligned and in contact with a scrubbing plate, the adapter plate locks to the scrubbing plate by axial movement of said adapter plate relative to said scrubbing plate.
US10154763B2
A pump assembly for generating and dispensing of particles of a solid material with or without dispensing of a fluid. The pump assembly preferably includes a fluid pump which in a cycle of operation draws the fluid through a fluid inlet and dispenses the fluid out a fluid outlet. The pump assembly carries a block of the solid material coalesced together and a rasp member, which during the cycle of operation, moves relative the rasp in engagement with the block whereby the rasp member disengages particles of the solid material from the block which particles drop under gravity downwardly adjacent the fluid outlet, for example, onto a user's hand as in the case that the fluid is a hand cleaning fluid and the solid is a solid soap.
US10154760B2
A stand mixer (10) comprises a head unit (50) having a lower surface presenting, in operation, a downwardly-facing drive outlet for driving in rotation at least one tool suspended therefrom. The head unit is supported with the downwardly-facing drive outlet above a receiving location (30) for a mixing bowl (40). Driving means, including an electric motor (70) and associated transmission means for conveying rotary drive to the drive outlet, are provided. The mixer further comprises first (80) and second (90) coaxial driving outlets presented on an upper surface (52) of the head unit (50); the coaxial outlets (80, 90) run at different speeds and are driven from the motor (70) by means of an epicyclic gearbox (100). The motor (70) is housed in the support means (60) with its drive shaft (72) in substantial alignment with the coaxial drive outlets (80, 90).
US10154757B2
A modular food holding system includes a plurality of individual modularized food holding chambers, each of the plurality of food holding chambers being physically and communicatively removably connected to one another. Each of the food holding chambers includes a food holding cavity and at least one of a heating element and/or a cooling element for heating or cooling the food holding cavity. A chamber base is physically and communicatively removably connected to one of the food holding chambers and operation of at least one food holding chamber is controlled by the chamber base.
US10154755B2
Disclosed are a method for manufacturing exothermic ceramics for a microwave oven and exothermic ceramics for microwaves. In particular, provided is a method for manufacturing exothermic ceramics for a microwave oven, in which the exothermic ceramics are formed by mixing a ceramic body, such as clay, plastic clay or soil, with an exothermic element prepared by combining at least one selected from silicon carbide, carbon ferrite and iron oxide, which are exothermic components. Accordingly, the exothermic ceramics of the present invention can minimize a sense of difference between the exothermic element and the ceramic body component, which is raw material for ceramics, thereby being capable of emitting high-temperature heat in a short time by means of microwaves as well as maintaining stability in the shape. Furthermore, due to integral forming, the exothermic ceramics have an enhanced elegant design.
US10154753B2
A system for making beverages includes a capsule and a capsule holder including an annular edge at the top of which there is a projecting annular element and/or respectively an annular seat. The capsule includes a body including a lower wall, a lateral wall and a perimetric edge on which there is an annular groove having a bottom zone and two inner lateral faces, and/or respectively there is an annular tooth having a tip portion and two outer lateral faces. The capsule holder and the capsule can adopt a sealed configuration where the projecting annular element, inserted in the annular groove, is in sealed contact with at least one of the inner lateral faces, and/or respectively the annular seat receives inside it the annular tooth and is in sealed contact with at least one of the outer lateral faces.
US10154751B2
The beverage brewing device, which is configured for use with a beverage brewer having an inlet probe for dispensing water and an outlet probe, includes a body defining a brew chamber configured to contain a dry beverage medium and at least one outlet probe receptacle extending upwardly from a bottom surface of the body. The outlet probe receptacle is sized and configured to receive an outlet probe of a beverage brewer. A lid is removably securable to the body and is engageable with the body to selectively enclose a top opening of the body. An inlet probe opening is defined in the lid for receiving an inlet probe of the beverage brewer. At least one filter is defined within in the body, wherein the filter is configured to retain a dry beverage medium within the brew chamber while allowing a brewed beverage to pass through the brew chamber.
US10154742B2
An adjustable bed covering system includes a comforter having one or more connection strips for removably affixing pillows that may remain attached to the bed covering during the bed making process. The pillows have connecting strips compatible with the connecting strips found on the comforter. One or more pillows and/or the comforter may further include a flap for concealing or hiding the connecting strips. The bed covering may include a rigid rod or pole traversing the width of the comforter along its head end. The comforter may also be attached to mattress pockets that fit over the corners of a mattress in order to better align the comforter.
US10154727B2
There is disclosed a light pack for a paintbrush having a detachable bristle portion, characterized by one or more lights disposed adjacent to at least one side of the handle and aimed to emit light at an angle toward the edge when the bristles are bent when n object is painted. In an embodiment, the paintbrush comprises a handle having a gripping end and a bristle end, and a plurality of bristles having an edge to contact an object being painted, characterized in that the light pack is adapted to be positioned relative to the handle such that one or more lights in the light pack are aimed to emit light at an angle toward the edge when the bristles are bent when an object is painted.
US10154716B2
A camera lens holder comprising a cylindrical body formed or attached to a perpendicularly aligned planar base. The cylindrical body has a cylindrical cavity with a top opening with a chamfered inside edge. The diameter and length of the cylindrical cavity to receive and hold the bayonet-style end connector on a camera lens. Formed on the inside surface of the cylindrical body are lugs configured to engage the bayonet-style end connector on the lens. Formed on the outside surface of the cylindrical body are two or more projecting wings. Attached to the bottom surface of the planar body is a hook connector pad configured to connect to the inside surface of a camera bag made of cotton, nylon or felt material. The chamfered inside edge on the cylindrical body allows easy insertion of the bayonet-style end connector on the lens without precisely aligning the lens over the top opening.
US10154710B2
A halo effect ring has an inner halo fixedly connected to an inner ring, and an outer halo fixedly connected to an outer ring. Both rings can have gems in settings and other ornamentation, and when combined, the halos are in concentric circles, when viewed from above, with at least part of the inner ring or it's setting or other attached parts rising through the outer halo. Another outer ring is hingedly connected to the first outer ring, and removably connected to the outer halo such that the halo can sit flush with a top side of the outer rings.
US10154708B2
Portable decorative element with a metal structure (2) made from cutout metal plate with decorative openings, on the back face of which there is a lining forming a plate that can be seen through these openings, that can be elastically bent (4), the back face of the metal plate comprising attachment means (10, 12) holding the lining (4) in place and clamping this lining, pressing it into contact with the back face of the structure.
US10154707B2
Embodiments relates to a hook side fastener having hooks and a loop side fastener having loops. The hooks and/or loops are made of bulk solidifying amorphous metal alloy. Other embodiments relate to methods of making and using the hook side and loop side fasteners.
US10154695B2
For people with reduced physical ability such as elderly people, risks of bodily injuries are high. Once an injury occurs, a victim suffers, sometimes a victim even may not survive. To help such people, a personal wearable device without adding much inconvenience in normal life is disclosed. This personal wearable device is able to detect dangerous conditions and automatically deploy airbags when needed to prevent or mitigate potential bodily injuries.
US10154685B2
The present invention comprises a freeze-dried, aerated fruit and/or vegetable composition comprising a fruit and/or vegetable ingredient and an emulsifier and methods of making thereof.
US10154682B2
Rapidly dissolving flavoring composition concentrates are provided. The flavoring composition concentrates have a flavor, a solvent system, a flavor carrier system, and a densifier. The densifier is an acid modifier present in an amount such that it optimizes the rate of dispersion of the concentrate in water.
US10154674B2
The present invention is based on knowledge that basically, solid milk provided with both of adequate strength and solubility can be obtained by using only powdered milk as ingredient to be provided with compression molding under state where the porosity and the free fat is controlled within predetermined ranges, and then humidified and dried. Namely, solid milk having porosity of 30%-60%, and method of making solid milk including: a compression step for compressing powdered milk to obtain a solid form of compressed powdered milk; a humidifying step for humidifying the compressed powdered milk obtained by the compression step; and a drying step for drying the compressed powdered milk humidified by the humidifying step achieves the object of providing solid milk having preferred solubility and strength, and method of making the same.
US10154665B2
A test tube, suitable to be immersed in a cryogenic fluid, comprises a containing body having a perimeter wall that defines a containing compartment, a bottom wall, disposed inside the latter to close it at the lower part, and a housing seating, inside the perimeter wall and outside the containing compartment. A support element for an identification code is suitable to be inserted into the housing seating, with at least a free surface facing toward the outside of the housing seating on the opposite side with respect to the bottom wall. In correspondence to said housing seating, mechanical constraint means are provided in cooperation with said perimeter wall of the containing body and with a peripheral portion of the free surface of the support element, in order to constrain the latter in a defined axial position with respect to the containing body.
US10154663B2
A bird capture net which allows the use of quickly adjusting the height for capture and release is described, which includes height adjustable poles attached to bird netting.
US10154656B2
The invention comprises a system and an optical device (1) to facilitate the counting of objects, e.g. fish and other organisms living in freshwater or sea, especially when using large-scale equipment in fish-fanning. The system makes it possible to diminish the distance between the recording camera and the objects to be counted.
US10154653B2
A harnessing assembly for animals includes a strap. Each of a pair of connectors is coupled to the strap. The strap is couplable to each connector to form a pair of first loops. Each of a pair of first fasteners is slidably coupled to a respective first loop. A coupler is coupled proximate to a midpoint of the strap. The coupler is configured to couple to a leash. Each of a pair of strips is coupled to and extends from a front edge of the first strip, bracketing the coupler. A pair of second fasteners, which is complementary to the first fasteners, is coupled singly to the strips distal from the front edge. Each second fastener is positioned to couple to a respective first fastener to form a second loop. Each second loop comprises a respective first loop, such that the second loop is adjustably sizable.
US10154651B2
A system and apparatus to track and control an animal is described, including a tracking unit to track the animal, and a stimulus unit to provide a stimulus to the animal, wherein the tracking unit and stimulus unit are configured to be coupled together. The stimulus unit is entirely a slave device to the tracking unit and has no independent smart circuitry, no independent power supply and no antennae. Accordingly, the stimulation unit is dependent upon the tracking unit for operation, power and for communication to and from a remote hand held control device.
US10154640B1
A novel maize variety designated PH41V8 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH41V8 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH41V8 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 PH41V8 or a locus conversion of PH41V8 with another maize variety.
US10154630B2
The object of the present invention to provide an improved plant watering system which can be easily hooked up and provides a regulated flow of water to any type of plant. It is another object of the present invention to provide an improved watering apparatus, which can be easily hooked up to any type of irrigation system available, and keep the planter and/or plant hanger from corrosion and wear by keeping the water in a flexible hose threaded through the wood post and/or steel tubing structure. It is a further object of the present invention to provide an improved watering apparatus, which is simple and inexpensive in construction, which can be used indoor or outdoor for growing and displaying plants.
US10154625B2
A header for a combine harvester, the header including an auger for directing the movement of harvested grain toward a feederhouse of the combine harvester and an adjustable hood positioned above the auger and moveable between a lowered position, a raised position and an intermediate position between the lowered and raised positions. The adjustable hood includes a pivot mechanism and an actuator for moving the adjustable hood between the lowered, raised and intermediate position.
US10159167B2
A cooling apparatus for cooling microprocessor based equipment is disclosed. The cooling apparatus comprises a rack mountable cooling unit and a cooling control module. The rack mountable cooling unit has a rack mountable housing sized to fit in a server rack, a fan disposed in the rack mountable housing, and a cooling unit disposed in the rack mountable housing. The cooling control module has a plurality of temperature sensors connected to a controller. The controller is connected to a fan control output to control a fan speed of the fan and a cooling unit control output to control a coolant flow through the cooling unit based on signals from the plurality of temperature sensors.
US10159165B2
An apparatus and method of the disclosure provides a cooling mechanism for a handheld electronic device. The cooling mechanism includes a heat sink and an evaporative cooling mechanism. The evaporative cooling mechanism includes liquid retaining structures. The liquid retaining structures are located in proximity to the at least one IC of the handheld electronic device. Each liquid retaining structure is coated with a temperature sensitive polymer that act as hydrophilic when the temperature of the surface of the handheld electronic device is below a threshold temperature. To maintain the temperature of the surface of the handheld electronic device below the threshold temperature, the temperature sensitive polymer act as hydrophobic and evaporates the liquid stored in the liquid retaining structures to the atmosphere surrounding the handheld electronic device when the temperature of the surface of the electronic device is above the threshold temperature.
US10159153B2
The present invention provides an entry sheet for drilling excellent in hole position accuracy compared with the conventional entry sheet for drilling. Such an entry sheet for drilling is an entry sheet for drilling comprising metallic support foil and a layer comprising a resin composition formed on at least one surface of the metallic support foil, in which the resin composition contains a resin and 70 parts by mass to 130 parts by mass of molybdenum disulfide based on 100 parts by mass of the resin, and the layer comprising the resin composition has a thickness in a range from 0.02 to 0.3 mm.
US10159141B2
A free grounding film and a manufacturing method therefor, and a shielding circuit board including the free grounding film and a grounding method. The free grounding film includes at least one conductor layer. The shielding circuit board including the free grounding film is formed in a manner that an electromagnetic wave shielding film is arranged on a printed circuit board, and the upper surface of the electromagnetic wave shielding film is provided with the free grounding film. The grounding method for the shielding circuit board adopts one of three modes.
US10159140B2
The present invention relates to a lighting system (1) for providing light in a room (10) comprising first illuminating means (11), a first control unit (12) configured to control the light emitted from the first illuminating means (11) and further configured to receive wireless control communication (14) from a mobile device (13) after being paired with said mobile device, wherein the lighting system (1) further comprises a sensor (15) for detecting presence in the room (10) and for being communicatively connected (16) to said control unit; and wherein said control unit (12) is configured to only allow pairing of a mobile device (13) to said control unit during a predetermined time following a detection of presence in the room by said sensor (15).
US10159135B2
A display device that can display an image along a curved surface is provided. In the display device, a first display panel and a second display panel overlap each other with a light-transmitting layer provided therebetween. The light-transmitting layer is positioned on a display surface side of the first display panel, and on a side opposite to the display surface of the second display panel. The light-transmitting layer has an average transmittance of 80% or more with respect to light in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 700 nm and a refractive index higher than that of air. A display region of the first display panel overlaps a region transmitting visible light of the second display panel with the light-transmitting layer provided therebetween. It is preferred that the display region of the first display panel not overlap with a region blocking visible light of the second display panel.
US10159134B2
Devices, systems, and methods to predict a half-life or end of life for luminaire drivers are described. The drivers may include electronic drivers for light fixtures such as dimming controls that utilize electrolytic capacitors in the output circuit to smooth the output current and reduce changes in current amplitude. Half-life and end of life for the drivers may be predicted by monitoring failure variable indications of the driver and the luminaire light, including the light intensity depreciation of the light, and by evaluating the data from both the driver, light, and environment in which the driver and/or luminaire is installed to predict the most imminent half-life and/or end of life.
US10159133B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems for powering and controlling lighting fixtures in office buildings, homes, industrial facilities, and similar structures using low-voltage direct-current (“DC”) electricity. Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems for distributing DC power from a lighting controller to various LED luminaires. Embodiments include (a) a power source configured to provide electricity at approximately 48 volts DC; (b) an LED lighting fixture that includes a cool LED luminaire tuned toward the blue end of the visible light spectrum and a warm LED luminaire tuned toward the red end of the visible light spectrum; (c) a variable input control device for setting the color/temperature of the light emitted by the LED lighting fixture; and (d) a lighting controller comprising a watt meter, a capacitor bank, a cool LED controller, a warm LED controller, an input controller, a lighting computer; and (e) a site computer that communicates with the lighting controller via a building network to provide certain operational controls over the LED lighting fixture.
US10159123B2
Various embodiment may relate to a circuit arrangement for operating a load, including an input for inputting a mains input AC voltage, a power converter circuit, a converter circuit which converts the mains input AC voltage rectified by the power converter circuit into an output voltage, a control circuit for controlling the converter circuit, and a linear regulating circuit which sets a predetermined load current at the load. The load current is a direct current with a uniform current intensity. The control circuit controls the converter circuit in such a manner that the current intensity of the load current is reduced when the output voltage is at a minimum.
US10159120B2
An EL display device in which the adhesion between a substrate and a sealing film is increased and in which the occurrence of cracks in the sealing film is reduced is provided. A lower inorganic film (31) has a multilayer structure including a first inorganic layer (34), which is in contact with the substrate and an EL element, and a second inorganic layer (35). The absolute value of the film stress of the first inorganic layer (34) is less than the absolute value of the film stress of the second inorganic layer (35), and the film thickness of the first inorganic layer (34) is less than the film thickness of the second inorganic layer (35).
US10159113B2
The invention describes a heating system (100) and a corresponding method of heating a heating surface (180) of an object (150, 950) to a processing temperature of at least 100° C., wherein the heating system (100) comprises semiconductor light sources (115), and wherein the heating system (100) is adapted to heat an area element of the heating surface (180) with at least 50 semiconductor light sources (115) at the same time. The heating system (100) may be part of a reactor for processing semiconductor structures. The light emitted by means of the semiconductor light sources (115) overlaps at the heating surface (180). Differences of the characteristic of one single semiconductor light source (115) may be blurred at the heating surface (180) such that a homogeneous temperature distribution across a processing surface of a, for example, wafer may be enabled.
US10159110B2
A method by a user equipment (UE) is described. The method includes receiving by the RRC entity of the UE, a PUCCH release request from a lower layer of the UE, and applying the default physical channel configuration for a scheduling request configuration for a concerned secondary cell, upon receiving the PUCCH release request from the lower layers of the UE. The PUCCH release request is notified by a Medium Access Control (MAC) entity of the UE in a case that a time alignment timer expires, the time alignment timer is associated with a secondary timing advance group (sTAG) and the concerned secondary cell belongs to the sTAG.
US10159102B2
A communication terminal comprising: a radio interface and a WLAN communication module configured to: generate and send an association request; receive an association response; and establish IP connectivity. The communication terminal also comprises a service selection module configured to select a computer-implemented service to be accessed; and a service execution control module configured to execute software application code implementing the selected computer-implemented service. The WLAN communication module is further configured to: in response to receiving a service selection command from the service selection module, generate an association request comprising a service identifier which identifies the selected service; parse the association response received through the radio interface to detect a link carried in the association response, wherein the link points to a network address of an application server suitable for delivering application data corresponding to the selected computer-implemented service; and initiate data communication with the network address for downloading application data.
US10159101B2
In some examples, a first wireless device communicates with a group device that wirelessly interconnects a plurality of wireless devices in a group, to obtain, from the group device, information identifying a second wireless device from which the first wireless device is able to use a wireless connectivity of the second wireless device to a wide area network (WAN), the second wireless device being part of the plurality of wireless devices. The first wireless device communicates data over the WAN using the wireless connectivity of the second wireless device.
US10159100B2
There is provided a mechanism for establishing a single PDN connection with plural IP addresses and breakout or terminating points. When a communication connection provided with multiple IP addresses via a multi-address bearer connection is established, an indication is prepared for indicating a terminating point represented by a network element of the cellular communication network where data traffic, based on one of the multiple IP addresses, is branched to another network being different to the cellular communication network by means of an IP based communication link The indication element is sent to the communication network by means of a PDCP signaling e.g. as a new PDU type code. In the network, it is decided whether a local receiving network element is indicated as a terminating point, wherein in this case a breakout connection to another network being different to the cellular communication network by the IP based communication link is established.
US10159087B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods for transmitting, by a user equipment (UE) channel state information (CSI) feedback when the UE is capable of an advanced function, for example, when the UE is capable of successive interference cancellation (SIC) and/or joint decoding. An exemplary method generally includes determining a first time scale for transmitting capability information regarding receiver performance at the UE, determining a second time scale for transmitting channel condition information, and transmitting the capability information according to the determined first time scale and the channel condition information according to the determined second time scale.
US10159079B2
A plurality of mobile devices is provided including a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices that serves as a relay for communication between a second mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices and a third mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices. The first mobile device is identified as the relay based on a social trust relationship formed between the first mobile device and the second mobile device. A D2D network is formed between the first mobile device and second mobile device. A communication channel is provided to the second mobile device from a second cellular network. A portion of the communication channel is allocated to the second mobile device using the D2D network to improve cellular transmission between the second mobile device and the third mobile device.
US10159078B2
A method includes receiving a transmission power, a distance from a source base station, and physical cell identifications (PCIs) under mod3 and mod30. The method includes determining a mod3 cost associated with allocating the PCI to the source base station based on the transmit power and the distance of the corresponding neighboring base station, and determining an overall mod3 cost as a summation of the mod3 costs of the neighboring base stations having the same PCI under mod3. The method also includes determining a mod30 cost associated with allocating the PCI to the source base based on the transmit power and the distance of the corresponding neighboring base station, and determining an overall mod30 cost as a summation of the mod30 costs of the neighboring base stations having the same PCI under mod30. The method further includes allocating the PCI having the minimum overall cost to the base station.
US10159054B2
A device and a device synchronization method in D2D communication, so as to implement synchronization between devices in D2D communication is provided. The device includes: a receiving unit, configured to receive first D2D synchronization information sent by a first device in D2D communication, where the first D2D synchronization information includes a synchronization source identifier and a forwarding hop count. The device also includes a processing unit, configured to synchronize with a synchronization source corresponding to the synchronization source identifier in the first D2D synchronization information, and update the forwarding hop count in the first D2D synchronization information when determining that the forwarding hop count in the first D2D synchronization information is less than a set threshold, so as to obtain second D2D synchronization information. The device also includes a sending unit, configured to send the second D2D synchronization information.
US10159045B2
A wireless communication device may detect, within a specified time duration, at least a specified number of occurrences of a sequence of events, which includes the wireless communication device transitioning from a second cellular network operating according to a second radio access technology (RAT) to a first cellular network operating according to a first RAT, the wireless communication device failing to remain on the first cellular network for more than a specified time duration, and the wireless communication device returning from the first cellular network to the second cellular network. At least in response to this detection, the wireless communication device may determine whether to attempt future transition to the first cellular network while operating in the second network, based on one or more conditions, and/or may adjust one or more parameters used by the wireless communication device to determine when to redirect from the second cellular network to the first cellular network.
US10159044B2
A first Bluetooth-enabled device includes an interface controller that determines proximity between a first Bluetooth module and a second Bluetooth module of a second Bluetooth-enabled device, and controls transitions, based on the proximity between the first Bluetooth module and the second Bluetooth module, between a first set of operating states of a classical Bluetooth interface of the first Bluetooth module that include an enabled state and a disabled state.
US10159032B2
Provided is a wireless communication device that mutually exchanges at least a notification signal including its own identification code and an identification code of a surrounding wireless communication device with the surrounding wireless communication device, the wireless communication device including: a transmission unit for periodically transmitting the notification signal; a reception unit for receiving the notification signal; a recording/updating unit for recording/updating surrounding-wireless-communication-device information of each of surrounding wireless communication devices when the reception unit has received the notification signal, the surrounding-wireless-communication-device information including an identification code of a wireless communication device at a transmission side and an identification code of a surrounding wireless communication device around the wireless communication device at the transmission side that are included in the notification signal; and an abnormality detecting unit for detecting abnormality of the surrounding wireless communication device from the surrounding-wireless-communication-device information recorded in the recording/updating unit.
US10159029B2
A communication system facilitates a voice communication session for a wireless communication device. A Long Term Evolution (LTE) network exchanges Voice over LTE (VoLTE) communications with the wireless communication device for the voice communication session and determines LTE packet loss metrics for the voice communication session. The LTE network transfers the voice communication session to a Wireless Fidelity (WIFI) network. The WIFI network exchanges Voice over WIFI (VoWIFI) communications with the wireless communication device for the voice communication session and determines WIFI packet loss metrics for the voice communication session. A network controller compares the LTE packet loss metrics with the WIFI packet loss metrics to determine a packet loss configuration for the WIFI network. The network controller transfers a packet loss instruction to the WIFI network. The WIFI network receives the packet loss instruction and responsively implements the packet loss configuration on the voice communication session.
US10159027B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for recovering from media degradation during a communication session. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, during a communication session between a first user system operated by a first user and a second user system operated by a second user, receiving a first indication from the first user system indicating a degraded condition of media received by the first user system from the second user system. Responsive to receiving the indication, the method provides attempting to establish a connection with a third user system associated with the second user when the degraded condition comprises inactivity of the media being received by the first user system from the second user system. Upon establishing the connection with the third user system, the method provides connecting the third user system to the first user system to continue the communication session.
US10159026B2
A first network node provides timing information of at least one other network node, operating in discontinuous transmission mode, for enabling a mobile station to monitor the at least one other network node. The first network node comprises a transmitter, configured for transmitting a signal comprising timing information, associated with a state switch between dormant state and active state of the at least one other network node and/or associated to a monitoring operation of the at least one other network node to be received by the mobile station. Also, a mobile station configured for monitoring the at least one other network node is disclosed.
US10159025B2
The present disclosure relates to a control plane signaling method and apparatus for reducing signaling due to a change in a UE's state, and more particularly, to a method for efficiently changing a connection state of a UE in a radio network without mobility of the UE or a change in a state transition of the UE in a core network. The method of changing, by a UE, a connection state includes receiving an RRC (radio resource control) connection release message including instruction information for instructing to change a state to a light connection state from a base station, configuring the connection state of the UE to the light connection state based on the instruction information, and transmitting an RRC connection resumption request message to the base station without an access class barring operation, when a state change to an RRC connection state is triggered.
US10159013B2
A relay device configured to be coupled to a control device, the control device storing first information indicating a position and second information indicating a characteristic of a wireless device which is to be coupled to the control device, the relay device includes a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to receive, from the wireless device, device information including performance of the wireless device and installment information including a position where the wireless device is located, transmit to the control device the device information and the installment information, receive a response from the control device when the position where the wireless device is located satisfies the first information and the performance of the wireless device satisfies the second information, and establish a communication link between the wireless device and the control device, after receiving the response from the control device.
US10159010B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include apparatuses, systems, and methods for extending a QoS indicator through WLAN to an electronic device in a heterogeneous network. The method comprises receiving, at a second wireless network, a packet from a first wireless network including a first quality of service (QoS) indicator for a first protocol of the first wireless network. The method further comprises determining a second quality of service (QoS) indicator for a second protocol of the second wireless network based on the first QoS indicator and network conditions of the second wireless network. The method further comprises transmitting the packet in accordance with the second QoS indicator.
US10159009B2
Various aspects of the disclosed approach attempts to provide suitable contention access by an Access Point (AP) to a communications medium shared with a plurality of stations (STAs) by adapting Enhanced Distributed Channel Access (EDCA) parameters for the AP. Generally, the disclosed approach includes determining a metric value by measuring an amount of access of a medium by a device over a first period of time; and changing, based on the metric value, a contention parameter of the device if a target metric value associated with access of the medium for the device is not achieved while a limit of the contention parameter has not been reached.
US10159007B2
Disclosed are methods, systems and devices for obtaining a range between devices based, at least in part, on an exchange of wireless messages. For example, wireless devices may obtain measurements of range based, at least in part, on an exchange fine timing measurement (FTM) messages during sessions. In one implementation, an initiating wireless station may transmit an initial FTM request message to a responding wireless station wherein the initial FTM request message comprising one or more fields indicating a capability of the initiating STA to generate Range Reports.
US10158993B2
This relates to wireless communications, and in particular to the generation of keying material for security purposes. In particular, A method of performing authentication for a user terminal. The method comprises performing an Authentication and Key Agreement procedure for authenticating the user terminal in a cellular access network, wherein a core network of the cellular network comprises a Home Subscriber Server; determining in a Bootstrapping Server Function that the user terminal requires keying material for use outside the cellular access network. The method also comprises transferring authentication information directly from the Home Subscriber Server to the Bootstrapping Server Function; and generating session keys in the Bootstrapping Server Function using said authentication information, wherein said session keys are also generated in the user terminal.
US10158987B2
Techniques are described for interference reduction using, e.g., a Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) or packet error rate threshold. UEs that implement these techniques may reduce interference among personal area network enabled devices, for example, with the added benefit of reducing power consumption by reduced RF transmissions. By reducing interference, the performance of personal area network devices may be improved.
US10158986B2
A satellite communication system and a data transmission method in satellite communication capable of improving the reliability of a system in satellite communication are provided. The satellite communication system of an embodiment includes a first communication device, a second communication device, and a slave station. The first communication device receives emergency information about disaster and transmits gate closing control data for issuing a command for closing a gate related to the disaster via a satellite. The second communication device is installed in a place geographically separated from the first communication device and receives emergency information about disaster and transmits gate closing control data for issuing an commands for closing a gate related to the disaster via a satellite. The slave station controls opening-closing of the gate on the basis of the gate closing control data received from the first communication device or the second communication device.
US10158985B2
Disclosed is a device for controlling wireless multimedia devices, including: a wireless communication circuit, to receive a wireless multimedia device identifier from each wireless multimedia device; an access circuit for accessing a database of wireless multimedia devices, to obtain from the database characteristics of each wireless multimedia device for which the communication circuit has received an identifier; a separation circuit for separating a main multimedia stream into as many separated multimedia streams as the communication circuit has received identifiers of wireless multimedia devices; an allocation circuit for allocating each separated multimedia stream to a respective wireless multimedia device; and a synchronization circuit for synchronizing the separated multimedia streams based on the characteristics of the wireless multimedia devices obtained from the database.
US10158983B2
A method includes receiving, at a network device, a request from a device for a summary of media content. The method includes accessing the media content in response to the request and performing an analysis of the media content based on a user profile associated with the device. The user profile indicates preferences, and the analysis determines whether the media content includes a feature indicated by a preference of the preferences. In response to the analysis indicating that the media content includes the feature, the method includes selecting representative frames of the media content based on the analysis and sending the representative frames to the device.
US10158979B2
The present invention is a location based data analytics system and method that functions to track individuals and/or equipment within a bounded location that may be an indoor or outdoor location, or a combination of indoor and outdoor locations, within a geographic site that is a bounded location. The system captures the real-time movements of the individuals/equipment and generates location and time statistics based upon real-time movements. The system is also operable to generate analytics based upon the information collected relating to the movements of the individuals/equipment as well as insights. The location and movement information can be mapped in real-time or over time.
US10158967B2
An electronic device comprising: a memory including a first memory area associated with a first application; and at least one processor operatively coupled to the memory, configured to: detect that a connection is established between the electronic device and an external electronic device; and allocate a second memory area in the memory in response to detecting that the connection is established.
US10158957B2
A system is provided to analyze cross-modulation distortion in audio devices, which may include testing with audio frequencies. One or more distortion signals from the audio device may be measured for an amplitude, phase, and or frequency modulation effect. In another embodiment a musical signal may be used as a test signal. Providing additional test signals to the audio device can induce a time varying cross-modulation distortion signal from an output of the audio device. Also utilizing at least one additional filter, filter bank, demodulator and or frequency converter and or frequency multiplier provides extra examination of distortion.
US10158955B2
A hearing device includes: a processing unit configured to compensate for hearing loss of a user of the hearing device; and a memory unit; wherein the processing unit is configured to: obtain an access right certificate, the access right certificate comprising an access right identifier, verify the access right certificate, and if the access right certificate is verified, provide an access right according to the access right identifier.
US10158948B2
An electronic device may be configurable to operate in a scrambling mode and a non-scrambling mode while processing chat audio and microphone audio for a first player participating in an online multiplayer game via a game console. While operating in the non-scrambling mode, the electronic device may be configured to transmit the microphone audio to the game console without scrambling the microphone audio. While operating in the scrambling mode, the electronic device may be configured to scramble the microphone audio and transmit the scrambled microphone audio to the game console. The electronic device may be operable to select a scrambling key used to scramble the microphone audio based on a signal received by the electronic device that indicates a role of the player in the online multiplayer game. The role of the player may correspond to which of two or more opposing teams the first player is a member of in the online multiplayer game.
US10158936B2
A loudspeaker and a method of operation which allow for the production and emphasis of extremely low bass tones. The loudspeaker generally is formed from a loudspeaker driver cone of conventional type which is placed in a very small enclosure with two waveguides attached thereto. A smaller balance waveguide is positioned forward of the face of the cone and a larger tuning waveguide is positioned to the side of the cone. The cross-sectional area of the aperture connections of both waveguides to the enclosure are small compared to the cross-sectional area of the loudspeaker driver cone.
US10158919B1
Systems and methods are described to address deficiencies in conventional biometric devices by dynamically enabling and disabling a biometric device based on the content the user is viewing. The media guidance application may utilize a device enablement rule, which has content criteria. If the content criteria is satisfied, the media guidance application may enable or disable a biometric device in accordance with the device enablement rule.
US10158918B2
Systems and methods for bookmarking prospective media content on computer network. In some implementations, a method includes: at a server system, obtaining, from a electronic device, information corresponding to a media content item; identifying the media content item, from among a plurality of media content items, in accordance with the information; creating a provisional bookmark corresponding to a first URL where the media content item is not yet available but is likely to be available within a predefined time period; and transmitting the provisional bookmark to the electronic device. The method optionally includes: after creating the provisional bookmark, in accordance with a determination that the media content item has become available at the first URL, before the predefined time period: converting the provisional bookmark into a non-provisional bookmark.
US10158915B2
A method and apparatus for identifying content using one or more Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) devices by accessing a user's account using a secondary device and selecting content provided by a service provider. The service provider sends an identifier that specifies the selected content to a first IPTV device that will display content. The selected content is added to a user's content list in the user's account; and played on the first IPTV device. During the time of playback on the first IPTV device, the user is able to browse content using the secondary device or another IPTV device. Thus, the user is able to browse and search for additional content without disturbing the display of the selected content.
US10158912B2
Particular portions or events of recorded television programming identified as having especially significant or interesting detail may be played-back at normal speed without user input; whereas other portions or events of the recorded television programming may be played-back at greater than normal speed.
US10158900B1
Systems and methods for automatically detecting date information in electronic documents. In some embodiments, a media guidance application may automatically associate a first partial calendar date-and-time indicator to a second partial calendar date-and-time indicator that appears at a separate location in a document. The media guidance application may determine whether the partial calendar date-and-time indicators are correlated, and then combine the partial calendar date-and-time indicators to obtain a complete date-and-time representation.
US10158892B2
Systems and methods of emulating a conversation about a thematic content event are disclosed. An exemplary embodiment receives a member dialog video from a community member who is a member of a plurality of community members, wherein the member dialog video includes video and audio portions, and wherein the member dialog video expresses at least one of a personal opinion and a personal viewpoint about the thematic content event; generates dialog text from the audio portion of each received member dialog video, wherein the dialog text comprises words and phrases spoken by the community member in the member dialog video; receives a modified thematic content event; compares the words and phrases of the dialog text with the plurality of keywords; and associates at least one portion of the member dialog video having the words and phrases of the dialog text that match with the matching keyword of the anchor point.
US10158882B2
Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for encoding and decoding an image. The present invention provides an intra prediction unit that receives an input image, calculates a correlation between a Luma area block and Chroma area block in the input image in intra prediction, removes high frequency ingredients by low-pass filtering an encoded luma pixel based on the calculated correlation, and generates a prediction block by applying an LM chroma mode, which is an extended chroma mode technique, to the luma pixel removed therefrom the high frequency ingredients.
US10158881B2
A method comprises encoding a first view component of a first view of a multiview bitstream; and encoding a second view component of a second view; wherein the encoding of the second view component enables generating of a reference picture list for the second view component to include at least one of the following: (a) a first field view component based on the first view component or (b) a first complementary field view component pair including the first view component.
US10158864B2
A method, an apparatus and a coder for selecting an optimal reference frame in HEVC coding are disclosed. The method includes obtaining optimal reference frames of prediction units spatially adjacent to a current prediction unit, and determining an optimal reference frame of the current prediction unit based on a correlation between optimal reference frames of the spatially adjacent prediction units in a same layer depth for prediction unit(s) of a minimum layer depth. In this way, an ergodic rate distortion cost calculation is not needed to be performed at least for the prediction unit(s) of the minimum layer depth, and the corresponding optimal reference frame is directly determined using the correlation, thus reducing the amount of calculations and enhancing the coding efficiency.
US10158862B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for intra prediction. The intra prediction method for a decoder, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of entropy-decoding a received bitstream, generating reference pixels to be used in the intra prediction of a prediction unit; generating a prediction block from the reference pixels on the basis of a prediction mode for the prediction unit and reconstructing an image from the prediction block and a residual block, which is obtained as a result of entropy encoding, wherein the reference pixels and/or the prediction block pixels are predicted on the basis of a base pixel, and the predicted pixel value can be the sum of the pixel value of the base pixel and the difference between the pixel values of the base pixel and the generated pixel.
US10158844B2
An imaging system with a light source controls the sensitivity of pixels to light, by performing both superpixel modulation and curtain modulation. The superpixel modulation may facilitate rapid data acquisition. The curtain modulation may suppress the effect of ambient light. In superpixel modulation, each pixel set may be modulated by a separate superpixel modulation signal that causes sensitivity of the pixel set to light to vary over time, and each superpixel may include a pixel from each pixel set. The curtain modulation may cause pixels in only a small region of the photodetector to be sensitive to light. The curtain modulation may cause the small region to move to track the dot of light, by changing which pixels are in the region. This invention may be used for 3D scanning.
US10158837B2
A method and apparatus for secure transfer and playback of multimedia content enables the secure transfer of multimedia content from a digital video recorder (DVR) to a personal computer (PC) and further to a handheld device. A DVR determines which devices on a Local Area Network (LAN) are authorized to share and/or retrieve content from the DVR. The DVR receives a connection request from a PC on the LAN, authorizes the connection request and establishes a secure connection between the DVR and the PC. Once the secure connection is established, the DVR receives a request for multimedia content from the PC, prepares the multimedia content for transfer and transfers the multimedia content to the PC.
US10158835B2
Enhancing image dynamic range is described. An input video signal that is represented in a first color space with a first color gamut, which is related to a first dynamic range, is converted to a video signal that is represented in a second color space with a second color gamut. The second color space is associated with a second dynamic range. At least two (e.g., three) color-related components of the converted video signal are mapped over the second dynamic range.
US10158823B2
A method and apparatus for an adaptive search user interface is provided. An interface is provided that returns search results upon receiving each alphanumeric character of a search query term. Correlations of prefixes of alphanumeric characters and search results selected from previous searches are stored in a correlation matrix. Based upon the correlations in the correlation matrix, relevance rankings for search results with respect to the prefixes of alphanumeric characters are updated. Search results may be grouped based upon one or more common traits. Relevance rankings are also updated based upon the rate of change of selections recorded for a search result.
US10158822B2
A computing device may include a video input interface and video output interface to allow insertion into a video system. The device may be configured to perform passthrough operation on the incoming video, allowing the incoming signal to appear at the output interface. When overlay video operations are desired, the device may resize the incoming video, generate one or more additional overlays, and generate a modified version of the incoming video signal, where the modified version contains the one or more additional overlays along with (if desired) the original video. The device may have data network connections, and can thereby serve as an easy way, for example, to upgrade an existing video system with network and/or interactive features.
US10158801B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises: a communication unit configured to communicate with an external apparatus; an operating unit; a control unit configured to receive operation regarding a predetermined function from the external apparatus via the communication unit and to receive operation regarding a predetermined function from a user via the operating unit; and a power source for supplying electrical power to the control unit; wherein if electrical power is supplied from the power source due to start of communication with the external apparatus, the control unit performs control to disable the reception of operation by the operating unit according to the function whose operation has been received from the external apparatus.
US10158796B2
The invention relates to a phase-detection autofocus system using a single two-dimensional (2D) image sensor as an autofocus sensor. This allows for a number of novel functionalities such as calibration by adaptive selection of pixels for the autofocus collection zone, dynamically optimization of the collection zone for various scene and lightning conditions, as well as the use of 2D phase signals in the cross-correlation. This freedom in selecting which pixels to use gives rise to an equivalent freedom for the focus points presented to the user, which can be created, moved and scaled according to the conditions and the scene.
US10158795B2
An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a communication unit configured to read, from another electronic apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, information regarding a current operation mode of the another electronic apparatus, and a controller configured to select a user interface screen which is displayed on the display unit in accordance with the information regarding the operation mode read by the communication unit.
US10158791B2
Camera device 1 for taking at least one image of a scene in front of the camera device 1, the camera device 1 comprising: a sensor-camera 2 with a main beam path, whereby the sensor-camera 2 comprises a sensor 3, an IR filter 4 and an objective 5, whereby the IR filter 4 is arranged between the objective 5 and the sensor 3, whereby light with a wavelength smaller than a cut-off range passes the IR filter 4 into the sensor 3 and light with a wavelength larger than the cut-off range is reflected by the IR filter 4 and, whereby the main beam path is from the objective 5 into the sensor 3, whereby the objective 5 comprises a final optical element 7, whereby the final optical element 7 is the optical element next to the IR filter 4, whereby the IR filter 4 is tilted by a tilting angle, so that most of the reflected light or all of the reflected light is guided away from the final optical element 7.
US10158790B2
An image memory is reduced in an image processing apparatus that generates a background image from which the influence of rain or the like is removed.In the image processing apparatus, a selection unit selects two image signals having a shorter distance in a color space from among an input image signal input during a focused processing cycle among processing cycles executed for respective time-series frames each constituted by the input image signal, an immediately preceding output image signal which is an output image signal generated during a processing cycle immediately preceding the focused processing cycle, and an already output image signal which is an image signal based on the output image signal generated during a processing cycle preceding the focused processing cycle by two cycles. An output image signal generation unit generates the output image signal by mixing the two selected image signals on the basis of a predetermined mixing ratio.
US10158774B2
This image processing apparatus performs image processing on image data, and includes an edit-region identifying section identifying a user-specified region in the image data as an edit region, a character-position identifying section identifying the positions of individual characters in the image data, a character-region generating section generating a character region for each of the characters whose positions have been identified by the character-position identifying section, an edit-character-string identifying section identifying an edit character string based on candidate characters identified by determining the degree of overlay between the edit region and character region, and an image processing unit performing image processing on the edit character string identified by the edit-character-string identifying section.
US10158752B2
An apparatus to control an external device includes a connector to electrically connect with the external device, a connection detector to determine whether the external device is electrically connected to the connector, and a controller to obtain level information corresponding to the external device from the connector, to deter mine a type of the external device based on the level information, and to control execution of a function of the apparatus based on the determined type, wherein the level information is different according to the type of the external device.
US10158746B2
A vehicle display apparatus for enabling use of a wireless portable electronic device with a vehicle includes a processor, and a display, a transceiver, and memory each coupled to the processor. The memory contains program instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive data at the transceiver over a first wireless connection with a wireless headgear apparatus. The wireless headgear apparatus is in communication with the wireless mobile device over a second wireless connection. The program instructions are further configured to cause the processor to display information related to the wireless mobile device on the display based on the received data, to receive a user selection related to operation of the wireless mobile device via a user interface in communication with the processor, and to transmit the user selection to the wireless headgear apparatus.
US10158745B2
A vehicle connected to a terminal of a user to perform dialing includes a speech input unit that receives a speech of the user, a speech recognition unit that recognizes a command included in the received speech, a control unit that determines a preparation state for performing the dialing, and a display unit that displays information about the preparation state when preparation for performing the dialing is not completed.
US10158743B2
Disclosed aspects relate to managing a cluster of compute nodes in a shared pool of configurable computing resources using a set of Small Computer System Interface Persistent Reservation (SCSI-PR) commands. The set of SCSI-PR commands may be used to monitor the cluster of compute nodes for an error event. The error event may be detected based on a set of values derived from the set of SCSI-PR commands. An error event response action may be determined with respect to the error event. Performance of the error event response action may be initiated.
US10158735B2
Innovative technologies for reducing network request response times over a server-signed connection are disclosed. The technologies may involve dynamically computing synchronized compression dictionaries using server responses to speculative or “read-ahead” client requests. The technologies operate even when the client is unable to accept the server responses due to server-signing constraints. A server proxy may receive a read-ahead request originating from a client proxy. After receiving a response to the read-ahead request from a server, the server proxy may populate a compression dictionary and forward the read-ahead request to the client proxy. The client proxy may populate its own synchronized compression dictionary using the forwarded read-ahead response. The server proxy and client proxy may use the compression dictionaries to respectively compress and decompress a response to an actual client request that matches or is highly similar to the earlier response to the read-ahead request.
US10158719B2
A communication system for facilitating control over a function of a vehicle (102) comprises a base station (104) positioned in the vehicle (102) and a mobile communication unit (122). The base station (104) comprises a first transmitter for transmitting a signal to the mobile communication unit (122) and a first receiver for receiving a signal from the mobile communication unit (122). The base station (104) is further configured to cause the mobile communication unit (122) to operate in accordance with a limited-response duty cycle.
US10158713B2
The inventive subject matter provides apparatus, systems, and methods of pre-loading (or caching) activatable content to several mobile devices for future use by at least one of the mobile devices. The mobile devices are communicatively coupled with each other to form a distribute storage network. The pre-loaded content can be used by applications executed in any one of the mobile devices within the network. A content server is configured to transmit portions of the content to the mobile devices upon detection that a subset of conditions within the multi-conditional content activation criteria has been satisfied. The content server is configured to transmit the entire content when all conditions within the multi-conditional content activation criteria has been satisfied. The content server then activates the content when a content activation event is detected.
US10158709B1
A data storage system that implements identifying data store requests for asynchronous processing. A request may be received at a frontend task engine that processes requests for a network-based data store. The frontend task engine may evaluate the request to determine whether the request should be processed asynchronously. For a request identified for asynchronous processing, the task engine may initiate processing of the request at backend task engines for the network-based data store. Resources for processing the request at the frontend task engine may be reclaimed for processing other requests. A task sweeper that collects data for the network-based data store may detect that processing of the request has completed. The task sweeper may also provide an indication of the completion of the request.
US10158688B2
Disclosed embodiments provide an approach for sharing media items between mobile devices that are in proximity to one another. A device ID is generated and shared with nearby devices. Media items are uploaded to a data server and then sent from the data server to other devices that request them based on a shared device ID. Users do not need to know each other or be connected to each other in any social media sense, and yet can still share media items. Thus, disclosed embodiments provide a new level of crowd-sourced coverage of an event based on sharing of media items.
US10158681B2
A party (2) in a telecommunications network (1) comprises access information (3) pertaining to communication capabilities the party (2) is able to handle. The party (2) is registered (4) with a unique identity (6) and at least one network contact address (7) at a server (5). Access information required for setting up a communication session with the party (2) is retrieved by initiating, by an entity (8) in the network (1), of a contact request (9) to the server (5) for at least one network contact address (7) of the party (2) from which access information of the party (2) is available. The server (5) forwards the at least one network contact address (6) of the party (2) in a token (10). Using the received at least one network contact address (6), the entity (8) initiates an access request (11) to the party (2) for retrieving access information (3) and receives access information (12) from the party (2) in response to the access request (11).
US10158677B1
An example embodiment may include a security enforcement point device disposed within a managed network and a security decision point device disposed within a computational instance of a remote network management platform. The security decision point device may be configured to: receive a message by way of the managed network; parse the message to identify observable indicators of one or more of the security threats, where the observable indicators include at least one of a network addresses, a hyperlink, or a representation of an attached file; remotely query a security threat database for the observable indicators; receive, from the security threat database, an indication that the observable indicators are associated with a particular security threat, and transmit, to the security enforcement point device, a command to update its associated security policy such that the particular security threat is mitigated.
US10158676B2
In various embodiments, a data map generation system is configured to: (1) enable a user to specify one or more criteria; (2) identify one or more data flows based at least in part on the one or more specified criteria; (3) generate a data map based at least in part on the identified one or more data flows; and (4) display the data map to any suitable individual (e.g., the user). In particular embodiments, the system is configured to display all data flows associated with a particular organization that are stored within the system. In other embodiments, the system is configured to display all data flows that are associated with a particular privacy campaign undertaken by the organization.
US10158671B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with reverse DRM geo-fencing are disclosed. In embodiments, an UAV may comprise sensors to provide sensor data for aerial operation over or near a geographic area, and collect sensor data of a target within the geographic area, and a reverse DRM geo-fence policy enforcement manager to enforce reverse DRM geo-fence policies on operation of the sensors while the UAV operates over/near the geographic area. In other embodiments, a base station may include a reverse DRM geo-fence policy generator to instruct an UAV to enforce reverse DRM geo-fence policies on operation of sensors of the UAV on collecting sensor data of the target within the geographic area while the UAV operates over or near the geographic area. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US10158666B2
Provided are methods and systems for mitigating a denial of service attack. A system for mitigating a denial of service attack may include a network module, a storage module, and a processor module. The network module may be operable to receive a request from a network device to establish a data connection between the network device and a server based on a determination that the network device is trusted. The storage module may be operable to store a whitelist associated with a plurality of trusted network devices. The processor module may be operable to determine that the network device is trusted. Based on the determination, the processor module may associate the network device with the whitelist for a predetermined period of time.
US10158664B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for detecting malicious computer code are provided. A dataset may be accessed and converted to a binary dataset according to a predefined conversion algorithm. One or more cycles in the binary dataset may be identified. Statistical analysis may be performed on the identified one or more cycles. A determination that the set of dataset includes malicious software code may be made based on the performed statistical analysis.
US10158654B2
Systems and methods for monitoring states of operation of a computer environment can include one or more computer servers identifying a target asset of the computer environment and establishing a communication link with a computing device associated with the target asset. The one or more computer servers can determine a first set of parameters for profiling the target asset, transmit a first query for the first set of parameters to the computing device via the communication link, and receive one or more first parameter values corresponding to the first set of parameters responsive to the query. The one or more computer servers can compare the one or more first parameter values to one or more first criteria or threshold values, an determine a state of operation of the target asset based on the comparison. The state of operation can be indicative of an abnormal behavior associated with the target asset.
US10158648B2
A method for execution by a dispersed storage and task (DST) execution unit operates to receive a slice retrieval request from a requester that includes a slice name of one or slices to be retrieved; determine an access policy to apply to the slice retrieval request; determine a timestamp; and determine, based on the timestamp, when the one or more slices are available for retrieval. When the one or more slices are available for retrieval, the method operates further to determine when the one or more slices are currently available to the requester; retrieves the one or more slices from memory and sends the one or more slices to the requester, when the one or more slices are currently available to the requester.
US10158644B2
A token-based routing system that includes an out-of-network transfer processor configured to receive a transfer request, a sender token, and a receiver token and to identify an institution associated with a sender based on the sender token. The out-of-network transfer processor is configured to determine a membership for an institution associated with a receiver based on the receiver token. The out-of-network transfer processor is configured to facilitate a transfer from the institution associated with the sender to the receiver using service network resources in response to determining that the membership for the institution associated with the receiver indicates an in-network institution. The out-of-network transfer processor is configured to facilitate a transfer from the institution associated with the sender to the institution associated with the receiver using secondary network resources in response to determining that the membership for the institution associated with the receiver indicates an out-of-network institution.
US10158637B1
Systems and methods that facilitate operational support for network infrastructures are discussed. The disclosed system and method facilitate a unified view of the current state of the network and networked devices including real-time log monitoring and for providing metrics for long term system planning. One such method can include the acts of automatically discovering a device deployed on a network, receiving device and network related data in real-time, determining whether a device is authorized, terminating device network access, filtering device data, validating device configuration, configuring a device and providing an output for use by a user. The disclosed system and method can be utilized, for example, to reduce the time involved in troubleshooting and resolving network issues, for establishing a baseline for network performance and for network capacity planning.
US10158613B1
Devices that conceal transmission(s) transmitted to and/or reveal transmission(s) received from these devices comprising at least one executable coded cipher key(s) at least one executable coded encryption key (ECEK) device that securitizes transmission(s) that uses executable coded key(s), and at least one executable coded decryption key (ECDK) device that reveals transmission(s) such that a combined device is a RDDS/ECDK device that transmits randomized data with data sub-channels and with ECEKs; and that also utilizes at least one executable coded cipher key(s), such that transmission(s) sent to an encrypter/decrypter memory that stores transmission(s) while the transmission(s) is concealed and/or revealed. When concealing/revealing operation(s) are completed the transmission(s) is sent to at least one transmitter such that the concealing/revealing operation of the transmission(s) is controlled and manipulated by the executable coded cipher key(s), wherein the executable coded cipher key(s) remain in the computer memory long enough to achieve securitization completion.
US10158607B2
A processor-implemented method for a secure processing environment for protecting sensitive information is provided. The processor-implemented method may include receiving encrypted data and routing the encrypted data to the secure processing environment. Then the encrypted data may be decrypted and fields containing sensitive information may be found. The method may also include obfuscating the sensitive information and returning, by the secure processing environment, the decrypted data and obfuscated data.
US10158605B2
Presented herein are techniques for enabling delegated access control of an enterprise network. In particular, data representing a trust chain formed between a local domain and a remote domain is stored in an identity management system. The local domain has an associated secure enterprise computing network and wherein the trust chain identifies one or more outside entities associated with the remote domain that are authorized to access the secure enterprise computing network. The identity management system receives a request for access to the secure enterprise computing network by a first outside entity of the one or more outside entities associated with the remote domain. Access by the outside entity to the secure enterprise computing network is controlled/determined based on an analysis of the trust chain.
US10158587B2
A method for communicating between a caller entity and an instance of an application downloaded onto a user terminal and designed to be connected to a connection server. The method including obtaining an instance identifier of the application instance comprising a first and a second identifier, the second identifier being a pointer toward a host server and the first identifier representing the instance within the host server, and transmitting a notification destined for the application instance via the instance identifier.
US10158576B2
A radio frequency module may include a transceiver positioned on a circuit board, a crystal positioned on the circuit board, an antenna positioned on the circuit board, and a shield positioned over the transceiver and crystal. The shield may include an upper surface and a plurality of legs coupling the upper surface to the circuit board.
US10158570B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to systems, network nodes, and methods performed in a network node. A network node can host a TCP/ICN proxy for routing TCP packets through an ICN network. The network node can serve as a forward proxy or a reverse proxy. As a forward proxy, the network node can receive a first packet at the network node, the first packet compliant with a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) protocol; encapsulate one or more TCP headers from the first packet into a payload field of a second packet, the second packet compliant with an Information Centric Networking (ICN) protocol; and transmit the second packet to a destination through an ICN network. As a reverse proxy, the network node can receive an ICN packet from an ICN network, decapsulate the ICN packet to its TCP components, and transmit the TCP packet through a TCP network.
US10158567B1
A method for assisting media access control (MAC) address learning is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a first provider edge (PE) device, a data packet from a core network, the data packet identifying an Ethernet Segment (ES) from which the data packet originated and identifying a first MAC address as the destination MAC address; determining, at the first PE device, whether the first PE device has an Ethernet connection in the ES identified by the data packet and whether the first PE device has learned the first MAC address; and, upon positive determination, sending an announcement message to the core network, the announcement message identifying the first MAC address.
US10158558B1
In one embodiment, packets are forwarded in a network according to a Segment Routing-based (SR-based) multicast distribution tree identified by a Tree Segment Identifier (Tree-SID). This packet forwarding includes packet replication to cause multiple copies of a same packet to be forwarded to different nodes of the SR-based multicast distribution tree. The Tree-SID is typically a same global value used within the network to identify the SR-based multicast distribution tree. As each packet is being routed through the network according to the SR-based multicast distribution tree, the packet includes the Tree-SID in a Segment List of the packet, with the Segment List being an ordered list of SID's identifying information for forwarding the packet in the network. The Tree-SID provides a lookup key for efficient forwarding of packets by packet switching devices making forwarding decisions, which may including forwarding multiple copies of the packet.
US10158550B2
An access control system and method for monitoring an access point are disclosed. Preferably, a positioning unit of the system includes a primary antenna and a directional antenna that determine close proximity of users to the access point while also allowing the system to continuously monitor the locations of the users. The primary antenna preferentially receives wireless signals sent from user devices (e.g. mobile phones, fobs) of the users while the directional antenna receives the wireless signals within a threshold area of the access point. The system authorizes users to enter each access point by matching user information of the users extracted from the wireless signals to locally stored user information for the users, and determining that the matched user information is referenced within locally stored authorization information indicating which users can access the access point. The system can pre-authorize the users as they approach the threshold area.
US10158537B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for determining quality of experience for communication sessions. In an implementation, a method may include determining a plurality of intrusive quality of experience scores associated with a plurality of intrusive audio transmission samples. The method may also include determining a plurality of non-intrusive quality of experience scores associated with a plurality of non-intrusive audio transmission samples. The method may further include deriving a quality of experience coefficient based upon a relationship between the plurality of intrusive quality of experience scores and the plurality of non-intrusive quality of experience scores.
US10158534B2
In some examples, a computing device may determine a prediction of a network outage of a network. The computing device may determine a priority of one or more data types expected to be received during the network outage. Further, the computing device may determine a latency category of the one or more data types expected to be received during the network outage. The computing device may store a data transmission rule for the one or more data types at least partially based on the priority and the latency category. The computing device may receive, from one or more data generators, during the network outage, data for transmission to the network. The computing device may transmit at least some of the received data to the network at least partially based on the data transmission rule.
US10158532B1
A customer premises equipment (CPE) can allocate bandwidth to a primary user equipment (UE) connected to the CPE via a first network connection of first network (e.g., primary network) associated with the CPE. The allocation can be based upon a usage of bandwidth through the first network over a sample period. In response to a request from a secondary UE to connect to a wireless second network associated with CPE. In response to a determination that the secondary UE is authorized to access the second network, the CPE can facilitate the connection of the secondary UE to the CPE via the second network. The CPE can allocate bandwidth to the secondary user equipment based upon the first amount of bandwidth allocated to the primary user equipment, and based upon the bandwidth capacity of the link between the CPE and the fixed packet network.
US10158526B2
A system of the present invention includes a plurality of servers 111 and 112. Each of the servers is configured to operate as a given function of a plurality of functions as which the server can operate. The system includes: a detection unit 151 detecting the operation status of the server, and a management unit 152 determining change of a function as which the server operates depending on the operation status.
US10158517B2
A method for transmitting broadcast signals includes encoding service data; mapping the encoded service data to symbols; building a signal frame including the symbols; and frequency interleaving the symbols in the signal frame. After an interleaving sequence is generated based on a toggle bit, a basic interleaving sequence, and a symbol offset, it is checked whether or not an address of the generated interleaving sequence is within a range of an OFDM symbol being frequency-interleaved. After checking the address, the symbols are frequency interleaved using the interleaving sequence, and when the FFT size is 32K, a single permutation is applied to the basic interleaving sequence, and when the FFT size is 8K or 16K, different permutations are applied to the basic interleaving sequence.
US10158514B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate than a 4G communication system such as LTE. The present invention relates to channel estimation and equalization in a cellular environment on the basis of an FBMC transmission and reception technique. A communication method of a base station according to one embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining a reference signal (RS) pattern building block of a plurality of cells according to filter information of the plurality of cells; determining an RS pattern of the plurality of cells by using the determined RS pattern building block and the size of a resource block (RB); and transmitting, to a terminal, information about the determined RS pattern. According to one embodiment of the present invention, it is possible to provide a method and an apparatus for mapping a reference signal in a multi-cell environment.
US10158513B2
Disclosed herein is a broadcast signal receiver. The broadcast signal receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a synchronization and demodulation module configured to perform detection and OFDM demodulation on a received broadcast signal, a frame parsing and deinterleaving module configured to parse and deinterleave the signal frame of the broadcast signal, a demapping and decoding module configured to convert the data of at least one Physical Layer Pipe (PLP) of the broadcast signal into a bit domain and to FEC-decode the PLP data, and an output processing module configured to receive the data of the at least one PLP and to output the received data in a data stream form.
US10158511B2
Systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus includes a processor configured to generate a packet for transmission via a wireless signal. The packet is generated for transmission over a bandwidth of 1 MHz using at least one orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol. The apparatus further includes a transmitter configured to transmit the packet via the wireless signal having unique power spectral density characteristics.
US10158508B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for generating a phase-shifted signal in a transmit path and a receive path of a transceiver. When transmitting, a quadrature hybrid in the transmit path generates at least one in-phase signal and at least one quadrature signal based on a modulated signal. Phase shifters generate phase-shifted versions of the modulated signal based on a combination of these signals. When receiving, antennas receive a modulated signal and provide the modulated signal to phase shifters in the receive path. Each phase shifter modifies its received modulated signal. A matching network combines each of the modified modulated signals and provides at least one combined modulated signal to a quadrature hybrid. The quadrature hybrid generates a phase-shifted version of the modulated signal based on the at least one combined signal.
US10158507B2
A signal converter 100 includes, for at least two-phase signals detected by a resolver excited by a carrier signal having a carrier frequency fc, a first phase shifter 101 that shifts a phase of a first phase signal of the resolver with a pole at a frequency f1 lower than the carrier frequency fc, a second phase shifter 102 that shifts a phase of a second phase signal of the resolver with a pole at a frequency f2 higher than the carrier frequency fc, and a synthesizer 103 that combines the phase-shifted first phase signal with the phase-shifted second phase signal.
US10158503B2
A method includes receiving, by a forwarding device, M pieces of description information that are sent by a controller and are in a one-to-one correspondence with M forwarding services. Each piece of description information includes preset performance of a corresponding forwarding service and an identifier of a table to be searched, and a set including preset performance of the M forwarding services includes Q elements. The method further includes generating Q pieces of simultaneous access information according to the M pieces of description information; and determining, according to the Q pieces of simultaneous access information, that N tables are to be stored in at least one memory of the forwarding device.
US10158499B2
An information provision apparatus whereby information regarding a malfunction or problem that occurred during the use of a prescribed model of a home appliance can be shared with users using the same model of the home appliance. A device (20) has the following: a presentation-information reception unit (21) that receives presentation information generated by a server (10) and stores the presentation information in a prescribed storage unit; and a presentation unit (22) that presents the presentation information to the user of the device (20), the presentation information having been read out from the aforementioned storage unit. The presentation information indicates malfunctions or problems that occurred in devices that are the same model as the above-mentioned device (20) and were being used by other users.
US10158493B2
A method of generating, emitting and validating a security code in QR Code or Data Matrix formats, which may be printed in physical media, displayed in electronic display or stored in electronic chips through technologies of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) or Near Field Communication (NFC). This code is generated using encryption, authenticated cryptography and digital identities or certificates emitted in the standard of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) by a reliable Certification Authority, providing to validate the code, with (online) or without connectivity (offline) to a data network, by one application installed, by a reading process, cryptographic validation and decryption, allowing to open the security code content. Optionally, it is possible to achieve the emitting of geopositioning and in its security code validation, with the end user identification.
US10158492B2
Location data from one or more geolocation engines such as GPS, a system that determines location from relative signal strengths or transit times, etc., within and/or connected to a device, such as a mobile phone, vehicle, movable electronic device, computer, etc., is included in a digital record that submitted to obtain a digital signature such that the presence of the device at the particular location can later be proven. The digital record may include data that encodes a message, as well as other parameters such as time. The digital signature encodes recomputation parameters of a hash tree signature infrastructure to a highest level value, a function of which is submitted as a transaction in a blockchain.
US10158487B2
A server sends information to a client that allows the client to establish a first key at the client. The server then receives a session ID that has been encrypted using the first key. The first key is then established at the server, which can then decrypt the session ID using the first key. After the server validates the session ID, it determines a second key that is different from the first key. The server then receives the session ID encrypted with the second key, and decrypts the session ID encrypted with the second key.
US10158483B1
The present disclosure discloses a method of storing data in a distributed data storage system, the distributed data storage system including a plurality of server and client nodes. The method includes receiving unencrypted data from a client node for storing at a server node. The received data is split into one or more data chunks of one or more sizes. Further, each data chunk is encrypted using a key based on the content of corresponding data chunk, and each encrypted chunk is stored at a memory of a server node using a unique data reference. Furthermore, an index chunk is formed that contains one or more data references of one or more encrypted chunks in a predefined order, along with one or more corresponding encryption keys of one or more encrypted chunks, which after being encrypted and stored, the corresponding data reference of this encrypted index chunk is provided to the client node.
US10158479B2
Embodiments disclosed herein describe systems and methods for deploying a new code block on a blockchain. In an embodiment, an application server may provide a user with a graphical user interface (GUI) with contract components and document components. The application server may generate an assembled contract text based on the user selecting the contract and document components. The application server may determine the blockchain addresses or local addresses of smart contract components corresponding to the contract components and the documents components. The application server may generate a code block including references to the addresses of the smart contracts and the document components or containing the executable code itself and may deploy the code block to the latest valid blockchain. The application server may execute the smart contract in the code block based in response to a digital event trigger.
US10158472B2
The user equipment and the base station according to the present invention determine differently whether a downlink subframe is a valid reference resource for a channel state information report, in accordance with whether an interference measurement resource is explicitly configured to the user equipment.
US10158438B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for broadcasting a local signal B that corresponds to a coverage hole in a remote signal B. The system includes a first transmitter at a first location and a second transmitter at the first location that transmits local signal B corresponding to remote signal B transmitted from a remote transmitter. The second transmitter broadcasts the local signal B to at least part of a coverage hole in a coverage area of remote signal B. Also disclosed is a method for consolidating allocated wireless spectrum. The method includes identifying a guard band in an allocated band of wireless spectrum, reassigning an existing channel occupying a portion of the allocated band of wireless spectrum to the guard band via selective single frequency network infill to yield a reassigned channel, and freeing the portion of the allocated band of wireless spectrum.
US10158429B2
In order to suppress the deterioration of receiving characteristics, even in cases where a receiving band of an optical receiver is insufficient with respect to a bit rate of a received signal, an optical receiving apparatus 10 according to the present invention comprises an optical equalizer 20 that provides a light spectrum shaping for spreading an effective band width of an inputted optical signal and an optical receiver 30 that electrically converts and receives the optical signal provided with the light spectrum shaping.
US10158428B2
A method and an apparatus for digitally and automatically controlling a bias voltage of an electro-optic optical modulator are disclosed. The method includes: outputting a scanning bias voltage; acquiring a first optical signal; converting the first optical signal into a first electrical signal; outputting a first direct current signal; calculating an operating bias voltage at each operating point and a half-wave voltage; calculating an error feedback coefficient and a dither amplitude; outputting an operating bias voltage and a dither signal with the dither amplitude; acquiring a second optical signal; converting the second optical signal into a second electrical signal; outputting a harmonic component; calculating a harmonic amplitude and a shift phase; calculating a new bias voltage; and using the new bias voltage as the operating bias voltage.
US10158426B2
A system management method and resource for managing a plurality of managed servers in a data center includes providing a firmware update to a plurality of digital light transmitters located in the data center. Each transmitter may be associated with a corresponding subset of the managed servers and each managed server subset may include one or more digital light receivers. The transmitters may be configured to generate digital light indicative of the firmware update by modulating one or more visible light carrier signals in accordance with a modulation technique and the firmware update. Each transmitter may employ LiFi as the digital light protocol and each receiver may comprise a LiFi compliant receiver.
US10158418B2
A relay apparatus, capable of relaying communication between a communication apparatus and a server, communicates with the communication apparatus and the server through first wireless communication, and carries out control for determining whether or not to permit the communication apparatus to communicate with the server through the first wireless communication in response to a request received from the communication apparatus, that is based on a predetermined protocol. The relay apparatus sends the request to the server and receives data written in a predetermined format as a response to the request, and carries out the control based on the data.
US10158415B1
A method of operating a macro base station to manage a frequency list. The frequency list includes frequencies for the macro base station and a plurality of wireless relays that serve User Equipment (UEs). The method includes wireless relays monitoring the frequency list broadcasted by the macro base station to determine if their associated frequencies are included in the frequency list. The method further includes, if a wireless relay determines its associated frequency is not included in the frequency list, then the wireless relay transferring a message to the macro base station to add its associated frequency.
US10158414B2
A user equipment (UE) capable of communicating with a base station (BS) includes a transceiver configured to receive a signal comprising a CSI process configuration, wherein the CSI process configuration comprises a CSI-RS resource configuration to identify a CSI-RS resource and a CSI-RS on the CSI-RS resource, and transmit a precoding matrix indicator to the base station, and a controller configured to derive the precoding matrix indicator utilizing the CSI-RS on the CSI-RS resource. When the CSI-RS resource configuration indicates 4 CSI-RS ports: the precoding matrix indicator has a 3-bit size when a rank to derive the precoding matrix indicator is one; the precoding matrix indicator has a 3-bit size when the rank is two; the precoding matrix indicator has a 2-bit size when the rank is three; and the precoding matrix indicator has a 1-bit size when the rank is four.
US10158411B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method for transmitting, by a terminal, channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: subsampling a code book for four antenna ports; and feeding back the CSI on the basis of the subsampled code book, wherein the CSI includes a rank indicator (RI) reported together with a precoding type indicator (PTI), and if the RI is greater than 2, the PTI is set to one.
US10158408B2
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). A channel information feedback in a wireless communication system and a method of a receiving node of a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes transmitting an indication representing an indexing rule for channel values and block-wise quantized channel information, and receiving beamformed signals mapped to an antenna based on the indexing rule.
US10158406B2
Various embodiments include an apparatus to be employed by an enhanced Node B (eNB), the apparatus comprising communication circuitry to receive, from a user equipment (UE), feedback information and control circuitry, coupled with the communication circuitry, to identify a codeword from a three-dimensional codebook based on the feedback information received from the UE, wherein the communication circuitry is further to precode data to be transmitted to the UE based on the codeword. An apparatus to be employed by a UE and additional methods are described.
US10158405B2
Interference alignment for a multiple-input multiple-output communications network with partial connectivity is provided. A method is provided that includes determining assignments for data streams transmitted in the multiple-input multiple-output communications network. The method also includes suppressing inter-cell interference and suppressing intra-cell interference. Also provided is inter-cell/intra-cell decomposition and exploitation of partial connectivity in a multiple-input multiple-output communications network. The multiple-input multiple-output communications network can comprise three or more cells.
US10158398B2
A wireless communication terminal apparatus wherein CoMP communication can normally be performed without increasing the overhead of an upstream line control channel. In this apparatus, a spreading unit primarily spreads a response signal by use of a ZAC sequence established by a control unit. A spreading unit secondarily spreads the response signal, to which CP has been added, by use of a block-wise spread code sequence established by the control unit. The control unit controls, in accordance with sequence numbers and a hopping pattern established therein, the circular shift amount of the ZAC sequence to be used for the primary spread in the spreading unit and the block-wise spread code sequence to be used for the secondary spread in the spreading unit. The hopping pattern established in the control unit is a hopping pattern common to a plurality of base stations that CoMP-receive the response signal.
US10158396B2
Infrastructure electronics equipment incorporates infrastructure Local-Site Transports (LSTs). LSTs convey payload sampled signals over imperfect electromagnetic (EM) pathways whose physical properties are usually unknown when the equipment (e.g., Cameras, Displays, Set-Top Boxes) is manufactured. Prior LSTs hedge against EM pathway degradation in several ways: requiring high-quality cables (e.g., HDMI); restricting transmission distance, (e.g., HDMI); and/or reducing quality, via compression, to extend transmission distance somewhat (e.g., Ethernet). The subject of this disclosure is an infrastructure LST for sampled signals that causes the physical errors inevitably arising from propagation of sensory payloads over imperfect EM pathways to manifest in a perceptually benign manner, leveraging legacy infrastructure and reducing costs to achieve a favorable ratio of fidelity to transmission distance.
US10158391B2
A wearable wireless portable device (“WWPD”) includes cellular/WAN communications circuitry for establishing a direct connection to a telecommunication network and a low-power short range radio for establishing an indirect connection to the telecommunication network via the communications circuitry of the more feature-rich mobile device. The WWPD may be configured to deactivate its cellular/WAN communications circuitry (and other resource such as GPS) to communicate with a more feature-rich mobile device (e.g., a smartphone) via low-power short range communication technologies when it is in close proximity to the mobile device, and activate its cellular/WAN circuitry to provide cellular and/or network connectivity when it is not in close proximity to the mobile device. The WWPD does not require the bulky battery systems, which enables the WWPD to be packaged into a small and lightweight device, such as a wrist watch or pendant and enables longer battery life for the battery of the WWPD.
US10158390B2
According to the present disclosure, there is provided methods of processing a signal using quantized symbols. More particularly, in one example, the method comprises the steps of processing a signal (206), said method comprising the steps of: receiving a signal (206) comprising a plurality of raw symbols, each raw symbol having a plurality of bits and being conveyed in a channel; estimating a channel state information value (206) of the channel used to convey each raw symbol to generate a corresponding plurality of channel state information values; quantizing the plurality of raw symbols based on their channel state information values to generate a sequence of quantized symbols (214); and quantizing the channel state information values to generate a sequence of quantized channel state values (216).
US10158386B2
The present invention is a method for interference and noise reduction in systems with two signals paths and a phase filter, primarily applicable in telecommunications receiving systems with two antennas, radiolocation, measuring and medical equipments and other fields where there is a need to reduce undesired signals with different phases or amplitudes. The phase filter have two signals paths, where the input signals x and y are supplied to the voltage adders SX and SY, at the output of which output signals x′ and y′ are achieved. The differential output signals w2 and w2′ are also supplied to these voltage adders.The differential outputs signals w2 and w2′ are obtained by means of one or two power combiners by comparing the voltages received at the output of these power combiners to the average voltages on inputs. Signals supplied to inputs of power combiners are derived from a combination of input signals x and y and difference of voltages between these signals.For the assembly of two developed filters for a pair of signals of equal amplitude, damping of over 70 dB for angular differences at 25-180°, damping of over 20 dB for angular differences of +/−15° to +/−25° and damping of more than 40 dB for most signals of different amplitudes can be achieved.
US10158384B1
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry and control circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include multiple antennas and transceiver circuitry. An antenna in the electronic device may have an inverted-F antenna resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing structure and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. The antenna may also include an indirectly-fed antenna resonating element that is indirectly fed by a harmonic mode of the inverted-F antenna resonating element via near field electromagnetic coupling. The indirectly-fed antenna resonating element may be a slot. The antenna ground may define at least three edges of the slot and the slot may be aligned with a dielectric-filled gap in the peripheral conductive housing structures. An adjustable circuit may be coupled across the slot to tune the indirectly-fed antenna resonating element.
US10158376B2
An embodiment may include circuitry that may be capable of performing compression-related operations that may include: (a) indicating, at least in part, in a data structure at least one position of at least one subset of characters that are to be encoded as a symbol, (b) comparing, at least in part, at least one pair of multi-byte data words that are of identical predetermined fixed size, (c) maintaining, at least in part, an array of pointers to potentially matching strings that are to be compared with at least one currently examined string, and/or (d) allocating, at least in part, a first buffer portion to store at least one portion of uncompressed data from an application buffer that is to be input for compression to produce a compressed data stream.
US10158375B1
A decimation filter including a Hadamard-Walsh transform circuit, a comparator, and an inverse Hadamard-Walsh transform circuit. The Hadamard-Walsh transform circuit includes an input receiving a pulse density modulation bitstream and an output providing a stream of digital samples. The comparator replaces each digital sample that has a magnitude below a predetermined threshold value with a zero value and provides adjusted digital samples. The inverse Hadamard-Walsh transform circuit has an input receiving the adjusted digital samples and has an output providing pulse code modulation data values. The decimation filter may further include a down-sampler that down samples the adjusted digital samples by before being provided to the inverse Hadamard-Walsh transform circuit. The decimation filter may include a low pass filter and another down-sampler at the output. The Hadamard-Walsh transform circuits may be implemented according to the fast Hadamard-Walsh transform so that only digital additions and subtractions are performed.
US10158373B2
The disclosure includes a mechanism for mitigating charge related disturbances in a Successive Approximation Register (SAR) Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) by providing a fine reference connection and a rough reference connection. A switch array is activated to couple a current bit capacitor of a capacitor array to the rough reference connection while a current bit corresponding to the current bit capacitor is determined by a comparator. The switch array is further activated to couple a previous bit capacitor of the capacitor array to the fine reference connection while the current bit capacitor is coupled to the rough reference connection. This separates charge flow on the rough reference connection from capacitors coupled to the fine reference connection.
US10158367B1
A digital phase locked loop includes a digital phase detector, a digital loop filter, a digital controlled oscillator, a first divider that divides the second frequency of the oscillation signal depending on a first division value and outputs the division result as a division signal having a third frequency, a second divider that divides the second frequency of the oscillation signal depending on a second division value and outputs the division result as an output signal having a final frequency, a dithering block that receives the division signal and performs dithering on the first division value based on a preset pattern as cycles of the division signal pass, and a digital phase domain filter that performs second low pass filtering on the division signal in a phase domain and outputs the result of the second low pass filtering as the feedback signal.
US10158366B2
A frequency-to-digital-converter based PLL (FDC-PLL) that implements the functionality of a charge pump and analog-to-digital converter (ADC) with a dual-mode ring oscillator (DMRO) and digital logic. Preferred embodiments of the invention include circuit-level techniques that provide better spurious tone performance and very low phase noise with lower power dissipation and supply voltage than prior digital PLLs known to the inventors.
US10158363B1
A Josephson AND/OR gate circuit makes efficient use of Josephson junction (JJ) and inductor components to provide two-input, two-output AND/OR logical functions. The circuit includes four logical input storage loops that each contain one of two logical decision JJs that are configured such that they trigger to provide the OR and AND signals, respectively. Functional asymmetry is provided in the topologically symmetrical AND/OR gate circuit by a bias storage loop that includes both of the logical decision JJs and that is initialized to store a directional Φ0 of current at system start-up.
US10158360B2
A capacitive switch includes a drive circuit, a detection circuit, a reference circuit and an identification unit. The drive circuit outputs a drive signal and a switching signal, wherein the drive signal is outputted to a first node and a second node. The detection circuit is sequentially coupled to the first node and the second node according to the switching signal and generates a first detection signal according to the drive signal. The reference circuit is sequentially coupled to the second node and the first node according to the switching signal and generates a second detection signal according to the drive signal. The identification unit includes a first input terminal and a second input terminal respectively coupled to the first node and the second node, and identifies a phase shift between inputted detection signals received by the first input terminal and the second input terminal.
US10158350B1
The double pulse generator of the level shifter circuit takes out the rising edge and falling edge of the pulse width modulation signal PWM_H and generates corresponding narrow pulse signals. The two narrow pulse signals respectively pass through the pulse shaper to control the two field effect transistors in the switching circuit. The pulse width of the narrow pulse signal is not enough to completely switch on the two field effect transistors, so the generated waveform is a sawtooth wave; the drains of the two field effect transistors are respectively connected to the hysteresis-adjustable Schmidt trigger to restore the narrow pulse signal to the rising edge and falling edge pulse signal of the pulse width modulation signal PWM_HS with respect to the floating side VS, and then the signal is restored to the level-shifted pulse width modulation signal PWM HS after passing through the RS latch.
US10158338B2
A circuit structure is disclosed, wherein the circuit structure comprises: a substrate comprising a top surface, a bottom surface and lateral surfaces connecting the top surface and the bottom surface; a plurality of conductive layers disposed over the top surface of the substrate, wherein a dielectric layer is disposed between each two adjacent conductive layers, wherein at least one capacitor is formed by a first portion of the plurality of conductive layers with the dielectric layers therebetween, and wherein at least one first inductor is formed by a second portion of the plurality of conductive layers; and at least one conductive pattern layer disposed over at least one of the lateral surface to form at least one second inductor, wherein a third portion of the plurality of conductive layers electrically connects with said at least one capacitor, said at least one first inductor and said at least one second inductor.
US10158337B2
The present invention provides for methods and systems for digitally processing an audio signal to reproduce high quality sounds on various materials. In various embodiments, a method comprises filtering the signal with a low shelf filter and/or high shelf filter, passing the signal through a first compressor that, filtering the signal again with a low shelf filter and/or high shelf filter, processing the signal with a graphic equalizer based on a selected material profile, passing the signal through a second compressor, and outputting the signal to a transducer.
US10158333B2
Systems, circuits and methods related to dynamic error vector magnitude (DEVM) corrections. In some embodiments, a power amplifier (PA) system can include a PA circuit having a plurality of amplification stages, and a bias system in communication with the PA circuit and configured to provide bias signals to the amplification stages. The PA system can further include a first correction circuit configured to generate a correction current that results in an adjusted bias signal for a selected amplification stage, with the adjusted bias signal being configured to compensate for an error vector magnitude (EVM) during a dynamic mode of operation. The PA system can further include a second correction circuit configured to change the correction current based on an operating condition associated with the PA circuit.
US10158332B2
An output stage circuit including an amplifier, a switching circuit and a selection circuit is provided. The amplifier converts an input signal into an output signal. The switching circuit is coupled between an output terminal of the amplifier and ground. The selection circuit includes a first-mode-selection-unit and a second-mode-selection unit. The first control signal is selected as a switching signal by the first-mode-selection unit when a power-detection signal is in a high level, so that the switching circuit is selectively turned on. The switching circuit is turned on according to a voltage stored in a storage capacitor of the second-mode-selection unit when the power-detection signal is in a low level, so that the output terminal of the amplifier is coupled to the ground.
US10158330B1
A multi-mode envelope tracking (ET) amplifier circuit is provided. The multi-mode ET amplifier circuit can operate in a low-resource block (RB) mode, a mid-RB mode, and a high-RB mode. The multi-mode ET amplifier circuit includes fast switcher circuitry having a first switcher path and a second switcher path and configured to generate an alternating current (AC) current. A control circuit activates the fast switcher circuitry in the mid-RB mode and the high-RB mode, while deactivating the fast switcher circuitry in the low-RB mode. More specifically, the control circuit selectively activates one of the first switcher path and the second switcher path in the mid-RB mode and activates both the first switcher path and the second switcher path in the high-RB mode. As a result, it is possible to improve efficiency of ET tracker circuitry and the multi-mode ET amplifier circuit in all operation modes.
US10158323B2
A photovoltaic (PV) module clip, and methods of fastening a PV module to a structural member using the PV module clip, are described. In an example, a PV module clip includes a toe portion interconnected with several legs by a neck portion. The toe portion may be inserted through several aligned holes of a PV module frame and a mounting assembly strut to an underside of the strut. The neck portion may extend upward from the toe portion through the aligned holes to the legs above the strut. The legs may extend around a portion of the strut in a tensioned state, and engage with a retaining feature to hold the legs in the tensioned state. Accordingly, the legs may clamp the PV module to the mounting assembly.
US10158320B2
A shift range switchover control ECU controls a motor of an actuator provided to switch over a shift range of a vehicle and includes a temperature estimation part and a driving control part. The temperature estimation part estimates a temperature of the motor 11 based on a driving state of the motor. The driving control part controls driving of the motor and limits the driving of the motor when an estimated temperature exceeds a protection temperature. The temperature estimation part calculates, based on a final temperature indicating the estimated temperature of a system stop time, a restart-time temperature, which is the estimated temperature at time of turning on a starting switch of the vehicle again after turning off the starting switch, and a delay period, during which the temperature estimation part continues to calculate the estimated temperature after turning off of the starting switch. It is thus possible to properly estimate the temperature of the motor.
US10158315B2
This invention is concerning a controller for an AC rotating machine, this controller having an estimated sum current computing unit configured to output, as estimated sum current, a sum of current of a first winding and current of a second winding when it is determined that the current of the first winding can be detected, and maintain the estimated sum current which has been outputted as a previous value when it is determined that the current of the first winding cannot be detected. When it is determined that the current of the first winding cannot be detected, a first voltage command for the first winding is computed based on an estimated current value of the first winding, which has been calculated by subtracting the current of the second winding detected by the second current detector, from the estimated sum current output from the estimated sum current computing unit.
US10158314B2
Disclosed examples include power conversion systems and methods to operate an inverter to drive a motor load through an intervening output filter, a transformer and a cable, including a current regulator to compute a command value according to a current reference value and a motor current feedback value, a cross-coupled feedforward component to compensate the command value by an estimated cross-coupled voltage value to compute a control output value, a cross-coupled object component to compute the motor current feedback value according to a voltage value using a plant transfer function representing the output filter, the transformer, the cable and the motor load, and a controller to provide the inverter switching control signals to control the inverter according to the control output value.
US10158308B2
A motor control system, in some embodiments, comprises: a voltage divider circuit having an output node, a voltage on said output node representing a desired motor rotation direction; control logic configured to receive an indication of said voltage; and a motor controller coupled to the control logic, wherein, if said indication of the voltage on the output node falls outside of a predetermined range, the control logic is configured to issue a motor stop signal to the motor controller indicating that at least one resistor of the voltage divider circuit is defective or is missing from the voltage divider circuit.
US10158298B2
A method for communicating with a power converter comprises initiating a communication sequence by sensing a first distortion of a sensed waveform during a discharge period of a first power transfer cycle of the power converter. The sensed waveform is proportional to a secondary current of the power converter. At a primary side of the power converter, a data bit is received from a secondary side of the power converter, by sensing a second distortion to represent one state of the data bit and sending an absence of the second distortion to represent another state of the data bit. The secondary distortion is applied to the secondary current during the discharge period of a subsequent power transfer cycle.
US10158294B2
System and method for regulating a power converter. The system includes a first signal processing component configured to receive at least a sensed signal and generate a first signal. The sensed signal is associated with a primary current flowing through a primary winding coupled to a secondary winding for a power converter. Additionally, the system includes a second signal processing component configured to generate a second signal, an integrator component configured to receive the first signal and the second signal and generate a third signal, and a comparator configured to process information associated with the third signal and the sensed signal and generate a comparison signal based on at least information associated with the third signal and the sensed signal.
US10158292B2
As may be consistent with one or more embodiments, an apparatus and or method involves a switching power supply circuit and a control circuit therefor. The switching power supply circuit operates in high and low-power modes. In the high power mode, high and low power rails of a first circuit and of a second circuit are coupled to a power source circuit (e.g. a battery). In the low-power mode, the first circuit is operated in a high power domain and the second circuit is operated in a low power domain using recycled charge from the high power domain. The control circuit operates the switching circuit in the high-power mode and low-power mode (for power conservation) in response to a control signal.
US10158290B2
A state machine for a multi-phase voltage converter controls cycle-by-cycle switching of the phases by: entering a first state in which a control signal for the high-side switch is activate and control signals for the low-side and SR (synchronous rectification) switches are deactivate; entering a second state in which the control signals for all switches are deactivate; entering a third state in which the control signal for the high-side switch is deactivate and the control signals for the low-side and SR switches are activate; entering a fourth state in which the control signals for the high-side and low-side switches are deactivate and the control signal for the SR switch is activate and then entering a fifth state in which the control signals for all switches are deactivate, or entering the fifth state without entering the fourth state; and entering the first state at the beginning of the next switching cycle.
US10158288B2
In summary, a switching circuit comprising a high side (HS) switch coupled to the output, a low side (LS) switch comprising a MOSFET coupled to the output, and a slope regulator core coupled to the gate of said low side (LS) switch configured to provide control signals to said slope regulator core. In addition, a method of providing a method of a switch circuit comprising the steps the first step, (a) providing a circuit comprising a low side (LS) switch, a high side (HS) switch, and a slope regulator wherein said slope regulator comprises a fast mode, a slope regulator mode, and a hold mode, the second step (b) activating said slope regulator, the third step (c) choosing a fast mode or a slope regulation mode, the fourth step (d) applying either a fast mode or slope regulation mode; the fifth step (e) evaluating the polarity of the signal, the sixth step (f) toggle signal hold_on if the gate is low or toggle signal hold_off if the gate is high.
US10158284B2
The invention relates to an operating device (1) for lighting means (8), having a circuit (101) for dividing a rectified alternating voltage to direct voltages of lower levels, wherein the circuit (101) comprises a PFC block comprising a plurality of half bridge converters (102, 103, 104) that are arranged such that the sum of the input voltage drops across the half bridge converters (102, 103, 104) corresponds to the value of the rectified alternating voltage, wherein the circuit (101) is the first active stage in a power supply for the lighting means (8).
US10158283B2
A PFC signal generation circuit which generates a PFC signal to control a PFC circuit including a first inductor L1 connected to a first switch NM1 and a second inductor L2 connected to a second switch NM2 includes: a counter 101 whose count value is cleared based on a first timing when a zero current of the first inductor L1 is detected; a counter clear control circuit 202 that clears the count value after waiting until a cycle lower limit is reached, when the first timing is below the cycle lower limit; a first control signal output unit 109 that outputs a first PFC signal to turn on the first switch NM1 at a timing when the count value is cleared; and a second control signal output unit 117 that outputs a second PFC signal to turn on the second switch NM2 based on a second timing when a zero current of the second inductor L2 is detected. This leads to an improvement in power factor correction by the PFC circuit.
US10158281B2
In an embodiment, a power-supply controller includes a control circuit, a drive circuit, and a signal-drop-reducing circuit. The control circuit is configured to generate a drive signal having a duty cycle, and the drive circuit is configured to cause a phase circuit of a power supply to generate, in response to the drive signal, an output signal having a magnitude. And the signal-drop-reducing circuit is configured to disable the driver circuit in response to the duty cycle corresponding to a signal magnitude that is lower than the magnitude of the output signal. For example, where a power supply has a non-zero residual output signal (e.g., output voltage) on its output node after the power supply is deactivated, such a power-supply controller can reduce or eliminate a drop in the residual output signal caused by, or that would be caused by, a restarting of the power supply.
US10158276B2
A rotor production method includes: a first step of arranging a plurality of sintered bodies side by side with an insulating lubricant applied to an interface of at least one of the sintered bodies adjacent to each other, and then housing the sintered bodies in a cavity of a molding die such that the sintered bodies are arranged side by side in the cavity, the sintered bodies being precursors of a plurality of split magnets constituting one rare-earth magnet; a second step of turning the sintered bodies into the split magnets by performing hot working to impart magnetic anisotropy to the sintered bodies arranged in the cavity, and producing an integrated magnet in which the split magnets are integrated together with the lubricant interposed therebetween; and a third step of producing a rotor of a motor by inserting the integrated magnet into a magnet slot of the rotor.
US10158274B2
A rotary machine including a rotary shaft rotatably disposed in a casing is provided. The rotary machine includes an end plate disposed at one end side of the casing in the axial direction. The rotary machine includes a recess section formed in the end plate and recessed toward the inside of the casing. The rotary machine includes a through hole formed in the recess section and through which one end section of the rotary shaft is inserted. The rotary machine includes a shaft grounding device which is provided in the recess section. The shaft grounding device is brought into contact with the one end section of the rotary shaft which is inserted through the through hole, and eliminates a shaft voltage generated in the rotary shaft.
US10158268B2
Insulator that forms an insulating layer on a surface of a plurality of stacked stator cores includes protruding part extending from an outer circumference of stator cores on a substantially same face as one end face of stator cores in a stacking direction. Protruding part includes hooks that fixedly holds connector having a plurality of connector terminals for feeding power from outside. Connector is fixedly held by hooks, winding is wound around each slot of stator cores via insulator, and connector terminals are fixedly press-fitted to connector. A tip of each of connector terminals on a side of winding is bent into a substantially L-shape, winding end in each phase of winding is directly tied to L-shaped tip of connector terminal and connected thereto by soldering.
US10158260B2
A wireless power transfer system comprising a wireless power transmitting apparatus and a plurality of wireless power receiving apparatuses, the wireless power transmitting apparatus comprising: a power transmitting unit adapted to transmit power to the wireless power receiving apparatus; a recognition unit adapted to recognize the wireless power receiving apparatus; and a transmitting unit adapted to transmit predetermined charging delay information according to a recognition result of the recognition unit to the wireless power receiving apparatus recognized by the recognition unit, and the wireless power receiving apparatus comprising: a power receiving unit adapted to receive power transmitted from the power transmitting unit; a receiving unit adapted to receive the predetermined charging delay information transmitted from the transmitting unit; and a display unit adapted to make a display based on the predetermined charging delay information received by the receiving unit.
US10158252B2
The present invention is mainly directed to providing a wireless power relay device and a wireless power transmission device, which are capable of arranging a relay coil having higher transmission efficiency in a transmission-efficiency reducing section having lower transmission efficiency than those of a plurality of relay coils, thereby preventing power transmission efficiency from sharply decreasing in the transmission-efficiency reducing section.
US10158247B2
A battery backup unit for supplying electrical energy in response to a power event affecting an ability of a power supply unit to deliver electrical energy may be configured to, in response to the power event, generate a regulated output voltage having a first voltage magnitude for a first period of time to limit power generated by the battery backup unit to a first power magnitude during the first period of time, and after the first period of time, generate the output voltage having a second voltage magnitude lesser than the first voltage magnitude for a second period of time to limit power generated by the battery backup unit to a second power magnitude lesser than the first power magnitude, wherein the second power magnitude is a function of a continuous maximum power supported by the battery backup unit based on characteristics of the battery backup unit.
US10158244B2
A wireless transmitter device is configurable and operable to transfer energy to multiple receiver devices at the same time. The transmitter device is configured to enable one or more sections of a charging surface to transfer energy by selectively choosing one or more conductive traces in the transmitter device based on the position of the receiver device on the charging surface. The size and shape of each section of the charging surface that is used to transfer energy to a receiver device can change dynamically based on each receiver device. Additionally, the process of transferring energy to each receiver device may be adjusted during energy transfer based on conditions specific to each receiver device.
US10158242B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a wireless charging system. The wireless charging system may include: a system body mounted with a power transmission part including a cavity shielded by a conductive material, a power feeding radiator configured to feed power within the cavity to form a resonance mode, and a slot formed at a location with a maximum E-field by the power feeding radiator to form a power transmission route with E-field coupling; and an electronic device including a power reception part mounted on the system body to receive power from the slot through H-field coupling. Various embodiments may be made.
US10158239B2
The power supply stage (A) of an electric appliance, in particular battery chargers for charging batteries of electric vehicles or the like, comprises a power factor correction circuit (PFC), and overvoltage protection means equipped with: a switch (SW1) connected in series with a smoothing capacitor (C) of the power factor correction circuit (PFC); a control circuit (VD1) of the input voltage of the power supply stage (A) operatively connected to the switch (SW1).
US10158236B2
A power transmission device having a surface a part of which defines a power transmission plane, the device includes: a power transmission circuit converting DC power into AC power; and a power transmission coil structure including 2N planar coils laminated in a direction which is perpendicular to the power transmission plane, the power transmission coil structure wirelessly transmitting the converted AC power to a power receiving coil of a power receiving device via the power transmission plane and being disposed on a side toward the power transmission plane in the power transmission device. The 2N planer coils constitute coil groups including a coil group in which a planar coil having an i'th highest inductance out of the 2N planar coils and a planar coil having an i'th-lowest inductance are connected in series and the coil groups are connected in parallel to each other.
US10158230B2
The invention relates to a control system for compensating undesired electrical harmonics on an electrical grid. Part of the control system referred to as a harmonic compensator is operatively connected with a power inverter of a power producing unit supplying power to the grid. Another part of the control system, referred to as an impedance detector, is operatively connected to a point of coupling to which point one or more power producing units are connected. The impedance detector is configured to scan impedances as a function of frequency to identify frequencies of impedance peaks which peaks are indicative of resonance frequencies. The determined resonance frequencies are supplied to one or more the harmonic compensators. A compensator determines control signals to the inverter which causes the inverter to inject compensation currents to the grid which currents will damp currents oscillating at or close to the determined resonance frequency.
US10158229B2
Node controllers and power distribution networks in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable distributed power control. One embodiment includes a node controller comprising a memory containing: a plurality of node operating parameters; and a plurality of node operating parameters describing operating parameters for a set of at least one node selected from the group consisting of at least one downstream node and at least one upstream node; wherein the processor is configured by the node controller application to: receive and store in memory a plurality of coordinator parameters describing operating parameters of a node coordinator by the network interface; and calculate updated node operating parameters using an iterative gradient projection process to determine updated node parameters using node operating parameters that describe operating parameters of node and operating parameters of the set of at least one node, where each iteration is determined by the coordinator parameters.
US10158226B2
A line switching system is a line switching system which switches line of a power supply system including: a plurality of PV panels which generate power using renewable energy; at least one PCS which conditions supplied power to output the conditioned power to a power system; and a first switch which connects any one of the PV panels and the PCS, wherein the line switching system includes a display device which displays an image corresponding to the power supply system and receives an operation on the image from the user, and a control unit which is configured to switch between conduction and non-conduction between a plurality of PV panels and the PCS by controlling the first switch according to the operation received by the display device.
US10158222B2
A surge protective device (SPD) includes a jack and a plug detachably attached by insertion to the jack. Inside the plug, a protection circuit which protects equipment to be protected against intruding lightning surge, a degradation detecting unit which detects a degradation state of the protection circuit, a display unit which displays the detection result, or the like, are provided. When a plurality of SPDs are installed together, a juncture plug which detachably connects between juncture terminals within the adjacent SPDs is provided. The detection result of the degradation detecting unit within the plug is output to an outside through a third connection terminal within the plug, a first connection terminal and the juncture terminal within the jack and the juncture plug.
US10158212B1
An improved structure for reducing compound semiconductor wafer distortion comprises a contact metal layer, at least one stress balance layer and a die attachment layer. The contact metal layer is formed on a bottom surface of a compound semiconductor wafer; the at least one stress balance layer is formed on a bottom surface of the contact metal layer, wherein the at least one stress balance layer is made of at least one conductive material; the die attachment layer is formed on a bottom surface of the at least one stress balance layer, wherein the die attachment layer is made of conductive material. By locating the at least one stress balance layer between the contact metal layer and the die attachment layer, the stress suffered by the compound semiconductor wafer is balanced so that the distortion of the compound semiconductor wafer is reduced.
US10158211B2
Optical systems can emit train(s) of light pulses onto objects to derive a distance between the light source and the object. Achieving meter or centimeter resolution may require very short light pulses. It is not trivial to design a circuit that can generate narrow current pulses for driving a diode that emits the light pulses. An improved driver circuit has a pre-charge path comprising one or more inductive elements and a fire path comprising the diode. Switches in the driver circuit are controlled with predefined states during different intervals to pre-charge current in the one or more inductive elements prior to flowing current through the fire path to pulse the diode.
US10158208B2
Provided is a method of measuring a phase noise of a repetition rate of a femtosecond laser including generating a combined signal using a first wavelength element and a second wavelength element of an optical pulse train generated by the femtosecond laser, which is mode-locked, guiding the combined signal to a first path and a second path, allowing a signal of the second path to interfere with the signal of the first path, and outputting an interfering combined signal, dividing the interfering combined signal into a first interference signal and a second interference signal, converting the interference signals to radio frequency signals, and detecting a baseband signal including a frequency noise of the repetition rate from the radio frequency signals using a mixer.
US10158207B2
A method for the recovery of energy from a laser machining system and a device for performing the same, in which the method includes operating the laser machining system and generating thermal energy having a maximum temperature Tmax, removing at least a portion of the thermal energy, and recirculating the at least a portion of the thermal energy to the laser machining system.
US10158203B2
A fusible conductive material can be used to electrically connect or join power distribution bus bars that are placed on opposing sides of an electrically insulating bus support. The fusible conductive material can be placed in an opening or hole in the bus support with the bus bars abutting the fusible conductive material on opposing sides. The fusible conductive material can then be ignited, such as by applying a voltage drop, to produce a localized heat source suitable to electrically join the bus bars together. By electrically connecting the bus bars in this manner, the bus bars can better conduct, be less susceptible to separation and require less maintenance with respect to connectivity.
US10158198B2
A signal module and a signal relay device that can suppress the effect of noise are provided, and the signal module is a signal module of a tool changer including a first coupling member to be detachably attached to a body side of an industrial robot and a second coupling member to be detachably attached to a tool side, the signal module including a signal relay connector attached to the first coupling member or the second coupling member, and upon the first coupling member and the second coupling member being coupled, forming a signal path between the first coupling member side and the second coupling member side, wherein in the signal relay connector, a plurality of terminal pairs to be used for communication using differential signals are provided, and two terminals of each of the terminal pairs are arranged at mutually-adjacent positions.
US10158197B2
A receptacle connector for use with a plug, includes an insulative housing defining a base and a mating tongue extending, with a widen and thicken step portion defined at a root region of the mating tongue; a plurality of contacts disposed in the housing with contacting sections exposed upon the first and second surfaces of the mating tongue and categorized with signal contacts, power contacts and grounding contacts. Each of first and second surfaces of the step portion is fitly surrounded with a metallic plate, the metallic plate mechanically and electrically connects to the corresponding grounding contact.
US10158195B2
A connector assembly including a female element having a bore with an open end. A male element is insertable into the bore of the female element along an axis in a first axial direction and removable from the bore of the female element in a second axial direction. One of the female and male elements defines a circumferential surface extending around the axis and a depression in the circumferential surface, the depression having a catch wall facing in one of the first and second axial directions and a release wall facing in the other one of the first and second axial directions. A second one of the male and female elements has a finger mounted thereon, the finger has a catch end biased in a radial direction transverse to the axis, the catch end of the finger being configured to engage the depression and abut the catch wall.
US10158194B2
Narrow width fiber optic connectors having spring loaded remote release mechanisms to facilitate access and usage of the connectors in high density arrays. A narrow width fiber optic connector comprises a multi-fiber connector, wherein a width of said narrow width fiber optic connector is less than about 12.4 mm, a housing configured to hold the multi-fiber connector and further comprising a connector recess, and a pull tab having a ramp area configured to disengage a latch of one of an adapter and an SFP from said connector recess. The pull tab may include a spring configured to allow the latch of one of the adapter and the SFP to engage with the connector recess.
US10158193B2
A sensor arrangement for use in process automation, including a sensor with at least one sensor element for detecting a measurand of process automation, a first interface for transmitting a value that is a function of the measurand to a second interface, and a first coupling body having the first interface, the sensor further including a connection element for transmitting the value to a higher-level unit, the connection element including a first housing section with a second interface complementary to the first interface, wherein the first and second interfaces are designed for bi-directional communication between the sensor and the higher-level unit and to ensure the power supply to the sensor, a second housing section with a second coupling body complementary to the first coupling body and having an open and a locked condition, wherein the first housing section can be rotated in relation to the second housing section.
US10158192B1
A connector 1 configured to be attached to a device 2 is provided with: an annular housing 11 configured to be attached to the device 2 in such a position as to annularly rise from the device 2; an annular seal member 22 that seals a space between an end surface of the housing 11 facing the device 2 and the device 2 in a watertight manner; and a water-preventing wall 25 that extends from the housing 11 toward the device 2 outside the seal member 22, and that protects the seal member 22 from high-pressure water externally sprayed toward the housing 11.
US10158190B1
A Type-c connector with improved performance includes a main insulator, a hook member, a housing, an upper row of terminals, a lower row of terminals, and a shield casing. With creepage portions integratedly extended from front ends of upper and lower insulating members of the main insulator, creepage distances between the terminals and the shield casing are increased, thereby reducing the risk of short circuit.
US10158186B2
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing and a clamping terminal. The insulating housing has a first side wall and a second side wall opposite to the first side wall. The insulating housing has a mating cavity opening forwardly along a front-to-back direction. The first side wall and the second side wall are disposed around the mating cavity. The clamping terminal has a main body and a resilient clamping arm extending along a transverse direction perpendicular to the front-to-back direction from the main body. The clamping arm has a contacting portion exposed in the mating cavity. The first side wall has an assembling slot, and the second side wall has a movable slot. The main body is received in the assembly slot, and a head portion of the clamping arm is movable in the movable slot.
US10158185B2
A connector assembly for electrically connecting a plurality of wires to a circuit board is described. The connector assembly includes a vertical connector that includes an insulative base having pluralities of substantially parallel first and second base channels formed on respective opposing first and second major surfaces of the base. The vertical connector further includes pluralities of first and second terminals in registration with the respective first and second base channels, each first and second terminal including a contact portion for making contact with a wire, and a press-fit portion for being inserted into a conductive via of a circuit board. At least a majority length of each first and second terminal is disposed outside the housing. Each first and second terminal is secured in the connector at least in part by virtue of making physical contact with a corresponding wire.
US10158181B2
The present invention relates to an antenna device for a radar system, comprising: a power supply unit; and a plurality of radiators disposed to be spaced from the power supply unit, wherein each radiator is formed according to a variable determined by a weight predetermined for each radiator. According to the present invention, the performance of the radar system can be improved by obtaining uniform performance of each radiator by forming each radiator according to the weight for each radiator.
US10158176B2
The present invention relates to a patch antenna having programmable frequency and polarization comprising the first metal covering layer, the dielectric layer, the second metal covering layer and four metallized through-holes, each of which are disposed sequentially from top to bottom, wherein the first metal covering layer comprises the feeding line and the radiating patch; the feeding line comprises the micro-strip line, which can be connected to the outer feeding port; the micro-strip line is connected to one side of the radiating patch through the high-resistance line; the radiating patch is a square-shaped metal patch; a gap is etched near the other side of the radiating patch, namely, the radiating edge; the gap is parallel to the radiating edge.
US10158172B2
A steerable high-power microwave beam array includes an optical sub-system comprising a laser and an optical time delay unit and a parallel set of RF time delay units. The optical system and/or the RF delay subsystem are utilized to precisely delay the pulses from the microwave antenna elements to provide steerable beam forming.
US10158161B2
The present invention is a method and apparatus for producing ready to use RFID devices in a convenient and economical manner. The apparatus of the present invention may be collocated with a manufacturer of consumer goods.
US10158155B2
A termination/attenuation network applies to an input of a set-top box a MOCA channel signal having a narrow band of frequencies and included in RF signals having a wide band of frequencies received via a cable from a satellite antenna. The network includes a pair of series resistors and a parallel resistor coupled to a junction terminal between the pair of series resistors in a T-shaped configuration. A series-pass band-pass filter (L1, C2) bypasses the pair of series resistors and a parallel band stop filter (L2, C1) decouples the parallel resistor at the frequency band of the MOCA channel signal for selectively reducing attenuation at the frequency band of the MOCA channel signal.
US10158145B2
A solid state battery includes a flexible polymer sheet, and an array of solid state pillars supported by and extending through the sheet. Each of the pillars has an anode layer, a cathode layer adjacent, and an inorganic solid electrolyte (ISE) layer interposed between the anode and cathode layers.
US10158141B2
A fuel cell system (100), which includes multiple fuel cell stacks (10, 20) having a pair of adjacent fuel cell stacks (10, 20), namely a first fuel cell stack (10) and a second fuel cell stack (20), each including multiple fuel cells (2), as well as multiple main channels (11, 12, 13) which penetrate the fuel cell stacks (10, 20) for distributing the operating agents to the individual fuel cells (2) is provided. It is provided that the fuel cell stacks (10, 20) of one pair are situated in such a way that a sequence of the main channels (11, 12, 13) is mirror-symmetrical to a plane running between the adjacent fuel cell stacks (10, 20) of the pair, with respect to the different operating agents.
US10158140B2
A flow battery includes at least one electrochemical cell that has a first electrode, a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and a separator arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode. A first storage portion and a second storage portion are respectively fluidly connected with the at least one electrochemical cell. A first liquid electrolyte and a second liquid electrolyte are located in the respective first storage portion and second storage portion. The first electrode has an area over which it is catalytically active with regard to the first liquid electrolyte and the second electrode has an area over which it is catalytically active with regard to the second liquid electrolyte such that the area of the first electrode is greater than the area of the second electrode.
US10158122B2
A graphene oxide-bonded metal foil current collector in a battery or supercapacitor, comprising: (a) a free-standing, non-supported thin metal foil having a thickness from 1 μm to 30 μm and two primary surfaces; and (b) a thin film of graphene oxide chemically bonded to at least one of the two primary surfaces without using a binder or adhesive wherein the primary surface does not contain a metal oxide layer and the thin film of graphene oxide has a thickness from 10 nm to 10 μm, an oxygen content from 0.1% to 10% by weight, an inter-graphene plane spacing of 0.335 to 0.50 nm, a physical density from 1.3 to 2.2 g/cm3, all graphene oxide sheets being oriented substantially parallel to each other and parallel to the primary surfaces, exhibiting a thermal conductivity greater than 500 W/mK, and/or electrical conductivity greater than 1,500 S/cm when measured alone without the thin metal foil.
US10158118B2
The invention is directed towards a battery. The battery includes a cathode, an anode, a separator between the cathode and the anode, and an electrolyte. The cathode includes a conductive additive and an electrochemically active cathode material. The electrochemically active cathode material includes a beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide. The beta-delithiated layered nickel oxide has a chemical formula. The chemical formula is LixAyNi1+a−zMzO2.nH2O where x is from about 0.02 to about 0.20; y is from about 0.03 to about 0.20; a is from about 0 to about 0.2; z is from about 0 to about 0.2; and n is from about 0 to about 1. Within the chemical formula, A is an alkali metal. The alkali metal includes potassium, rubidium, cesium, and any combination thereof. Within the chemical formula, M comprises an alkaline earth metal, a transition metal, a non-transition metal, and any combination thereof. The anode includes an electrochemically active anode material. The electrochemically active anode material includes zinc, zinc alloy, and any combination thereof.
US10158117B2
A transition metal oxide containing solid-solution lithium that realizes high initial discharge capacity and capacity retention is represented by the compositional formula: Li1.5[NiaMbMnc[Li]d]O3, wherein M represents at least one kind of element selected from the group consisting of silicon, phosphorus and metal elements (excluding Ni, Mn and Li), a, b, c and d satisfy specific relationships, and n is the valence of M. The oxide has a layered structure site and a site which changes to a spinel structure by performing a charge or a charge-discharge in a predetermined electric potential range, and a spinel structure change ratio k in a range of 0.25≤k<1.0 when the spinel structure change ratio is assumed to be 1 in a case where Li2MnO3 of the layered structure in the transition metal oxide containing solid-solution lithium completely changes to LiMn2O4 of the spinel structure.
US10158110B2
In an aspect, the invention provides separator systems for electrochemical systems providing electronic, mechanical and chemical properties useful for a range of electrochemical storage and conversion applications. Separator systems of some embodiments, for example, provide structural, physical and electrostatic attributes useful for managing and controlling dendrite formation in lithium and zinc based batteries. In an embodiment, for example, separator systems of the invention have a multilayer, porous geometry supporting excellent ion transport properties while at the same time providing a barrier effective to prevent dendrite initiated mechanical failure, shorting and/or thermal runaway.
US10158103B2
A resin film, which is adapted for use in a packaging material for secondary cell having a sealant layer formed of a polyolefin resin and is disposed between the sealant layer and leads, respectively, connected to a positive electrode and a negative electrode, includes a first layer at a position close to the leads and a second layer disposed at a position close to the sealant layer, a heat quantity of the second layer, measured according to JIS K 7122, being larger than a heat quantity of fusion of the first layer.
US10158102B2
Electrical energy storage device for powering portable devices such as vehicles or consumer electronics includes barriers to minimize migration of thermal energy and propagation of combustion in the rare event that electrical energy storage cells fail, burst and ignite. A burst structure is provided to vent gas from the device in a desired direction in the event pressure within the device exceeds a maximum value. Biased vents permit gases emanating from a portable electrical energy storage cell within an electrical energy storage module to escape and isolate other electrical energy storage cells from the gases.
US10158092B2
An organic electronic component includes a substrate and a first electrode arranged on the substrate, and at least one organic functional layer arranged on the first electrode. The organic functional layer includes a matrix material into which a p-dopant has been introduced and a second electrode arranged on the organic functional layer. The p-dopant includes a copper complex having at least two ligands. Each ligand has a benzene unit with six carbon atoms. With respect to each ligand, an iminium group is linked directly as a substituent to one of the six carbon atoms of the benzene unit, and an oxygen is bound as a substituent to an adjacent carbon atom of the benzene unit, with the oxygen and the benzene unit together forming an aryloxy group. The ligands are coordinated to the copper cation, so that the copper complex has a trans-structure. The organic functional layer is hole-conducting.
US10158091B2
The complexes disclosed herein are cyclometalated metal complexes of Formula (I) that are useful for full color displays and lighting applications.
US10158089B2
Novel heteroleptic iridium complexes are described. These iridium compounds contain alkyl substituted phenylpyridine ligands, which provide these compounds with beneficial properties when the iridium complexes are incorporated into OLED devices.
US10158088B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an organic semiconductor liquid composition making it possible to obtain an organic semiconductor film having high mobility, an organic semiconductor element prepared using the organic semiconductor liquid composition, and a method for preparing the organic semiconductor element.The organic semiconductor liquid composition of the present invention contains an organic semiconductor, a liquid crystal compound, and an organic insulating polymer. It is preferable that the organic insulating polymer includes a resin having a constitutional unit represented by Formula 1a and/or a constitutional unit represented by Formula 1b. In the formulae, R's each independently represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.
US10158073B2
The present disclosure provides a manufacturing method for the semiconductor structure, including forming a bottom metal layer including copper, forming a planar memory layer over the bottom metal layer, forming an electrode over the planar memory layer by a self-aligning operation, and defining a memory cell by patterning the planar memory layer.
US10158068B1
A ReRAM device is provided. The ReRAM device comprises a bottom electrode, a resistance switching layer disposed on the bottom electrode, a top electrode disposed on the resistance switching layer, a metal layer disposed on the top electrode, and a blocking layer covering the metal layer, wherein the blocking layer surrounds the metal layer and the top electrode.
US10158060B2
A thermoelectric element includes a thermoelectric member made of thermoelectric materials and having a through hole, a pipe inserted into the through hole for making fluid flow, and a soaking member provided to the side of the thermoelectric element. The pipe and the soaking member respectively also function as an electrode of the thermoelectric member. A surface of the soaking member includes a blackened surface and a mirror surface. A thermoelectric generation system includes a container having a lighting window, the thermoelectric element housed in the container, a fluid feeder for feeding fluid into the pipe, and a power consumption source that consumes electric power generated by the thermoelectric element. The thermoelectric element is housed in the container so that the blackened surface is located under the lighting window.
US10158057B2
Packaged chip-on-board (COB) LED arrays are provided where a color conversion medium is distributed within a glass containment plate, rather than silicone, to reduce the operating temperature of the color conversion medium and avoid damage while increasing light output. A lighting device is provided comprising a chip-on-board (COB) light emitting diode (LED) light source, a light source encapsulant, a distributed color conversion medium, and a glass containment plate. The COB LED light source comprises a thermal heat sink framework and at least one LED and defines a light source encapsulant cavity in which the light source encapsulant is distributed over the LED. The glass containment plate is positioned over the light source encapsulant cavity and contains the distributed color conversion medium. The light source encapsulant is distributed over the LED at a thickness that is sufficient to encapsulate the LED and define encapsulant thermal conduction paths.
US10158053B2
A light emitting device which emits a secondary light with high color purity and has a fast response speed is obtained. A KSF phosphor (15) which absorbs a part of blue light and emits red light and a CASN phosphor (16) are distributed in a resin (14) which seals an LED chip (13) which emits the blue light. The KSF phosphor (15) absorbs the blue light and emits the red light by forbidden transition, and the CASN phosphor (16) absorbs the blue light and emits the red light by allowed transition.
US10158044B2
A solution for fabricating a semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a plurality of semiconductor layers grown over a substrate using a set of epitaxial growth periods. During each epitaxial growth period, a first semiconductor layer having one of: a tensile stress or a compressive stress is grown followed by growth of a second semiconductor layer having the other of: the tensile stress or the compressive stress directly on the first semiconductor layer.
US10158041B2
Disclosed are a photo detector capable of adjusting sensitivity and a unit pixel of an image sensor using the photo detector. The photo detector includes a light-absorbing part that absorbs light; a source and a drain that are separated from the light-absorbing part by an oxide film; a channel that is formed between the source and the drain to generate a flow of electric current between the source and the drain; and a sensitivity adjustment terminal that applies a voltage to the light-absorbing part, in which the light-absorbing part is doped with a first type impurities, the source and the drain are doped with a second type impurities, the flow of electric current in the channel is adjusted based on a change in a quantity of electric charges of the light-absorbing part according to tunneling of an electron excited by the light incident to the light-absorbing part to the source or the drain, and the voltage applied through the sensitivity adjustment terminal is adjusted to adjust a threshold voltage of the channel.
US10158035B2
A semiconductor stack includes a first-conductivity-type layer of a first conductivity type, the first-conductivity-type layer being formed of a III-V compound semiconductor; a quantum well light-receiving layer formed of a III-V compound semiconductor; and a second-conductivity-type layer of a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type, the second-conductivity-type layer being formed of a III-V compound semiconductor. The first-conductivity-type layer, the quantum well light-receiving layer, and the second-conductivity-type layer are stacked in this order. The quantum well light-receiving layer has a thickness of 0.5 μm or more. The quantum well light-receiving layer has a carrier concentration of 1×1016 cm−3 or less.
US10158034B2
An embodiment includes an apparatus comprising: a first photovoltaic cell; a first through silicon via (TSV) included in the first photovoltaic cell and passing through at least a portion of a doped silicon substrate, the first TSV comprising (a)(i) a first sidewall, which is doped oppositely to the doped silicon substrate, and (a)(ii) a first contact substantially filling the first TSV; and a second TSV included in the first photovoltaic cell and passing through at least another portion of the doped silicon substrate, the second TSV comprising (b)(i) a second sidewall, which comprises the doped silicon substrate, and (b)(ii) a second contact substantially filling the second TSV; wherein the first and second contacts each include a conductive material that is substantially transparent. Other embodiments are described herein.
US10158025B1
A thin film transistor (TFT) device is provided with a glass substrate, a gate metal formed on a surface of the glass substrate; a gate insulating layer formed on the surface of the glass substrate, and covering the gate metal; an indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO) layer formed on a surface of the gate insulating layer; a source metal and a drain metal formed on a surface of the IGZO layer, and a channel area is formed between the source metal and the drain metal; and a diffraction metal formed on the surface of the IGZO layer and located within the channel area.
US10158016B2
An integrated circuit structure include a semiconductor substrate, a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate, and a recess extending into the semiconductor substrate, wherein the recess is adjacent to the gate stack. A silicon germanium region is disposed in the recess, wherein the silicon germanium region has a first p-type impurity concentration. A silicon cap substantially free from germanium is overlying the silicon germanium region. The silicon cap has a second p-type impurity concentration greater than the first p-type impurity concentration.
US10158014B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate, and a gate stack over the semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes a high-k gate dielectric over the semiconductor substrate, and a magnetic compound over and in contact with the high-k gate dielectric. A source region and a drain region are on opposite sides of the gate stack. The gate stack, the source region, and the drain region are portions of a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (MOS) device.
US10158011B2
A trench gate type MOS gate structure is provided in an active region on a substrate front surface side, and a floating p-type region is provided in a mesa region between trenches. A groove is provided distanced from the trench in a surface layer on the substrate front surface side of the floating p-type region. A second gate electrode is provided across an insulation layer in the interior portion of the groove. The second gate electrode covers the surface on the substrate front surface side of the floating p-type region. Thus, the second gate electrode is embedded in a surface layer on the substrate front surface side of the floating p-type region between the floating p-type region and an interlayer dielectric, whereby the substrate front surface is flattened. Controllability of turn-on di/dt is high, mirror capacitance is low, and an element structure having an intricate pattern can be formed.
US10158007B2
A semiconductor device includes an isolation layer disposed over a substrate, first and second fin structures, a gate structure, a source/drain structure. The first fin structure and the second fin structure are both disposed over the substrate, and extend in a first direction in plan view. The gate structure is disposed over parts of the first and second fin structures, and extends in a second direction crossing the first direction in plan view. A first void is formed in the source/drain structure.
US10158001B2
A semiconductor structure includes a source drain region of a first material and an extension region of a second material. A semiconductor device fabrication process includes forming a sacrificial dielectric portion upon a semiconductor substrate, forming a sacrificial gate stack upon the sacrificial dielectric portion, forming a gate spacer upon the sacrificial dielectric portion against the sacrificial gate, forming a source drain region of a first doped material upon the semiconductor substrate against the gate spacer, forming a replacement gate trench by removing the sacrificial gate stack, forming an extension trench by removing the sacrificial dielectric portion, and forming an extension region of a second doped material within the extension trench.
US10157995B2
A method includes forming a gate stack over a semiconductor region, depositing an impurity layer over the semiconductor region, and depositing a metal layer over the impurity layer. An annealing is then performed, wherein the elements in the impurity layer are diffused into a portion of the semiconductor region by the annealing to form a source/drain region, and wherein the metal layer reacts with a surface layer of the portion of the semiconductor region to form a source/drain silicide region over the source/drain region.
US10157993B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a p-doped layer including a doped III-V material on the substrate. An n-type material is formed on or in the p-doped layer. The n-type layer includes ZnO. An aluminum contact is formed in direct contact with the ZnO of the n-type material to form an electronic device.
US10157992B2
A nanowire transistor is provided that includes a well implant having a local isolation region for insulating a replacement metal gate from a parasitic channel. In addition, the nanowire transistor includes oxidized caps in the extension regions that inhibit parasitic gate-to-source and gate-to-drain capacitances.
US10157981B1
Structures and formation methods of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate, a first conductive type well region in the substrate, and a second conductive type well region in the substrate. The first conductive type is different from the second conductive type. The first conductive type well region partially overlaps the second conductive type well region in an overlapping region. The semiconductor device structure also includes a source portion in the first conductive type well region and a drain portion in the second conductive type well region. The semiconductor device structure further includes a gate structure over the substrate and the overlapping region, and between the source portion and the drain portion. The semiconductor device structure further includes a first conductive type doping region in the first conductive type well region and the overlapping region.
US10157980B1
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a Schottky diode. A substrate is provided. A first well region of a first conductive type is formed in the substrate. A first ion implantation of a second conductive type is performed on a first portion of the first well region while keeping a second portion of the first well region from being implanted. A first doped region is formed by heating the substrate to cause dopant diffusion between the first portion and the second portion. A metal-containing layer is formed on the first doped region to obtain a Schottky barrier interface.
US10157966B2
An organic light emitting display device includes first and second electrodes facing each other on a substrate, a charge generation layer formed between the first and second electrodes, a first light emitting stack formed between the charge generation layer and the first electrode, and a second light emitting stack formed between the charge generation layer and the second electrode, wherein a hole injection layer of a light emitting stack to realize blue color of the first and second light emitting stacks is formed by doping a host formed of hexaazatriphenylene (HAT-CN) with 0.5% to less than 10% of a dopant formed of a hole transporting material based on a volume of the hole injection layer.
US10157961B2
Provided are a method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive element and a manufacturing system which are capable of manufacturing a magnetoresistive element achieving further downscaling, i.e., further increase in the degree of integration of the magnetoresistive element while having high magnetic properties. The method includes: preparing a stacked film including one of the two magnetic layers, a layer to form the tunnel barrier layer, and the other of the two magnetic layers, on a substrate; forming multiple separated stacked films on the substrate by separating the stacked film into the multiple stacked films by etching; irradiating side portions of the multiple separated stacked films with ion beams in a pressure-reducible process chamber; and after the irradiation with the ion beams, forming oxide layers or nitride layers on surfaces of the multiple stacked films by introducing an oxidizing gas or a nitriding gas into the process chamber.
US10157948B2
An image sensor includes a two-dimensional array of image sensor pixels, which are formed in a semiconductor layer. Each image sensor pixel is formed in a substrate having a corresponding semiconductor region therein. Each semiconductor region contains at least first and second photoelectric conversion elements, which are disposed at side-by-side locations therein. An electrically insulating isolation region is also provided, which extends at least partially through the semiconductor region and at least partially between the first and second photoelectric conversion elements, which may be configured respectively as first and second semiconductor regions of first conductivity type (e.g., N-type). At least one optically reflective region is also provided, which extends at least partially through the semiconductor region and surrounds at least a portion of at least one of the first and second photoelectric conversion elements. A semiconductor floating diffusion (FD) region (e.g., N-type region) is provided within the semiconductor region.
US10157947B2
The technique introduced herein decouples the traditional relationship between bandwidth and responsivity, thereby providing a more flexible and wider photodetector design space. In certain embodiments of the technique introduced here, a photodetector device includes a first mirror, a second mirror, and a light absorption region positioned between the first and second reflective mirrors. For example, the first mirror can be a partial mirror, and the second mirror can be a high-reflectivity mirror. The light absorption region is positioned to absorb incident light that is passed through the first mirror and reflected between the first and second mirrors. The first mirror can be configured to exhibit a reflectivity that causes an amount of light energy that escapes from the first mirror, after the light being reflected back by the second mirror, to be zero or near zero.
US10157945B2
A solid state imaging device for a wafer-level pinhole camera module is provided by using a mask transfer technique to form, with a high degree of precision, pinhole openings in a light-shielding material formed upon cover glass covering the surfaces of imaging elements for wafer-level camera modules, and then dicing. Also provided is a manufacturing method therefor. Further provided is a compound-eye camera system in which a plurality of pinhole openings are formed. It is also possible to impart an apodization effect by changing the cross-sectional shape of the opening in the light-shielding material to a tapered shape to thereby change the transmission characteristics thereof.
US10157944B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, light-sensing devices and a bonding layer. The substrate overlies the carrier, and has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The substrate includes recesses in the second surface, and surfaces of each of the recesses are wet etched surfaces. The light-sensing devices are disposed on the first surface of the substrate. The bonding layer is disposed between the substrate and the carrier.
US10157941B2
An image sensor and a fabrication method thereof are provided. In the fabrication method of the image sensor, at first, two isolation features are formed in a substrate to define a pixel region. Then, a floating node and a pinning layer are formed in one of the isolation features, in which a space region is located between the floating node and the pinning layer, and the floating node has a first conductivity type different from a second conductivity type of the pinning layer. Thereafter, a light-sensitive element is formed in the pixel region, and a transfer gate is formed on the pixel region, thereby forming a pixel. Since there is a space region located between the floating node and the pinning layer, a leakage path between the floating node and the pinning layer can be prevented.
US10157933B2
Some embodiments include an integrated structure having vertically-stacked conductive levels alternating with dielectric levels. A layer over the conductive levels includes silicon, nitrogen, and one or more of carbon, oxygen, boron and phosphorus. In some embodiments the vertically-stacked conductive levels are wordline levels within a NAND memory array. Some embodiments include an integrated structure having vertically-stacked conductive levels alternating with dielectric levels. Vertically-stacked NAND memory cells are along the conductive levels within a memory array region. A staircase region is proximate the memory array region. The staircase region has electrical contacts in one-to-one correspondence with the conductive levels. A layer is over the memory array region and over the staircase region. The layer includes silicon, nitrogen, and one or more of carbon, oxygen, boron and phosphorus.
US10157928B2
A method of forming an SRAM cell includes forming a first vertical pull-down transistor, a second vertical pull-down transistor, a first vertical pass-gate transistor, and a second vertical pass-gate transistor over a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming a first conductive trace over a top surface of the first vertical pull-down transistor and the first vertical pass-gate transistor, forming a second conductive trace over a top surface of the second vertical pull-down transistor and the second vertical pass-gate transistor, and forming a first vertical pull-up transistor over a first portion of the first conductive trace. The method also includes forming a second vertical pull-up transistor over a first portion of the second conductive trace. The method also includes forming a first via over the first conductive trace and forming a second via over the second conductive trace.
US10157926B2
Some embodiments include a memory cell having first and second transistors, and a capacitor vertically displaced relative to the first and second transistors. The capacitor has a first node electrically coupled with a source/drain region of the first transistor, a second node electrically coupled with a source/drain region of the second transistor, and capacitor dielectric material between the first and second nodes. Some embodiments include a memory cell having first and second transistors vertically displaced relative to one another, and a capacitor between the first and second transistors. The capacitor has a first node electrically coupled with a source/drain region of the first transistor, a second node electrically coupled with a source/drain region of the second transistor, and capacitor dielectric material between the first and second nodes.
US10157924B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an isolation structure over the substrate, and at least one semiconductor layer over the substrate. A first portion of the at least one semiconductor layer is over the isolation structure and a second portion of the at least one semiconductor layer is surrounded by the isolation structure. A doped material layer is between the isolation structure and the second portion of the at least one semiconductor layer.
US10157923B2
Methods of forming semiconductor devices include forming vertical semiconductor channels on a bottom source/drain layer in a first-type region and a second-type region. A gate dielectric layer is formed on sidewalls of the vertical semiconductor channels. A first-type work function layer is formed in the first-type region. A second-type work function layer is formed in both the first-type region and the second-type region. A thickness matching layer is formed in the second-type region such that a stack of layers in the first-type region has a same thickness as a stack of layers in the second-type region. Top source/drain regions are formed on a top portion of the vertical channels.
US10157922B2
A semiconductor device includes an active region comprising a source/drain region and a plurality of poly strips spaced apart and arranged along a first direction crossing over the active region. The first direction is substantially perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the active region. A first metal pattern is disposed on the poly strips and arranged along the first direction. A plurality of first interconnect plugs is interposed in between the poly strips and the first metal pattern and in between the active region and the first metal pattern. A position of the first interconnect plugs being variable along the first direction.
US10157920B2
A multiple-fin device includes a substrate and a plurality of fins formed on the substrate. Source and drain regions are formed in the respective fins. A dielectric layer is formed on the substrate. The dielectric layer has a first thickness adjacent one side of a first fin and having a second thickness, different from the first thickness, adjacent an opposite side of the fin. A continuous gate structure is formed overlying the plurality of fins, the continuous gate structure being adjacent a top surface of each fin and at least one sidewall surface of at least one fin. By adjusting the dielectric layer thickness, channel width of the resulting device can be fine-tuned.
US10157919B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, multiple fins formed on a front surface of the semiconductor substrate, a stress layer formed on a top surface of the fins, multiple strip-shaped gate structures formed above the stress layers, each of which extending in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of the fins, a contact hole etch stop layer covering the front surface of the semiconductor substrate, sidewalls of the fins, and top surfaces and sidewalls of the stress layers, a first interlayer dielectric layer over the contact hole etch stop layer, the first interlayer dielectric layer including filling voids formed therein, and a top surface of the first interlayer dielectric layer being below the top surfaces of the stress layers, a barrier liner layer over the first interlayer dielectric layer, and a second interlayer dielectric layer over the barrier liner layer and the contact hole etch stop layer.
US10157916B2
Provided is a semiconductor device includes a gate stack, a first doped region, a second doped region, a first lightly doped region and a second lightly doped region. The gate stack is disposed on a substrate. The first doped region is located in the substrate at a first side of the gate stack. The second doped region is located in the substrate at a second side of the gate stack. The first lightly doped region is located in the substrate between the gate stack and the first doped region. The second lightly doped region is located in the substrate between the gate stack and the second doped region. A property of the first lightly doped region is different from a property of the second lightly doped region.
US10157896B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate and a plurality of LEDs. Each LED is attached to the substrate via conductive pads on a side of the LED. A diffuser having light diffusing characteristics is aligned with the plurality LEDs against a surface of the substrate. The diffuser is aligned so as to nest around at least one LED of the plurality of LEDs.
US10157889B2
A method comprises depositing a first dielectric layer over a first chip comprising a plurality of first active circuits and a first connection pad, patterning the first dielectric layer to form a first opening, filling the first opening to form a connector in contact with the first connection pad, depositing a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer, patterning the second dielectric layer to form a second opening over the connector, filling the second opening to form a first bonding pad in contact with the connector, stacking a second chip on the first chip, wherein the second chip comprises a plurality of second active circuits and a second bonding pad and bonding the first chip and a second chip together to form a stacked semiconductor device through applying a hybrid bonding process to the first bonding pad and the second bonding pad.
US10157887B2
A semiconductor device package includes a first circuit layer, at least one electrical element, a first molding layer, an electronic component and a second molding layer. The at least one electrical element is disposed over a first surface of the first circuit layer and electrically connected to the first circuit layer. The first molding layer is disposed over the first surface of the first circuit layer. The first molding layer encapsulates an edge of the at least one electrical element, and a lower surface of the first molding layer and a lower surface of the at least one electrical element are substantially coplanar. The electronic component is disposed over a second surface of the first circuit layer and is electrically connected to the first circuit layer. The second molding layer is disposed over the second surface of the first circuit layer and encapsulates the electronic component.
US10157886B2
A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a first interconnection member having a through-hole; a first semiconductor chip disposed in the through-hole and having an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon and an inactive surface; a first encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the first interconnection member and the first semiconductor chip; a second interconnection member disposed on the first interconnection member and the first semiconductor chip; a second semiconductor chip disposed on the first encapsulant and having an active surface having connection pads disposed thereon; and a second encapsulant encapsulating at least portions of the second semiconductor chip. The first interconnection member and the second interconnection member include, respectively, redistribution layers electrically connected to the connection pads of the first semiconductor chip, and the connection pads of the second semiconductor chip are electrically connected to the redistribution layer of the first interconnection member by wires.
US10157885B2
A package structure and method for forming the same are provided. The package structure includes a first die, and the first die includes a first magnetic pad formed over a first substrate. The package structure includes a second die, and the second die includes a second magnetic pad formed over a second substrate. The package structure also includes a hybrid bonding structure formed between the first die and the second die of the second wafer. The hybrid bonding structure includes a magnetic bonding structure which is made of the first magnetic pad and the second magnetic layer.
US10157884B2
A package includes package includes a first package component including a first plurality of electrical connectors at a top surface of the first package component, and a second plurality of electrical connectors longer than the first plurality of electrical connectors at the top surface of the first package component. A first device die is over the first package component and bonded to the first plurality of electrical connectors. A second package component is overlying the first package component and the first device die. The second package component includes a third plurality of electrical connectors at a bottom surface of the second package component. The third plurality of electrical connectors is bonded to the second plurality of electrical connectors. A fourth plurality of electrical connectors is at a bottom surface of the second package. The second and the fourth plurality of electrical connectors comprise non-solder metallic materials.
US10157883B2
A semiconductor package comprises a package substrate; a first chip stack and a second chip stack mounted side by side on the package substrate, wherein the first and second chip stacks each include a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked on the package substrate, wherein each of the semiconductor chips includes a plurality of bonding pads provided on a respective edge region thereof, wherein at least some of the plurality of bonding pads are functional pads, and wherein the functional pads occupy a region that is substantially less than an entirety of the respective edge region.
US10157882B2
Disclosed herein is a package comprising a first redistribution layer (RDL) disposed on a first side of a first semiconductor substrate and a second RDL disposed on a second semiconductor substrate, wherein the first RDL is bonded to the second RDL. First conductive elements are disposed in the first RDL and the second RDL. First vias extend from one or more of the first conductive elements through the first semiconductor substrate to a second side of the first semiconductor substrate opposite the first side. First spacers are interposed between the first semiconductor substrate and the first vias and each extend from a respective one of the first conductive elements through the first semiconductor substrate.
US10157881B2
A method includes placing a plurality of dummy dies over a carrier, placing a plurality of device dies over the carrier, molding the plurality of dummy dies and the plurality of device dies in a molding compound, forming redistribution line over and electrically coupled to the device dies, and performing a die-saw to separate the device dies and the molding compound into a plurality of packages.
US10157880B2
A method of making a micro-transfer printed structure includes providing a destination substrate and a source substrate having one or more micro-transfer printable components. A layer of volatile adhesive is formed over the destination substrate and one or more components are micro-transfer printed from the source substrate onto the volatile adhesive layer at a non-evaporable temperature of the volatile adhesive layer. The volatile adhesive layer is then heated to an evaporation temperature to evaporate at least a portion of the volatile adhesive after micro-transfer printing. In certain embodiments, a micro-transfer printed structure includes a destination substrate having one or more metal contacts and one or more micro-transfer printable components having one or more component contacts disposed on the destination substrate with the metal contact aligned with the component contact. The metal contact can form an intermetallic bond with the component contact.
US10157876B2
Among other things, a method for forming an inductor is provided. The method includes forming an insulating layer on a carrier. The method includes forming a trench in the insulating layer. The method also includes forming a magnetic structure within the trench. The method includes forming a conductive trace around the magnetic structure to form the inductor.
US10157872B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device comprising forming interconnection structures by at least part performing a lateral plating process, and a semiconductor device manufactured thereby.
US10157869B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a method of assembling an integrated circuit package. In embodiments the method may include providing a wafer having an unpatterned passivation layer to prevent corrosion of metal conductors embedded in the wafer. The method may further include laminating a dielectric material on the passivation layer to form a dielectric layer and selectively removing dielectric material to form voids in the dielectric layer. These voids may reveal portions of the passivation layer disposed over the metal conductors. The method may then involve removing the portions of the passivation layer to reveal the metal conductors. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10157865B2
An element electrode is located on a surface of a semiconductor element. A metal film is located on the element electrode and includes an inner region and an outer region located around the inner region. The metal film has an opening that exposes the element electrode between the inner region and the outer region. The element electrode has solder wettability lower than solder wettability of the metal film. An external electrode is solder-bonded to the inner region of the metal film.
US10157857B2
The present disclosure is drawn to, among other things, a method of forming a semiconductor shield from a stock material having a thickness. In some aspects the methods includes providing a first layer of material on a first surface of the stock material, wherein at least a portion of the first layer of material includes a first window that exposes a portion of the first surface; providing a second layer of material on a second surface of the stock material, wherein the second surface of the stock material is spaced from the first surface by the thickness of the stock material, and wherein at least portion of the second layer of material includes a second window that exposes a portion of the second surface; and selectively removing a portion of the stock material exposed at the first or second windows, wherein the portion removed includes less than an entirety of the thickness of the stock material.
US10157856B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a dummy structure over a semiconductor body. The method further includes depositing an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) over the semiconductor body. The method further includes removing a dummy material of the dummy structure to form an opening in the ILD. The method further includes filling the opening with a dielectric material to form a dielectric structure. The method further includes stacking a plurality of interconnect elements over the dielectric structure.
US10157839B1
An interconnect structure includes a first substrate including a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, a cavity extended through the first substrate, and a first recess extended from the second surface towards the first surface; a second substrate disposed opposite to the second surface of the first substrate; an electronic device disposed within the cavity; a first polymeric layer disposed over the first surface and within the cavity of the first substrate; and a second polymeric layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and within the first recess.
US10157837B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device including: a substrate having a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer arranged deeper than the first conductive layer; a large-diameter concave portion having, on a main side of a substrate, an opening sized to overlap the first and second conductive layers, with the first conductive layer exposed in part of the bottom of the large-diameter concave portion; a small-diameter concave portion extended from the large-diameter concave portion and formed by digging into the bottom of the large-diameter concave portion, with the second conductive layer exposed at the bottom of the small-diameter concave portion; and a conductive member provided in a connection hole made up of the large- and small-diameter concave portions to connect the first and second conductive layers.
US10157831B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a contact pad over the substrate. The semiconductor device further includes a conductive via electrically connected to the contact pad. The conductive via includes a conductive via layer having a first thickness, and a first conductive layer, wherein the first conductive layer is between the contact pad and the conductive via layer. The semiconductor device further includes a conductive pillar electrically connected to the conductive via. The conductive pillar includes a conductive pillar layer having a second thickness, and a second conductive layer having outer edges substantially aligned with outer edges of the conductive pillar layer, wherein the second conductive layer is between the conductive via layer and the conductive pillar layer. A ratio of the first thickness to the second thickness ranges from about 0.33 to about 0.55.
US10157828B2
A chip package structure includes a semiconductor component, a plurality of conductive pillars, an encapsulant and a redistribution layer. The semiconductor component includes a plurality of pads. The conductive pillars are disposed on the pads, wherein each of the conductive pillars is a solid cylinder including a top surface and a bottom surface, and a diameter of the top surface is substantially the same as a diameter of the bottom surface. The encapsulant encapsulates the semiconductor component and the conductive pillars, wherein the encapsulant exposes the top surface of each of the conductive pillars. The redistribution layer is disposed on the encapsulant and electrically connected to the conductive pillars.
US10157821B1
A semiconductor package includes: a substrate including a conductive pad; a semiconductor device including a conductive member; and a connection element between the conductive pad and the conductive member, wherein the connection element has a sidewall, and an angle of the sidewall relative to the conductive pad is equal to or less than about 90 degrees.
US10157820B2
A novel integrated circuit and method thereof are provided. The integrated circuit includes a plurality of first interconnect pads, a plurality of second interconnect pads, a first inter-level dielectric layer, a thin film resistor, and at least two end-caps. The end-caps, which are connectors for the thin film resistor, are positioned at the same level with the plurality of second interconnect pads. Therefore, an electrical connection between the end-caps and the plurality of second interconnect pads can be formed by directly connection of them. An integrated circuit with a thin film resistor can be made in a cost benefit way accordingly, so as to overcome disadvantages mentioned above.
US10157819B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a thermal treatment is performed on a substrate, thereby forming a defect free layer in an upper layer of the substrate, where a remaining layer of the substrate is a bulk layer. A density of defects in the bulk layer is equal to or more than 1×108 cm−3, where the defects are bulk micro defects. An electronic device is formed over the defect free layer. An opening is formed in the defect free layer such that the opening does not reach the bulk layer. The opening is filled with a conductive material, thereby forming a via. The bulk layer is removed so that a bottom part of the via is exposed. A density of defects in the defect free layer is less than 100 cm−3.
US10157817B1
A cooling structure includes a first substrate layer including an array of cooling channels, a second substrate layer including a nozzle structure, an outlet manifold, and an outlet, a third substrate layer including an inlet, and inlet manifold, and one or more flow directing features are disposed within the inlet manifold. The one or more flow directing features include one or more micro-pillars extending into the cooling fluid flow path from the inlet manifold, the first substrate layer includes one or more first substrate layer through-holes, the second substrate layer includes one or more second substrate layer-through holes, and the third substrate layer includes one or more third-substrate layer through holes. The first substrate layer through-holes, the second substrate layer through-holes, and the third substrate layer through-holes are aligned into one or more TSVs and metallized.
US10157816B2
A method of forming an on-chip heat sink includes forming a device on a substrate. The method also includes forming a plurality of insulator layers over the device. The method further includes forming a heat sink in at least one of the plurality of insulator layers and proximate to the device. The heat sink includes a reservoir of phase change material having a melting point temperature that is less than an upper limit of a design operating temperature of the chip.
US10157814B1
A compliant heat sink for transporting heat away from at least one electronic component, the heat sink includes a body, where the body includes a flexible element thermally contacting at least one electronic component. The heat sink further includes a cavity located in the body, where the cavity is at least partially covered by the flexible element. The heat sink further includes a raised member of the body coupled to the flexible element, where a portion of the raised member partially extends into the cavity. The heat sink further includes a guiding structure of the body coupled in the cavity of the body, wherein the guiding structure is adapted for guiding the movement of the raised member in a moving direction.
US10157807B2
Sensor packages and manufacturing methods thereof are disclosed. One of the sensor packages includes a semiconductor chip and a redistribution layer structure. The semiconductor chip has a sensing surface. The redistribution layer structure is arranged to form an antenna transmitter structure aside the semiconductor chip and an antenna receiver structure over the sensing surface of the semiconductor chip.
US10157804B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a critical dimension variation of a photolithographic mask which comprises (a) using layout data of the photolithographic mask to determine at least two sub-areas of the photolithographic mask, each sub-area comprising a group of features, (b) measuring a distribution of a transmission of each sub-area, (c) determining a deviation of the transmission from a mean transmission value for each sub-area, (d) determining a constant specific for each sub-area, and (e) determining the critical dimension variation of the photolithographic mask by combining for each sub-area the deviation of the transmission and the sub-area specific constant.
US10157788B2
Methods and structures provide horizontal conductive lines of fine pitch and self-aligned contacts extending from them, where the contacts have at least one dimension with a more relaxed pitch. Buried hard mask materials permit self-alignment of the lines and contacts without a critical mask, such as for word-line electrode lines and word-line contacts in a memory device.
US10157785B2
A method includes forming a first opening in a dielectric layer over a substrate, lining sidewalls and a bottom of the first opening with a conductive barrier layer, and depositing a seed layer over the conductive barrier layer. The method further includes treating the seed layer with a plasma process, and filling the first opening with a conductive material after the treating the seed layer.
US10157781B2
Methods for forming semiconductor structures are provided. The method for forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a conductive material in the trench and over a top surface of the material layer and polishing the conductive material with a slurry to expose the top surface of the material layer and to form a conductive structure in the trench. The method for forming a semiconductor structure further includes forming a material layer over a substrate and forming a trench in the material layer. The method for forming a semiconductor structure further includes removing the slurry with a reducing solution. In addition, the reducing solution includes a reducing agent, and a standard electrode voltage of the conductive material is greater than a standard electrode voltage of the reducing agent.
US10157767B2
An apparatus for picking up one or more semiconductor devices includes a body having an air chamber that communicates with surroundings outside of the body and at least a first supply line through which compressed air is supplied into the air chamber, a pickup cylinder penetrating through the body and movably installed in the body, a suction pad being provided at an end portion of the pickup cylinder, and a power transformer secured to the pickup cylinder and transforming an air pressure of the air chamber to a driving force for driving the pickup cylinder.
US10157766B2
Provided are methods of fabricating a semiconductor device. According to the method, a first glue layer, a first release layer, a second glue layer, and a second release layer may be sequentially interposed between a carrier and a device wafer. All of the first glue layer, the first release layer, the second glue layer, and the second release layer may be formed of thermosetting resin.
US10157765B2
Methods for processing a semiconductor workpiece can include providing a semiconductor workpiece that includes one or more kerf regions; forming one or more trenches in the workpiece by removing material from the one or more kerf regions from a first side of the workpiece; mounting the workpiece with the first side to a carrier; thinning the workpiece from a second side of the workpiece; and forming a metallization layer over the second side of the workpiece.
US10157762B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes transport mechanisms 121a to 127a, a sensor 40 for detecting whether a wafer W is held by the transport mechanisms 121a to 127a, a sensor controller 82 for controlling the sensor 40, a position information acquiring part 81 for acquiring position information of the substrate W in the transport passage, a detection result acquiring part 83 for acquiring a detection result from the sensor 40, and a determination processor 84 for determining whether the detection result of the sensor and the position information are consistent with each other. When it is determined that the detection result of the sensor 40 is inconsistent with the position information, the sensor controller 82 makes the sensor 40 retry to detect whether the substrate W is held.
US10157754B2
A liquid knife cleaning device is provided, and it includes a splash shield; a liquid knife, which is located under the splash shield; an oblique baffle, which is located between the splash shield and the liquid knife, and a lower side of which is fixedly bonded to the top of a blade of the liquid knife. The oblique baffle can act to isolate the liquid knife and the substrate on the delivery roll from a majority of water vapor, and droplets dripping on the oblique baffle can flow down along a slope of the oblique baffle, and will not drip on the substrate that has not been rinsed by the liquid knife. Effects of droplets on the uniformity of the substrate can be greatly reduced by the present technique, thereby enhancing the product quality.
US10157752B2
Methods of patterning a target material layer are provided herein. The method includes steps of positioning a semiconductor wafer having the target material layer thereon in an etch chamber and of providing a flow of etch gases into the etch chamber, the flow of etch gases etchant gas comprising a plurality of gases. The semiconductor wafer has a patterned hardmask feature formed from a compound on the target material layer. The method also includes steps of etching the target material layer using the patterned hardmask feature as a mask feature, wherein one of the gases chemically alters the patterned hardmask feature and at least one of the gases chemically repairs the patterned hardmask feature so that the patterned hardmask feature retains its dimensions during the etching. Associated semiconductor wafer are also provided herein.
US10157751B1
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, including forming a first hard mask strip, a second hard mask strip, and a dummy structure over a substrate, in which the dummy structure is formed between and in contact with the first hard mask strip and the second hard mask strip; forming a hard mask layer over the first hard mask strip, the dummy structure, and the second hard mask strip; patterning the hard mask layer to form an opening exposing the first hard mask strip and the dummy structure, and partially exposing the second hard mask strip; and performing an etching process to remove the first hard mask strip and form a recess in the second hard mask strip, in which the performing the etching process includes forming a polymer in the recess.
US10157747B2
Techniques herein include systems and methods for correcting pattern overlay errors by correcting or adjusting bowing of wafers. Location-specific tuning of stress on semiconductor substrates reduces overlay error. Location-specific tuning of stress independently modifies specific regions, areas, or point locations on a substrate to change wafer bow at those specific locations, which reduces overlay error on substrates, which in turn improves overlay of subsequent patterns created on the substrate. Techniques herein include receiving a substrate with some amount of overlay error, measuring bow of the substrate to map z-height deviations across the substrate, generating an overlay correction pattern, and then physically modifying internal stresses on the substrate at specific locations with modifications independent of other coordinate locations. Such modifications can include etching a backside surface of the substrate. One or more processing modules can be used for such processing.
US10157745B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of forming a feature of a semiconductor device. In one or more embodiments, the feature is a gate, and the method includes forming a substrate and forming a gate material extending over a major surface of the substrate. The method further includes forming a trench extending through the gate material and into the substrate in a first direction, wherein the trench further extends through the gate material and the substrate in a second direction. The method further includes filling the trench with a fill material and forming individual gates from the gate material, wherein the individual gates extend along a third direction.
US10157740B1
Methods for depositing desired materials formed on different locations of a substrate with different materials using a selective deposition process for semiconductor applications are provided. In one embodiment, a method of forming a structure with desired materials on a substrate includes disposing organic materials on a surface of a substrate, performing a thermal treatment process to form polymer brush materials from the organic materials selective on a first region of the substrate, and selectively forming a material layer on a second region of the substrate uncovered by the polymer brush materials.
US10157733B2
Embodiments of method for igniting a plasma are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method for igniting a plasma includes: flowing a process gas into a process chamber to increase a pressure within the process chamber to a first pressure; applying a first bias voltage from a collimator power source to a collimator disposed within the process chamber; and applying a second power to a sputtering source disposed in the process chamber above the collimator after the first pressure has been reached and the first bias voltage is applied to ignite the plasma.
US10157726B2
The invention relates to a cathodoluminescence detection system comprising: a collecting optic (112) collecting light radiation (108) from a sample illuminated by a beam of charged particles and reflecting said radiation (108) onto analysis means, said collecting optic (112) being placed in a chamber, called a vacuum chamber, wherein the pressure is below atmospheric pressure; and means (316) for adapting the light radiation, placed downstream of the collecting optic (112) and designed to adapt said light radiation (108) at the inlet of the analysis means. Said system is characterized in that all or part of the adapting means (316) is placed in an environment where the pressure is higher than the pressure in said vacuum chamber.
US10157724B2
In a scanning electron microscope, an atmospheric pressure space having a specimen arranged therein and a vacuum space arranged on a charged particle optical system side are isolated from each other using an isolation film that transmits charged particle beams. The scanning electron microscope has an electron optical lens barrel, a chassis, and an isolation film. The electron optical lens barrel radiates a primary electron beam onto a specimen. The chassis is directly bonded to the inside of the electron optical lens barrel and has an inside that turns into a lower vacuum state than the inside of the electron optical lens barrel at least during the radiation of the primary electron beam. The isolation film isolates a space in an atmospheric pressure atmosphere having a specimen mounted therein and the inside of the chassis in a lower vacuum state, and transmits the primary charged particle beam.
US10157723B2
In one embodiment, a multi charged particle beam writing apparatus includes an emitter that emits a charged particle beam, an aperture plate in which a plurality of openings are formed and that forms multiple beams by allowing the charged particle beam to pass through the plurality of openings, a blanking plate provided with a plurality of blankers that each perform blanking deflection on a corresponding beam included in the multiple beams, a stage on which a substrate irradiated with the multiple beams, a detector that detects a reflection charged particle from the substrate, feature amount calculation circuitry that calculates a feature amount of an aperture image based on a detection value of the detector, and aberration correction circuitry that corrects aberration of the charged particle beam based on the feature amount.
US10157717B2
A switch device structure serves to help in stably moving an operation rod. The switch device includes a contact fixing support assembled with an insulation case. The fixing support is formed with multiple openings. A connection board and multiple support members are correspondingly assembled in the openings. The support member has a base section and a neck section, which together define a passage. The operation rod is assembled with an elastic unit and can pass through the passage and the connection board to extend into the fixing support so as to move a wire connection assembly in the case. The switch device structure improves the shortcoming of the conventional switch device that the operation rod is apt to shake and deflect.
US10157707B2
A coil component includes a first core, a second core, a lead wire, an outside mark, and an inside mark. The first core includes a winding portion and a pair of core ends. The second core connects a pair of the core ends and includes an inside surface and an outside surface. The lead wire is wound around the winding portion. The outside mark is formed on the outside surface of the second core and designed to change its arrangement at the time of rotating the second core by 90 degrees in a rotational direction whose central axis is along a normal direction of the outside surface. The inside mark with undulation is formed on the inside surface of the second core and designed to change its arrangement at the time of rotating the second core by 90 degrees in the rotational direction.
US10157706B2
An inductor structure is provided. The inductor structure includes a first dielectric layer formed over a substrate and a magnetic layer formed over the first dielectric layer. The magnetic layer has a planar top surface, a planar bottom surface, a protruding portion surrounding the planar top surface, and the protruding portion is higher than the planar top surface.
US10157699B2
A resistor element includes a base substrate, a resistor layer disposed on one surface of the base substrate, a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer disposed on the resistor layer to be spaced apart from each other, a third electrode layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer to be spaced apart from the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, a conductive resin electrode disposed on at least one end of the third electrode layer, and first to third plating layers disposed on the first to third electrode layers, respectively.
US10157695B2
A transfer material and a method of manufacturing the same, the transfer material including, in this order, a temporary support body, a first resin layer, and a second resin layer, the first resin layer not being water soluble, the second resin layer including a water soluble polymer, the second resin layer including a compound that has a heteroaromatic ring including a nitrogen atom as a ring member, and a content of the compound that has a heteroaromatic ring including a nitrogen atom as a ring member in the second resin layer being 3.0% by mass or greater with respect to a total solid content of the second resin layer. A laminated body including a substrate; an electrode pattern that is positioned above the substrate and that includes a metal in at least part of the electrode pattern; a second resin layer positioned above the electrode pattern; and a first resin layer positioned above the second resin layer, the second resin layer including a compound that has a heteroaromatic ring including a nitrogen atom as a ring member.
US10157691B2
[A] method and an apparatus for the treatment of waste ion exchange resins containing radionuclides, and further relating to a method for the treatment of waste ion exchange resins containing radionuclides by the stepwise heat treatment and an apparatus to accomplish the method.
US10157689B2
Radiological containment bags for use in storing alpha particle emitting waste are described. The radiological containment bags are formed of a multilayer film with an inner layer of the film being a sacrificial layer that lies between the interior of the bag and a structural polymeric layer. The sacrificial layer includes a flexible composite material that in turn includes a polymeric matrix and an alpha particle energy absorber incorporated in the polymeric matrix. The sacrificial layer can include a chromophore that can detect early degradation of the sacrificial material.
US10157684B2
A precharging circuit, a scanning driving circuit, an array substrate, and a display device are provided. The precharging circuit includes an input end, an output end, and further includes a switching unit, first pull-up unit, and second pull-up unit. The switching unit has first end connected to first node; second end connected to the input end, and third end connected to second node, and is used for conducting the second end and the third end when first end is at high level; first pull-up unit has first end connected to the output end and second end connected to first node, and is used for pulling up potential of second end when first end is at high level; second pull-up unit has first end connected to second node and second end connected to output end, is used for pulling up potential of second end when first end is at high level.
US10157678B2
A memory card is provided to include a substrate having two pairs of edges facing each other, a plurality of first row terminals that are arranged adjacent to an edge at an insertion side of the substrate and include a first voltage power terminal for applying a first voltage and a first ground terminal, a plurality of second row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of first row terminals and include a second voltage power terminal for applying a second voltage and first data terminals, and a plurality of third row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of second row terminals and include second data terminals.
US10157674B2
A soft erase method of a memory device including applying a program voltage to a first memory cell in at least one of program loops when a plurality of program loops are performed to program the first memory cell into a Nth programming state, wherein the first memory cell is included in a selected memory cell string connected to a selected first bit line and is connected to a selected word line; and soft erasing a second memory cell by applying, in a first verification interval, a read voltage for verifying a programming state of the first memory cell to the selected word line and applying a first prepulse to a gate of a string select transistor of each of a plurality of unselected memory cell strings connected to the first bin line and a plurality of unselected memory cell strings connected to an unselected second bit line.
US10157663B2
Methods, devices, arrays and systems for reducing standby power for a floating body memory array. One method includes counting bits of data before data enters the array, wherein the counting includes counting at least one of: a total number of bits at state 1 and a total number of all bits; a total number of bits at state 0 and the total number of all bits; or the total number of bits at state 1 and the total number of bits at state 0. This method further includes detecting whether the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; setting an inversion bit when the total number of bits at state 1 is greater than the total number of bits at state 0; and inverting contents of all the bits of data before writing the bits of data to the memory array when the inversion bit has been set.
US10157661B1
Methods, systems, and devices for mitigating line-to-line capacitive coupling in a memory die are described. A device may include multiple drivers configured to both drive latched data and conduct read and write operations. For example, a memory device may contain two or more memory arrays independently coupled to two drivers via two data lines. One data line may be driven strongly to shield a corresponding memory array from effects associated with data line capacitive coupling. An opposing data line may be driven with data pertaining to an access operation of the memory array to which it is coupled. The opposing data line may be driven concurrently or within a small time difference of the other data line.
US10157659B1
A memory device may include one or more memory banks that store digital data. The memory device includes first tri-state driver circuitry that provides a first signal to a first data read/write (DRW) line coupled between write driver circuitry and one or more DQ pads. The first signal is indicative of either a high state or a medium state. The memory device includes second tri-state driver circuitry that provides a second signal to a second data read/write (DRW) line coupled between the write driver circuitry and the one or more DQ pads. The second signal is indicative of either a medium state or a low state. A voltage level of the medium state is between a voltage level of the high state and a voltage level of the low state.
US10157643B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus that increase available memory or storage using active boundary areas in quilt architecture are described. A memory array may include memory cells overlying each portion of a substrate layer that includes certain types of support circuitry, such as decoders and sense amplifiers. Active boundary portions, which may be elements of the memory array having a different configuration from other portions of the memory array, may be positioned on two sides of the memory array and may increase available data in a quilt architecture memory. The active boundary portions may include support components to access both memory cells of neighboring memory portions and memory cells overlying the active boundary portions. Address scrambling may produce a uniform increase in number of available data in conjunction with the active boundary portions.
US10157642B2
A storage system, according to one embodiment, includes a receptacle, a controller, and a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism is configured to prevent physical removal of a hard disk drive from the receptacle in response to a determination that a hard disk in the hard disk drive is in motion. The locking mechanism is configured to allow physical removal of the hard disk drive from the receptacle in response to a determination that the hard disk is not in motion. An apparatus, according to another embodiment, includes a drive having an integrated locking mechanism. The drive is configured to prevent physical removal of the drive from a receptacle in response to a determination that a medium in the drive is in motion, and allow physical removal of the drive from the receptacle in response to a determination that the medium in the drive is not in motion.
US10157637B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for sampling signals in multi-reader magnetic recording. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a plurality of read heads configured to simultaneously read from a single track of a storage medium, a plurality of analog to digital converters (ADCs) configured to receive signal patterns from corresponding read heads, and a circuit configured to control the plurality of ADCs to sample the signal patterns according to a single clock signal generator. The output of the ADCs may be individually delayed based on a down-track offset of the read heads in order to align the samples, so that samples corresponding to the same portion of the recorded signal can be combined for bit pattern detection.
US10157631B2
A slider includes an array of two or more transducer sets offset from one another in a cross-track direction. Each transducer set includes at least one writer and at least one reader. All of the transducer sets are configured to operate simultaneously to perform any combination of reading and writing on two or more tracks of a recording medium. At least one actuator is included between two the transducer sets. The actuator is configured to adjust a cross-track spacing between the two transducer sets in response to a control current.
US10157629B2
The present invention provides a system and method for controlling a device by recognizing voice commands through a spiking neural network. The system comprises a spiking neural adaptive processor receiving an input stream that is being forwarded from a microphone, a decimation filter and then an artificial cochlea. The spiking neural adaptive processor further comprises a first spiking neural network and a second spiking neural network. The first spiking neural network checks for voice activities in output spikes received from artificial cochlea. If any voice activity is detected, it activates the second spiking neural network and passes the output spike of the artificial cochlea to the second spiking neural network that is further configured to recognize spike patterns indicative of specific voice commands. If the first spiking neural network does not detect any voice activity, it halts the second spiking neural network.
US10157628B1
A sound identification device is provided. The sound identification device includes a microphone array and a processing unit. The microphone array includes a plurality of microphones disposed within a microphone module mounted on a housing of the sound identification device. Each microphone receives an acoustic signal caused by a gesture performed on a surface of the microphone module and converts the received acoustic signal to a digital acoustic signal. The processing unit is configured to receive the digital acoustic signal from each microphone, and perform a sound identification process on the digital acoustic signal from each microphone to generate a sound identification result conveying information of the gesture. The processing unit controls at least one application program executed by the processing unit according to the sound identification result.
US10157618B2
A method, device, system, and computer medium for providing interactive advertising are provided. For example, a device may request an advertisement from a remote server, receive the advertisement, receive a response from a user who is listening and/or watching the advertisement, and transmit the response to the server for further action. The user may input a response by speaking. A server may receive an advertisement request from the device, select an advertisement based on pre-defined one or more criteria, transmit the selected advertisement to the device for play, receive from the device a response to the selected advertisement, and then perform an action corresponding to the received response.
US10157604B1
Methods and apparatuses for addressing open space noise are disclosed. In one example, a system and method for masking open space noise includes outputting a noise masking sound from a plurality of balanced mode radiator loudspeakers distributed in a down-fire direction above an open space.
US10157600B2
Percussion accessories for reversible and interchangeable attachment to the head of a drum tension rod are disclosed.
US10157594B2
A layered content display system includes a networking device coupled to a network, a source device configured to display first content information on a source device screen, a display device, and a sink device coupled to the networking device, the source device, and the display device. The sink device receives an identification of the first content information from the source device. The sink device then retrieves a first subset of the first content information from the source device, and a second subset of the first content information from the network through the networking device. The sink device then provides the second subset of the first content information layered with the first subset of the first content information for display on the display device such that the first content information displayed on the display device is substantially similar to the first content information displayed on the source device screen.
US10157593B2
A cross-platform rendering engine. The cross-platform rendering engine serves as an intermediary between the application and the operating system for displaying application content on the screen allowing software developers to write platform-agnostic application code. The application sends content to the cross-platform rendering engine in the form of resource-efficient content descriptions describing the content to be displayed. In turn, cross-platform rendering engine stores the content descriptions and provides rasterized images generated from the content descriptions to the compositor as needed. In the event that a content description corresponding to the texture needed by the compositor is not available, the cross-platform rendering engine pulls the content description from the application. By producing rasterized images from a user interface thread on behalf of the application rather than waiting for the application thread, the cross-platform rendering engine improves the overall responsiveness of the application and contributes to a better user experience.
US10157579B2
A display device is discussed, which includes: a light emitting diode to emit light; and a pixel circuit connected to the light emitting diode, the pixel circuit including; a data line; a driving power line; a sense signal line; a gate line; and a switch connected with the data line by a first terminal, a digital-to-analog converter by a second terminal, and an analog-to-digital converter by a third terminal, wherein the switch connects the data line to the digital-to-analog converter or the analog-to-digital converter on a basis of a switch control signal.
US10157577B2
Disclosed are a shift register element, a gate driver circuit, and an organic electroluminescent display panel, and the shift register element includes: a first input module, a first control module, a first scan signal output module, and a first light emission signal output module, or a second input module, a second control module, a second scan signal output module, and a second light emission signal output module, where these four modules can cooperate with each other to output both a scan signal and a light emission signal so as to lower the complexity of the circuit, to reduce a space to be occupied, and to facilitate a design of a display panel with a narrow border.
US10157567B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a gate driver, and a gate driving control circuit. The gate driver is connected to the display panel, and generates gate signals for driving the display panel using a gate clock signal. The gate driving control circuit generates the gate clock signal using a gate on voltage and a gate off voltage, determines whether an operation environment is an abnormal temperature environment by comparing a first feedback gate signal with a second feedback gate signal, and adjusts a voltage level of the gate clock signal in the abnormal temperature environment. The first feedback gate signal is retrieved from the display panel while a first frame image is displayed on the display panel. The second feedback gate signal is retrieved from the display panel while a second frame image subsequent to the first frame image is displayed on the display panel.
US10157564B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a timing controller, a gate driver, and a data driver. The display panel includes a plurality of pixel groups. Each of the pixel groups includes a first pixel and a second pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel. The first and second pixels together include n (n is an odd number equal to or greater than 3) sub-pixels. The first and second pixels share their collective {(n+1)/2}th sub-pixel.
US10157561B2
A display may have a first stage such as a color liquid crystal display stage and a second stage such as a monochromatic liquid crystal display stage that are coupled in tandem so that light from a backlight passes through both stages. The pixel pitch of the second stage may be greater than the pixel pitch of the first stage to ease alignment tolerances and reduce image processing complexity. The first stage may be provided with straight black masking strips, whereas the second stage may be provided with angled zigzagging black masking strips. The angle of the zigzagging black masking strips and the ratio of the pixel pitch of the second stage to that of the first stage may be selected to maximize optical transmittance while minimizing Moire effects.
US10157559B2
A waveguide display includes a source assembly, an output waveguide, and a controller. The source assembly includes a light source and an optics system. The light source includes source elements arranged in a 1D or 2D array that emit image light. The optics system includes a scanning mirror assembly that scans the image light to particular locations based on scanning instructions. The output waveguide receives the scanned image light from the scanning mirror assembly and outputs an expanded image light. In some embodiments, the waveguide display includes a source waveguide and the 1D array of source elements. The source waveguide receives a conditioned image light from the source assembly. The controller generates the scanning instructions and provides the scanning instructions to the scanning mirror assembly. In some embodiments, the controller provides the scanning instructions to an actuator assembly of the source waveguide.
US10157557B1
A user customizable blanket is formed by a sheet of fabric with a perimeter about the blanket in any one of a round, square, rectangular, circular, or other polygonal shape. Along the perimeter of the blanket, a plurality of spaced-apart receptacles are formed that may selectively engage and disengage a plurality of message-bearing icons. The plurality of receptacles are configured to engage and disengage the plurality of message-bearing icons without the use of an additional tool. The plurality of receptacles include any one of a hole, a snap, a hook and loop attachment, and a pin.
US10157551B1
A simulation tool or application for teaching statistics concepts. The tool utilizes various propensity and treatment inputs to simulate outcome responses for subject elements. In illustrated embodiments, the subject elements have the same or similar characteristics and outcome response while in other embodiments the subject elements have different characteristics and outcome response. The tool applies various propensity inputs to assign the subject elements to treatment or no-treatment to simulate treatments on different populations using different propensity mechanisms or inputs.
US10157538B2
A modular garage door opener system includes an accessory device including a first electronic processor, a first memory, and a load, and includes a garage door opener including an accessory port, a second memory, and a second electronic processor. The accessory port is configured to be removably coupled to the accessory device. The second electronic processor receives new status data from the accessory device indicating a change in a status of the accessory device to a new status, sends the new status data to a remote server to update an accessory data set, receives new settings data from the remote server indicating a requested change in a setting of the accessory device, and sends the new settings data to the accessory device to update the setting of the accessory device. The first electronic processor controls the load of the accessory device based on the new settings data.
US10157536B2
A dispatch management computer system that integrates with an existing nurse call system for clinical workflow optimization and to create accountability for patient satisfaction and outcomes. The system integrates a “quarterback” (e.g., dispatcher) tablet with a custom dispatch application that presents a floor plan for tracking the RTLS position of staff members and to provide a visual indication of which room and bed the call originated from. When a patient requests assistance, the QB application presents an assessment of the patient needs and, if further assistance is required, provides the dispatcher tools for real time assignment of the appropriate staff member and dispatch to begin the task within a predetermined amount of time required to complete the task allocated. The system enables the prompt assignment of staff personnel and assures that a patient receives prompt staff attention.
US10157524B2
A surveillance apparatus, a corresponding method, surveillance radar apparatus, computer program, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium, the surveillance apparatus including an optical camera that captures images based on received light, the optical camera having a first field of view, a radar sensor that emits and receives electromagnetic radiation, the radar sensor having a second field of view, and wherein the first field of view is variable with respect to the second field of view.
US10157521B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing information in a poker game. One method includes operations for providing an interface to a player for playing a poker game, and for detecting the creation of a side pot in the poker game during play. The side pot is presented in a first format, which includes the amount of the side pot. Additionally, the method includes an operation for detecting a selection by the first player in the poker game requesting additional information about the side pot. In response to the selection, the side pot is presented in a second format, which has the amount of the side pot and one icon for each of the players participating in the side pot, where players absent from the side pot are not represented in the second format.
US10157520B2
A gaming system which displays a play of a multiple level selection game. For each level, the gaming system displays a plurality of selections associated with that level. A player picks a quantity of the selections as player picks. The player designates one or more of the player picks as designated picks. One or more modifiers are applied to each of the designated picks. The gaming system modifies the awards associated with the designated picks based on the one or more modifiers associated with each of the designated picks. The gaming system provides the value of the awards associated with the player picks. If the total value of the awards is greater than a threshold value for the currently played level, the gaming system provides the play of the next level and repeats the selection game.
US10157502B2
A method of interaction using augmented reality may include aligning a local augmented reality (AR) view to a remote AR view of a remote user, receiving remote annotations from the remote user, sending local annotations registered to a local view to the remote user, and manipulating local view with remote and local annotations. The method may also include capturing a first video image using a camera, generating first augmented reality (AR) coordinates corresponding to the first video image, receiving second AR coordinates, 3D object information and second video frame from remote user, loading 3D content and instructions from a remote storage, and updating positions and existence of the received 3D object information and the loaded 3D content.
US10157494B2
An image processing apparatus to calculate a visibility with respect to a plurality of virtual point lights (VPL) sampled at a three-dimensional (3D) model includes at least one first VPL included in a screen scene associated with a viewpoint to render and at least one second VPL not found in the screen scene, and may calculate a first probability obtained by calculating a visibility between a first area including the first VPL and a first point with respect to the at least one first VPL.
US10157491B2
An apparatus for visualizing image material in a multimodal imaging environment. Images (XF, USV) from an X-ray imager (100) and an ultrasound probe (USP) are fused into an interactive graphics display (GUI) to form a 3D scene, where, alongside to a 3D rendering (USS) of an ultrasound volume (USV) an X-Ray projection plan (XF) is displayed in perspective within the same scene. The rendering is according to a user selected view (UV) which is changeable upon user interaction with the interactive graphics display (GUI).
US10157488B2
Techniques for capturing and analyzing motion made by a person performing activities are described. According to one aspect of the present invention, sensing devices are attached to different parts of a body. As a person makes moves, the sensor modules, each including at least one inertial sensor, produce sensing data that are locally received in one designated sensing device that is in communication with an external device either remotely or locally. Relying on the resources on the external device, the combined sensing data received from the these sensing devices are processed and analyzed to derive the motions made the person. Depending on applications, various attributes of the motion can be derived from the combined sensing data, where the attributes can be incorporated into an application running on a mobile device for 3D graphics rendering into a human avatar animation and motion chart analysis.
US10157487B2
Method, system, and computer-readable program product for modifying at least one virtual activity capability of an avatar in a virtual reality setting based on a real-world physical activity metric of a user of the virtual reality setting. The user's physical activity metrics are tracked via a fitness tracker or other biometric sensor. As the user's physical activity metric(s) improve, the virtual activity capabilities of the user's avatar in the virtual reality setting also improve.
US10157486B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a calculation unit configured to calculate deformation information of an object deformed from a first deformation state to a second deformation state; a degree-of-deviation calculation unit configured to calculate a degree of deviation of the deformation information with respect to a deformation model representing a deformation state of the object; and a display control unit configured to display the calculated degree of deviation.
US10157483B2
Various examples are provided for photoacoustic image reconstruction and processing utilizing a backprojection approach. In one example, among others, a method for producing an image with a photoacoustic imaging system includes scanning an object with a plurality of light beams, detecting a plurality of acoustic signals produced by the light beams, and generating a reconstructed image from the plurality of acoustic signals by filtered backprojection (FBP) that utilizes a weighted ramp filter. In another example, a system includes a plurality of acoustic detector units and a processing unit. The acoustic detector units can receive an acoustic wave and convert it to time dependent electrical signals. The processing unit can reconstruct an image of the subject from the time-dependent electrical signals by FBP that utilizes a weighted ramp filter. In another example, non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program that can cause a processing unit to reconstruct an image.
US10157473B2
An mechanism for range estimation mapping that includes creation of a world map on an azimuth/elevation (AZ/EL) grid, relation of the grid to an earth-fixed north, east, and down (NED) coordinate system through an address table, and association of each pixel in each frame, by a programmable device, with an entry from the address table in order to determine a range is discussed. The associations may be repeated for each frame while an updated world map and address table are generated. When an updated address table is complete, the process may begin anew using the updated data.
US10157470B2
To achieve highly accurate image analysis processing without using a large amount of network bandwidth, an analysis apparatus acquires an image via a network, executes analysis processing, acquires additional image data depending on a result of the analysis processing, and executes reanalysis processing by using the additional image data.
US10157454B1
An apparatus includes a first circuit, a second circuit and a third circuit. The first circuit may be configured to (i) receive an image in a raster order, where the image has a plurality of data values arranged in a plurality of raster lines, and (ii) set a flag corresponding to a current value among the data values in a current line of the raster lines to indicate that the current value is a maximum value in a one-dimensional window in the current line. The second circuit may be configured to reset the flag based on one or more previous lines of the raster lines to indicate that the current value is not the maximum value in a two-dimensional window around the current value. The third circuit may be configured to generate an output value in the current line based on the flag.
US10157447B2
This invention relates to a method of increasing spatial/temporal resolution including the steps of (a) providing a current video having an initial temporal/spatial resolution; (b) repeatedly reducing the temporal/spatial resolution of the current video to produce a lowest temporal/spatial resolution current video; (c) increasing the spatial/temporal resolution of the lowest temporal/spatial resolution current video; (d) increasing the spatial/temporal resolution of the next higher temporal/spatial resolution current video; and (e) repeating step (d) up to the initial temporal/spatial resolution.
US10157445B2
An image generating apparatus for generating an output image based on an input panorama image, includes a parameter input unit inputting an output range parameter and a correction parameter, the output range parameter designating an output range in the panorama image, the correction parameter designating a correction part to be corrected in the output image; and an image correction unit correcting the correction part designated by the correction parameter in the output image. Further, the image correction unit calculates a similarity between the correction part and peripheral pixels and corrects the correction part based on the similarity and the peripheral pixels, and the output image is generated from the output range of the panorama image and is the panorama image corrected by the correction.
US10157442B1
A system and method runs a query using a GPU and generates a visualization of the query using the same GPU.
US10157438B2
Among other things, dynamically selecting or configuring one or more hardware resources to render a particular display data includes obtaining a request for rendering display data. The request includes a specification describing a desired rendering process. Based on the specification and the display data, hardware is selected or configured. The display data is rendered using the selected or configured hardware.
US10157437B2
Some implementations may include a method for watermarking an identification document, the method including: modulating a spatial luminance pattern associated with a first digital watermark to encode a first portion of personally identifiable information; modulating a spatial chrominance distribution associated with a second digital watermark to encode a second portion of the personally identifiable information; and applying the first digital watermark and the second digital watermark to the identification document.
US10157430B2
Simulated network system and method having simulated user profiles and simulated item profiles representing items where the terms used to define characteristics of simulated user profiles and simulated item profiles are based on the same term vocabulary. Simulated sharing and spreading of item profiles by simulated user profiles arranged in the simulated network in a manner that gives a desired level of homophily to the network can produce information that can be presented to a real-world user of a real-world e-commerce system or other user network system, such as a Internet-based social network.
US10157426B1
Computer-implemented methods, systems and articles of manufacture for rendering paginated interview screens that include arrangements of tax questions or topics representative of question or topic relevancy and that are selected and arranged based at least in part upon determined question or topic categorization and/or ranking. Different pagination structures may be utilized to visually indicate tax question or topic relevancy and to encourage or enable users of a tax return preparation application to answer more pertinent questions or topics before others, while also allowing the user to navigate or scroll questions or topics of paginated screens and to select questions or topics to answer or address at the user's discretion, without being restricted by a pre-determined sequence of interview questions or hard-coded question-and-answer frameworks. Interview screen paginations and content thereof are dynamically updated as runtime data of the electronic tax return is received or updated.
US10157416B2
Methods for generating and sharing a virtual body model of a person, created with a small number of measurements and a single photograph, combined with one or more images of garments. The virtual body model represents a realistic representation of the users body and is used for visualizing photo-realistic fit visualizations of garments, hairstyles, make-up, and/or other accessories. The virtual garments are created from layers based on photographs of real garment from multiple angles. Furthermore the virtual body model is used in multiple embodiments of manual and automatic garment, make-up, and, hairstyle recommendations, such as, from channels, friends, and fashion entities. The virtual body model is sharable for, as example, visualization and comments on looks. Furthermore it is also used for enabling users to buy garments that fit other users, suitable for gifts or similar. The implementation can also be used in peer-to-peer online sales where garments can be bought with the knowledge that the seller has a similar body shape and size as the user.
US10157415B2
System, method, and medium for generating a map of a geographic region based on client location data
Described herein are technologies pertaining to presenting a map to a user that comprises graphical icons that are representative of retail stores. The user has provided a shopping list, wherein the shopping list includes a plurality of products that are desirably purchased by the user. Inventories of retail stores in a geographic region of interest to the user are searched, and a map is generated that includes graphical icons representative of the retail stores, data that indicates that product(s) in the shopping list are available at the retail stores, and price data that indicates prices of product(s) in the shopping list at the respective retail stores.
US10157409B2
Systems and methods are provided for presenting information related to a product offered for sale in response to movement of the product. An example method includes receiving a movement indicator from a tag associated with the product. The movement indicator indicates movement of the product. The movement indicator includes an identifier. The method further includes identifying, in a tag data structure, a presentation device associated with the identifier, and causing information about the product to be displayed at a presentation device located proximate to the tag, whereby the consumer is able to perceive the information about the product.
US10157401B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for data processing and content distribution. In one aspect, a method includes providing skippable content items from a given content category to a user device; determining, for the user, an aggregate engagement level with the skippable content items based on portions of the skippable content items that were presented and whether the skippable content items were skipped; determining, for the user, an interest score for the given category based on comparing the aggregate engagement level to a population engagement level with skippable content items from the given content category; determining that the interest score of the user for the given category is below a specified threshold; and in response to receiving a subsequent request for a content item from the given content category distributing, to the user device, a non-skippable content item from the given category.
US10157394B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, services, and platforms for prompting a user to respond to an offer on a mobile device. The disclosure enables Mobile Network Operators to create campaigns to target customers who are nearing the limit of their data plans, voice plans, SMS plans, and MMS plans. In some embodiments, the cloud server interacts with a client application to prompt the use of a mobile device to respond to an offer send in a campaign. The disclosure also provides embodiments to check to see if the user has opted out of receiving offers, or if a device can not execute a command, or if a threshold number of offers has already been sent. This disclosure also provides embodiments for authenticating third party account log-in.
US10157389B2
System and method for trackable applications including an application providing unit, a controller, and an incentive tracker. The application providing unit is adapted to send a trackable application upon request. The controller is adapted to receive interactions from the trackable application. The incentive tracker is adapted to select an incentive based on the interaction data. The controller is further adapted to send the selected incentive to the trackable application.
US10157383B2
A circuit board that includes OLED display technology is provided. An OLED display may present light patterns recognizable by a hearing or visually impaired users. The light pattern may be customized by the user. A specific workflow may be associated with a specific light pattern. A light pattern may visually guide a user through a workflow. For example, different menu options may be color coded. High consequence changes may flash with a certain light sequence or pattern. Trusted devices may present a specific light pattern or matrix at “login” time to confirm that the user is accessing a trusted device.
US10157376B2
A battery rental kiosk system is provided. The system allows for batteries to be rented or purchased for mobile devices that may require a battery recharge. In one embodiment, the system may allow a customer to rent the battery for a predetermined time period and charge a customer credit card periodically at the expiration of the time period.
US10157374B1
The invention provides a method of reconditioning a mobile electronic processing device. The method comprises firstly disassembling a mobile electronic processing device to at least obtain a main processor board assembly having an operational International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) of the disassembled mobile electronic processing device stored in a memory of the main processor board assembly. Then, to assessing suitability of the main processor board assembly for reassembly in a mobile electronic processing device. If suitable, to reassembling said main processor board assembly with a reconditioned or new LCD screen assembly and a reconditioned or new housing assembly to thereby provide a reconditioned mobile electronic processing device taking said IMEI of the disassembled mobile electronic processing device as its operational IMEI.
US10157373B1
The invention provides a method of reconditioning a mobile electronic processing device. The method comprises firstly disassembling a mobile electronic processing device to at least obtain a main processor board assembly having an operational International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) of the disassembled mobile electronic processing device stored in a memory of the main processor board assembly. Then, to assessing suitability of the main processor board assembly for reassembly in a mobile electronic processing device. If suitable, to reassembling said main processor board assembly with a reconditioned or new LCD screen assembly and a reconditioned or new housing assembly to thereby provide a reconditioned mobile electronic processing device taking said IMEI of the disassembled mobile electronic processing device as its operational IMEI.
US10157372B2
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed that detect and interpret the meaning of visual indicators (such as LEDs) of devices, and provide information and solutions to potential malfunctions to users. For example, image data of the visual indicators can be captured by an image capture device (such as a camera). The image data may then be analyzed to identify an object captured in the image data. Luminescence of pixel values in the image data corresponding to a visual indicator of the object may be used to determine a sequence of the visual indicator. Then, information corresponding to the meaning of the sequence may be sent to a device of a user or owner of the object.
US10157368B2
One or more RFID tags may be read. An electronic document associated with the RFID tag may be identified. One or more attributes associated with the electronic document can be identified. One or more workflows can be determined according to the attribute(s).
US10157358B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a future virtual-meeting time interval and a set of virtual-meeting attributes in relation to a future virtual meeting. The method also includes correlating the future virtual-meeting time interval to at least one recurring time interval of a time map. In addition, the method includes retrieving a time-based performance pattern. The method further includes determining, from the time-based performance pattern, a stream quality for the virtual-meeting attributes at the at least one recurring time interval. In addition, the method includes publishing information related to the determined stream quality to a requestor.
US10157355B2
A system and method for use in managing and preparing for scheduled procedures that are characterized as being interdependent and variable. The disclosed method enables schedule risk management and provides a look-ahead capability along with process diagnostics to isolate specific assets and tasks that can be managed to reduce schedule risk. The method facilitates review of upcoming tasks by the process stakeholders for education as to where the schedule risks reside and in an emulation mode for review and improved scheduling going forward. Clinical workflow is integrated such that process stakeholders and assets are directed in such a way as to keep on, reduce delay risk or recover the schedule.
US10157353B2
A method and apparatus for name variant extraction from individual handle identifiers uses a sequential extraction process to construct contextual information. Last name data, first/middle name data, initials, nicknames, and vanity names, along with numerical information indicating dates, may all be captured in extracting information about an individual associated with a particular handle. When multiple possible interpretations result from the analysis, those interpretations are ranked using optimality rules. The resulting data may be used to look up additional information in a consumer database in order to structure a targeted marketing message to the individual associated with the handle.
US10157345B2
Specification of a time is received from a device that uses an in-home-presence probability calculation system, a probability that a person is at home at the specified time is calculated on the basis of a specified operation time and a specified correlation when the specified operation time is a time within a period of a certain time ending at the time at which the specification has been received, and information as to whether or not a person is at home is output to the device on the basis of the calculated probability.
US10157343B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for obtaining a plurality of model representations of predictive models, each model representation associated with a respective user and expresses a respective predictive model, and selecting a model implementation for each of the model representations based on one or more system usage properties associated with the user associated with the corresponding model representation.
US10157342B1
A computer system for transforming sensory input received at a machine into actions by the machine. The system receives sensory input from one or more sensors. Upon determining that the sensory input corresponds to a consciousness module, the system translates the input into a human language stimulus. The system selects an action corresponding to the human language stimulus and performs the action.
US10157335B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a processing unit that sequentially performing processing on plural data; a display unit that displays information relevant to results of the processing performed on the data by the processing unit; and a control unit that, when processing performed on certain data of the plural data is completed by the processing unit, controls the display unit so as to display information relevant to a result of the processing performed on the data as information which indicates that data corresponding to a subsequent processing sequence is being processed.
US10157330B2
A method for compact and descriptive representation of teeth shape, or other shapes, in terms of characteristic curves and its application to generation of automatic designs within dental CAD software or other software is provided. In an embodiment, a method includes capturing tooth shape by a network of characteristic curves, such as margin lines. In an embodiment, a method includes compactly encoding curves as strings, which then can be indexed and searched efficiently by similarity. In an embodiment, a method includes retrieving high quality crown design proposals from a case repository based on similarity of margin line.
US10157328B2
Method of authentication of a user via a terminal including acquisition elements for performing a biometric acquisition, includes: presentation to the acquisition elements by the user of a member to be verified by biometric comparison and triggering by the user a biometric acquisition to obtain an acquisition datum; biometric comparison of the acquisition datum with a prestored reference datum, the user being authenticated if the biometric comparison is positive and not authenticated otherwise, the method further including the following steps: providing the user with elements indicative of a first angle, the user applying a corrective rotation by a second angle so as to match an acquisition datum with the second angle, and in the biometric comparison step the reference datum is matched with the first angle, the biometric comparison being positive if the second angle is substantially equal to the first angle. Device adapted to implement such a method.
US10157314B2
Methods for aerial image processing and object identification using an electronic computing device are presented, the methods including: causing the electronic computing device to build a deep learning model; receiving actual aerial image data; applying the deep learning model to the actual aerial image data to identify areas of interest; post-processing the areas of interest; and returning a number of classified objects corresponding with the areas of interest to a user. In some embodiments, methods further include: applying global positioning system (GPS) mapping to the number of classified objects with respect to the actual aerial image data.
US10157310B2
The present invention relates to a medical tracking system comprising at least one sensor device which can be positioned in a fixed position relative to a target, the sensor device comprising a marker device and a marker device detector, the marker device detector being capable of obtaining information for determining a relative position between the marker device detector and another marker device, the system further comprising a control unit configured to process a medical navigation workflow and to select the function of the sensor device as either acting as a marker device detector or as a marker device in a step of the medical navigation workflow.
US10157303B1
Systems and methods for product reader control are described. In various aspects, the product reader control is enhanced with image sensor(s) for steering product reader(s) to determine product attributes associated with scanned products. The product reader control system and methods may capture, with the image sensor(s), one or more images associated with a product. The product may have a product identifier and the product may be located within an onsite venue. Based on the detection of the product identifier in the image(s), a first product reader may be steered in a direction of the product, where the first product reader is located within the onsite venue with the product. The first product reader may scan the product such that the scanning determines at least one attribute associated with the product.
US10157299B2
A mobile connection unit, configured to connect a mobile terminal having a first terminal with a mobile reading unit having a second terminal and configured to read data from an information medium, includes a main body, a first terminal portion, a second terminal portion, and an electrical pathway. The main body is attached to the mobile terminal, and the reading unit is attached to and detached from the main body. The first terminal portion is disposed at the main body, and contacts the first terminal of the mobile terminal for electrical connection with the mobile terminal. The second terminal portion is disposed at the main body, and contacts the second terminal of the reading unit for electrical connection with the reading unit. The electrical pathway is disposed between the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion to connect the mobile terminal and the reading unit.
US10157296B2
A hand-held-transceiver identifier device includes a processor device contained in a housing. A port is contained in the housing to receive a transceiver. A display is contained in the housing. Upon insertion of the transceiver in the port, the device interrogates the transceiver to obtain specification information. A computer-implemented method of identifying a transceiver device detects an insertion of the transceiver device, interrogates the transceiver device to obtain specification information, and detects a removal of the transceiver device.
US10157294B2
Provided are methods, systems and computer program products for providing remote document execution. Such methods, systems and computer program products may include storing an electronic document as a secure electronic file, identifying a signature space in the electronic document, the signature space, after being executed, includes a signature of a signing party of the electronic document, receiving the signature of the signing party into the electronic document stored as the secure electronic file and responsive to receiving the signature of the signing party, converting the electronic document into a read only electronic document.
US10157282B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor, the logic being configured to cause the processor to receive a data stream including data for encryption, insert one or more test vectors between individual blocks of data of the data stream, encrypt the blocks of data including the one or more test vectors to produce an encrypted data stream including one or more encrypted test vectors, decrypt the encrypted data stream including the one or more encrypted test vectors, compare each decrypted test vector with a corresponding inserted test vector, and report results of the comparison. Other systems, methods, and computer program products for self testing an encryption/decryption cycle are described according to more embodiments.
US10157281B2
A method of checking the authenticity of the content of a non-volatile memory of an electronic device including a microcontroller and an embedded secure element includes starting the microcontroller with instructions stored in a first non-reprogrammable memory area associated with the microcontroller, starting the secure element, executing, with the secure element, a signature verification on the content of a second reprogrammable non-volatile memory area associated with the microcontroller, and if the signature is verified, using the secure element to send the first key to the microcontroller.
US10157263B2
Contrast administration data that relates to operation of a contrast media injector system (602) may be converted from at least one format (e.g., a CAN-compliant format) to at least one other format (e.g., an HL-7-compliant format) by an injection data management module (660) for use by a medical system (600). Data on contrast media prescribed for an imaging operation using an imaging system (690), contrast media data for use in this imaging operation, and data on contrast media actually administered/injected by a contrast media injector system (602) for this imaging operation may be stored in a data structure (780) on the injection data management module (660). Patient renal function data may be used to control the dispensing of contrast media from a contrast media/storage/dispensing unit (500), to control the operation of the contrast media injector system (602), or both, and may be stored in the data structure (780) as well.
US10157256B1
Systems and methods are provided for identifying a wire of a plurality of wires to be adjusted to mitigate effects of electromigration. A method includes identifying a plurality of wires of a circuit, each wire comprising a one or more wire segments. An electromigration stress is determined for each wire path of each wire, a wire path being made up of one or more wire segments. For each wire, a highest determined electromigration stress is assigned for wire paths of that wire as the wire electromigration stress for that wire. An identification of the wire having the highest wire electromigration stress is stored, where the wire having the highest wire electromigration stress is a candidate for adjustment to mitigate electromigration effects.
US10157254B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a clock tree structure disposed on a semiconductor substrate. The clock tree structure includes a first clock line having a first line width and being arranged at a first height as measured from an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate. The clock tree structure also includes a second clock line having a second line width, which differs from the first line width. The second clock line is arranged at a second height as measured from the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate and the second height is equal to the first height. The first line width can be directly proportional to a first current level for the first clock line and the second line width can be directly proportional to a second current level for the second clock line.
US10157252B2
An apparatus includes a first tier and a second tier. The second tier is above the first tier. The first tier includes a first cell. The second tier includes a second cell and a third cell. The third cell includes a first inter layer via (ILV) to couple the first cell in the first tier to the second cell in the second tier. The third cell further includes a second ILV, the first ILV and the second ILV are extended along a first direction. The first tier further includes a fourth cell. The second tier further includes a fifth cell. The second ILV of the third cell is arranged to connect the fourth cell of the first tier with the fifth cell of the second tier. In some embodiments, the second tier further includes a spare cell including a spare ILV for engineering change order (ECO) purpose.
US10157248B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for designing a circuit suitable for generating random bits and to a circuit for generating random bits. A random bit string which is used as a binary random number is generated, for example. The proposed method and the apparatus as well as the circuit are used to implement random number generators, for example. A jth specific function from a set of bijective mappings is selected as the jth function, wherein the jth specific function carries out a jth fixed-point-free mapping. At least one ith mapping device is then selected. An ith specific function from a set of bijective mappings is assigned to the ith function, with the result that an ith concatenation of the i functions carries out an ith fixed-point-free mapping.
US10157246B2
A method of specifying and configuring a causal relationship between the dynamics of a graphical model and the execution of components of the model is disclosed. Model component execution is tied to the occurrence of model events. Model events are first defined in the modeling environment. The occurrence of conditions in the model specified in the definition of the event causes the event to be “posted”. Model components that have been associated with the occurrence of the event “receive” the notice of the posting of the event and then execute. Random components within a subsystem may be designated to execute upon the occurrence of an event, as may non-contiguous components within a model. The association between model events and component execution may be specified without drawing graphical indicators connecting components in the view of the model.
US10157245B2
A system and method for modeling airflow and temperature are disclosed. In one example, the method includes receiving input data related to a physical layout of a facility, dividing, by a computer, a representation of the facility into a plurality of grid cells, identifying where effects of at least one of jet airflow, thermal plumes and buoyancy forces are present in the facility based on the physical layout, specifying a velocity value, using a velocity correction method, for a first set of the plurality of grid cells if the effects of at least one of jet airflow and thermal plumes are present within the first set of the plurality of grid cells, calculating, by the computer, an airflow velocity value for each of a second set of the plurality of grid cells, the second set being different from the first set, modifying the determined airflow velocity value for any of the second set of the plurality of grid cells where the effects of buoyancy forces are present, and storing, on a storage device, the modified airflow values.
US10157218B2
Described herein are computer-implemented systems and methods for automatically disambiguating author names for a plurality of publications so as to create clusters of author name mentions that are with high probability associated with a single author identity for each cluster. Also described are systems and methods for assigning the clusters to respective unique author identities, automatically and/or based on human input (e.g., as received from authors, co-authors, or administrative curators).
US10157210B2
Techniques include, for an application (app) state record including an app access mechanism (AAM) that references a native app and indicates operations for it to perform and app state information (ASI) that describes a state of the app after it performs the operations, determining connections (e.g., links with other resources) associated with the app and generating a quality value indicating quality of the app based on the connections. The techniques further include identifying the record based on a search query and the quality value (e.g., using the value as a boost factor within Lucene® information retrieval software). Additionally, or alternatively, the techniques include generating a result score for the record based on the quality value and selecting the record from among other records based on the score. The techniques also include selecting the AAM from the record and transmitting the AAM to the user device as a search result.
US10157208B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for reducing power consumption in a pattern-recognition processor. A power control circuit may be coupled to a block of programmed state machines to enable selective activation and deactivation of the block during a pattern search. The block may be deactivated if the pattern search is no longer active in that block and activated when needed by the pattern search. Additionally, the block may be deactivated based on an identifier of the data stream being searched. Excess blocks not used for any programmed state machines may be disabled such that they are not refreshed during a memory cycle.
US10157182B2
A setting unit of an apparatus sets, for an image represented by an image file, an area to be displayed in an electronic photo album and stores information representing the set area. A laying out unit of the apparatus determines whether a slot of interest in the page of interest is a slot has a predetermined property. If the slot of interest has the predetermined property, the laying out unit locates, in the slot of interest, an image assigned to the slot of interest without using the stored information set by the setting unit. If the slot of interest does not have the predetermined property, the laying out unit locates, in the slot of interest, a partial image corresponding to the area represented by the information out of the image assigned to the slot of interest.
US10157180B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for facilitating information in multiple languages based on an optical code. During operation, the system scans an optical code accompanying a text phrase and receives a location of a conversion server embedded in the optical code. The system then determines one or more target languages for obtaining the text phrase in the target languages and sends a query message to the conversion server based on the retrieved location. The query message comprises a list of the one or more target languages.
US10157179B2
Some embodiments include a computer-implement method of producing a flexible sentence syntax to facilitate one or more computer applications to generate and publish sentence expressions. For example, the method can include providing a developer interface to define a flexible sentence syntax that controls one or more sentences publishable by an application service. A developer of the application service can customize the flexible sentence syntax including selecting at least one of selectable tokens that is associated with another element to incorporate in the flexible sentence syntax. Based on the selected token, a computing device can generate and publish a target sentence according to the flexible sentence syntax on the application service's behalf.
US10157178B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying a plurality of documents associated with a predetermined subject, where each of the plurality of documents contains textual data, analyzing the textual data of each of the plurality of documents to identify one or more categories within the plurality of the documents, and returning the one or more categories identified within the plurality of the documents.
US10157170B2
A computer implemented method for the collection and segmentation of media through search and segmentation settings.
US10157166B2
A method and a device for measuring the performance of a diagnoser of a system under diagnosis, which comprises a knowledge base comprising a set of failures of the system, of effects observed and of relations between failures and effects observed, and an algorithmic core. The method comprises a step of calculating a specific detection rate and a specific location rate for the knowledge base, respectively referred to as expected detection rate and expected location rate. It also comprises a step of calculating a specific detection rate and a specific location rate for the set consisting of knowledge base and algorithmic core, respectively referred to as detection rate obtained and location rate obtained; and a step of calculating the performance of the diagnoser as a function of the expected and obtained detection rates and of the expected and obtained location rates.
US10157163B2
This computer system improves the ease with which a guest OS and remote device can be connected in a configuration combining pass-through technology and bus extension technology. The computer system is provided with a bus extending means for constructing a virtual bus to one or more remote devices connected via a network, and an executing means for configuring a virtual hardware environment and executing a host operating system for causing a guest operating system to control the remote device(s). The bus extending means comprises a communication controlling means for consulting a management table for managing relationships of correspondence between the guest operating system and the remote device(s) by using identification information that does not change depending on the startup state of the remote device(s), and controlling communication between the guest operating system and the remote device(s).
US10157161B2
System, methods, and apparatus are described for transmitting encoded bits over a bus by conditionally embedding dynamically shielded information. In an example, the apparatus transmits a first group of encoded bits over a bus, generates a second group of encoded bits to be transmitted over the bus, where a first subset of the second group of encoded bits are encoded to avoid crosstalk-inducing bit transitions on adjacent lines of the bus, and configures one or more encoded bits of a second subset of the second group of encoded bits to ensure that the second group of encoded bits includes parity information and/or clock information, while further ensuring that crosstalk-inducing bit transitions in the second group of encoded bits are avoided.
US10157160B2
In one embodiment, a method includes: receiving, via a sideband interface of a multi-root agent associated with a first root space and a second root space, a reset prepare signal to inform the multi-root agent that the first root space is to be reset; sending, via the sideband interface, an acknowledgement signal to acknowledge the reset prepare signal; receiving one or more transactions for the first root space from a fabric coupled to the multi-root agent; and terminating the one or more transactions responsive to the reset prepare signal, where the first root space is in a reset state when the one or more transactions are received. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10157155B2
An operating system includes an interrupt router that dynamically steers each interrupt to one or more processors within set of processors based on overall load information from the set of processors. An interrupt source is assigned to a processor based on the load imposed by the interrupt source and the target overall load for the processor. For example, each processor can maintain information about each interrupt it processes over time. The operating system receives this historical load information to determine an expected load for interrupts of a given type from a given device, an overall load on the system, and a target load for each processor. Given a set of interrupt sources, their expected loads, and target load for each processor, each interrupt source can be assigned dynamically to a processor during runtime of the system. These assignments can be changed given current operating conditions of the system.
US10157151B2
An embodiment method includes storing, in each of a first plurality of memory locations of a memory, an address of another of the first plurality of memory locations, and reading, from a bus signal received at the memory, an address of a first one of the first plurality of memory locations. The method further includes reading data stored in the first one of the first plurality of memory locations, and determining, using the read data, whether a read error has occurred.
US10157150B2
A control unit monitors a number of transfer ready operations and a number of retry operations during a monitoring period during communication with a plurality of channels. Based, on the monitoring, a number of buffer credits for communication with the plurality of channels is adjusted.
US10157146B2
A processing device receives a first request from a virtual machine to register a memory region to a hardware device. The processing device generates a first key for the memory region, wherein the memory region is not registered to the hardware device. The processing device generates a second key for a shared memory pool that is pinned and registered to the hardware device. The processing device generates a mapping of the first key to the second key. The processing device sends a response to the virtual machine that the memory region has been registered to the hardware device, the notification comprising the first key.
US10157141B2
According to one embodiment, when the first command is received from a host, a controller translates a first address designated by a first command into a second address representing a real address of the nonvolatile memory based on a first mapping and accesses the translated second address of the nonvolatile memory. The controller determines whether or not the first mapping is changed based on a degree of wear of the nonvolatile memory and changes some of all the correspondence relations in a case where the first mapping is changed.
US10157140B2
An apparatus includes an interface, a capacity engine, a monitoring engine, and a purging engine. The interface receives a request to repair a cache. The capacity engine monitors a cache to determine a first amount of data the cache receives in a first predetermined amount of time. The capacity engine determines a second amount of data indicating an estimated amount of data the cache will receive in a second predetermined amount of time. The capacity engine determines a size of the cache and a maximum size threshold using the second amount of data. The monitoring engine determines an available capacity of the cache and that the available capacity is less than or equal to the maximum size threshold. The purging engine purges data from the cache.
US10157137B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to set-associative caches in processors. In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is disclosed that includes a set-associative cache configured to receive a request for a data block stored in one of a plurality of ways within the cache, the request specifying an address, a portion of which is a tag value. In such an embodiment, the integrated circuit includes a way prediction circuit configured to predict, based on the tag value, a way in which the requested data block is stored. The integrated circuit further includes a tag array circuit configured to perform a comparison of a portion of the tag value with a set of previously stored tag portions corresponding to the plurality of ways. The tag array circuit is further configured to determine whether the request hits in the cache based on the predicted way and an output of the comparison.
US10157128B2
A method for access to all cells in a memory area for purposes of writing or reading data blocks in the cells may include, for each access time (Ti with i=0 to N) to the cells in the memory area to be accessed, a process of determining the address (ADRj, with j=0 to N) of the cell of the memory area to be accessed at the access time (Ti), an address (ADRj) determined for an access time Ti not being once again determined for another access time (Tk, k≠j). The process of determining each address (ADRj) may be a pseudorandom process. The method may be used, for example, in any type of card, chip card, SIM card, etc., which includes a processing unit, such as a microcontroller, for manipulating cryptographic data serving to identify and/or authenticate a user of such a card.
US10157117B2
A first measurement point is received from a first monitoring agent. The first measurement point includes a first timestamp and a first transaction attribute. The first timestamp is stored. A second measurement point is received from a second monitoring agent. The second measurement point includes a second timestamp and a second transaction attribute. The second timestamp is stored.
US10157114B2
Systems for testing a computer keyboard are provided. In some implementations, the system comprises: a plurality of elongate members, each having a first end and a second end; a support structure having a first surface, a second surface, and a plurality of apertures that pass through the support structure from the first surface to the second surface such that the plurality of apertures corresponds to a layout of keys of a computer keyboard, wherein a longitudinal axis of each of the plurality of elongate members is aligned with the plurality of apertures; and a roller that moves under a subset of apertures during operation of the system and contacts the elongate member thereby causing the elongate member to be displaced by at least a first amount such that the second end of the elongate member protrudes at least a second amount from the surface of the support structure.
US10157105B2
A method for data protection in a cloud-based service system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: A. collecting historical operating data of storage devices in the cloud-based service system; B. building up a life expectancy model and a next-7-days failure probability model by the collected operating data; C. inputting operating data in the past 24-hours into the life expectancy model and the next-7-days failure probability model for every storage device to obtain ranges of expected lifespans in respective groups and corresponding failure probabilities; and D. backing up data in the storage devices according to the results of step C.
US10157103B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for selective processing of file system objects for an image level backup. An example method receives backup parameters for an image level backup. The backup parameters include a selection of at least one file system object to include. The method attaches to a source disk as a block device. The source disk corresponds to the selected at least one file system object, and a file system includes a file allocation table (FAT). The method determines file system objects of the source disk to be excluded from the image level backup. The method issues file deletion API calls to initiate deletion of the determined file system objects. The method stores FAT content change caused by the issued file deletion API calls. The method creates a reconstructed disk image from the source disk based on the stored FAT content change.
US10157098B2
A flash memory method includes: classifying data into a plurality of groups of data; respectively executing error code encoding to generate first corresponding parity check code to store the groups of data and first corresponding parity check code into flash memory module as first blocks; reading out the groups of data from first blocks; executing error correction and de-randomize operation upon read out data to generate de-randomized data; executing randomize operation upon de-randomized data according to a set of seeds to generate randomized data; performing error code encoding upon randomized data to generate second corresponding parity check code; and, storing randomized data and second corresponding parity check code into flash memory module as second block; a cell of first block is used for storing data of first bit number which is different from second bit number corresponding to a cell of second block.
US10157088B2
In response to determining that an activity has been postponed (e.g., interrupted or deferred), a computer system stores a record indicating that the activity is postponed. In response to determining that another activity has become active, the computer system stores a record indicating that the other activity is active. The computer system reminds a user to return to the postponed activity in response to determining that a reminder condition associated with the postponed activity has been satisfied. For example, the computer system may remind the user to return to the postponed activity in response to determining that the other activity has been completed.
US10157086B2
An apparatus including a processor to: parse comments of multiple task routines to identify I/O parameters; for each task routine, generate a macro including its I/O parameters; transmit the macros to a requesting device to enable it to generate a visualization of a DAG to include visual representations of the task routines; wherein each representation includes a task graph object, an input data graph object representing an input and indicating a characteristic of the input, and an output data graph object representing an output and indicating a characteristic of the output; and wherein the requesting device is to: identify, in the I/O parameters, each dependency between an output and an input of a pair of task routines; augment the visualization, for each identified dependency, with a dependency marker that visually links the visual representations of the pair of task routines; and visually output the visualization.
US10157083B2
Technologies are described for protecting compute resources during outage conditions. For example, when an outage condition is detected, currently allocated compute resources can be protected by not releasing them in response to the outage condition. For example, a load pattern representing historical usage of compute resources by a computer service can be obtained. A predicted load pattern of compute resources can be generated based on the obtained load pattern. An outage condition related to the computer service can then be detected based on the predicted load pattern. In response to detecting the outage condition, compute resources can be protected and not released in response to the outage condition.
US10157078B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for processing of electronic files using multiple technology applications in a distributed network. Specifically, the present invention is directed to establishing technology applications and/or platforms as participants on block chain framework for direct and real-time visibility into discreet processing events associated with the processing of the electronic files. In some embodiments, the invention enables tracking and monitoring of end-to-end processing status during processing of the electronic files in real-time, without requiring transmission of electronic file data between applications, while allowing for compatibility of data in multiple formats, and hence executing end-to-end processing of electronic files.
US10157077B2
A virtual machine management system is used to instantiate, wake, move, sleep, and destroy individual operating environments in a cloud or cluster. In various embodiments, there is a method and system for transferring an operating environment from a first host to a second host. The first host contains an active environment, with a disk and memory. The disk is snapshotted while the operating environment on the first host is still live, and the snapshot is transferred to the second host. After the initial snapshot is transferred, a differential update using rsync or a similar mechanism can be used to transfer just the changes from the snapshot from the first to the second host. In a further embodiment, the contents of the memory are also transferred. This memory can be transferred as a snapshot after pausing the active environment, or by synchronizing the memory spaces between the two hosts.
US10157073B2
A virtual machine control device includes: a generating unit configured to generate an operability constraint for a virtual machine is to be arranged, based on a virtual machine name list of the virtual machine and a host machine name list of a host machine capable to arrange the virtual machine; and a determining unit configured to determine an arrangement of the virtual machine is to be arranged, based on a constraint including the generated operability constraint, the host machine name includes location information of the host machine, and the virtual machine name includes information of component that composes an application service.
US10157072B2
A method for estimating power consumption by a target host involves estimating a per-workload in-scenario utilization function of time for each workload running on said host in said what-if scenario so as to yield per-workload in-scenario utilization functions of time. The utilization functions are aggregated to yield a target host utilization function of time. The target host utilization function of time is converted to a host power-consumption function of time.
US10157057B2
A method and apparatus for assembler source code analysis may include selecting assembler source code, parsing the assembler source code, determining the presence of predetermined assembler macros, recording the present assembler macros and the programs containing the predetermined assembler macros in a macro data table, and processing the macro data table to generate a text report and/or a graphical flow diagram. The method may include simulating memory to execute the assembler source code and tracing the flow of the assembler source code and the predetermined assembler macros. The method may include tracing the flow of the assembler source code in a comprehensive, forward, or reverse flow, and generating resulting text reports and/or graphical flow diagrams.
US10157056B2
The present invention provides information for making a decision so as to efficiently localize environment-dependent portions of a program. Man-hours required to localize the environment-dependent portions are calculated by means of a unique method using program structure data and environment-dependent portions data. An effect of localizing the environment-dependent portions is calculated and visualized based on a Lorenz curve and a Gini coefficient.
