US10179602B2
When a steering intervention of the driver is performed during automated steering control, a driver assistance system for a vehicle determines a P control amount based on a non-linear characteristics and calculates an I control amount using a coefficient according to a characteristics (solid line). In an angle difference range R1, the P control amount based on the non-linear characteristics is determined such that the amount of increase of absolute value of the P control amount with respect to the amount of increase of absolute value of the angle difference becomes smaller as compared to a linear characteristics. The coefficient with the characteristics (solid line) indicates 1 in the angle difference range R1, and approaches zero when the absolute value of the angle difference is greater in an angle difference range R2. To calculate the I control amount, the coefficient is multiplied by the current value of the angle difference.
US10179589B2
Disclosed is an exemplary method for optimizing vehicle performance. The method includes determining an optimized drive torque for maximizing vehicle fuel economy and detecting a driver requested drive torque. A determination is made on whether the driver requested drive torque is performance related or safety related. The arbitrated drive torque is set to the optimized drive torque when it is determined that the driver requested drive torque is not performance and safety related. The arbitrated drive torque is set to the driver requested drive torque when it is determined that the driver requested drive torque is either performance or safety related.
US10179582B2
A vehicle transmission system having a combustion engine, an electric motor and a transmission includes a first clutch operatively connected between the engine and the motor and a one way clutch. The one way clutch is connected in parallel with the first clutch that permits the engine to increase speed with the clutch disengaged until the engine speed matches the motor speed. The engine provides positive torque through the one way clutch to the motor and transmission upon matching the motor speed. The first clutch and the one way clutch may be a hybrid rocker one way clutch.
US10179580B2
A brake cylinder maintaining system that combines a brake cylinder maintaining check valve and a quick service limiting valve into a single unit to have lower hysteresis, and thus more precise BCM regulation pressure and a smaller pressure offset. The check valve and quick service valve are coupled to provide a single system having multiple valve seats for selective communication between quick service pressure and brake cylinder pressure on one hand, and between a brake cylinder maintaining pressure and brake cylinder pressure on the other hand.
US10179574B2
The disclosure relates to a brake system of a motor vehicle having at least one parking brake which can be activated, having a plurality of means for operating the parking brake and having at least one control device which has at least one of the means, characterized in that at least one further control device has at least another of the means.
US10179573B2
A method is disclosed for the operation of an automated parking brake of a motor vehicle with a hydraulic operating brake and an automated parking brake. The parking brake can adopt at least a disengaged position, an engaged position, and an intermediate position between the disengaged position and the engaged position. The method includes determining a parking variable representing a parking process of the motor vehicle, and bringing the parking brake into the intermediate position in response to the determined parking variable.
US10179572B2
A wheel chock includes a convex load surface configured to be engaged by a vehicle tire. The resultant force exerted by the vehicle tire on the wheel chock can be expressed as a vector normal to the convex surface, at a contact angle θ. As dynamic loading forces push the vehicle into the wheel chock, the tire rides up the convex surface of the chock, thereby increasing the contact angle θ. For contact angles greater than 45°, the vertical component of the resultant force will increase, and the horizontal component will decrease. The net effect is that, under dynamic loading, the chock will tend to anchor itself downwards rather than slide backwards or tip over. Also disclosed is a chock extractor secured to the wheel chock. Rotating the extractor handle in turn rotates an extractor foot, which pivots and lifts the wheel chock off the ground to disengage the chock.
US10179569B2
The present disclosure relates to apparatus for controlling operation of a vehicle system. The apparatus includes a processor operable in an automatic mode to output a control signal to automate operation of the vehicle system. The processor is configured to receive a measurement signal from a sensor associated with the vehicle system. The processor outputs the control signal in dependence on a comparison of the measurement signal to a control function. A user override of the automated operation of the vehicle system is detected and the processor re-calibrates the control function in dependence on the detected user override. The present disclosure also relates to a vehicle and to a method of controlling operation of a vehicle system.
US10179568B2
A remote access system for a vehicle may include at least one receiver configured to detect a location of a mobile device, and a controller having a processor. The processor may be configured to determine an association of the mobile device to an authorized user when the mobile device is within a first range from the vehicle, and authenticate the user when the mobile device is within a second range from the vehicle, wherein the second range is smaller than the first range. The processor may also be configured to determine a vehicle function to perform based on data associated with the mobile device or the user, and perform the vehicle function when the mobile device is within a third range from the vehicle and the user is authenticated, wherein the third range is smaller than the second range.
US10179566B2
An electrical system includes a contactor having a pair of contacts and a coil configured to electrically close and open the contacts. The electrical system also includes a high voltage (“HV”) circuit including a power supply electrically connected to at least one of the contacts of the contactor. The electrical system further includes a low voltage (“LV”) circuit electrically connected to the coil and configured to selectively energize the coil of the contactor. A disconnect mechanism is coupled with the LV electrical circuit and operable to electrically open the LV electrical circuit to actuate electrical opening of the contacts of the contactor.
US10179554B2
An electric wire holder includes a fixed portion to be fixed to a support panel provided on a vehicle body and a holding portion that extends from one end of the fixed portion and is configured to hold an electric wire to be routed to an electric parking brake. The holding portion is provided with an opening for receiving the electric wire, the opening being open between a leading end of the holding portion and the one end of the fixed portion, and a recessed portion for accommodating the electric wire that has passed through the opening. In the recessed portion, a serration is formed on an inner surface at a position corresponding to a region to be crimped by a crimping tool.
US10179543B2
A dynamic image stitching system for stitching images captured by multiple cameras of a vision system of a vehicle includes a first camera disposed at a vehicle and having a first field of view exterior the vehicle and a second camera disposed at the vehicle and having a second field of view exterior the vehicle. The first and second fields of view at least partially overlap. A processor is operable to process image data captured by the first and second cameras. The processor processes captured image data to determine characteristics of features or objects present in the overlapping region of the first and second fields of view. The processor is operable to adjust a stitching algorithm responsive to a determination of a difference between a characteristic of a feature as captured by the first camera and the characteristic of the feature as captured by the second camera.
US10179541B2
The present invention is directed to a steering apparatus for a vehicle having a including a light element providing indication and warning light signals to the user of the vehicle. The light element can be associated with a PCB mounted to the steering wheel grip for controlling the operation of the light element. The PCB may be thermally coupled to a heat exchange component such that heat from the light element is transferred from the PCB to the steering wheel grip.
US10179534B2
A vehicle lighting apparatus that emits light diagonally toward a road surface from a vehicle includes: a light source; an image generation part that modulates light emitted from the light source and that generates an image; a light-focusing optical system that focuses light having the image generated by the image generation part; and a reflection part that reflects light focused by the light-focusing optical system toward the road surface, wherein the reflection part has a reflection surface having a curvature that is gradually increased from a projection direction rearward side toward a projection direction frontward side.
US10179532B2
A front tow extended saddle configured for mounting a vehicle to a towing vehicle and a method of towing a vehicle using the front tow extended saddle are provided. The front tow extended saddle includes front, middle, and rear portions, with the front and rear portions extending along different planes. A protective cover extends along the front tow extended saddle and is supported above the wheels of the towing vehicle.
US10179531B2
An adjustable cup holder assembly is provided. That adjustable cup holder assembly includes a support having a guide track and a drag bar. The adjustable cup holder also includes a cup holder having (a) a body including a well, (b) an actuator and (c) a drag. The cup holder may be displaced along the guide track and secured in various positions on the support by engaging the drag bar. A motor vehicle door including a cup holder with an adjustment mechanism for displacing the cup holder along the body of the door between multiple positions is also disclosed.
US10179527B2
A support device for a vehicle seat includes a bag body. The bag body includes a bag body assembly including at least a first bag body unit and a second bag body unit that are combined with each other. The first bag body unit is disposed to form at least a support surface facing the seated occupant when the first bag body unit is expanded, and the second bag body unit is disposed to press the support surface toward the seated occupant when the second bag body unit is expanded. The first and second bag body units are simultaneously supplied with air and expanded, and a surface of the second bag body unit that faces the seated occupant in an expanded state is smaller than the support surface of the first bag body unit that faces the seated occupant in an expanded state.
US10179526B2
A method of conditioning a seat includes operating a first thermal conditioning assembly in a seat back configured to support an occupant torso. The first thermal conditioning assembly provides a first heat transfer rate. A second thermal conditioning assembly is operated in a seat cushion configured to support occupant lower region. The second thermal conditioning assembly provides a second heat transfer rate simultaneously with and different than the first heat transfer rate.
US10179516B2
A control device that controls a charging apparatus and a power supplying apparatus stops charging to a secondary battery when a connecting terminal is connected to each of both of a charging terminal and a discharging terminal. Also, the control device continues to stop the charging when the charging-stopped state is detected by the cut-off detecting portion.
US10179515B2
The application relates to a system for charging a battery of an electrical vehicle. The electrical vehicle charging system of the present application is helpful for decreasing the converter capacity while maintaining the charging capacity and electrical vehicles with various nominal voltages can be charged simultaneously. In one aspect the system for charging an electrical vehicle includes: a plurality of central converters, at least one switch electrically connected to the central converters, at least one transformer electrically connected to an external AC power supply, at least one distributed converter for supplying at least one distributed DC voltage with a level below that of the central converter, and a controller connected to the at least one switch.
US10179507B2
Provided is a vehicle in which overdischarge of a battery is protected and turning drivability of the vehicle is improved when there is even a little remaining capacity. An ECU controls the left motive force and the right motive force of the left electric motor and the right electric motor so as not to exceed a differential torque upper limit value, which is the maximum value of the difference between the left motive force and the right motive force established on the basis of the temperature or discharge limit power of the battery. When the battery is at a low temperature or the like and the discharge power is limited, the difference between the left motive force and the right motive force is controlled on the basis of the discharge limit power, whereby the turnability of the vehicle is improved while preventing the risk of damage to the battery.
US10179501B2
A door structure for a vehicle may include an external panel that forms an external side surface of the vehicle; a reinforcement beam that is engaged with the external panel; an internal panel of a reinforced plastic material that is engaged with the reinforcement beam; and a fastener that fixes the internal panel and the reinforcement beam.
US10179499B2
A heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system has a steerable outlet for directing a stream of treated air into a passenger compartment of a vehicle. A thermographic imager is configured to capture thermographic images covering a fixed region within the passenger compartment in which an occupant is potentially located. The HVAC control circuit is configured to a) compress a thermographic image to a temperature map representing pixels of the thermographic image falling within a predetermined temperature range corresponding to the occupant, b) filter the temperature map according to a sliding window to coalesce continuous regions of pixels on average falling within the predetermined temperature range, c) quantify an area for each continuous region, d) locate a centroid of a continuous region having a largest area, and e) aim the steerable outlet toward the centroid.
US10179496B1
An air management system for a vehicle having a first pneumatic circuit and a second pneumatic circuit, in which the first and second pneumatic circuits are pneumatically connected in a neutral position via a cross-flow mechanism. The first pneumatic circuit includes a first leveling valve configured to adjust independently the height of a first side of the vehicle. The second pneumatic circuit includes a second leveling valve configured to adjust independently the height of a second side of the vehicle. The first and second leveling valves are configured to establish pneumatic communication between the first and second pneumatic circuits when the first leveling valve is not independently adjusting the height of the first side of the vehicle and the second leveling valve is not independently adjusting the height of the second side of the vehicle.
US10179495B2
An adjustment system and method for adjusting a chassis property of a motor vehicle wherein an understeering sensitivity of the motor vehicle is increased upon detecting that a trailer has been coupled to the motor vehicle. A detection unit operates to detect when a trailer is attached or coupled to the motor vehicle.
US10179491B2
The invention relates to a strut rod made of composite material for a suspension of a front axle of a vehicle, including: an upper part coupled to a rod and piston assembly connected to a vehicle body; and a U-shaped lower part including two brackets for fixing a knuckle arm of the vehicle. This strut rod includes means for detecting a crack. This detection means includes at least one additional edge positioned so as to project from an outer surface of the U-shaped lower part of the strut rod in a region where a crack possibly occurs in the case of an accidental shock on a wheel of the vehicle.
US10179489B2
A tow-hook assembly may include a vehicle frame and a bumper arranged thereon, and a tow-hook assembly configured to attach to the vehicle bumper and provide a tow-hook. The assembly may include a bracket defining an opening configured to receive the tow-hook, and a brace attached to a backside of the bracket and including a projection extending through the opening to the opposite side of the bracket.
US10179485B2
A tire module and cover for attachment to a pneumatic tire for vehicles is disclosed. The tire module has a device for measuring and/or monitoring the air pressure in the tire, a transmitter, a mechanical-electrical transducer, and an accumulator for electrical energy storage. The cover includes a flange which extends outwardly away from the tire module and has an underside for attachment to the inner side of the tire, said flange forming the edge of the interior space of the cover. The inner height of the cover may be less than or equal to the height of the tire module measured from the underside to the top side thereof. The flange has an inwardly directed projection which engages beneath the tire module. The underside of the tire module is higher up in the region of the flange projection as compared to a central underside region.
US10179483B2
This pneumatic tire (1) is provided with a plurality of circumferential main grooves (21, 22) extending in a tire circumferential direction, a plurality of land portions (31 to 33) defined by these circumferential main grooves (21, 22), and a plurality of lug grooves (41 to 43) disposed in these land portions (31 to 33). Additionally, at least one column of land portion (32) in a tread portion center region is provided with a plurality of blocks divided in the tire circumferential direction by the plurality of lug grooves (42) and a three-dimensional sipe (52) that extends over an entire circumference of the tire and divides the land portion (42) in a tire width direction.
US10179473B2
Disclosed are a system, device and method for flagging documents, wherein a Flagging Device (FD) retains one or more page flags and affixes them to the edges of a document's pages, and a Flagging Ruler (FR) detachably accepts the Flagging Device (FD) while allowing for it to travel and be positioned along its length, while accepting and holding one or more pages, to be flagged, relative to the Flagging Device FD.
US10179472B2
The invention concerns a process for producing a film element having mutually registered metallic layers (11, 16) and a film element which can be produced by such a process. A first metallic layer (11) provided on a first surface of a flexible single-layer or multi-layer carrier film (10) and a masking layer (13) provided on the second surface of the carrier film (10), opposite to the first surface, are structured in accurate register relationship with each other by means of mutually synchronized structuring procedures. After structuring of the first metallic layer (11) and the masking layer (13) one or more further layers are applied to the first metallic layer (11). Applied to the one or more further layers (15) is a second metallic layer (16) to which a first photoactivatable layer (17) is applied. The first photoactivatable layer (17) is structured by means of trans-exposure through the masking layer (13), the first metallic layer, the one or more further layers and the second metallic layer (16) from the side of the masking layer (13) by means of electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength to which the first photoactivatable layer (17) is sensitive, or the first photoactivatable layer is exposed controlledly through the masking layer from the side of the film body that is opposite to the masking layer.
US10179470B2
An inkjet recording method for printing an inkjet recording medium comprising an ink-receiving layer containing inorganic pigment, starch and copolymer latex on a surface of a base with inkjet ink as aqueous pigment ink, a content of the inorganic pigment being 10 g/m2 or more to 35 g/m2 or less in the ink-receiving layer, and a content of calcium carbonate being from 80% by weight or more to 100% by weight or less, the inkjet ink containing one or more selected from self dispersed pigment and pigment containing water-insoluble polymer particles, from 10% by weight or more to 48% by weight or less of a water-soluble organic solvent A having a boiling point of 230° C. or less, from 0% by weight or more to 5.0% by weight or less of a water-soluble organic solvent B having a boiling point of 280° C. or more, from 42% by weight or more to 70% by weight or less of water.
US10179465B2
A cutter accessory is provided for use in combination with a printing device as part of a printing system. The cutter accessory includes a body that is configured to be mounted onto the printing device. An access door is mounted to the body and movable between a closed position and an open position. A slot is defined in the access door and configured to receive printed material from the printing device when the access door is in the closed position. A cutting blade is movably mounted to the body, with at least one cam being associated with the cutting blade. The cam is operable to move the cutting blade with respect to the slot to cut the printed material and is accessible when the access door is in the open position, but not accessible when the access door is in the closed position.
US10179464B2
The disclosure relates to a device for producing cut objects. A dye-sublimation thermal printer prints a printing pattern onto a printing substrate and outputs the latter. A cutting apparatus cuts the printing substrate along a cutting pattern, wherein the cutting apparatus comprises a cutting unit and a moving unit for moving the printing substrate during cutting. The dye-sublimation thermal printer is adapted to print the printing substrate in such a way that the outputted printing substrate has a printed area in which printing has occurred and a non-printed area in which printing has not occurred, wherein the printed area and the non-printed area are successively arranged and the dimension of the non-printed area in the arrangement direction is at least equal to a distance between the cutting unit and the first moving unit.
US10179459B2
A liquid container comprises a liquid supply portion, a liquid container body, and a container-side electrical connection structure provided to have a contact portion that is configured to come into contact with an apparatus-side electrical connection structure provided in a liquid consuming apparatus. The container-side electrical connection structure includes a placement portion configured to place the contact portion to be located above the liquid container body in the direction of gravity in a process of connecting the liquid container with the liquid consuming apparatus.
US10179457B2
A waste liquid tank includes a case. The case includes a first accommodating portion having an inlet and a first communication opening, a second accommodating portion having a second communication opening and a connecting portion connecting the first communication opening and the second communication opening, wherein a cross-sectional area of the connecting portion is less than a cross-sectional area of the first accommodating portion and is less than a cross-sectional of the second accommodating portion. The waste liquid tank includes a first absorber accommodated in the first accommodating portion, a second absorber accommodated in the second accommodating portion and a third absorber accommodated in the connecting portion. The connecting portion includes a passage defined between the third absorber and a peripheral portion of the connecting portion, the passage allowing the first accommodating portion to communicate with the second accommodating portion and for air to pass therethrough.
US10179452B2
A liquid discharge head includes a plurality of nozzles from which liquid is discharged, a plurality of individual-liquid-chambers communicating with the plurality of nozzles, respectively, a plurality of individual-drainage-channels communicating with the plurality of individual-liquid-chambers, respectively, a drainage-side common-liquid-chamber communicating with each of the plurality of individual-drainage-channels, a filter having filter holes and disposed between the plurality of individual-drainage-channels and the drainage-side common-liquid-chamber, and an intermediate-drainage-channel disposed between the filter and the plurality of individual-drainage-channels. The intermediate-drainage-channel faces the filter and communicates with two or more of the plurality of individual-drainage-channels. A cross-sectional area of the intermediate-drainage-channel is greater than a cross-sectional area of each of the plurality of individual-drainage-channels communicating with the intermediate-drainage-channel in a direction perpendicular to a direction of liquid flow.
US10179451B2
A liquid ejection head includes an ejection port to eject liquid, a pressure chamber communicating with the ejection port, and a piezoelectric element to pressurize the pressure chamber and eject from the ejection port, the liquid stored in the pressure chamber. At least a part of a wall portion defining the pressure chamber includes a portion where vibration characteristics are different between a pressurized state in which the pressure chamber is pressurized by the piezoelectric element and a depressurized state in which the pressure chamber is depressurized by ejecting the liquid from the ejection port and stopping pressurization to the pressure chamber, and the portion having different vibration characteristics is adapted to reduce pressure fluctuation in the pressure chamber in the depressurized state.
US10179450B2
A liquid discharge head includes a first electrical contact and a second electrical contact disposed apart from each other, a flexible wire connecting the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact to each other, and a drive element configured to generate a driving force for discharging liquid from nozzles in accordance with an electrical signal supplied via the first electrical contact, the flexible wire, and the second electrical contact. The flexible wire has a folded portion being folded when viewed in the width direction of the flexible wire.
US10179440B2
A method and apparatus for feeding a plurality of tread bands in a process for building tires for vehicle wheels. Each tread band initially includes, on a side thereof, a service fabric. The tread bands are initially arranged at different heights. The method includes positioning a first auxiliary conveyor belt of an auxiliary collection device including a plurality of juxtaposed auxiliary conveyor belts at a first height corresponding to the height of a first tread band, then, proceeding with the removal of the service fabric from the first tread band while the first tread band is transferred onto the first auxiliary conveyor belt. The method also includes positioning at least one second auxiliary conveyor belt of the auxiliary collection device at at least one second height corresponding to that of at least one second tread band.
US10179437B2
Electric welding coupler for the welding of pipes made of thermoplastic material or other weldable plastics comprising a cylindrical body made of thermoplastic material or other weldable plastics, containing at least one welding element, wherein the welding element is arranged close to the inner diameter of the cylindrical body, wherein the welding element forms at least two welding zones, a contact for feeding the electric current and at least one cavity, wherein the cavity is arranged in the cylindrical body, wherein a reinforcing ring is arranged around the outer circumference respectively outer diameter of the cylindrical body.
US10179436B2
A three-dimensional object printer generates image data of an object being formed in the printer with an optical sensor and identifies the heights of object features above a substrate on which the object is being formed. A controller operates one or more actuators to move the optical sensor at a plurality of distances above the object to generate image data of the object at a plurality of heights above the object. The controller identifies the distances of the features of the object with reference to the image data generated by the optical sensor and the focal length of the optical sensor.
US10179427B2
A multi-stage roll type sheet molding apparatus includes four or more molding rolls including a touch molding roll, a main molding roll and finish molding rolls disposed in the horizontal direction in parallel to each other, in which a molten sheet is supplied downward from above to a first nip part interposed between the touch molding roll and main molding roll, the sheet is compressed by the molding rolls, and the compressed sheet is windingly fed sequentially from the main molding roll to the finish molding rolls, thereby molding a sheet having a specific thickness. The apparatus further includes a rear-stage side rail for guiding the finish molding rolls in a horizontally movable manner and second to fourth hydraulic cylinders for horizontally moving the finish molding rolls to in such a manner that they can pressurize the sheet.
US10179421B2
A rigid punch tool for cutting vents into plastic thermoformed containers. More specifically, a rigid punch tool comprising a holder with a plurality of slots; and a plurality of punches, each punch comprising a blade, a base, and attachment points, wherein, for each punch, the base of the punch fits into one of the plurality of slots in the holder, the base of the punch is wider than the blade of the punch, and bolts or pins fit in the attachment points to secure each punch to the holder.
US10179419B2
The disclosure relates to a method for operating a food slicing device in which a food cutting blade is controlled by a sensor, and a device for cutting food. The sensor is used to control the cutting operation of the device. When the sensor senses that the cutting blade is worn, a signal is sent to the apparatus motor to increase cutting force. When the senor detects the consistency and content of the material to be cut, a suitable cutting blade, rotation speed and force can be selected. The sensor can also determine the cutting quality of a cutting blade across its circumference by determining the localized bluntness of the blade edge.
US10179416B2
The present invention discloses a utility knife, which includes a housing that has an internal chamber; a blade carrier for carrying a single blade; a locking piece for locking the single blade in the blade carrier; and a spare blade cartridge for storing more than one spare blade. The blade carrier, the locking piece and the spare blade cartridge are arranged in the internal chamber. The blade carrier is arranged to be movable between a first position and a second position, and when the blade carrier is at the first position, the blade carried by the blade carrier extends out of the housing, when the blade carrier is at the second position, the blade carried by the blade carrier retracts into the housing.
US10179394B2
A toggle clamp locking mechanism for selectively coupling a work piece. The mechanism includes a base structure; a primary locking system movement between a retaining position and a release position, the primary locking system having a handle member pivotally coupled to the base structure, an action for engaging the workpiece in the retaining position and releasing the workpiece in the release position, and a linkage system mechanically interconnecting the handle member with the action. A second locking system having an engagement member is provided having a cam follower cammingly engaging a first detent when the primary locking system is in the retaining position preventing the primary locking system from moving from the retaining position. The second locking system is actuatable to disengage the cam follower from the first detent to enable movement of the primary locking system to move from the retaining position.
US10179389B2
A compensating flow control assembly for a solid material separator such as a magnetic separator or air wash separator. The compensating flow control assembly automatically controls or adjusts the amount of contaminated shot blast media flowing from a hopper to a rotary magnetic drum, in the case where the solid material separator is a magnetic separator, or to an air chamber in the case where the solid material separator is an air wash separator, based upon the amount of contaminated shot blast media being fed to and held by the hopper.
US10179380B2
A temporary placement device comprises a carrying member having a carrying surface on which a workpiece is placed and a drive device driving the carrying member. The carrying member is formed to be deformable. The drive device includes a connecting member connected to a center part of the carrying member and moving in an up-down direction. The drive device moves the connecting member between a top end position where the carrying surface of the carrying member becomes flat and a bottom end position where the carrying surface becomes recessed downward.
US10179368B2
A wire electric discharge machine has a function of estimating the time for replacement of a filter based on a use situation for the machine. A time Tr during which the filter is serviceable is calculated according to an equation, Tr=|(Pd−Pn)/ΔP|, based on a fluid pressure variation amount ΔP, a current filter fluid pressure Pn, and a filter life pressure. A remaining available time Td for the filter which takes into account the operation rate of the machine is calculated according to an equation, Td=Tr/W.
US10179363B2
A method for producing a cast strip of molten metal, in which the molten metal passes through a casting gap defined by two oppositely rotating casting rollers and is shaped into the cast strip, as well as the cast strip that is produced. By providing the cast strip in the casting gap with a different thickness in a first length section extending in the longitudinal direction of the cast strip than in a second length section bordering thereon, a metal strip is produced that has length sections with different thicknesses.
US10179359B2
A method of fabricating a composite joint from a first cured composite component (13) and a second cured composite component (14), the first and second cured composite components (13, 14) comprising fiber elements embedded in a thermoset resin matrix; the method comprising the steps of providing an adhesive (15) on at least one of the first and/or second composite components (13, 14); forming a joint region between the first and second composite component by bringing the first and second composite component into contact with each other with the adhesive (15) therebetween; applying a force to the joint region (16, 17); and heating the first composite component in the joint region to a temperature above the glass transition temperature of the thermoset resin matrix of the first composite component.
US10179356B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling a hem profile in roll-forming processes are described. An example roll-forming apparatus includes a first plurality of work rolls to form a first hem on a material and a second plurality of work rolls. One of the second plurality of work rolls is adjustable relative to an opposing work roll and to the first plurality of work rolls to adjustably control a profile of the first hem.
US10179353B2
A spraying apparatus is disclosed that allows the interior of a carboy that has been used to make beer. The spraying apparatus comprises a main arm, an articulating arm, a hose, and a controller, the main arm being operationally connected to the articulating arm, and the controller controlling the amount of articulation from the articulating arm. The device is able to reach areas in the carboys that are hard to reach with brushes.
US10179341B2
A roll member having an outer circumferential surface in which a plurality of grooves are formed, wherein the plurality of grooves are arranged at an angle relative to a direction parallel to a central axis of the roll member. A coating device for coating a film member with a coating liquid, the coating device comprising the roll member. A separator production device for producing a separator in which a heat-resistant layer is laminated over a substrate. The separator production device comprising the coating device. A secondary battery production device for producing a secondary battery comprising a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a pair of separators that sandwich the positive electrode plate or the negative electrode plate therebetween. The secondary battery production device comprising the separator production device.
US10179340B2
Activator applying device including a receiving pan that stores an activator for activation of a transfer film, and a spreading roller that rotates while being dipped in the activator in the receiving pan and applies the activator that has adhered to the surface thereof in a dip section of the activator applying device to the transfer pattern in a different section of the activator applying device. The activator is fed to the receiving pan in an amount greater than the amount of the activator applied to the transfer pattern, and an excessive activator is discharged through a discharge port of the receiving pan. The activator is applied to the transfer pattern with the discharge port being located on the side where the activator is drawn up from the dip section, and the discharge port being located at the position of a streak caused by uneven dispersion of the additive pigment.
US10179335B2
A crusher wear resistant liner for positioning at a crusher bottom shell includes a plurality of modular wear resistant plates mountable at an inside surface of the bottom shell and positioned side-by-side to surround and protect the bottom shell interior. To prevent independent dislodgement of each plate and liner, respective inter-engaging formations are provided at each plate to contact at least one adjacent plate of the assembly to arrest any unintentional downward movement in the event that the primary fixings become ineffective.
US10179330B2
The method relates to the field of asymmetric allylic amination and comprises preparing a chiral N-substituted allylic amine compound from the corresponding allylic substrates and substituted hydroxylamines, in the presence of a catalyst, said catalyst comprising copper compounds and a chiral ligand. Examples of chiral amine compounds which can be made using the method include Vigabatrin, Ezetimibe Terbinafine, Naftifine 3-methylmorphine, Sertraline, Cinacalcet, Mefloquine hydrochloride, and Rivastigmine. There are over 20,000 known bioactive molecules with chiral N-substituted allylic amine substructure. The method may also be used to produce non-natural chiral β-aminoacid esters, a sub-class of chiral N-substituted allylic amine compounds. Examples of β-aminoacid ester which can be produced by the disclosed method, include, but are not limited to, N-(2-methylpent-1-en-3-yl)benzenamine and Ethyl 2-methylene-3-(phenylamino)butanoate. Further, the products of the method described herein can be used to produce chiral heterocycles and bioactive molecules or materials. A novel chiral copper-ligand nitrosoarene complex is also set forth.
US10179328B2
Provided are a low-temperature SCR catalyst for denitrating diesel vehicle exhaust, and preparation method thereof. The catalyst uses a molecular sieve as a carrier, and uses metallic elements such as copper and iron as active components. The catalyst preparation method comprises: preprocessing the molecular sieve; conducting multiple equal-volume impreparations; after impreparation, drying to dehydrate, and calcining; and finally pulping and coating to prepare the catalyst. The catalyst employs base metals such as copper and iron instead of precious metals as active components, thus reducing costs, being harmless to humans, and being environmentally friendly. The preparation method of the catalyst is simple and feasible with low requirements for raw materials, employs a repeated but small-quantity method of equal volume impregnation; and enables active ions to be dispersed more uniformly as compared with the existing conventional preparation methods, thus improving utilization and improving low-temperature catalytic activity and durability.
US10179311B2
The present invention provides intermittent-bubbling equipment used while being immersed in a liquid. The intermittent-bubbling equipment includes a tubular casing vertically disposed; and a plurality of partition walls disposed substantially parallel to an axial direction in the casing, and configured to define a gas introducing chamber, a gas inducing chamber, and a gas discharging chamber. The gas introducing chamber and the gas inducing chamber communicate with each other at a top of the casing, and the gas inducing chamber and the gas discharging chamber communicate with each other at a bottom of the casing. An upper side of the gas introducing chamber and an upper side of the gas inducing chamber are closed by a lid plate, and a lower side of the gas inducing chamber and a lower side of the gas discharging chamber are closed by a bottom plate. A cross-sectional area of the gag introducing chamber may be greater than a cross-sectional area of the gas discharging chamber. An upper edge of a connecting hole between the gas inducing chamber and the gas discharging chamber may be substantially horizontal. A bottom plate that closes the gas inducing chamber and a bottom plate that closes the gas discharging chamber may be formed by a single flat member.
US10179308B2
A system for calculating maintenance predictions and making improvements to performance deficiencies to one or more components in an on-board inert gas generating system (OBIGGS) is described. The OBIGGS components include an ozone converter, heat exchanger, inlet filter, and Air Separation Module (ASM). The system comprises a prognostic health monitoring (PHM) sensor network comprising at least one respective sensor coupled to each of the components of the OBIGGS. Each at least one respective sensor is configured to output a respective data signal corresponding to a performance condition of a respective component. A control unit is operatively coupled to each component and signally coupled to each respective sensor of the PHM sensor network. The control unit includes at least one test condition algorithm configured to analyze the respective data signal to calculate the maintenance prediction for the respective component.
US10179307B2
An air compressor system is disclosed that includes a housing sized to enclose an air compressor pump as well as a dryer structured to remove moisture from air that is compressed by the compressor pump. The air compressor pump may be intermittently placed into operation, but the dryer itself is structured in one form to continuously maintain a heat exchanger in a desired temperature range in anticipation of operation of the air compressor pump. The heat exchanger of the dryer can include sufficient thermal mass such that a refrigerant pump of the dryer need not be operated continuously in anticipation of operation of the air compressor pump. While a cooling air flow can be created by operation of the air compressor pump, when the air compressor pump is not operated a cooling fan can be used provide cooling to the heat generating components of the dryer.
US10179297B2
A compact and portable liquid concentrator includes a gas inlet, a gas exit and a flow corridor connecting the gas inlet and the gas exit, wherein the flow corridor includes a narrowed portion that accelerates the gas through the flow corridor. A liquid inlet injects liquid into the gas stream at a point prior to the narrowed portion so that the gas-liquid mixture is thoroughly mixed within the flow corridor, causing a portion of the liquid to be evaporated. A demister or fluid scrubber downstream of the narrowed portion removes entrained liquid droplets from the gas stream and re-circulates the removed liquid to the liquid inlet through a re-circulating circuit. Fresh liquid to be concentrated is also introduced into the re-circulating circuit at a rate sufficient to offset the amount of liquid evaporated in the flow corridor.
US10179292B2
The present invention provides a mobile terminal with a call function or a texting function. The present invention controls the use of a mobile terminal by a manual operation because of an incoming call during movement. Location information indicating movement of a mobile terminal with a call or a message data exchange function is received by a GPS receiver, the distance and the movement speed are determined by using the measurement information of the two locations at every predetermined time, and whether or not the mobile terminal is moving in accordance with the movement speed is determined by a movement determination unit. When it is determined by the movement determination unit that the mobile terminal is moving, the display of incoming call information indicating an incoming call is set to non-displayed on the display unit, and at the same time, a notification sound from a speaker, etc. is invalid.
US10179290B2
A method for gaming, including receiving from a client device of a user selection of a video recording of game play of a player for a gaming application, and streaming the video recording to the client device. The video recording is associated with a snapshot captured at a first point in the recorded game play. Selection of a jump point in the recorded game play is received from the client device. An instance of the gaming application is initiated based on the snapshot to initiate a jump game play. Input commands used to direct the game play and associated with the snapshot are accessed. Image frames are generated based on the input commands for rendering at the client device, the image frames replaying the game play to the jump point. Input commands from the client device are handled beginning from the jump point for the jump game play.
US10179284B2
An example of an information processing system includes one or more terminal apparatuses and a server. Each of the one or more terminal apparatuses transmits, to the server, action information indicating an action of a user regarding the terminal apparatus. The server receives the action information from the terminal apparatus. The server stores, for respective types of actions, pieces of history information, each indicating a numerical value corresponding to history of the action of the user. Based on the received action information, the server updates history information corresponding to the action information. Under the condition that a combination of the plurality of pieces of history information satisfies a predetermined combination condition, the server transmits provision information to a terminal apparatus that is the same as or different from the terminal apparatus as the transmission source of the action information.
US10179278B2
An input of a user is received from an input unit, and in accordance with the input of the user, an operation object displayed on a display screen moves in a predetermined movement-allowed range. A plurality of sound objects appear and move in the display screen, the sound objects set for sounds to be output in accordance with a composition to be performed. Then, if the operation object and each sound object have made contact with each other, the sound set for the sound object is output.
US10179274B2
A chess-type game played on a game board of ten columns and eight rows, or ten columns and ten rows. The game is played with traditional chess game pieces plus additional wizard game pieces. During a turn the wizard game pieces can be moved one space away in any direction, or alternately can be exchanged with any other game piece on the board belonging to the same set.
US10179270B2
Described herein are illustrative embodiments of an ice hockey target training apparatus for training users to shoot pucks into a standard sized NHL goal, and methods for retrieving pucks from behind such apparatus. The apparatus may include a blocking surface including a first blocking portion and a second blocking portion coupled by a coupling mechanism. The first blocking portion may be configured to be coupled to a goal and to cover at least a portion of the upper portion of the goal. The second blocking portion configured to cover at least a portion of the lower portion of the goal. The coupling mechanism may be configured to move the second blocking portion relative to the first blocking portion to access the base of the goal to retrieve the scoring media from within the goal while the first blocking portion remains coupled to the goal.
US10179269B2
An armed combat interactive system based on high frequency wireless scoring, comprising a moving device, a combat device, a protecting device, a wireless identification control device and a scoring disposing device. When a first conductive part of one combat device touches a second conductive part of the protecting device corresponding to the other combat device, the wireless identification control device corresponding to one combat device sends a high frequency impulse signal with an ID identification code, and the wireless identification control device corresponding to the other combat device receives the high frequency impulse signal with the ID identification code and sends a scoring signal to the scoring disposing device. The scoring disposing device records the score.
US10179268B2
Embodiments of golf club heads with deflection junctions are described herein. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US10179264B2
Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. In one example, an athletic monitoring device may include or be associated with multiple types of movement sensors and switch between the sensors or use both depending on various factors including type of workout. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment used and the like. In one or more examples, the parameters may be automatically determined based on location. User workouts and accomplishments may also be celebrated through messages from celebrities, family, friends and other users. In some cases, the messages may be triggered by various conditions. Coaching may also be provided to the user to help improve workouts and overall athletic performance. Running routes may also be automatically tracked, stored and shared.
US10179262B2
A biometric monitoring device with a display is provided. The biometric monitoring device may track the completion progress towards one or more biometric performance goals and provide a goal celebration indicator upon completion of a biometric performance goal and subsequent receipt of an input signal. In some implementations, the completion of a biometric performance goal may be signaled prior to receipt of the input signal using a secondary indicator.
US10179248B2
Provided is an implantable spacer that can be placed in a body and can be easily removed after placement. The implantable spacer includes a tube which is folded or bent at one or a plurality of positions to form partial sections adjacent to each other; fixing threads which are disposed along a direction transverse to the partial sections in order to maintain the shape of the tube; and a trigger thread for catching the fixing threads being in a releasable state.
US10179243B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for providing temporary induced dyssynchrony (TID) therapy to patients with atrial tachycardia. An implantable cardiac device includes a pulse generator coupled to a plurality of electrodes, and a controller communicatively coupled to the pulse generator and configured to cause the pulse generator to apply TID therapy to a patient's heart via the plurality of electrodes, determine that the patient's heart is experiencing atrial tachycardia, and adjust at least one parameter of the TID therapy based on the determination.
US10179229B2
According to some embodiments, a skin treatment assembly comprises a tip comprising a proximal end and a distal end, a container configured to secure to the tip along the proximal end of the tip, wherein the container is configured to contain a liquid, and a porous member configured to extend at least partially within an interior of the container such that it contact a liquid contained within the container, wherein the porous member is configured to extend at least partially within an interior of the tip and is configured to facilitate the transfer of liquid from the container to the distal end of the tip.
US10179223B2
Apparatus for inducing sleep comprising: a. a display for providing a subject with a light stimulus; b. a base unit on which said display is mounted such that the display is selectively positionable, in use, into a field of view of a subject; c. input means for recording an active input provided by the subject in response to the stimulus; d. processing means for processing said active input to determine a characteristic of said active input; and e. a base unit housing one or more of said means, wherein the apparatus is capable of sequentially providing the subject with a plurality of stimuli, each next stimulus being based on a characteristic determined from the active input made in response to a previous stimulus, and wherein a position and/or brightness and/or a color and/or a shape of the next stimulus on the display and/or a time interval between stimuli is based on the characteristic of the active input provided in response to a previous stimulus.
US10179215B2
Apparatus and methods are described for use with a vaporizer that vaporizes at least one active ingredient of a plant material. In response to receiving a first input to the vaporizer, the plant material is heated, in a first heating step. An indication of the temperature of the plant material is detected, and, in response to detecting an indication that the temperature of the plant material is at a first temperature, the first heating step is terminated, by withholding causing further temperature increase of the plant material. The first temperature is less than 95 percent of the vaporization temperature of the active ingredient. Subsequently, a second input is received at the vaporizer. In response thereto, the plant material is heated to the vaporization temperature, in a second heating step. Other applications are also described.
US10179214B2
The invention relates to a device for injection of a product into an injection site. The device including a needle shield for protection of a needle prior to use of the device; a housing; and a deshielder for removing the needle shield from the device. The deshielder is coupled to the needle shield and mounted on the housing in a separable manner. The deshielder may include tamper evidence features that are activated by the removal of at least one part of said deshielder. At least one part of the deshielder may be configured to be removed from the housing by exerting a force equal or less to 30 N.
US10179211B2
The invention relates to a safety needle device, for a medical instrument, to insert a needle into a patient's body to a determined insertion depth. The safety needle device, in two variants with a fixed insertion depth and with an insertion depth adjustment, comprises a hub, a needle, a protecting shield, longitudinal resilient means, transverse resilient means, a housing, and is provided with different technical means configured to cooperate with each other in order to perform different functions of the device. The safety needle device enables to control a state of use of the device, wherein the device is a disposable one and it ensures its user a protection against an accidental or intentional prick of the needle before and after the due use of the device for the purpose for which it is intended.
US10179203B1
An intravenous (IV) site and medical tubing protection device which diminishes the inadvertent, non-purposeful dislodging of an IV catheter, as fluids are being delivered to a patient via a medicine dispensing unit. It employs a self-contained retractable spring spool unit consisting of medicinal tubing 13, a spring-loaded, retractable spool 8, an IV Luer 5, a lubricating ring port 9, a swiveling fluid junction 10, bolus valve 11, and a plastic shell container 7. Medicinal tubing 13 enters the plastic shell container 7 through a lubricating ring port 9 and winds around the retractable spool 8. The tubing attaches to a swiveling fluid junction 10, which permits a constant flow of fluid through the patient line, despite any extending or retracting of the tubing. A subsequent patient line attaches to the swiveling fluid junction 10 at its other end and then to an IV luer 5 that extends beyond the plastic shell 7. An IV catheter can then be attached to the luer 5.
US10179202B2
Systems and methods for cleaning body cavities are presented. Described embodiments include systems for cleaning feces from the lower GI tract. Also provided are systems for steering such a cleaning system, also useful for steering an endoscope or other tool inserted into a body.
US10179197B2
A catheter pump comprising a pump head for insertion into the aorta. The pump head includes: a rotor having propellers that can be displaced from a folded insertion position in which the pump head can be inserted into the aorta, to an unfolded operating position in which the rotor can be set in rotation, and a cage surrounding the propellers. The cage comprises a distal, proximal sheath and filaments running between sheaths. The sheaths are moved towards one another at or before the unfolding of the propellers in a manner that the regions of the filaments lying between the sheaths expand radially outward, to form a space surrounding the unfolded propellers. At least some or all of the filaments are configured so as to each have at least one main section that engages one sheath and splits into at least two minor sections in the direction toward the other sheath.
US10179178B2
Provided is a nanoparticulate composite with two layers. One of the layers comprises one or more metals, which are a paramagnetic metal, a ferromagnetic metal, or a superparamagnetic metal. This layer also contains one or more suitable dopants. The other layer comprises one or more metals of gadolinium, manganese (II), and iron (III), in the form of an oxide or a fluoride. This layer may contain one or more lanthanide dopants. The nanoparticulate composite may be used as a contrast agent, in particular in magnetic resonance imaging.
US10179175B2
Isatoic anhydride derivatives having an N-substituent which includes a quaternary ammonium group are useful for labeling and/or functionalizing a target material and/or for coupling materials together. The isatoic anhydride derivatives of the present disclosure can be advantageously water soluble, easily prepared and purified. Isatoic anhydride derivatives useful in the present disclosure preferably have at least one chemically reactive group or at least one binding group or at least one detectable label. Anthranilate derivatives made from the isatoic anhydrides derivatives or otherwise and kits including the isatoic anhydride derivatives are also disclosed.
US10179174B2
The invention is related to peptide constructs, i.e., polypeptides obtained by linking together two or more peptides based on or derived from different molecules, which are useful in the treatment or prevention of influenza virus and other infectious diseases. Compositions containing the same, methods for producing the same, and methods for using the same are also disclosed, wherein the peptide constructs have the formula P1-x-P2, where P2 is a peptide associated with an infectious agent and P1 is a peptide that will bind to a class of immune cells, such as dendritic cells. The peptide construct can cause the maturation of immature dendritic cells to a more mature state. The peptide construct or the more mature dendritic cell can be administered to a subject to modulate or initiate an immune response against an infectious agent. Dyes, radioisotopes, or therapeutic agents conjugated with the dendritic cells can be used for localization of the immune target and/or prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of the disease.
US10179158B2
A drink for moderating blood glucose levels produced by a meal in a human subject suffering diabetes or IGT the drink comprising: at least one water soluble or water dispersible material selected from the group consisting of amino acids, peptides and proteins in a total amount of at least 8 g on a dry weight basis per serving of drink; aqueous liquid in an amount of from 70 ml to 400 ml per serving, and fenugreek fibre in an amount in the range of from 1 g to 15 g.
US10179156B2
The present invention relates to an improved method for preparing a medicament comprising a Taraxacum plant root extract for the treatment or prevention of a cancer. In one aspect, the method comprises freezing Taraxacum plant root to obtain a frozen root stock, said freezing step being selected to effect at least partial disruption of one or more root cells; dry grinding the frozen root stock to obtain a ground root powder, wherein during said dry grinding step the frozen root stock is maintained at a grinding temperature below about 40° C.; steeping the ground root powder with a solvent to obtain a suspension having a liquid extract portion and a solid particle portion; and separating the liquid extract portion from the solid particle portion to provide a separated liquid extract for use in the medicament.
US10179155B2
Phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibiting compositions comprising a Sceletium and an activity enhancer are disclosed and described. Methods and systems for inhibiting PDE4, as well as, dosage forms comprising a Sceletium extract and an activity enhancer are also disclosed. Additionally disclosed are methods for enhancing the potency or PDE4 inhibitory activity of a Sceletium extract by addition of an activity enhancer.
US10179150B2
The invention features a dry platelet composition and methods of making and using the freeze-dried platelet composition.
US10179148B2
A product with an enhanced medicinal and cosmetic composition with a specific utility of “Psoriasis, Eczema and like skin disorders application” is characterized by the fact that it comprises active agents and ingredients as vanilla extract, ammonium chloride, potassium chloride and quaternary ammonium compound having formulated at a specific pH value with other specially selected adjuvants and fillers.
US10179146B1
A broad-based remediation mechanism against MRFs and alternative fecal indicators such as multidrug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa, including nanotechnology formulations and methodologies that may be used to develop novel mitigation strategies against certain drug resistant bacterial strains. The current invention relates to mitigation of drug resistant bacteria from nosocomial infections, for example in hospitals and in food animals, and to the identification and mitigation of lytic bacteria from algae biomass-fed wastewaters for algae cultivation. The invention uses hybrid nanomaterials comprising oligo-chitosan and zinc oxide formulated as nanoparticles and micelles. The inventors unexpectedly found unique properties of very small oligomers of chitosan that effectively mitigate MRF and alternative resistant strain-induced illnesses without compromising the balance of the beneficial flora in the physiological and ecological microenvironments. Also, the combination of chitosan with zinc oxide demonstrated synergistic and unexpected effects in remediation of important food-borne bacteria including the resistant types.
US10179143B2
Methods of using azide-modified biomolecules, such as fatty acids, carbohydrates and lipids, to treat a plant, an insect or an animal infected with a virus or to inhibit infectivity of a virus, such as the human immunodeficiency virus, are provided. Also provided are methods of labeling a virus, such as human immunodeficiency virus, with an azide-modified biomolecule, such as a fatty acid, a carbohydrate, or an isoprenoid lipid. Also, provided are methods of tracking a virus in vivo, with an azide-modified biomolecule, such as a fatty acid, a carbohydrate, or an isoprenoid lipid. The azide-modified biomolecules may be combined with a pharmaceutically acceptable excipient to produce a pharmaceutical composition, optionally containing another anti-viral agent and/or a delivery agent, such as a liposome.
US10179141B2
Chemical entities that are bufalin derivatives, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treatment of cancer are described.
US10179137B2
The application provides formulations for the topical administration of an active agent comprising at least one steroid, in the form of topical sprays that are propellant-free, and/or substantially non-foaming, and/or alcohol-free. The present application also provides processes for preparing such compositions and methods of using them in management of skin diseases or disorders such as psoriasis, dermatoses, and other associated skin diseases or disorders.
US10179134B2
An antiretroviral composition that gels upon heating and can be administered prophylactically prior to exposure to a retrovirus following sexual intercourse, and methods of using the same.
US10179126B2
The present invention provides 5-(4-(2-(5-(1-hydroxyethyl)pyridine-2-yl)ethoxy)benzyl)thiazolidine-2,4-dione and novel stereoisomers of said compound for use in the treatment of central nervous system (NS) disorders.
US10179124B2
Novel benzamide compounds including their pharmaceutically acceptable isomers, salts, hydrates, solvates and prodrug derivatives having activity against mammalian factor Xa are described. Compositions containing such compounds are also described. The compounds and compositions are useful in vitro or in vivo for preventing or treating coagulation disorders.
US10179120B2
The present invention relates to a dosage regimen of ST10 (ferric trimaltol) for the treatment of patients suffering from iron deficiency with or without anaemia. Specifically the invention relates to the treatment of patients with 30 mg ST10 twice daily.
US10179119B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to the treatment of sleep disturbances in individuals with Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS).
US10179104B2
Novel drug carriers capable of targeted and/or pH dependent release of biologically active agents into selected pH environments including the gastrointestinal (GI), ophthalmic, urinary, or reproductive tracts. Unexpectedly, carriers including free fatty acids (FFA) are able to deliver biologically active agents to various pH environments. Such targeted delivery is tailorable and useful for active agents that are: (a) injurious to the upper GI tract (esophagus, stomach, and duodenum), (b) acid labile, (c) impermeable/insoluble compounds in GI fluids, (d) susceptible to first pass metabolism, and/or (e) cause stomach irritation, upset, or dyspepsia.
US10179097B2
The present invention relates to a composition for dyeing keratin fibers, in particular keratin fibers such as the hair, comprising: a) at least one oxidation base 3-(2,5-diaminophenyl)-1-propanol and/or acid salts thereof and/or solvates thereof such as hydrates; b) at least one coupler; c) at least one polymer chosen from cationic polymers and amphoteric polymers, and mixtures thereof; d) at least one fatty substance; the total amount of fatty substances being at least 10%, e) optionally at least one basifying agent; and f) optionally at least one chemical oxidizing agent. The invention also relates to a process for dyeing keratin fibers such as the hair using the composition of the invention, and to a multi-compartment device for using the composition of the invention.
US10179094B2
In one aspect, the present invention is directed to formulations comprising at least one pressure generating vehicle along with at least one skincare active agent in a container such that the pressure generating vehicle would eject the formulation as foam, whipped cream or a similar form upon application of external pressure on the container.
US10179093B2
Cosmetic compositions and methods for changing the color of keratinic fibers are provided herein. In an embodiment, a cosmetic composition for lightening the color of keratinic fibers includes at least two separately packaged formulations (A) and (B), which are mixed immediately prior to application to give an application mixture. The formulation (A) includes at least one dye chosen from the group of oxidation dye precursors, direct dyes, or a combination thereof. The composition (B) is a flowable composition including water and at least one oxidizing agent. Formulation (A) has been packaged in a water-soluble film including, based on its total weight, at least about 60% by weight of a polymer mixture having a multimodal molecular weight distribution.
US10179086B2
Systems and methods for determining depth of compressions of a chest of a patient receiving chest compressions. A field detector is used having at least two coils at a fixed distance from each other.
US10179083B2
A compression device can include an adjustable belt, an inflation bladder, and a control module. The adjustable belt can be sized to fit circumferentially around a subject's abdomen. The inflatable bladder and the control module can be secured to the belt. The control module can include a housing that encloses at least one of a pump, a pressure relief valve, and a controller. The pump and the pressure relief valve can be in fluid communication with the bladder. The pump can be configured to inflate the bladder to a pre-determined pressure and apply a compressive pressure to the subject's abdomen. The pressure relief valve can be configured to decrease the pressure within the bladder. The controller can be configured to automatically adjust the compressive pressure in response to a change in the subject's posture. The controller can be in electrical communication with the pump and the pressure relief valve.
US10179081B2
One aspect of the disclosure provides a binocular viewing system. In one embodiment, the binocular viewing system includes a binocular viewer and a computer. The binocular viewer has left and right display screens and a variable focal depth optical subsystem located in an optical path between and separate from the display screens and a user when the user uses the binocular viewer. The computer is configured to provide control signals to the binocular viewer. The control signals are operable to place images on the left and right display screens and vary a focal depth of the variable focal depth optical subsystem. The images include a plurality of objects controlled by the variable focal depth optical subsystem to make at least one of the plurality of objects appear closer to the user and at least one of another of said plurality of objects appear farther away from the user.
US10179079B2
A lower extremity orthotic control system determines a movement desired by a user, particularly with a user employing gestures or other signals to convey or express their intent to the system, and automatically regulates the sequential operation of powered lower extremity orthotic components. In a particular application, the orientation of a stance leg is used to determine when the user wants to initiate a step, as well as when the user is in a safe position from which to take a step. The invention has particular applicability for use in enabling a paraplegic user to walk through a controlled operation of a human exoskeleton coupled to the user's lower limbs. A controller receives inputs regarding a motion desired by the user, determines the desired motion and then controls the movement of the user's legs or limbs through actuation of the exoskeleton.
US10179072B2
A wound care bandage for treating a wound is provided. The bandage includes an SIS layer to be placed on the wound surface and a cover to be placed over the wound. The bandage further includes a structure to provide a vacuum space. A method for promoting wound healing is further provided. The method includes applying the above-mentioned wound care bandage to the wound and creating a vacuum in the vacuum space to draw blood controllably from the wound into the SIS layer.
US10179069B2
A device for producing control data for a laser device for the surgical correction of defective vision. The device produces the control data such that the laser emits the laser radiation such that a volume in the cornea is isolated. The device calculates a radius of curvature RCV* to determine the control data, the cornea reduced by the volume having the radius of curvature RCV* and the radius of curvature being site-specific and satisfying the following equation: RCV*(r,φ)=1/((1/RCV(r,φ))+BCOR(r,φ)/(nc−1))+F, wherein RCV(r,φ) is the local radius of curvature of the cornea before the volume is removed, nc is the refractive index of the material of the cornea, F is a coefficient, and BCOR(r,φ) is the local change in refractive force required for the desired correction of defective vision in a plane lying in the vertex of the cornea, and at least two radii r1 and r2 satisfy the equation BCOR(r=r1,φ)≠BCOR(r=r2,φ).
US10179068B2
A surgical hand piece has a connecting body having first and second passages detachably connected to first and second lumens which are used in the eye for phacoemulsification procedures and/or cleanup of the eye capsule after the procedure. The lumens receive or discharge fluid from first and second fluid sources. A work tip supporting the first and second tubes can be rotated so as to change the function of the first and second tubes from aspiration to irrigation and vice versa. As an alternative, a sleeve holding the fluid sources can be rotated so as to change the function of the first and second tubes from aspiration to irrigation and vice versa.
US10179067B2
The present disclosure provides an adjustable endoscopic surgical device for illuminating a tissue surface with diffuse and oblique light. In some embodiments, light emanates from the sides of an optical fiber, which is optionally formed at least in part into a loop shape.
US10179063B2
An appliance and methods are described that include embodiments of a mandibular advancement or positioning device which can use elastic bands to pull the jaw forward. The appliance has an upper plastic tray conforming to the patient's upper teeth and including 3D printed sets of retention hooks coupled to the upper plastic tray via being encased in plastic, one on the right and one on the left anterior buccal portion of an upper plastic base. The appliance also has a lower plastic tray conforming to the patient's lower teeth including mandibular dentition, and includes having a 3D printed bite pad which opens the bite vertically. The lower tray also has a set of 3D printed plastic retention hooks encased in plastic extending outwardly from the teeth, one on the right and one on the left of the posterior buccal portion of the lower plastic base. Elastic bands of different lengths and strengths are attached to both the top and bottom retention hooks on both sides of the trays to pull the mandible forward for treatment.
US10179062B2
Medical devices and methods are presented for protecting a limb, e.g., an arm, of a patient during a medical procedure. The medical devices and methods utilize a plurality of longitudinal sealed fluid pockets to thermally insulate and cushion an extremity of a limb. The plurality of longitudinal sealed fluid pockets is incorporated in a protective body that is shaped to wrap around the extremity when the medical device is deployed. The protective body has at least one access opening to provide access through the protective body to one or more corresponding portions of the extremity. Access panels may be formed into the protective body to allow portions of the extremity to be covered or uncovered and used with left or right limbs. Other devices and methods are presented.
US10179060B2
In one aspect, an obesity treatment device includes multiple inflatable space-filling compartments and a valve system for introducing fluid into each compartment, where the device forms, upon filing the compartments, to a curved shape conforming to a natural three-dimensional kidney shape of the stomach. In one aspect, a method for deploying a gastric balloon structure in a gastric cavity includes determining dimensions of the gastric cavity in a feeding state, selecting a fill volume for each of a number of isolated chambers of the balloon structure, and filling each chamber while the balloon structure is in the gastric cavity. In one aspect, a system for treating obesity includes a means for conforming a flexible, space-filling structure to a natural kidney shape of the gastric cavity, a means for maintaining at least two isolated inflatable regions of the flexible, space-filling structure, and a means for introducing fluid into each inflatable region.
US10179056B2
An intra-frame positioning sling may be disposed internally within a prosthetic socket frame. The sling may include one or more proximal suspension portions adapted to suspend from a proximal aspect of the frame and a tensioning system. The sling may include a first longitudinal side with one or more proximal suspension portions and an opposite longitudinal side that includes the residual limb interfacing or force application portion of the sling. When the tensioning system is tensioned, the sling is pulled toward the first longitudinal side of the prosthetic socket frame. A set of two positioning slings may be rigged in a transfemoral prosthetic socket frame; one sling applies force on a medial side of a hosted residual limb, and the other sling applies force on the lateral side.
US10179055B2
A vacuum suspension system includes a prosthetic socket adapted to receive a residual limb. A pump system includes a pump mechanism in fluid communication with the prosthetic socket, and at least one sensor associated with the prosthetic socket and/or the pump mechanism. A control system is operably connected to the pump mechanism and the least one sensor. The control system is arranged to receive and process data from the at least one sensor and to actuate the pump mechanism based on the received data from the at least one sensor.
US10179054B2
The present disclosure relates to a spinal fusion impactor tool that includes an attachment means for securing an implant device to the distal end of the tool, a means for adjusting the angle of the distal head relative to the handle to better position the implant for introduction into the implant site, means for remotely releasing the implant device at the distal end and a clamp device on the shaft of the tool to secure tabs, attachments and other devices. The impactor tool is preferably used in conjunction with implantation of an intervertebral fusion cage that is equipped with shims having tabs or other removing means, but may also be used to introduce, for example, an implant, graft, fusion device, wedge or distractor device into any joint space or bony region in preparation for implantation.
US10179049B2
Embodiments described herein include devices, systems, and methods for reducing the distance between two locations in tissue. In one embodiment, an anchor may reside within the right ventricle in engagement with the septum. A tension member may extend from that anchor through the septum and an exterior wall of the left ventricle to a second anchor disposed along a surface of the heart. Perforating the exterior wall and the septum from an epicardial approach can provide control over the reshaping of the ventricular chamber. Guiding deployment of the implant from along the epicardial access path and another access path into and through the right ventricle provides control over the movement of the anchor within the ventricle. The joined epicardial pathway and right atrial pathway allows the tension member to be advanced into the heart through the right atrium and pulled into engagement along the epicardial access path.
US10179042B2
A prosthetic heart valve having an inflow end and an outflow end includes a collapsible and expandable stent having a plurality of commissure features, a plurality of first struts and a plurality of second struts. The plurality of first struts define a substantially cylindrical portion and the plurality of second struts have first ends attached to the cylindrical portion and free ends projecting radially outward from the cylindrical portion and configured to couple to adjacent heart tissue to anchor the stent. A collapsible and expandable valve assembly disposed within the stent has a plurality of leaflets coupled to the commissure features.
US10179035B2
Direct 3D-printed orthodontic aligners with torque, rotation, and full-control anchors are provided. In an implementation, an orthodontic system uses 3D-printed aligners to perform orthodontic treatment of teeth. Manufacturing the aligners by 3D-printing or additive manufacturing processes imparts novel geometries to the aligners for applying torque, rotation, and full 3D control forces to the teeth in novel ways. The 3D-printed aligners may contain multiple different plastic or metal materials with different orthodontic properties. In an implementation, divot anchors can be strategically applied to teeth to work in conjunction with a 3D-printed aligner fitted over the divot anchors and teeth. The divot anchors may include a depression, channel, groove, or notch providing an attachment point for the aligner to apply a force to the tooth through the divot anchor, such as a torque, rotational force, leverage, push, pull, or 3D control force.
US10179034B2
The invention relates to a method for planning a bracket system (1) for the correction of malpositions of teeth (2), comprising a plurality of brackets (3) and an arch (4) wherein at least one platelet (6) per tooth is mounted on certain tooth surfaces (5) of the teeth to be corrected (2), a three-dimensional optical image (50) of the tooth region to be treated is created, the platelets (6) have registration elements (10) comprising registration points (11) and the registration points (11) have a characteristic form for registration in the three-dimensional optical image (50).
US10179033B2
Present example embodiments relate generally to a surgical system comprising an internal anchor assembly configurable to be inserted into and positioned inside a cavity of a body. The surgical system further comprises an external anchor assembly configurable to magnetically couple to the internal anchor assembly. The external anchor assembly may comprise a magnetic assembly. The magnetic assembly may include one or more superconducting magnets configurable to generate a magnetic field. The magnetic assembly may further include a conductive housing for receiving the one or more superconducting magnets. The external anchor assembly may further include a temperature control section configurable to control a temperature of the one or more superconducting magnets via the conductive housing. The external anchor assembly may further include an external anchor body configurable to receive the magnetic assembly and the temperature control section. The external anchor body may be fixably positionable outside of the body.
US10179025B2
An electrode assembly (17) is provided for use in a resectoscope, the electrode assembly (17) comprising an elongate shaft (33), at least one arm (33), first connection means (4) for connecting the arm to a source (1) of electrosurgical energy, and a tissue treatment element (26) at the end of the arm. The arm includes a suction lumen (34) extending from a proximal end to a distal end, the distal end of the suction lumen (34) terminating in the general region of the tissue treatment element (26), and the proximal end of the suction lumen including second connection means for connecting the suction lumen to a source of suction.
US10179019B2
A method and system of providing therapy to a patient's uterus is provided, which can include any number of features. The method can include the steps of inserting a uterine device into the uterus and performing a uterine integrity test to determine that the uterus is intact and not perforated. If it is determined that the uterus is not perforated, a patency test can be performed to determine that the uterine device is not clogged or embedded in tissue. If the uterus is intact and the device is not clogged or embedded in tissue, the uterus can be treated with the uterine device, e.g., uterine ablation. Systems for performing these methods are also disclosed.
US10179018B2
The present invention is directed to a method of ablation. The method includes the steps of inserting a probe having an ablation electrode into a body of a living subject and urging the ablation electrode into a contacting relationship with a target tissue. A measurement of at least one electroanatomic parameter is made between the ablation electrode and the target tissue, and the measurement is haptically communicated to an operator. Responsively to the communicated measurement, ablating the target tissue using the ablation electrode.
US10179012B2
According to some embodiments, an implant for correcting a deformity in or near a joint of a subject includes an implant body having an internal lumen, a suture side hole or window extending through a wall of the implant body and providing access to the internal lumen through an exterior of the implant body, a tension assembly comprising a first bone anchor and a second bone anchor, wherein the first and second bone anchors are configured to be placed on opposite sides of the implant body, and an adjustable suture loop coupling the first bone anchor to the second bone anchor, wherein at least a portion of the at least one adjustable suture loop is positioned within the internal lumen of the implant body.
US10179010B2
A polyaxial bone screw assembly includes a threaded shank body having an integral upper portion receivable in an integral receiver, the receiver having an upper channel for receiving a longitudinal connecting member and a lower cavity cooperating with a lower opening. The receiver can have crimp tabs, but is devoid of spring tabs and collet-like flexible structures. A down-loadable compression insert (some with lock and release feature), a down-loadable friction fit split retaining ring and an up-loadable shank upper portion cooperate to provide for pop- or snap-on assembly of the shank with the receiver either prior to or after implantation of the shank into a vertebra. The shank and receiver once assembled cannot be disassembled. The receiver and insert include aligned tool receiving apertures for lock and release of the polyaxial mechanism.
US10179005B2
A medical knife that can be assembled with different blade spacings, provided with only one handle includes a pair of side walls on respective sides of the handle, at least in the forward portions of the handle the side walls being formed individually on different handle-constituting parts and a pair of blades separately mounted on the insides of these side walls; and the handle before being assembled to constitute a medical knife is configured such that the two handle-constituting parts forward of a connecting part can be spread apart and closed together, centered on the connecting part, and such that the spacing distance between the two side walls is adjustable.
US10178998B2
The present invention discloses a lateral grinding drill with continuously variable angle, including a tube body component and a grinding head arranged at the front end of the tube body component, the grinding head being configured to be driven to pitch and rotate on its own axis, the tail end of the grinding head is articulated to the inner tube body along the circumferential direction in a form of transmission, and a flexible transmission part is arranged at least on the front end of the inner tube body, which is configured to be articulated to the tail end of the grinding head and be able to transmit torque. The present invention adopts a direct articulated structure to transmit the transmission between the inner tube body and the grinding head, and can implement pitching motion. A flexible transmission structure is used to compensate the axis deviation caused by the pitching and driving. The transmission structure is simple, and the transmission cycle is short, which facilitates stable control to improve the efficiency of the surgery. In addition, with the structure which can adjust the grinding head in both the pitching and circumferential positions, it achieves the universal direction adjustment of the grinding head, which can have a good adaptability for the surgery position and good accuracy to improve the efficiency in surgery operation, and shorten postoperative recovery time, to alleviate the suffering of the patients while reducing treatment cost.
US10178976B2
The present disclosure relates to a PET detector module suitable for using in a PET/MR hybrid system. The PET detector module comprises a scintillator, a set of frontend electronics and a positioning means configured to securing relative position between the scintillator and the frontend electronics. The PET detector module may further comprise a temperature control system, such as an air-cooling system or a heat exchange plate. The present disclosure also relates to a heat exchange plate, which comprises a fluidic passage for containing a flow of a heat exchange media. The heat exchange plate is suitable for use in the magnetic field environment of a MRI system.
US10178957B2
The present invention relates to a device (1) for vital sign measurement of a person (2), comprising presentation means (10) for presenting a person (2) with a visual theme (20), illumination means (11) for illuminating an illumination area (3), in which said person (2) is located, whose vital signs shall be measured, optical measurement means (12) for optically detecting optical detection signals (23) from said illumination area (3), evaluation means (13) for evaluating said optical detection signals (23) and deriving a vital sign information (24) from them, and control means (14) for controlling said illumination means (11) to illuminate said illumination area (3) allowing the detection of optical detection signals (23), from which a vital sign information (24) can be derived despite changes of the visual theme (20).
US10178954B2
Methods and systems for providing data communication in medical systems are disclosed.
US10178952B2
A system (100) for bi-hemispheric brain wave measurements including a first device (102) and a second device (103), wherein at least said first device (102) is adapted to be worn in or at a first ear of a person subject to the measurements and wherein the first (102) and second (103) device exchange data using a wireless link (104). The invention also provides a method for measuring a bi-hemispherical brain wave signal.
US10178949B2
A method for testing a patient's (2) visual field using testing apparatus. A fixation target is provided on a display (3) at a known target position and the patient's (2) direction of gaze is tracked using an eye tracker to determine the patient's point of regard. A marker (5) is provided on the display (3) indicating the patient's (2) point of regard, where the marker (5) moves with movement of the patient's (2) point of regard. It is detected when the marker (5) is moved to the fixation target and a new target is then provided on the display at a further known target position. The new target is recorded as detected if the marker (5) is moved to the new target, with the new target then becoming the fixation target. The steps are repeated for further new targets for determining the patient's (2) visual field based on the positions of the new targets that have been detected.
US10178941B2
An image processing apparatus includes an abnormal candidate region detection unit configured to detect an abnormal candidate region, as a candidate for an abnormal portion, from an intraluminal image obtained by capturing an image of an inside of a lumen of a subject, a tubular region detection unit configured to detect a tubular region from the intraluminal image, a connectivity determination unit configured to determine whether the abnormal candidate region and the tubular region are connected in a region of a color similar to that of the tubular region, and an abnormality determination unit configured to determine whether the abnormal candidate region is the abnormal portion, based on results of determination by the connectivity determination unit.
US10178940B2
A warewash machine includes a chamber for receiving wares, the chamber having at least one wash zone. A refrigerant medium circuit includes a first heat exchanger arranged to deliver refrigerant medium heat to a first fluid and a second heat exchanger arranged to provide a heat exchange relationship between the refrigerant medium and a second fluid, the first heat exchanger located upstream of the second heat exchanger in the refrigerant medium circuit. A bypass arrangement for causing at least some refrigerant medium to selectively bypass at least one of the first condenser or the second condenser based upon subcooled refrigerant medium condition.
US10178936B2
A method, system, and computer-program product for preventing overfilling in a dishwasher are disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, a method for preventing overfilling in a dishwasher is provided, wherein the dishwasher includes a water valve for providing water to the dishwasher and a drain pump for removing water from the dishwasher. The method comprises detecting an overfill condition in the dishwasher with at least one detection device, wherein the overfill condition corresponds to a water level in the dishwasher that is greater than a predetermined threshold. The method further includes controlling the drain pump and the water valve in response to detecting the overfill condition in order to facilitate removal of the overfill condition.
US10178935B2
A steam generator for a surface cleaning apparatus is described. The steam generator includes: a first chamber for generating steam and collecting scale; a water inlet disposed proximate a first end of the first chamber; a heater in thermal contact with the first chamber; a second chamber housed within the first chamber and in fluid communication with the first chamber; and a steam outlet for releasing steam and in fluid communication with the second chamber, wherein the steam outlet is disposed distal to the first end of the first chamber.
US10178933B2
A vacuum cleaner includes a cleaner main body and a brush-less direct current (BLDC) motor that generates a suction force. A suction unit is in communication with the cleaner main body and sucks air and dust, and a battery provides power for the motor. An inverter supplies power of the battery to the motor, and a controller controls an operation of the motor. The controller determines a status of a floor and controls an operation of the motor based on the determined status of the floor.
US10178932B2
The invention relates to a vacuum cleaner filter bag, including a first bag wall containing a filter material and a second bag wall containing a filter material. The first and the second bag walls are joined together along the periphery thereof such that the vacuum cleaner filter bag is completely closed. The filter material of the first and the second bag walls is made of a non-woven fabric. The vacuum cleaner filter bag includes an inlet through which the air which is to be filtered can flow into the vacuum cleaner filter bag, also including a retaining plate. The vacuum cleaner filter bag is characterized in that the first and/or the second bag wall includes at least five folds.
US10178929B2
This invention provides a removable washer that is attachable to a squeegee without dissembling the squeegee. A removable washer is removably attachable to a squeegee including a channel attached to a flat portion at a distal end of a handle. The removable washer includes a main body including an impregnation body, and an attachment portion that allows the main body to be removably attached to the handle of the squeegee. The attachment portion includes a clamping portion that removably clamps the flat portion of the handle of the squeegee.
US10178919B2
An adjustably-sized and shaped picture frame formed of corner pieces around which are looped or woven one or more filaments such as colored yarns to form the frame borders. The frames created can be customized to various shapes and sizes. The corner pieces may be molded or molded and machined, and may have a diamond shape with inner side edges that align with outer corners of a sheet of artwork. The filament is woven around posts on both a front face and an outer corner of the corner pieces. A chamfer under a lower face of each corner piece may be used to secure free ends of the filament.
US10178916B2
Embodiments of an apparatus are disclosed. The apparatus includes a changing mat, a mat-native restraint system, and a pass-through structure. The mat-native restraint system is coupled to the changing mat at a location on the changing mat to receive and secure a user on the changing mat. The pass-through structure is disposed in the changing mat to accommodate pass-through, at the changing mat, of at least a portion of a mat-foreign restraint system to secure the changing mat to a changing surface and to further secure the user on the changing mat.
US10178909B2
A merchandising display system can include one or more of a front rail configured to mount to a shelf, a first divider assembly, a second divider assembly, and a central track or floor, and a pusher assembly. In one example aspect, the example merchandising display system can be configured to prevent splaying of the divider assemblies when a row of product is loaded toward the rear of the shelf or when displaying the product in rows on the shelf. In one example, the central track in conjunction with the weight of the product can be configured to maintain even spacing between the first divider assembly and the second divider assembly, such that the first divider assembly and the second divider assembly are maintained in position on the shelf thereby maintaining the product organized in their respective rows on the shelf.
US10178908B1
A hexagon storage rack includes a top wall, a bottom wall, two upper side walls, and two lower side walls. Each upper side wall is inclined and has a main wall portion and at least one protruding portion. Each lower side wall is inclined and has a main wall section and at least one engaging hole formed in the main wall section. The protruding portion has a head segment and a connecting segment having a cross-section which is smaller than that of the head segment. The engaging hole has an extension hole section having a minimum width which is larger than a maximum width of the cross-section of the head segment, and a positioning hole section having a minimum width which is smaller than the maximum width of the cross-section of the head segment.
US10178904B2
A hair clip, particularly for curly hair, includes a first curved jaw having a proximal end portion and a curved distal end portion; and a second curved jaw coupled to the first jaw. The second curved jaw has a proximal end portion and a curved distal end portion. An axle is coupled to the proximal end portions of the first and second curved jaws, thereby permitting the first and second curved jaws to pivot relative to one another between an open position and a closed position. The clip also has a biasing element disposed between the proximal end portions of the first and second curved jaws. The biasing element applies a biasing force to both the first and second curved jaws such that in a rest position, the first and second curved jaws are in the closed position.
US10178900B2
A jewelry clasp is provided that operably locks in both an open and closed state to facilitate donning of an article of jewelry and for securing the jewelry to the wearer after being donned. The clasp comprises a clasp body having a first end with a hook portion and a clearance slot. Within the clasp body is a slidable clasp member that slides within the clasp body and operably blocks and opens the clearance slot of the hook portion. Within the clasp body is a first detent and a second detent that are aligned with the slide direction of the slidable member. The slidable member includes a protrusion that operably engages the first detent and second detent. The first detent locks the clasp in an open position. The second detent locks the clasp in a closed position. Embodiments of the detents and the protrusion are provided herein.
US10178892B2
A variety of devices for protecting a user's foot from injury are disclosed. In one embodiment, the device may be a metatarsal protection device, which may include a first layer of material having top and bottom surfaces, with at least one of such surfaces including a series of cones or a pattern of hexagons thereon. The metatarsal protection device may also include a second relatively rigid layer of material overlying the first layer, and the first layer may be shaped to conform to the metatarsal region of the user's foot, such that the device is configured to protect the metatarsal region against injury. Other configurations and variations of a metatarsal protection device are also disclosed, as are other uses for the principles of the invention(s) disclosed herein (e.g., protection devices for other areas of the foot, etc.).
US10178886B2
An apparatus for properly displaying ribbons, name tags, insignias, and badges on a garment; wherein predetermined arrangements of awards can be quickly and reliably established using a plurality of labeled holes, slots and measurements in a template. Military, police, firefighters, and other civil uniformed organizations use name tags, ribbons, awards, and insignias on their shirt, blouse, jackets, and head cover to display name, rank, and awards. This invention introduces an easy to use way to properly apply name tags, ribbons, awards, badges, pins, and insignias at predetermined positions in the template for military and civil uniformed services. This template will make it easier and quicker to accurately apply the said items to uniform garments with the use of predetermined holes, slots, and etched markings.
US10178882B2
An electric garment includes an article of clothing, a first electrical device attached to the article of clothing, and a retractable connector assembly. The retractable connector assembly includes an electric cord electrically connected to the first electrical device, a first connector, and a retractable unit that includes an elastic member connected to the electric cord. The first connector is movable relative to the article of clothing between a concealed position and an exposed position. When the first connector is moved from the concealed position to the exposed position, the elastic member is deformed for generating a restoring force to move the first connector back to the concealed position.
US10178881B2
An electronic cigarette includes a battery assembly, an atomizer assembly and a cigarette bottle assembly. An external thread electrode is located in one end of battery assembly. An internal thread electrode is located in one end of atomizer assembly. The battery assembly and the atomizer assembly are connected by the screwthread electrode. The cigarette bottle assembly is inserted into the other end of the atomizer assembly and both form a cigarette type or cigar type body.
US10178868B2
The print system includes a 3D-printer system having a housing, a CNC robot having food silos for storing toppings, an electronic device may be coupled to the 3D-printer system and the CNC robot and receive input via a user interface. The print system also includes a cart that may include a plurality of wheels to facilitate movement of the print system. The cart is also configured to support the 3D-printer system, the CNC robot and the electronic device. The interior of the cart may also house an air compressor as well as a water and food residue receptacle that receives water and food residue resulting from an auto-cleaning process of the print system, which is discussed below in detail. The cart may (i) house a coupling to a clean water source and as containers for storing cleaning solution, and (ii) be configured to support a cleaning compartment.
US10178866B2
The present disclosure provides fibrous composition comprising a soluble or a dispersible N-halamine, for example 1-chloro-2,2,5,5-tetramethyl-4-imidazolidinone (i.e., compound I). Additionally, the disclosure provides methods for producing the fibrous compositions comprising a soluble or a dispersible N-halamine as well as methods for protecting a person from an infection using the fibrous compositions comprising a soluble or a dispersible N-halamine. The compositions and methods according to the present disclosure provide several advantages, such as stability, less time to provide sufficient antimicrobial inactivation, and are inexpensive and require lower amount of active concentrations to be effective.
US10178864B2
A profusion system for a mammalian organ comprising a first and a second pump to propel perfusion fluid through one of a closed fluid circuit system and a selectively closeable fluid circuit system that includes an organ artery and an organ vein, a filter cartridge bank consisting of a plurality of filtration cartridges, and a first and a second fluid reservoir.
US10178863B2
A positioning system, for a boom having right and left boom arms, comprises: a first actuator for moving the right boom arm relative to a support frame; a second actuator for moving the left boom arm relative to a support frame; a first hydraulic link between the first and second actuators; and a hydraulic control device for controlling movement of hydraulic fluid within the first hydraulic link, thereby controlling extension and/or retraction of the first and second actuators.
US10178853B2
A water supply for an animal feeder includes a valve member on a nipple controlled by the animal connected to a water supply duct for supplying water to the valve member. A regulator is provided for controlling a flow rate and the nipple controls the flow rate by defining a housing through which the water passes with a resilient cylindrical body mounted in the housing. The resilient body defines a convoluted or serpentine water flow path therethrough or thereon for flow of water along the flow path through the housing with the flow path defining a rate of flow of the water. The housing has an adjustment member for adjusting application of pressure to the resilient body to change an amount of compression of the resilient body so as to distort the water flow path and change the rate of flow. The serpentine path is also of increased length to restrict the flow.
US10178852B2
A pet litter box mat having a first planar layer which overlaps and covers a second planar layer. The layers are connected together by hinges. A plurality of openings are formed through the first layer and these openings increase in area from a side of the first mat which abuts the second mat to the other side of the first mat.
US10178849B1
A novel maize variety designated X08M639 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08M639 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08M639 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X08M639, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08M639 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08M639 and methods of using maize variety X08M639 are disclosed.
US10178844B1
The present invention provides an inbred corn line designated FF6893, methods for producing a corn plant by crossing plants of the inbred line FF6893 with plants of another corn plant. The invention further encompasses all parts of inbred corn line FF6893, including culturable cells. Additionally provided herein are methods for introducing transgenes into inbred corn line FF6893, and plants produced according to these methods.
US10178840B1
A soybean cultivar designated S170018 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S170018, to the plants of soybean cultivar S170018, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S170018, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S170018. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S170018. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S170018, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S170018 with another soybean cultivar.
US10178839B1
A soybean cultivar designated S170010 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S170010, to the plants of soybean cultivar S170010, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S170010, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S170010. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S170010. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S170010, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S170010 with another soybean cultivar.
US10182518B2
A shield cap for protecting an electronic component includes a cap member having a ceiling portion, a side wall portion and a partition wall portion, and a conductive film formed on the cap member such that the conductive film is formed to shield electromagnetic waves. The cap member is formed such that the ceiling portion has an inner region and an outer region surrounding the inner region, the side wall portion is supporting the outer region, and the partition wall portion is supporting the inner region, the ceiling portion has a first surface facing the side wall portion and the partition portion and a second surface on the opposite side and includes a reinforcing material positioned between the first and second surfaces, and the cap member is formed such that the side wall, ceiling and partition wall portions are forming multiple accommodation spaces to accommodate multiple electronic components.
US10182517B2
A vapor pipe 103 connects a heat dissipation portion 200 and each of a plurality of heat receiving portions 102. A liquid pipe 104 connects the heat dissipation portion 200 and each of a plurality of the heat receiving portions 102. A bypass pipe 105 connects the vapor pipe 103 and the liquid pipe 104. A valve 106 opens and closes a flow path of the bypass pipe 105. A first connection portion 107 connects the vapor pipe 103 and the bypass pipe 105. A second connection portion 108 connects the liquid pipe 103 and the bypass pipe 105. The first connection portion 107 is disposed at a position higher than that of the second connection portion 108. As a result, refrigerant can be efficiently transported in a short time.
US10182513B2
A heat sink includes a core body. The core body defines a coolant plenum, sealed first and second chambers, and first and second coolant conduits. The sealed first and second chambers each house a phase change material. The first and second coolant conduits are separated from one another by the coolant plenum and are in fluid communication with the coolant plenum for transferring heat between coolant flowing through the core body and the phase change material.
US10182509B1
A wedge clamp is provided. The wedge clamp includes wedge members aligned with a shaft and in sliding contact with surfaces of the neighboring wedge members. Some of wedge members each include a finger and a void, with the finger of a first member slidably inserted within the void of a second wedge member and vice versa. The fingers and voids extend at an acute angle, and the fingers and voids of other wedge members extend at another acute angle on an opposite side of a vertical axis. When the shaft is rotated some wedge members vertically translate with respect to the remaining wedge members. When the shaft is rotated in the reverse direction the wedge members translate vertically in the opposite direction returning to an original position. The interaction of the fingers and voids mechanically drive the moved wedge members into the original state.
US10182505B2
A circuit board includes a board base element, a communication circuit connection terminal, an antenna connection terminal, and a circuit pattern including wires and lands to which predetermined circuit elements are mountable. The predetermined circuit elements include optional elements including a first coil and a second capacitor. The optional elements are electronic components to be mounted or not in the circuit pattern depending on whether a second antenna is connected to a second antenna connection terminal. The predetermined circuit elements further include basic elements including a first capacitor and first and second filters. The basic elements are electronic components to be mounted in the circuit pattern regardless of whether the optional elements are mounted. The circuit pattern is formed such that the single circuit board can optionally support plural types of antenna configurations by changing a manner of mounting the optional elements and changing the circuit configuration.
US10182504B1
A rounded latching structure includes a main body, a back cover, and a lock. The main body defines a groove bound by a bottom wall and a sidewall. The bottom wall defines a slot. The side wall includes a first snap. The back cover defines a second slot and includes a second snap. The back cover is slidable relative to the main body along the groove defined in the main body. The first snap is snapped in the second slot. The second snap is snapped in the first slot. The lock includes a resisting portion for fixing the back cover to the main body when the back cover is snapped to the main body.
US10182503B2
An electronic device may include a window member, a display member, a first coupling member, and a second coupling member. The window member may have a dome shape which is convex in a first direction, and may include an outer surface including a curved surface, an inner surface including a curved surface and facing the outer surface, and a connecting surface connecting the inner surface and the outer surface. The display member may display an image toward the inner surface and may include a curved surface. The first coupling member may be disposed between the window member and the display member to cover at least a portion of the inner surface and to couple the display member to the window member. The second coupling member may be disposed to cover an edge of the display member and couple the display member to the window member.
US10182492B2
An airtight structure includes a first plate having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a second plate mounted on the second surface of the first plate, a wick structure mounted between the first plate and the second plate, a first fixed pin welded with the first plate and the second plate, and a second fixed pin welded with the first plate and the second plate. The second plate bonds to form a cup portion. The cup portion and the first plate together define a cavity. The wick structure is received in the cavity, a bottom surface of the cup portion forms a first through hole for receiving the first fixed pin therein. An outer periphery of the cup portion forms a second through hole. The second through hole is spaced apart from the first through hole.
US10182491B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods of using the apparatus having a neutron generator. The neutron generator can include a neutron generator tube having a cylindrical inner surface that bounds a cylindrical cavity, a field ionization array cylindrically distributed on the cylindrical inner surface, and a target rod positioned in the cylindrical cavity. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10182489B1
A wireless light kit includes a wireless light unit that comprises a housing having an interior compartment that contains a processor and a power source and a light source that is powered by the power source and operatively connected to the processor. The kit also includes two different types of mounting back plates, namely a first back plate and a second back plate. The first back plate is configured to mate with the housing so as to cover at least a portion of the rear face of the housing and provide a mounting surface for mounting to a support surface, such as a wall. The second back plate is configured to mate with the housing so as to cover at least a portion of the rear face of the housing and further includes a stake extending outwardly therefrom and being configured for insertion into a ground surface for supporting the wireless light unit above the ground surface.
US10182488B2
An RF controlled lighting unit is provided, suitable for connection to at least one of a dimmer for adjusting a phase cut angle of input mains voltage in accordance with an adjustable dimming level or an electronic switch for selecting between on-and off-states. The lighting unit includes a solid state light source; a radio circuit for receiving a wireless control signal; a rectifier circuit for rectifying the input mains voltage received from the electronic switch or the dimmer; a first power converter for driving the solid state light source in response to the rectified input mains voltage and delivering power to the radio circuit; and a second power convertor for delivering power to the radio circuit when the rectified input mains voltage becomes inadequate for the first power converter due to the phase-cut angle of the rectified input mains voltage or the off-state of the electronic switch.
US10182480B2
An LED-based light includes one or more LEDs, a sensor arranged to detect a brightness level in an area resulting from the combination of light emitted by the LEDs with light from at least one ambient light source other than the LEDs, and operable to output a signal corresponding to the detected brightness level, a controller operable to regulate an amount of power provided to the LEDs in response to the signal, a light transmitting housing for the LEDs, the sensor and the controller and a connector shaped for connection with a light socket disposed at an end of the housing.
US10182478B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for current regulation. An example system controller includes: a first controller terminal configured to receive an input voltage, the first controller terminal being further configured to allow a first current flowing into the system controller based at least in part on the input voltage in response to one or more switches being closed; a second controller terminal configured to allow the first current to flow out of the system controller through the second controller terminal in response to the one or more switches being closed; a fourth controller terminal coupled to the third controller terminal through a first capacitor, the first capacitor not being any part of the system controller; and an error amplifier configured to generate a compensation signal based at least in part on the current sensing signal, the error amplifier including a second capacitor.
US10182477B1
Embodiments include computing devices, apparatus, and methods implemented by the apparatus for constant current regulation for luminaires of an aircraft escapes slide lighting system. In various embodiments, each of a plurality of constant current regulator circuits may be integral to a luminaire having at least one LED. Each of the constant current regulator circuits may be electrically connected in parallel to a power source. A protection circuit may be configured to provide power surge and/or reverse polarity protection to the constant current regulator circuits as a centralized protection circuit, or a decentralized plurality of protection circuits, each corresponding to a constant current regulator circuit. Testing of the escapes slide lighting system having the constant current regulator circuits may provide an unambiguous indication of whether any of the luminaires are inoperative.
US10182470B2
A ceramic heater having an enlarged windward area includes a conductive heat sink, at least one positive temperature coefficient (PTC) heating element, and an electrode plate. The conductive heat sink includes a cooling fin. The at least one PCT heating element is disposed on one side of the cooling fin. The electrode plate is disposed on the other side of the cooling fin. A conductive terminal protrudes from one end of the electrode plate. The conductive terminal includes a warped section and a flat section. A portion of the warped section and the flat section extend in a direction perpendicular to an extending direction of the electrode plate. Accordingly, heat dissipation is accelerated, a windward area is enlarged, and the effect of blowing out a hot airflow is enhanced, thereby avoiding a temperature rise of the conductive terminal.
US10182469B2
A heating system for a vehicle steering wheel may include a conductive element surrounding at least a portion of the steering wheel, a power supply for the conductive element configured to provide an input voltage, and a transformer between the power supply and the conductive element and configured to receive the input voltage and provide an output voltage higher than the input voltage to the conductive element for heating the steering wheel.
US10182464B2
There is provided a method of implementing carrier aggregation on a first transceiver. The method comprises receiving and decoding, during a first subframe, channel quality information from user equipment and transferring, before the expiry of a second subframe immediately following the first subframe, the decoded channel quality information over a direct physical link to a second transceiver, for use in decoding further channel quality information from the user equipment.
US10182456B2
Detection and reporting techniques for collisions between transmitters of two different radio access technologies (RATs) transmitting in a shared radio frequency spectrum band is described. The collision may occur following a listen-before-talk procedure but prior to transmission of data, and may not affect the reception of the transmitted data. Collisions may be detected using for example, energy sensing, preamble or ready-to-send (RTS) signal detection, or unsuccessful decoding of all or part of a channel reservation signal. A transmitting device may determine a collision has occurred by detecting an energy level during a preamble transmission is greater than a threshold level or by detecting that an energy level during a transmission gap of a time-domain energy pattern is above a threshold level. A receiving device, such as a user equipment (UE), that detects the collision may report the collision to the transmitter.
US10182455B2
A method includes obtaining a first packet at a first wireless device from a second wireless device. The second wireless device may be a neighboring wireless device of the first wireless device. The method may also include transmitting a second packet to a third wireless device that is a neighboring wireless device of the first wireless device. The method may also include obtaining a third packet from the third wireless device in response to transmitting the second packet to the third wireless device and obtaining a fourth packet from the third wireless device in response to the third wireless device receiving a fifth packet from a fourth wireless device that is not one of the multiple neighboring wireless devices of the first wireless device. The fourth packet may indicate reserved radio resources for future packet transmissions from the first wireless device to the third wireless device.
US10182454B2
User equipment (UE)-initiated accesses within a cellular network are optimized to account for cell size and to reduce signaling overhead. A fixed set of preamble parameter configurations for use across a complete range of cell sizes within the cellular network is established and stored within each UE. A UE located in a given cell receives a configuration number transmitted from a nodeB serving the cell, the configuration number being indicative of a size of the cell. The UE selects a preamble parameter configuration from the fixed set of preamble parameter configurations in response to the received configuration number and then transmits a preamble from the UE to the nodeB using the preamble parameter configuration indicated by the configuration number.
US10182447B2
Disclosed are a method and a receiver for processing a received signal, the method dividing a plurality of resource elements (RE) to create RE groups by considering the inter-relationships between the channels of the plurality of REs, selecting a reference RE for each RE group, and generating, for each RE group, a detection signal from a received signal on the basis of channel information of the reference RE.
US10182429B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting information in a communication system. The present invention relates to a millimeter wave beamforming-based 5G or pre-5G wireless communication system for supporting a higher data rate beyond a 4G network or LTE system. A method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: determining the number of blocks and a window size for configuring a transmission period for sliding window superposition coding (SWSC); transmitting control information including the determined number of blocks and window size to a plurality of terminals participating in the SWSC; transmitting, in a first block within the transmission period, a signal in which a first message and a second message are superposition-coded by first and second codes; and when a message notifying that the first message is not successfully decoded is received, transmitting, in a second block, a signal in which the second message and the first message are superposition-coded by the first and second codes.
US10182421B2
A method for managing spectrum resources by a network node in a wireless communication system may include determining an availability of a first channel of a spectrum, and assigning a second channel to a secondary carrier in response to determining that the first channel is available. In the alternative, or in addition, the method may include unassigning the second channel to the secondary carrier in response to determining that the first channel is unavailable. The spectrum may be, or include, Authorized Shared Access (ASA) spectrum. The method may be performed by one or more nodes of a network that is a secondary user of the spectrum. The channel may be deemed unavailable when in use by a primary user of the ASA spectrum. A wireless communication apparatus include a processor coupled to a memory holding instructions for execution by the processor to cause the apparatus to perform operations as described above.
US10182416B2
A method of management notifications on a mobile communication device includes pairing a wearable smart device with the mobile communication device, and automatically disabling notifications on the mobile communication device in response to determining that the paired wearable smart device has moved away from the mobile communication device. For example, the mobile communication device may be a smartphone and the wearable smart device may be a smartwatch. Optionally, the mobile communication device and the wearable smart device may pair using a wireless personal area network standard, such as Bluetooth™, and may also communicate using a wireless local area network, such as Wi-Fi™.
US10182409B2
Aspects and features are directed to an uplink integrity detection sub-system. In one aspect, a distributed antenna system is provided that includes at least one master unit; a plurality of remote antenna units each in communication with the at least one master unit; and a system controller configured to: determine a noise figure for an uplink path from at least one of the plurality of remote antenna units; and modify a gain of the uplink path when the noise figure exceeds a desired threshold, wherein the noise figure is determined as a function of a measured signal power of an undesirable signal component in the uplink path from the remote antenna unit.
US10182405B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication device that can suppress an increase in power consumption of a terminal while preventing the degradation of SINR measurement precision resulting from TPC errors in a base station. A terminal controls the transmission power of a second signal by adding an offset to the transmission power of a first signal; an offset-setting unit sets an offset correction value in response to a transmission time gap between a third signal transmitted the previous time and the second signal transmitted this time; and a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the second signal using the correction value.
US10182403B2
A wireless device is disclosed that can support carrier aggregation uplink (“CAUL”) communication using a single wideband coupler. A single wideband coupler that can operate or support some or all of the communication bands of the wireless device can be used in conjunction with one or more diplexers and/or filters to measure the power of individual communication bands involved in the transmission process. Further, the use of a wideband coupler and switching network to measure the transmit power from the one or more transmit paths or main paths of a wireless device can reduce the size of a transceiver and reduce the insertion loss attributed to the power measurement components compared to systems that use separate measurement systems for each transmit path. The power measurement system may occur in a separate path in electrical connection with the wideband coupler, which may therefore be termed a coupler path.
US10182397B2
Enabling a changing of a state of a device based on a hierarchical class of the device is disclosed. Non-macro radio access network (RAN) devices can be comprised in a network connected to a macro RAN device via a gateway RAN device. The gateway RAN device can be connected to a field RAN device via an intermediate RAN device. A state of a field RAN device can be altered based on a criterion. In an embodiment the criterion can be use of the hierarchical class of the RAN device, e.g., a field class RAN device, by an active or idle UE. In an embodiment the criterion can be use, by an active or idle UE, of another RAN device that is a logical neighbor to the field RAN device. Altering the state can result in a power savings or improved interference characteristics of the network.
US10182396B2
An apparatus and method for reducing the power consumption of a Base Station (BS) in a multi antenna system are provided. The method for reducing the power consumption of the BS includes identifying an amount of resources being in use for communication, determining whether to convert at least one Radio Frequency (RF) unit into a power saving mode considering the amount of resources, if converting at least one RF unit into the power saving mode, turning OFF a power supply of a power amplifier of at least one of at least two antenna paths constituting the at least one RF unit converted into the power saving mode, and increasing a gain of at least one antenna path turning ON a power supply such that a transmission Power Spectral Density (PSD) is not changed according to the power saving mode conversion.
US10182393B2
A method is described for controlling a small cell base station in a wireless communication system having a plurality of small cell base stations controlled by a macro base station. The method includes taking, by a small cell base station, a measurement for obtaining information describing a vicinity around the small cell base station and reporting the information from the small cell base station to the macro base station.
US10182392B2
This disclosure relates to broadcast information block assistance for a wireless device. The wireless device may obtain a first plurality of broadcast information blocks from a first base station. The wireless device may receive a second plurality of broadcast information blocks associated with the first base station from a source other than the first base station. The wireless device may determine if the second plurality of broadcast information blocks match the first plurality of broadcast information blocks based on version information specified in the first plurality of broadcast information blocks. When the broadcast information blocks match, the wireless device may use the first and second pluralities of broadcast information blocks to perform communication with the first base station without obtaining the second plurality of information blocks from the first base station.
US10182387B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, predicting opportunities for a mobile communication device to access a network via available pathways during a first time period according to a history of network connectivity of the mobile communication device, selecting a first pathway of the available pathways according to the opportunities that are predicted for the mobile communication device to access the network via the available pathways during the first time period, and directing transmission of first data to the mobile communication device via the first pathway during the first time period, wherein a presence of a second data at the mobile communication device enables an application to access the first data at the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10182385B2
Provided is a process that includes obtaining a directed acyclic graph describing a plurality wireless connections between a plurality of downstream nodes forming a multi-path route to an Internet connected wireless transceiver; determining an encoding kernel specifying transformations to be performed by the plurality of downstream nodes on data received from upstream nodes; transmitting at least part of the encoding kernel to at least some of the downstream nodes; and transmitting data from a data source to a downstream node in the directed acyclic graph specified by the encoding kernel such that the data is conveyed through the multi-hop, multi-path route to the Internet connected wireless transceiver.
US10182384B2
The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for operating a mobile station (MS) in a radio communication system (RAN). The method contains receiving first radio resource information for a transmission of first reference signals via a first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) being directed towards a first direction by at least one neighboring base station (BS1) of a serving base station (BS2) of the mobile station (MS) and at least second radio resource information for a transmission of at least second reference signals via at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . BM5-BS1) being directed towards at least one second direction by the at least one neighboring base station (BS1). The method further contains receiving the first reference signals based on the first radio resource information, receiving the at least second reference signals based on the at least second radio resource information, determining first quality information of the first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) based on the received first reference signals and at least second quality information of the at least second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . BM5-BS1) based on the received at least second reference signals, and transmitting at least one of the first quality information and the at least second quality information to the serving base station (BS2). The embodiments further relate to a method for operating a base station (BS2) in a radio communication system (RAN), to a mobile station (MS) for operation in a radio communication system (RAN) and to a base station (BS2) for operation in a radio communication system (RAN).
US10182382B2
Small cell enhancement for dual connectivity operation and/or the impact of such enhancement for the support of the example LIPA/SIPTO architecture may be useful. The L-GW shown could be a collocated L-GW (e.g., with S-GW not shown) and/or a standalone L-GW with S-GW capabilities. Embodiments recognize the scenario of the SIPTO above RAN and/or SIPTO at local network, perhaps with standalone combined gateway. Embodiments contemplate that it may be useful to provide support of/for LIPA/SIPTO at a local network with a collocated gateway in a dual connectivity mode, among other scenarios. Embodiments also contemplate the usefulness for providing the capability of supporting the dual connectivity operation in multiple scenarios.
US10182352B2
This disclosure provides a method of allocating a resource in a network of small cells, and a device for implementing the method, the method comprising: a first small cell detecting that its resource demand exceeds its resource allocation; the first small cell selecting a new resource that is being used by a second small cell; and the first small cell allocating the new resource to either the first or second small cell, wherein the probability the new resource is allocated to the first small cell is based on the first small cell's resource demand.
US10182349B1
Systems and methods for user identification and authentication are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of authenticating a first party to a second party may include the following: (1) receiving, from one of an electronic device of a first party and an electronic device of a second party, a request to generate authenticating indicia; (2) using at least one of a plurality of computer processors, generating the authenticating indicia; (3) transmitting, over a network, the authenticating indicia to the electronic device of a first party and to the electronic device of the second party; (4) receiving, from an electronic device of the second party, an indication that the second party has confirmed that the first party is authentic; and (5) storing an identity of the first party, the second party, and the authenticating indicia in a database.
US10182348B2
A communication device transmits a communication parameter to connect to a wireless network established by an access point to another communication device using information obtained from a captured image and stores the information obtained from the captured image. When the communication parameter is changed, the changed communication parameter is transmitted to the another communication device by reusing the stored information.
US10182345B2
A system is provided for recovering a mobile device by enabling an authorized user to remotely change the profile of the device to assist others in returning the device to the user. Initially, a user registers the mobile device with a recovery assist server. When the user is unable to locate the device because it is, for example, lost or stolen, the user indicates with the server that the device is missing. The device and the server are configured to communicate with each other, for example, periodically or, in another example, on device start up. If the device is identified as missing on the server, the operation of the mobile device is configured based on a missing profile associated with the mobile device. Once the device is located, the user indicates with the server that the device is no longer missing. When the device is unidentified as missing on the server, the operation of the mobile device is configured based on a user profile associated with the mobile device. When the mobile device is configured based on the missing profile, the mobile device may, for example, display a background image or play a ring tone to inform persons near the device that the device is considered mislaid and to provide such persons with information for returning the device.
US10182341B2
The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus, and a method for online subscription data configuration. This method for online subscription data configuration includes: acquiring, by a subscription data configuration function device (SMF), equipment capability information of a user equipment (UE) and information of a service supported by the UE; generating, by the SMF, user subscription data according to the equipment capability information of the UE and the information of service supported by the UE, and generating user service subscription data according to the information of the service supported by the UE; where the user subscription data and the user service subscription data include an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) allocated to the UE by the SMF; performing, by the SMF, subscription data configuration on a home subscriber server (HSS) and a subscription profile repository (SPR), according to the user subscription data and the user service subscription data.
US10182337B2
This disclosure relates to out of service recovery techniques for an accessory device. According to some embodiments, the accessory device may receive cellular communication system selection information from a paired device. The accessory device may store the communication system selection information. At some point, it may be determined that the accessory device has lost cellular communication service. The accessory device may perform a cellular communication service scan utilizing the system selection information received from the paired device along with its own historical information and location based frequency lists.
US10182332B2
A method for providing assistance to each of a plurality of users, each having been enrolled as a member of a community includes receiving, at a server, communications from corresponding mobile devices, each of which is associated with a user who has enrolled as a member in a first community. These emergency communications were initiated by activation of respective personal security buttons on the mobile devices, and provide information about respective security conditions. In response to the communications, the server alerts corresponding first and second security services that are appropriate responding to the respective security conditions.
US10182318B2
An integrated voicemail system is described that provides “visual voicemail” that overcomes the shortcomings associated with a user having to dial into a voicemail system and navigate through a menu of options using conventional voice and/or standard DTMF signaling-based browsing capabilities. The visual voicemail instead provides, via a client device of the user's choice, a visual presentation of a user's voicemails along with state information of the voicemails. The visual presentation of the voicemails includes a user interface that allows a user to control or manipulate voicemails from the client device, where the manipulation includes playing, pausing, rewinding, fast-forwarding, deleting, and changing a state of each voicemail. The visual voicemail also eliminates the need for a user to periodically call-in to the enterprise voicemail system in order to check for voicemail messages as the messages can be automatically delivered to the user's client device.
US10182309B2
Systems, devices, and methods for magnetic fingerprinting for proximity-based systems are described herein. One device includes instructions stored thereon executable by a processor to receive location information associated with a mobile device in a facility, determine that the mobile device is within a particular distance of an area of the facility based on the location information, determine magnetic field information associated with the mobile device, and allow access to the area via a relay associated with the area responsive to a determination that the user is allowed access based on the magnetic field information.
US10182296B2
Providing security features in an audio sensor is presented herein. A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) microphone can include an acoustic membrane that converts an acoustic signal into an electrical signal; an electronic amplifier that increases an amplitude of the electrical signal to generate an amplified signal; and switch(es) configured to prevent propagation of a direct current (DC) voltage source to the MEMS microphone; prevent propagation of the DC voltage source to the electronic amplifier; prevent propagation of the electrical signal to the electronic amplifier; and/or prevent propagation of the amplified signal to an external device.
US10182291B2
A noise extracting device includes first and second microphones that are provided at spatially different positions and pick up sounds, a first noise signal extractor that extracts a first noise signal included in a first signal obtained by subjecting output signals of the first and second microphones to directionality combining, a second noise signal extractor that obtains a second noise signal included in a second signal different from the first signal in a condition of the directionality combining, and a noise signal separator that separates the first and second noise signals into individual noise signals indicating noises generated in the respective first and second microphones.
US10182289B2
An earpiece (100) and acoustic management module (300) for in-ear canal echo suppression control suitable is provided. The earpiece can include an Ambient Sound Microphone (111) to capture ambient sound, an Ear Canal Receiver (125) to deliver audio content to an ear canal, an Ear Canal Microphone (123) configured to capture internal sound, and a processor (121) to generate a voice activity level (622) and suppress an echo of spoken voice in the electronic internal signal, and mix an electronic ambient signal with an electronic internal signal in a ratio dependent on the voice activity level and a background noise level to produce a mixed signal (323) that is delivered to the ear canal (131).
US10182279B1
The present disclosure provides a light bulb speaker system. The light bulb speaker system includes a housing having an open end and a partially closed end. A coaxial main speaker is positioned proximal to the open end, a first assistant speaker and a second assistant speaker are positioned between the open end and the partially closed end within the housing. The first and second assistant speakers are mounted so that they face perpendicular to a central axis of the light bulb speaker. The system also includes a light source component mounted within an annular frame, the light source proximally mounted within the housing towards the open end. The housing includes a plurality of speaker holes positioned on opposing sides so that the first and the second assistant speaker are configured to align with the plurality of the speaker holes.
US10182273B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses, methods and systems for a configurable and secure mobile tool for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) and Automatic Meter Reading (AMR) metering systems, wherein the tool comprises a suite of mobile apps that run on a mobile device (e.g., tablet, smartphone) and have functionality to support the installation, maintenance, service, diagnostics and configuration of meters in AMI and AMR systems. The mobile app may remotely synchronize through a secure communication channel with a server in communication with a database that contains configuration settings and related data created by an administrator utilizing an administrator station. During synchronization, the mobile app functionality is configured and customized based on user group authorization profiles defined by an administrator, and data collected and generated by the mobile app that is stored on the mobile device is transferred to the database where it may be accessed by an administrator station.
US10182270B2
A method comprises receiving content from at least one source, processing the content to identify an object in the content, assigning an identifier to the object based on the processing, permitting viewer selection of the object identifier, and providing additional information for presentation to a viewer of the content responsive to viewer selection of the object identifier. The content in some embodiments comprises live video from at least one live video source. For example, the content may comprise at least a portion of a panoramic video comprising a combination of multiple live videos from respective ones of a plurality of video sources. The panoramic video may be digitally cropped and scaled before a resulting version of the content is provided for presentation to the viewer. A plurality of different digitally cropped and scaled versions of the content from the panoramic video can be generated and made available to the viewer.
US10182269B1
A system receives one or more content streams for a program including a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Live Streaming (HLS) master manifest file for the program, HLS media segments having different bitrate variants, and HLS media manifest files for each of the different bitrate variants. The system encapsulates the HLS master manifest file, the HLS media segments, and the HLS media manifest files into Internet Protocol/User Datagram Protocol (IP/UDP) packets and sends the IP/UDP packets via multicast to video serving offices. Network devices in the video serving offices extract from the IP/UDP packets the HLS master manifest file, the HLS media segments, and the HLS media manifest files. The network devices send to a cache device the HLS media segments and the HLS media manifest files; and forward the IP/UDP packets via multicast to devices in customer premises.
US10182268B2
There is provided a receiving apparatus including circuitry that is configured to receive a broadcasting wave that transfers digital data according to an IP (Internet Protocol) having a protocol stack of layers, wherein the circuitry is further configured to implement a first decoder that uses a first key transferred in a first control signal at a first layer to decode a second key acquired in a second control signal transferred at a second layer, the second layer being a higher layer than the first layer in the protocol stack, and a second decoder that uses the decoded second key to decode an encoded component that configures a particular broadcasting service which is included in a stream obtained through the broadcasting wave.
US10182266B2
Systems and methods are described for automatically enabling subtitles based on a user profile when a language is spoken with an accent a user has difficulty understanding. For example, a media guidance application may detect a first plurality of user interactions of the user while the given language is being spoken with the accent. Based on the first plurality of interactions, the media guidance application may calculate a first value associated with a user specific level of difficulty indicating how difficult it is for the user to understand the language when spoken with the accent. If the first plurality of user interactions are not being performed again, the media guidance application may update the user specific difficulty with a second value that is lower than the first value. The media guidance application may automatically generate for display subtitles for a media asset based on the user specific level of difficulty.
US10182255B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method, a terminal, and a system for communication pairing of a digital television terminal and a mobile terminal. The method for communication pairing with a digital television terminal includes: acquiring communication connection information of the digital television terminal, wherein the communication connection information includes communication hardware information of the digital television terminal; performing encoding according to the communication connection information to generate a two-dimensional code image; displaying the two-dimensional code image; establishing a link connection to a mobile terminal that acquires the two-dimensional code image by using a camera; and performing communication pairing with the mobile terminal by means of the established link connection. By using the present disclosure, communication connection and pairing between a mobile terminal and a digital television terminal can be completed easily and conveniently.
US10182243B2
The invention concerns a processing system and method for reconstituting a block of pixels from bins generated by a Mojette Transform, using a processing and calculation unit (UTC), a bin memory (MB), and a pixel memory (MP). Said unit is configured to carry out the operations of reconstructing the pixels, which are performed by reading said bins in the bin memory, reading the reconstructed pixels in the pixel memory, and writing the reconstructed pixels in the pixel memory, such that the steps of reconstructing the pixels do not include an operation of writing bins in the bin memory.
US10182239B2
An apparatus is provided for decoding video data in a merge mode. The apparatus comprises an inter prediction unit configured to derive motion information of a current coding unit and generate a prediction block using the motion information, wherein the motion information is derived using a merge index and a merge candidate list constructed using available spatial and temporal merge candidates. The apparatus further comprises an inverse-quantizing unit configured to inverse-quantize a quantized block by using a quantization parameter, an inverse transform unit configured to generate a residual block by inverse-transforming the inverse-quantized block, and an adder configured to generate a reconstruct block by adding the residual block and the prediction block.
US10182238B2
Systems and methods are provided for video display control. An example method includes: determining, by one or more processors, whether a coding frame extracted from a video coding stream is an I Frame; if the coding frame extracted from the video coding stream is an I Frame, acquiring, by the one or more processors, a timestamp of the I Frame and a timestamp of an adjacent coding frame after the I Frame; and controlling, by the one or more processors, display of the I Frame based on the timestamp of the I Frame and the timestamp of the adjacent coding frame after the I Frame.
US10182229B2
A device for monitoring the vehicle environment includes: a first sensor for sensing the vehicle environment, the first sensor featuring a first sensing region; a second sensor for sensing the vehicle environment; and an evaluation unit. The second sensor for sensing the vehicle environment is situated within the first sensing region, and a diagnosis of the second sensor is achieved with the aid of the evaluation unit.
US10182223B2
Hardware and software configurations, optionally, for performing profilometry of an object are disclosed. An advantageous imaging device is described. An advantageous approach to determining imager position is also described. Each aspect described may be used independently of the other. Moreover, the teaching may find use in other fields including velocimetry, etc.
US10182220B2
A modeled object distribution management system includes a creator storage unit, a first display controller and a second display controller. The creator storage unit stores modeled object-related information including information indicating stereoscopic images of created modeled objects. The first display controller displays the stereoscopic images to allow a client to browse the stereoscopic images, by using the information indicating the stereoscopic images which is stored in the creator storage unit. The second display controller displays a modeling plan to allow the client to browse the modeling plan. The modeling plan includes a modeling method and a material which are used to model a modeled object corresponding to a stereoscopic image selected by the client from the stereoscopic images displayed in the first display controller.
US10182216B2
Systems and methods for extended color processing on Pelican array cameras in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of generating a high resolution image includes obtaining input images, where a first set of images includes information in a first band of visible wavelengths and a second set of images includes information in a second band of visible wavelengths and non-visible wavelengths, determining an initial estimate by combining the first set of images into a first fused image, combining the second set of images into a second fused image, spatially registering the fused images, denoising the fused images using bilateral filters, normalizing the second fused image in the photometric reference space of the first fused image, combining the fused images, determining a high resolution image that when mapped through a forward imaging transformation matches the input images within at least one predetermined criterion.
US10182215B1
Systems and methods for using unassisted vehicles to assess damage in a particular location are described. According to certain aspects, the systems and methods may utilize an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) and a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The UGV and the UAVs may be configured with various sensors to capture various damage or environmental data. The UGV and/or the UAVs may also transmit captured data to a central facility for processing. The UGV may serve as a mobile docking and recharging platform for the UAVs and may therefore extend the range and endurance of the UAVs. The UGV may be configured for remote operation, thus eliminating the need to send personnel into a potentially dangerous environment.
US10182214B2
An agricultural monitoring system, the agricultural monitoring system comprising: an imaging sensor, configured and operable to acquire image data at submillimetric image resolution of parts of an agricultural area in which crops grow, when the imaging sensor is airborne; a communication module, configured and operable to transmit to an external system image data content which is based on the image data acquired by the airborne imaging sensor; and a connector operable to connect the imaging sensor and the communication module to an airborne platform.
US10182204B1
Users of multiple clients participate in a video chat session by exchanging video streams. A user initiates generation of a high-quality composite image of the video chat session. The clients each capture high-quality local images and send the images to a chat server via a communications channel that is out-of-band from the video streams. The chat server stores the images in a repository. The initiating user views the images and selects images and a layout to use for the composite image. The chat server assembles the composite image based on the selections and saves the composite image to the repository. The initiating user can retrieve the composite image and view it, post it to social media, and/or use it for other purposes.
US10182198B2
An imaging device including a pixel array section functioning as a light receiving section which includes photoelectric conversion devices and in which a plurality of pixels, which output electric signals when photons are incident, are disposed in an array; a sensing circuit section in which a plurality of sensing circuits, which receive the electric signals from the pixels and perform binary determination regarding whether or not there is an incidence of photons on the pixels in a predetermined period, are arrayed; and a determination result integration circuit section having a function of integrating a plurality of determination results of the sensing circuits for the respective pixels or for each pixel group, wherein the determination result integration circuit section derives the amount of photon incidence on the light receiving section by performing photon counting for integrating the plurality of determination results in the plurality of pixels.
US10182191B2
A camera rig for simultaneous recording holds a first smartphone with a first interactive touch screen, a second smartphone with a second camera, and a third smartphone with a third camera. The camera rig includes a handle, a first mount configured for holding the first smartphone orienting the first interactive touch screen oriented toward a user, a second mount adjacent the first mount is configured for holding the second smartphone with the second camera facing the user, and a third mount overlays the first mount. The third mount is configured for holding the third smartphone with the third camera oriented away from the user. Three simultaneous footage streams of the same event are then edited into a single clip.
US10182190B2
Provided is a light detecting apparatus including: a first photoelectric converting element which outputs a first electrical signal in accordance with an incident light including a modulated light component and a background light component; a filter which outputs a second electrical signal resulting from the modulated light component being reduced in the incident light; and a signal processor which subtracts the second electrical signal from the first electrical signal to reduce a component corresponding to the background light component in the first electrical signal.
US10182189B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus that includes an ambient-light image obtaining section, a cumulative image generation section, and a high-quality image generation section. The ambient-light image obtaining section obtains an ambient-light image in a first time range, the ambient-light image being an image of an object captured with a predetermined exposure time. The cumulative image generation section generates a cumulative image in a second time range, the cumulative image being obtained by cumulative addition of each pixel value in a plurality of images, the plurality of images being of the object sequentially captured with the predetermined exposure time. The high-quality image generation section generates a high-quality image, the high-quality image being obtained by subtracting a pixel value in the ambient-light image from a corresponding pixel value in a normalized image, the normalized image being the cumulative image normalized based on a total sum of the exposure time.
US10182188B2
An image pickup apparatus which is capable of performing automatic adjustment of black balance properly without the need to have a member for fully shielding light. A diaphragm of a lens barrel and an ND filter, which is provided separately from the diaphragm, adjust the amount of light incident on an image pickup device that picks up an image of a subject. Whether the automatic adjustment is possible in present image pickup environment is judged based on evaluation values of a picked-up image obtained in a state where the amounts of incident light are maximized by respective ones of the diaphragm and the ND filter, and a predetermined judgment threshold value which is determined based on a range over which the amount of incident light is adjustable by the diaphragm and a range over which the amount of incident light is adjustable by the ND filter.
US10182186B2
An image capturing apparatus reads out a signal from pixels of the image sensor, sets a region in which a plurality of signals having different viewpoints are read out from each pixel of an image sensor, acquires first depth information for detecting an object using a signal that has been read out from a first region, acquires second depth information for detecting a focus state of the object using a signal that has been read out from a second region, and variably controls a ratio of screens in which the first region is set and a ratio of screens in which the second region is set.
US10182184B2
There is provided an image processing apparatus including a presentation controller configured to control presentation of degrees of focus in a target image corresponding to an image to be processed on the basis of a first determination result corresponding to a determination result of a degree of focus in a pixel unit in the target image and a second determination result corresponding to a determination result of a degree of focus in a region unit in the target image.
US10182183B2
A method for obtaining a refocused image from 4D raw light field data for a given focus plane value g is described. The method is executed by an electronic device and is remarkable in that it comprises determining at least one pixel value, for at least one color component, of the refocused image at coordinates (k, l)∈N2. The at least one projected pixel value with coordinates comprised in a neighborhood of said coordinates (k, l), for the at least one color component is determined, weighted and updated.
US10182168B2
An image forming apparatus includes an application on a framework separated into a core logic portion handling basic processing and a user interface frame portion handling rendering processing and operates; and a controller that executes the application and the framework. The core logic portion is implemented with an application programming interface defined by the framework. The application includes plural applications including a device application. The framework loads all core logic portions of the plural applications at activation of a system. A core logic portion of the device application monitors a state of a device relating to execution of another application and holds information on the device. A core logic portion of the other application acquires the information on the device from the device application and holds the information as display information.
US10182163B2
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to or selected by another party participating in the call, or may be related to or selected by a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, and allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list.
US10182160B2
A portable speakerphone having a housing, a receiving transducer, an electrical cable, a transmitting transducer, and a processor. The receiving transducer is affixed to the housing and is configured to receive a first electrical signal from a mobile device. The electrical cable is coupled to and extends from the housing. The transmitting transducer is affixed to the electrical cable, remote from the housing. Also, the transmitting transducer is configured to transmit a second electrical signal, and the second electrical signal is based in part on the first electrical signal. The processor is configured to suppress acoustic echo by modifying the second electrical signal. The processor is also configured to output the modified second electrical signal to the mobile device. A related method is also disclosed.
US10182156B2
Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe insight-based routing that is used to improve processing of a service request through a help desk service. A request for support (e.g. technical support) can be received through a modality of a help desk service. The request is evaluated, where an evaluation of the request comprises analyzing an issue associated with the request as well as user-specific signal data associated with a customer and generating insights. A support agent is matched to the customer based on an evaluation of the request. The support agent is selected from a pool of support agents based on application of a model that analyzes support agent data in correlation with the generated insights. An interaction between the matched support agent and the customer may be initiated through a modality of the help desk service.
US10182154B2
Apparatus for operating a multimedia contact center, comprising a multimedia contact center system for handling communications sessions between an organization and its customers and obtaining media-specific information relating to the communications session, and a search engine for performing a search in relation to the obtained media-specific information, wherein the multimedia contact center system is configured to use the results from the search in handling the communications session, wherein the results may include heterogeneous material not primarily intended for session handling purposes.
US10182153B2
Techniques for conducting a support session and determine suitable instructions for resolving a certain technical mal-function in a device/equipment of a user. Imagery data associated the technical mal-function is received from a user's device and used for determining at least one improperly setup property associated with the mal-function in the mal-functioning device/equipment based on a comparison of the received imagery data with reference data. Instructions comprising augmented imagery for resolving the mal-function can be then generated, or fetched form a database, based on the determined at least one improperly setup property. A new database record can be generated comprising the augmented imagery data for use in future support sessions associated with the mal-function.
US10182141B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program product are described that determine a destination screen for display and provide for a visual transition between an origin screen and the destination screen based on a position of a user input and a direction of the movement component of the input. The origin screen may, for example, associate certain areas of the screen with certain destination screens, such that an input received in one area invokes one destination screen and an input received in another area invokes another destination screen. The destination screen may also be determined based on the direction of the movement component of the input. Thus, one of several destination screens may be accessible to the user and may be determined based on the characteristics of the input received.
US10182139B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling a smart mobile device are disclosed. The method for controlling a smart mobile device includes: determining, when enabling a control of the smart mobile device by using body induction, a standing wave ratio (SWR) of the smart mobile device on the body induction according to a detected parameter of a body closing to the smart mobile device; and selecting a control instruction according to the determined SWR of the smart mobile device on the body induction and a preset corresponding relationship between the SWR of the smart mobile device on the body induction and the control instruction, and controlling the smart mobile device based on the selected control instruction.
US10182121B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for detecting a session status based on a cookie associated with the session is provided. The present invention may include receiving an access request to a specified location associated with a server computer. The present invention may also include determining that the received access request has the cookie corresponding with the specified location. The present invention may also include receiving a last refresh time from the cookie. The present invention may then include determining the session status based on the retrieved last refresh time, a current request time, a refresh interval, and an overdue value.
US10182116B2
One example includes a system is comprised of an elongated transmission line and as module. The elongated transmission line includes an arrangement of transmission line couplers distributed along its length at spaced apart locations. The module has an outer surface and is comprised of a transmitter, and a transmitter coupler. The transmitter transmits a radio frequency signal. The transmitter coupler is on the outer surface of the module, electrically connects with the transmitter, and aligns to couple with a respective one of the transmission line couplers to provide a contactless communication link between the transmitter and the elongated transmission line.
US10182113B2
The stream data processing system has an input server which accumulates input stream data to be migrated, instructs a migration source and a migration destination to perform data migration, transfers accumulated data to the migration destination in response to an accumulated data transfer instruction, then stops transferring data to the migration source, and transfers subsequent data to the migration destination subsequently to the transfer of the accumulated data. The migration source migrates both a query and an intermediate value that has been produced as a result of completion of execution of the query on input data. A migration destination server reads the accumulated data and the subsequent data that are transferred from the input server, skips reading the portions of these transferred data corresponding to and preceding the migrated intermediate value, and discards the output that is transferred from the migration source and precedes the query execution results.
US10182106B2
A data management system includes an information management apparatus including an acquisition unit, a first transmission unit, and a second transmission unit, and an information processing apparatus including a first reception unit and a second reception unit. The acquisition unit acquires target-user identification information and data made available to a target user. If data-group identification information has not been transmitted to the information processing apparatus of the target user, the first transmission unit transmits the data-group identification information to the information processing apparatus. If the first transmission unit has transmitted the data-group identification information to the information processing apparatus of the target user, the second transmission unit transmits a data provision notification to the information processing apparatus. The first reception unit receives the data-group identification information from the information management apparatus. The second reception unit receives the data provision notification from the information management apparatus.
US10182104B1
Automatic propagation of resource attributes in a provider network according to propagation criteria
A provider network that implements different resources for a client may provide automatic propagation of resource attributes to the different resources according to propagation criteria. Propagation criteria may be received that indicates a logical structure for multiple resources of a provider network. These resources may or may not be currently deployed. In response to a request to initiate propagation of resource attributes to the multiple resources, the multiple resources may be identified according to a logical structure identified as part of the propagation criteria and the resource attributes applied to the identified resources. Upon completion of propagation, a notification of completion may be provided.
US10182103B2
A service provider system may include an application fulfillment platform that delivers desktop applications on demand to desktops on physical computing devices or virtual desktop instances. The applications may be selected for delivery from a catalog of applications, and may be required to be installed on the destination computing resource instance, or may be assigned to a customer's end user on whose behalf the resource instance was provisioned. A workflow for deploying a selected application may invoke services implemented on the platform. The desktop application may be delivered as a virtualized application package that is subsequently executed by a runtime engine installed on the end user's resource instance, without installing the selected application itself on the computing resource instance. A customer's IT administrators may create and populate the catalog, add customer-generated or customer-licensed applications, assign applications to users, apply constraints on application use, and monitor application usage.
US10182095B2
A video call method and system may use a two-way transmission of a visual effect or an auditory effect. A server may manage and store content that includes visual information or auditory information as an effect to apply to a video call in association with an effect identifier. A server may receive, during the video call, an effect identifier and may transmit the visual information or audio information associated with the effect identifier to a reception-side electronic device together with a data packet for the video call.
US10182088B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for utilization of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band for performing a ranging procedure. Performance of the ranging procedure may be triggered by a signal transmitted in a licensed radio frequency spectrum band. While conventional ranging in Long Term Evolution (LTE) communications, for example, using the licensed radio frequency spectrum band may be limited to a 10 MHz bandwidth, using the unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band for ranging may allow use of a wider bandwidth, such as 100 MHz or greater. Use of the wider bandwidth may result in more accurate ranging measurements (e.g., time-of-arrival estimation).
US10182086B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for transmitting streaming media data and relates to the field of multimedia communication technologies. The method includes: receiving a data request sent by a user equipment UE, where the data request is used to request a media presentation description MPD file from a streaming media server; if the UE does not support a dynamic adaptive steaming over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP DASH technology, forwarding the data request to the streaming media server, and receiving the requested MPD file that is delivered by the streaming media server according to the data request; and acquiring DASH streaming media data from the streaming media server according to the MPD file, and sending the DASH streaming media data to the UE, where a rate at which the DASH streaming media data is transmitted matches a bit rate selected from the MPD file.
US10182081B2
A control system is provided. The control system includes a state management unit configured to control state information indicating a state of a communication terminal and a control unit configured to, when a first communication terminal and a second communication terminal communicate, determine whether content data should be transmitted from the first communication terminal to the second communication terminal and whether content data should be transmitted from the second communication terminal to the first communication terminal based on a set of the state information indicating the state of the first communication terminal and the state information indicating the state of the second communication terminal controlled by the state management unit.
US10182071B2
A system for mitigating network attacks includes a protected network and one or more attack mitigation devices communicatively coupled to the protected network. The attack mitigation devices are configured to receive a request from a host having an IP address and determine whether the IP address is included in a first probabilistic data structure representing addresses of hosts having failed to authenticate using a first authentication procedure. The attack mitigation devices are also configured to perform the first authentication procedure, responsive to a determination that the IP address of the host is not included in the first data structure. The attack mitigation devices are yet further configured to allow the host to access the protected network, responsive to successful completion of the first authentication procedure and to update the first data structure to include the IP address of the host, responsive to unsuccessful completion of the first authentication procedure.
US10182066B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network analyzes data indicative of a behavior of a network using a supervised anomaly detection model. The device determines whether the supervised anomaly detection model detected an anomaly in the network from the analyzed data. The device trains an unsupervised anomaly detection model, based on a determination that no anomalies were detected by the supervised anomaly detection model.
US10182045B2
In an example embodiment, a method, system, and program storage device for binding an industrial application to a plurality of services in an Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is provided. For each of a plurality of tenants, a service template corresponding to a group in which the corresponding tenant belongs is retrieved and an instance of the industrial application is instantiated for the corresponding tenant. Then, at runtime of an instance of the industrial application, a number of actions are taken. A request by the instance of the industrial application for a service identified by a first service name is detected. Then a credential for the service name is retrieved, with the credential identifying a location where an instance of the service identified by the first service name resides. The service identified by the first service name is then dynamically called using the location.
US10182042B2
Bridging encrypted datasets is provided. A system transmits, to a server, a first identifier vector encrypted with a first encryption that is commutative. The system receives an encrypted first identifier vector encrypted based on the first encryption and encrypted by a second encryption associated with the server. The system receives a second identifier vector encrypted based on the second encryption. The system encrypts the second identifier vector with the first encryption to generate an encrypted second identifier vector that is encrypted based on the second encryption and further encrypted based on the first encryption. The system determines a correlation count between the encrypted first identifier vector and the encrypted second identifier vector. The system generates one identifier key for both the first identifier and the second identifier. The system can provide the one identifier key for input into an application to process interactions.
US10182041B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for secure data transmissions. A method includes receiving a request for data that is encrypted according to a first encryption scheme, and determining a first public IP address associated with the request. The first public IP address identifies a remote client that created the request and is located in a field of a data packet that includes the request. The method includes determining a second public IP address associated with the request that identifies a sender of the request and is determined dynamically when the request is received. The method includes verifying an authenticity of the request in response to the first public IP address of the remote client matching the second public IP address of the sender. The method includes encrypting the requested data according to a second encryption scheme, and transferring the data to the remote client.
US10182039B2
At a source network device, data is compiled into a plurality of data blocks for transmission in a data frame over a network to a destination network device. The plurality of data blocks are arranged into a plurality of data block groups such that each data block group comprises a predetermined number of data blocks. Encryption information is generated for each of the plurality of data blocks groups. The encryption information identifies an encryption key for each of the plurality of data block groups. Overhead data configured to allow the destination network device to align and decode the data frame is generated. The data frame is transmitted from the source network device to the destination network device such that the encryption information for each of the plurality of data block groups is transmitted consecutively with a respective data block group, and a portion of the overhead data is transmitted prior to each consecutive transmission of encryption information with a data block group.
US10182038B2
Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the efficient common storage of partially encrypted content. According to various embodiments, a client device to transmit a designated representation of a media content item via a communications interface may be received. The media content item may be associated with a plurality of representations including the designated representation. The media content item may be associated with first media content data and second media content data. The first media content data may be shared among the plurality of representations. The second media content data may be specific to the designated representation. The first media content data may be combined with the second media content data to create a designated partially encrypted media content portion associated with the designated representation via a processor. The designated partially encrypted media content portion may be transmitted to the client device via the communications interface.
US10182036B2
Embodiments of the present invention refer to a method for establishing a connection through a virtual private network “VPN” (9) between a first (1) and a second (3) entities of a transport network, the entities including a VPN interface (5, 7), wherein, between the interfaces, a bearer of a selected type, among a plurality of types corresponding to a plurality of quality of service “QoS”, is determined according to the QoS requested for the connection and wherein the parameters used by the VPN interfaces (5, 7) for the establishment of the bearer are global routing parameters corresponding to global routing parameters of the transport network and wherein the parameters include at least one parameter which is different from one bearer type to another so that the selected bearer type associated with the QoS requested for the connection is identified by the first and the second entities.
US10182034B1
A contact center maintains a pool of calling party telephone numbers (“CPTN”) that can be selected for call origination. A new CPTN can be selected based on various criteria in order to avoid, or respond to, a determination that the current CPTN is “tagged” as being a robocall. The triggering of a new CPTN can be initiated based on various factors, including a number of calls made, a time period, a change in call outcomes, direct input, or by querying a database maintaining status information. Upon triggering the selection of a new number, the old calling party number may be placed in a “dead” pool if tagged, or placed in an “aging” pool for where it is not used for a given time. Once aged, the number is placed in an “available for use” pool. Thus, impacts of service provider robocall processing can be mitigated.
US10182031B2
An electronic messaging system includes a messaging server that identifies a recipient for an electronic message. The messaging system sends the recipient an electronic message that includes instrumented content. A web server monitors activity and determines whether interaction occurred with the instrumented content. The web server determines whether a sandbox intercepted the message based on whether interaction occurred, or did not occur, with the instrumented content within a threshold time period or with one or more activity characteristics.
US10182028B1
In one embodiment, a method for maintaining real-time communications of a user includes receiving a user's real-time communications of different types over a network, presenting the real-time communications in an email inbox of the user in a uniform manner, and allowing the user to search contents of the real-time communications presented in the email inbox.
US10182023B2
A method implemented by a client application when executed on a user device during an instant messaging communication between said user device and at least one further device, the method comprising: transmitting a first message comprising media data over a communication network from said user device to said at least one further device; receiving a second message comprising further media data transmitted over said communication network from said at least one further device; determining that the media data and the further media data are of the same data type; and generating a composite media object based on the media data and the further media data in response to said determination and displaying the composite media object on a display of said user device.
US10182017B2
A network switch includes circuitry, multiple ports and multiple hardware-implemented distinct-flow counters. The multiple ports are configured to receive packets from a communication network. Each of the multiple hardware-implemented distinct-flow counters is configured to receive (i) a respective count definition specifying one or more packet-header fields and (ii) a respective subset of the received packets, and to estimate a respective number of distinct flows that are present in the subset, by evaluating, over the packets in the subset, a number of distinct values in the packet-header fields belonging to the count definition. The circuitry is configured to provide each of the distinct-flow counters with the respective subset of the received packets, including providing a given packet to a plurality of the distinct-flow counters, and to identify an event-of-interest based on numbers of distinct flows estimated by the distinct-flow counters.
US10182012B2
A route control device controls a transfer destination in a plurality of transfer devices that are included in a network and that transfer packets flowing between a first information processing device and a second information processing device. The route control device comprises a processor. The processor detects that a session is to be newly established, on the basis of a packet of a protocol that controls establishment of a session between the first information processing device and the second information processing device, selects a route with a light load from among a plurality of routes connecting the first information processing device and the second information processing device, and makes a transfer device on a selected route establish a selected route.
US10182006B2
Examples disclosed herein provide methods and systems for selecting Internet Protocol addresses for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communications. In at least one implementation, a method of operating a first communication device includes applying a source address selection algorithm to determine at least one source Internet Protocol (IP) address for the first communication device, and transferring a communication invite that indicates the at least one source IP address. The method further provides, receiving, from a second communication device, a response to the invite that indicates at least one IP address for the second communication device, applying SASA to the at least one IP address to determine a third source IP address for the first communication device, and initiating a communication with the second communication device using the third source IP address.
US10182004B2
A telecommunications mobility management system is arranged to allocate a mobile unit to different switching routes for different classes of service, for example to allow services capable of operation over packet-switched and circuit-switched to be managed separately. Separate location updates are transmitted to a register, and flagged for selective retrieval by a routing function when an incoming connection request is made, the appropriate switch ID being selected according to the class of service to which the connection request relates.
US10181995B2
According to one embodiment, a monitoring control system includes a controller and a monitoring control device. The monitoring control device includes: a first common memory to store therein common data cyclically transmitted/received by cyclic transmission; a first internal memory to store therein data other than the common data; and a search processor that searches control data to control the controller by transmitting tag information associated with the control data to the controller. The controller includes: a second common memory to store therein the common data; a second internal memory to store therein data other than the common data; and a storage processor that stores the control data read from the second internal memory in the second common memory as the common data when the control data corresponding to the tag information received from the monitoring control device is not stored in the second common memory.
US10181988B1
A method for monitoring a network device is described. The method includes analyzing a traffic log that records network activity between the network device and a cloud server. The method also includes determining that the network device is offline based on the traffic log analysis. The method further includes sending an alert to a user device indicating that the network device is offline.
US10181987B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for collector high availability. In some embodiments, a system receives, from a first collector device, a first data report generated by a capturing agent deployed on a host system in a network. The system can also receive, from a second collector device, a second data report generated by the capturing agent deployed on the host system. The first and second data reports can include traffic data captured at the host system by the capturing agent during a period of time. The system can determine that the first data report and the second data report are both associated with the capturing agent, and identify duplicate data contained in the first data report and the second data report. The system can then deduplicate the first and second data reports to yield a deduplicated data report.
US10181985B1
Describe herein are techniques for providing cloud-based discovery. For example, a device may be configured to provide device registration and de-registration notifications to a cloud-based discovery service. The cloud-based discovery service may be configured to respond to discovery request by identifying registered devices that meet the criteria of the discovery request. The cloud-based discovery service may also be configured to provide endpoint information associated with registered devices in response to the discovery request, such that a device is able to utilize the endpoint information to connect with one or more of the registered devices.
US10181983B2
Methods recommend to data center customers those attributes of a data center infrastructure and application program that are associated with service-level objective (“SLO”) metric degradation and may be recorded in problem definitions. In other words, a data center customer is offered to “codify” problems primarily with atomic abnormality conditions on indicated attributes that decrease the SLO by some degree that the data center customer would like to be aware. As a result, the data center customer is warned of potentially significant SLO decline in order to prevent unwanted loss and take any necessary actions to prevent active anomalies. Methods also generate patterns of attributes that constitute core structures highly associated with degradation of the SLO metric.
US10181977B2
An apparatus comprising an application cross-stratum optimization (CSO) gateway (ACG) coupled to an application layer that handles a plurality of servers, a network CSO gateway (NCG) coupled to a network layer that handles a plurality of network nodes and configured to communicate with the ACG using a CSO protocol (CSOP), and a CSO interface established between the ACG and the NCG that enables the exchange of a plurality of CSOP messages to allow joint application-network resource allocation, provisioning, and optimization. Also disclosed is a network apparatus implemented method comprising sending a user profile from a user plane to an application plane, sending an application profile from the application plane to a network plane via a CSO interface between an ACG and a NCG, and sending network capability information from the network plane to the application plane via the CSO interface.
US10181971B2
A method for processing a signal modulated with a variable carrier frequency includes calculating a coefficient for demodulation of the signal. The method also includes demodulating the signal by calculating discrete intermediate values utilizing the coefficient for a predefined maximum number of steps and calculating the signal with the aid of the intermediate values of the coefficient. The value of the coefficient is respectively calculated on the basis of carrier frequencies for each step.
US10181970B2
Embodiments of a method and a system controlling an amplifier of a communications device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for controlling an amplifier of a communications device involves checking for a data reception at the communications device and freezing a gain of the amplifier if the data reception is detected.
US10181965B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre-5G communication system to be provided in order to support a higher data transmission rate than a beyond 4G communication system such as LTE. A method for estimating a channel, by a terminal, in a wireless communication system supporting beamforming using a plurality of antenna elements, which embodiments of the present disclosure provide, comprises: a step of receiving, from a base station, a set of reference beams including a plurality of reference beams; a step of selecting at least one effective beam from the plurality of reference beams included in the set of reference beams; a step of estimating a channel between the base station and the terminal on the basis of the selected effective beam; a step of generating channel information regarding the estimated channel; and a step of transmitting the generated channel information to the base station.
US10181964B2
A method for reporting a channel state of a terminal performed by the terminal is disclosed. The method includes receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration for verifying validity of channel estimation using only a part of two-dimensional (2D) array antenna ports configured for the terminal, verifying the validity of the channel estimation using CSI-RS configuration and obtaining a channel estimation validity indicator, and transmitting the channel estimation validity indicator and channel state information based on the channel estimation validity indicator.
US10181957B2
Techniques for detecting and/or handling target attacks in an enterprise's email channel are provided. The techniques include receiving aspects of an incoming email message addressed to a first email account holder, selecting a recipient interaction profile and/or a sender profile from a plurality of predetermined profiles stored in a memory based upon the received properties, determining a message trust rating associated with the incoming email message based upon the incoming email message and the selected recipient interaction profile and/or the sender profile; and generating an alert identifying the incoming email message as including a security risk based upon the determined message trust rating. The recipient interaction profile includes information associating the first email account holder and a plurality of email senders from whom email messages have previously been received for the first email account holder, and the sender profile includes information associating a sender of the incoming email message with characteristics determined from a plurality of email messages previously received from the sender.
US10181955B2
Method for converting an original paper document into an original information object, and for subsequent electronic transmission, storage, and retrieval of verifiable copies of the stored original information object without the Trusted Repository relinquishing control of the original information object. The user first converts the blue-ink-signed paper document into an electronic information object. On deposit of this information object into the Trusted Repository, the user is required to destroy or permanently designate the blue-ink-signed paper document and locally-retained files as copies. The Trusted Repository then requires the user to establish the authenticity of the electronic information object by verifying that it is now the only authoritative and original copy. The Trusted Repository then creates the original authenticated information object by appending a date-time stamp and its digital signature and certificate (signature block). This Trusted Repository action demonstrates the Trusted Repository's assumption of control of the original authenticated information object.
US10181943B2
A method involving a serial interconnection system having a first node, a second node, a plurality of calibration nodes that are electrically connected in series by the serial interconnection system, and a plurality of connection nodes corresponding to the plurality of serially connected calibration nodes and electrically connected in series by the serial interconnection system, the method involving: for each of the plurality of calibration nodes performing a measurement procedure involving: injecting a corresponding reference signal into that calibration node; and while the corresponding reference signal is being injected into that calibration node, determining a summation of the phases of signals appearing at the first and second nodes; from the determined phase summations for the plurality of calibration nodes, computing phase corrections for each of the plurality of calibration nodes; and applying the phase corrections to the corresponding plurality of connection nodes.
US10181933B2
The amount of control information is reduced for specifying the transmission method for simultaneously transmitting the uplink data and the reception quality information as well as the uplink data and the ACK/NACK. In a mobile communication system where the base station apparatus allocates, to the mobile station apparatus, resources wherein the base station apparatus transmits, to the mobile station apparatus, control information for specifying a transmission format for the mobile station apparatus to transmit information using the uplink, while the mobile station apparatus simultaneously transmits, to the base station apparatus, the uplink data and the reception quality information based on the specified transmission format in case of having received the control information from the base station apparatus.
US10181930B2
In an example of multi-user wireless communications, an access point may send a downlink frame to multiple stations. Some or all of the stations may generate and transmit their respective uplink frames. The uplink frames from the stations may be aggregated or multiplexed to form a final uplink frame that is received by the access point. The uplink frames may be block acknowledgment or acknowledgment (BA or ACK) frames. Uplink response scheduling may be located in a payload of the downlink frame, in which the uplink response scheduling indicates one or more resource units assigned to the multiple stations for transmitting the uplink frames. In some examples, the uplink response scheduling is in a control field of the payload, in a trigger frame as part of the payload. In some aspects, the downlink frame is part of a multicast transmission. Other methods, apparatus, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10181912B1
Network links are exercised by transmitting network frames across the links at a threshold level of network traffic by filling unutilized bandwidth with test frames. By increasing network traffic across the links, errors are increased and easier to detect. The test frames can be given lower priority than customer traffic so as not to impact the test traffic. The test frames can be designed such that they are dropped upon receipt by another network switch.
US10181904B2
The present invention relates to performing chromatic dispersion estimation in a receiver of an optical communication system. Here, the signal received by the receiver includes frames, each comprising a training portion and a data portion. The training portion comprises a plurality of identical pattern sequences. Different settings are applied to an equalizer to generate a plurality of equalized signals from at least one of the received frames. Then, at least one correlation value is calculated between a first pattern sequence and a second pattern sequence of the equalized signals and a final correlation value is derived from the respective correlation values. The setting of the equalizer corresponding to the equalized signal providing the highest final correlation value is selected to provide the chromatic dispersion estimation.
US10181901B2
Techniques are disclosed for establishing communication between light-based communication (LCom) luminaires within a navigation array of luminaires and mobile computing devices having varying components and processes using an encoding scheme received from passing mobile computing devices. The encoding scheme is a set of rules for encoding and generating a visible-light communication (VLC) signal so that the mobile computing device may recognize VLC signals broadcast by the luminaire. In accordance with some embodiments, the disclosed techniques can be used, for example, to accommodate future computing devices that may incorporate different camera technologies and different processing algorithms to process waveforms in the VLC signals.
US10181900B2
According to examples, a wavelength identification and analysis sensor may include a wavelength transmitter, operably connectable to an input or output of a wavelength selective device of a wavelength division multiplex (WDM) network, to transmit test signals on a plurality of wavelengths into the input or output of the wavelength selective device of the WDM network. A wavelength analyzer is to detect returned signals from the input or output of the wavelength selective device of the WDM network, with each returned signal being associated with one of the transmitted test signals. Further, the wavelength analyzer is to analyze the returned signals and identify, based on the analysis of the returned signals, a wavelength associated with the input or output of the wavelength selective device of the WDM network.
US10181893B2
Systems and methods configured to form and point beams from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) toward target cells in a coverage area on the ground. One embodiment determines and forms the required number of UAV fixed beams needed to cover the target area when UAV is at its highest altitude and highest roll/pitch/yaw angles so that the target coverage area is covered under all UAV altitude and orientation conditions. In another embodiment, UAV determines the beam pointing angles toward different cells on the ground using information on position coordinates and orientation angles of the UAV, and the position coordinates of the cells in the coverage area relative to the center of coverage area. In another embodiment, a reference terminal placed at the center of coverage is used by the UAV to optimally point a beam toward center of the coverage area.
US10181890B2
A CSI feedback method includes steps of: performing, by a terminal, channel estimation on a received pilot signal to acquire channel estimation values of A antenna ports for transmitting the pilot signal to a network device; determining, by the terminal, Q antenna ports based on the channel estimation values of the A antenna ports, L≤Q≤A, L representing a value of a RI adopted by the network device in the case of transmitting downlink data to the terminal or a value of a RI of a channel determined by the terminal; and determining, by the terminal, a first-level PMI based on the Q antenna ports, and feeding back CSI containing the first-level PMI to the network device, the first-level PMI being used to indicate indices of the Q antenna ports among the A antenna ports for transmitting the pilot signal.
US10181887B2
A method, and a device, for reporting channel state information (CSI) in a wireless local area network system are discussed. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving, by a responding station, a sounding Physical layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) from a requesting station; and transmitting, by the responding station, a CSI report to the requesting station, the CSI report including CSI report information in a form of angles representing a beamforming feedback matrix that is estimated by the responding station based on the sounding PPDU. If the sounding PPDU is received via a plurality of contiguous channels, the beamforming feedback matrix is estimated based on all of the plurality of contiguous channels. If the sounding PPDU is received via at least one of a plurality of non-contiguous channels, the beamforming feedback matrix is estimated based on only one of the plurality of non-contiguous channels.
US10181886B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of wireless communication via multiple antenna assemblies. For example, a device may include a wireless communication unit to transmit and receive signals via one or more quasi-omnidirectional antenna assemblies, wherein the wireless communication unit is to transmit, via each quasi-omnidirectional antenna assembly, a plurality of first transmissions, to receive, in response to the first transmissions, a plurality of second transmissions from another device via one or more of the quasi-omnidirectional antenna assemblies, and, based on the second transmissions, to select at least one selected transmit antenna assembly for transmitting to the other device and a selected receive antenna assembly for receiving transmissions from the other device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10181883B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for wireless communications are described. Example methods, devices, and systems are described that utilize a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) computed based at least in part on first signals received via a first cell and on second signals received via a second cell. Information in a measurement information message may be used as part of computing a PMI. The measurement information message may indicate resources of a first cell and a second cell for use in computing the PMI. A wireless device may receive first signals via the first cell and second signals via the second cell based on information in the measurement information message, and may use these signals to compute the PMI. The computed PMI may be used in communications with a base station. For example, the wireless device may receive a packet beamformed employing the computed PMI.
US10181872B1
An example method of capacitive sensing includes: receiving at least one code division multiplexed (CDM) signal transmitted from different transmitters using different codes over a plurality of signal bursts, wherein a length of each of the different codes is equal to or greater than a number of the different transmitters; filtering the at least one CDM signal using an impulse response filter, wherein the filtering comprises: accumulating the at least one CDM signal over the plurality of signal bursts to obtain measurements of the at least one CDM signal; and for the measurements of the at least one CDM signal, applying different filter weights to the resulting signals over a number of the plurality of signal bursts that is greater than the length of the different codes.
US10181871B2
In an interactive communication system, one or more stations enter a scan mode to receive ID codes transmitted by wearable devices and transmit the ID codes to a server. The server receives the ID codes and transmits a command to one of the wearable devices via at least one of the stations. The one of the wearable devices receives the command via the at least one of the stations and transmits a feedback, in response to the command, to the server. The stations can detect signal strengths of the wearable devices. The server can determine a location of each of the wearable devices according to the ID codes and the signal strengths detected by the stations.
US10181856B2
A Digital Phase Locked Loop (DPLL), including a Time-to-Digital Converter (TDC) configured generate quantized phase values of a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) signal; and a frequency estimation circuit configured to receive the quantized phase values, determine wraparound phase of the quantized phase values, and least-squares estimate a frequency based on the quantized phase values and the wraparound phase.
US10181853B2
Systems for monitoring or control can include reconfigurable input and output channels. Such reconfigurable channels can include as few as a single terminal and a ground pin, or such channels can include three or four terminal configuration such as for use in four-terminal resistance measurements. Channel reconfiguration can be accomplished such as using software-enabled or firmware-enabled control of channel hardware. Such channel hardware can include analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion capability, including use of a digital-to-analog converter to provide field power or biasing. In an example, the interface circuit can provide a selectable impedance.
US10181852B1
A bidirectional voltage translator shifts a voltage level of a first voltage signal to generate a second voltage signal, and vice-versa. The voltage translator includes first and second I/O terminals for receiving and outputting the first and second voltage signals, respectively, and first and second one-shot circuits connected to first and second output transistors, respectively. The outputs of the transistors are connected to the first and second I/O terminals, respectively, and also are fed back to the respective one-shot circuits. When the output of the voltage translator has a high slew-rate, the one of the first and second one-shot circuits that corresponds to the output modulates the gate voltage of the corresponding output transistor based on the feedback signal to control the slew-rate of the output.
US10181842B2
A flip-flop element is configured to include FinFET technology transistors with a mix of threshold voltage levels. The data input path includes FinFET transistors configured with high voltage thresholds (HVT). The clock input path includes transistors configured with standard voltage thresholds (SVT). By including FinFET transistors with SVT thresholds in the clock signal path, the Miller capacitance of the clock signal path is reduced relative to HVT FinFET transistors, leading to lower rise time and correspondingly lower hold time. By including HVT threshold devices in the data input path, the flip-flop element attains high speed and low power operation. By including SVT threshold devices in the clock signal path, the flip-flop element achieves faster switching times in the clock signal path.
US10181841B1
A voltage level conversion circuit includes a first voltage level input terminal, a second voltage level input terminal, a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor, and a delay control chip configured to output the first voltage level before outputting the second voltage level in a delayed manner. The present disclosure also provides a display panel.
US10181834B2
In described examples of a magnetically coupled structure on a substrate with an integrated circuit device, the structure includes a first coil in a differential configuration, a second coil located above the first coil in a generally stacked configuration, and a center tap connection to a winding of the second coil. The first coil includes a first differential terminal, a second differential terminal, and metal windings of the first coil. The first coil's metal windings form a continuous spiral electrical path between the first and second differential terminals. The first coil's metal windings include turns and crossing connections between the turns. The turns are fabricated in an integrated circuit metal wiring level, and the crossing connections are fabricated in at least one metal level other than the metal wiring level containing the turns. The center tap is positioned to create a balanced structure.
US10181825B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and system for power amplifier characterization and digital predistortion. The method includes receiving a test signal including K samples with a sampling rate fS, generating a synthetic test signal including the test signal and a sequence of (N−1) delayed versions of the test signal, generating an under-sampled signal including M samples by sampling, at a sampling rate fS/N, an output signal of a device-under-test (DUT) with the synthetic test signal as an input of the DUT, the M samples of the under-sampled signal including N segments each including K/N samples, and generating a reconstructed signal including the M samples of the under-sampled signal.
US10181811B2
To regulate the electrical output of a generator, a signal is received indicative of at least one characteristic of the electrical output. A first, relatively fast-response sub-controller is configured to provide a first control signal on the basis of the at least one characteristic and a second, relatively slow-response sub-controller is configured to provide a second control signal on the basis of the at least one characteristic. An output provides a combined control signal to adjust the electrical output based on the first and second control signals.
US10181810B2
Methods and apparatus for determining a position of a rotor in motor, such as a three-phase motor by determining first and second ones of sectors in which a first one of the magnetic poles of the rotor may be positioned by driving phase pairs with complementary signals and examining a voltage of a floating one of the phases. Embodiments can further include driving first and second currents towards the first and second ones of the sectors and analyzing a time for each of the first and second currents to reach a threshold to identify which of the first and second ones of the sectors is aligned with the first one of the magnetic poles of the rotor.
US10181808B2
When an electrical primary frequency of power fluctuation of a motor is smaller than a determination threshold value fth1 that is a lower limit frequency of a frequency band where resonance occurs in a circuit including a reactor and a capacitor of a boosting converter or greater than a determination threshold value that is an upper limit frequency of the frequency band where resonance occurs, a value G2 is set as a gain G and when the electrical primary frequency is equal to or greater than the determination threshold value fth1 and equal to or smaller than the determination threshold value, a value G3 at which the upper limit frequency of the resonant frequency band has a low frequency than the determination threshold value fth1 is set as the gain G, and a current control in the boosting converter is executed using the gain G set in this way. The resonance of the circuit including the reactor and the capacitor of the boosting converter can be prevented.
US10181807B2
A converter including a first transducer that can lengthen inside at least a first deformation zone and simultaneously shrink inside at least a different second deformation zone. Inner faces of second and third electromechanical transducers are secured respectively, with no degree of freedom, substantially to the first and second deformation zones of the layer of the first transducer. The third transducer differs from the second transducer by the polarization of its layer of piezoelectric material in a different direction to polarization of the layer of piezoelectric material of the second transducer and/or by existence of a separation that mechanically and electrically insulates a first electrode of the third transducer from a first electrode of the second transducer located on a same side of the layer of piezoelectric material.
US10181792B2
A synchronous buck converter is provided in which a replica transistor has its drain coupled to a drain of the low-side switch transistor. A current sensing amplifier drives a scaled current into the replica transistor such that the drain-to-source voltage of the replica transistor substantially equals the drain-to-source voltage of the low-side switch. The replica transistor is much smaller than the low switch transistor such that the replica transistor's on resistance is higher by a scale factor Kf as compared to the on resistance for the low-side switch transistor.
US10181786B1
A circuit for minimizing a cross-conduction time interval includes a phase node, a high-side gate drive node, a low-side gate drive node, a high-side FET coupled to the high-side gate drive node, and a low-side FET coupled to the low-side gate drive node. A high-side adjustable delay delays a transition edge of a high-side gate drive signal. A low-side adjustable delay circuit delays a transition edge of a low-side gate drive signal. A high-side delay adjustment guidance circuit provides high-side delay adjustment guidance based on a detected body-diode conduction of the low-side FET detected during a first time period. A low-side delay adjustment guidance circuit provides low-side delay adjustment guidance based on a detected body-diode conduction of the low-side FET detected during a second time period.
US10181781B2
Magnetic vibration damper includes three coaxial elements: a first coaxial element with first permanent magnets, a second coaxial element with first soft magnets and a third coaxial element with second permanent magnets. The first soft magnets are located between the first permanent magnets and the second permanent magnets in a radial direction. The spacing of the second permanent magnets is larger than the spacing of the first permanent magnets. The damper further includes an energy conversion component, such as conductive layers or coils to convert the mechanical movement of the magnets into heat or electric current.
US10181777B2
Method for forming at least one U-shaped winding element (10) for an electromagnetically excitable core (11) of an electric rotation machine (12), wherein the U-shaped winding element (10) has a first rod section (13) and a second rod section (15) which are connected by an arcuate connection section (16), wherein an inner tool part (23) having at least one recess (29) in the region of its outer circumference is provided, and an outer tool part (26) having at least one recess (30) in the region of its inner circumference is provided, and at least the U-shaped winding element (10) is inserted into the inner tool part (23) and the outer tool part (26) such that one rod section (13) is inserted into a recess (29) of the inner tool part (23), the other rod section (15) is inserted into a recess (30) of the outer tool part (26), and such that the inner tool part (23) and the outer tool part (26) are rotated with respect to one another about the axis of rotation (36), wherein in that context the at least two rod sections (13, 15) are moved away from one another, wherein, prior to the at least two rod sections (13, 15) being moved away from one another, a gripping element (50) having a tooth (53) is moved toward a rod section (15), which is gripped by means of a tooth (53).
US10181774B2
An electric motor assembly includes an electric motor, a casing configured to house the motor, and an electrical enclosure coupled to the motor casing. The electrical enclosure houses a control board including a microcontroller and a memory device therein. The microcontroller is configured to control the electric motor based at least in part on motor configuration data stored in the memory device. The assembly also includes a near field communications (NFC) antenna positioned adjacent to an opening defined in the motor casing or the electronics enclosure, and is communicatively coupled to the memory device. The NFC antenna is configured to: receive a radio signal transmitted by an external programming device, the radio signal including updated motor configuration data; convert the radio signal to an electrical signal that includes the updated motor configuration data; and transmit the electrical signal to the memory device to store the updated motor configuration data.
US10181768B2
An energy harvester for harvesting energy from a rotating machine having a rotatable machine shaft includes a non-magnetic housing, a harvester shaft, a rotor, and a plurality of electrically isolated stators. The housing is adapted to couple to the rotating machine. The harvester shaft is disposed within the housing and is adapted to couple to and rotate with the machine shaft or in some cases becomes the rotating shaft of the machine. The rotor is disposed within the housing and is coupled to and surrounds at least a portion of the harvester shaft. The rotor comprises an N-pole permanent magnet. The plurality of stators are disposed within and coupled to the housing. Each stator surrounds the rotor and is spaced apart therefrom by an air gap. Each stator also has a set of windings wound thereon. Different numbers of stators could be operating together, whereas other stators are disconnected to extend the rotational speed range.
US10181766B2
A motor includes a rotor with a shaft, a stator, first and second bearings supporting the shaft, a bus bar assembly holding the second bearing, a circuit board, a sensor magnet fixed to the shaft, and a rotation sensor which is attached to the circuit board and faces a direction. The bus bar assembly includes a bus bar and a bus bar holder. The bus bar holder includes a cylindrical main body portion including an opening at a second side. The bus bar includes a coil connection portion that protrudes from an inner surface of the main body portion and is electrically connected to a coil of the stator. The end of the second side of the coil connection portion is located at a second side ahead of a surface of a first side of the circuit board.
US10181760B2
Techniques are described for authenticating device in wireless power delivery environments. In some embodiments, a request for energy delivery is received from devices. The request may include an identifier, e.g., a client identification (ID). The charger may query a remotely located authentication platform via a network with the client ID. The authentication platform compares the client ID against devices that have been registered within the system. If the device is properly provisioned, the authentication platform may return an acceptance of authentication to the charger. In addition to device authentication, the current disclosure covers the ability to control the environment within a wireless network, and perform system diagnostics by monitoring the network environment.
US10181759B2
Techniques for detecting a presence of a foreign object within a region for wirelessly transferring power to charge an electric vehicle are discloses. An example apparatus according to the disclosure includes a foreign object detection (FOD) structure including a transmitting loop structure, a receiving loop structure galvanically isolated from the transmitting loop structure and positioned relative to the transmitting loop structure such that a magnetic field generated by the transmitting loop structure induces a first voltage in the receiving loop structure, wherein the first voltage is below a threshold value, and a control circuit configured to drive the transmitting loop structure and detect a change in a magnitude of the first voltage in the receiving loop structure in response to the presence of the foreign object within the magnetic field.
US10181753B2
The electric power system protection device according to the present invention includes a transformer including a primary winding and a secondary winding which are electrically isolated from each other. The primary winding is to be connected to a first electric path which is to be connected to an external power supply configured to supply AC power by use of a secondary battery, so as to receive the AC power from the external power supply. The secondary winding is to be connected to a second electric path to be connected to a power supply path from a commercial electric power system to an electric load.
US10181747B2
A base may include a frame, a keyboard partially enclosed by the frame, a battery, and a single coil coupled to the battery. The keyboard may be configured to wirelessly communicate with a computing device. The battery may be configured to provide power to the keyboard. The single coil may be configured to induce a current from a magnetic field to charge the battery. The base may not include any charging coils other than the single coil.
US10181746B2
A storage assembly can include a housing defining an interior space, a top surface, a front surface, and an upper recessed storage area defined at the top surface. A moveable storage receptacle can define a movable storage area. The movable storage receptacle can include a front exterior surface that defines a part of the front surface of the housing. The moveable storage receptacle can be configured to move between a closed position in which the moveable storage area is disposed within the interior space of the housing, and an open position in which at least a portion of the moveable storage area is disposed beyond the interior space of the housing. A wireless charger can be disposed and configured to charge an electronic device when the electronic device is disposed at the upper recessed storage area.
US10181738B2
A discharge control device includes a discharge circuit configured to include a switch and a resistor to discharge charges of a smoothing capacitor and a power converter which are connected to a high-voltage power supply. The discharge circuit sets the switch to an ON state to start the discharging for a fixed period when an ignition switch is changed from the ON state to an OFF state. The discharge circuit sets the switch to the OFF state to stop the discharging when the ignition switch is changed from the OFF state to the ON state during a period in which the discharge circuit performs the discharging.
US10181730B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques for reducing human exposure to wireless energy in wireless power delivery environments. In some embodiments, a wireless power reception apparatus configured to receive wireless power from a wireless charging system in a wireless power delivery environment is disclosed. The wireless power reception apparatus includes a control system and an antenna array. In some embodiments, the control system is configured to dynamically adjust transmission and reception radiation patterns of the antenna array to reduce human exposure to wireless radio frequency (RF) energy.
US10181729B1
A system and method for a mobile hybrid transmitter/receiver (TX/RX) node for wireless resonant power delivery is disclosed. A hybrid TX/RX can be configured to travel to remote, wirelessly-powerable receivers and deliver power to them wirelessly. A hybrid TX/RX device can include a transmitter component (TX), a receiver (RX) component, and a power store for storing power for supply to remote receivers. The TX/RX device can be configured in an autonomous unmanned vehicle operational to travel between a fixed source transmitter devices and one or more specified locations that may be host to one or more remote receivers. In the location of the one or more remote receivers, the TX component may function to wirelessly transfer power from the power store to the one or more remote receivers. In the location of the fixed source transmitter device, RX component can be configured to receive power via wireless power transfer, and to use the received power to at least partially replenish the power store.
US10181723B2
Methods of operating a power supply switching circuit including selecting a first power supply signal for provisioning through the power supply switching circuit to a electronic storage device. A current draw can be detected via the first power supply signal that exceeds a predetermined current limit and a second power supply signal can be coupled to the first power supply signal for provisioning through the power supply switching circuit to the electronic storage device responsive to the current draw exceeding the predetermined current limit.
US10181711B2
A spacer device includes an elongate spacing member extending a longitudinal axis for securing to electrical transmission lines, and has a minimum thickness dm. At least one thickened portion having a thickness Tt and length dt is positioned intermediate along the spacing member to form at least two column lengths Lc separated by the at least one thickened portion. Each column length Lc has a portion with the minimum thickness dm. The thickness Tt and length dt of the at least one thickened portion can be at least two times the minimum thickness dm to form at least one end support for the at least two column lengths Lc, such the at least two column lengths Lc behave as separate Euler type columns for producing increased Euler buckling strength with a minimal increase in weight.
US10181710B1
An electrical connection box includes a lower cover, an upper cover, a connector front opening, bus bars, four first ribs formed of two pairs opposing each other with the bus bar, formed on the lower cover, interposed therebetween, and four second ribs formed of two pairs opposing each other with the bus bar, formed on the upper cover, interposed therebetween. The first ribs and the second ribs are provided such that a pair of ribs is provided to oppose each other on one side and on another side with the bus bar interposed therebetween in a vertical direction, and a pair of ribs is provided to oppose each other on one side and on another side with the bus bar interposed therebetween in a width direction. When viewed from a direction of assembling, the first ribs and the second ribs are provided at different positions.
US10181708B2
A control component for insertion in a standard size connection box of a conventional component such as a switch or other electrical mechanism. The control component may have new capabilities plus maintain the capabilities of the conventional component. The connection box need not be removed, or if the box is removed then the structure or space encompassing the box need not be enlarged. Further, no new wiring for is necessarily needed for connecting the control component. This placement or substitution may be particularly applicable to many rooms of hotels, motels, and other facilities. Neither time nor expense of modifications to the connection box, wiring and/or the room is necessarily needed. In many cases, a room or space cannot necessarily be modified to add a larger or an additional component having additional capabilities, such as a component having an air quality controlled device for operating a ventilation fan in a room.
US10181695B2
A laser diode has a layer arrangement including a first layer structure extending along a Z axis in a longitudinal direction, along an X axis in a transverse direction and along a Y axis in a height direction, and a second and third layer structure arranged along the Z axis on opposite longitudinal sides of the first layer structure and adjoining the first layer structure, wherein the active zone of the first layer structure is arranged offset in height relative to the active zones of the second and third layer structures, and an intermediate layer is arranged laterally with respect to the first layer structure in the second and third layer structures, the intermediate layer configured as an electrically blocking layer that hinders or prevents a current flow, and the intermediate layer being arranged between the active zone and an n contact.
US10181694B2
An optical module includes a semiconductor optical device in which an active layer located at one side, an electrode located at the same side, and a mirror that reflects light toward the side opposite the electrode are monolithically integrated, a sub-mount having one surface on which a first wiring pattern is formed, a substrate in which an optical waveguide and a grating coupler are formed in a surface layer of the substrate, a spacer having an upper surface on which a second wiring pattern is formed, and a wire. The sub-mount is mounted on the spacer. The first wiring pattern on the sub-mount faces part of the second wiring pattern on the spacer and is electrically connected thereto. The second wiring pattern on the spacer includes a pad being disposed in a region exposed from the sub-mount and being bonded to the wire.
US10181683B2
A connector includes: an electrically conductive terminal that is crimped and fixed onto an inner conductor of a coaxial cable; a conductive member that is electrically conductive and is crimped and fixed onto an outer conductor of the coaxial cable; an electrically insulative housing that includes a terminal housing chamber housing the terminal and the conductive member; and an electrically conductive top shell to which the conductive member being housed is connected and which is configured as at least one of a ground and a shield.
US10181670B2
Connector sub-assembly includes a plurality of signal conductors. The connector sub-assembly also includes a ground frame having ground conductors and a ground bus that interconnects the ground conductors. The ground bus has opposite first and second sides. The connector sub-assembly also includes a dielectric carrier that surrounds the ground bus and intermediate segments of the signal conductors. Mating segments of the signal conductors project from the dielectric carrier and are configured to engage corresponding contacts of a mating connector. The signal conductors include first conductors and second conductors, and the ground conductors are interleaved between adjacent first and second conductors. The intermediate segments of the first conductors extend adjacent to the first side of the ground bus. The intermediate segments of the second conductors extend adjacent to the second side of the ground bus.
US10181668B2
A dual spring contact assembly having an intermediate component between at least two canted coil springs with opposite canting angle directions for fitment between a first component and a second component. When there is relative displacement between the first and second components, the direction of movement of one of the components relative to one of the canted coil spring can always occur along the canting angle, reducing the friction between coils and component and increasing the life of the slip ring.
US10181665B2
A substrate connection structure includes: a first substrate having a first conductive pattern and a first screw insertion hole disposed therein; a second substrate having a second conductive pattern and a second screw insertion hole disposed therein; a connector having a main body with an arrangement hole and a connection terminal; a restriction member arranged in the arrangement hole and having a screw through hole; a screw; and an attachment having a female screw. One end of the connection terminal is soldered on the first conductive pattern. The screw penetrates the second screw insertion hole, the screw through hole and the first screw insertion hole, and screwed into the attachment, so that the first substrate, the restriction member and the second substrate are connected each other, and the second conductive pattern is electrically connected to the other end of the connection terminal.
US10181664B2
A contact includes a spring that has a curved portion and conductivity, a first contact portion that is a part of the curved portion raised from a bottom portion of a housing that holds the spring, the first contact portion comes in contact with a board to which the bottom portion is fixed, and a second contact portion that is a part of the curved portion raised from a lateral portion of the housing, the second contact portion comes in contact with another member placed next to the board.
US10181662B2
A cable connection method is provided. In a cable connection structure, a connection agent in which fine solder particle are densely scattered in a thermosetting resin-based adhesive is interposed between a connection portion of a flexible printed cable (FPC) cable in which a shield layer is formed on one surface side of a signal layer and a connection portion on a substrate side. Then, the connection portion of the FPC cable and the connection portion on the substrate side are solder connected by heating. A shield layer corresponding to the connection portion of the FPC cable and/or a region portion up to a position separated from the base end side of the connection portion of the FPC cable by a predetermined length is configured with a conductive mesh structure body. The other region of the shield layer contains a conductive flat plate structure.
US10181657B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to an antenna array, an antenna apparatus, and a base station. The antenna array includes: at least two antenna sub-arrays, where the at least two antenna sub-arrays are arranged in a vertical direction, each of the antenna sub-arrays includes multiple radiating elements, and in at least two adjacent antenna sub-arrays in the vertical direction, radiating elements at corresponding positions in the respective antenna sub-arrays are arranged in a staggered manner in a horizontal direction. In the embodiments of the present invention, horizontal side lobes and vertical far side lobes in an antenna array pattern are reduced, and the ultra-wideband performance is improved.
US10181652B2
Disclosed is an antenna desensitization system and a method for designing an antenna desensitization system. The system and method are operative to provide a configuration and positioning of an antenna desensitizer element, with respect to an antenna, to overcome a frequency detuning experienced during operation of such antenna. The antenna desensitizer element comprises one or a combination of more than one decoupling components selected from the group of a frequency selective surface, an electromagnetic band gap structure, a ferromagnetic material, an anisotropic material, a nanomaterial, a dielectric material, and a conductive material. The system and method are particularly suitable for reducing the antenna frequency detuning effects caused by an external agent, such as a user or operator of a mobile electronics device, during operation of such device.
US10181642B2
A patch antenna is disclosed as including a rectangular patch and a rectangular ground plane parallel to and spaced apart from the patch by a sheet of dielectric material. The patch has a first longer side and a second longer side which are opposite to each other and a first shorter side and a second shorter side which are opposite to each other. A first row of vias is provided adjacent the first longer side of the patch, a second row of vias being provided adjacent the second longer side of the patch, a third row of vias being provided adjacent the first shorter side of the patch, and a fourth row of vias being provided adjacent the second shorter side of the patch. Each via extends through the patch, the sheet of dielectric material and the ground plane to short the antenna.
US10181635B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for enabling installation of antennas in a cost effective and efficient manner. The methods and systems disclosed herein provide a hollow pole and an elevating mechanism, wherein the elevating mechanism can be used to position antenna equipment located in one or more capsules attached to the elevating mechanism. The antenna equipment may be attached to a removable power source located in the capsule or to a non-removable power source located at the base of the hollow pole. Additionally, the antenna equipment may also be attached to communications equipment adapted to communicate with one or more communications networks. In an embodiment disclosed herein, the capsules may be adapted to rotate around a one or more axis in response to received commands and/or in accordance with instructions stored on a memory module attached to the capsules.
US10181634B2
A method and apparatus for angularly aligning an antenna disposed at a geographical location is disclosed. A corresponding apparatus comprises a plurality of reticle members, each reticle member having a reticle, and a plurality of reference members, each adjustably engaged with an associated one of the plurality of reticle members, wherein each of the plurality of reference members comprises an associated template having a reference mark positioned thereon according to the geographical location of the antenna and the antenna is angularly aligned when each reference mark of each template is aligned with the reticle associated with the reference mark. A corresponding method comprises the steps of affixing an associated template having a reference mark positioned thereon according to the geographic location of the antenna to each of the plurality of reference members and angularly aligning each of the plurality of reticle members with each reference mark of each associated template.
US10181630B2
A directional coupler is described comprising two housing parts which define at least two hollow conductors and a separation wall positioned between both hollow conductors. Said separation wall comprises several holes ensuring a coupling of the at least two hollow conductors. Said several holes are arranged in two rows in an alternating manner such that a galvanic connection of both housing parts is provided between each neighbored holes. Further, a combiner is described.
US10181627B2
A variable power divider comprising a latching ferrite circulator including an input port, a first output port, a second output port, and at least one winding. The ports meet in a common junction. The variable power divider also includes a controller interface that receives a command signal indicating a desired power division ratio and a driver circuit configured to receive a control signal from the controller interface. The driver circuit generates a first pulse, having a duration and amplitude corresponding to a saturation state of the latching ferrite circulator, in a first direction through the at least one winding. After the first pulse, the driver circuit generates a second pulse in a second direction through the at least one winding opposite the first direction, the second pulse having a duration and amplitude determined from the desired power division ratio and corresponding to a non-saturation state of the latching ferrite circulator.
US10181625B2
The present invention is an air battery B1 in which a cathode assembly 40, including a porous cathode layer 41, and an anode assembly 30 are disposed on mutually opposite sides of an electrolytic solution layer β. It includes an electrically conductive cathode support plate 42 that supports the porous cathode layer 41 and includes a ventilation area, wherein the porous cathode layer 41 covers the ventilation area and further extends to a non-ventilation area outside the ventilation area, and includes a dense portion 41a at an outer edge part facing the non-ventilation area.
US10181624B2
The present invention provides a metal-air battery, wherein a failure in a wiring portion can be repaired easily. The present invention provides a metal electrode cartridge including a first operation portion and a first insertion portion extended from the first operation portion, wherein the first insertion portion includes a first fuel electrode containing a metal serving as an electrode active material, the first operation portion includes a first fuel electrode terminal electrically connected to the first fuel electrode and a first air electrode connection portion, and the first air electrode connection portion includes a first internal connection terminal and a first external connection terminal.
US10181616B2
A fuel cell vehicle includes a fuel cell stack, a tank, a discharge flow path discharging a fluid discharged from the fuel cell stack, a muffler attached to the discharge flow paths, and a vehicle member defining a first chamber and a second chamber, the first chamber accommodating the fuel cell stack and the second chamber being disposed behind the first chamber and accommodating the tank and the muffler. The second chamber is also provided with a front portion and a rear portion continuous with the front portion, the rear portion being shorter than the front portion in average length in a vehicle width direction. The muffler is disposed between the tank and one of a pair of side wall portions defining side walls of the front portion in the vehicle width direction.
US10181615B2
A method of rebalancing electrolytes in a redox flow battery system comprises directing hydrogen gas generated on the negative side of the redox flow battery system to a catalyst surface, and fluidly contacting the hydrogen gas with an electrolyte comprising a metal ion at the catalyst surface, wherein the metal ion is chemically reduced by the hydrogen gas at the catalyst surface, and a state of charge of the electrolyte and pH of the electrolyte remain substantially balanced.
US10181614B2
An electrode comprises an acid treated, cathodically cycled carbon-comprising film or body. The carbon consists of single walled nanotubes (SWNTs), pyrolytic graphite, microcrystalline graphitic, any carbon that consists of more than 99% sp2 hybridized carbons, or any combination thereof. The electrode can be used in an electrochemical device functioning as an electrolyzer for evolution of hydrogen or as a fuel cell for oxidation of hydrogen. The electrochemical device can be coupled as a secondary energy generator into a system with a primary energy generator that naturally undergoes generation fluctuations. During periods of high energy output, the primary source can power the electrochemical device to store energy as hydrogen, which can be consumed to generate electricity as the secondary source during low energy output by the primary source. Solar cells, wind turbines and water turbines can act as the primary energy source.
US10181613B2
A fuel cell system comprising: an acquirer that acquires a total value of cell voltages of two or more cells included in a fuel cell; and a determiner that determines, when the total value is a first voltage value, abnormal power generation in which power generation by at least a part of the two or more cells is abnormal, that determines, when the total value is a second voltage value higher than the first voltage value, normal power generation in which power generation by the two or more cells is normal and that determines, when the total value is a third voltage value higher than the first voltage value but lower than the second voltage value, the normal power generation if a cathode gas is deficient or the abnormal power generation if the cathode gas is not deficient.
US10181609B2
A power source includes a container, a hydrogen fuel disposed within the container, a fuel cell wrapped around the hydrogen fuel within the container, electronics supported within the container and coupled to receive current from the fuel cell, a sensor coupled to the electronics to provide data representative of a sensed condition, and a charge storage device within the container and coupled to provide current to the electronics.
US10181579B2
The present disclosure relates to an OLED encapsulation method and an OLED encapsulation structure. The OLED encapsulation method combines the frame glue encapsulation technology and the thin film encapsulation technology. By adopting the frame glue to block the organic layer and to limit the dimension of the organic layer, each of the organic layers can be completely covered by the inorganic layer arranged thereon. At the same time, the inorganic layers may be manufactured by the same mask, which reduces the number of the mask so as to reduce the cost. The OLED encapsulation structure combines the frame glue encapsulation technology and the thin film encapsulation technology. By adopting the frame glue to block the organic layer and to limit the dimension of the organic layer, each of the organic layers can be completely covered by the inorganic layer arranged thereon. At the same time, the inorganic layers may be manufactured by the same mask, which reduces the number of the mask so as to reduce the cost.
US10181577B1
Provided are an encapsulation film, an organic electronic device comprising the same, and a method of manufacturing the organic electronic device. When the organic electronic device is encapsulated using the encapsulation film, an excellent moisture barrier property may be realized, and as reflection or scattering of light is prevented by absorbing and blocking internal or external light, external defects of the organic electronic device may be prevented.
US10181573B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method of fabricating the same can reduce resistance of a cathode by forming an auxiliary electrode. Also, such OLED display device and method can prevent damage on a pad electrode due to an etchant during patterning of an anode by applying a protective structure to the pad electrode of a pad area and by including the pad electrode exposed from a plurality of pad electrode layers.
US10181566B2
An electrically conductive OLED carrier includes in this order a glazing substrate; an electrode arranged in a metal grid made up of strands; an electrically insulating light extraction layer under the metal grid; and a layer partially structured in its thickness. The layer of refractive is of index n3 of 1.7 to 2.3, and is located on the light extraction layer. The partially structured layer is formed from a region structured with cavities at least partially containing the metal grid; and from another region, called the low region, located on the light extraction layer. The separation H between the surface of the structured region called the high surface, and therefore that furthest from the substrate, and the surface of the metal grid called the upper surface, and therefore that furthest from the substrate is, in absolute value, smaller than or equal to 100 nm.
US10181564B2
Novel iridium complexes with 5-member heteroaryl ring fused quinoline ligands are disclosed. These complexes are useful as phosphorescent emitters in OLEDs with improved emission properties.
US10181561B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a stacked body. The stacked body includes first and second electrodes, and an oxide layer provided between the first and second electrodes. The second electrode includes a semiconductor layer, and a metal-containing region including at least one of first or second metallic element and being provided between at least a portion of the semiconductor layer and at least a portion of the oxide layer. The first metallic element includes at least one selected from Pt, Pd, Ir, Ru, Re, and Os. The second metallic element includes at least one selected Ti, W, Mo, and Ta. The stacked body has first and second states. The first state is obtained by causing a current to flow in the stacked body from the second toward first electrode. The second state is obtained by causing a current to flow from the first toward second electrode.
US10181558B2
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) structure includes a bottom electrode structure. A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) element is over the bottom electrode structure. The MTJ element includes an anti-ferromagnetic material layer. A ferromagnetic pinned layer is over the anti-ferromagnetic material layer. A tunneling layer is over the ferromagnetic pinned layer. A ferromagnetic free layer is over the tunneling layer. The ferromagnetic free layer has a first portion and a demagnetized second portion. The MRAM also includes a top electrode structure over the first portion.
US10181554B2
A piezoelectric thin film contains potassium sodium niobate represented by general formula (K1-xNax)NbO3 and CaTiO3, wherein the lattice spacing calculated from the diffraction peak of the (001) plane in an X-ray diffraction profile of the piezoelectric thin film is 3.975 Å or less, and the ratio I101/I001 of the diffraction peak intensity I101 of the (101) plane to the diffraction peak intensity I001 of the (001) plane in the X-ray diffraction profile of the piezoelectric thin film 3 satisfies the relationship log10(I101/I001)≤−2.10.
US10181545B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device including a thin film transistor with excellent electrical characteristics and high reliability and a method for manufacturing the semiconductor device with high mass productivity. A main point is to form a low-resistance oxide semiconductor layer as a source or drain region after forming a drain or source electrode layer over a gate insulating layer and to form an oxide semiconductor film thereover as a semiconductor layer. It is preferable that an oxygen-excess oxide semiconductor layer be used as a semiconductor layer and an oxygen-deficient oxide semiconductor layer be used as a source region and a drain region.
US10181539B2
A photoelectric conversion element includes a buffer layer, a BSF layer, a base layer, a photoelectric conversion layer, an emitter layer, a window layer, a contact layer, and a p-type electrode sequentially on one surface of a substrate, and includes an n-type electrode on the other surface of the substrate. The photoelectric conversion layer has at least one quantum dot layer. The at least one quantum dot layer includes a quantum dot and a barrier layer. A photoelectric conversion member including the buffer layer, the BSF layer, the base layer, the photoelectric conversion layer, the emitter layer, the window layer, and the contact layer has an edge of incidence that receives light in an oblique direction relative to the growth direction of the quantum dot. A concentrator concentrates sunlight and causes the concentrated sunlight to enter the photoelectric conversion member from the edge of incidence.
US10181529B2
A transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer can have stable electrical characteristics. In addition, a highly reliable semiconductor device including the transistor is provided. A semiconductor device includes a multi-layer film including an oxide layer and an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating film in contact with the multi-layer film, and a gate electrode overlapping with the multi-layer film with the gate insulating film provided therebetween. In the semiconductor device, the oxide semiconductor layer contains indium, the oxide semiconductor layer is in contact with the oxide layer, and the oxide layer contains indium and has a larger energy gap than the oxide semiconductor layer.
US10181527B2
A field effect transistor (FET) structure includes: a gate; a first spacer having a first dielectric constant at a first region adjacent to the gate; and a second spacer having a second dielectric constant that is greater than the first dielectric constant at a second region adjacent to the gate.
US10181526B2
The present disclosure relates to a field-effect transistor and a method of fabricating the same. A field-effect transistor includes a semiconductor substrate including a first semiconductor material having a first lattice constant, and a fin structure on the semiconductor substrate. The fin structure includes a second semiconductor material having a second lattice constant that is different from the first lattice constant. The fin structure further includes a lower portion that is elongated in a first direction, a plurality of upper portions protruding from the lower portion and elongated in a second direction that is different from the first direction, and a gate structure crossing the plurality of upper portions.
US10181521B2
A microelectronic device includes an electrical conductor which includes a graphene heterolayer. The graphene heterolayer includes a plurality of alternating layers of graphene and barrier material. Each layer of the graphene has one to two atomic layers of graphene. Each layer of the barrier material has one to three layers of hexagonal boron nitride, cubic boron nitride, and/or aluminum nitride. The layers of graphene and the layers of barrier material may be continuous, or may be disposed in nanoparticles of a nanoparticle film.
US10181514B2
In a case where a semiconductor layer is epitaxially grown on a step shape formed due to CBL (current blocking layer) formation, the crystallinity of the semiconductor layer lowers. Also, a GaN layer that is epitaxially regrown on the CBL is not formed continuously by epitaxial growth, and therefore the crystallinity of the GaN layer lowers. A vertical semiconductor device manufacturing method is provided that comprises: a step of epitaxially growing a gallium nitride-based n-type semiconductor layer on a gallium nitride-based semiconductor substrate; a step of epitaxially growing a gallium nitride-based p-type semiconductor layer on the n-type semiconductor layer; and a step of ion-implanting p-type impurities to form a p+-type embedded region selectively in a predetermined depth range across the boundary between the n-type semiconductor layer and the p-type semiconductor layer.
US10181512B2
A junction field effect transistor includes a substrate and a gate region having a first conductive type in the substrate. Source/drain regions of a second conductive type opposite to the first conductive type are disposed in the substrate on opposite sides of the gate region. A pair of high-voltage well regions of the second conductive type are disposed beneath the source/drain regions. A channel region is provided beneath the gate region and between the pair of high-voltage well regions. The channel region is of the second conductive type and has a dopant concentration lower than that of the pair of high-voltage well regions.
US10181501B2
A micro LED display panel includes a plurality of active areas disposed on a substrate and arranged in an array. A plurality of micro LEDs are uniformly arranged in each of the active areas to achieve high-resolution of micro LED display panel. By controlling the number of micro LEDs in each of the active areas, the production cost can be effectively controlled, while a screen door effect can be eliminated to thereby enhance market competitiveness of the micro LED display panel.
US10181496B1
A memory device can include at least one plate structure formed over a semiconductor substrate; an active region formed within the semiconductor substrate without lateral isolation structures; a plurality of bit line contact groups, each including bit line contacts to the active region disposed in a first direction; a plurality of storage contact groups, each including storage contacts to the active region disposed in the first direction; a plurality of gate structures, each including a main section extending in the first direction, and disposed between one bit line contact group and an adjacent storage contact group; and a two-terminal storage element disposed between each bit line contact and the at least one plate structure.
US10181495B1
A process for producing a light emitting diode device, the process including: forming a plurality of quantum dots on a surface of a layer including a first area and a second area, the forming including: exposing the first area of the surface to light having a first wavelength while exposing the first area to a quantum dot forming environment that causes the quantum dots in the first area to form at a first growth rate while the quantum dots have a dimension less than a first threshold dimension; exposing the second area of the surface to light having a second wavelength while exposing the second area to the quantum dot forming environment that causes the quantum dots in the second area to form at a third growth rate while the quantum dots have a dimension less than a second threshold dimension; and processing the layer to form the LED device.
US10181486B2
An elevated photosensor for image sensors and methods of forming the photosensor. The photosensor may have light sensors having indentation features including, but not limited to, v-shaped, u-shaped, or other shaped features. Light sensors having such an indentation feature can redirect incident light that is not absorbed by one portion of the photosensor to another portion of the photosensor for additional absorption. In addition, the elevated photosensors reduce the size of the pixel cells while reducing leakage, image lag, and barrier problems.
US10181479B2
The present invention provides a manufacturing method of an array substrate and an array substrate. The manufacturing method of the array substrate according to the present invention combines the COA technology and the BOA technology, where a black matrix is first formed on a backing plate, followed by forming a top-gate TFT device on the black matrix, and finally forming a color filter layer on the TFT device, wherein the pixel electrode is directly arranged on the drain electrode and connected with the drain electrode. The manufacturing method helps enhance electrical performance of a TFT device and stability of performance, improves quality of a display panel, and, compared to an existing array substrate manufacturing method, reduces masks and operations involved. The manufacturing method is simple and helps reduce manufacturing costs. The array substrate of the present invention requires a simple manufacturing method, provides enhanced electrical performance of a TFT device and stability of performance, and improves quality of a display panel.
US10181476B2
Semiconductor memory devices and methods for manufacturing the same are provided. The device may include vertical channel structures that are two-dimensionally arranged on a substrate and vertically extend from the substrate. The device may also include bit lines on the vertical channel structures, and each of the bit lines may be commonly connected to the vertical channel structures arranged in a first direction. The device may further include common source lines that extend between the vertical channel structures in a second direction intersecting the first direction and a source strapping line that is disposed at the same vertical level as the bit lines and electrically connects the common source lines to each other.
US10181472B1
The present disclosure provides a memory cell. The memory cell includes a substrate, a deep trench capacitor formed in the substrate, and a vertical transistor formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the deep trench capacitor. The vertical transistor includes a source region and a drain region stacked on the substrate, a channel region vertically sandwiched between the source region and the drain region, and a gate structure annularly wrapping around the channel region.
US10181463B2
An integrated circuit having a CML driver including a driver biasing network. A first output pad and a second output pad are connected to a voltage pad. A first driver is connected to the first output pad and the voltage pad. A second driver is connected to the second output pad and the voltage pad. A first ESD circuit is connected to the voltage pad, the first output pad, and the first driver. A second ESD circuit is connected to the voltage pad, the second output pad, and the second driver. The first ESD circuit biases the first driver toward a voltage of the voltage pad when an ESD event occurs at the first output pad, and the second ESD circuit biases the second driver toward the voltage of the voltage pad when an ESD event occurs at the second output pad.
US10181462B2
To prevent an electrostatic damage on a display device formed with a driving circuit. Protective circuits are provided not only at input terminal parts, but also at intermediate parts of a circuit or at the ends of wiring lines. Otherwise, the protective circuits are provided at the ends of the wiring lines and at the places immediately before and after the input terminals, respectively, and then the circuit is interposed therebetween. Further, the protective circuits are provided around a circuit with a large current consumption.
US10181455B2
Package on package structures and methods of manufacture are described. In various embodiments, DRAM die are integrated into various locations within a package on package structure, including within a bottom logic die package, as a co-package with a top NAND die package, and as a hybrid package structure between a top NAND die package and a bottom logic die package.
US10181452B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting device includes: a first connecting step of forming a ball portion of the wire joined to a first connecting point on a light emitting element; a first transferring step of transferring the capillary to a first point located in a +Z direction above the first connecting point; a second transferring step of transferring the capillary from the first point to a second point located in a −X direction opposite from a second connecting point on the substrate; a third transferring step of transferring the capillary from the second point to a third point located in a +X direction beyond the second connecting point and in the +Z direction above the second connecting point; a second connecting step of transferring the capillary and joining the wire to the second connecting point; and forming an encapsulating member to encapsulate the wire.
US10181451B2
A mounting apparatus includes: a mounting tool; a supporting mechanism; a first pressurizing mechanism having a Z axis motor as a drive source for moving the mounting tool in the vertical direction together with the supporting mechanism so as to apply a first load to the electronic component; a second pressurizing mechanism having a VCM as a drive source provided between the supporting mechanism and the mounting tool, and for moving the mounting tool in the vertical direction with respect to the supporting mechanism so as to apply a second load to the electronic component; a load cell; and a control unit configured to control driving of the first pressurizing mechanism and the second pressurizing mechanism, the control unit previously driving the second pressurizing mechanism to bring the load cell into contact with the supporting mechanism and generate precompression when the first load is applied by the first pressurizing mechanism.
US10181444B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory, wherein the semiconductor memory may include: a cell mat disposed over a substrate, the cell mat including a plurality of memory cells; an insulating layer disposed over the cell mat; a conductive pattern disposed over the insulating layer, the conductive pattern overlapping a first portion of the cell mat without overlapping a second portion of the cell mat; and a shielding layer disposed in the insulating layer, the shielding layer overlapping at least the second portion of the cell mat, the shielding layer being capable of blocking plasma.
US10181439B2
A substrate and method of fabrication is disclosed. In one example, the substrate includes a first dielectric layer, a first and a second conductive trace arranged over the first dielectric layer and a second dielectric layer arranged between the first and second conductive traces and partially covering the first and second conductive traces, wherein an exposed part of the first and second conductive traces is exposed from the second dielectric layer at an interface and wherein a shape of the interface between the first and second conductive traces includes one or more of an angle, an edge, a curvature, a bulge, a step and an indentation.
US10181436B2
A lead frame includes leads including inner leads and outer leads. Each of the leads includes an inner lead and an outer lead. A tie bar extends so as to cross connecting points of the inner leads and the outer leads. The leads and the tie bar include a first surface, a second surface, and side surfaces. A plating layer is provided on the inner leads, the outer leads and the tie bar. A first non-plating region is provided between an edge in the first surface of the inner lead and an edge of the plating layer provided on the first surface of the inner lead. A second non-plating region is provided between an edge of the first surface on the inner lead side of the tie bar and an edge on the inner lead side of the plating layer provided on the first surface of the tie bar.
US10181431B2
Package substrate and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The package substrate includes an insulating layer having first circuit patterns embedded in a first surface of the insulating layer, and a protruded circuit pattern formed above at least one of the embedded first circuit patterns, wherein a width of the protruded circuit pattern is greater than a width of each of the embedded first circuit patterns. Accordingly, a flip chip and a wire bonding chip may be installed at the same time owing to an embedded structure of circuit pattern and a protruded structure of circuit pattern realized together on a surface where an electronic component is to be installed. Moreover, a fine circuit pattern may be formed, and a surface treatment layer may be selectively formed at desired portions without forming an additional seed layer for electroplating, thereby possibly simplifying manufacturing processes and saving manufacturing costs.
US10181430B2
An electronic hardware assembly including at least a first and second laminar component, wherein the first laminar components includes a die, the die including a substrate, a functional region and a first protective layer, and the second laminar component includes a second protective layer, wherein the first and second laminar components are arranged in a stack such that the functional region of the first laminar component is arranged within the assembly substantially between first and second protective layers.
US10181416B2
An apparatus including a stator configured to be stationarily connected to a housing; and a rotor configured to have a robot arm connected thereto. The rotor includes a shaft and an robot arm mount adjustably connected to the shaft. The stator and the rotor include mechanical reference locators to temporarily stationarily locate the robot arm mount to the stator for subsequently stationarily fixing the robot arm mount to the shaft.
US10181414B2
Provided is an indicator that can easily detect whether treatment with at least one member of plasma, ozone, ultraviolet rays, and radical-containing gas is uniformly performed on an entire substrate in an electronic device manufacturing apparatus; also provided is a method for designing and/or managing an electronic device manufacturing apparatus using the indicator. The indicator is used in an electronic device manufacturing apparatus, wherein (1) the indicator detects at least one member selected from the group consisting of plasma, ozone, ultraviolet rays, and radical-containing gas, (2) the indicator has a shape that is the same as that of a substrate used in the electronic device manufacturing apparatus, (3) the indicator contains a color-changing layer, and (4) the color-changing layer is formed by an ink composition whose color changes or disappears by reaction with at least one member selected from the group consisting of plasma, ozone, ultraviolet rays, and radical-containing gas.
US10181401B1
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: forming a first patterned target layer on a substrate having a first region and a second region, the first patterned target layer having first openings along a first direction in the first region; forming a patterned hard mask layer over the first patterned target layer and having first recesses along a second direction in the first region and second recesses along the first direction in the second region; forming a patterned photoresist layer over the patterned hard mask layer and having stripe structures along the second direction in the first region and block structures along the first direction in the second region; and etching the patterned photoresist layer, patterned hard mask layer, and first patterned target layer to form a second patterned target layer.
US10181394B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for automated tuning of multimode inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometers (ICP-MS). In certain embodiments, a ‘single click’ optimization method is provided for a multi-mode ICP-MS system that automates tuning of the system in one or more modes selected from among the multiple modes, e.g., a vented cell mode, a reaction cell mode (e.g., dynamic reaction cell mode), and a collision cell mode (e.g., kinetic energy discrimination mode). Workflows and computational routines, including a dynamic range optimization technique, are presented that provide faster, more efficient, and more accurate tuning.
US10181393B2
According to various embodiments, a socket arrangement for holding an end block on a process chamber may include the following: a first socket element with a first fastening arrangement for fastening the first socket element on a process chamber wall and with a second fastening arrangement; and a second socket element with a third fastening arrangement, for fastening the second socket element on the first socket element and with a fourth fastening arrangement for fastening an end block on the second socket element; wherein the second fastening arrangement of the first socket element and the third fastening arrangement of the second socket element may be formed for engaging in one another with play in such a way that the second socket element may be deflectable in relation to the first socket element.
US10181392B2
Devices and methods for monitoring a discharge in a plasma process are provided. An example method includes detecting at least a first signal path of at least one plasma supply signal within at least a first time range within at least one period of the plasma supply signal, detecting at least a second signal path of the at least one plasma supply signal within at least a second time range which is at the point corresponding to the first time range in at least one other period of the plasma supply signal, and generating an identification signal if the second signal path deviates by at least a distance from the first signal path. The distance has a minimum time difference and a minimum signal amplitude difference. The method enables to identify arcs in a very reliable and very rapid manner.
US10181390B2
According to one embodiment, an X-ray tube includes a cathode including a filament, an anode target, and an envelope. The cathode includes a metal lead wire supporter which is exposed outside the envelope, which is configured as a part of the envelope, and to which a lead wire as a power supplier to the filament is attached such that the lead wire passes both inside and outside of the envelope, and a metal filament supporter fixed on the lead wire supporter, being in contact with the lead wire supporter, and supporting the filament.
US10181389B2
An X-ray tube can include: a cathode including an electron emitter that emits an electron beam; an anode configured to receive the electron beam; a first magnetic quadrupole between the cathode and the anode and having a first yoke with four first pole projections extending from the first yoke and oriented toward a central axis of the first yoke and each of the four first pole projections having a first quadrupole electromagnetic coil; a second magnetic quadrupole between the first magnetic quadrupole and the anode and having a second yoke with four second pole projections extending from the second yoke and oriented toward a central axis of the second yoke and each of the four second pole projections having a second quadrupole electromagnetic coil; and at least one steering coil collocated with a quadrupole on a pole projection.
US10181388B1
A crossed field device for generating electromagnetic emissions includes an anode having a first slow-wave structure having a plurality of first vanes separated by cavities formed therebetween and a second slow-wave structure having a plurality of second vanes separated by cavities formed therebetween. At least one of the first vanes is laterally aligned with one of the second vanes. The first vanes are offset from the second vanes by an offset distance so that at least one of the first vanes is not laterally aligned with a second vane and at least one of the second vanes is not laterally aligned with a first vane. The device further includes a cathode disposed in a space located between first and second vanes. A magnetic element generates a magnetic field (B), which is oriented orthogonally to an electric field (E) formed by the anode and cathode to generate EM emissions.
US10181380B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a body, first and second external electrodes, and first and second side parts. The body includes a multilayer structure in which first and second internal electrode patterns are alternately stacked and contains a dielectric material. The first and second side parts are disposed on outer surfaces of the body to face each other. The first and second external electrodes are disposed on outer surfaces of the body to face each other. The first internal electrode patterns are exposed to a third surface and a fifth surface of the body on which the first external electrode and the first side part are disposed, respectively. Additionally, the second internal electrode patterns are exposed to a fourth surface and a sixth surface of the body on which the second external electrode and the second side part are disposed, respectively.
US10181377B2
A production method for a rare earth permanent magnet, wherein: a sintered magnet body comprising an R1—Fe—B composition (R1 represents one or more elements selected from among rare earth elements, including Y and Sc) is immersed in an electrodeposition liquid obtained by dispersing a powder containing an R2 oxyfluoride and/or an R3 hydride (R2 and R3 represent one or more elements selected from among rare earth elements, including Y and Sc) in a solvent; an electrodeposition process is used to coat the powder onto the surface of the sintered magnet body; and, in the state in which the powder is present on the surface of the magnet body, the magnet body and the powder are subjected to a heat treatment in a vacuum or an inert gas at a temperature equal to or less than the sintering temperature of the magnet.
US10181365B2
A tracer wire product for use in detection of underground utility line or routes includes: a metallic wire configured to conduct an electrical signal for detection by an aboveground signal detector; a tin coating formed over the metallic wire; a non-fibrous insulating jacket of polyethylene over the tin coating; a hot melt adhesive at least partially over the polyethylene jacket; a high tenacity woven polyester strength element with water blocking fibers being formed over the hot melt adhesive and the polyethylene jacket; and, an abrasion resistant HDPE outer jacket formed over the high tenacity woven polyester strength element to form one of a circular or oval cross-sectional shape.
US10181364B2
A power cable for an electric submersible pump (ESP) includes an electrical conductor in the power cable; an elastomeric insulation layer around the electrical conductor; a fluoroplastic barrier layer around the elastomeric insulation layer; and a bonding layer between the elastomeric insulation layer and the fluoroplastic barrier layer, the bonding layer formulated to prevent a dielectric breakdown of the power cable and a rapid gas decompression breakdown of the power cable.
US10181360B1
A medical and/or clinical report includes one or more links to various external (and/or internal) data sources and/or systems that include information relevant to the medical report. In an embodiment, a medical report may be in a PDF format and include links to images associated with the exam, information regarding the patient, a scheduling application useful to schedule additional procedures for the patient, and/or any other information associated with the patient or exam. The medical report, including various links, may be generated based on information received from external medical data systems. For example, a medical report from an external system may be updated to include various links to systems and sources of data related to the medical report, as described herein.
US10181358B2
A sense amplifier for reading a via Read-Only Memory (Via-ROM) is provided. The sense amplifier includes a read circuit, an adaptive keeper circuit and a leakage monitor circuit. The read circuit is connected to the via-ROM. The adaptive keeper circuit is connected to the read circuit. The leakage monitor circuit is connected to the adaptive keeper circuit for forming a current mirror, such that the adaptive keeper circuit compensates a read voltage of a memory cell whose via is opened when a bit-line leakage is happened.
US10181356B2
A method of updating a counter in a flash memory includes a first phase where a set of values capable of being taken by the counter are programmed in at least one page of the flash memory. A second phase of updating the counter programs a state zero in the flash memory each time the counter is incremented/decremented.
US10181346B2
A semiconductor device may be provided. The semiconductor device may include a power-down signal generation circuit and a refresh signal generation circuit. The power-down signal generation circuit may be configured to generate a power-down signal which is enabled during a power-down operation period based on a multi-operation signal that is generated by decoding commands. The refresh signal generation circuit may be configured to generate a refresh signal which is enabled during a refresh operation period based on the multi-operation signal and an operation selection signal.
US10181343B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus that includes a clock circuit configured to receive first and second clock signals and perform a phase control operation in which a phase relationship between the first and second clock signals is controlled, the clock circuit configured to initiate the phase control operation each time a first control signal is asserted, the clock circuit including a comparator circuit that is configured to produce a second control signal indicative of a phase difference between the first and second clock signals, and a timing generator configured to assert the first control signal cyclically, the timing generator configured to respond to the second control signal to control a cycle of producing the first control signal.
US10181342B2
A method for improving a program speed of a memory includes acquiring a program level of the memory, comparing the program level of the memory with a valid level and a target level for generating a comparison result, and entering a first loop and/or a second loop for setting a program voltage of the memory according to the comparison result.
US10181337B2
There is provided an information processor including circuitry configured to identify a part of a moving image in response to an audible sound input of a user, wherein the moving image is generated by a capturing of an imaging unit which is attached to the user.
US10181336B1
An optical data-recording system comprises a laser, a dynamic digital hologram, an electronic controller, and a scanning mechanism. The dynamic digital hologram includes a plurality of holographic zones, and is configured to direct the irradiance received thereon to an optical recording medium. The electronic controller is operatively coupled to the dynamic digital hologram and configured to control the irradiance directed from each of the holographic zones. The scanning mechanism is configured to change a relative positioning of the laser versus the dynamic digital hologram so that each of the holographic zones is irradiated in sequence by the laser.
US10181325B2
Aspects described herein are directed towards methods, computing devices, systems, and computer-readable media that apply scattering operations to extracted visual features of audiovisual input to generate predictions regarding the speech status of a subject. Visual scattering coefficients generated according to one or more aspects described herein may be used as input to a neural network operative to generate the predictions regarding the speech status of the subject. Predictions generated based on the visual features may be combined with predictions based on audio input associated with the visual features. In some embodiments, the extracted visual features may be combined with the audio input to generate a combined feature vector for use in generating predictions.
US10181320B2
A method and an apparatus for generating a g2p model based on AI are provided. The method includes: during performing a grapheme-to-phoneme conversion training by a neural network on each word in training data, screening nodes in a hidden layer of the neural network randomly according to a preset node ratio so as to obtain retaining nodes for training each word; training each word with a sub-neural network corresponding to the retaining nodes and updating a weight of each retaining node of the sub-neural network; and performing a mean processing on the weights of the retaining nodes of respective sub-neural networks, so as to generate the grapheme-to-phoneme model.
US10181315B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, an adaptive noise cancellation system may include a controller. The controller may be configured to determine a degree of convergence of an adaptive coefficient control block for controlling an adaptive response of the adaptive noise cancellation system. The controller may enable adaptation of the adaptive coefficient control block if the degree of convergence of the adaptive response is below a particular threshold and disable adaptation of the adaptive coefficient control block if the degree of convergence of the adaptive response is above a particular threshold, such that when the adaptive noise cancellation system is adequately converged, the adaptive noise cancellation system may conserve power by disabling one or more of its components.
US10181303B2
A shift register circuit is disclosed. The shift register circuit includes a first gate driving module, a second gate driving module, a first discharging module, and a second discharging module. The first gate driving module has a first node and a first output terminal. The second gate driving module has a second node and a second output terminal. The first discharging module is coupled to the first node, the second node, and the first output terminal respectively. The second discharging module is coupled to the second node, the first node, and the second output terminal respectively. Both the first discharging module and the second discharging module include ten transistors respectively.
US10181299B1
The present disclosure includes systems, methods, computer readable media, and devices that can generate and present a digital overlay over a view of a tangible object within a display case. In particular, the systems and methods described herein can synchronize a switchable diffuser element with a display screen and one or more light sources to alternate between a scatter state and a transparent state based on a display rate. In particular, the disclosed systems and methods can alternate the display screen between an emissive state (for displaying an emitted digital image) and an attenuating state (for displaying a transparency mask image). By synchronously toggling the display screen and the diffuser element between states, the disclosed systems can present a digital overlay superimposed over a view the inside of the display case.
US10181298B2
A method of reducing power consumption in computing devices with a back light display while maintaining image quality and user's experience includes reducing the native backlight intensity and increasing native pixel values. The reduction of the backlight intensity and the increase of native pixel values is adjusted so that the observed pixel value to the user is substantially the same as the native backlight intensity and the native pixel values.
US10181292B2
A compensation margin control device, an organic light emitting display device, and a driving method thereof according to the present disclosure provide an effect to improve the image quality by ensuring a margin of a negative bios shift compensation region of a driving transistor of a non-driven sub-pixel without affecting a gray level representation and positive compensation.
US10181286B2
A display device includes a display panel in which a data line and a scan line are disposed; a driving circuit configured to supply a data voltage to the data line, control an operation timing of a scan pulse applied to the scan line, and output a voltage output control signal to a signal transmission line; and a power module circuit configured to generate one or more of first and second driving voltages in response to the voltage output control signal received from the signal transmission line, wherein the voltage output control signal includes a preparation field and a channel selection field, wherein the power module circuit recognizes the voltage output control signal in response to the preparation field, and outputs the one or more of the first and second driving voltages to the driving circuit in response to the channel selection field.
US10181278B2
The description relates to display devices. One example can receive a first frame rendering that expresses color content with a defined number of bits that convey a set of color states that correspond to a first range of voltages for driving light emitting diodes (LEDs) of a display. The example can obtain information about degradation of the LEDs of the display. The example can also combine the defined number of bits that express the color content with additional degradation compensation overdrive bits relating to compensating for the degradation of the LEDs of the display. The example can map the combined defined number of bits and the additional degradation compensation overdrive bits to a second range of voltages for driving the display where individual values of the second range exceed the first range.
US10181275B2
A display device including pixels, a pad area, auto-probe test wires (AP wires), and switching transistors is discussed according to an embodiment. The pixels are located in a display area of a lower substrate. The pad area is located in a non-display area of the lower substrate. The non-display area is located outside the display area in which the pixels, gate lines connected to the pixels, data lines connected to touch sensors, and sensor lines connected to the touch sensors are placed. The AP wires are located in the non-display area and connected to the display area. The switching transistors are located in the non-display area, between one side and the other side of the AP wires.
US10181274B2
A display system 10 comprising a remotely positioned light source 21 configured to produce ultra-violet, violet, or blue light, a first and second waveguides 14, 16, and a first propagation direction changing feature 20. The first waveguide 14 that receives the light from the remotely positioned light source 12. The second waveguide 16 is disposed at an angle relative to the first waveguide 14. The second waveguide 16 includes a photoluminescent printed image 18. The first propagation direction changing feature 20 reorients the direction of the light into the second waveguide 16, making image 18 visible. A visible light source may illuminate a translite graphic layer 26 or a physical object providing an image that is viewable from the display system when the second light source is illuminated and the first remotely positioned light source is not illuminated.
US10181265B2
An in-vehicle display device includes an image acquiring unit, a position predicting unit, and an image converting unit. The image acquiring unit acquires an image obtained by capturing an object existing around a host vehicle by a camera mounted on the host vehicle. The position predicting unit calculates a first positional relationship between the object and the host vehicle at timing T1 and calculates a second positional relationship between the host vehicle and the object at timing T2 after timing T1 based on the image acquired by the image acquiring unit and a capture timing. Furthermore, the position predicting unit predicts a third positional relationship between the host vehicle and the object at timing T3 after timing T2 based on the first positional relationship and the second positional relationship. The image converting unit converts the image acquired by the image acquiring unit such that the positional relationship between the host vehicle and the object becomes the third positional relationship predicted by the position predicting unit.
US10181262B2
A method for processing key value information of a remote control, a control device, and a remote control that avoid a problem of reduced operation efficiency and reduced operation reliability caused by the need of simultaneous operations on two remote controls. Using the technical solution provided by this embodiment of the present application, it may be implemented that another remote control is synchronously set by performing operations on one remote control and displaying, using a display device, a to-be-learned button on the another remote control, which is easy to operate and thereby improves operation efficiency and operation reliability.
US10181261B2
A remote control for a monitoring system of a building is provided including a mobile device having a plurality of communication channels and a media storage area. An application is stored in the media storage area of the mobile device. The application is configured to communicate with a control panel of the monitoring system. The application dynamically selects a communication channel to establish a communication link with the control panel based on a predetermined hierarchy. The application operates in one of a plurality of modes based on the communication channel selected.
US10181256B2
A multiple target locating and alarming system comprises a wireless sensor, a wireless base station, and a server. The wireless sensor is disposed on a target. The wireless sensor comprises a wireless communicating module and a sensor identity, and sends a wireless message including the sensing data and sensor identity. The wireless base station receives the wireless message and measures the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) of the wireless message to the server. The server includes the deploy information of the wireless base stations and receives the wireless messages with the RSSI for calculating a location of the wireless sensor, then monitoring whether the locating position matches an alarm criterion; if it matches, the server publish a warning notification. Compared to the prior art, the present invention can effectively shorten the react time while abnormal occurs.
US10181255B2
Methods are described for raising an alarm from an sensor device that is not paired with a sensor network using a broadcast mode. Embodiments at a sensor device include determining that data from a sensor of a sensor device indicates an alarm state, determining that the sensor device is not paired with a hub; and sending a broadcast message to a network. Embodiments at a hub for a sensor network include receiving an alarm message from a sensor device in a broadcast mode wherein the sensor device is not paired the hub; forwarding the alarm message to an alert service; receiving confirmation of the authenticity of alarm message; and generate an alert.
US10181246B1
The Universal User Variable Control Utility (UUVCU) is a method and system provided to allow users increased variable control over electronic communication. This invention allows users to vary (not limited) symbols; color, movement rate, and add text. With this invention a child can manually or automatically signal a parent when in danger, a senior citizen or a Veteran can alert loved ones or caregivers in life threatening times of need. UUVCU in helping people provides real world value accomplished through practical application.
US10181244B1
Embodiments relate generally to systems, devices, and methods for verifying operation of an optical flame detector. A system may comprise an optical flame detector, wherein the optical flame detector comprises: a digital infrared test signal source, wherein the digital infrared test signal source is configured to transmit a digital infrared test signal; and at least one of an ultraviolet light sensor, a visible light sensor, and an infrared sensor; and an portable infrared test receiver, wherein the digital infrared test signal is receivable by the portable infrared test receiver, wherein the portable infrared test receiver is positioned to indicate whether a location of potential fire is within a field of view of the optical flame detector.
US10181239B2
A method of operating a gaming machine having a game controller includes receiving, via an input device of the gaming machine, a request from a player to play a game, generating, via a game controller and based on the request to play the game, a symbol combination comprising one or more symbols, wherein the symbol combination is associated with a first payout amount, displaying the symbol combination to the player via a display device, receiving, via the input device, a request from the player to assign a wild symbol, generating the wild symbol based on the request from the player and displaying the wild symbol to the player via the display device, determining whether any of the one or more symbols in the symbol combination matches the wild symbol and providing an indication to the player of any matching symbols via the display device, calculating a second payout amount for the symbol combination based on the matching symbols, wherein the second payout amount is at least equal to the first payout amount, and providing an indication of the second payout amount to the player.
US10181237B2
A system includes a verification server and a gaming server, which provides gaming activities and possibly other services to a player through a gaming device. The system further includes a verification device in communications with the verification server. The verification server passes an indicator between the verification device and gaming device via the gaming server and in this fashion, verification can be made that the gaming device is in communications with the gaming server.
US10181235B2
A typing-game machine has a storage unit for storing a set of a video data item and a song data item for each song, a music playing unit for playing a song based on a song data item, a first image display unit for sequentially displaying a character string which is a part of lyrics of the song being played, a second image display unit for displaying a video image based on a video data item associated with the song being played, and a database making unit. A course of a game is controlled based on whether a character string inputted by typings of keys agrees with the character string displayed or not. The database making unit makes a database with respect to each song about the number of times a video image associated with a song is displayed along with a play of the song.
US10181229B2
Providing access to one or more services at a place of hospitality is described. Initially, information regarding a user is received from a medium, where the medium includes a plurality of sectors and the information regarding the user is stored on one or more dedicated sectors. An identity of the user is determined based on the information regarding the user. A service reserved for the user is identified based on the identity of the user, where the service is provided by a service provider at the place of hospitality. One or more dedicated sectors of the plurality of sectors of the medium assigned to the service provider are then identified. Finally, the one or more dedicated sectors assigned to the service provider are configured to enable access to the service reserved for the user and provided by the service provider.
US10181224B2
A device may receive a test scenario that includes actions to be performed by test equipment. The test scenario may be associated with a test suite. The device may receive availability information indicating a quantity, a type, or a status of the test equipment or a resource of the test equipment for performing the actions. The device may determine an order in which the actions are to be performed. The device may generate scheduling information for the actions based on the order and the availability information. The device may schedule the actions for execution by the test equipment. The device may transmit information that causes the actions to be performed by the test equipment based on the scheduling information.
US10181223B2
Aspects of the technology described herein provide for sampling the material properties of a source object within a virtual 3D drawing space, and then applying those properties to a target object within the drawing space. The material properties may include not only color, but also other physical properties like texture and sheen. For example, the way an object behaves in different lighting conditions may constitute a material property. According to aspects of the technology described herein, the manner in which an object behaves in lighting conditions, the shininess of the object, and the texture of the object may all be selected, sampled, and transferred to other target surfaces, such as a canvas or the surfaces of other objects, in the virtual 3D drawing space.
US10181210B2
At least some example embodiments disclose a method and device for displaying a background image that may change an arrangement of an object based on image information associated with the background image and change a visual effect with respect to an adjacent region of the object.
US10181202B2
A control apparatus includes a projection unit configured to project a first pattern onto an object; and a selection unit configured to select a single first pattern from a plurality of first patterns. After the projection unit projects each of the plurality of first patterns having different resolutions onto the object, the projection unit projects a second pattern onto the object, the second pattern having the same resolution as that of the selected single first pattern.
US10181199B2
Methods and systems are provided for performing material capture to determine properties of an imaged surface. A plurality of images can be received depicting a material surface. The plurality of images can be calibrated to align corresponding pixels of the images and determine reflectance information for at least a portion of the aligned pixels. After calibration, a set of reference materials from a material library can be selected using the calibrated images. The set of reference materials can be used to determine a material model that accurately represents properties of the material surface.
US10181198B2
A data processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit and a converting unit. The obtaining unit obtains measured color sample data, which represents values obtained by measuring color samples on a color chart with a color measuring device, and image data, which represents an image of the color chart and a target object captured with an image capturing apparatus. The converting unit converts captured target object color data, which represents a value of a color of the target object included in the image data, into estimated target object color data, which represents an estimated value of the color of the target object identified if the color of the target object were measured with the color measuring device, on the basis of the measured color sample data and captured color sample data, which represents values of the multiple color samples included in the image data.
US10181197B2
Included are tracking target setter that sets a person as a tracking target in response to designation by a monitoring person, confirmation video presenter that extracts a video of a moving object with the highest possibility of being the moving object which is the target, based on tracking information, and displays only the videos as confirmation videos, candidate video presenter that displays as a candidate video, a video of a moving object that may be the moving object set as the tracking target is the next highest of the moving object of the confirmation video having an error, where there is an error in the confirmation video, and causes selection of a corresponding candidate video by the monitoring person, and tracking information corrector that corrects the tracking information so that the moving object corresponding to the selected candidate video is associated with the moving object set as the tracking target.
US10181191B2
A method and system for image processing is provided. The technique includes acquiring data related to the processing, performing a pre-processing of the data, performing a segmentation of a subject, performing a post-processing of the result of the segmentation and managing storage of the data. The post-process includes a calibrating and a rendering of the data.
US10181177B2
The invention relates to a method for masking an item among a plurality of items displayed on a touchscreen terminal, the method being such that it has, following an action (300) by a user, steps of display (301) of a masking symbol associated with an item at a first location; of detection (302) of contact with the screen on a non-masked item; of continuous movement (303) of the masking symbol on the item in correlation with movement of the contact detected on the screen and of masking of that portion of the item that is situated between the masking symbol and the first location; and of masking (304) of the whole of the item when the masking symbol is at a second location and the contact is no longer detected. The invention likewise relates to a device and a terminal that implement this method.
US10181175B2
Methods for preprocessing pixel data using a Direct Memory Access (DMA) engine during a data transfer of the pixel data from a first memory (e.g., a DRAM) to a second memory (e.g., an SRAM) are described. The pixel data may derive from a color camera or a depth camera in which individual pixel values are not a multiple of eight bits. In some cases, the DMA engine may perform a variety of image processing operations on the pixel data prior to the pixel data being written into the second memory. In one embodiment, the DMA engine may be configured to determine whether one or more pixels corresponding with the pixel data may be invalidated or skipped based on a minimum pixel value threshold and a maximum pixel value threshold and to embed pixel skipping information within unused bits of the pixel data.
US10181173B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for disaggregated graphics asset management for virtualized graphics are disclosed. A virtual GPU attached to a virtual compute instance is provisioned in a multi-tenant provider network. The virtual compute instance is implemented using a physical compute instance, and the virtual GPU is implemented using a physical GPU. A plurality of graphics assets are added to a graphics asset repository. The graphics assets are associated with corresponding identifiers and access restrictions in the graphics asset repository. One or more graphics instructions are executed on the virtual GPU using one or more graphics assets corresponding to one or more identifiers associated with the graphics instructions. The one or more graphics assets are obtained by the virtual GPU from the graphics asset repository using the one or more identifiers.
US10181170B2
Differential modulation schemes encode a data channel within host signal or noisy environment in a manner that is robust, flexible to achieve perceptual quality constraints, and provides improved data capacity. Differential arrangements enable a decoder to suppress host signal or other background signal interference when detecting, synchronizing and extracting an encoded data channel. They also enable the incorporation of implicit or explicit synchronization components, which are either formed from the data signal or are complementary to it.
US10181165B2
A method of critical peak pricing (CPP) demand response (DR) event implementation includes performing an initial CPP participant selection assessment. The method includes generating an initial CPP participant selection and an estimated CPP curtailment based on the initial CPP participant selection assessment. The method includes calculating a reduced day-ahead demand. The method includes evaluating the reduced day-ahead demand. The method includes submitting an energy bid to a market server. The method includes forecasting a revised real time price. The method includes performing a final CPP participation selection assessment. The method may include generating a final CPP participant selection to include the CPP participants having accumulated individual participant revenue effects up to the reduced day-ahead demand. The method includes communicating CPP event notifications to each of the CPP participants in the final CPP participant selection.
US10181163B2
Generally discussed herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses for managing administrators of respective company profile pages. A method can include determining the company profile page is an auto-created company profile page, prompting one or more users with a profile that indicates the user currently works for a company associated with the company profile page to become the administrator of the company profile page, in response to a user of the one or more users responding affirmatively to the prompt, prompting the user for information regarding the company, and assigning administrator rights to the user in response to receiving sufficient information about the company from the user.
US10181161B1
Methods and systems for determining collision risk associated with operation of autonomous vehicles using autonomous communication are provided. According to certain aspects, autonomous operation features associated with a vehicle may be determined, including features associated with autonomous communication between vehicles or with infrastructure. This information may be used to determine collision risk levels for a plurality of features, which may be based upon test data regarding the features or actual collision data. Expected use levels and autonomous communication levels may further be determined and used with the collision risk levels to determine a total collision risk level associated with operation of the vehicle. The autonomous communication levels may indicate the types of communications, the levels of communication with other vehicles or infrastructure, or the frequency of autonomous communication.
US10181138B2
Business rules can govern a single price or they can define relationships between different products involving two or more decision prices. One problem that retailers can face is that business rules are generally not codified and are rarely followed consistently, and thus it can be difficult to articulate existing business rules or generate new business rules. However, existing price information inherently contains industry knowledge and experience, even if retailers find it difficult to express that knowledge. The disclosed technology generates business rules by reverse engineering rule bounds and coefficients from existing price information. The reverse engineered rule bounds and coefficients can be used in price optimization to generate recommended prices for retail products that optimize revenue and profit while complying with a set of business rules.
US10181135B2
A method and apparatus for presenting advertisements is disclosed. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a system having an inspection element that monitors packet traffic associated with an end user, and determines a behavioral profile of the end user from the monitored packet traffic, a publisher element that detects an end user visiting a website managed thereby, and generates an advertisement request associated with the website, and advertisement element that selects one or more advertisements according to the behavioral profile of the end user, and submits said one or more advertisements to the publisher element for presentation thereof to the end user. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10181129B2
A method and a system are provided for identifying optimal rewards programs. The method involves retrieving from one or more databases a first set of information comprising payment card holder transaction information including at least purchasing activities and optionally payment activities attributable to the payment card holder, and retrieving from one or more databases a second set of information comprising a plurality of rewards programs. One or more predictive behavioral spend profiles are generated based on the first set of information. The one or more predictive behavioral spend profiles and the second set of information are then analyzed to identify one or more correlations between the one or more predictive behavioral spend profiles and the plurality of rewards programs. Targeted information, based on the one or more correlations, is provided to one or more entities (e.g., payment card holder or merchant).
US10181123B2
A user traveling abroad may decide to make a purchase transaction from a merchant, or exchange cash to foreign currency, or withdraw foreign currency from a funding source of the user. A service provider server may determine exchange rates and transaction fees for different funding sources of the user and/or at different currency exchange locations. The service provider server may further suggest a particular funding source and/or a currency exchange location. The user may conveniently make an informed decision regarding which currency exchange location to go to and which funding source to use. After the trip, the user may have leftover foreign currency. The user may exchange the foreign currency for credit in a restricted account that can be used to make purchases but cannot be cashed out. The credit may be converted to domestic currency and may conveniently be used to make purchases.
US10181122B2
Systems and methods for mobile authentication for web payments are disclosed. In some implementations, a proxy server receives, from a computing device different from a mobile device, a request from a user to process a web payment via a payment account associated with the mobile device, the web payment being associated with an online merchant. The proxy server verifies that the mobile device is associated with the user. The proxy server transmits, to a commerce server of the online merchant, payment information for the web payment in response to verifying that the mobile device is associated with the user.
US10181114B2
A method and system are provided for generating an interaction request to initiate a first interaction session using a first interaction channel between a request recipient and a request service provider. The method includes determining an identifier of the interaction request to be generated, determining a task associated with the interaction request, obtaining context data of a plurality of other interaction sessions associated with the identifier, determining a subset of the context data of the plurality of other interaction sessions and generating the interaction request using the subset of the context data. The interaction request may be a modified version of an initial interaction request.
US10181112B2
A system is described for determining a relative location of a plurality of items upon a plurality of platforms. The system may include a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory may store a first item, a second item, a first period of time and a second period of time. The interface may be operative to communicate with a user and an antenna. The antenna may be able to detect an item for a period of time. The processor may be operative to receive from the antenna, via the interface, the first item, the first period of time, the second item and the second period of time. The processor may determine whether the periods of time overlap. If the periods of time overlap the processor may communicate to the user that the items are upon the same platform, otherwise that the items are on consecutive platforms.
US10181101B2
Systems and methods for forecasting wind farm power generation are disclosed. Via use of a support vector machine (SVM) enhanced Markov model, short-term wind power generation forecasts may be generated. Exemplary approaches accurately account for wind ramp-up and ramp-down, as well as diurnal non-stationarity and seasonality of wind power generation. Via use of the disclosed forecasting approaches, utilities and grid managers can make improved decisions relating to electrical power generation and transmission, thus reducing costs and reducing pollution.
US10181089B2
To reduce the random noise in a depth map that is rendered using colors to convey the various depths, pattern recognition may be used to selectively apply noise reduction or to modulate the strength of the noise reduction. In this way, the potential adverse effect on the detail/sharpness of the image can be ameliorated. For example, in an image of a person, the skin does not have any sharp edges so noise reduction can be applied to such an image with little adverse consequence, whereas noise reduction applied to the image of a person's eye can cause loss of the detail of the iris, eyelashes, etc. Using pattern recognition on objects in the image, the appropriate level of noise reduction can be applied across an image while minimizing blurring/loss of detail.
US10181087B1
An image processing system may process an image of indicia positioned behind a reflective surface. The indicia may be a vehicle identification number and the reflective surface may be a windshield of a vehicle. The image processing system may receive an initial image of the indicia positioned behind a reflective surface and process the initial image to produce a resulting image. In processing the initial image, the image processing system may identify an interest region of the initial image, where the interest region identifies a portion of the initial image affected by glare caused by the reflective surface, texturize the interest region to account for the glare, and remove a defocusing effect from the initial image to account for blur, reflection, or both, caused by the reflective surface. Then, the image processing system may extract data, such as the vehicle identification number, from the resulting image.
US10181085B2
Systems and methods are provided for imaging a region of interest. A structured light source is configured to provide a substantially two-dimensional light curtain within a field of view of the camera formed by at least one projected laser beam at a wavelength detectable by the camera. An image analysis component is configured to detect objects within the region of interest from at least a position of the at least one projected laser beam within the image.
US10181084B2
A vehicle is provided that may combine multiple estimates of an environment into a consolidated estimate. The vehicle may receive first data indicative of the region of interest in an environment from a sensor of the vehicle. The first data may include a first accuracy value and a first estimate of the region of interest. The vehicle may also receive second data indicative of the region of interest in the environment, and the second data may include a second accuracy value and a second estimate of the region of interest. Based on the first data and the second data, the vehicle may combine the first estimate of the region of interest and the second estimate of the region of interest.
US10181083B2
A computer implemented method of detecting scene changes in a stream of frames by analyzing content differences between consecutive frames, comprising: (a) Identifying a content of each of a plurality of frames of a frames stream by applying a plurality of visual classification functions to each frame. The content comprises one or more of a plurality of visual elements. (b) Determining a content difference between every two consecutive frames of the plurality of frames by comparing the content of the two consecutive frames. (c) Detecting a scene change between the two consecutive frames when the content difference exceeds a pre-defined threshold. The scene change defines a separation between consecutive scenes of a plurality of scenes in the frames stream wherein each of the scenes comprises a subset of the plurality of frames.
US10181074B2
The automated positioning of an examination table relative to a medical-technical imaging installation is provided. A camera image is frozen by a first user interaction. Reference information is defined in the frozen camera image by a second user interaction. An examination table or medical-technical imaging installation with the aid of a positioning system is moved based on congruence between the reference location information with a recording region of the medical-technical imaging installation.
US10181072B2
A biometric measuring device for obtaining biometric measurements on a limb or digit, such as a finger. The biometric measuring device may include a rollable sleeve that is rollable along a longitudinal axis of the limb or digit and multiple biometric sensors attached to the rollable sleeve such that the biometric sensors are positioned on the rollable sleeve to enable the sleeve to be rolled.
US10181069B2
A fingerprint identification apparatus including a light-transmitting device, an image-capture device disposed opposite to the light-transmitting device, and a collimator disposed between the light-transmitting device and the image-capture device is provided. The collimator includes a plurality of light-shielding layers and a plurality of light-transmitting layers that are alternately stacked. Each of the light-shielding layers has a plurality of openings respectively corresponding to a plurality of pixel regions of the image-capture device. Openings of the plurality of light-shielding layers corresponding to one pixel region are arranged along an oblique direction. The oblique direction and a normal direction of a pressing surface of the light-transmitting device have an included angle θ, and 0°<θ<90°.
US10181065B2
Chipless RFID tags and methods of using the same are provided. Each RFID tag provided herein can generate a unique and unclonable (unclonable chipless RFID, or UCR) identifier from its intrinsically random manufacturing process. The UCR device can monitor increase in storage temperature beyond that which is appropriate for a specific commodity to which the device is attached.
US10181056B2
The present invention discloses a display method and an electronic device. The method is applicable to an electronic device, the electronic device is capable of data transmission with a display device, the electronic device includes a first display unit, and the display device includes a second display unit; and the method includes: when the electronic device obtains information needing to be displayed, determining whether the information needing to be displayed is private information and generating a first determination result; in a case that the information needing to be displayed is private information, transmitting the information needing to be displayed to the first display unit only; and in a case that the information needing to be displayed is not private information, transmitting the information needing to be displayed at least to a second display unit.
US10181049B1
Described is a process for secure and privacy-preserving data retrieval operations in a network having a plurality of nodes. The process includes receiving a query at a querying node. The query is encrypted to generate an encrypted metadata query record. The encrypted metadata query record is transmitted to each queried node that is to be searched for data. A secure pattern matching protocol is used to search a database of metadata records to match a query answer to the metadata query record. The query answer is then encrypted. A query policy is verified for the querying node, with the encrypted answer being further encrypted based on the query policy. The further encrypted answer is transmitted to the querying node, which removes the outer layer of encryption, resulting in the original encrypted answer. The original encrypted answer is then decrypted to recover the query answer.
US10181048B2
A flexible policy system allows compliant apps on a mobile device to interact with a secure container memory space to ensure that data leak prevention policies are being enforced. Third-party applications can include an SDK or application wrapper that provide policy enforcement via agent functionality. An administrator can define policies via a web-based portal, allowing a server to identify appropriate users and devices and to distribute policies to those devices to be enforced within the secure container on each device. Policies can identify the datatypes and security levels, and the related applications and users that have authority to access that data. The agent or application wrapper enforces these policies on the mobile device before applications can access data in the secure memory space.
US10181045B1
Illustrative implementations are described for an automated email message and document shredding system. The implementations provide for generating electronic content and associating the content with a condition upon which the content may self-terminate. Based on the condition, a security context may be determined for the content. The security context determination facilitates the association of a security key corresponding to the security context associated with the content. The security key may be applied to the content to generate encrypted content. A notification of the security key used to encrypt the content, a notification of the condition upon which the content will self-terminate and the encrypted content may then be transmitted to a recipient.
US10181042B2
A system for use with a computer is provided, the computer including a self-encrypting drive (SED), the SED including a nominal space and a pre-boot region, wherein the nominal space can be locked to prevent access to the nominal space. The system includes SED management software configured to be loaded in the pre-boot region of the SED. The SED management software includes a pre-boot operating system (OS) and an unlocking program. The unlocking program is configured (a) to execute within the pre-boot OS, and (b) upon successful authentication of a user, to unlock the nominal space of the SED. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10181040B2
Systems, and methods disclosed herein include systems and methods for providing alternative content playlists for locked media content. Media content may be locked according to certain pre-conditions, such as a release date. Prior to the pre-conditions being met, e.g., on a date earlier than the release date, the content may be locked to prevent user access. During such locked period, a user may be presented with an alternative content playlist with media content that is available to be accessed by the user.
US10181035B1
A system and method for .Net PE files malware detection is provided. The method may include accessing two or more portable executable (PE) files and detecting at least one identical global user identifier (GUID) attribute. In response to finding identical GUID attributes, the method may include clustering a group of files into family clusters each having the same GUID attribute. The method may generate and release a signature for the family cluster. An exoneration criteria level may be set in accordance with matching characteristics associated with an acceptable software standard for the computing system or network, such that when the exoneration criteria level is reached, the PE file is exonerated from being associated with PUA or malware. Until this criterion is met, the PE file will be identified as PUA or malware. Additional GUID attributes may be identified as further proof that the PE file is polymorphic.
US10181031B2
A cloud controller performs, when an attack on a VM in any of data centers in a system is detected, setting of NAT of a private IP address of a VM(A), for a boundary router of each data center other than a data center that the VM(A) belongs to, the VM(A) being a victim. Next, the cloud controller performs setting for a redirecting device in the same data center as the VM(A), such that the redirecting device redirects access from a user terminal to a host under a boundary router of any of the respective data centers other than the data center. Thereafter, the cloud controller changes a private IP address of the VM(A) in a NAT setting of a boundary router of the data center to a private IP address of the redirecting device.
US10181027B2
Embodiments of an invention for an interface between a device and a secure processing environment are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a processor, a device, and an interface plug-in. The processor includes an instruction unit and an execution unit. The instruction unit is to receive an instruction to create a secure processing environment. The execution unit is to execute an application in the secure processing environment. The device is to execute a workload for the application. The interface plug-in is to provide an interface for the device to enter the secure processing environment to execute the workload.
US10181021B2
A method and apparatus for capacitive off-wrist detection for wearable device are disclosed. In one aspect, the wearable device includes one or more biometric sensors including a capacitive sensor. The method may involve measuring, based on output of the capacitive sensor, a capacitance value indicative of proximity of the wearable device to a user. The method may also involve detecting a change in the capacitance value within a defined time interval, the change being greater than or equal to a threshold change indicative of the wearable device not being proximate to the user's skin. The method may further involve determining that the wearable device has been removed from the user in response to detecting that the change in the capacitance value within the defined time interval is greater than or equal to the threshold change.
US10181013B2
A pill dispensing system includes an electronic mobile communication device with a wireless transmitter and receiver. A pill cartridge has a cartridge body storing a plurality of pills, where the cartridge body includes an electronic tag storing data. A pill cartridge dispenser is configured to receive at least one of the pill cartridge and configured to electromechanically control dispensing of the plurality of pills from the cartridge body, where the pill cartridge dispenser is configured to be in wireless communication with the electronic mobile communication device. The electronic mobile communication device is configured to wirelessly read the data stored on the electronic tag or wherein the pill cartridge dispenser is configured to wirelessly read the data stored on the electronic tag. The electronic mobile communication device wirelessly communicates with the pill cartridge dispenser to dispense at least one pill from the plurality of pills within the pill cartridge.
US10180999B2
A model generating device for generating model data regarding an operation state of a target object to be controlled, includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to acquire first measurement data regarding the operation state of the target object under each of a plurality of measurement conditions set in a first sequence, acquire second measurement data regarding the operation state of the target object under each of the plurality of measurement conditions set in a second sequence different from the first sequence, estimate third measurement data indicating the operation state in a case where the target object enters a steady state in each of the plurality of measurement conditions, based on the first measurement data and the second measurement data, generate the model data regarding the operation state of the target object based on the third measurement data, and output the model data.
US10180997B2
An apparatus for simulating a wind power farm includes a wind power generator simulator configured to act as a virtual wind power generator to dynamically generate an attribute value and provide the attribute value to a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system to be tested; a wind power generator simulation platform configured to generate and manage a plurality of wind power generator simulators within one system, monitor the system, monitor operation states of the plurality of wind power generator simulators, and transmit a result of monitoring the operation states; and a wind power farm controller configured to generate a wind power farm by grouping a plurality of wind power generator simulation platforms into a single cluster, and manage a simulation environment of the wind power farm.
US10180993B2
Aspects of the disclosure will be described with regard to the processing of DNS queries by a DNS service based on multiple network addresses associated with a single network entity (e.g., a service provider). The DNS service may respond to each DNS query for identifying network addresses associated with the service provider with a respective unique network address from a pool of network addresses. Based on the uniqueness of network addresses, DNS queries and subsequent communications between respective client computing devices and the service can be correlated.
US10180992B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for updating an index structure of a graph database storing a graph. During operation, the system includes, in the index structure, a first compressed edge store containing a first compact representation of edges in the graph at a first virtual time and a first series of updates to the edges after the first virtual time. At a second virtual time, the system creates a second compact representation of the edges from the first compact representation and the first series of updates. The system then appends, to the second compact representation, a second series of updates to the edges after the second virtual time to produce a second compressed edge store. Finally, the system updates the index structure by atomically replacing, in the index structure, a reference to the first compressed edge store with a reference to the second compressed edge store.
US10180977B2
According to certain aspects, a computer system may be configured to obtain information indicating a plurality of groupings of data stored in a data source, the information indicating a number of data items included in each of the plurality of groupings; determine a first grouping of the plurality of groupings including one or more data items that have changed by comparing a first number of data items included in the first grouping and a historical first number of data items included in a corresponding local version of the first grouping; access data items included in the first grouping from the data source; compare the data items included in the first grouping to data items of the corresponding local version of the first grouping to determine which data items have changed; extract the changed data items of the first grouping; and forward the extracted data items to a destination system.
US10180965B2
User attribute data associated with a user may be used to resolve unresolved entities in connection with the performance of computer-based actions, e.g., actions resulting from action queries generated based at least in part on content being accessed on a computing device.
US10180964B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating candidate answer passages. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a query determined to be a question query data identifying resources determined to be responsive to the query; for each resource in a top-ranked subset of the resources: identifying a plurality of passage units in the resource; applying a set of passage unit selection criterion to the passage units, each passage unit selection criterion specifying a condition for inclusion of a passage unit in a candidate answer passage, wherein a first subset of passage unit selection criteria applies to structured content and a second subset of passage unit selection criteria applies to unstructured content; and generating, from passage units that satisfy the set of passage unit selection criterion, a set of candidate answer passages.
US10180961B2
A query optimizer identifies a condition that supports a remote nested join. A first Access Module Processor (AMP) is sent the condition to obtain a first set of rows that satisfy the condition from a first table and the first AMP is instructed to perform the remote nested join with a second remote AMP to acquire a second set of rows that satisfy the condition from a second table. The first AMP joins the first set of rows and the second set of rows as a join result, which is returned to the query optimizer.
US10180957B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying, by a computing device, a change to at least one record of a plurality of records in a multi-record update. At least one problem condition associated with the change to the at least one record is determined, wherein the at least one problem condition is determined via at least one problem definition object before the change is saved. The at least one problem condition is organized on a display. An action is executed on the at least one problem condition displayed.
US10180940B2
A translation method is disclosed herein. The method includes determining a target object to be translated, the target object including a plurality of elements; dividing the target object to be translated according to a language correspondence relationship to obtain at least one element set; determining a weight value of a second object corresponding to each first object in each element set according to the language correspondence relationship; determining a comparison value associated with each element set according to the determined weight value and selecting an element set with the maximum comparison value; determining a second object with the maximum weight value corresponding to each first object in the selected element set according to the correspondence relationship, combining all the determined second objects to form a translation content of the target object.
US10180937B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: monitoring one or more message of the conversation between multiple users for an entity reference; detecting the entity reference in a message in the conversation. An entity reference list stores previously established alternate name referring to a user in the conversation. By analyzing the message and following messages in the conversation for relevance of and sentiment to the entity reference, the entity reference is evaluated and if acceptable, the entity reference list is updated with the entity reference as a new alternate name to identify the user in subsequent messages.
US10180936B2
A mechanism is provided for representing information, such as binary sequence, in a manner that is easier to read and less likely to generate errors when interacted with by human. A dictionary is seeded with two or more set of words, the words being selected from distinct categories. Symbols may be created by combining words from the distinct categories. A mapping of symbols to corresponding values may then be generated. The generated mapping may be used to translate bit values to symbols and symbols to bit values.
US10180933B2
Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for visually indicating relationships among cells in a spreadsheet. Each of a first graphical linking element extending between cells in a first branch of a dependency tree of a root cell and a second graphical linking element extending between cells in a second branch of the dependency tree of the root cell is independently displayed and hidden.
US10180930B2
Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: monitor a character stream; identify characters comprising a domain name request; identify a token in a language character map comprising the characters and associated with a language; generate, using a software translation engine, a translation of the first token into a second language; generate candidate domain names comprising: a domain name comprising the token; and a second domain name comprising the second token; modify, in real time, a user interface control to display the list of candidate domain names.
US10180929B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for key phrase clustering of documents. In accordance with one implementation, a method is provided for key phrase clustering of documents. The method includes obtaining a first plurality of documents based at least on a user input, obtaining a statistical model based at least on the user input, and obtaining, from content of the first plurality of documents, a plurality of segments. The method also includes identifying a plurality of clusters of segments from the plurality of segments, determining statistical significance of the plurality of clusters based at least on the statistical model and the content, and providing for display a representative cluster from the plurality of tokens, the representative cluster being determined based at least on the statistical significance. The method further includes determining a label for the representative cluster based at least on the plurality of clusters and the statistical significance.
US10180927B2
A device to process data packets for communication across PHY layers which are of different respective communication protocols. In an embodiment, the device includes a first protocol stack and a second protocol stack which are each for a PCIe™ communication protocol. The first protocol stack and a second protocol stack may interface, respectively, with a first physical (PHY) layer and a second PHY layer of the device. The first protocol stack and the second protocol stack may exchange packets to facilitate communications via both the first PHY layer and the second PHY layer. In another embodiment, the first PHY layer is for communication according to the PCIe™ communication protocol and the second PHY layer is for communication according to another, comparatively low power communication protocol.
US10180926B2
A system includes multiple servers, each server including a host bus adapter (HBA) and multiple data storage devices. The system further includes a controller including a switch, wherein the switch has first ports and second ports, each first port being coupled to a HBA of one server, and each second port being coupled to one of the data storage devices, and wherein communications between any of the HBAs and any of the data storage devices are directed through the switch. A method is also provided including coupling multiple host bus adapters to first ports of a controller, wherein multiple servers each include one of the HBAs, coupling multiple data storage devices in each of the servers to second ports of the controller, and directing communications between any of the HBAs and any of the data storage devices through the controller.
US10180925B2
An integrated circuit (IC) having multiple cores controls write access to its input/output (I/O) pins. The IC includes a pin-control circuit, a memory, and a set of I/O pins. The pin-control circuit allows a core to independently control individual ones of the I/O pins. A set of pin-control values are defined that correspond to the set of I/O pins to indicate a type of core that can access an I/O pin. The pin-control circuit receives the pin-control values, a source ID, and write data generated by a core, and updates a pin data bit stored in the memory with a corresponding bit of the write data when the core is allowed to access the I/O pin. The pin-control circuit does not change the pin data bit when the core is denied write access to the I/O pin.
US10180919B1
A bus controller is configured to transmit a broadcast read request on at least one bus. The broadcast read request includes an address. A first logic module determines that the broadcast read request is targeting the first logic module. The first logic module reads a first value from a first register included in the first logic module. The first register is specified by the address included in the broadcast read request. The first value is transmitted onto the at least one bus. A second logic module determines that the broadcast read request is targeting the second logic module. The second logic module reads a second value from a second register included in the second logic module. The second register is specified by the address included in the broadcast read request. The second value is transmitted onto the at least one bus.
US10180913B1
An apparatus includes an arbiter circuit and a translation circuit. The arbiter circuit may be configured to generate a first address signal in a virtual memory space by arbitrating among a plurality of clients to access a physical memory space. The clients may be classified as either privileged clients or non-privileged clients. The physical memory space may comprise at least one secure space. The translation circuit may be configured to generate a second address signal by translating a page in the virtual memory space into the physical memory space based on the first address signal. The page may corresponds to a particular one of the clients that won the arbitration. The page may be translated (a) into the secure space if the particular client is one of the privileged clients and (b) outside the secure space otherwise.
US10180910B2
A marking capability is used to provide an indication of whether a block of memory is being used by a guest control program to back an address translation structure. The marking capability includes setting an indicator in one or more locations associated with the block of memory. In a further aspect, the marking capability includes resetting the one or more indicators to indicate that the block of memory is no longer being used by the guest control program to back the address translation structure.
US10180908B2
Aspects include computing devices, systems, and methods for implementing a cache maintenance or status operation for a component cache of a system cache. A computing device may generate a component cache configuration table, assign at least one component cache indicator of a component cache to a master of the component cache, and map at least one control register to the component cache indicator by a centralized control entity. The computing device may store the component cache indicator such that the component cache indicator is accessible by the master of the component cache for discovering a virtualized view of the system cache and issuing a cache maintenance or status command for the component cache bypassing the centralized control entity. The computing device may receive the cache maintenance or status command by a control register associated with a cache maintenance or status command and the component cache bypassing the centralized control entity.
US10180907B2
A processor includes an arithmetic processing circuit, a cache memory including a plurality of ways, a usage information register storing usage information indicating whether to use each of the plurality of ways, a purge control circuit performing purge processing on a basis of rewriting of the usage information within the usage information register according to an instruction executed by the arithmetic processing circuit, the purge processing including processing of deleting, from the cache memory, target data retained in a target way to be stopped and processing of writing back part of the target data, the part of the target data being data rewritten in the cache memory, to a main memory at a lower level than the cache memory, and an access control circuit controlling accessing the cache memory on a basis of a memory access request received from the arithmetic processing circuit and status of the purge processing.
US10180906B2
A system and method for using high bandwidth memory as cache memory. A high bandwidth memory may include a logic die, and, stacked on the logic die, a plurality of dynamic read-only memory dies. The logic die may include a cache manager, that may interface to external systems through an external interface conforming to the JESD235A standard, and that may include an address translator, a command translator, and a tag comparator. The address translator may translate each physical address received through the external interface into a tag value, a tag address in the stack of memory dies, and a data address in the stack of memory dies. The tag comparator may determine whether a cache hit or cache miss has occurred, according to whether the tag value generated by the address translator matches the tag value stored at the tag address.
US10180899B2
A device and a method are provided to automatically generate test case for embedded software. This invention is in software test field, including symbolic execution kernel module, path selection module, solver, debugger, concrete execution kernel module and debugger agent module. The tested software and test cases are uploaded from the host system to the embedded system through debugger and debugger agent. The concrete execution kernel module starts the tested software. The symbolic execution kernel module captures the run-time information of the tested software through the debugger. When the tested software operates on the symbol source, the symbolic execution kernel module marks the symbol source, tracks the symbol propagation, generates path condition and sends the path condition to path selection module. This invention can automatically generate test cases for embedded software, which doesn't need the source code of the tested software and can be conveniently used for commercial software.
US10180895B2
Mechanisms are provided for propagating source identification information from an application front-end system in an application layer to a data layer inspection system associated with a back-end system. An incoming user request is received, at the data layer inspection system, from a gateway system associated with the application front-end system. One or more outgoing statements targeting a back-end system are received at the data layer inspection system. The data layer inspection system accesses a mapping data structure based on the one or more outgoing statements to thereby correlate the one or more outgoing statements with the incoming user request. The data layer inspection system retrieves source identification information associated with the incoming user request based on the correlation of the one or more outgoing statements with the incoming user request. The data layer inspection system performs a data layer inspection operation based on the source identification information.
US10180894B2
Techniques for identifying a stack frame responsible for resource usage are described. For instance, techniques described herein enable a particular process and a particular stack frame and/or set of stack frames of the process that are high resource consumers to be identified. According to various implementations, resource usage of a process is observed and recorded over a period of time. A data structure is generated that characterizes the resource usage of the process over the sampling period. The data structure be evaluated to identify a stack frame that is responsible for excess resource consumption. In at least some implementations, a remedial procedure can be performed to attempt to reduce the process's resource usage.
US10180889B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage system is provided that includes a first processor configured to establish a network connection with an external system, and receive first storage operations transferred by the external system over the network connection, the first storage operations related to storage and retrieval of data on at least one storage drive. The first processor is configured to transfer information describing the network connection for delivery to at least a second processor. The second processor is configured to identify when the first processor has failed, responsively establish the network connection with the external system based at least on the information describing the network connection, and receive second storage operations transferred by the external system over the network connection.
US10180884B2
A method begins with a processing module receiving an access request and determining security requirements corresponding to the access request. The method continues with the processing module determining a subset of a plurality of dispersed storage units based on the security requirements. The method continues with the processing module determining, based on the security requirements, a connection security level for communicating with the subset of the plurality of dispersed storage units regarding the access request. The method continues with the processing module communicating the access request to the subset of the plurality of dispersed storage units in accordance with the connection security level for processing by the subset of the plurality of dispersed storage units.
US10180871B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for coordinating management of a shared disk storage between nodes. Particularly, a messaging protocol may be used to communicate notifications regarding each node's perception of the shared storage's state. The nodes may use the messaging protocol to achieve consensus when recovering from a storage device failure. Some embodiments provide for recovery when localized failures, such as failures at an adapter on a node, occur.
US10180865B2
A memory device includes a first interface that is to couple to a bidirectional link and a second interface to couple to a unidirectional link. An encoder generates first error-detection information corresponding to write data received via the bidirectional link for a write operation. An encoder generates second error-detection information corresponding to read data transmitted via the bidirectional link for a read operation. A transmitter coupled to the unidirectional link transmits the both the first and second error-detection information. A controller may receive the first and second error-detection information. Based on at least one of the first and second error-detection information, the controller may command the memory device to retry an operation.
US10180858B2
A parallel arithmetic device includes a plurality of computing nodes; and a management node coupled to the plurality of computing nodes and including a computer, the management node being configured to calculate a degree of increasing a priority of each of a plurality of users, based on a degree of increasing the priority of the user depending on resource distribution to the user as time elapses and a difference between a current time instant and a future time instant, the priority being to be used in determining one of the plurality of users that has a job to which a computing resource at a first time instant being later than the current time instant is to be allocated.
US10180852B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems include a client virtual machine processing a system call for a device driver to instruct a physical device to perform a function and transmitting the system call to an appliance virtual machine to execute the system call. The client virtual machine determines, in response to the system call, that an established connection with the appliance virtual machine has switched from a first protocol to a second protocol, the first and second protocols including a high-performance transmission protocol and Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). The client virtual machine transmits the system call to the appliance virtual machine according to the second protocol. For example, the established connection may switch to the second protocol in response to the client virtual machine migrating to the first host device from a second host device.
US10180848B1
Described are techniques for determining features to be presented in a user interface based on the times that users spent viewing previous webpages or other user interfaces. A data structure associating user viewing times with the count, size, color, or other features of the elements presented in the previous user interfaces may be generated. Based on this data structure and a target viewing time, a set of user interface features to be presented in a subsequent user interface may be selected.
US10180842B2
Provided is an integrity verification method for a user device includes verifying integrity of a first verification target on a basis of a first integrity verification scheme during executing a boot-loader, uncompressing a kernel image according to the integrity verification result for the first verification target and verifying integrity of a second verification target on a basis of a second integrity verification scheme while the kernel image is uncompressed, and driving an operating system according to the integrity verification result for the second verification target and verifying integrity of a third verification target on a basis of a third integrity verification scheme while the operating system is driven.
