US10322338B2
Techniques are described herein for automatically determining play states, intrinsic motivators, play types/patterns and a play personality of a user/subject. Play personalities develop from activation of play states, and vary individually and are expressed in a variety of play type/patterns. These states, personalities, patterns and associated intrinsic motivations may be automatically determined by computing devices based on that user/subject's information, behaviors and biometric data. The play personality may be additionally used as the means for identifying and integrating intrinsic motivators into player-centric design which can alter and personalize user/subject/player engagement, experience and outcomes.
US10322337B2
A hexagonal prismatic packing puzzle is provided, which includes 18 different shapes of puzzles. Each of the puzzles is composed of a plurality of unit components and the puzzles can be pieced together into a hexagonal prism. The unit components are selected from a group consisting of a first unit component and a second unit component. The volume of the first unit component is larger than that of the second unit component. The packing puzzle does not have an only solution or a specific solution. A user may develop and improve the sense of space and the cognitive of geometric figures thereof. Further, the user may train ability to think in multiple ways and achieve edutainment in the process of thinking.
US10322336B2
A game controller with haptic Braille chording capability. While a conventional game controller are geared to sighted players, the disclosed controller configurations include various adaptations that provide alternative input and outputs to facilitate game play by sight-impaired or blind users, as well as other users knowledgeable of Braille. A number of paddles may be arranged on a game controller housing so that a player may engage selected ones of the paddles to enable encoding braille characters using the paddles. This input may be used to control a game, enter text into a chat session or take any other action desired. The converse may also occur, where a combination of the paddles may provide haptic feedback detectable by a user holding a game controller so that the paddles encode braille output (or other data), allowing a user to receive output simply by contact with the paddles.
US10322328B1
A game ball throwing machine that shoots balls with motorized spinning wheels has a computer processor with wheel speed equations that determine the wheel speeds according to input parameters of pitch speed, ball spin amount, and ball spin direction that a user enters through a human-machine interface on a control panel. The processor includes acceleration equations that determine the trajectories of the balls and also has a time in flight equation that is used with the acceleration equations and a distance to a target location to determine the impact point of a ball according to the same input parameters used to determine the wheel speeds. The processor determines variations in the orientation of the machine to change the impact point to a reference aim-point. The HMI can also include an aim-point change input. The ball spin direction indicator on the HMI has either a linear configuration or a polar configuration.
US10322327B2
A toy having three bobs on a string where the middle bob slides. A low moment of inertia of the middle bob is desirable because it minimizes tangling of the string about the middle bob and produces smooth, tactile-appealing orbits. Each bob has a pair of mated throughbore pieces sandwiching a central metal weight and an equatorial bag stuffed with low-density pellets. Concave sections (in profile on a plane along the polar axis) of the throughbore occupy a substantial portion of the length of the throughbore to take best advantage of the torques produced by the string by focusing the tension of the string at the mouths of the throughbore. The concave sections also reduce the volume occupied by the bag, thereby reducing moment of inertia. Additionally, hollows in the concave regions of the throughbore pieces further reduce the moment of inertia.
US10322324B2
A putter-type golf club head includes a main body. The main body includes a forward end, a rearward end opposite the forward end, a bottom portion, a top portion opposite the bottom portion, and a male-type hosel component defining a longitudinal axis that is forwardly canted relative to vertical. A face component is secured to the forward end of the main body. The face component includes a first element formed of a resilient material and a second element formed of a rigid material that is secured to the first element. A striking face generally defines a virtual striking face plane and is at least partially formed by the face component.
US10322320B2
Embodiments of golf club face plates with internal cell lattices are presented herein. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US10322319B2
A golf club head having a hosel, a hollow interior, and a support structure disposed within the hollow interior proximate a flange region is disclosed herein. In particular, the present invention is directed to a fairway wood head comprising a body with a front wall, an upper opening, a return portion between the front wall and the upper opening, a hosel, an interface between the hosel and the heel side of the body, and a hosel support ring or support rod, and a composite crown affixed to the body to close the upper opening and define a hollow interior. The support structure reduces the stresses placed on, for example, the crown during hosel bending processes.
US10322314B2
An athlete tracking system and method for tracking an athlete during training sessions, such as swim training. The system includes a mobile tracking device wearable around the athlete's chest, and a training log server for maintaining an athlete profile that includes a training record updatable by the athlete and a training plan supplied by a coach.
US10322313B2
A system and method for generating and implementing a barcode is provided, wherein the system includes a data generation device configured to receive data and generate barcode data response to the received data, a barcode generation device, configured to receive the barcode data and generate a barcode responsive to the received barcode data, a display device, configured to display the barcode and a barcode receiving device, configured to receive the barcode and operate in response to the barcode.
US10322304B2
A nasally inserted air filter including a plurality of filter materials in a compact housing, or alternatively, a series of electrically conducting plates connected to a battery in a compact housing. The filters may include a radio frequency identification system to interact with a user's cell phone to transmit and analyze important data.
US10322298B2
Devices and methods for brachytherapy treatment are disclosed. One aspect is a poly(methyl methacrylate) apparatus for brachytherapy treatment at the vaginal apex. Another aspect is a poly(methyl methacrylate) apparatus for brachytherapy treatment in the distal two-thirds of the vagina. Another aspect is a poly(methyl methacrylate) apparatus for brachytherapy treatment of cancers that are offset from the vaginal apex. Other aspects include methods for guiding needles for treatment of cancers at the vaginal apex, in the distal two-thirds of the vagina, and that are offset from the vaginal apex.
US10322294B2
Stimulation treatments for medical disorders comprise providing stimulation parameters that create partial stimulation signals which combine into vector signals. The individual partial signals may have frequency or temporal content that is unique rather than all being identical. Vector signals may thus be designed with certain advantageous characteristics such as to influence target tissue in an intended manner while partial signals may be designed with other advantageous characteristics such as to avoid producing side effects in adjacent tissue. Roving of stimulation parameters can be designed to influence partial signals, vectors signals, or both. Partial and vector signals may be designed to match or avoid internal/endogenous activity patterns and rhythms of a patient. Methods for choosing, creating and using partial signals are disclosed. Tissue modulation may be accomplished with electrical and/or magnetic stimulation.
US10322292B2
A flexible catheter includes two electrical contacts in a distal region of the catheter and a distal aperture of a hose line. The electrical contacts are connected to a high frequency pulse generator for applying pulsed radio frequency energy for nerve stimulation. A temperature sensor is located in the distal region of the catheter. The flexible catheter is inserted into a region in the spinal canal and the pulsed radio frequency generator is operated, thereby applying pulsed radio frequency energy to a localized region to be treated. The temperature at the distal region of the catheter can also be monitored, and the pulsed radio frequency energy is applied in dependence on the monitored temperature. With the catheter, pain and other medical conditions being related to and influenced by a nervous system are treated.
US10322286B2
A system includes a pulse waveform generator and an ablation device coupled to the pulse waveform generator. The ablation device includes at least one electrode configured for ablation pulse delivery to tissue during use. The pulse waveform generator is configured to deliver voltage pulses to the ablation device in the form of a pulsed waveform. A first level of a hierarchy of the pulsed waveform includes a first set of pulses, each pulse having a pulse time duration, with a first time interval separating successive pulses. A second level of the hierarchy of the pulsed waveform includes a plurality of first sets of pulses as a second set of pulses, a second time interval separating successive first sets of pulses, the second time interval being at least three times the duration of the first time interval.
US10322283B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, devices and systems used for the treatment of mood, anxiety, post traumatic stress disorder, and cognitive and behavioral disorders (collectively, neuropsychiatric disorders) via stimulation of the superficial elements of the trigeminal nerve (“TNS”). More specifically, cutaneous methods of stimulation of the superficial branches of the trigeminal nerve located extracranially in the face, namely the supraorbital, supratrochlear, infraorbital, auriculotemporal, zygomaticotemporal, zygomaticoorbital, zygomaticofacial, infraorbital, nasal and mentalis nerves (also referred to collectively as the superficial trigeminal nerve) are disclosed herein.
US10322273B2
A device introduced small volumes of fluid for delivery to a patient through a fluid line. The device includes a first arm adapted to receive a syringe and a second arm fluidly connected to an upstream reservoir that defines an internal volume adapted to receive a volume of fluid. The device includes a fluid obstruction mechanism configured to selectably block flow of fluid from the reservoir toward the patient, wherein the fluid obstruction mechanism transitions between a first state that permits fluid flow from the reservoir toward the patient and a second state that directs fluid flow from the syringe into the reservoir while blocking fluid flow from the reservoir toward the patient.
US10322272B2
Methods and devices for administration of substances into at least two compartments of skin for systemic absorption and improved pharmacokinetics, based on biphasic or bimodel kinetic profiling.
US10322265B2
An apparatus for locating and accessing an epidural space within a patient. The apparatus includes a handle having a top end and a bottom end. A handle channel is formed through the handle running from the top end to the bottom end. A proximal end of a hollow needle extends from the bottom end of the handle and aligns with the handle channel. A distal end of the hollow needle is sharp and pointed. An obturator is disposed within the hollow needle and the handle channel. A distal end of the obturator is rounded and blunt and extends from the distal end of the hollow needle. A proximal end of the obturator extends beyond the handle channel at the top end of the handle.
US10322257B2
A humidifier assembly (100, 100-1) includes a reservoir (120), an inlet structure (112, 112-1) leading into the reservoir and an outlet structure (114, 114-1) leading out of the reservoir, and a conduit element (130, 130-1) having a first end (131, 131-1), a body portion (132, 132-1), and a second end (133, 133-1). The first end is fluidly coupled to at least one of the inlet structure and the outlet structure The humidifier assembly additionally includes a float assembly (140, 140-1) coupled to the second end of the conduit element. The float assembly is structured to float on water held by the reservoir. The float assembly has a number of apertures (153, 153-1) structured to be in fluid communication with the outlet structure.
US10322255B2
A nebulizer adapter kit including a T-shaped adapter having cylindrical upper and lower portions and a safety cap on the lower portion. A direct flow valve on and in fluid communication with each of the proximal end and a channel stemming from a nebulizer medicine reservoir separate from the nebulizer machine. The direct flow valve is in operational and fluid communication with a direct flow tube. A shut-off valve is between and in fluid communication with the direct flow tube and a mouthpiece. A drip-reduction ring on the adapter bottom end inserts within an upper outlet of the nebulizer machine. A gas source is attachable to and in fluid communication with the nebulizer machine to convert liquid therapy medication into a mist, which is formed within the direct flow valve, rather than inside the nebulizer machine.
US10322253B2
A cleaning device, system and method for use with an ETT or tracheostomy ventilation tube 60, a ventilator machine 900, a source(s) 602 of fluid (for example, pressurized or unpressurized) and a source(s) of suctioning 603 is disclosed. In some embodiments, the cleaning device is useful for cleaning an inner surface of the ventilation tube 60 and/or for preventing or hindering the accumulation of biofilm thereon. In some embodiments, it is possible to clean biofilm or any other material on the inner surface 201 by delivering fluid into an interior of the ventilation tube, wiping the tube interior with a width-expanded wiping element (e.g. an inflated balloon) by longitudinal motion of the wiping element, and suctioning material out of the ventilation tube ventilation tube.
US10322246B2
An injection device has a housing in which a syringe can be received that has an injection needle, a receiving chamber, a piston and a piston ram, and a control arrangement for controlled actuation of the syringe during an application procedure that includes at least one puncture stroke, one injection stroke and one return stroke. The control arrangement has an actuation element for applying a drive force to a syringe holder which is movable relative to the housing and on which the receiving chamber can be secured, a ram holder which is movable relative to the housing and on which the piston ram can be secured, and a transmission mechanism by means of which the ram holder can be coupled to the actuation element. Provision is made that the transmission mechanism has a toothed gearing by means of which the ram holder can be driven, according to a relative movement of the actuation element with respect to the housing, and which for this purpose has teeth on the housing.
US10322244B2
A dose setting mechanism for a medicament delivery device is presented having a locking assembly that reliably and consistently unlocks a dose injection button and concurrently a lead screw when the dose setting mechanism is transitioned from a non-activated state to an activated state. This locking assembly uses a rotating plate having a locking protrusion that engages a radial projecting tab on a rotationally fixed plunger rod nut. An alignment member is also presented that prevents rotational drift of a dosing member.
US10322242B2
The mechanism includes a body defining an axial direction, a dial that is moved for setting a dose, an indicator member coupled with the dial, and a movable window displaying a surface area of the indicator member. The indicator member is axially moved relative to the body.
US10322230B2
A patency device for catheter assemblies and other elongate tubular devices used for establishing access to an interior body portion of a patient is disclosed. The patency device establishes and preserves patency of one or more lumens defined by the catheter assembly by providing impulses of positive pressure to fluid disposed in the lumen of the catheter assembly. In one embodiment, the patency device comprises a fluid reservoir configured to provide a fluid path to at least one lumen of the catheter assembly, and a pressure input portion. The pressure input portion is configured to provide pressure for one or more impulses of positive pressure to a fluid disposed within the lumen. The impulses are configured to dislodge occlusions that may have formed in the lumen. A negative pressure can then be provided to the lumen to aspirate the occlusion.
US10322229B2
An infusion pump assembly includes a reservoir assembly configured to contain an infusible fluid. A motor assembly is configured to act upon the reservoir assembly and dispense at least a portion of the infusible fluid contained within the reservoir assembly. Processing logic is configured to control the motor assembly. The processing logic includes a primary microprocessor configured to execute one or more primary applications written in a first computer language; and a safety microprocessor configured to execute one or more safety applications written in a second computer language.
US10322228B2
A power injector is disclosed having power injector control logic, which in turn includes a decay constant cross-reference, for instance in the form of a data structure. Flow rate decay constant information may be stored by the decay constant cross-reference. A decay constant, which may be used by the power injector to generate an exponentially decaying flow rate for an injection, may be stored in the decay constant cross-reference in conjunction with a particular imaging unit. The decay constant cross-reference may be searched by entering a model or module number of an imaging unit to identify the corresponding flow rate decay constant to be used by the power injector.
US10322216B2
The present invention relates to a filtering device (8) for removing substances from blood or a blood component, the filtering device (8) comprising: a housing having an inlet and an outlet, at first sorbent material coupled with at least a first ligand located within the housing, and a second sorbent material coupled with at least a second ligand located within the housing, wherein the first ligand is for removing free hemoglobin (fHb) and the second ligand is for removing microvesicles (MV) from the blood or blood component passing through the filtering device (8), from the inlet to the outlet, wherein the first and second ligand are different from each other, and wherein the first and second sorbent material are the same or are different from each other.
US10322212B2
Compositions and methods for the surface appearance of the skin a subject are provided. An injectable composition comprising at least hyaluronic acid or a salt thereof; and an effective amount of at least mepivacaine or a salt thereof are provided. The hyaluronic acid optionally has an average molecular weight ranging from 50,000 to 10,000,000 Daltons, and may be crosslinked hyaluronic acids, non-crosslinked hyaluronic acids, or a combination, in some embodiments. The compositions and methods of the present invention are useful for treating and preventing the cutaneous signs of chronological aging and/or induced by external factors such as stress, air pollution, tobacco or prolonged exposure to ultraviolet (UV) exposure, impaired surface appearance of the skin, impaired viscoelastic or biomechanical properties of the skin, and/or the long-lasting filling of volume defects of the skin.
US10322209B2
Biological-based polyurethanes and methods of making the same. The polyurethanes are formed by reacting a biodegradable polyisocyanate (such as lysine diisocyanate) with an optionally hydroxylated biomolecule to form polyurethane. The polymers formed may be combined with ceramic and/or bone particles to form a composite, which may be used as an osteoimplant.
US10322207B2
An antiseptic composition for use as bone cement, in particular an antiseptic polymethylmethacrylate bone cement. The composition can be cured and comprises a pharmacologically tolerable salt of a monoperoxy dicarboxylic acid, whereby the salt of the monoperoxy dicarboxylic acid can be dissolved from the composition in the presence of water. Preferably, the salt of the monoperoxy dicarboxylic acid in the composition is used in the form of a powder, whereby the powder has a mean particle size of not more than 250 μm. Preferably, the salt of the monoperoxy dicarboxylic acid, in solution at room temperature, is not degraded within 5 min by the catalase enzyme.
US10322202B1
A microfluidic cartridge is provided. The microfluidic cartridge has a reservoir configured to contain a fluid composition. The microfluidic cartridge has a first face and a second face joined with the first face along a first edge. The second face comprises a second face outermost point in an X-direction. The microfluidic cartridge has a third face opposing the first face in a Z-axis and joined with the second face along a second edge. The microfluidic cartridge includes an electrical circuit having a first end portion disposed on the first face and a second end portion disposed on the second face. The microfluidic cartridge has a microfluidic die in electrical communication with the electrical circuit and in fluid communication with the reservoir. The microfluidic die is disposed on a region of the second face that is positioned inward from the second face outermost point in the X-direction.
US10322193B1
The present invention relates to therapeutic conjugates with improved ability to target various diseased cells containing a targeting moiety (such as an antibody or antibody fragment), a linker and a therapeutic moiety, and further relates to processes for making and using the conjugates.
US10322180B2
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing hemoglobin-based therapeutic agent for treating cancer. The hemoglobin moiety can target cancer cells and the therapeutic moiety (i.e. active agent/therapeutic drug) can kill the cancer cells efficiently. The hemoglobin-based therapeutic agent used in the present invention can be used in the treatment of various cancers such as pancreatic cancer, leukemia, head and neck cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, liver cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, esophageal cancer, prostate cancer, stomach cancer and brain cancer. The composition can be used alone or in combination with other therapeutic agent(s) such as chemotherapeutic agent to give a synergistic effect on cancer treatment, inhibiting metastasis and/or reducing recurrence. The presently claimed hemoglobin-based 5FU-two-dye conjugate and/or hemoglobin-based 5FU-one-dye conjugate can also be used in live-cell imaging and diagnostic imaging.
US10322179B2
The present document describes methods of use of photo activated compositions for oral disinfection and/or treatments which comprise at least one oxidant, at least one photoactivator capable of activating the oxidant, and at least one healing factor chosen from hyaluronic acid, glucosamine and allantoin, in association with a pharmacologically acceptable carrier.
US10322175B2
A catheter package and method of use which serve to straighten a curved catheter shaft. The straightening of the catheter shaft may be accomplished by passing the shaft through a pathway that bends the catheter in the opposite direction of the curvature imparted to the catheter shaft. The catheter shaft pathway may incorporate various shaped bumps, ridges, pins or rollers or other features which assist in straightening the shaft.
US10322172B2
A live, attenuated HIV vaccine is provided, and methods of making a attenuated HIV vaccine are provided.
US10322170B2
The invention discloses a hemostatic composition comprising: a) a biocompatible polymer in particulate form suitable for use in hemostasis, and b) one hydrophilic polymeric component comprising reactive groups.
US10322167B2
Embodiments of the invention provide swallowable devices, preparations and methods for delivering drugs and other therapeutic agents within the GI tract. Many embodiments provide a swallowable device for delivering the agents. Particular embodiments provide a swallowable device such as a capsule for delivering drugs into the intestinal wall or other GI lumen. Embodiments also provide various drug preparations that are configured to be contained within the capsule, advanced from the capsule into the intestinal wall and degrade to release the drug into the bloodstream to produce a therapeutic effect. The preparation can be operably coupled to delivery means having a first configuration where the preparation is contained in the capsule and a second configuration where the preparation is advanced out of the capsule into the intestinal wall. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for the delivery of drugs which are poorly absorbed, tolerated and/or degraded within the GI tract.
US10322159B2
The invention provides methods of preventing or treating cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury in a mammalian subject. The methods provide administering aromatic-cationic peptides in effective amounts to prevent or treat an anatomic zone of no re-flow in mammalian subjects. The methods comprise administering to the subject an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide to subjects in need thereof.
US10322157B2
The present invention is directed to a therapeutic method of treatment of diabetes mellitus, particularly diabetes which acquires multiple drug resistance, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of Chinese herbal medicine to a subject in need. The Chinese herbal medicine is the decocting extract including the mixture of raw oyster shell powder, raw Os Draconis, Haematitum, Magnetitum, radix Achyranthis Bidentatae, rhizoma Dioscoreae, radix Paeoniae Rubra, radix Rehmanniae, and semen Platycladi.
US10322156B2
Disclosed herein is a method for improving the health of animal or human microflora using aloe vera. The method may induce the beneficial effect of activation of natural killer T cells. A method of purifying decolorized dried aloe vera leaf juice is also disclosed.
US10322141B2
In certain aspects the invention provides immunogenic compositions comprising CH848 HIV-1 envelopes and their use in methods to induce immune responses in subjects, e.g., human subjects.
US10322128B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment of neoplasms, in particular, by targeting of quiescent cancer cells with therapeutic agents in combination with other treatments effective against certain neoplastic conditions, in particular, anti-cancer treatment with EGFR inhibitor agents.
US10322118B2
The present invention provides a screening assay for identifying inhibitors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa CFTR Inhibitory Factor as well as compositions and methods for ameliorating or treating a respiratory disease such as cystic fibrosis or secondary infection thereof.
US10322117B2
Provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions that are useful for the treatment of hypertension comprising an angiotensin II receptor blocker, a diuretic, and a calcium channel blocker.
US10322106B2
A kit comprises at least one non-IV injectable unit dose of amisulpride and at least one dose of an acute-phase anti-emetic, for simultaneous, separate or sequential use in the treatment or prevention of chemotherapy- or radiotherapy-induced nausea and/or vomiting in a subject, wherein the subject is receiving or has received a chemotherapy or radiotherapy treatment regimen, and wherein the dosage regimen comprises the administration of the or each acute-phase anti-emetic on day 1, day 1 being the same day that a chemotherapy or radiotherapy is administered, and the administration of the, or at least one of the, non-IV injectable unit doses of amisulpride on day 2. Also provided is a kit comprising at least one non-IV injectable unit dose of amisulpride and at least one unit dose of IV amisulpride. Further provided is a non-IV injectable formulation of amisulpride, for use in the treatment or prevention of delayed-phase chemotherapy- or radiotherapy-induced nausea and/or vomiting in a subject.
US10322101B2
Compositions and methods for the treatment of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and related disorders. Also provided are combination therapies for treating this disease by decreasing PMP22 expression in a subject.
US10322100B2
This invention teaches the use of chelating agents to diagnose and treat metal toxins in a patient. Chelation agents are given to the mother for the benefit of the baby. Metal toxins such as lead, arsenic, mercury, tin, antimony, aluminum and others are known to cause miscarriages, birth defects, maldevelopment of the organs and tissues and maldevelopment of the brain. Chelation treatments of the mother can prevent these problems in the embryo, fetus and infant. Removal of lead and mercury and other toxins allows improved development of the offspring, both during the chelation and after the chelation is discontinued. Determining whether a mother who has just delivered a baby has elevated levels of heavy metals can also be used to identify the elevated metals of the mother as a possible cause of birth defects.
US10322093B2
A substantially solvent-free matrix layer containing (−)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-6-[propyl-[2-(2-thienyl)ethyl]amino]-1-naphthalenol is produced by adding an active substance to an adhesive solution, coating the resultant active substance-containing adhesive solution onto a suitable sheet, and removing the solvents in a drying process to give said substantially solvent-free matrix layer.
US10322089B2
In accordance with the purpose(s) of the present disclosure, as embodied and broadly described herein, embodiments of the present disclosure, in one aspect, relate to nanoparticles, compositions including nanoparticles, methods of making nanoparticles, and the like. In particular, embodiments of the present disclosure include nanoparticles and compositions for the sustained release (e.g., release at a predetermined rate to maintain a certain concentration for a certain period of time) of an agent, such as a small interfering RNA (siRNA) from the nanoparticle.
US10322084B2
Described herein are compositions of antibodies and carrier proteins and methods of making and using the same, in particular, as a cancer therapeutic. Also described are lyophilized compositions of antibodies and carrier proteins and methods of making and using the same, in particular, as a cancer therapeutic.
US10322075B2
Agents for coloring keratinous fibers and methods of dying human hair are provided herein. In an embodiment, an agent is provided for coloring keratinous fibers. The agent is included in a cosmetic carrier and includes at least one non-ionic direct dye and at least about 0.1 wt. %—in relation to the entire agent—of one or several polyols.
US10322072B2
A method of treating the hair including providing a concentrated hair care composition in an aerosol foam dispenser. The concentrated hair care composition includes one or more silicones, perfume, an emulsifier system, and less than 10% high melting point fatty compounds. The method also includes dispensing the concentrated hair care composition from the aerosol foam dispenser as a dosage of foam; applying the foam to the hair; and rinsing the foam from the hair. The foam has a density of from about 0.025 g/cm3 to about 0.40 g/cm3 when dispensed from the aerosol foam dispenser.
US10322066B2
Methods and systems for a drug supply with an associated dosage regimen are described. A plurality of dosage containers are sequentially stored in drug boxes. The dosage containers are associated with a first time of treatment. The drug boxes are associated with a certain recurring time, e.g., morning, afternoon and evening or four boxes associated with four times a day. The entire day is covered by a plurality of drug boxes for treatment. This organizes the drugs such that compliance with complex treatment regimens may be increased. The drugs in each of the dosage containers need not be the same dosage or even the same drugs each time.
US10322052B2
In one example, an apparatus for positioning a patient's forearm during a medical procedure has a main panel portion, an extended panel portion and a base panel portion. The main panel portion has an inner surface and an outer surface, a first longitudinal side edge, a second longitudinal side edge, a first latitudinal side edge and a second latitudinal side edge. The extended panel portion has panel portion having a proximal end edge and a distal end edge, and an inner surface, wherein said distal end edge forms an angled configuration with said main panel portion for positioning the patient's left forearm and wrist suitably for receiving an arterial catheter. The base panel portion has a first longitudinal side edge and a second longitudinal side edge, wherein said first longitudinal side edge of said base panel portion extends generally perpendicularly outward from said second longitudinal side edge of said main panel portion.
US10322050B1
A method of securing a patient onto an operating table when the patient is in a position such as the trendelenburg position and apparatus therefor including a kit. A viscoelastic pad is used to support and hold a patient on a medical procedure table during a medical procedure performed while the table, and thus the patient lying thereon, is in an inclined position, such as the Trendelenburg position. The viscoelastic pad has characteristics which promote a minimization of pressure forces on the patient's body, as well as promote a secure cushioning and holding of the patient in a desired position on the table, in order to minimize injury to the patient.
US10322044B2
A medical chair includes a base, a seat, and a leg rest pivotally mounted relative to the seat and adapted to move between an extended position and a retracted position. The chair further includes a first actuator for tilting the seat with respect to the base, a second actuator for lifting the seat with respect to the base, and a leg rest actuator adapted to move the leg rest. The chair also includes a controller adapted to control the first and second actuators to move the seat between a first position and a second position such that the seat is both lifted and tilted at the same time as the seat moves from the first position to the second position, and wherein the controller is adapted to control the leg rest actuator such that the leg rest maintains a substantially constant orientation with respect to the floor.
US10322042B2
Methods and systems are provided for operation of a lifting mechanism coupled to a mobility service vehicle. In one example, a method may include, during an engine idle-stop, in response to a request for operation of a lifting mechanism used by mobility devices to access the vehicle, the transmission may be shifted to park, an electronic braking system may be enabled, and the engine may be restarted to provide power for operation of the lifting mechanism.
US10322038B2
A disposable absorbent having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, is described herein. The topsheet is a two layer composite or laminate web having a first layer and a second layer. The composite or laminate has a first plurality of apertures and a second plurality of apertures, wherein the first plurality of apertures have sidewalls that extend in a first direction, wherein the second plurality of apertures have sidewalls that extend in second direction that is different than the first direction, and wherein the composite or laminate also includes a plurality of embossments which extend in a third direction opposite the first direction.
US10322037B2
Provided is an absorbent article having a top sheet with an opening-formed area in which openings are formed, and non-opening-formed areas in which no openings are formed, said absorbent article being capable of preventing liquid from remaining on the surface of the opening-formed area of the top sheet. In the present invention, the top sheet is a resin sheet having an opening-formed area (12) in which openings are formed, and non-opening-formed areas (5, 14) in which no openings are formed. The opening-formed area (12) is disposed in an outlet-facing area (16) that faces at least an outlet for fluid from a wearer. The top sheet (2) has a blood modifier layer on the surface of at least the outlet-facing area (16). The blood modifier of the blood modifier layer has an inorganic/organic balance (IOB) of 0 to 0.60, a melting point of not more than 45° C., and an aqueous solubility of 0.05 g or less with respect to 100 g of water at 25° C.
US10322026B2
Disclosed is a base plate 1 for an ostomy collection device, comprising a cover layer 2 whereon an adhesive layer 3 is at least partly disposed. Immediately surrounding a through-going hole 6, the base plate has an inner area wherein the cover layer extends beyond the adhesive layer in a radial direction toward the through-going hole, thereby providing an overlap 7 protecting the adhesive material from contact with stomal output.
US10322017B2
A medical implant such as a self-expanding shape memory alloy stent with a strut matrix formed by cut patterns in a wall of a tubular workpiece can be enhanced by arranging for the line of the laser beam when cutting the struts to be one that does not pass through the longitudinal rotational axis of the tubular workpiece. Such “off-axis” cutting can modify the cross-sectional shape and area of each strut, along its length. Such modulation can enhance the fatigue resistance of the stent matrix, or increase the radial force that the stent matrix is capable of exerting on bodily tissue within which it is implanted.
US10322016B2
An adjustable seal system, seal component for use in the system, and method are provided for forming a sealing interface between a residual limb and a prosthetic socket. The seal component is selectively placed over the outer surface of a suspension liner including a plurality of seal bands, which the seal component may removably and securely engage.
US10321988B2
A mitral valve prosthesis is percutaneously and/or transapically deployed in at least two stages. In a first stage, a mitral annular ring platform adapted for percutaneous delivery is delivered to and anchored in the mitral valve annulus. In the second stage, a valved-stent mitral valve prosthetic device adapted for percutaneously delivery is delivered to the mitral valve annulus for mounting in the mitral annular ring platform. This approach provides a consistent platform for accepting valved-stent mitral valve prosthetic devices from different vendors to be used.
US10321982B2
An applicator for use in the veterinary medical field for spraying vaccines and other medicaments, biologicals or other liquids and compositions intra-rectally. The applicator has an elongated, hollow tubular body with a connector at its proximal end for connection to a fluid supply and a curved distal end tip with a pair of apertures for dispersing fluid by spraying action.
US10321981B2
An animal positioner includes two forelimb positioning members cylindrically attached to forelimbs of an animal, respectively, so as to wrap the forelimbs; two hindlimb positioning members cylindrically attached to hindlimbs of the animal, respectively, so as to wrap the hindlimbs, the two hindlimb positioning members being longer than the forelimb positioning members; a trunk positioning member which is longer than the hindlimb positioning members, the trunk positioning member being cylindrically attached to a trunk of the animal so as to wrap the trunk between the forelimb positioning members which are attached to the forelimbs of the animal, respectively, and the hindlimb positioning members which are attached to the hindlimbs thereof, respectively; and a head positioning member attached to a head of the animal so as to form a truncated cone circumferential surface and wrap the head above the forelimb positioning members.
US10321978B2
An orthodontic bracket is provided. The orthodontic bracket includes a base part; a bracket body mounted on the base part and having a retaining projection provided on an upper face thereof; a clip having a U-shaped cross-section, the clip being mounted on the bracket body and including an upper part along the upper face of the bracket body, a lower part along a lower face of the bracket body, a curved part therebetween, and an engaging hole provided in the upper part of the clip in a position that corresponds to a position of the retaining projection of the bracket body such that the retaining projection projects through the engaging hole when the clip is in an open position thereon; and an archwire slot in the upper face of the bracket body that extends perpendicular to a moving direction of the clip.
US10321971B2
A collector used to collect bone includes: a container body defining an interior containment space for receiving and retaining collected bone, and having at least one open end for access and removal of collected bone from the interior containment space; and a cap in covering relation to the open end of the container body such that access to the interior containment space for removal of collected bone is inhibited. The collector includes an intake port defining an opening for receiving therein a distal end of a kerrison rongeur for collecting cut bone from a cutting area thereof, and the cap includes at least one scraper for engaging and dislodging cut bone from the cutting area of a distal end of a kerrison rongeur when received within the intake port. The collector preferably is used with a kerrison rongeur for collecting cut bone therefrom.
US10321966B2
This sensor storage container comprises a bottomed cylindrical container body (1) having an opening in its top face, an opening/closing lid (2) provided to the opening of the container body (1) in an openable/closable manner, and an inner case (7) that is open at its top face and provided within the container body (1). The opening/closing lid (2) is linked to the container body (1) via a hinge portion (3), at the peripheral edge of the opening of the container body (1). The inner case (7) is linked on the hinge portion (3) side to the opening/closing lid (2).
US10321961B2
A method for avoiding impingement between an implanted prosthetic hip stem and acetabular cup uses at least one digital x-ray of a standing patient preferably including a lateral x-ray to determine a pelvic tilt angle of the patient. A hip stem is virtually implanted at an initial stem version angle into a virtual femur constructed from the digital x-ray. Data of at least one hip joint motion is obtained from at least one individual. A range of inclination and anteversion angles is calculated for a virtually implanted acetabular cup that avoids impingement with the virtually implanted hip stem. The calculated range of inclination or anteversion angles is based at least in part on the pelvic tilt angle of the patient, the initial hip stem version angle and the obtained joint motion data.
US10321959B2
A method of pre-operatively forming a surgical splint configured to receive a patient's dentition can include combining a 3-D facial computer model and a 3-D dental computer model. The method includes the step of obtaining a 3-D facial computer model of at least the patient's maxilla, mandible, and dentition from a CT scanner and the step of obtaining a 3-D dental computer model of the patient's dentition with an optical scanner. The 3-D dental computer model is then combined with the 3-D facial computer model to form a composite virtual model. The composite virtual model can be manipulated into a planned post-operative shape, and a surgical splint can be custom constructed to match the planned post-operative shape. The surgical splint can be configured to receive the patient's dentition.
US10321956B2
A microwave delivery device, including a coaxial feedline having an inner conductor, an inner dielectric insulator coaxially disposed about the inner conductor, and an outer conductor coaxially disposed about the inner dielectric, and a radiating portion operably coupled to a distal end. The radiating portion includes a radiating portion inner conductor operable coupled to and extending from a distal end of the coaxial feedline inner conductor, a shielding outer conductor helically wrapped about the radiating portion inner conductor and operably coupled to the coaxial feedline outer conductor; and a shielding dielectric positioned between the radiating portion inner conductor and the shielding outer conductor wherein the width of the shielding outer conductor varies according to the longitudinal position thereof along the coaxial feedline inner conductor, and a cap operably coupled to a distal end of the radiating portion inner conductor and the shielding outer conductor to provide an electrical connection therebetween.
US10321948B2
Systems, instruments, and methods are described in which an apparatus comprises a housing including a scalpet device. The scalpet device includes a scalpet array that includes scalpets arranged in a pattern. The scalpets are deployable from the housing to generate incised skin pixels at a target site. The housing is positioned and the scalpet array is deployed into tissue at the target site. Incised skin pixels are generated when the target site is a donor site, and skin defects are generated when the target site is a recipient site. The incised skin pixels are harvested.
US10321946B2
The disclosure pertains to an intravascular catheter, comprising an elongate member having a proximal end and a distal end, a balloon having an interior surface, an exterior surface, a lumen defined by the interior surface and a cylindrical wall extending between the interior surface and the exterior surface, the cylindrical wall having a proximal end and a distal end, the balloon having a plurality of weeping windows disposed in the wall and able to pass an electric current between the interior surface and the exterior surface and wherein the balloon wall is otherwise electrically insulative, and an electrode disposed in the balloon. The intravascular system is suited for modulation of renal nerves, for example.
US10321944B2
A midline retractor provides access for the placement of PARS screws and other surgical sites. A lower profile allows for better visualization of the patients anatomy and provides better access for surgical instruments. The retractor may include integrated lighting, such as fiber optic lighting or other suitable lighting. The blades of the retractor may include a textured profile, such as diamond plating, grooves, etching or any other desired textured treatment on the blades. The texture on the blades may keep tissue from migrating down the blades and may prevent the blades from slipping up and out of the patient. The PARS retractor may include a blade rotation locking mechanism and/or a blade toe feature that allows for ease of use and an adjustable blade toe. The retractor may also include a rack release that provides for free movement of the rack.
US10321941B2
An intramedullary bone fixation device is disclosed herein. The device includes a first longitudinally extending member, a second longitudinally extending member, and a coupling member. The first longitudinally extending member includes a connector end and a bone engagement end opposite the connector end. The second longitudinally extending member includes a connector end and a bone engagement end opposite the connector end. The coupling member is configured to engage the connector ends of the respective longitudinally extending members, thereby coupling the first longitudinally extending member to the second longitudinally extending member. The device may be provided in an kit form at least partially unassembled. The device may be delivered into a fracture and fully assembled within the fracture or adjacent bone via percutaneous or minimally invasive surgical procedures. The device, on account of its configuration and assembly, may be considered modular in some cases.
US10321934B2
An instrument access device 1 comprises a proximal member 25 for location externally of an opening into a body cavity. A first connector 20 extends between the proximal member 25 and a first instrument receiver 2. A second connector 21 extends between the proximal member and a second instrument receiver 3. Instrument seals can be housed in relatively rigid housings for added strength.
US10321928B2
[Object] To enable to detect a force acting on a surgical instrument with a simpler configuration.[Solution] Provided is an information processing device including an acting force calculation unit that calculates, on a basis of a first detected value by a first force sensor provided on one side of a rod-shaped member, at least one of acting forces on a first point of action and a second point of action that differ from each other on an other side of the rod-shaped member.
US10321927B2
Articulating mechanisms, link systems, and components thereof, useful for a variety of purposes including, but not limited to, the remote manipulation of instruments such as surgical or diagnostic instruments or tools, are provided. The link systems include links wherein torque can be transferred between at least two adjacent links while allowing for pivoting motion between the links. Mechanisms for preventing undesired lateral movement of links relative to one another are also provided.
US10321920B2
Use of measurement system and detection module with a burr instrument for surgical procedures. The measurement system may include sensors (e.g., displacement, acceleration, and/or force sensors) that may be utilized to detect potentially hazardous operation of the burr instrument. For example, when penetrating through the cortex of the bone the measurement system may be operated in a unicortical mode such that when the burr passes through the cortex of the bone, the instrument operating may be arrested to avoid damage to surrounding tissue. Moreover, the system may be utilized to detect a slip or sudden loss of contact of the burr instrument such that the instrument may be arrested to avoid damage to surrounding tissue. Furthermore, the burr instrument may have a predetermined ramp-up speed.
US10321918B2
Methods for preparing a bone in surgery using an imaging system, a navigation system having a locating device, and a robotic system having a cutting tool. A cannula is guided into an incision to expand the incision and provide access to the bone so that the cutting tool is insertable through the cannula to remove material from the bone. An implant is insertable through the cannula to be placed in the bone.
US10321917B2
Embodiments provide a tourniquet that may be used as a daily wear belt. A tourniquet belt may include an elongate belt having a first end and a second free end; a securing element coupled to the elongate belt at the first end of the elongate belt; and a separate tightening element coupled to the elongate belt, wherein the tightening element is selectively actuable to tighten or loosen the tourniquet belt.
US10321915B2
A vaso-occlusive treatment system includes a delivery assembly; and a vaso-occlusive device detachably coupled to the delivery assembly by a delivery assembly junction. The vaso-occlusive device includes a braided portion formed out of one or more composite wires, a coiled portion coupled to the braided portion, and an intra-device junction coupling the braided portion to the coiled portion. Each composite wire includes a core made from a core metallic material, and an external layer made from an external metallic material different from the core metallic material. One of the core and the external layer has a greater radiopacity and a lesser stiffness, respectively, than the other one of the core and the external layer.
US10321910B2
Transluminal access system includes a stent delivery catheter having a handle control mechanism. The catheter comprises a number of components for establishing an initial penetration between adjacent body lumens and subsequently implanting a stent or other luminal anchor therebetween. Manipulation of the stent components is achieved using control mechanisms on the handle while the handle is attached to an endoscope which provides access to a first body lumen.
US10321906B2
A method for securing a strand to a fixation member for arthroscopic fixation, wherein the fixation member includes a channel on an exterior surface and an aperture therethrough. The method includes passing a strand having first and second ends through a flexible sleeve, passing the sleeve through the aperture of the fixation member in a first direction, tensioning the strand, and pulling the sleeve in a second direction different than the first direction to secure the sleeve to the fixation member without tying the strand on the fixation member.
US10321903B2
A surgical instrument for dispensing a fluid includes a housing and a dispensing shaft, which is elongate and which has a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end of the dispensing shaft is received in the housing and the distal end defines a dispensing opening for dispensing the fluid. The dispensing shaft includes a through bore which extends along the dispensing shaft from the proximal end to the dispensing opening at the distal end. The instrument further includes a dispensing assembly and a priming assembly connected to the housing which is operable to move an amount of the fluid into the through bore of the dispensing shaft to prime the through bore with the fluid before the dispensing assembly is operated.
US10321902B2
A surgical instrument including a housing, an endoscopic portion, a shaft portion, and an end effector is disclosed. The endoscopic portion extends distally from the housing and defines a longitudinal axis. The shaft portion is selectively connectable to a distal end of the endoscopic portion. The end effector is selectively connectable to a distal end of the shaft portion.
US10321900B2
A medical instrument including a shaft and an actuated structure mounted at a distal end of the shaft can employ a pair of tendons connected to the actuated structure, extending down the shaft, and respectively wound around a capstan in opposite directions. A passive preload system may maintain minimum tensions in the tendons.
US10321894B2
The present invention relates to formation of an image indicating viscoelastic characteristics in a specimen by a simple method.Stepwise pressurization in which, after pressure is instantaneously increased to a certain pressure value, the certain pressure value is kept for a certain time period is performed to measure the variation with time of strain distribution in the specimen and to calculate a stress from strain distribution at a saturation measurement time when the effect of the viscosity of a viscoelasticity measurement reference layer is saturated, thereby evaluating the modulus of elasticity and the coefficient of viscosity of a body tissue.
US10321892B2
Computerized characterization of cardiac wall motion is provided. Quantities for cardiac wall motion are determined from a four-dimensional (i.e., 3D+time) sequence of ultrasound data. A processor automatically processes the volume data to locate the cardiac wall through the sequence and calculate the quantity from the cardiac wall position or motion. Various machine learning is used for locating and tracking the cardiac wall, such as using a motion prior learned from training data for initially locating the cardiac wall and the motion prior, speckle tracking, boundary detection, and mass conservation cues for tracking with another machine learned classifier. Where the sequence extends over multiple cycles, the cycles are automatically divided for independent tracking of the cardiac wall. The cardiac wall from one cycle may be used to propagate to another cycle for initializing the tracking. Independent tracking in each cycle may reduce or avoid inaccuracies due to drift.
US10321890B2
An endovascular navigation system and method are disclosed. The endovascular navigation system includes an elongate flexible member, a endovascular electrogram lead disposed at a distal end of the elongate flexible member and configured to sense an endovascular electrogram signal, a processor and an output device. The processor is configured to receive the endovascular electrogram signal, to determine a peak amplitude of a P-wave in the endovascular electrogram signal, and to determine that the position of the distal end of the elongate flexible member is within a predetermined structure within the venous vasculature of the patient. The output device is configured to display a visual indication that the distal end of the elongate flexible member is within the predetermined structure within the venous vasculature of the patient, where the visual indication is different from the endovascular electrogram signal of the venous vasculature of the patient.
US10321878B2
A method for data display includes acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) map of a lumen inside a body of a subject, transforming the 3D map of the lumen into a two-dimensional (2D) image by projecting the 3D map onto an annulus, and presenting the 2D image on a display screen.
US10321875B2
Devices, methods, computer-readable media, and systems for determining an identity of a food are disclosed. For example, a method may receive at least one property of at least one component in a sample of a food from an intra-oral device including a spectrometer, the at least one property obtained via the spectrometer, compares the at least one property to a plurality of food signatures, and determines the identity of the food based upon the comparing. In another example, a system may include an intra-oral device and a wireless device. The intra-oral device may include a spectrometer for measuring at least one property of at least one component in a sample of a food. The wireless device may include a processor for receiving the at least one property, comparing the at least one property to a plurality of food signatures, and determining the identity of the food based upon the comparing.
US10321874B2
A mobile healthcare device and method of operating the same are provided. The method includes setting a mode of the mobile healthcare device to a measurement mode, displaying a screen for guiding a user to maintain a predetermined position during the measurement mode, and, in response to a predetermined amount of time passing from a time at which the screen begins to be displayed, obtaining state information of the user based on bio information of the user, the bio information being received from a sensor.
US10321873B2
This invention is smart clothing (such as a shirt or pair of pants) for ambulatory motion capture comprising: an article of clothing; an electromagnetic energy emitter; an electromagnetic energy receiver; a helical stretching and/or bending electromagnetic energy pathway that spans a body joint, wherein motion of the body joint stretches and/or bends the pathway, and wherein stretching and/or bending of the pathway changes the flow of electromagnetic energy from the emitter to the receiver; and a data processor, wherein the data processor analyzes changes in the flow in order to measure motion of the body joint.
US10321871B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining sleep stages and sleep events using sensor data. In some implementations, sensor data is obtained over a time period while a person is sleeping. The time period is divided into a series of intervals. Heart rate and changes in the heart rate are analyzed over the intervals. Based on the analysis of the heart rate changes, sleep stage labels are assigned to different portions of the time period. An indication of the assigned sleep stage labels is provided.
US10321867B2
A method of detecting and measuring the condition of intraluminal esophageal mucosa. An esophagus is intubated with a catheter including an inflatable and deflatable balloon and one or more impedance sensing electrodes on an exterior surface of the catheter. The balloon is inflated to press the impedance sensing electrode(s) into a mucosa of the interior esophageal wall. An electric current is directed through the mucosa via the impedance sensing electrode(s) while the impedance sensing electrode(s) is/are pressed by the balloon against the mucosa and measure impedance of the mucosa.
US10321852B2
Orthopedic systems and methods are provided for use in preparing joints for implants. Specifically, hip preparation systems and methods are disclosed which can include a surgical orientation device. The hip preparation systems and methods can be used, for example, to orient the hip during the procedure, determine the orientation of an anatomical plane or planes, and orient a prosthetic component or components.
US10321848B2
A magnetic field generator assembly (44) is configured to be associated with a table (20) supporting a body. The magnetic field generator comprises magnetic field transmitters (57A) that are thin (of minimal height) and transparent, or substantially transparent, to x-ray radiation. The magnetic field transmitters (57A) are configured to minimally obstruct components of an imaging system and to minimally interfere with image quality. A plurality of transmitters is arranged in a first layer of the assembly. Each transmitter (57A) comprises an elongate conductive element, such as a wire, arranged in a spiral form, such as a coil.
US10321845B2
The invention provides for a magnetic resonance imaging system (100) which comprise a magnet (104) and a magnetic field gradient generator (110, 112) for generating a gradient magnetic field within an imaging zone (108). The gradient magnetic field is aligned with a predetermined direction. The magnetic resonance imaging system further comprise a memory (134, 136) for storing machine executable instructions (150, 152, 154), a pre-calculated magnetic resonance fingerprinting dictionary (144), and pulse sequence instructions (140). The pulse sequence instructions cause the magnetic resonance imaging system to acquire the magnetic resonance data according to a magnetic resonance fingerprinting technique. The magnetic resonance fingerprinting technique encodes the magnetic resonance data as slices (125). The pre-calculated magnetic resonance fingerprinting dictionary contains a listing of calculated magnetic resonance signals in response to execution of the pulse sequence instructions for a set of predetermined substances. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes a processor (130) controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system to: acquire (300) the magnetic resonance data by controlling the magnetic resonance imaging system with pulse sequence instructions; divide (302) the magnetic resonance data into a set of slices; calculate (304) the abundance of each of the set of predetermined substances within each of the set of slices by comparing the magnetic resonance data for each of the set of slices with the pre-calculated magnetic resonance fingerprinting dictionary; and calculate (306) a magnetic resonance fingerprint chart by plotting abundance of each of the set of predetermined substances within each of the set of slices as a function of position along the predetermined direction.
US10321836B2
The present disclosure encompasses an “artifact score” derived from the signal characteristics of an acquired 12-lead ECG, (2) a “patient context score” derived from key elements of the patient's history, presentation, and prehospital emergency care, and (3) techniques for integrating these scores into an emergency medical care system.
US10321832B2
A system for monitoring biometric signals of a user comprising: a garment configured to be worn by the user and comprising a mounting module having an array of connection regions; a set of biometric sensors coupled to the garment and configured to communicate with the array of connection regions to receive and transmit biometric signals indicative of muscle activity of the user; and a portable control module configured to couple to the garment in a first configuration and to decouple from the garment in a second configuration and comprising: a housing comprising an array of openings; a set of contacts, each including a first region that seals at least one of the array of openings and couples to at least one of the array of connection regions in the first configuration, and an electronics subsystem coupled to the housing and in communication with a second region of each contact.
US10321822B1
A fundus camera and method of operating the fundus camera are described. The fundus camera includes an image sensor, an eyepiece lens, an illumination source, and an alignment target. The image sensor captures image light of a retina within an eye. The eyepiece lens is disposed to pass the image light of the retina to the image sensor. The illumination source is disposed to direct illumination light onto the retina through the eyepiece lens. The illumination source is further disposed around a first aperture through which the image light of the retina passes from the eyepiece lens to the image sensor. The alignment target is coupled to output an alignment image through the eyepiece lens to the eye and disposed around a second aperture through which the image light of the retina is passed to the image sensor and the illumination light is passed to the eyepiece lens.
US10321814B2
An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device that includes a light receiving surface, an opposite surface, a light receiving portion, and external electrodes connected to the light receiving portion; and a wiring board that includes a first main surface, a second man surface, and a wiring portion provided with first bonding electrodes bonded to the external electrodes, wherein the first main surface of the wiring portion is arranged at a first angle θ1 equal to or smaller than 90 degrees relative to the opposite surface, the wiring board includes a reinforced portion and a folded portion bent at the first angle θ1 between the reinforced portion and the wiring portion, and the second main surface of the reinforced portion is fixed to the opposite surface of the image pickup device.
US10321811B2
An optical transmission module includes a substrate having an opening portion; an optical element closing an opening on the lower surface side of the substrate and converting an electric signal into an optical signal or the optical signal into the electric signal; an optical fiber transmitting the optical signal; a ferrule closing an opening on the upper surface side of the substrate and having an optical fiber insertion hole; and a resin filled into a space surrounded at least by the substrate, the optical element, the ferrule, and a distal end of the optical fiber, wherein the ferrule has a resin filling hole spaced apart from the optical fiber insertion hole to fill the space with the resin, and an angle formed by an axis of the optical fiber insertion hole and an axis of the resin filling hole is equal to or more than 0° and less than 90°.
US10321801B2
An endoscopic device includes: a light source unit configured to repeat for every frame period, an operation of emitting illumination light during a front period and turning off the illumination light during a back period of the frame period; a buffer memory mounted in an endoscopic scope and configured to store image information of a frame image signal output from an image capturing unit; and an information transmitting unit configured to read out the image information of the frame image signal from the buffer memory and transmit the image information to an image processing unit, in which the information transmitting unit reads out the image information of the frame image signal from the buffer memory within the frame period.
US10321797B2
The present invention provides a pump plate (60) for conditioning the flow of a fluid before the fluid enters an inlet (51) of a circulation pump (50) of a dishwasher. The pump plate (60) may have a plate portion with a number of holes (62) dispersed across its surface such that fluid may flow through the holes (62). The pump plate (60) may also include one or more upper guide vanes (63) extending outwardly from the plate portion and configured to reduce the turbulence in the fluid flow. A dishwasher (10) including a pump plate (60) and a method for manufacturing such a dishwasher are also provided. A dishwasher (10) that includes a pump plate (60) to condition the fluid flow within the dishwasher may be configured to function efficiently while requiring less water to complete a rinse or wash cycle than a dishwasher that does not include a pump plate.
US10321795B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a separating and collection assembly defining a collection chamber which receives debris and has a debris outlet, a cover assembly having a pre-motor filter, a debris ejector, and a push rod operably coupleable to the debris ejector to displace the debris ejector relative to the debris outlet. The push rod can be accommodated by an opening of the pre-motor filter.
US10321786B2
In order to provide a processor in which a reception space occupied by a body thereof may be decreased when it is not used, a container may be mounted on and detached from the body without being hindered, visibility of an inner portion of the container may be improved, and noise generated at the time of an operation may be decreased, a soundproofing cover is mounted on the body so as to cover the container, is detachable from the body to be completely separated from the body, and has an internal space closed by closure of an opening of one end thereof by the body. One end portion of a first vacuum tube is disposed to be exposed to an upper surface of the body and is connected to one end portion of a second vacuum tube.
US10321781B2
A decorative tree stand that can include a support base and a tree support pivotally coupled to an upwardly facing surface of the support base is disclosed and described. The tree support can selectively pivot to allow the decorative tree to move from a display position to a storage position.
US10321745B2
Provided is a packaging for a fluid product, in particular a cosmetic or a skin care product. The packaging may include a receptacle defining a containment volume of the cosmetic product and an opening into the containment volume. The packaging may further include a lid configured to engage with the receptacle and close the opening. Further, the packaging may also include an applicator configured to withdraw the cosmetic product from the containment volume. The packaging may additionally include a containment and release body arranged in the containment volume and saturated with the cosmetic product so that, when deformed by the applicator, it releases the cosmetic product on the applicator.
US10321741B2
Provided is a necktie retaining clip which is connected to the back of a necktie to secure the necktie to a shirt, the necktie retaining clip including: a plate-shaped attachment member connected to a loop of cloth sewn on the back of the necktie so as to be detachable and having a fastening piece formed on the lower end portion thereof; a connecting member that connects the attachment member and a retaining member; and the retaining member connected to the connecting member so as to be rotatable. It is possible to tightly secure a necktie by connecting the retaining clip to a shirt, thereby preventing the necktie from falling to the front or being tilted and facilitating wearing and attaching/detaching the retaining clip.
US10321739B2
The present disclosure provides a knitted component, the knitted component with a knit element that forms at least a portion of an upper for an article of footwear and defines an interior void for receiving a foot. A lower perimeter edge of the knit element may extend between a lateral side and a medial side of the upper. At least one strand of the knitted component may extend through the lower perimeter edge on opposite sides of the knitted component so as to extend between the lateral side and the medial side of the upper. The knitted component may be formed on a knitting machine, and the at least one strand may be configured to be tensioned to tighten the upper around a last.
US10321738B2
An article of footwear comprises a sole structure and an upper. The upper is connected to the sole structure to form an enclosure to at least partially receive a foot. The upper comprises a first panel forming a first portion of the upper and having a first texture, a second panel forming a second portion of the upper and having a second texture, and an embroidery area extending across portions of the first panel and the second panel and having an appearance that replicates the first texture extending into the second texture.
US10321737B2
An article of footwear including a connecting member is disclosed. The connecting member provides partial decoupling between the upper and the sole structure. The connecting member can include an upper layer and a lower layer that are attached at a central attachment portion.
US10321735B2
A sole structure includes a heel region, a forefoot region, and a midfoot region disposed between the heel and forefoot regions. The sole structure also includes a first fluid-filled segment disposed within the forefoot region and includes a first portion extending continuously from a medial side of the sole structure to a lateral side of the sole structure. The sole structure also includes a second fluid-filled segment disposed between the heel region and the first fluid-filled segment and includes a first portion extending continuously between the medial side and the lateral side. The sole structure also includes a third fluid-filled segment disposed between the first fluid-filled segment and the second fluid-filled segment and includes a first portion extending along one of the medial side and the lateral side and a second portion extending from the first portion toward the other one of the medial side and the lateral side.
US10321734B2
An article of footwear includes a sole structure that has a heel portion with a rear, a lateral side, and a medial side. The article of footwear includes a heel extender that has a rear segment disposed at the rear of the heel portion, a lateral arm disposed at the lateral side of the heel portion, and a medial arm disposed at the medial side of the heel portion. The heel extender has a protuberance that establishes a rearmost extent of the article of footwear. The sole structure has a first hardness and the protuberance has a second hardness greater than the first hardness.
US10321713B2
A heating system (3) for an inhaler device (1), such as an e-cigarette or a personal vaporizer, for generating an aerosol and/or a vapor (V) from a substance to be heated, especially a liquid or gel, the heating system (3) including: a first heating zone (5) configured to receive the substance to be heated from a supply reservoir (4), wherein at least one first heating element (14) is provided to pre-heat the substance in the first heating zone (5); and a second heating zone (16) configured to receive the preheated substance from the first heating zone (5), wherein at least one second heating element (19) is provided to heat the substance in the second heating zone (16).
US10321710B2
A flavor delivery release system for a cigarette or cigarette package. The system includes a cigarette, at least one capsule containing a flavorant, the capsule positioned on an external surface of the cigarette; and wherein the flavorant is released upon rupturing the capsule.
US10321709B2
Filter rods for use in the manufacture of cigarette filter elements are provided, with each rod having a longitudinal axis and incorporating a generally longitudinally extending filter material and a generally longitudinally extending strand within that filter material. A filter making unit receives a continuous supply of a filter material, and forms the filter material into a gathered composite having a continuous cylindrical shape. A continuous supply of a strand (e.g., colored thread) is provided and is introduced into the filter material gathered composite in the tongue of the filter making unit. The filter material and continuous strand positioned therein are formed into a continuous rod having the strand material laterally positioned within that rod, and the continuous rod is subdivided at pre-determined longitudinal intervals to provide a plurality of rod portions.
US10321706B2
To improve the solubility and the speed of dissolution of nutritional tablets comprising protein, fat and carbohydrates, dietary fibers are included in the nutritional tablets.
US10321701B2
A machine for making and dispensing liquid and/or semi-liquid food products comprises a supply tank equipped with a loading mouth through which the ingredients necessary to make the basic product are loaded, and a lid for opening and closing the loading mouth; the lid comprises a covering wall with at least two parts which are foldable relative to each other and which are joined to each other by a folding line.
US10321695B2
A composition includes hesperdin and/or a Lamiaceae extract wherein a majority of the volatile components have been removed from the Lamiaceae extract. A method for applying the composition to a food such as meat, fish or poultry, including processed and fresh or unprocessed meat, poultry and fish is also provided.
US10321689B2
An antimicrobial traditional Chinese medicine composition, and a preparation method and a use thereof are provided, wherein the antimicrobial traditional Chinese medicine composition is made from raw materials comprising fructus perillae, patchouli and usnea. Through the reasonable matching application and synergistic effects of traditional Chinese medicines, the extracted composition has a broad-spectrum antimicrobial effect, and is suitable for being used as a natural preservative. Experiments show that for each microorganism of Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Candida albicans and Aspergillus niger independently, the antimicrobial effect of the matched composition of the present invention is superior to the antimicrobial effect of single plants, the result where the total effect of the composition is better than sum of the effects of single plants is achieved, and the synergistic effect of antimicrobial effects among the plants is achieved.
US10321684B2
Described are compositions and methods to increase bud break in order to increase aspects of one or both of plant vegetative and reproductive growth, by use of a natural metabolite. In particular, the present disclosure provides a natural metabolite either alone or as part of a fertilizer blend to increase crop production. Additionally the present disclosure provides a natural metabolite in combination with one or both of a plant growth regulator and a biostimulant to increase crop production.
US10321683B2
The present invention provides a novel insecticidal, miticidal, nematicidal, microbicidal, or bactericidal composition and a novel pest control method. An insecticide, miticide, nematicide, molluscicide, disinfectant, or bactericide composition containing one or two substances selected from 4-[5-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-4,5-dihydro-5-(trifluoromethyl)isoxazole-3-yl]-2-methyl-N-[2-oxo-2-[(2,2,2-trifluoroethyl)amino]ethyl]benzamide or (Z)-4-[5-(3,5-dichlorophenyl)-5-trifluoromethyl-4,5-dihydroisoxazole-3-yl]-N-(methoxyiminomethyl)-2-methylbenzamide, and one or more substances selected from known insecticide, miticide, nematicide, molluscicide, disinfectant, or bactericide compounds.
US10321680B2
The present invention is directed to pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and dill seed oil and methods of controlling pests including insects and mites by application of pesticidal mixtures comprising sabadilla alkaloids and dill seed oil.
US10321676B2
The invention provides, in various embodiments, systems, devices and methods relating to ex-vivo organ care. In certain embodiments, the invention relates to maintaining an organ ex-vivo at near-physiologic conditions. The present application describes a method for using lactate measurement in the arterial and the venous blood lines of the Organ Care System Heart perfusion device to evaluate the: 1) The overall perfusion status of an isolated heart and 2) The metabolic status of an isolated heart and 3) the overall vascular patency of an isolated donor heart. This aspect of the present invention uses the property of myocardial cell's unique ability to produce/generate lactate when they are starved for oxygen and metabolize/utilize lactate for energy production when they are well perfused with oxygen.
US10321675B2
The present invention relates to organ transplant systems used to keep organs chilled and viable as they are moved between patients. More specifically, the present invention both contains the organ and holds it in position during transplant surgery. Thus, there is no need for a member of the implant surgical team to hold the organ while it is being sewn into place.
US10321672B2
Wildlife deterrence using mono-colored light to induce neurophysical behavioral responses in animals
Wildlife deterrence methods and systems use mono-colored light within a sensitivity range of a short-wavelength-sensitive (SWS) photoreceptor of a species to be deterred, such as an avian species. The mono-colored light may be generated by one or more high brightness mono-colored light emitting diodes (LEDs) and may be within 25 nm of a peak absorption wavelength of the SWS photoreceptor of the species. The mono-colored light is directed to a deterrence area with an intensity sufficient to cause at least a temporary disruption of visual perception in the species to induce an augmented behavioral response in the species resulting in avoidance of the deterrence area. The mono-colored light may also be generated as intermittent pulses having a duration sufficient to keep a pupil of an eye of the species in a continuous unstable state to prevent light adaption by the species.
US10321651B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 45-161 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 45-161 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 45-161 RZ.
US10321649B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH267703. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH267703, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH267703 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH267703.
US10321648B1
A novel maize variety designated PH2F62 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2F62 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2F62 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2F62 or a locus conversion of PH2F62 with another maize variety.
US10321647B1
A novel maize variety designated PH2T03 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH2T03 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2T03 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH2T03 or a locus conversion of PH2T03 with another maize variety.
US10321639B2
The invention provides a new and distinct hybrid variety of tomato, NUN 00239 TOP.
US10321634B2
A grain cleaning system in a combine harvester including a pair of side walls, a rear wall that extends between the side walls, a sieve that oscillates in a fore-and-aft path between the side walls, a fan unit for generating a cleaning airstream, and an outlet for discharging residue from a grain-cleaning process. The outlet is framed in part by a lower edge of the rear wall. An aperture is provided in the rear wall to provide air relief to enhance the fore-to-aft flow of the cleaning airstream. Optionally, an auxiliary fan may drive air through the aperture.
US10321627B1
A multi-axis adjustable machine handle may comprise a handle assembly and a handle mounting assembly. The handle mounting assembly may comprise a clamping assembly including an elongate clamp with first and second sides rotatably engaging the handle assembly and first and second cup-shaped members slidably engaging the elongate clamp. The handle mounting assembly may further comprise a locking assembly extending through the first cup-shaped member, second cup-shaped member, and elongate clamp to selectively prevent relative movement. Finally, the handle mounting assembly may also comprise a support brace engaging the second cup-shaped member.
US10321625B2
The invention regards an autonomous working machine comprising drive means, current position estimation means, control means including a driving control unit and a camera. With aid of the current position estimation means the current position of the autonomous working machine is estimated. Furthermore, the driving control unit generates driving commands for the driving means on the basis of an intended movement of the autonomous working machine and the estimated current position. The camera is configured to capture images of the environment of the working machine. For estimating the current position, the current position estimation means is formed by the control means, which is configured to apply visual odometry on the captured images for estimating the current position of the working machine.
US10327368B2
A panel device including a panel for performing at least one of input and output of information related to operation of a work machine, a panel-side support axis fixed to the panel, a connecting arm that is swingably held by the two support axes, a guide rail formed on the work machine side, a bolt that moves along the guide rail, and a regulating arm attached to the bolt and held so as to be oscillatable by the panel-side support axis. When the connecting arm is oscillated, the oscillation of the connecting arm and the angle of the panel is regulated by the regulating arm.
US10327364B2
An electromagnetic-shielding structure includes an electromagnetic-shielding container having an opening, an electromagnetic-shielding cover that is movably attached to the electromagnetic-shielding container between a closing position and an opening position, and a choke structure. The choke structure is disposed so as to be positioned between a circumference of the electromagnetic-shielding container defining the opening and a circumference region of the electromagnetic-shielding cover when the electromagnetic-shielding cover is at the closing position, and includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of conductive layers that are alternately stacked.
US10327362B2
A multi-channel power source includes at least one first power conversion unit, at least one second power conversion unit and a heat dissipation device. The first power conversion unit has a plurality of first subsidiary units. The first subsidiary units are electrically connected with each other. Each of the first subsidiary units has at least one first heating element. The second power conversion unit has a plurality of second subsidiary units. The second subsidiary units are electrically connected with each other. Each of the second subsidiary units has at least one second heating element. The heat dissipation device is configured to dissipate a heat generated by the first heating elements and the second heating elements along at least one heat dissipation medium direction. The first subsidiary units and the second subsidiary units are arranged in an at least partially staggered manner along the heat dissipation medium direction.
US10327354B1
A server rack with vertically stacked shelves is disclosed. The shelves are used for housing loads (e.g. servers) and power supply units. Thus, both the power supply units and the servers are vertically stacked in the rack. An array of vertical and horizontal busses is secured to the back side of the server rack to electrically couple the servers with the power supply units. The arrangement of the PSUs and the busses provides for uniform current density across the server rack. The devices placed on the shelves are accessible and serviceable from the front of the server rack. The server rack can be placed within or secured to a device, system or a server room in a vertical orientation, a horizontal orientation or at an angle.
US10327352B2
A dual-action storage media chassis system comprising: a chassis and two storage media modules accommodated in the chassis. The chassis defining a central back storage space accommodating a processor unit having a third operating temperature. Each storage media module including: a tray frame, each tray frame including a top access opening; a first plurality of storage media (having a first operating temperature) arranged into a front portion of the tray frame through the top access opening; a second plurality of storage media (having a second operating temperature) arranged into a back portion of the tray frame through the top access opening; the front portion, the back portion and the central back storage space being disposed longitudinally sequentially in the dual-action storage media chassis system, such that the second operating temperature is superior to the first operating temperature, and the third operating temperature is superior to the second operating temperature.
US10327349B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a plurality of stand assemblies, a plurality of center frames correspondingly coupled to upper portions of the plurality of stand assemblies, and a plurality of display panels positioned on at least one side of the plurality of center frames. At least a portion of the plurality of display panels are arranged to form a curved surface. The plurality of center frames are positioned along a curved arrangement corresponding to the curved surface of the at least the portion of the plurality of display panels. A long side of one center frame of the plurality of center frames is disposed adjacent to a long side of another center frame of the plurality of center frames.
US10327333B2
The present invention relates to an electronic circuit arrangement (10) comprising: a substrate (12) having a first surface (12a) and a second surface (12b), an electronic circuit, an electrical connection part (16) for providing an electrical connection to the electronic circuit and being arranged on the first surface (12a), and at least one electrical wire (18). The electrical wire (18) comprises at least one conductive core (20) and an isolation (22) surrounding the conductive core (20). An end portion (18a) of the electrical wire (18) is an isolation-free portion for allowing access to the conductive core (20), wherein the end portion (18a) of the electrical wire (18) is connected to the electrical connection part (16). At least one through-hole (24) extending from the first surface (12a) to the second surface (12b) is provided in the substrate (12), wherein the electrical wire (18) is arranged through the through-hole (24).
US10327325B2
A printed circuit board (1) comprising an insulating layer (2) and a conducting layer (3) arranged on the insulating layer (2) and structured into a contact surface (4) for an electronic component (11) which is to be populated on the printed circuit board (1) has, in the area of the contact surface (4), at least one channel (8) that passes through the contact surface (4) and the insulating layer (2) and that is filled with a thermally conductive material. The process is characterized by the steps of preparing an insulating layer (2) and a conducting layer (3) connected with the insulating layer (2); producing at least one channel (8) passing through the conducting layer (2) and the insulating layer (3); lining the channel (8) with thermally conductive material; structuring the conducting layer (3) into a contact surface (4) for an electronic component (11) to be populated on the printed circuit board; preparing a solder deposit (9) at least minimally overlapping with the contact surface (4); setting down the electronic component (11); melting the solder, and cooling.
US10327318B2
Beam guiding devices for guiding a laser beam, in particular in a direction towards a target region for producing extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, include an adjustment device for adjusting a beam diameter and an aperture angle of the laser beam. The adjustment device includes a first mirror having a first curved reflecting surface, a second mirror having a second curved reflecting surface, a third mirror having a third curved reflecting surface, a fourth mirror having a fourth curved reflecting surface, and a movement device configured to adjust the beam diameter and the aperture angle of the laser beam by moving the first reflecting surface and the fourth reflecting surface relative to one another and, independently thereof, moving the second reflecting surface and the third reflecting surface together relative to the first reflecting surface and the fourth reflecting surface.
US10327316B2
System and/or method generally relate to extending a lifespan of an excimer lamp. The system includes a ultra-violet (UV) light having a pair of dielectrics configured to separate electrodes. One of the electrodes includes a metal mesh. The system includes a power supply electrically coupled to the UV light and configured to deliver electrical power to the UV light. The system includes a temperature sensor operably coupled to the UV light. The temperature sensor is configured to generate a temperature signal indicative of a temperature of the UV light. The system includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to determine a temperature of the UV light based on the temperature signal, and adjust the electrical power delivered to the UV light based on the temperature signal.
US10327314B1
Disclosed is a system for integrated remote control of wireless lighting devices and wireless electric/electronic devices in a wireless network environment. In the wireless network environment, a management server transmits a lighting control command and a device control command for individually driving and controlling wireless lighting devices and wireless electric/electronic devices to the wireless lighting devices on a main wireless node (i.e., first wireless node) over a communication network. Therefore, a user can wirelessly and remotely drive and control various wireless electric/electronic devices as well as wireless lighting devices through the management server without time and place constrains.
US10327313B2
A lighting device includes a light emitting module, a driver, a wireless communication module, and a signal converter. The light emitting module includes light emitting elements and an antenna pattern. The light emitting elements are mounted on a first surface of a circuit board. The antenna pattern is in the first surface or a second surface of the circuit board. The driver sets current applied to the light emitting elements based on control data including current setting information. The control data is wirelessly received through the antenna pattern from an external user terminal. The light emitting module includes a wireless communication module directly connected to the antenna pattern to receive the control data, and a signal converter to convert the control data to a control signal and provide the control signal to the driver.
US10327309B1
A retrofit lighting fixture comprises a lighting fixture component and a retrofit component. The lighting fixture component comprises a primary light component, a primary trim and a primary power component. The retrofit component comprises a secondary light component, a lighting frame and a secondary power component.
US10327308B2
Presented here is a system to record high-resolution infrared images without the need to include additional stand-alone sensors into the mobile device. According to one embodiment, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is modified to emit IR and near-IR light in a large field. The modified display allows for depth sensing and infrared imaging without a stand-alone emitter. Additionally, an IR shutter filter can be applied to the existing front facing red, green, blue (RGB) camera that would only be in place when the display is in IR emission mode. The combination of these two technologies allows a facial recognition system using existing hardware, and not require additional sensors or emitters to achieve face recognition.
US10327307B2
An occupancy sensor with integral light level sensors is configured to turn off or disable peripheral circuits and go into a periodic deep sleep mode to reduce phantom loading. Peripheral circuits include occupancy sensor circuits and relay drive circuits, but may include other circuits such as communication circuits. The sensor may be configured to periodically wake itself up, check ambient light conditions to see if lighting is below the set threshold. If it is not, the sensor goes back to sleep. If it is, then the sensor can power up the occupancy sensor circuit to see if the space is occupied; if not, it can go back to sleep. If the space is occupied, it can turn on other peripheral circuits necessary to control the load.
US10327302B2
A lighting system controller comprises a controller for controlling an arrangement of lighting units for implementing different lighting effects. A sensor is used to identify a visitor and also to count the number of visits of the visitor which have taken place, for example while the same lighting effect has been in place. A change in the lighting effect is made based on the number of visits of one or more visitors, again for example with the same lighting effect. In this way, the lighting effect is changed automatically when it needs to be changed in order to maintain the interest of visitors (either individually or as a collective group).
US10327298B1
An LED luminaire comprises a power switching driver, LED array(s) powered by the power switching driver, and a detection and control circuit. The detection and control circuit comprises a voltage sensing circuit, a current sensing circuit, a voltage regulator circuit, an optocoupler circuit, and a pair of low-voltage input ports receiving an external voltage. The detection and control circuit is configured to extract an electrical signal from an output voltage, an output current driving the LED array(s), and the external voltage and to couple an optical feedback signal to the power switching driver. The external voltage comprises a voltage sent from a motion sensor, an adapted control voltage from a daylight sensor, or both to control the power switching driver to offset lighting amount of the LED luminaire to reduce energy consumption in response to changing daylight availability when a motion is detected.
US10327292B2
One aspect of the invention provides a DC-to-DC driver for at least one light-emitting diode (LED). The driver includes: a converter configured to drive the at least one light emitting diode (LED). The converter includes: an inverter; a rectifier configured to be coupled to the at least one LED; and a resonant tank coupled between the inverter and the rectifier. The resonant tank includes at least two inductors and at least three capacitors. Another aspect of the invention provides a lamp including: at least one light-emitting diode (LED); and the DC-to-DC converter of any of the embodiments of the invention described herein electrically coupled to the at least one light-emitting diode (LED).
US10327289B2
A microwave heating device includes radiating portions adapted to radiate microwaves to the heating chamber and is operated according to operational configurations that differ in frequency or in phase shift(s) between the radiated microwaves. A learning procedure is executed by sequentially operating the radiating portions in several operational configurations. Energy efficiency data are calculated for those operational configurations. An operating frequency is selected based on energy efficiency data. An operational configuration with a maximum energy efficiency at the selected operating frequency is taken as a reference. A heating procedure is executed by sequentially operating the radiating portions in operational configurations having the selected operating frequency and respective phase shift(s) chosen around the respective phase shift(s) of the reference operational configuration. The phase shift(s) of each chosen operational configuration may have a phase shift distance from the respective phase shift(s) of the reference operational configuration, such that, in the space of the phase shifts, the reference operational configuration is surrounded by the chosen operational configurations.
US10327276B2
A method for evaluating a connection between a first network node and a User Equipment (UE) via a second cell. The first network node serves a first cell. A sending of a first message is initiated. The first message is sent from the first network node to the UE via the second cell. The first message comprises a trigger for the UE to respond by sending a second message comprising feedback relating to the connection to the second cell. A time value difference between the sending of said first message and receiving of said second message in the first network node is obtained. The second message comprises the feedback relating to the connection sent from the UE in response to the first message. Then it is evaluated how the connection shall be used based on the obtained time value difference and the received feedback.
US10327268B2
A microelectronic package is described with a wireless interconnect for chip-to-chip communication. In one example, the package includes an integrated circuit chip, a package substrate to carry the integrated circuit chip, the package substrate having conductive connectors to connect the integrated circuit chip to external components, a radio coupled to the integrated circuit chip to receive data from the integrated circuit chip and modulate the data onto a radio frequency carrier, and an antenna on the package substrate coupled to the radio to send the modulated data over the carrier to an external device.
US10327266B2
One embodiment of the present specification provides a method for performing a random access procedure. The method can comprise the steps of: generating a random access preamble to a first cell; generating a random access preamble to a second cell; determining whether the random access preamble to the first cell and the random access preamble to the second cell are triggered so as to be simultaneously transmitted in the same subframe; selecting the random access preamble to any one of the cells according to a pre-set priority when triggered so as to be simultaneously transmitted; and transmitting the any one selected random access preamble.
US10327264B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining a request for system information. One apparatus includes a processor that: determines whether system information used by the apparatus is scheduled to be transmitted; and in response to the system information not being scheduled to be transmitted, determines whether the system information is requested by a second apparatus.
US10327257B2
A wireless communication network includes a base station and a relay station. The relay station is configured to relay communications between the base station and at least one subscriber station. The base station is configured to communicate with the subscriber station via the relay station. The base station further is configured to transmit, in a subframe, a plurality of transport blocks for a plurality of Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) processes to the relay station. Each transport block corresponds to a different HARQ process.
US10327249B2
A network node is connected to a plurality of antenna nodes that are located along a constrained path where a plurality of wireless communication devices are located. The antenna nodes are controlled to maintain reception radio lobes substantially along the path such that the wireless communication devices can perform uplink radio communication with the network node via the reception radio lobes. At least one radio frequency, RF, signal is detected and a determination is made that the detected at least one RF signal originates from a respective wireless communication device of a specific subset among said plurality of wireless communication devices. The specific subset comprises wireless communication devices that are associated with a common radio frequency offset. An allocation of a common uplink radio communication resource is then made for all wireless communication devices in the specific subset of wireless communication devices.
US10327243B2
Provided are a device-to-device (D2D) operation method performed by a terminal in a wireless communications system and a terminal using the same. The method comprises receiving a D2D setting from a cell, wherein the D2D setting comprises a frequency indicator indicating a frequency at which a terminal performs a D2D operation according to the D2D setting.
US10327232B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A method for wireless communication at a base station includes identifying time resources and frequency resources for narrowband communication in a plurality of subframes, identifying a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices, allocating a first portion of the time resources and the frequency resources to an uplink (UL) channel to carry UL control information, and allocating resources of the UL channel to the identified UE devices. A method for wireless communication at a UE device includes identifying time resources and frequency resources for narrowband communication in a plurality of subframes, receiving an indication of at least a first portion of the time resources and the frequency resources allocated to a UL channel to carry UL control information for the UE device, and transmitting one or both of downlink acknowledgements (ACKs) and downlink non-acknowledgements (NAKs) on the UL channel.
US10327231B2
A user equipment (UE) receiving, from a base station (BS), a higher layer signal including first information used for configuring more than one sets of one or more downlink component carriers (DCCs). The UE receives, using a physical downlinkn k control channel (PDCCH) in a UE-specific search space in a first subframe, from the BS, downlink control information (DCI) including second information indicating a trigger for a transmission of channel state information (CSI), the transmission of the CSI being triggered for one set of the more than one sets of one or more DCCs, the DCI being used for scheduling of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in one uplink component carrier. The UE transmits, using the PUSCH in a second subframe, to the BS, the CSI for the one set of the more than one sets of one or more DCCs in a case that the DCI including the second information indicating the trigger for the transmission of the CSI is received in the user equipment search space.
US10327225B2
The present disclosure provides a broadcast message transmission method, a base station and user equipment. The method includes: determining a resource position of a broadcast channel, wherein the broadcast channel occupies M physical resource blocks (PRBs) among m PRBs of a frequency band center of a carrier, m and M are positive integers, M is not greater than m, and m is not greater than the number of the PRBs corresponding to the system bandwidth; mapping the broadcast channel on the resource position; and sending a broadcast message through the broadcast channel.
US10327220B2
A cooperative wireless system using a multicast protocol to facilitate coordinating coherent addition and subtraction of wireless signaling or other beams originating from a plurality of antenna units at a target location is contemplated. The system may utilize multicast-based regulation and distribution of transmission control parameters necessary for the antenna units to synchronize the wireless signaling in a manner sufficient to enable the coherent addition and subtraction thereof at the target location.
US10327212B2
Methods and apparatus for uplink power control in a communication system with a low power cell neighboring a macro cell. The low power cell includes a low power node serving a user equipment (UE). The macro cell includes a base station serving one or more other UE(s). The low power node is configured to determine a power offset between the macro cell and the low power cell. The received power spectral density target for the UE calculation is based on the minimum of a first signal strength target for the UE and estimated noise and interference power(s), or a second signal strength target for the UE and the calculated power offset. The uplink power control for the UE is adjusted based on the calculated received power spectral density target. The first signal strength target may be based on the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio target for the UE and the second signal strength target may be based on a signal strength derived from a signal-to-noise ratio target for the UE.
US10327208B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for effectively exchanging information between nodes in a wireless communication system. A communication method for a user equipment (UE) may include: sending a mobility management entity (MME) a power saving mode request message containing information requesting a different network entity to perform proxy transmission and reception for the UE during power saving mode; receiving information indicating availability of power saving mode and corresponding parameters from the MME; and operating in power saving mode according to the received parameters. It is possible to provide an information transmission method for a user equipment remaining in power saving mode.
US10327203B2
A method for UL MU transmission of an STA operating in a power save mode comprises the steps of: transmitting a TWT request element including first information related to a requested TBTT of a first beacon frame and second information related to a requested wake interval between subsequent beacon frames the STA intends to receive to an AP; receiving a TWT response element from the AP in response to the TWT request element; switching to a doze state from the awake state after receiving the TWT response element; switching to the awake state from the doze state based on the third information in order to receive the first beacon frame from the AP; receiving the first beacon frame including fifth information related to a trigger transmission time of a trigger frame soliciting the UL MU transmission from one or more STAs from the AP.
US10327180B2
In an embodiment, there is provided a method for session transfer between Access Networks for a User Equipment UE, said method including insertion in a signaling path of a Service Continuity Application Server anchoring said session in IMS, said method including: insertion of a Service Continuity Application Server V-SCC-AS located in a Visited PLMN V-PLMN for a UE roaming in said V-PLMN.
US10327174B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for offload bearing. One apparatus includes a processor that determines whether the apparatus will apply traffic steering rules for routing data traffic on a first route across a first access network and a second route across a second access network. In some embodiments, the first and second routes may be different. In various embodiments, the apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits information that indicates whether the apparatus will apply the traffic steering rules.
US10327166B2
Embodiments propose an efficient solution for radio link quality monitoring by a terminal device under coverage of a plurality of beams. Particularly, one embodiment includes a method for monitoring a radio link quality at a terminal device under coverage of a plurality of beams. The method comprises determining a radio link quality for each of beams associated with the terminal device based on a reference signal specific to that beam and then deciding the radio link quality of a radio link directed to the terminal device based on the determined radio link qualities. Another embodiment includes a method at a base station for facilitating radio link quality monitoring of a terminal device under coverage of a plurality of beams. The method comprises configuring an association between the plurality of beams and the terminal device and then informing the configured association to the terminal device. Corresponding apparatuses are further provided.
US10327162B2
A control device configured to control communication between a terminal and a base station manages, concerning the communication, first information representing a part of a number corresponding to an order of a packet and held by each of the terminal and the base station and second information representing another part of the number corresponding to the order of the packet and transmitted from the terminal to the base station, determines whether the first information matches between the base station and the terminal, and controls the terminal to transmit a signal used to execute reconnection processing for resetting the number of the packet upon determining that the first information does not match between the base station and the terminal.
US10327161B2
A method of communication between an access network and terminals. The access network includes half-duplex base stations, in which, when a downlink message is to be sent, in the course of a predetermined time interval, to a terminal that has sent an uplink message received by several base stations. Reception loads associated respectively with a group of base stations that have received the uplink message sent by the terminal are obtained. Each reception load being representative of a probability of reception, by the corresponding base station, of an uplink message in the course of the time interval. A base station is selected from among the base stations of the group, as a function of the reception loads obtained. The downlink message is transmitted by the selected base station.
US10327159B2
Convergence times associated with simulated annealing based (SA-based) optimization in wireless networks can be reduced by introducing an additional local or cell-level evaluation step into the evaluation of global solutions. In particular, new local solutions may be evaluated based on local performance criteria when the new solutions are in a global solution deemed to have satisfied a global performance criteria. New local solutions that satisfy their corresponding local performance criteria remain in the new global solution. New local solutions that do not satisfy their corresponding local performance criteria are replaced with a corresponding current local solution from a current global solution, thereby modifying the new global solution. The resulting modified global solution includes both new local solutions and current local solutions prior to being accepted as the current global solution for the next iteration.
US10327156B2
A resource allocation method according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: allocating a signal of an external resource to a predetermined resource according to a preconfigured resource allocation frame structure by a first base station governing a first cell; allocating a signal of an internal resource to the resource according to the resource allocation frame structure by a second base station governing a second cell adjacent to the first cell; and frequency-hopping the signal of the internal resource by the second base station when the signal of the internal resource overlaps the signal of the external resource. Accordingly, proposed is a resource allocation method capable of stably receiving a signal even when a terminal moving in a dense small cell structure is located at a cell edge, that is, an inter-cell boundary area.
US10327152B2
A system and method implemented at a base station: assesses, for each channel in an unlicensed frequency spectrum for use by the base station, a list of quality of service (QoS) class indicator (QCI) values, receives a packet flow having an associated packet flow QCI value, identifies at least one channel in the unlicensed frequency spectrum having the associated packet flow QCI value in its list of QCI values, and allows the packet flow in the unlicensed frequency spectrum on the at least one channel identified, where the packet flow is allowed in the unlicensed frequency spectrum for any of the following: for the uplink, for the downlink, or for both uplink and downlink.
US10327149B2
A system and method of identifying licensed and unlicensed communications over a cellular protocol includes: wirelessly transmitting a communication session request from a wireless device to a wireless carrier system using the LTE cellular protocol; receiving a response at the wireless device from the wireless carrier system indicating that the wireless carrier system is providing a communication session using a licensed communications frequency band or an unlicensed communications frequency band; and establishing communications from the wireless device via the wireless carrier system based on whether the wireless carrier system is providing cellular communications via the licensed communications frequency band or the unlicensed communications frequency band.
US10327148B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, distinguishing between offload and non-offload traffic associated with a mobile device in communication with a small-cell access point using a managed cellular frequency spectrum. The access point is located at a subscriber premises and in further communication with a network core. Offload traffic is associated with a first IP address of the mobile device and includes a signaling portion and a user data portion. User data messages of the user data portion are exchanged between the mobile device and the equipment at the subscriber premises without being exchanged between the network core and one of the mobile device, the equipment at the subscriber premises or both. The mobile device is associated with a first access point name identifier based on the first IP address and a second access point name identifier based on a second IP address. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10327144B2
A communication apparatus displays connection information for an external device to perform wireless connection with the communication apparatus, determines whether a wireless connection based on the connection information is established, and hides the connection information according to establishment of the wireless connection.
US10327135B2
Methods and apparatus for activating a purchased or previously deployed device by a subscriber. In one embodiment, activation includes authenticating the device to a service provider or carrier, and providing the device with data necessary for enabling the service to the device. In one variant, a user device is activated at a retail store, with the assistance of a carrier representative. In another variant, user equipment is activated via a communications network without the assistance of a representative. In yet another variant, the user equipment is activated via the Internet without the assistance of a representative. The provision of access data includes pre-assigning eSIM from a population of unassigned eSIMs to certain devices for various carrier networks. Alternatively, the eSIM may be assigned on an as-needed basis. Unassigned and/or unused eSIMs can be released (or sold back to the vendor) and/or reused. Solutions for eSIM backup and restoration are also described.
US10327134B2
Methods and devices for recognizing a request to change a mobile phone number are disclosed. The exemplary method comprises: when a request to change a mobile phone number sent by a first user is received, obtaining corresponding historical transaction record information from a storage unit according to user identification information carried in the request, matching current environment information carried in the request with historical environment information carried in the historical transaction record information; if the current environment information does not match the historical environment information, performing identity verification on the first user; and if the identity verification passes, executing a service operation to change the mobile phone number.
US10327129B2
A communication system is disclosed in which a control node generates configuration data for each of a plurality of MMEs operating in overlay networks. The configuration data defines a type of user equipment (UE) or a type of UE traffic to be serviced by each MME. The MME configuration data is provided to a base station and used to control selection of an MME to service a request from a UE. The control node monitors network traffic within and across the overlay networks and can reconfigure one or more MMEs to service different UE traffic types. This allows for improved flexibility in load balancing with overlay networks
US10327126B2
A communication apparatus includes a location information acquisition unit that acquires location information of a terminal, a reception unit that receives a call request transmitted by the terminal, a service identification unit that identifies a service of the request based on the location information of the terminal and a destination telephone number of the request, and a transmission unit that transmits a response to the terminal, when the service corresponding to the request cannot be provided.
US10327123B1
A system and method for Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication over a transmission medium, including a novel random access protocol that is easy to implement, energy efficient, scalable and compatible with the limited-power and low complexity requirements of IoT devices. The proposed protocol utilizes a form of multiple hypothesis testing at the IoT gateway to determine the number of active IoT devices operating in the transmission medium to optimize the power levels of a Successive Interference Cancellation (SIC) receiver in order to distinguish between signals transmitted from different IoT devices on the same time and frequency. The use of beamforming exploits the power and spatial domains without excessively increasing the SIC power levels and address channel access delay problems by reducing the probability of collision and consequently lowering the average back-off delay.
US10327098B1
A method for using location-based services for service management is discussed. The method includes receiving, at a server, a user request from a user device at a geographical location. The method includes accessing a store search to determine a store reference based on the user request and a user location corresponding to the geographical location, the store reference indicating tenant(s) accessible to the user via a user interface (UI) of the user device. The method includes accessing location data for the user device based on the store reference and a user account associated with the user, the location data indicating a service accessible via the UI and associated with a certain tenant. The method includes providing, to the user device and based on the location data, an user experience for accessing the service via the UI.
US10327080B2
A method of manufacturing hearing devices comprising an otoplastic individually shaped for a user includes providing input data for each set of input parameters of an algorithm for determining target data for each of a set of target parameters, wherein at least a portion of said input data are individual to said user, and wherein said target parameters are parameters related to the geometrical and/or acoustical properties of a hearing device. The target data is determined by applying the algorithm to the input data. A suitable three-dimensional shape of the otoplastic is designed in dependence of the target data by means of otoplastic modeling software. The otoplastic is manufactured according to the suitable three-dimensional shape. Property data descriptive of properties related to the manufactured otoplastic are obtained using the otoplastic, and the algorithm is amended in dependence of the property data.
US10327078B2
A hearing aid comprises a BTE-part adapted for being located behind an ear (ear) of a user, and comprising a) a multitude M of microphones, which—when located behind the ear of the user—are characterized by respective transfer functions, HBTEi(θ, φ, r, k), representative of propagation of sound from sound sources S to the respective microphones b) a memory unit comprising complex, frequency dependent constants Wi(k)′, i=1, . . . , M, c) a beamformer filtering unit for providing a beamformed signal Y as a weighted combination of the microphone signals using said complex, frequency dependent constants The frequency dependent constants are determined to provide a resulting transfer function Hpinna(θ,φ,r,k)=Σi=1MWi(k)·HBTEi(θ,φ,r,k), so that a difference between the resulting transfer function Hpinna(θ, φ, r, k) and a transfer function HITE(θ, φ, r, k) of a microphone located close to or in the ear canal fulfills a predefined criterion.
US10327077B2
A microphone includes: a substrate configured to have a through hole formed at a central portion thereof; a vibration membrane disposed to cover the through hole on the substrate to include a slit pattern in which slit patterns are arranged in a plurality of lines along a circular edge thereof; a fixed membrane separately mounted at an upper portion of the vibration membrane with an air layer therebetween to have a plurality of air inlets that extend therebetween in a direction of the air layer; and a support layer configured to support the fixed membrane separately mounted on the vibration membrane.
US10327069B2
A system includes a laser microphone or laser-based microphone or optical microphone. The laser microphone includes a laser transmitter to transmit an outgoing laser beam towards a face of a human speaker. The laser transmitter acts also as a self-mix interferometry unit that receives the optical feedback signal reflected from the face of the human speaker, and generates an optical self-mix signal by self-mixing interferometry of the laser power and the received optical feedback signal; and a speckles noise reducer to reduce speckles noise and to increase a bandwidth of the optical self-mix signal. The speckles noise reducer optionally includes a vibration unit or displacement unit, to cause vibrations or displacement of one or more mirrors or optics elements of the laser microphone, to thereby reduce speckles noise. The speckles noise reducer optionally includes a dynamic laser modulation modifier unit, to dynamically modify modulation properties of a laser modulator associated with the laser transmitter; optionally by modifying an operating temperature of the laser. Optionally, modifications are performed based on a timing scheme, or based on a pseudo-random scheme, or based on a calibration process that selects an advantageous modification scheme. Optionally, the system detects self-mix signal magnitude or bandwidth or quality, and activates the speckles noise reduction mechanism if the self-mix signal appears to be weak or low-quality.
US10327054B2
An extendable speaker system is provided with a base and lid that are connected via a plurality of concentric collapsible hollow bodies such as cylinders. A woofer speaker resides in the base. Mid range or tweeter speakers reside in the lid. The lid is displaced away from the base to expand the speaker system, where the extended cylinders provide an airtight seal between the base and lid forming a woofer speaker enclosure therein. Friction seals between the cylinders, a spring residing within the speaker enclosure, and the airtight speaker enclosure itself provide a collective force sufficient to maintain the speaker system in an extended configuration. A port is opened by depressing a button to vent the enclosure to allow for the speaker system to be collapsed. A locking system is provided to releasably maintain the speaker system in a collapsed configuration.
US10327051B2
A loudspeaker system includes a first flexible panel, a first line array of electro-acoustic drivers, and at least one mechanically adjustable point. The first line array of electro-acoustic drivers are mounted on the first flexible panel and linked to each other by flexible joints in the first flexible panel. The at least one mechanically adjustable point enables articulation of the first flexible panel at the flexible joints to produce one or more of a substantially straight and an arcuate configuration of the first line array of electro-acoustic drivers.
US10327048B2
Given a node of a utility service distribution network, a topology of a subset of the distribution network having the given node as a root node and one or more child nodes branching from the given node is determined. The topology may be determined based on relationships or correlations of utility usage information between the given node and a plurality of potential nodes that are considered in the topology determination. Upon determining the topology associated with the given node, the determined topology may be used to detect fraud and leakage that may occur in the distribution network on a regular basis or upon request. If fraud or leakage is detected in the distribution network, the system may schedule a follow-up and/or field investigation to investigate and fix the fraud or the leakage in the distribution network.
US10327034B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for exchange of video content are provided. A media outlet device is provided with a media outlet application, and a user device of a user is provided with an interactive media application, the interactive media application enabling communications with the media outlet device via the media outlet application. Video content is recorded and encoded on the user device. An interactive map is displayed on a user interface of the media outlet device. The interactive map shows a current location of the user device. The purchase of the video content from the user is enabled via the user interface. The purchased video content is communicated from the user device to at least one of a central server and the media outlet device.
US10327033B2
Optimizing ‘actual’ and ‘other’ table type EPG information acquisition. In a broadcast stream multiplex, information is comprised in event information tables of type ‘actual’ that comprises event or program information about a selected service, and of type ‘other’ that comprises event information about other services in the multiplex. An EPG database is updated with the event information comprised in the event information tables under certain conditions only.
US10327031B2
A playing control method and a terminal are provided. The method includes the following. A playing control instruction carrying a device identifier of a playing device is acquired. A content input port and a power output port that are integrated in a control terminal and correspond to the device identifier are opened. Power output ports of the control terminal other than the power output port corresponding to the device identifier and a power output port coupled to a display terminal are closed, multimedia contents via the content input port corresponding to the device identifier are received, and the multimedia contents are transmitted to the display terminal for output and display.
US10327028B2
A network video recorder having a multi-stream recording function which is robust to event stream delay is provided. An event stream is recorded by adjusting a time-lapse recording end time and an event recording time to prevent omission of a video, caused by transmission delay of a high-quality event stream during the recording of the event stream.
US10327023B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for detecting that a given segment in a media asset currently being consumed will be interrupted by an event and, responsively, modifying playback of the media asset such that either the start time or the end time of the given segment coincides with the start time of the interrupting event. Modifying playback of the media asset to cause the end time of the given segment to coincide with the start time of the interrupting event may entail fast-forwarding through or removing one or more segments from the playback of the media asset. Modifying playback of the media asset to cause the start time of the given segment to coincide with the start time of the interrupting event may entail inserting one or more segments of secondary content into the playback of the media asset.
US10327021B2
A display management unit configured to provide a modified video signal for display on a target display over an electronic distribution network. The unit may access information regarding the target display and at least one input. The unit comprises a database interface configured to retrieve display characteristics corresponding to the information regarding the target display from a characteristics database, and a mapping unit configured to map at least one of tone and color values from the at least one input to corresponding mapped values based at least in part on the retrieved display characteristics to produce the modified video signal.
US10327020B2
A TV audience survey system for determining the TV viewing activities of a plurality of individuals in a household includes a master device and multiple tags, each tag assigned to an individual. After an individual logs into the system and starts watching the TV, the master device communicates with the corresponding tag repeatedly to accumulate data representing the individual's TV viewing activities. Such data can be used to determine when the individual stops watching the TV for an extended period of time without logging out of the system and when the household member remains watching the TV after logging or being logged out of the system. The master device then reports the accumulated data to a remote server, which uses the data to determine whether the individual complies with the logging protocol defined by the TV audience survey system and update the TV viewership data associated with this household.
US10327019B2
Methods and systems are described herein for preventing a user from terminating a service. Specifically, the media guidance application may generate for display content aimed at preventing the user from terminating a service in response to determining that a user is likely to terminate the service. For example, in response to determining that a particular media asset preferred by a user is accessible through another service, the media guidance application generates the content associated with preventing the user from terminating his or her current service (e.g., discounts to the cost of the current service, promotion or lists of media content available through the current service, etc.).
US10327012B2
A multicast content delivery system can use both multicast and unicast streams to efficiently use available bandwidth to deliver content. Available multicast content can be identified to gateways serving consumption devices, and the gateways can receive requests for unicast content deliver, but honor the requests with multicast group sessions.
US10327007B2
There is provided a decoding method for decoding an image, the method including: transmitting a request for an image to an external apparatus; receiving a coded signal corresponding to the image that has been requested and including a first signal and a second signal, and storing the coded signal in a storage; decoding the first signal and the second signal included in the coded signal; and displaying a first image decoded from the first signal in a first region of a screen, and displaying a second image decoded from the second signal in a second region of the screen. The second signal is a signal that has been selected by the external apparatus for a decoding apparatus from among a plurality of candidates for the second signal.
US10327002B2
Techniques and systems are provided for encoding and decoding video data. For example, a method of encoding video data including a plurality of pictures is described. The method includes performing intra-picture prediction on a block of one of the pictures to generate a prediction unit. Performing the intra-picture prediction includes selecting a reference block for intra-block copy prediction of a coding tree unit (CTU). The reference block is selected from a plurality of encoded blocks, and blocks within the CTU encoded with bi-prediction are excluded from selection as the reference block. Performing the intra-picture prediction further includes performing intra-block copy prediction with the selected reference block to generate the prediction unit. The method also includes generating syntax elements encoding the prediction unit based on the performed intra-picture prediction.
US10327001B2
Techniques and systems are provided for encoding and decoding video data. For example, a method of encoding video data includes obtaining video data at an encoder, and determining to perform intra-picture prediction on the video data, using intra-block copy prediction, to generate the plurality of encoded video pictures. The method also includes performing the intra-picture prediction on the video data using the intra-block copy prediction, and, in response to determining to perform the intra-picture prediction on the video data using the intra-block copy prediction, disabling at least one of inter-picture bi-prediction or inter-picture uni-prediction for the plurality of encoded video pictures. The method also includes generating the plurality of encoded video pictures based on the received video data according to the performed intra-block copy prediction.
US10326987B2
Systems and methods for encoding alternative streams for use in adaptive bitrate streaming based upon the delay of each stream in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. One embodiment of the invention includes memory, and a processor configured by a source encoding application to: receive multimedia content, where the multimedia content includes source video data having a primary resolution and a primary sample aspect ratio; and encode the source video data as a set of alternative video streams, where: the alternative video streams have different maximum bitrates; and the alternative video streams are encoded to have an upper bound seek delay that is equal to or less than the upper bound seek delay of streams in the set of alternative video streams that are encoded at a higher maximum bitrate.
US10326981B2
Techniques for generating 3D images using multi-resolution camera set are described. In one example embodiment, the method includes, disposing a set of multi-resolution cameras including a central camera, having a first resolution, and one or more multiple camera groups, having one or more resolutions that are different from the first resolution, that are positioned substantially surrounding the central camera. Images are then captured using the multi-resolution camera set. A low-resolution depth map is then generated by down scaling the captured higher resolution image to lower resolution image. Captured lower resolution images are then up-scaled. A high-resolution depth map is then generated using the captured image of the central camera, the up-scaled captured images of the one or more multiple camera groups, and the generated low-resolution depth map. The 3D image of the captured image is then generated using the generated high-resolution depth map and the captured images.
US10326977B1
A multifocal test system is described herein. The system includes a plurality of displays located at different focal distances. Each display includes a plurality of pixels with pixel intensity values. The system includes an eye tracking system that determines eye tracking information about a position of an eye relative to the displays. A controller is configured to determine pixel intensity values based on decomposition of a scene across the plurality of displays, and the position of the eye.
US10326972B2
A method and apparatus of generating a three-dimensional (3D) image are provided. The method of generating a 3D image involves acquiring a plurality of images of a 3D object with a camera, calculating pose information of the plurality of images based on pose data for each of the plurality of images measured by an inertial measurement unit, and generating a 3D image corresponding to the 3D object based on the pose information.
US10326963B2
A display device includes: a display panel; and a frequency controller which receives an image data signal and an input frequency information and outputs the image data signal and a timing control signal. The frequency controller includes: an image processor which receives the image data signal; a frame memory which stores the image data signal; an output frequency determining unit which receives the input frequency information and determines an output frequency based on a variation amount of the input frequency; and an image output unit which receives the image data signal from the image processor, receives an output frequency information from the output frequency determining unit, and outputs the image data signal and the timing control signal. When an input frequency varies, the output frequency determining unit determines the output frequency based on the following equations: K = FREQ - P_FREQ M_FREQ × SLOPE + OFFSET , and FREQ ′ = FREQ × K + P_FREQ × ( 1 - K ) .
US10326957B2
An A/D converter includes an analog input terminal, a successive approximation A/D converter connected to the analog input terminal, the successive approximation A/D converter for generating an upper conversion result at an upper conversion result terminal, the successive approximation A/D converter having an internal D/A converter generating an internal reference voltage at an internal reference voltage terminal, and a delta-sigma A/D converter connected to the analog input terminal and the internal reference voltage terminal, the delta-sigma A/D converter for generating a lower conversion result at a lower conversion result terminal.
US10326956B2
Circuits for self-powered image sensors are provided. In some embodiments, an image sensor is provided, the image comprising: a plurality of pixels, each of the plurality of pixels comprising: a photodiode having an anode and a cathode connected to a constant voltage level; a first transistor having: a first input connected to the anode of the photodiode; a first output connected to a reset bus; and a first control configured to receive a discharge signal; and a second transistor having: a second input connected to the anode of the photodiode; a second output connected to a pixel output bus; and a second control configured to receive a select signal; and a third transistor having: a third input coupled to each first output via the reset bus; a third output configured to be coupled to an energy storage device; and a third control configured to receive an energy harvest signal.
US10326951B2
The image processing apparatus 104 includes a processor performing a noise reduction on at least part of an input image produced by image capturing using an image capturing system 101, 102, and an acquirer acquiring first information on an optical characteristic of the image capturing system. The optical characteristic indicates a factor that degrades information of an object space in the image capturing of the input image. A processor changes a process of the noise reduction depending on the first information.
US10326948B2
A radiation imaging apparatus includes a plurality of pixels, each of which includes a conversion element and a transistor, a plurality of drive lines connected to gates of the transistors, a drive circuit unit configured to supply a voltage to the plurality of drive lines, and a control unit configured to control the drive circuit unit. The control unit performs control of causing the drive circuit unit to apply a different voltage that is between the OFF voltage and the ON voltage and is different from the OFF voltage and the ON voltage to the plurality of drive lines in a different period different from a period in which storage control is performed and a period in which read control is performed.
US10326947B2
The present invention provides an image processing device, an imaging device, an image processing method, and a program which are capable of accurately correcting blurring caused in first image data of an image using a near-infrared ray as a light source and, accurately performing a point image restoration process on second image data of an image using visible light and a near-infrared ray as a light source. An image processing device according to an aspect of the present invention includes an image input unit, a determination unit that determines whether image data is first image data or second image data, a first restoration processing unit that performs a first restoration process using first restoration filters for performing phase correction and amplitude restoration on the determined first image data, and a second restoration processing unit that performs a second restoration process using second restoration filters for performing amplitude restoration without phase correction on the determined second image data.
US10326933B2
This technology relates to optimizing location and orientation information of an image using known locations of places captured within the image. For example, an image and associated pose data including the image's orientation and location may be received. One or more places captured within the image may be determined, with each place having a respective known location. The image may be annotated with the one or more places. A difference between each annotation and its respective known location to obtain updated pose data of the image may be minimized and the associated pose data may be updated to the updated pose data.
US10326925B2
A control apparatus (204, 212) includes a calculator (204) that calculates a defocus amount based on a first signal and a second signal that correspond to light beams passing through different pupil regions of an image capturing optical system (101, 102, 103) from each other, and a focus adjuster (212) that performs focus adjusting operation based on the defocus amount, and the focus adjuster is configured to change a detection property of the first signal and the second signal depending on a type of the focus adjusting operation.
US10326921B2
A Light device having built-in Camera to operate desire digital data functions is powered by an power source for a lamp-holder, light source, flashlight or light device connected to power source by prongs or a bulb-base with conductive contacts to get power. The device may take the form of an IP cam, or Driving Cam, or webcam having but not limited add for auto tracking or one of plurality functions to make different products and functions with optional retractable prongs that plug directly into a wall outlet or insert into existing lamp base or incorporate conductive wire to make electric connection at least one of built-in camera, storage unit, wireless kits, Bluetooth kits, APP communication unit, motion sensor, light device. The said motion sensor and digital data related device(s) including but not limited all kind of camera may in separated housing with night-vision assembly selected from light source, IR diodes, low light camera lens & IC & circuits so people can upgrade the non-camera device to has built-in camera and digital device for their old non-camera security light. The motion sensor head or PIR has digital data output to work with wireless communication parts to avoid the analog model for mutual interfere the signals to cause false functions of light source or wifi or APP or wireless related functions.
US10326918B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for recording and transmitting image and audio data, comprising: a head mounting (1a), wherein the head mounting (1a) comprises a forehead portion (2), a first side portion (3) and a second side portion (4), wherein the head mounting (1a) is adapted and configured to be mounted on a human head (100), so as to be stabilized on at least three points (5, 6, 7) on the human head (100), wherein a first point (5) among the at least three points (5, 6, 7) is arranged on the first side portion (3), a second point (6) among the at least three point (5, 6, 7) is arranged on the second side portion (4), and a third point (7) among the at least three points (5, 6, 7) is arranged on the forehead portion (2) of the head mounting (1a); a first camera (8) and a second camera (9) that are arranged on the forehead portion (2) of the head mounting (1a) at a predefined distance (10) along a horizontal extension direction (11) of the forehead portion (2); wherein the forehead portion (2), in a state according to the invention, is arranged on the head (100) in such a manner that in the region (101) of the eyes (103) the end portion (2) is arranged horizontally and above the eyes (103), wherein, the forehead portion (2) comprises a supporting bridge (14) that is adjustable in length, wherein the supporting bridge (14) is arranged centrally at a lower edge of the forehead portion (2), and wherein the supporting bridge (14) is configured to adjust the height of the forehead portion (2) over the eyes (103) of a person, when the device (1) is worn on the head (100) according to the invention, wherein the third point (7) lies on the supporting bridge (14).
US10326917B2
A monitoring camera is equipped with a touch sensor in a camera cover glass, which senses positions of objects touching or being close to the cover glass. The touch sensor aids the camera in separating image data depicting objects on the cover glass from image data depicting the monitored scene. This information may be used when choosing image capture settings, by indicating to the camera which image regions are less important to take into account, and to avoid false alarms which otherwise may occur when rain drops or insects on the cover glass are mistaken for events in the scene.
US10326912B2
An object is to reduce coloring of specular reflection while improving gloss uniformity (particularly, gloss clarity). Recording is performed at least part of a surface of a recording medium by using a first color material with relatively high transmittance. In this case, control is performed such that thickness variation in the applied first color material is set to have an amplitude that generates interference fringes and to have a desired cycle within a range of 40 μm or more and 320 μm or less.
US10326908B2
An image reading apparatus includes: N sensor chips arranged in a first direction and each including a plurality of image pickup elements arranged in the first direction; N optical systems that form, on the N sensor chips, reduced-size images of N reading ranges arranged in the first direction on a document; and an image processing section that uses image data of overlap regions to obtain positions of the overlap regions, obtains, based on the positions and predetermined synthesis reference positions in the overlap regions, magnifications of read images and synthesis positions, performs image processing of correcting the magnifications in the first direction of the image data of the N reading ranges, and combines the image data of the N reading ranges subjected to the image processing, thereby generating synthesized image data.
US10326902B2
This image forming apparatus includes an image reading portion, an image forming portion, a feature image extraction portion, a continuousness determination portion, and an error notification portion. The feature image extraction portion extracts predetermined feature images from a plurality of respective page image data pieces. The continuousness determination portion determines whether or not each of the feature images of one or more respective target-page image data pieces satisfies a predetermined continuousness condition relative to the feature image of a previous-page image data piece. The error notification portion outputs an error notification including discontinuousness position information indicating one or both of a page-reading turn corresponding to the target-page image data piece determined not to satisfy the continuousness condition, and a turn immediately before the page-reading turn.
US10326901B2
To provide a sheet size determining apparatus capable of appropriately determining a sheet size. Specifically, a sheet size detection result is acquired by a sensor, and when there are a plurality of candidate sheet sizes corresponding to the acquired detection result, a sheet size is determined from the plurality of candidate sheet sizes in response to a setting of the operation device that indicates sheet sizes.
US10326899B2
An image reading apparatus includes an image scanning unit that is provided with a holding portion holding a flexible flat cable. The holding portion is protruded toward an upstream side in a sub scanning direction, and provided with a second wall part. The flexible flat cable that is extended from a connector is brought into contact with the second wall part. As for the flexible flat cable, a downward movement is regulated by a lower holding portion and an upward movement is regulated by an upper holding portion. Accordingly, the flexible flat cable does not rise.
US10326898B2
A term management system includes a term management portion and a plurality of image forming apparatuses. The term management portion stores term management information in which terms are defined in association with corresponding term IDs. The plurality of image forming apparatuses each include an acquiring processing portion. The acquiring processing portion is configured to acquire one or more terms from the term management information so that the one or more terms are displayed on a display portion based on corresponding one or more term IDs.
US10326895B2
An information providing device is capable of communicating with an image forming device, a data managing device, and a transmission terminal. The information providing device includes a storage unit; a communication unit that transmits a forming instruction to instruct the image forming device to perform image forming, and receives, from the image forming device, storage location information indicating the data managing device that stores data obtained by image forming by the image forming device and indicating a storage location in the data managing device; and a storage location managing unit that generates, in the storage unit, management information in which identification information of the image data is associated with the storage location information. The communication unit receives the data saved in the storage location indicated by the storage location information from the data managing device and transmits the received data to the transmission terminal.
US10326892B2
A remote support system includes: an image processing apparatus; an information terminal apparatus; and an information processing apparatus serving for remote support. The image processing apparatus and the information terminal apparatus operate in sync with each other. Either or both of the image processing apparatus and the information terminal apparatus execute the following operations: receiving a synchronous display start command; determining whether or not the image processing apparatus and the information terminal apparatus are operating in sync with each other; obtaining first screen information on the image processing apparatus and second screen information on the information terminal apparatus if the image processing apparatus and the information terminal apparatus are operating in sync with each other; and transmitting the first and second screen information to the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus reproduces screens on the basis of the first and second screen information received therefrom.
US10326886B1
A system capable of connecting a device to a wired communication network (e.g., Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN)) using an adapter. During a telephone call using the PSTN, the adapter may mix two or more audio streams to enable multiple devices to join the telephone call. However, the adapter has limited resources. If the adapter receives a request from an additional device to join the call, the adapter may send a notification that indicates a maximum number of endpoints has been reached. To enable audio mixing for additional devices, the system may send multiple audio streams to a communication server to be mixed and the mixed audio stream are sent to the adapter to be output using the PSTN. The communication server may receive the audio streams from the adapter or directly from the devices.
US10326884B2
Techniques for hybrid behavioral pairing in a contact center system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method for hybrid behavioral pairing in a contact center system comprising: determining a first ordering of a plurality of contacts according to a behavioral pairing strategy with a balanced contact utilization; determining a second ordering of the plurality of contacts according to a performance-based routing strategy with an unbalanced contact utilization; determining a third ordering of the plurality of agents according to a combination of the first ordering and the second ordering having a skewed contact utilization between the balanced contact utilization and the unbalanced contact utilization; and outputting a hybrid behavioral pairing model based on the third ordering for connecting an agent to a contact of the plurality of contacts in the contact center system.
US10326857B2
An XML Document Management Server for use within an IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, network and being configured to enable IMS subscribers and a network operator to manage supplementary service data stored in a subscription data repository. The Server comprises a first interface or interfaces for receiving supplementary service data requests, and a request parser configured, for each request, to parse the request to determine if it contains both an X-3GPP-Asserted-Private-Identity header and an X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity header. The server further comprises an Sh interface for generating an Sh message corresponding to each request and, in the event that both an X-3GPP-Asserted-Private-Identity header and an X-3GPP-Asserted-Identity header are present in the request, for including these in the Sh message, and for sending the Sh message to said subscription data repository.
US10326856B2
A system provides a way for a person to control access to digital assets, including financial accounts, through a common gateway that can interact on the person's behalf with service providers that manage the digital assets. Brokers may act as intermediaries between the gateway and the service providers, providing a common interface to the gateway and a specific interface to a service provider. Trigger events can cause the gateway to interact with the service providers, causing the service providers to take a desired action. The trigger events may include notification sent by the person, timed events, and other detected events.
US10326845B1
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes a plurality of processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to implement virtual resources of one or more clouds for use by applications of at least one application management domain. The processing platform further comprises an application manager configured in accordance with a multi-layer application management architecture including at least a component control layer, a system control and inner orchestration layer, an access and routing layer, an external system orchestration layer, and a presentation layer. The virtual resources and applications comprise respective controlled components under control of the component control layer. The applications are managed utilizing interactions between the layers of the multi-layer application management architecture, such as interactions between inner orchestration engines of the system control and inner orchestration layer and controllers of the component control layer.
US10326842B2
A terminal connection device includes: a storage unit configured to store a priority based on a type of processing information for performing input or output of information; a communication unit configured to receive from another device a processing request in which the processing information is identified; and an input and output path assignment unit configured to acquire, when the communication unit has received the processing request, the type of the processing information identified in the processing request, to identify, by using an external processing information priority, which is a priority based on the type, and candidates of usable input and output paths for each piece of the processing information, the input and output path for executing the processing information relating to the processing request, and to assign the processing information to the identified input and output path.
US10326839B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing an API description of an external network service and using the API to integrate the external service into a network. An embodiment operates by receiving, from a service provider, a description of an application programming interface (API), transmitting a call to the service provider using the API for creating a new instance of a service and transmitting to the service provider a traffic flow upon which the service will be applied.
US10326827B1
Determining interest in promotional content to be displayed at a mobile communication device is described. The promotional content, including a first portion that is visible and a second portion that is hidden in a first state, may be received. The first and second portions are each selectable only when visible. A promotional display that includes the promotional content in the first state is generated. Upon receipt of a first input from the user in relation to the first portion, the promotional content may be transitioned from the first state to a second state such the first portion becomes hidden and the second portion becomes visible. Upon failing to receive a second input from the user in relation to the second portion, the promotional content may be transitioned from the second state to the first state. Upon receipt of the second input, an interest in the promotional content may be indicated.
US10326824B2
Method, system, and programs for data processing. In one example, a record is received. The record is separated into multiple partitions. Each partition is submitted to an iterative pipeline, wherein the iterative pipeline comprises two or more processing stages that are run in parallel and one of the multiple partitions passes through one of the two or more processing stages in one iteration. The multiple partitions are passed through two or more processing stages. The partitions that have passed through each of the two or more processing stages are merged.
US10326813B2
A method and associated device for streaming multimedia data over a communication network. Data associated with live multimedia content is received. Portions of the data are processed into data chunks. Each data chunk is associated with the live multimedia content. A request is received for the live multimedia content. The data chunks associated with the live multimedia content are transmitted over the communication network, in response to the request for the live multimedia content.
US10326807B2
Method, software, and system for efficiently enabling n-way collaborative work using common software over a network of computers. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, each participant in a collaborative session starts up a common software application, which includes a collaboration component. This collaboration component is used to establish a common session that includes all interested parties. The collaboration component replicates operations performed on any one instance of said application to all other instances participating in the same session, so the effect is as if all members of the session were sharing a single instance of the application on a single computer. In one aspect, the collaboration component also supports broadcast of audio and video over a computer network, to enable session participants to see and/or hear each other, and further includes other features that support collaborative work.
US10326806B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for persisting state of a streaming application are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving data indicating interaction with third-party content that is displayed with first-party content at a client device. The interaction with the third-party content initiates an application request for a streaming version of an application (“streaming application”). The actions further include generating a representation of the streaming application in response to the interaction with the third-party content at the client device. The actions further include receiving data indicating a user interaction with the representation of the streaming application at the client device. The actions further include generating and storing data indicating a first state of the streaming application at a first time based on the user interaction with the representation of the streaming application.
US10326805B2
A distributed adaptive bit rate (ABR) proxy system may include a gateway device that includes a first transcoder and is configured to receive segments of a content item from an ABR server, and a secondary device that includes a second transcoder and is configured to receive the segments of the content item from the gateway device. The first transcoder may transcode the segments based at least in part on a first ABR profile to generate first transcoded segments, and the second transcoder may transcode the segments based at least in part on a second ABR profile to generate second transcoded segments. The gateway device may advertise the first and second ABR profiles to user devices and may transmit the first transcoded segments to the user devices in response to requests therefor. The secondary device may transmit the second transcoded segments to the user devices in response to requests therefor.
US10326804B1
A telecommunications network includes a telephony application server (TAS). In some examples, the TAS receives, from a terminal, a session-initiation request identifying a called party. The TAS sends structured text (e.g., XML, or JSON) identifying the called party (e.g., data of an anyTimeInterrogation query payload) to an information server (e.g., an HLR), which responds with structured text of a destination-terminal address dynamically bound to a terminal associated with the called party (e.g., data of a sendRoutingInformation reply payload). In some examples, the TAS receives Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) request data from a terminal. The TAS sends structured text indicating the USSD string and an identifier of the terminal to a USSD gateway via an Internet-Protocol-based Lightweight Protocol (IPLP), e.g., HTTPS, and receives structured text including USSD answer data. The TAS sends, to the terminal, a report message comprising the USSD answer data.
US10326788B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying suspicious controller area network messages may include (i) monitoring, for a predetermined period of time, messages sent by an electronic control unit that comprise a controller area network identifier for at least one controller area network device, (ii) observing, in the messages, a set of corresponding patterns that each comprise a content pattern and a timing pattern, (v) detecting a message that comprises the controller area network identifier, wherein a content pattern of the message and a timing pattern of the message do not match any pair of corresponding patterns in the set of corresponding patterns, and (vi) determining that the message is suspicious based at least in part on content pattern of the message and the timing pattern of the message not matching any pair of corresponding patterns in the set. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10326784B2
A network activity detection system is trained to detect network activities of interest such as threats by malicious computer data. The training involves distilling the characteristics of known network activities of interest (e.g., intrusion by computer viruses, exploits, worms, or the like) into a minimal set of meta-expressions. At run-time, the network activity detection system combines the minimal set of meta-expressions with efficient computer algorithms for evaluating meta-expressions to detect known network activities of interest, as well as their unknown variants, among an unknown set of network activity. The network activity detection system may produce appropriate responses upon the detection of network activities of interest.
US10326782B2
A network monitoring device according to an embodiment monitors a message that is periodically transmitted in a network in which a message identified by an identifier is transmitted and received, and includes a reception time recording unit and an unauthorized-transmission determination unit. The reception time recording unit records a reception time in association with the identifier, every time a message to be monitored is received. The unauthorized-transmission determination unit determines presence of an unauthorized transmission on the received message to be to be monitored, based on a latest reception time Ti, an m previous reception time Ti-m, a message transmission period F, and a constant σ determined in advance, in a period from the reception time Ti-m to the reception time Ti, every time the message to be monitored is received.
US10326781B2
Some embodiments of cloud-based gateway security scanning have been presented. In one embodiment, some data packets are received sequentially at a gateway device. The data packets constitute at least a part of a file being addressed to a client machine coupled to the gateway device. The gateway device forwards an identification of the file to a remote datacenter in parallel with forwarding the data packets to the client machine. The datacenter performs signature matching on the identification and returns a result of the signature matching to the gateway device. The gateway device determining whether to block the file from the client machine based on the result of the signature matching from the datacenter.
US10326770B2
Exchange or sharing information through the World Wide Web is a way of life in modern society. The innovated dynamic workspace technology of this invention together with the implementation of posting and un-posting operations for control sharing or stop sharing various resources of message, files, and folder, networks and storages in a central controlled distributed scalable virtual machine (CCDSVM) has not only greatly improved the sharing for messages, files and folders, but also improved the sharing for enterprise operation. Specially, the use of the dynamic workspace for controlling instantly sharing or stop sharing groups of computing systems of a network has tremendously improves agility, security, and flexibly for enterprise IT operations.
US10326767B2
Disclosed is a system for a facility supporting an access controller, at least one ingress card reader and an auto-enrollment type controller including a front panel having a single button, a controller board, a terminal block for connecting at least the one ingress card reader to the auto-enrollment type controller board and to connect the auto-enrollment type controller to door locks, and a mounting plate, with the auto-enrollment type controller being configured by a user according to operational requirements of the facility by the user asserting the button for a defined period of time.
US10326761B2
A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for performing user authentication. For example, one embodiment of a system comprises: media capture logic implemented as a component within a browser executed on a client, the media capture logic configured to capture a user's voice from a microphone on a client or images of the user's face or other portion of the user's body from a camera on the client, the media capture logic exposing an application programming interface (API); and a web authentication application implemented as another component within the browser for communicating with an authentication server to perform biometric authentication of a user, the web authentication application making calls to the API of the media capture logic to capture raw biometric data comprising the user's voice from the microphone and/or images of the user's face or other portion of the user's body from the camera, the web authentication application to implement a biometric authentication process to authenticate the user with the raw biometric data.
US10326757B2
A system including: at least one processor; and at least one memory, having stored thereon computer program code that, when executed by the at least one processor, controls the at least one processor to: receive a first sequence of values; segment the first sequence of values into a first subsequence having a first length and a second subsequence having a second length; modify the first subsequence by inserting one or more values into the first subsequence to create a modified first subsequence of a third length; modify the second subsequence by one or more inserting values into the second subsequence to create a modified second subsequence of the third length; combine the modified first subsequence and the modified second subsequence to create a second sequence of values; and output the second sequence of values.
US10326752B1
A method for automated authentication of a user VoIP phone supported by a Private Branch eXchange (PBX) configuration server is provided. A VoIP phone or a VoIP supported device is configured for an automated authentication by a vendor. The authentication method does not require manual entry of authentication data by a user. The unique VoIP phone authentication data can be provided by the vendor in a form of a MAC address. Additionally, the vendor can assign a digital certificate (containing public and private encryption keys) signed by the vendor to the VoIP phone. In this case, the VoIP phone vendor serves as a trusted authority. Thus, the VoIP phone automatically connects with the configuration server and the authentication transformation server (ATS) and the address where the VoIP phone sends the authentication data upon connection to the network is determined by the ATS.
US10326747B2
A method includes receiving, from a set-top box device, data that indicates selected media content from a list of available media content. The method includes locating one or more content sources for the selected media content. The method includes selecting a particular content source from the one or more content sources. The method includes locating an access rules source for the selected media content. The method includes instructing the particular content source to send the selected media content to the set-top box device. The method also includes instructing the access rules source to send an access rule associated with the selected media content to the set-top box device.
US10326740B2
An encryption module encrypts starting data using a random key to produce encrypted data. A hash module performs a secure hash function on the encrypted data using a secret key to produce a hash value. Processing circuitry masks the random key using the hash value to produce a masked random key, and combines the encrypted data and the masked random key to produce a secure package. A distributed storage and task module encodes the secure package to produce a set of encoded data slices. The secret key and a decode threshold number of the encoded data slices included in the set of encoded data slices are sufficient to recover the secure package and the starting data. The set of encoded data slices is stored in a set of storage units.
US10326719B2
Described are computer-based methods and apparatuses, including computer program products, for allowing a user to switch between interfacing with a service through a network or through short message service (SMS). A chat service is executed through which a first user at a first computer can communicate directly with a second user at a second computer. A request is received from the first computer to enable the first user to interface with the chat service through a mobile device of the first user using SMS instead of through the network using the first computer. The chat service is configured to interface with the mobile device through SMS, including communicating chat information through SMS to the first user's mobile device, and communicating control information through SMS to the first user's mobile device such that the first user can control a full functionality of the chat service using SMS.
US10326718B2
A communication apparatus is configured to provide for quickly sending a message to a recipient. For instance, embodiments can be configured so that text, an image, or other content can be copied from a received message and sent via use of a copy and send command to actuate the formation of a message for sending. After selecting such a command, a message may be formed in a format of a preselecting messaging protocol (e.g. instant messaging, text messaging, etc.) that includes the copied content. In some embodiments, the sending of the message having the copied content may occur automatically in a predefined messaging format to a predefined addressee or group of predefined addressees after selecting a copy and send command so that no further input from a user is needed to effect the generation and sending of a message to the addressee(s).
US10326712B2
An I/O board of a VXLAN switch receives a multicast data packet having a VXLAN encapsulation, removes the VXLAN encapsulation, determines that layer 3 multicast forwarding is to be performed for the multicast data packet, and sends the multicast data packet to a fabric board of the VXLAN switch. The fabric board determines that layer 3 multicast forwarding is to be performed by the fabric board for the multicast data packet. When a multicast group member port corresponding to the multicast data packet is a VLAN port, the fabric board sends the multicast data packet to each I/O board on the VXLAN switch. Each I/O board sends the received multicast data packet to a VLAN according to a layer 3 multicast group entry used for forwarding the received multicast data packet. The layer 3 multicast group entry being included in a local layer 3 multicast group table.
US10326708B2
Methods and systems of managing computer resources in a cloud environment. Receiving, via at least one server, cloud management instructions via an API, coordinating, via the at least one server, with at least one cloud services manager via a distributed coordination and messaging service. The coordination includes instructions regarding the cloud services manager managing at least one cloud resource, and communicating with at least one database to store and retrieve the management instructions.
US10326705B2
In a core node, packet related information included in a packet is extracted, a virtual queue length, which is an estimated value of a queue length of a transmission queue addressed to a user in an edge device, is calculated and held on a user basis on the basis of the packet related information and band information of a line between the edge device and the user, and a determination is made, on a user basis, as to whether or not band control is required, on the basis of the virtual queue length and predetermined conditions so as to perform, on the basis of the result of the determination, the band control of the packet addressed to the user on a user basis in a packet relay part.
US10326703B2
Some embodiments increase throughput across a connection between a host and a client by initializing the congestion window for that connection dynamically using a previously settled value from a prior instance of the connection established between the same or similar endpoints. An initialization agent tracks congestion window values for previously established connections between a host and various clients. For the tracked congestion window values of each monitored connection, the initialization agent stores an address identifying the client endpoint. When establishing a new connection, the initialization agent determines if the new connection is a recurring connection. A new connection is recurring when the new connection client address is similar or related to an address identified for a previous monitored connection. For a recurring connection, the initialization agent initializes the new connection congestion window using a value derived from the tracked congestion window values of the recurring connection.
US10326702B2
In one embodiment, a method includes sending a request for full-service data to a first Internet protocol (IP) address; determining that a successful response to the request for full-service data was not received; sending a request for limited data to a second IP address based on the determination that a successful response to the request for full-service data was not received; and receiving a successful response to the request for limited data. The limited data includes a subset of the full-service data.
US10326700B1
Embodiments are directed towards managing name service communications using traffic management computers (TMCs). TMCs may extract values from a name service reply received from one or more name service computers. TMCs may provide a name service key based on the values extracted from the name service reply. Accordingly, if a new flow may be detected further actions may be performed, including: TMCs may extract values from a network packet associated with the new flow; TMCs may provide a flow key based on one or more values from one or more fields of a network packet associated with the new flow; TMCs may compare the flow key to one or more name service keys; and if the comparison may be affirmative, TMCs may apply one or more traffic management policies associated with the affirmative comparison.
US10326682B2
In one implementation, a method for tap traffic redirection can include identification of a request protocol and a source network element, selection of a redirector protocol based on a list of device capabilities, instruction of the source network element to send a first copy of network traffic to an intermediary network element using the redirector protocol, and instruction of the intermediary network element to forward a second copy of the network traffic using the request protocol.
US10326679B1
An automated security survey generator for provisioning services in a cloud environment. Services, including infrastructure services, provided by the cloud are provisioned from blueprints. A survey is attached to each of the blueprints. When a service is provisioned, the attached survey is executed such that questions are presented to a requestor. Responses to the questions and actions are evaluated and actions associated with the responses are performed. The survey can prevent the service from being provisioned.
US10326675B2
A flow tagging technique includes tagging a data flow at a plurality of points in the data flow. For example, the data flow can be tagged at a socket and at a proxy manager API. By tagging the data flow at multiple points, it becomes possible to map network service usage activities to the appropriate initiating applications.
US10326673B2
In one embodiment, a monitoring device (or module) monitors messages exchanged between nodes in a communication network. The monitoring device further determines, based on time stamp data associated with each message, one or more latency distributions of paired response times between the nodes, and determines a node topology consistent with each of the one or more latency distributions of paired response times between the nodes. In some embodiments, the monitoring device also generates a graph of the node topology showing one or more communication links between the nodes, and annotates each communication link of the one or more communication links with at least one of a mean response time or a median response time based on at least one of the latency distributions.
US10326669B2
A wireless communication network delivers a wireless communication service. The wireless communication network comprises a base station computer system and a network server. The base station computer system executes a Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) virtual layer and responsively supports base station Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). The base station computer system executes base station VNFs and responsively delivers wireless communication services and generates base station Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The network server processes the base station KPIs and responsively directs the base station computer system to modify its support of a base station VNF. The base station computer system modifies its support of the base station VNF responsive to the network server.
US10326666B2
A communication apparatus, that can concurrently execute a first mode of joining a wireless network formed by another apparatus and a second mode of forming a wireless network, can determine whether a first wireless channel used in the first mode executed by the communication apparatus is a specific channel requiring a device to have a predetermined function to avoid radio-wave interference when the device operates as an apparatus that forms a wireless network using the wireless channel and controls, when executing the first mode and the second mode concurrently, an operation of the second mode in accordance with a result of the determination.
US10326665B2
Metrics are defined and collected for an application. The metrics are organized in hierarchical trees with metrics aggregated at each node in the trees. Each tree represents a different permutation of the metrics. A particular metric may occur in more than one tree. A user interface provides a default drill-down that allows users to jump from one metric to another so that only the most useful information is presented to the user. The default drill-down is defined to provide the user with a best practices method to identify and correct problems or errors in the application. Users may modify the default drill-down path.
US10326661B2
Illustrated herein is a substantially circular data center including a plurality of machines. The machines are physically grouped into data classification groups. The data classification groups are organized in a radially expanding and circumferential fashion.
US10326660B2
A network control system for managing a plurality of switching elements that implement a plurality of logical datapath sets. The network control system includes first and second controllers for generating requests for modifications to first and second logical datapath sets. The first controller is further for determining whether to make modifications to the first logical datapath set. The second controller is further for determining whether to make modifications to the second logical datapath set. Each controller is further for receiving logical control plane data that specifies logical datapath sets and for converting the logical control plane data to physical control plane data for propagating to the switching elements.
US10326659B2
A computer implemented method for automatically switching communication protocols. The method includes detecting a user input, determining, based on the user input, a first communication protocol needed to address the user input, and creating a virtualized network wherein devices that use a second communication protocol are represented via virtualized devices according to the first communication protocol.
US10326657B1
In one example, a network management system (NMS) is configured to enable a target network device to support one more network services by generating a translation template to map a vendor neutral model to a device specific model. The NMS determines similarity scores between nodes in the vendor neutral model and nodes in the device specific model. Based on the similarity scores, the NMS generates a translation template from the vendor neutral model to the device specific model. Using the translation template, the NMS may configure the target network device to support the one or more network services.
US10326655B1
Technology for capturing a configuration of an infrastructure to enable replication of the infrastructure is provided. In one example, a layout agent may be provided for deployment to an infrastructure, including a server, together with instructions for the layout agent to capture server layout data for the server and to communicate the server layout data to a replication application. The server layout data for the server may be received at the replication application. A system model for the infrastructure may be generated based on the server layout data from the layout agent. The replication of the infrastructure as a replicated infrastructure may be initiated based on the system model.
US10326653B2
A method for upgrading a network functions virtualization application includes creating, by a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM), a network resource according to an upgrade plan for the network functions virtualization application; creating, by the VIM, a virtual machine for a new-version virtualized network function (VNF) according to the upgrade plan; configuring, by the VIM, the virtual machine on a test network according to the network resource; performing, by the VIM, upgrade configuration on the virtual machine according to an upgrade configuration script to obtain the new-version VNF; and switching, by an NFV orchestrator, an earlier-version VNF to the new-version VNF after determining that a function test of the new-version VNF on the test network is successful. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, an automated upgrade procedure and upgrade steps for a network functions virtualization application are defined, so that upgrading the network functions virtualization application can be automated.
US10326652B2
Briefly, methods and/or apparatuses for implicit traffic engineering, such as for the Internet, are described.
US10326651B1
Disclosed are techniques regarding aspects of implementing client configurable logic within a computer system. The computer system can be a cloud infrastructure. The techniques can include associating signature information with the client configurable logic for various purposes.
US10326645B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for automatically configuring, managing, updating, and/or monitoring the configuration of various computing resources and/or network devices within a communications network, such as a telecommunications network. Configuration code may be deployed to a repository for a cluster of computing resources and one or more layers may be defined describing configurable aspects of the cluster. Subsequently, a script may be identified and executed to configure the cluster based on the configuration code.
US10326642B2
Technologies and implementations for facilitating monitoring and management of network devices are generally disclosed.
US10326640B2
A method, computer program product and system for performing performance and root cause analysis of failures in a telecommunication network are provided. The telecommunication network includes User Equipment (UE) devices, core network and radio access network (RAN). Information related to impacted performance and failures reported in the telecommunication network is received. Telecommunication and transport network elements associated with the reported network performance and failures are identified. Performance and configuration data associated with the identified network elements is analyzed to identify one or more causes of the reported network failures. A root cause analysis of the reported network failures is performed using knowledge and statistical inference models for each of the identified causes to provide at least one recommendation for resolving the reported network failures.
US10326632B2
A synchronizing radio receiver is disclosed, comprising: an analog baseband receive chain and a digital baseband receive chain. The digital baseband receive chain may comprise an analog to digital converter, a frame synchronization module, a frequency synchronization module, and an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) demodulator, wherein the frequency synchronization module is configured to cross-correlate a plurality of in-phase and quadrature samples to generate a synchronization signal and output the synchronization signal to a local oscillator in the analog baseband receive chain. The digital baseband receive chain may also further comprise a carrier frequency offset (CFO)/sampling frequency offset (SFO) correction module coupled to a frequency synchronization module configured to cross-correlate a plurality of in-phase and quadrature samples, with the CFO/SFO correction module configured to apply correction in a digital domain before outputting a corrected signal to the OFDM demodulator.
US10326627B2
Various techniques are provided to efficiently implement user designs incorporating clock and/or data recovery circuitry and/or a deserializer in programmable logic devices (PLDs). In one example, a method includes receiving a serial data stream, measuring time periods between signal transitions in a serial data stream using at least one Grey code oscillator, and generating a recovered data signal corresponding to the serial data stream by, at least in part, comparing the measured time periods to one or more calibration time periods. In another example, a system includes a Grey code oscillator configured to increment a Grey code count between signal transitions in a serial data stream, and a Grey code converter configured to convert the Grey code count approximately at the signal transitions to a plurality of binary counts each corresponding to a time period between one or more signal transitions in the serial data stream.
US10326625B1
A single-ended signal transmission system recovers a noise signal associated with a data input signal and uses the recovered noise signal to compensate for noise on the data input signal. The noise signal may be recovered from a noise reference signal line, or clock signal line, or a data signal line associated with a DC-balanced data input signal. The recovered noise signal may be represented as an analog signal or a digital signal. The recovered noise signal may be processed to compensate for DC offset and nonlinearities associated with one or more different input buffers. In one embodiment, the recovered noise signal includes frequency content substantially below a fundamental frequency for data transmission through the data input signal.
US10326621B1
A serial communication system includes transmission line and at least one slave device. The at least one slave device comprises an active pull-down element coupled to the transmission line to pull a voltage on the transmission line low during transmission, an active pull-up element coupled to the transmission line to pull the voltage on the transmission line high during or after transmission, and a communication circuit configured to transmit data onto the transmission line according to a SENT protocol by activating the pull-down element and the pull-up element.
US10326600B2
A routing method of forwarding task instructions between secured computer systems in a computer network infrastructure includes calling up routing information stored in a key computer system, generating a task file in the key computer system, wherein the task file comprises at least the routing information and a task description of at least one task for the target computer system; transmitting the task file based upon the routing information along the communication path from the key computer system by the group of the broker computer systems to the target computer system; verifying validity of the task file by the target computer system; executing at least one task in the target computer system by the task file in the case that verification of validity of the task file was successful.
US10326599B2
Examples include sending and receiving recovery agents and recovery plans over networks. Some examples include receiving a recovery request over a network from a requestor, sending a response to the requestor over the network, sending an executable copy of a recovery agent with a validation measure to the requestor, establishing an encrypted connection with the requestor, receiving a second request from the requester over the encrypted connection, determining a recovery plan that includes a command executable by the recovery agent, and sending the recovery plan to the requester over the encrypted connection. In some examples, the recovery request includes data that identifies the requester and the response and the recovery plan are based on the data identifying the requester.
US10326597B1
A system that provides responses to requests obtains a key that is used to digitally sign the request. The key is derived from information that is shared with a requestor to which the response is sent. The requestor derives, using the shared information, derives a key usable to verify the digital signature of the response, thereby enabling the requestor to operate in accordance with whether the digital signature of the response matches the response.
US10326596B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for secure message authentication and digital signatures, such as with a cipher-based hash function, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a secure authentication system that implements various aspects of the cipher-based hash function in dedicated hardware or circuitry. In various embodiments, the secure authentication system may implement one or more elements of the Whirlpool hash function in dedicated hardware. For instance, the compute-intensive substitute byte and mix rows blocks of the block cipher in the Whirlpool hash function may be implemented in dedicated hardware or circuitry using a combination of Galois Field arithmetic and fused scale/reduce circuits. In some embodiments, the microarchitecture of the secure authentication system may be implemented with delayed add key to limit the memory requirement to three sequential registers.
US10326594B2
A computerized method and apparatus are established to identify confidential data of common interest among multiple parties without releasing the confidential data. Furthermore, a computerized network provides different parties at different locations with a mechanism to conduct cooperative activities concerning such confidential data of common interest without exposing that confidential data to possible identity theft.
US10326588B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to ensuring information security in data transfers by dividing and encrypting data blocks. A computing platform may receive, from a data source computing device, a source data collection for a secure physical-storage-media data transfer and may identify one or more transmission parameters associated with the secure physical-storage-media data transfer. Subsequently, the computing platform may divide the source data collection into two or more data blocks and may separately encrypt the two or more data blocks based on the one or more transmission parameters to produce two or more encrypted data blocks for the secure physical-storage-media data transfer. Then, the computing platform may store the two or more encrypted data blocks on two or more physical media, and each encrypted data block of the two or more encrypted data blocks may be stored on a different physical medium of the two or more physical media.
US10326586B2
An encryption/decryption apparatus and a power analysis protecting method thereof are provided. The encryption/decryption apparatus adapted to perform encryption/decryption operation on digital data includes a data encryption/decryption unit, a random number generator, and a power analysis protecting circuit. The data encryption/decryption unit receives the digital data and performs an encryption/decryption operation on the digital data. The random number generator is used to generate random number data, the random number data has N bits, and N is a positive integer. The power analysis protecting circuit generates M kinds of power signals having different levels according to each bit data of the random number data when the random number data is received by the power analysis protecting circuit, and M is equal to the Nth power of 2.
US10326582B2
An optical transmitter includes: an optical modulator, a phase adjustment circuit, first and second synchronization circuits, and first and second drive circuits. The optical modulator includes a first modulation area and a second modulation area that is provided at output side of the first modulation area. The phase adjustment circuit adjusts a phase of a first clock signal so as to generate a second clock signal. The first and second synchronization circuits respectively output first and second electric signals in synchronization with the first and second clock signals. The first and second drive circuits respectively drive the first and second modulation areas with the first and second electric signals.
US10326581B2
A method and a system for communicating a high priority message in a vehicular ad hoc network is provided. In the communication channel, time slots are defined, and N successive time slots constitute one cycle, where m th time slot of each cycle is reserved for transmitting a pre-emption message. The method may include: selecting a sub-frame, transmitted in a first q th time slot, having a priority lower than that of the high priority message; transmitting in a first m th time slot after the first q th time slot a pre-emption message indicating that a second q th time slot, which is after the first m th time slot, will be occupied to transmit the high priority message; and transmitting in the second q th time slot the high priority message. By using the method and system, messages with higher priority can be transmitted timely even under very congested conditions.
US10326579B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for a user equipment, which is allocated a plurality of serving cells, receiving acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: transmitting uplink data through a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and receiving ACK/NACK with respect to the uplink through a physical hybrid-ARQ indicator channel (PHICH), wherein a serving cell that receives the ACK/NACK is selected from one or more serving cells, which the user equipment monitors to detect an uplink grant that schedules the PUSCH.
US10326574B2
Provided are a method and device for configuring a pilot, wherein the method includes: configuring a user pilot according to subcarrier indexes of REs occupied by the user pilot, wherein the subcarrier indexes of the REs occupied by the user pilot are in subcarrier indexes of REs occupied by user data on PUSCH, and include the following pilot parameters: REstart and RBnumber, and further include REset and/or REinterval; and adjusting power of a pilot at a transmitting end and performing pilot resource mapping according to Powerfactor corresponding to the pilot parameters, where Powerfactor=(REset+REinterval)/REset. Through the disclosure, the problem that a pilot design scheme of the PUSCH in the related art is poor on flexibility is solved.
US10326569B2
A method, a system, an apparatus, and a computer program product for providing an inter-site carrier aggregation in a wireless communication system are disclosed. Control channel resources at a primary cell in a wireless communication system are determined. The determined control channel resources are provided to a secondary cell communicatively coupled to the primary cell. At least one data packet is transmitted based on the determination of control channel resources using the secondary cell.
US10326566B2
A method and a device for transmitting reference signals in a wireless communication system are disclosed. For these, a sequence is acquired to be used for the reference signals, and the reference signals are transmitted through subframes comprising a first type subframe and a second type subframe. Here, the first type subframe includes a first number of OFDM symbols and the second type subframe includes a second number of OFDM symbols. And, a first position of OFDM symbol for transmitting the reference signals at the first type subframe is the same as a second position of OFDM symbol for transmitting the reference signals at the second type subframe.
US10326559B2
A base station may provide both an uplink grant and a downlink grant in a same transmission time interval (TTI), and may provide an indication in the uplink grant that the TTI includes the downlink grant. A user equipment (UE) that receives the uplink grant may provide feedback using identified feedback resources in an uplink shared channel, and other uplink transmissions may be rate matched around the feedback resources in the uplink shared channel. A base station receiving the feedback may monitor the feedback resources to determine whether the downlink grant or one or more of the downlink transmissions were successfully received at the UE. A base station, in some examples, may monitor different sets of resources to determine whether certain of the uplink grant, downlink grant, downlink transmissions associated with the downlink grant, or any combinations thereof, have been successfully received at the UE.
US10326553B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a systematic code decoding method and an apparatus. The method includes: extracting a non-erased original packet from an acquired encoded packet that has passed through an erasure channel; and then by using the erased original packet as an unknown variable, obtaining an erased original packet by parsing according to a first equation. Because a quantity F of erased original packets is far less than a total quantity K of original packets, a dimension of the first equation that includes F unknown variables is far lower than a dimension of an equation indicating a correspondence between an encoded packet and an intermediate packet. An operation amount required for parsing the relatively low-dimensional first equation is far smaller, thereby greatly reducing an operation amount required for decoding.
US10326552B2
An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame for signaling a time interleaving mode are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal; a power normalizer configured to perform power-normalizing for reducing the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing time interleaving after performing the power-normalizing; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling a time interleaving mode corresponding to the time interleaver for each of physical layer pipes (PLPs).
US10326550B1
The present invention is directed to data communication systems and techniques thereof. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide an FEC encoder that generates parity symbols that are embedded into FEC blocks. An FEC decoder determines whether to perform error correction based on the parity symbols. When performing error correction, the decoder selects a worst symbol from a segment of symbols, and the worst symbol is corrected. There are other embodiments as well.
US10326544B2
A method for receiving public warning system (PWS) data includes receiving, at a user equipment (UE), a public warning system (PWS) message. The UE determines that the PWS message is a type 2 PWS message. The type 2 PWS message indicates that type 2 PWS data is delivered using a type 2 PWS data delivery mechanism. The type 2 PWS data is received using the type 2 PWS data delivery mechanism.
US10326542B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes controlling circuitry configured to adjust a directivity of each of a plurality antennas based on a received power of a first frame for each of the plurality of antennas; and a transmitter configured to transmit a second frame for responding to the first frame after the directivity is adjusted.
US10326540B2
A method for coordinating testing of a wireless device under test (DUT) using non-link testing resources. Coordination between the tester and DUT is achieved by transmitting, from the tester to the DUT, predetermined numbers of data packets associated with predetermined tester identification data (e.g., MAC addresses identifying the tester transmitter). During test phases involving measurement and/or calibration of DUT transmit signals, the tester sends a number of data packets associated with one or more versions of tester identification data, in response to which the DUT performs internal operations (e.g., revising transmit power offsets). During later test phases involving validation of DUT performance, the tester sends another number of data packets associated with one or more versions of the tester identification data to inform the DUT that its testing has passed or failed, and/or is to be repeated.
US10326538B2
Embodiments herein describe calibrating a plurality of radio heads having a plurality of wireless antennas. In one embodiment, the plurality of radio heads communicate a calibration signal in a round robin fashion such that each of the radio heads communicates a respective calibration signal to the remaining radio heads. The received calibration signals are then used to calibrate the radio heads. In one embodiment, a controller coupled with the plurality of radio heads calibrates the radio heads. The calibrated radio heads then communicate to one or more client devices.
US10326537B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for an antenna-based detection method and system for sensing an environmental change condition. The method and system is adapted such that the states comprising the environmental change condition are capable of being determined at the location of the detection point utilizing only the magnitude component of the antenna impedance as altered by the discrete change in the environmental condition.
US10326523B1
Embodiments include techniques for device analysis and failure prediction, the techniques include measuring or collecting parametric data of the device at a configurable interval, wherein the parametric data includes one or more parameters, and receiving operating limits for the parametric data based on specifications or characteristics for the device. The techniques also include determining a trend of the measured or collected parametric data of the device, and filtering noise from the trend based at least in part on at least one of other devices exhibiting a deviation exhibited by the device or system state changes associated with system log files. The techniques include identifying a failure stage of the device based on at least one of the trend or the received operating limits, and transmitting a notification of a predicted failure based at least in part on the identification.
US10326518B1
Methods and systems of managing communications through a repeater between a gateway and a plurality of nodes in a long-range wireless wide area network include, in various independent aspects, joining the plurality of nodes to the network through the gateway by transmitting to a join server at least a portion of join request messages received from the plurality of nodes, receiving messages from the gateway and identifying associated nodes of the plurality of nodes to which those messages are then transmitted, and transmitting messages to the gateway with physical layer payloads corresponding to payloads of messages received from the plurality of nodes.
US10326516B2
Disclosed are a relay terminal reselection method and device. A control node performs relay terminal reselection judgement for a source terminal according to a reselection triggering condition of a relay terminal, and if deciding to perform relay terminal reselection, the control node determines a candidate relay terminal list for the source terminal and determines a destination a destination relay terminal for the source terminal from the candidate relay terminal list according to auxiliary information, wherein the control node is the source terminal or a source relay terminal, such that when in the moving process of the source terminal, a target node and the source relay terminal, the source relay terminal is no longer suitable to be used as a relay terminal, the source terminal or the source relay terminal can reselect a relay terminal for the source terminal.
US10326514B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, and methods for reference signal design for initial acquisition, by receiving a first primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a first secondary synchronization signal (SSS) from a first transmit (Tx) beam, in first contiguous orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of a downlink subframe. A UE can receive at least a second PSS and a second SSS from a second Tx beam in contiguous OFDM symbols of the downlink subframe. A UE can then detect beamforming reference signals (BRSs) corresponding to the first Tx beam and the second Tx beam, based on identification of physical cell ID information and timing information processed from the first PSS, the second PSS, the first SSS, and the second SSS. The UE can select the first Tx beam or the second Tx beam that was received with the highest power, based on the BRSs. Other embodiments are described.
US10326513B2
A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna system is implemented for communications in a wireless device. Information regarding the environment surrounding the wireless device may be used to determine which of the MIMO antennas are selected such that communications performance is improved. Metrics related to signal transmission and reception by the wireless device may be monitored and used to determine which MIMO antennas are selected. The metrics may be measured by any of the MIMO antennas at any time, including antennas currently engaged or not engaged in active communications. The metrics may be used in lieu of sensors to supplement or replace wireless device functionality otherwise provided by the sensors.
US10326502B2
Method and apparatus for conveying precoding information in a control message (M) from a first node (400) to a second node (402), with information on properties of an associated wireless data transmission (D) between the first and second nodes employing spatial multiplexing and precoding for the data transmission. The first node determines precoding parameters (P) for signal transmission to the receiving node, optionally based on feedback reports (F) from the receiving node. The first node encodes control information bits in precoding information fields of the control message by means of values in TBS fields of the control message, such that the TBS field values determine the interpretation of the bits in the precoding information field(s). The control message (M) is then sent to the second node.
US10326500B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure support a head-mounted display (HMD) wirelessly coupled to a console. The HMD includes a positional tracking system, a beam controller and a transceiver. The positional tracking system tracks position of the HMD and generates positional information describing the tracked position of the HMD. The transceiver communicates with a console via a wireless channel, in accordance with communication instructions, the communication instructions causing the transceiver to communicate over one directional beam of a plurality of directional beams. The beam controller determines a change in the positional information. Based on the change to the positional information, the beam controller determines a directional beam of the plurality of directional beams. The beam controller further generates the communication instructions identifying the determined directional beam, and provides the communication instructions to the transceiver.
US10326497B2
An external auxiliary switch mechanism having a base device and an expansion module. The base device may incorporate a transceiver and microcontroller connected to the transceiver. The expansion module may incorporate a transceiver and a microcontroller connected to the transceiver. The microcontroller of the expansion module may have a connection to one or more switches and/or a communication module connected to a network. Data may be transferred wirelessly between the transceiver of the base device and the transceiver of the expansion module with, for example, near-field communication techniques. In some versions of the present mechanism, the expansion module may derive power from signals from the basic device.
US10326491B2
A transceiving device includes: a signal port, arranged to relay an RF input signal during a first mode, and to relay an RF output signal during a second mode different from the first mode; a receiver, coupled to the signal port; a transmitter, coupled to the signal port; and a first adjustable capacitor, coupled to the signal port. The second adjustable capacitor is arranged to have a first capacitance during the first mode such that the RF input signal is received by the receiver, and the second adjustable capacitor is arranged to have a second capacitance during the second mode such that the RF output signal is transmitted to the signal port.
US10326486B2
A wireless information handling system includes a specific absorption rate sensor, a wireless communications module, and a wireless controller in communication with the specific absorption rate sensor and the wireless communications module. The wireless communications module is to transmit a signal using a frequency domain including a set of frequencies. The specific absorption rate sensor is to measure the specific absorption rate when transmitting the signal. The wireless communication module is to transmit a subsequent signal using an adjusted frequency domain including a subset of the set of frequencies in response to measuring the specific absorption rate.
US10326484B1
A front end module having reduced number of low noise amplifier (LNAs) for receiving various combinations of contiguous aggregation (CA) signals and non-CA signals having different combinations of signals aggregated therein. The FECC can include a broadband LNA and/or a band-switching LNA having at least two modes of operation. An input switch directs a received signal to one of several banks of filters. LNA switches direct the signals from the output of filters within a selected filter bank to particular LNAs. LNAs may be connected by LNA switches to filters in more than one filter bank. The proper mode of operation is selected for the band switching LNA based on the particular frequencies present in the received signal and the filters selected.
US10326469B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus and techniques for segmenting a digital input signal for digital-to-analog conversion. For example, certain aspects provide a segmentation circuit for generating digital signal segments for a digital-to-analog converter. The segmentation circuit generally includes a modulo function logic circuit configured to generate a modulo output signal based on a digital input signal and a divisor input signal and a modulo range extension logic circuit configured to selectively direct the modulo output signal or the divisor input signal to an output of the segmentation circuit. In certain aspects, the output of the segmentation circuit may be used by the digital-to-analog converter to generate an analog signal based on the digital input signal.
US10326467B1
An analog-to-digital converter includes an analog-to-digital conversion unit configured to output first and second digital signals based on a comparison of first and second reference voltages with an input signal, an amplifier including first and second input terminals and an output terminal, a first capacitor having one end or electrode connected to the first input terminal of the amplifier, a second capacitor having one end or electrode connected to the first input terminal of the amplifier, a third capacitor having one end or electrode connected to the first input terminal of the amplifier, a switch unit configured to selectively provide a third or fourth reference voltage to at least one of the second and third capacitors based on the first and second digital signals, and a control switch between another end or electrode of the first capacitor and the output terminal of the amplifier.
US10326466B2
The present embodiments provide an analog to digital converter, including a beam splitter, M photodetectors, M amplifier modules, and an encoder. Each output end of the beam splitter is corresponding to an input end of a photodetector, an output end of each photodetector is connected to an input end of an amplifier module, and an output end of each amplifier module is connected to an input end of the encoder. The beam splitter splits an inputted analog optical signal into M optical signals, outputs each optical signal to a corresponding photodetector to convert each optical signal into a current signal, inputs each current signal to a corresponding amplifier module to generate an output voltage, and outputs the output voltage to a corresponding input end of the encoder.
US10326463B2
Methods and systems for charge compensation for switched-capacitor circuits may comprise, in an electronics device comprising a first voltage source, a switched capacitor load, and a switched capacitor compensation circuit: switching a capacitor in the switched capacitor load from a first voltage to a second voltage; providing a charge to the switched capacitor load from the switched capacitor compensation circuit without requiring added charge from the first voltage source. A reference voltage may be generated utilizing the first voltage source. A replica reference voltage for the switched capacitor compensation circuit may be generated utilizing a second voltage source. The replica reference voltage may be equal to the reference voltage. The replica reference voltage may be equal to a supply voltage, VDD, for circuitry in the electronics device. Capacitors may couple outputs of the first and second voltage sources to ground.
US10326456B2
Methods and devices are discussed where a plurality of input signals having different phases are provided. From the input signals, a plurality of signal pairs are selected, and intermediate signals are generated based on the signal pairs. The intermediate signals are then combined.
US10326451B2
In some examples, a level shifter circuit comprises: a first transistor pair cascoded at a first input node; a second transistor pair cascoded at a second input node, wherein the first and transistor pairs couple at a first node, a second node, a third node, and a fourth node; a third transistor pair coupled to the first transistor pair at the first and the third nodes, wherein the third transistor pair is configured to generate a first bipolar clock signal; a fourth transistor pair coupled to the second transistor pair at the second and the fourth nodes, wherein the fourth transistor pair is configured to generate a second bipolar clock signal; and a clock generation circuit coupled to the first node, the second node, the third node, and the fourth node.
US10326446B2
A semiconductor apparatus may include a logic circuit, a power gating circuit and a power gating control system. The logic circuit may operate by receiving a first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage, and may retain an output signal at a predetermined logic value during a standby operation of the semiconductor apparatus. The power gating circuit may apply the first power supply voltage and the second power supply voltage to the logic circuit when a gating control signal is in an enabled state. The power gating control system may test whether the output signal of the logic circuit retains the predetermined logic value when the power gating circuit is turned off, and may generate the gating control signal based on a test result and an operation mode of the semiconductor apparatus.
US10326441B2
A semiconductor assembly includes a first FET having gate, source and drain terminals, a switching device being configured to electrically short a gate-source capacitance of the first FET responsive to a control signal, a first gate lead, a second gate lead, a drain lead, and a source lead. The first and second gate leads, the drain lead, and the source lead form externally accessible terminals of the semiconductor assembly. A reverse blocking rating of the switching device is less than a reverse blocking rating of the first FET. A gate of the first FET is directly electrically connected to the first gate lead. A gate of the switching device is directly electrically connected to the second gate lead. The first FET and the switching device are the only active semiconductor devices connected between the first gate lead, the second gate lead, the drain lead, and the source lead.
US10326434B2
In various embodiments, an electronic component is provided. The electronic component may include a supply bus configured to provide a supply voltage for an electronic circuit. The electronic component may further include a voltage-controlled oscillator, which is coupled to the supply bus and is configured to generate a clock signal with a clock frequency according to the supply voltage. The electronic component may further include at least one reference oscillator, which is configured to generate a reference clock signal with a reference clock frequency, and a comparator, which is coupled to the voltage-controlled oscillator and the at least one reference oscillator and is configured to compare the clock signal with the reference clock signal and, on the basis of the comparison, either to output the clock signal to the electronic circuit or to suppress it.
US10326431B1
A novel clock level-shifter to reduce duty-cycle distortion across wide input-output voltage operating range is disclosed. In some implementations, a level shifter includes an input stage coupled to a first power supply to receive an input signal, an output stage coupled to a second power supply to generate an output signal, and a first switch coupled directly between the output stage and the second power supply, wherein the input signal turns on or off the first switch. In some implementations, the first switch has a gate, a source, and a drain, the source being coupled to the second power supply, the drain being coupled to the output stage, and the gate being driven directly by the input signal.
US10326427B2
A resonator includes: a resonator element that includes a base portion and a resonating arm; and a base. When n is one natural number of 2 or greater and j is 1 or greater and a natural number which is less than or equal to n, the resonator element performs resonations with n inherent resonation modes. In a relationship between arbitrary integers kj and resonance frequencies fj corresponding to the n inherent resonation modes, respectively, when f1 represents the resonance frequency of the main resonation of the resonator element and a normalized frequency difference Δf is defined by Δ f ≡ ( ∑ j = 2 n k j f j - k 1 - f 1 ) / f 1 , a relationship of |Δf|≥0.03 is satisfied. The arbitrary integers kj satisfy relationships of 3≤Σj=1n|kj|≤10 and n≤Σj=1n|kj|. A ratio of an amount of a change in the resonance frequency of the main resonation, to excitation power that electrically excites the main resonation, is 20 [ppm/μW] or higher.
US10326412B2
An amplifier includes an input terminal for receiving an input signal, an output terminal for outputting an output signal, a first transistor, a second transistor having a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the first transistor, a third transistor having a first terminal coupled to a second terminal of the second transistor, a capacitor coupled between a control terminal and a second terminal of the third transistor, a bias circuit coupled to the first terminal of the third transistor for providing a bias voltage to the third transistor, a fourth transistor having a first terminal coupled to the input terminal and a second terminal coupled to the output terminal for providing a bypass path, and a fifth transistor having a first terminal coupled to the first terminal of the first transistor and a second terminal coupled to the output terminal.
US10326410B2
Systems and methods of noise suppression by an amplifier are presented. In one exemplary embodiment, an amplifier comprises first and fourth transistors configured as a first differential pair of transistors in a common-gate configuration, and second and third transistors configured as a second differential pair of transistors in a common-source configuration. The first and fourth transistors are operative to receive, from a differential input, by a source of each first and fourth transistor, a differential input signal. Further, a drain of each first and fourth transistor is coupled to respective first and second outputs configured as a differential output. The second and third transistors are operative to output, from a drain of each second and third transistor, to the respective second and first outputs, a differential output signal. Further, a gate of each second and third transistor is coupled to the respective first and second inputs.
US10326407B2
A music reproducing device configured to have a balanced output and an unbalanced output, comprising: a first amplification circuit configured to amplify an audio signal, a second amplification circuit configured to amplify an inverted audio signal that the audio signal is inverted, a balanced output jack to which the audio signal which is amplified by the first amplification circuit and the inverted audio signal which is amplified by the second amplification circuit are output, an unbalanced output jack to which the audio signal which is amplified by the first amplification circuit is output, and circuitry configured to mute input of the second amplification circuit when plugs are connected to the balanced output jack and the unbalanced output jack.
US10326405B2
An amplifier circuit includes an amplifier and a voltage boost circuit configured to provide a variable supply voltage to the amplifier, the variable supply voltage continuously proportional to an audio input signal, the variable supply voltage configured to follow an output of the amplifier.
US10326397B2
An apparatus, to control a motor from an instructed phase indicating a motor rotor target phase, includes a detector, a phase determiner, a converter, and a controller. The detector detects a motor winding driving current. The phase determiner determines a rotor rotation phase from the detected driving current. The converter converts a detected current value in a stationary coordinate system into a current value in a rotational coordinate system from the determined rotation phase. The controller includes a first mode for controlling the driving current to cause a determined phase deviation between the instructed and rotation phases to decreased, and a second mode for controlling the driving current from a current having a previously determined magnitude. On switching the mode from the second to the first mode, the first mode target value is set from a driving current value corresponding to a current component represented by the rotational coordinate system.
US10326393B2
A variable-speed pumped storage power generation apparatus sets a maximum change rate of a power output command constant when a slip frequency is within a normal operating range, limits the maximum change rate of the power output command by multiplying the maximum change rate by a value in a range of one to zero when the slip frequency is within a range falling below a lower limit of the normal operating range by a predetermined value or less or within a range exceeding an upper limit of the normal operating range by a predetermined value or less, and limits the maximum change rate of the power output command by multiplying the maximum change rate by zero when the slip frequency is in a range falling below the lower limit by the predetermined value or more or in a range exceeding the upper limit by the predetermined value or more.
US10326389B2
Method and apparatus for providing error compensation for a magnetic field sensing element in a three-phase motor. In embodiments, a driving angle is determined from zero-crossings of the magnet pole-pairs and error compensation levels for the pole-pairs is determined to reduce distortions in the motor current waveform.
US10326384B2
There is provided a drive controller including a determination part that compares a target stop position of a movable body, which is driven by a piezoelectric actuator driven by a piezoelectric element expanded and contracted in response to an applied voltage, with a real position of the movable body acquired on the basis of a position sensor, and determines whether or not the target stop position matches with the real position, and a drive control part that turns off energization of the piezoelectric actuator when the target stop position matches with the real position while the movable body is being driven by the piezoelectric actuator.
US10326375B1
An isolated power transfer device has a primary side and a secondary side isolated from the primary side by an isolation barrier. A secondary-side circuit includes a rectifier circuit coupled to a secondary-side conductive coil. The secondary-side circuit includes a first resistor coupled to a first power supply node and a terminal node. The secondary-side circuit includes a second resistor coupled to the terminal node and a second power supply node. The secondary-side circuit includes a first circuit to generate a feedback signal in response to a reference voltage and a signal on the terminal node. The feedback signal has a hysteretic band defined by the first resistor and the second resistor. The secondary-side circuit is configured as an AC/DC power converter that provides, on the first power supply node, an output DC signal having a voltage level based on a ratio of the first resistor to the second resistor.
US10326372B2
A method for reducing electromagnetic interference in a flyback converter includes activating a first switch to generate a primary current therein. The first switch is deactivated to generate a secondary current from a magnetic flux generated by the primary current. The magnetic flux is removed by the generation of the secondary current. A second switch is activated with a first voltage pulse to limit an excess voltage across the first switch. The excess voltage is generated in response to the deactivation of the first switch. A second switch is activated with a second voltage pulse to limit a voltage oscillation across the first switch. The voltage oscillation occurs after the removal of the magnetic flux. A first pulse width of the first voltage pulse is increased by a first jitter delay. A second pulse width of the second voltage pulse is increased by a second jitter delay.
US10326369B2
A converter includes first and second coupled inductors. A first phase includes first high side and low side switches connected to the first inductor. A second phase includes second high side and low side switches connected to the second inductor. In discontinuous conduction mode, the controller determines, in response to the first high side switch being turned on and the second low side switch being turned off, that coupling between the first and second inductors is strong or weak based on whether body diode of the second low side switch will conduct if not prevented from conducting. The controller prevents second low side switch body diode conduction in response to the first high side switch being turned on when the coupling is strong, and does not prevent second low side switch body diode conduction in response to the first high side switch being turned on when the coupling is weak.
US10326366B2
A switched-mode power converter includes timing control feedback loop circuits to minimize or eliminate the potential difference across a high-power switch and a low-power switch during their transitions times. A first feedback circuit compares the measured voltage across the high-power switch at the moment the high-power switch closes with the input voltage to the high-power switch to control a low-to-high delay time. A second feedback circuit compares the measured voltage across the low-power switch at the moment the low-power switch closes with the input voltage to the low-power switch to control a high-to-low delay time. A third feedback circuit compares the measured voltage across the low-power switch at the moment the low-power switch opens. The output of the third feedback circuit is provided as inputs to the first and second feedback circuits. The third feedback circuit also controls the frequency of the power converter.
US10326360B2
A power supplying device is provided to supply power for a plurality of loads. The power supplying device includes a detecting circuit, a controlling circuit, and a constant current circuit. The detecting circuit is electrically connected to a plurality of output terminals, and configured to detect whether the output terminals are electrically connected to the loads. In addition, the detecting circuit is configured to output a detecting signal according to the number of the loads which are connected to the output terminals. The controlling circuit is electrically connected to the detecting circuit, and configured to receive the detecting signal and output a controlling signal according to the detecting signal. The constant current circuit is electrically connected to the controlling circuit and the output terminals, and configured to drive the power supplying device to output the maximum current or part of the maximum current according to the controlling signal.
US10326351B2
A switching regulator includes: a controller power ON reset (POR) circuit, a controller post-POR signal generation circuit, and a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal generation circuit. The controller post-POR signal generation circuit switches the controller post-POR signal to a ready level after a controller pre-POR signal is switched to a controller reset-accomplished level and a driver signal starts switching levels to operate a power switch. The PWM signal generation circuit sets a duty ratio of a PWM signal to a predetermined minimum duty ratio after the controller pre-POR signal is switched to the controller reset-accomplished level and before the controller post-POR signal is switched to a ready level.
US10326344B2
The disclosure relates to a polyphase transverse flux machine including a stator and a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator about an axis in a circumferential direction. The transverse flux machine includes an electrical line running along a plurality of yokes in the circumferential direction, and a pair of permanent magnet arrays running in parallel in the circumferential direction. A plurality of return path bodies is provided in the stator, wherein each yoke has an associated return path body at a distance from the associated yoke in the radial direction. The magnetization direction of the permanent magnets in the permanent magnet arrays changes in such a way that a closed magnetic flux repeatedly occurs at each yoke during rotation of the rotor. The closed magnetic flux runs from one permanent magnet array across a respective yoke to the other permanent magnet array, and from there, across the associated return path body, back to the first-mentioned permanent magnet array.
US10326342B2
A manufacturing method for manufacturing a rotor such that a permanent magnet is inserted into a slot hole of a rotor core with a spacer includes: a step of placing, on the rotor core, a guide whose upper end has a curved guide surface such that the guide space continues with the slot hole in the up-down direction; a step of placing the spacer on the guide so that the spacer lies across the guide space; a step of inserting the permanent magnet into the guide space with the spacer being wound around the permanent magnet; and a step of inserting, into the slot hole, the permanent magnet around which the spacer is wound.
US10326329B2
A pump having a canned motor which has a stator with an internal rotor disposed therein, the stator and the internal rotor being mutually separated fluid-tightly by a can disposed between stator and internal rotor, the stator having stator teeth which extend radially in the direction of the internal rotor and define with appurtenant stator-tooth end faces a receiving space for the internal rotor and the can, the can lying against the stator-tooth end faces, the can having on its surface facing the stator, in stator-tooth gaps which are respectively defined by two mutually adjacent stator teeth, ribs fitted in in a form-locking manner which taper in the radial direction, starting out from a rib root disposed on the can, with regard to a rib thickness defined in the circumferential direction of the can.
US10326328B2
An electric pump is provided according to the application, which includes a housing, a shaft, an impeller, a rotor assembly, a stator assembly and an inner chamber. The shaft, the impeller and a rotor are arranged in the inner chamber. The housing includes a first housing, a partition and a second housing, and the partition divides the inner chamber into a wet chamber and at least one dry chamber. The partition includes a first side wall, a first bottom, a second side wall and a second bottom. The second side wall isolates the rotor assembly and the stator assembly. An outer peripheral surface of the second side wall is provided with reinforcing ribs, and the reinforcing ribs improve the strength of the second side wall.
US10326322B2
Advantageous machines, such as flux-switching machines (FSMs) are provided. An FSM can be yokeless and can have two rotors, which can be displaced from one another (e.g., by half a pole pitch). An FSM can be a flux-switching permanent magnet machine (FSPMM), and all magnets can be magnetized in the same circumferential direction. FSMs of the subject invention are cost-effective, have high torque density, and can operate well even under fault conditions.
US10326321B2
A stator which may enhance processability and manufacturing efficiency and a motor using the same are provided according to an embodiment of the present invention. Particularly, a stator which includes a plurality of unit stator cores which are provided with a tooth protruding from a head portion, an insulator coupled to the unit stator core, and a guide portion having a terminal mounting groove provided at an upper end of the insulator, is provided.
US10326314B2
A wireless power transmitter includes an inverter in which a voltage varies in response to a resonant network and circuitry configured to (A) measure a characteristic indicative of a load seen by the wireless power transmitter, (B) determine a duty cycle of the inverter based upon the characteristic, and (C) switch the inverter with the determined duty cycle.
US10326309B2
Provided is a transmitter in a wireless power transmission system, the transmitter including a Transmission (Tx) power converter for converting a Direct Current (DC) voltage into a first Alternating Current (AC) voltage, and converting the converted first AC voltage into a second AC voltage by amplifying the converted first AC voltage, a Tx matching circuit for matching an impedance thereof with that of a receiver for receiving the second AC voltage to transmit the second AC voltage, a Tx resonator for resonating the second AC voltage into resonant waves to transmit the second AC voltage to the receiver, and a Tx controller for determining an amplification rate of the first AC voltage and controlling the Tx power converter to convert the first AC voltage into the second AC voltage according to the determined amplification rate.
US10326307B2
An electronic apparatus and its operating method are provided. The electronic apparatus and its operating method can be configured to drive the capacitor, to detect the received power, and stop driving the capacitor.
US10326305B1
A personal power plant stores energy at the load site from renewable sources and through connection with a utility, enabling the personal power plant to support real time or near real time system load balancing and to eliminate net-metering. The personal power plant determines a charging profile based on predicted energy usage for a next 24-hour period. The personal power plant can provide an indication of the excess amount of electrical energy stored, but not needed for the next 24-hour period. When times of high demand are anticipated, the utility can reallocate energy to other users which it would otherwise provide to participating personal power plants aggregating the excess energy from a plurality of personal power plants. At such times, inverse power generation occurs as the personal power plants do not draw power from the grid which, in aggregation, reduces grid load.
US10326304B2
An operation state determination system includes a receiver, a first memory and a determiner. The determiner is configured to compare, at a prescribed determination time point, a power value stored in the first memory with a reference value to determine whether or not an electric load connected to a branch circuit is in operation, and output a signal in accordance with a determination result. The determiner is further configured to determine that the electric load is in operation at the prescribed determination time point, when a time period during which the power value is equal to or more than the reference value occurs within a comparison time in past before the prescribed determination time point.
US10326301B2
A two-level LED security light with a motion sensor. At night, the LED security light is turned on for a low level illumination. When the motion sensor detects any intrusion, the LED security light is switched from the low level illumination to a high level illumination for a short duration time and then returns to the low level illumination for saving energy. The LED security light includes a power supply unit, a light sensing control unit, a motion sensing unit, a loading and power control unit, and a lighting-emitting unit and at least one external control unit electrically coupled to a controller of the loading and power control unit to receive and convert at least an external control signal into a message signal interpretable by the controller for adjusting at least an operating parameter or changing at least an illumination mode of the two-level LED security light.
US10326290B2
A power converting device converts any of DC voltages outputted from at least two DC power supplies and outputs a converted voltage. A control unit of the power converting device determines whether a first contact and a second contact of a switch are melted and joined together based on a detection signal, before a second DC power supply outputs a second DC voltage.
US10326287B2
Battery systems that can monitor and control multiple battery cells in electronic devices. One embodiment provides a battery system having multiple battery cells controlled by a single battery controller. Each battery cell is connected to a first end of a control path, a second end of the control path is connected to either a positive terminal or a negative terminal of the battery system. Each control path includes a charge control transistor that allows or prevents charging of a battery cell, a discharge control transistor that allows or prevents discharging of a battery cell, and a current sense resistor to sense currents into or out of a battery cell. The charge control transistor and the discharge control transistor can be controlled by control outputs provided by the battery controller. The battery controller also includes a balance switch to provide a low-impedance path between battery cells to reduce offset voltages between them.
US10326286B2
For a battery system including a battery pack and a battery management system, the battery system having output battery terminals, a method and apparatus for preventing inadvertent connection and disconnection the output battery terminals from the battery pack is disclosed.
US10326283B2
Renewable electrical energy is provided with aspects and circuitry that can harvest maximum power from an alternative electrical energy source (1) such as a string of solar panels (11) for a power grid (10). Aspects include: i) controlling electrical power creation from photovoltaic DC-AC inverter (5), ii) operating photovoltaic DC-AC inverter (5) at maximal efficiency even when MPP would not be, iii) protecting DC-AC inverter (5) so input can vary over a range of insolation and temperature, and iv) providing dynamically reactive capability to react and assure operation, to permit differing components, to achieve code compliant dynamically reactive photovoltaic power control circuitry (41). With previously explained converters, inverter control circuitry (38) or photovoltaic power converter functionality control circuitry (8) configured as inverter sweet spot converter control circuitry (46) can achieve extraordinary efficiencies with substantially power isomorphic photovoltaic capability at 99.2% efficiency or even only wire transmission losses.
US10326275B2
Provided is a method for controlling a zero sequence voltage of a voltage source converter. When an alternating current system ground fault occurs, a zero sequence voltage at an alternating current (AC) side or a zero sequence voltage at a direct current (DC) side of a converter is detected. If the detected zero sequence voltage is greater than a set value V0ref, a DC side voltage of the converter can be increased to a set value Udc0, thereby generating an appropriate reference wave at the AC side of the converter to match an AC voltage, and accordingly controlling overmodulation of a reference wave at a faulty station to suppress fluctuation of a DC voltage.
US10326274B2
An arrangement for receiving electrical energy from a power grid and for discharging electrical energy to the power grid comprises: a converter to convert from AC to DC and vice versa and a control device. The converter includes: a power unit connected on one side to a DC I/O and on another side to an AC I/O; an energy storage device; an energy-converter; and a changeover mechanism to which the energy storage device or the energy-converter is connected via the DC I/O. The control device controls the changeover mechanism such that a neutral state is a state of charge of the energy storage device between 50% and 100%; and at or above the neutral state, the changeover mechanism connects the DC I/O of the converter to the energy-converter at a network frequency higher than a nominal network frequency plus a predetermined, non-zero amount.
US10326270B2
[Object] To provide a DC power transmission device capable of supplying properly a previously agreed amount of power between the power transmission side and the power reception side when customers supply power to each other.[Solution] Provided is the DC power transmission device including: a power supply request acquisition unit configured to acquire a power supply request from a DC power reception device, the DC power reception device being configured to receive DC power from a DC bus line; and a transmission power decision unit configured to decide a parameter of DC power to be outputted to the DC power reception device via the DC bus line based on the power supply request and a characteristic of a power storage device, the power storage device being configured to supply DC power to the DC bus line. The parameter includes power transmission time of DC power that reflects a power transmission loss occurred until DC power reaches the DC power reception device.
US10326266B2
In an interrupting device, a CPU temporally calculates a temperature difference between an ambient temperature of an electrical wire and an electrical wire temperature, based on current information indicating a value of current flowing through the electrical wire, and adds the ambient temperature of the electrical wire to the calculated temperature difference. In this way, the CPU temporally computes the electrical wire temperature. In the case where the electrical wire temperature computed by the CPU is greater than or equal to a threshold temperature, a FET turns off and current flowing through the electrical wire is interrupted. The CPU suspends computation of the electrical wire temperature, in the case where the calculated temperature difference is less than a reference temperature difference and the current value indicated by the current information is less than a reference current value.
US10326264B1
Systems and methods for auto-monitoring a trip solenoid and a switching semiconductor in a circuit breaker comprises determining whether the trip solenoid or the switching semiconductor is open-circuited or otherwise non-operational. The trip solenoid has multiple windings therein and the switching semiconductor has multiple semiconductor switches therein. The circuit breaker automatically performs a designated action if one of the multiple windings or one of the semiconductor switches is determined to be open-circuited or otherwise non-operational. In some embodiments, the circuit breaker is a miniature circuit breaker.
US10326263B2
Disclosed is an electrical unit which is adapted to quick connect electric cables directly to a gang box. The electrical unit allows quick connect of an electrical outlet to the gang box without electrical wires. Further, the electrical outlet having energizable screws. The electrical unit includes plurality of receiving clamps and plurality of receiving prong. The plurality of receiving clamps energize the gang box directly from the cable wires. The neutral wire, ground wire and the supply wire energize the gang box. The plurality of receiving prongs configured on the inside walls of the gang box to directly connect with the receiving clamps with no electrical wiring. The first receiving prong, the second receiving prong and the third receiving prong is configured to press against at least one electrical outlet energizable screw to create a neutral connection, ground connection and a supply connection respectively between the neutral receiving clamp, ground receiving clamp and the supply receiving clamp respectively and the electrical outlet. Further, the electrical unit is adapted to quick connect electric cables directly to a breaker box, a gang box and an electrical outlet. The electrical outlet receives power directly from the electrical cable through the receiving clamps and the receiving prongs with substantially less manual wiring requirements the gang box. The electrical cable receives power directly from the power supply cable through the breaker via the second receiving clamps and the second receiving prongs without manual wiring requirements inside the breaker box.
US10326256B2
A surface emitting laser includes a substrate, a stacked structure provided on the substrate and including a resonator and a first distortion applier connected to the resonator and applying distortion to the active layer, and a second distortion applier provided on the substrate and applying distortion to the active layer. As seen from a stacking direction, the first distortion applier has a first portion and a second portion provided with the resonator in between, as seen from the stacking direction, a longitudinal direction of the second distortion applier and a longitudinal direction of the first distortion applier are the same direction, and a magnitude relationship of a linear expansion coefficient of the second distortion applier to a linear expansion coefficient of the substrate is the same as a magnitude relationship of a linear expansion coefficient of the first distortion applier to the linear expansion coefficient of the substrate.
US10326255B2
A laser device includes a light-emitting unit that generates a laser beam, an amplification unit that amplifies the laser beam generated by the light-emitting unit, a power supply unit that supplies power for generating the laser beam to the light-emitting unit, a plate-like cooling unit including a first cooling surface and a second cooling surface positioned opposite to the first cooling surface, and a housing in which the light-emitting unit, the amplification unit, the power supply unit, and the cooling unit are housed. The power supply unit and the light-emitting unit are arranged adjacent to the first cooling surface of the cooling unit. The amplification unit is arranged adjacent to the second cooling surface of the cooling unit.
US10326245B1
A data communication cable that is capable of informing a user via light signals regarding any operational status of the cable and/or devices to which the cable is connected. The data communication cable includes a first connector configured to connect to a first device; a second connector configured to connect to a second device; one or more communication mediums configured to route a data signal and/or a power signal between the first and second devices; and one or more illumination fibers configured to emit light. The cable may further include a light driver circuit configured to generate a drive signal for the one or more illumination fibers based on detecting one or more events. Such events may include the cable receiving power, data signal activity or loss of signal activity in the one or more communications mediums, authentication or other operations performed between the first and second devices.
US10326244B2
Electrical connector includes a connector housing and a plurality of electrical contacts coupled to the connector housing. Each of the electrical contacts includes a base section coupled to the connector housing and an elongated mating pin coupled to the base section. The mating pin extends away from the base section along a longitudinal axis to a contact end of the mating pin. The mating pin has an exterior surface that forms a runway configured to intimately engage another contact during a mating operation. The runway includes a wipe zone, a resonance-control zone, and a mating zone. The resonance-control zone is located between the mating zone and the wipe zone. The resonance-control zone has a greater elevation than an elevation of the wipe zone and an elevation of the mating zone such that the resonance-control zone deflects the other contact further away during the mating operation.
US10326242B2
A communications system includes a modified RJ45 plug and a modified RJ45 jack. The communications system allows for backwards connectivity and interoperability with other RJ45 jacks and plugs by having two potential contact points on each the plug and the jack that may serve as an electrical interface between different types of connectors.
US10326241B2
A bracket to lock cell phone chargers or other electronic chargers to an electrical outlet into which they are plugged. This is to prevent unauthorized borrowing, theft or other removal of said chargers or charging wires.
US10326239B2
A hydraulic tool for uncoupling complementary connectors in their connected configuration, the efficiency of which is guaranteed because the positioning of its head about one of the connectors guarantees the hooking of the latter and the release of at least one piston for thrust against a panel to which the other connector is fastened.
US10326225B2
An electrical connector is configured to electrically connect to a chip module, where a bottom surface of the chip module is provided with at least one conductive sheet. The electrical connector includes: an insulating body, configured to sustain the chip module, and provided with at least one accommodating hole penetrating through the insulating body vertically; and at least one terminal, correspondingly accommodated in the at least one accommodating hole, and having at least two elastic arms. Two inner sides of two adjacent elastic arms of the at least two elastic arms are protrudingly provided with two contact portions upward, so that each of the contact portions is located higher than an upper surface of each of the two adjacent elastic arms. An outer side of each elastic arm is spaced from each of the contact portions. The two contact portions upward abut a same conductive sheet of the chip module.
US10326224B2
A portable printer includes a casing accommodating a printer module and a control board accommodated in the casing and electrically connected to the printer module. A female-side connector is mounted on the control board and exposed to an outside of the casing through a connector opening formed in the casing. The female-side connector is configured to detachably mount a male-side connector. A connector cover made of an elastically deformable material is interposed between an inner peripheral surface of the connector opening and an outer peripheral surface of the female-side connector along an entire circumference of the female-side connector.
US10326186B2
An apparatus for cooling a battery includes a cooling channel disposed to exchange heat with a battery module by cooling water and provided with an inlet into and an outlet through which the cooling water is introduced and discharged; branch channels formed in the cooling channel to be branched in parallel with a longitudinal direction of the cooling channel to make the cooling water introduced through the inlet flow toward the outlet while the cooling water passes through the branch channels; and a plurality of flow guides disposed between the inlet and the branch channels at a predetermined interval along a direction in which the branch channels are branched and guiding the flow of cooling water introduced through the inlet to allow the cooling water to be uniformly introduced into the respective branch channels.
US10326180B2
A submodule for high voltage batteries, in which a voltage sensing module and an electrode tap of a high voltage battery cell are elastically coupled to each other, thereby protecting the high voltage battery cell from an external force and preventing a contact defect between the electrode tap and the voltage sensing module. A pair of fastening holes, allowing a pair of first bending portions to communicate with each other are also provided. The voltage sensing module includes a first sensing module bolt-fastened to the pair of fastening holes and electrically connected to the first electrode tap and a second sensing module disposed in a direction opposite to the first sensing module, fastened to the pair of second bending portions through hook coupling, and electrically connected to the second electrode tap.
US10326179B2
A method for monitoring a state of at least one predetermined battery cell of a battery having a number of series-connected or series-connectable battery cells. In one example, the method includes placing the battery, during a first phase, into a first state in which the battery cells in each case have a predefined charging state, discharging the battery, which is in the first state, during a second phase following the first phase, charging the battery during a third phase, following the second phase, up to a point in time at which at least one battery cell of the battery has the predefined charging state, detecting the voltage provided by the at least one predetermined battery cell at least temporarily, and determining information for detecting the state of the at least one predetermined battery cell by evaluating the detected voltage.
US10326177B2
An apparatus for controlling charging of an electric vehicle includes a switch unit including a first relay and second relays, wherein the first relay is arranged on an electric line through which a first battery is connected in series to a second battery. The first and second batteries supply driving power of the electric vehicle. The plurality of second relays is arranged on charging lines through which charging power is supplied to the first battery and the second battery, respectively. Further, a control unit configured to control the first relay and the plurality of second relays such that the first relay is turned off and the plurality of second relays is turned on to supply the charging power of a charger connected to a charging terminal to the first battery and the second battery, respectively, when the first battery and the second battery are charged.
US10326170B2
An electrochemical energy storage device comprising an electrode assembly, an electrolyte, a packing shell and an adhesive material located between the electrode assembly and the packing shell. The adhesive material comprises an adhesive layer and a protective layer. A surface of the adhesive layer, arranged on an outer surface of the electrode assembly and far away from the cell, or a surface of the adhesive layer, arranged on an inner surface of the packing shell and close to the electrode assembly, are adhesive surfaces. The protective layer is arranged on the adhesive surface of the adhesive layer. The protective layer is non-cohesive at a normal temperature and pressure, after the protective layer is fully or partially dissolved in the electrolyte, the adhesive surface of the adhesive layer is exposed to bond the electrode assembly with the packing shell, and the protective layer contains a substance to bear an electric charge.
US10326169B2
A first electrode body element and a second electrode body element including a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate are fabricated, a first positive electrode tab group of the first electrode body element and a second positive electrode tab group of the second electrode body element are connected to a lead portion of a positive electrode collector attached to a sealing plate, a first negative electrode tab group of the first electrode body element and a second negative electrode tab group of the second electrode body element are connected to a lead portion of a negative electrode collector attached to the sealing plate, and the first electrode body element and the second electrode body element are arranged together as one such that an electrode body is formed.
US10326149B2
The present invention includes a fuel cell system having a plurality of adjacent electrochemical cells formed of an anode layer, a cathode layer spaced apart from the anode layer, and an electrolyte layer disposed between the anode layer and the cathode layer. The fuel cell system also includes at least one interconnect, the interconnect being structured to conduct free electrons between adjacent electrochemical cells. Each interconnect includes a primary conductor embedded within the electrolyte layer and structured to conduct the free electrons.
US10326147B2
The present invention is to provide a catalyst for fuel cells, which is able to inhibit gas diffusion resistance and shows high IV characteristics far more than conventional fuel cell catalysts, and a method for producing the catalyst. Disclosed is a catalyst for fuel cells, comprising fine catalyst particles, each of which comprises a palladium-containing particle and an outermost layer containing platinum and covering the palladium-containing particle, and a carrier on which the fine catalyst particles are supported, wherein the catalyst for fuel cells satisfies 0.9×S1≤S2 in which S1 is a BET specific surface area of a material for the carrier, and S2 is a BET specific surface area of the carrier in the catalyst for fuel cells.
US10326145B2
Methods and compositions for use in the preparation of MOF-based non-PGM electrocatalysts including combining transition metal compounds with organic ligands and secondary building units to create a solid mixture, heating the solid mixture to form a MOF through a solid-state reaction, optionally heating the MOF to convert it to an electrocatalyst via pyrolysis, and optionally post-treating. The electrode catalysts may be used in various electrochemical systems, including a proton exchange membrane fuel cell.
US10326142B2
A positive electrode includes a lithium-based active material, a binder, a conductive filler, and discrete aluminum oxide nanomaterials. The aluminum oxide nanomaterials are mixed, as an additive, throughout the positive electrode with the lithium-based active material, the binder, and the conductive filler. The positive electrode with the discrete aluminum oxide nanomaterials may be incorporated into a lithium ion battery. The aluminum oxide nanomaterials may be formed by the following method. A solution is formed by mixing an aluminum oxide precursor and an acid. A carbon material is added to the solution, thereby forming an aqueous mixture having the carbon material therein. Hydrothermal synthesis is performed using the aqueous mixture, and precursor nanostructures are grown on the carbon material. The precursor nanostructures on the carbon material are annealed so that the carbon material is removed and aluminum oxide nanomaterials are formed.
US10326141B2
According to one embodiment, a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode mixed-material layer on the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode mixed-material layer includes a titanium-containing metal oxide and a binder including an acrylic resin. The negative electrode satisfies α/β>1.36×10−2, where “α” is a peel strength (N/m) between the current collector and the negative electrode mixed-material layer, and “β” is a cutting strength (N/m) according to a surface and interfacial cutting method in the negative electrode mixed-material layer.
US10326135B2
Battery systems using doped conversion materials as the active material in battery cathodes are provided herein. Doped conversion material may include a defect-rich structure or an amorphous or glassy structure, including at least one or more of a metal material, one or more oxidizing species, a reducing cation species, and a dopant. Methods for fabricating batteries and battery systems with doped conversion material are also provided herein.
US10326134B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel sulfur-based positive electrode active material for a lithium-ion secondary battery which is excellent in cyclability and can largely improve a charging and discharging capacity, a positive electrode comprising the positive electrode active material and a lithium-ion secondary battery made using the positive electrode. The sulfur-based positive electrode active material is obtainable by subjecting a starting material comprising a polymer, sulfur and an organometallic compound dispersed in a form of fine particles to heat-treatment under a non-oxidizing atmosphere, wherein the particles of metallic sulfide resulting from sulfurization of the organometallic compound are dispersed in the heat-treated material, and particle size of the metallic sulfide particles is not less than 10 nm and less than 100 nm.
US10326133B2
The invention relates to a chemical compound of the formula NibM1cM2d(O)x(OH)y, wherein M1 denotes at least one element from the group consisting of Fe, Co, Mg, Zn, Cu and/or mixtures thereof, M2 denotes at least one element from the group consisting of Mn, Al, B, Ca, Cr and/or mixtures thereof, wherein b≤0.8, c≤0.5, d≤0.5, and x is a number between 0.1 and 0.8, y is a number between 1.2 and 1.9, and x+y=2. A process for the preparation thereof, and the use thereof as a precursor for the preparation of cathode material for secondary lithium batteries are described.
US10326128B2
Disclose are a cathode of an all-solid lithium battery, and a secondary battery system using the same. The cathode includes a lithium composite, and a method of manufacturing the lithium composite comprises: dispersing a solid electrolyte to be uniformly distributed in the pores of a mesoporous conductor to provide a solid electrolyte composite, and coating the solid electrolyte composite on the surface of a lithium compound including nonmetallic solids such as S, Se, and Te.
US10326124B2
The invention relates to a device for removing water from a battery housing (100) or a battery separator, comprising a body (310) having a plurality of capillaries (3201-3207) and electrodes (330, 340) for producing an electric field, and a control device (350) for controlling the electric field for removing water through means of the capillaries (3201-3207), a battery housing, a battery separator, a battery system, a vehicle, a method, a computer program and a computer program product.
US10326119B2
The invention relates to a battery system, in particular for a hybrid drive, comprising a housing and a plurality of battery cells arranged within the housing, said cells being combined to give a cell block, wherein a container having a variable inner volume is arranged between the cell block and at least one housing wall, by means of which container the cell block can be braced relative to the housing, wherein the container is filled with a curable or cured medium.
US10326117B1
This disclosure is directed to a method of making a battery having a folded architecture that has one or more blocks of cells folded onto one another.
US10326109B2
Embodiments relate to a flexible organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device and a method for manufacturing the flexible OLED display device. The display device includes a multi-layered encapsulation film coving pixel regions of the display device, and a metal layer on or within at least a portion of the encapsulation film, the portion in a bending region of the flexible substrate. The multi-layered encapsulation film includes at least a first inorganic layer, an organic layer, and a second inorganic layer. The metal layer is formed in the bending region such that the stress generated in the encapsulation film by folding, bending, or rolling operations in the bending region is reduced by the metal layer. The metal layer prevents generation of cracks in the encapsulation film and thus, prevents moisture penetration into the display area of the display device.
US10326103B2
A display device includes a first substrate having a display area and a non-display area around the display area, a seal pattern in the non-display area and offset from the display area, and one or more buffer patterns between the seal pattern and the display area and having a viscosity of 5000 cps to 50000 cps.
US10326096B2
A light emitting element, display device, and method of manufacture of the same are disclosed. In one example, a light emitting element includes a lower layer/interlayer insulation layer; a light reflection layer formed on the lower layer/interlayer insulation layer; an upper layer/interlayer insulation layer; a first electrode formed on the upper layer/interlayer insulation layer; an insulation film formed at least on a region of the upper layer/interlayer insulation layer where the first electrode is not formed; an organic layer formed over the insulation film from above the first electrode, the organic layer having a light emitting layer including an organic light emitting material; and a second electrode formed on the organic layer. A groove is formed in a portion of the upper layer/interlayer insulation layer located in an edge region of the light emitting element, and an upper portion of the groove is closed with the insulation film.
US10326094B2
Disclosed is an electroluminescent display device that may include a substrate, a first bank layer for defining a light-emission area on the substrate, a first electrode on the light-emission area of the substrate, and a light emitting layer on the first electrode, wherein an end of the first electrode faces an end of the first bank layer.
US10326086B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups an variables are the same as described in the specification.
US10326077B2
Disclosed herein is a method for preparing large soluble graphenes. The method comprises attaching one or more hindering groups to the graphene, which can prevent face-to-face graphene stacking by reducing the effects of inter-graphene attraction. The large graphenes can absorb a wide spectrum of light from UV to near infrared, and are useful in photovoltaic devices and sensitizers in nanocrystalline solar cells.
US10326073B1
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for operating magnetic memory devices. In one aspect, a magnetic memory device includes: (1) a core; (2) a plurality of layers that surround the core in succession; (3) a first input terminal coupled to the core and configured to receive a first current, where: (a) the first current flows radially from the core through the plurality of layers; and (b) the radial flow of the first current imparts a torque on, at least, a magnetization of an inner layer of the plurality of layers; and (4) a second input terminal coupled to the core and configured to receive a second current, where: (i) the second current imparts a Spin Hall Effect (SHE) around a perimeter of the core; and (ii) the SHE contributes to the torque imparted on the magnetization of the inner layer by the first current.
US10326069B2
In order to further improve the spin-current/electric-current conversion efficiency in a spin-current thermoelectric conversion element, a thermoelectric conversion element includes a magnetic material layer having in-plane magnetization; and an electromotive material layer magnetically coupled with the magnetic material layer. The electromotive material layer includes a first conductor with a spin orbit coupling arising, and a second conductor having lower electric conductivity than electric conductivity of the first conductor.
US10326050B2
Disclosed is a light-emitting device. The light-emitting device comprises: a light-emitting structure comprising a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer; a first contact electrode which ohmically contacts the first conductive semiconductor layer; a second contact electrode which is disposed on the second conductive semiconductor layer; and an insulation layer which is disposed on the light-emitting structure and insulates the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode, wherein the light-emitting structure has a non-polar or semi-polar growth surface; the upper surface of the second conductive semiconductor layer comprises a non-polar or semi-polar surface; and the second contact electrode comprises a conductive oxide layer which ohmically contacts the second conductive semiconductor layer, and a reflective electrode layer disposed on the conductive oxide layer.
US10326048B2
A semiconductor device comprises a layer sequence formed by a plurality of polar single crystalline semiconductor material layers that each has a crystal axis pointing in a direction of crystalline polarity and a stacking direction of the layer sequence. A core layer sequence is formed by an active region made of an active layer stack or a plurality of repetitions of the active layer stack. The active layer stack has an active layer having a first material composition associated with a first band gap energy, and carrier-confinement layers embedding the active layer on at least two opposite sides thereof, having a second material composition associated with a second band gap energy larger than the first band gap energy. A pair of polarization guard layers is arranged adjacent to the active region and embedding the active region on opposite sides thereof.
US10326037B1
An energy storage capsule for storing energy in the form of photons. The body of the capsule may surround a sealed vacuum environment in which several layers of reactive material are contained, including an inner reflective coating, a first photovoltaic cell, an optical amplification medium, a second photovoltaic cell, and an outer reflective coating, provided in that order. The body of the capsule may also be reflective, for example polished aluminum. Light may be emitted from an LED wafer which may be integrated with the surface of the optical amplification medium, directed at the several layers of reactive material. Some photons may be reflected by the reflective material, storing them within the capsule, while others may be absorbed by the photovoltaic cells, powering the LEDs to transmit more photons. The thermal environment of the energy storage capsule may be maintained such that the LEDs can operate at over 100% efficiency.
US10326033B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for converting electromagnetic radiation, such as solar energy, into electric energy with increased efficiency when compared to conventional solar cells. One embodiment of the present invention provides a photovoltaic (PV) device. The PV device comprises an absorber layer made of a compound semiconductor; and an emitter layer located closer than the absorber layer to a first side of the device. The PV device includes a p-n junction formed between the emitter layer and the absorber layer, the p-n junction causing a voltage to be generated in the device in response to the device being exposed to light at a second side of the device. Such innovations may allow for greater efficiency and flexibility in PV devices when compared to conventional solar cells.
US10326028B1
A resistor may include a semiconductor layer having a source region, a drain region, and a channel region. The channel region may be between the source region and the drain region. The channel region may have a same polarity as the source region and the drain region. The resistor may further include a first inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layer on the channel region. The resistor may further include a front-side gate shield on the first IMD layer. The front-side gate shield may overlap the channel region.
US10326020B2
Various methods and structures for fabricating a strained semiconductor fin of a FinFET device. A strained semiconductor fin structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor fin disposed on the substrate, the semiconductor fin having two fin ends, and a stressor material cladding wrapped around a portion of each of the two fin ends forming a strained semiconductor fin that includes at least one strained channel fin having stressor cladding wrapped around at least one end of the strained channel fin thereby straining the at least one strained channel fin. The stressor cladding can be a compressive nitride stressor to compressively strain a compressively strained silicon germanium fin. The stressor cladding can be a tensile nitride stressor to tensily strain a tensily strained silicon fin.
US10325997B2
A HEMT device comprising a III-Nitride material substrate, the surface of which follows a plane that is not parallel to the C-plane of the III-Nitride material; an epitaxial layer of III-Nitride material grown on said substrate; a recess etched in said epitaxial layer, having at least one plane wall parallel to a polar plane of the III-Nitride material; a carrier supply layer formed on a portion of the plane wall of the recess, such that a 2DEG region is formed along the portion of the plane wall of the recess; a doped source region formed at the surface of said epitaxial layer such that the doped source region is separated from said 2DEG region by a channel region of the epitaxial layer; a gate insulating layer formed on the channel region of the epitaxial layer; and a gate contact layer formed on the gate insulating layer.
US10325990B2
A HEMT device is provided. The HEMT device includes a substrate, a buffer layer, a first epitaxial layer, a second epitaxial layer, an insulating layer, a gate, a source, a drain, a trench, and a metal layer. The buffer layer is formed on the substrate. The first epitaxial layer is formed on the buffer layer. The second epitaxial layer is formed on the first epitaxial layer. The insulating layer is formed on the second epitaxial layer. The gate is disposed in the insulating layer. The source and the drain are disposed in the insulating layer. The trench passes through the insulating layer and the second epitaxial layer, and extends into the first epitaxial layer. The metal layer is formed on the insulating layer to connect to the source, and is filled into the trench to electrically connect to the first epitaxial layer and the source.
US10325979B1
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may include a substrate, a first group of metal layers including a plurality of first fingers over the substrate, wherein the first fingers are formed without a via. The integrated circuit may further include a second group of metal layers including a plurality of second fingers over the first group of metal layers, wherein the second fingers are formed with vias, and wherein the first and the second group of metal layers are formed by a processing technology node of 7 nm or below.
US10325978B2
The present application provides planar and stacked resistor structures that are embedded within an interconnect dielectric material in which the resistivity of an electrical conducting resistive material or electrical conducting resistive materials of the resistor structure can be tuned to a desired resistivity during the manufacturing of the resistor structure. Notably, a doped metallic insulator layer is formed atop a substrate. A controlled surface treatment process is then performed to an upper portion of the doped metallic insulator layer to convert the upper portion of the doped metallic insulator layer into an electrical conducting resistive material layer. The remaining doped metallic insulator layer and the electrical conducting resistive material layer are then patterned to provide the resistor structure.
US10325970B2
A display device including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode disposed adjacent to each other on a substrate; a pixel defining layer including a first opening corresponding to the first pixel electrode, a second opening corresponding to the second pixel electrode, and a first convex portion arranged adjacent to the first opening; a first intermediate layer arranged on the first pixel electrode to correspond to the first opening and including a first emission layer; and a first conductive inorganic layer arranged on the first intermediate layer to correspond to the first opening. At least one end of the first conductive inorganic layer extends beyond an end of the first intermediate layer and is disposed on the pixel defining layer between the first opening and the second opening.
US10325957B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises first wiring lines, second wiring lines, and first variable resistance elements. The first wiring lines are arranged in a first direction and have as their longitudinal direction a second direction intersecting the first direction. The second wiring lines are arranged in the second direction and have the first direction as their longitudinal direction. The first variable resistance elements are respectively provided at intersections of the first wiring lines and the second wiring lines. In addition, this semiconductor memory device comprises a first contact extending in a third direction that intersects the first direction and second direction and having one end thereof connected to the second wiring line. The other end and a surface intersecting the first direction of this first contact are covered by a first conductive layer.
US10325956B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method in which a functional layer is formed over an upper semiconductor surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a capping layer is formed over the functional layer. A first etchant is used to form a recess through the capping layer and through the functional layer. The recess has a first depth and exposes a portion of the semiconductor substrate there through. A protective layer is formed along a lower surface and inner sidewalls of the recess. A second etchant is used to remove the protective layer from the lower surface of the recess and to extend the recess below the upper semiconductor surface to a second depth to form a deep trench. To prevent etching of the functional layer, the protective layer remains in place along the inner sidewalls of the recess while the second etchant is used.
US10325949B2
An image sensor device is provided. The image sensor device includes a substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and a light-sensing region. The image sensor device includes a first isolation structure in the substrate and adjacent to the first surface. The first isolation structure surrounds the light-sensing region. The image sensor device includes a second isolation structure passing through the first isolation structure and the substrate under the first isolation structure. The second isolation structure surrounds the light-sensing region and a portion of the first isolation structure.
US10325932B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device which can suppress characteristic deterioration in each transistor without destabilizing operation. In a non-selection period, a transistor is turned on at regular intervals, so that a power supply potential is supplied to an output terminal of a shift register circuit. A power supply potential is supplied to the output terminal of the shift register circuit through the transistor. Since the transistor is not always on in a non-selection period, a shift of the threshold voltage of the transistor is suppressed. In addition, a power supply potential is supplied to the output terminal of the shift register circuit through the transistor at regular intervals. Therefore, the shift register circuit can suppress noise which is generated in the output terminal.
US10325929B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for fabricating a display substrate, belonging to the technical field of displaying. The method includes: providing a base substrate having an array of Thin Film Transistors; forming a photoresist pattern on the base substrate, the photoresist pattern including a hollow region for forming a spacer pattern; forming a spacer material in the hollow region; and peeling the photoresist pattern so that the spacer material in the hollow region forms the spacer pattern.
US10325927B2
Single gate and dual gate FinFET devices suitable for use in an SRAM memory array have respective fins, source regions, and drain regions that are formed from portions of a single, contiguous layer on the semiconductor substrate, so that STI is unnecessary. Pairs of FinFETs can be configured as dependent-gate devices wherein adjacent channels are controlled by a common gate, or as independent-gate devices wherein one channel is controlled by two gates. Metal interconnects coupling a plurality of the FinFET devices are made of a same material as the gate electrodes. Such structural and material commonalities help to reduce costs of manufacturing high-density memory arrays.
US10325926B2
Methods for fabricating semiconductor-metal-on-insulator (SMOI) structures include forming an acceptor wafer including an insulator material on a first semiconductor substrate, forming a donor wafer including a conductive material and an amorphous silicon material on a second semiconductor substrate, and bonding the amorphous silicon material of the donor wafer to the insulator material of the acceptor wafer. SMOI structures formed from such methods are also disclosed, as are semiconductor devices including such SMOI structures.
US10325918B2
A semiconductor device includes a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory includes a first dielectric layer disposed on a substrate, a floating gate disposed on the dielectric layer, a control gate and a second dielectric layer disposed between the floating gate and the control gate. The second dielectric layer includes one of a silicon oxide layer, a silicon nitride layer and a multi-layer thereof. The first dielectric layer includes a first-first dielectric layer formed on the substrate and a second-first dielectric layer formed on the first-first dielectric layer. The second-first dielectric layer includes a dielectric material having a dielectric constant higher than silicon nitride.
US10325912B2
Methods of cutting gate structures and fins, and structures formed thereby, are described. In an embodiment, a substrate includes first and second fins and an isolation region. The first and second fins extend longitudinally parallel, with the isolation region disposed therebetween. A gate structure includes a conformal gate dielectric over the first fin and a gate electrode over the conformal gate dielectric. A first insulating fill structure abuts the gate structure and extends vertically from a level of an upper surface of the gate structure to at least a surface of the isolation region. No portion of the conformal gate dielectric extends vertically between the first insulating fill structure and the gate electrode. A second insulating fill structure abuts the first insulating fill structure and an end sidewall of the second fin. The first insulating fill structure is disposed laterally between the gate structure and the second insulating fill structure.
US10325911B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over an underlying structure. The underlying structure includes a gate structure disposed over a channel region of a fin structure, and a first source/drain epitaxial layer disposed at a source/drain region of the fin structure. A first opening is formed over the first source/drain epitaxial layer by etching a part of the ILD layer and an upper portion of the first source/drain epitaxial layer. A second source/drain epitaxial layer is formed over the etched first source/drain epitaxial layer. A conductive material is formed over the second source/drain epitaxial layer.
US10325907B2
Methods and structures for improved isolation in a SiGe BiCMOS process or a CMOS process are provided. In one method, shallow trench isolation (STI) regions are formed in a first semiconductor region located over a semiconductor substrate. Dummy active regions of the first semiconductor region extend through the STI regions to an upper surface of the first semiconductor region. A grid of deep trench isolation (DTI) regions is also formed in the first semiconductor region, wherein the DTI regions extend entirely through the first semiconductor region. The grid of DTI regions includes a pattern that exhibits only T-shaped or Y-shaped intersections. The pattern defines a plurality of openings, wherein a dummy active region is located within each of the openings.
US10325901B1
A circuit for implementing a discharge path in an input/output circuit of an integrated circuit is described. The circuit comprises an input/output pad; a first node coupled to a power reference voltage; a first impedance element implemented between the first node and the input/output pad; a second node coupled to a ground reference voltage; and a second impedance element implemented between the second node and the input/output pad. A method of implementing a discharge path in an input/output circuit of an integrated circuit is also disclosed.
US10325898B2
A semiconductor device includes a first active pattern extending in a first direction on a first region and a second region of a substrate, a first dummy gate electrode extending in a second direction crossing the first active pattern between the first region and the second region, a contact structure contacting the first dummy gate electrode and extending in the first direction, and a power line disposed on the contact structure and electrically connected to the contact structure. The power line extends in the first direction. The contact structure overlaps with the power line when viewed in a plan view.
US10325897B2
There is provided a method for fabricating a substrate structure capable of enhancing process reproducibility and process stability by trimming a bevel region of a substrate using a wafer level process. The method includes providing a first substrate including first and second surfaces opposite each other and a first device region formed at the first surface, providing a second substrate including third and fourth surfaces opposite each other and a second device region at the third surface, bonding the first substrate and the second substrate to electrically connect the first device region and the second device region, and forming a trimmed substrate. The forming the trimmed substrate includes etching an edge region of the second substrate bonded to the first substrate.
US10325895B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor module in which a bonded portion has high reliability, and that has a small area. A semiconductor module includes a plurality of metal plates extending in a horizontal direction and stacked in a vertical direction, at least one switching element, and at least one circuit element. The at least one switching element is bonded between two of the plurality of metal plates, facing each other in a vertical direction. The at least one circuit element is bonded between two of the plurality of metal plates, facing each other in a vertical direction. Disposed between the plurality of metal plates is an insulating material. At least one of the plurality of metal plates is bonded to the at least one switching element and the at least one circuit element.
US10325891B1
The fan-out semiconductor package includes: a metal member including a metal plate having a first through-hole and second through-holes and metal posts disposed in the second through-holes; a semiconductor chip disposed in the first through-hole; an encapsulant covering at least portion of each of the metal member and the semiconductor chip and filling at least portions of each of the first and second through-holes; a wiring layer disposed on the encapsulant; first vias electrically connecting the wiring layer and the connection pads to each other; and second vias electrically connecting the wiring layer and the metal posts to each other, wherein a height of the second vias is greater than that of the first vias or a thickness of the metal plate is the same as that of the metal post.
US10325886B2
A light emitting element includes a semiconductor including an active layer, and a planar shape of the light emitting elements including a concave polygon. The planar shape of the concave polygon has interior angles including at least one acute angle.
US10325883B2
A method includes attaching a first semiconductor package on a carrier, wherein the first semiconductor package comprises a plurality of stacked semiconductor dies and a plurality of contact pads, depositing a first molding compound layer over the carrier, wherein the first semiconductor package is embedded in the first molding compound layer, forming a plurality of vias over the plurality of contact pads, attaching a semiconductor die on the first molding compound layer, depositing a second molding compound layer over the carrier, wherein the semiconductor die and the plurality of vias are embedded in the second molding compound layer, forming an interconnect structure over the second molding compound layer and forming a plurality of bumps over the interconnect structure.
US10325875B2
Disclosed is an integrated circuit packaging system that includes first and second microchips. Each microchip includes a top surface, a surface, one or more quilt package nodules fabricated on said top surface, and one or more bottom surface connectors. The system also includes a substrate to which the first and second microchips are mounted. The first and second microchips are connected via the quilt package nodules.
US10325867B2
A semiconductor device includes a high resistivity substrate, a transistor formed on the high resistivity substrate, and a deep trench device isolation region formed in the high resistivity substrate to surround the transistor. Particularly, the high resistivity substrate has a first conductive type, and a deep well region having a second conductive type is formed in the high resistivity substrate. Further, a low concentration well region having the first conductive type is formed on the deep well region, and the transistor is formed on the low concentration well region.
US10325866B2
Electronic device package technology is disclosed. In one example, an electronic device package can include a bottom surface and a side surface extending from the bottom surface. The side surface can be oriented at a non-perpendicular angle relative to the bottom surface. In another example, an electronic device package can include a top planar surface having a first area, a bottom planar surface having a second area, and a side surface extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The second area can be larger than the first area. In yet another example, an electronic device package can include a substrate defining a plane, an electronic component disposed on the substrate, and a layer of material disposed about a lateral side of the electronic component. The layer of material can be oriented at an angle of less than 90 degrees relative to the plane.
US10325863B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an insulating film. The insulating film includes a first insulating particle, and a second insulating particle. A particle size of at least one of the first insulating particle or the second insulating particle exceeds 0 nm and being not more than 30 nm. An average size of a void between the first insulating particle and the second insulating particle exceeds 0 nm and being not more than 10 nm.
US10325862B2
Reinforcement structures used with a thinned wafer and methods of manufacture are provided. The method includes forming trenches or vias at least partially through a backside of a thinned wafer attached to a carrier wafer. The method further includes depositing material within the trenches or vias to form reinforcement structures on the backside of the thinned wafer. The method further includes removing excess material from a surface of the thinned wafer, which was deposited during the depositing of the material within the vias.
US10325861B2
Dicing a semiconductor wafer into chips may include (and structures may result from) forming a lateral chip dicing pattern of vertical metal stack kerf (MSK) structures from a depth below an upper surface of a substrate of a wafer, up through metallization layers of the wafer, to a top surface of the wafer. This dicing pattern may separate or define the perimeters/edges of the chips to be diced. A protective layer over the wafer can be etched to form a pattern of openings to the pattern of MSK structures. Then, a wet etch through the pattern of openings in the protective layer removes the MSK structures and forms lateral chip dicing trench pattern to the depth below the upper surface of the substrate along the intended lateral dicing pattern. A bottom surface of the substrate can be ground to expose the bottom of the trench pattern and dice the chips.
US10325859B1
Some features pertain to a stacked package apparatus that includes a shield at least partially surrounding the apparatus, a first substrate including a plurality of first pads, the plurality of first pads coupled to the shield, and a second substrate, the second substrate over the first substrate and coupled to the first substrate, the second substrate including a plurality of second pads, the plurality of second pads coupled to the shield.
US10325856B2
An electronic component package includes first and second wiring parts including insulating layers, conductive patterns formed in the insulating layers, and conductive vias penetrating through the insulating layers, to be connected to the conductive patterns, respectively; a frame disposed between the first and second wiring parts and having conductive connection parts electrically connecting one or more through-holes with the first and second wiring parts and an electronic component disposed to be surrounded by the through-hole, to thereby be connected to the first wiring part, wherein the conductive patterns formed to be adjacent to the electronic component among the conductive patterns of the first wiring part are embedded in the insulating layer of the first wiring part.
US10325850B1
An apparatus includes a laminate and a lid. The laminate generally includes a dielectric layer between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer may include a probe configured to transfer a radio-frequency signal in a millimeter-wave band. The second conductive layer may be configured to provide a continuous ground plane parallel to the probe and separated from the probe by the dielectric layer. A plurality of channels may be (a) formed into a side of the second conductive layer opposite the dielectric layer, (b) formed to a depth less than a thickness of the second conductive layer, and (c) sized to permit gasses formed while securing the laminate to a substrate to escape from between the laminate and the substrate. The lid may be in contact with the first conductive layer.
US10325847B2
Methods for forming semiconductor structures are disclosed, including a method that involves forming sets of conductive material and insulating material, forming a first mask over the sets, forming a first number of contact regions, forming a second mask over a first region of the sets, and removing material from the sets in a second, exposed region laterally adjacent the first region to form a second number of contact regions. Another method includes forming first and second contact regions on portions of sets of conductive materials and insulating materials, each of the second contact regions more proximal to an underlying substrate than each of the first contact regions. Apparatuses such as memory devices including laterally adjacent first and second regions each of which including contact regions of a different portion of a plurality of conductive materials and related methods of forming such devices are also disclosed.
US10325845B2
In certain aspects of the disclosure, a die includes one or more fins, a gate formed over a first portion of the one or more fins, and a first source/drain contact formed over a second portion of the one or more fins, wherein the first source/drain contact includes an extended portion that does not overlap the one or more fins. The die also includes first and second metal lines formed from a first metal layer, wherein the first and second metal lines are spaced apart. The die further includes a first via connecting the first source/drain contact to the first metal line, and a second via connecting the first source/drain contact to the second metal line, wherein the second via lies within the extended portion of the first source/drain contact.
US10325844B2
A computer-implemented method includes, in a code transformation system, identifying save-to-return code instructions, function call code instructions, comparison code instructions, and exceptional code instructions. The function call code instructions are associated with the save-to-return code instructions. The comparison code instructions are associated with the save-to-return code instructions. The exceptional code instructions are associated with the comparison code instructions. A predefined proximity range based on a predefined proximity value as well as a proximity eligibility indicator are determined. The proximity eligibility indicator denotes whether the save-to-return code instructions and the comparison code instructions are within the predefined proximity range. Responsive to the proximity eligibility indicator denoting the save-to-return code instructions and the comparison code instructions are within the predefined proximity range, one or more execution flow relationships between the function call code instructions and the exceptional code instructions are created. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
US10325841B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a semiconductor device having a first semiconductor component and a second semiconductor component which are mounted on a wiring substrate. The first semiconductor component has a first terminal for transmitting a first signal between the first semiconductor component and the outside and a second terminal for transmitting a second signal between the first semiconductor component and the second semiconductor component. In addition, the second semiconductor component has a third terminal for transmitting the second signal between the second semiconductor component and the first semiconductor component. Further, the first signal is transmitted at a higher frequency than the second signal. Furthermore, the second terminal of the first semiconductor component and the third terminal of the second semiconductor component are electrically connected to each other via the first wiring member. In addition, the first terminal of the first semiconductor component is electrically connected to the wiring substrate via a first bump electrode without the first wiring member interposed therebetween.
US10325839B2
A via structure for electric connection is disclosed. The via structure includes a substrate that has a first surface and a via hole opened to the first surface. The via structure includes also a stress buffer layer disposed on the first surface of the substrate, which has an opening aligned to the via hole of the substrate. The via structure further includes a conductive body formed in the via hole of the substrate at least up to the level of the first surface of the substrate. In the via structure, the stress buffer layer receives the conductive body extending into the opening over the level of the first surface of the substrate and/or covers, at least in part, the edge of the first surface around the via hole of the substrate.
US10325827B2
A base plate, and a plurality of unit structures formed on the base plate are provided. Each of the unit structures including an insulating substrate fixed on the base plate, a metal pattern formed on the insulating substrate, a semiconductor element electrically connected to the metal pattern, and a main electrode having an upper end portion exposed to the outside and a lower end portion connected to a peripheral portion of the metal pattern closest to an outer edge of the base plate.
US10325825B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes: a case made of resin; an insert terminal including an external terminal portion embedded in the case and having a first terminal exposed from the case, and an internal terminal portion bent in a L shape with respect to a second terminal of the external terminal portion and having a first surface exposed from the case and an anchor part in close contact with the case; and a bonding wire bonded to the first surface of the internal terminal portion.
US10325823B2
A wafer defect analysis method according to one embodiment comprises the steps of: thermally treating a wafer at different temperatures; measuring an oxygen precipitate index of the thermally treated wafer; determining a characteristic temperature at which the oxygen precipitate index is maximized; and discriminating a type of defect region of the wafer depending on the determined characteristic temperature.
US10325819B1
At least one method, apparatus and system disclosed herein involves forming trench silicide region contact. A plurality of fins are formed on a semiconductor substrate. An epitaxial (EPI) feature is formed at a top portion of each fin of the first portion over a first portion of the fins. A gate region is formed over a second portion of the fins. A trench is formed in a portion of the gate region. A void is formed adjacent the a portion of the gate region. A first silicon feature is formed in the trench. A second silicon feature is formed in the void. Subsequently, a replacement metal gate (RMG) process is performed in the gate region. A TS cut region is formed over the trench. The first silicon feature and the second silicon feature are removed. A metallization process is performed in the void to form a contact.
US10325815B2
A method of forming multiple vertical transport fin field effect transistors (VT FinFETs) having different channel lengths, including, forming a vertical fin on a first region of a substrate and a vertical fin on a second region of the substrate, forming a cover block on the vertical fin on the second region of the substrate, forming a first bottom source/drain on the first region of the substrate, wherein the first bottom source/drain covers a lower portion of the vertical fin on the first region, removing the cover block, and forming a second bottom source/drain in the second region of the substrate, wherein the second bottom source/drain is below the surface of the substrate, wherein the second bottom source/drain does not cover a lower portion of the vertical fin on the second region.
US10325813B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure including a substrate, semiconductor fins extending in a first direction on the substrate, a hardmask layer on the semiconductor fins, and an isolation region surrounding the semiconductor fins and having an upper surface flush with the hardmask layer, the isolation region including a first region on a side of the semiconductor fins in the first direction and a second region on a side of the semiconductor fins in a second direction different from the first direction. The method also includes removing the hardmask layer, etching a portion of the first region above the semiconductor fins, forming a mask layer on the semiconductor fins and a remaining first region, etching the second region such that an upper surface of the remaining second region is lower than an upper surface of the semiconductor fins, and removing the mask layer.
US10325811B2
Methods of forming a structure for a fin-type field-effect transistor and structures for a fin-type field-effect transistor. A plurality of sacrificial layers are formed on a dielectric layer. An opening is formed that includes a first section that extends through the sacrificial layers and a second section that extends through the dielectric layer. A semiconductor material is epitaxially grown inside the opening to form a fin. The first section of the opening has a first width dimension, and the second section of the opening has a second width dimension that is less than the first width dimension.
US10325808B2
A method of forming a 3D crack-stop structure in, through, and wrapped around the edges of a substrate to prevent through-substrate cracks from propagating and breaking the substrate and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include providing a substrate including one or more dies; forming a continuous first trench near an outer edge of the substrate; forming a continuous second trench parallel to and on an opposite side of the first trench from the outer edge; forming a continuous row of vias parallel to and on an opposite side of the second trench from the first trench, forming a continuous third trench parallel to and near an outer edge of each of the dies; forming a protective layer wrapping around the outer edge of the substrate and over and filling the trenches and vias; and patterning active areas of the substrate between the vias and the third trench.
US10325805B2
According to one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a co-catalyst layer and catalyst layer above a surface of a semiconductor substrate. The co-catalyst layer and catalyst layer have fcc structure. The fcc structure is formed such that (111) face of the fcc structure is to be oriented parallel to the surface of the semiconductor substrate. The catalyst includes a portion which contacts the co-catalyst layer. The portion has the fcc structure. An exposed surface of the catalyst layer is planarized by oxidation and reduction treatments. A graphene layer is formed on the catalyst layer.
US10325804B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming openings partially filled with a sacrificial material, where the openings extend into a semiconductor substrate from a first side. A void region is formed in a central region of the openings. An epitaxial layer is formed over the first side of the semiconductor substrate and the openings, where the epitaxial layer covers the void region. From a second side of the semiconductor substrate opposite to the first side, the semiconductor substrate is thinned to expose the sacrificial material. The sacrificial material in the openings is removed and the epitaxial layer is exposed. A conductive material is deposited on the exposed surface of the epitaxial layer.
US10325800B2
Techniques are disclosed for methods and apparatuses for increasing the breakdown voltage while substantially reducing the voltage leakage of an electrostatic chuck at temperatures exceeding about 300 degrees Celsius in a processing chamber.
US10325797B2
Containers are purged between overhead transfer vehicles and a container transfer location to or from which the containers are transferred. A travelling rail for a local vehicle is provided below a travelling rail for the overhead transfer vehicles and above the container transfer location, and a local vehicle travels along the travelling rail and includes a hoist that raises and lowers the containers. A purging table that supports the containers is provided below the travelling rail for the local vehicle so as not to block a portion over the container transfer location and a purging gas feeding device feeds a purging gas into the containers supported on the purging table.
US10325796B2
An apparatus includes a holder configured to carry one or more semiconductor wafers, an arm coupled with the holder, and a detector coupled with either the holder or the arm. The detector is configured to measure a change in weight of the one or more semiconductor wafers. The detector includes a strain gauge weight sensor, a piezoelectric sensor, or any other suitable sensor. The change in weight of the one or more semiconductor wafers is used to determine any possible presence of a broken or missing wafer.
US10325791B1
A light emitting diode (LED) includes an elastomeric material that facilitates adhesive attachment with a pick-up head for pick and place manufacturing operations. The LED includes an epitaxial layer defining a mesa structure and a light emitting surface. The mesa structure includes an active layer to emit light, and the emitted light is reflected at the mesa structure toward a light emitting region of the light emitting surface and transmitted at the light emitting region. An elastomeric material is on a portion of the light emitting surface, such as the light emitting region or a passive region. At the light emitting region, the elastomeric material may be shaped as a lens that collimates light transmitted from the light emitting region, and also facilitates adhesion to the pick-up head. At the passive region, the elastomeric material facilitates adhesion to the pick-up head without interfering with light emitted from the light emitting region.
US10325788B2
A manipulated variable calculator having a plurality of control loops and configured to calculate manipulated variables to be respectively given to a plurality of temperature adjusters includes: a reference model output generator configured to generate a reference model that generates a response output until reaching a temperature setpoint when, in the plurality of control loops, a manipulated variable of a control loop having the slowest response speed is defined as 100%; a simulator configured to sequentially search for a switching time to determine a manipulated variable pattern; a reference model configured to generate a reference model output based on the searched switching time; and a reference model selecting unit configured to select the reference model depending on a heating responsiveness and a cooling responsiveness of the temperature adjusters.
US10325774B2
III-N semiconductor heterostructures including a raised III-N semiconductor structures with inclined sidewall facets are described. In embodiments, lateral epitaxial overgrowth favoring semi-polar inclined sidewall facets is employed to bend crystal defects from vertical propagation to horizontal propagation. In embodiments, arbitrarily large merged III-N semiconductor structures having low defect density surfaces may be overgrown from trenches exposing a (100) surface of a silicon substrate. III-N devices, such as III-N transistors, may be further formed on the raised III-N semiconductor structures while silicon-based transistors may be formed in other regions of the silicon substrate.
US10325773B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for providing silicon carbide films. A layer of silicon carbide can be provided under process conditions that employ one or more silicon-containing precursors that have one or more silicon-hydrogen bonds and/or silicon-silicon bonds. The silicon-containing precursors may also have one or more silicon-oxygen bonds and/or silicon-carbon bonds. One or more radical species in a substantially low energy state can react with the silicon-containing precursors to form the silicon carbide film. The one or more radical species can be formed in a remote plasma source.
US10325761B2
Provided is an oxide-containing magnetic material sputtering target wherein the oxides have an average grain diameter of 400 nm or less. Also provided is a method of producing an oxide-containing magnetic material sputtering target. The method involves depositing a magnetic material on a substrate by the PVD or CVD method, then removing the substrate from the deposited magnetic material, pulverizing the material to obtain a raw material for the target, and further sintering the raw material. An object is to provide a magnetic material target, in particular, a nonmagnetic grain-dispersed ferromagnetic sputtering target capable of suppressing discharge abnormalities of oxides that are the cause of particle generation during sputtering.
US10325758B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes a plasma generation unit configured to convert a processing gas supplied into a processing chamber into plasma by an inductive coupling. The plasma generation unit includes a first high frequency antenna formed of a vortex coil arranged adjacent to the processing chamber through a dielectric window, a second high frequency antenna having a natural resonant frequency and formed of a vortex coil arranged at an outer or inner peripheral side of the first high frequency antenna, and an impedance adjustment unit for adjusting a resonant frequency of a circuit viewed from the high frequency power supply toward the first high frequency antenna. The circuit viewed from the high frequency power supply toward the first high frequency antenna is configured to have two resonant frequencies depending on adjustment of the impedance adjustment unit when a frequency of high frequency power is changed.
US10325756B2
A method for compensating pattern placement errors during writing a pattern on a target in a charged-particle multi-beam exposure apparatus including a layout generated by exposing a plurality of beam field frames using a beam of electrically charged particles, wherein each beam field frame has a respective local pattern density, corresponding to exposure doses imparted to the target when exposing the respective beam field frames. During writing the beam field frames, the positions deviate from respective nominal positions because of build-up effects within said exposure apparatus, depending on the local pattern density evolution during writing the beam field frames. To compensate, a displacement behavior model is employed to predict displacements; a local pattern density evolution is determined, displacements of the beam field frames are predicted based on the local pattern density evolution and the displacement behavior model, and the beam field frames are repositioned accordingly based on the predicted values.
US10325755B2
In one embodiment, a charged particle beam lithography apparatus includes an irradiator 201 to irradiate substrates with charged particle beams, each of the substrates being provided with a predetermined mark, and a detector 114 to detect charged particles emitted when the predetermined mark is scanned by a charged particle beam and output a detection signal. The apparatus further includes an amplifier 124 to adjust and amplify the detection signal and output an amplified signal, and a measurement circuitry 211 to measure a location of the predetermined mark based on the amplified signal. The apparatus further includes storage 128 to store initial gain values of the amplifier for amplifying the detection signal, the initial gain values corresponding to conditions of the scan. The amplifier amplifies the detection signal based on an initial gain value selected from the initial gain values according to a condition of the scan.
US10325751B1
An enhanced vision system includes an image intensifier that includes a phosphor screen. The phosphor screen includes a thin-film phosphor layer deposited, patterned, transferred, or otherwise disposed on the substrate using a thin-film deposition technique. A conductive layer is deposited across at least a portion of the phosphor layer. The relatively smooth morphology of the phosphor layer beneficially permits the use of a relatively thin conductive layer. The use of a relatively thin conductive layer advantageously reduces the operating voltage between an electron multiplier and the phosphor screen. A secondary electron emitter may be disposed across at least a portion of the conductive layer.
US10325745B2
Approaches herein provide a multiple element fuse including a first fuse element having a first pair of terminals joined by a first fusible link, and a second fuse element including a second pair of terminals joined by a second fusible link. The first pair of terminals may be directly physically coupled with the second pair of terminals. In some embodiments, the first pair of terminals and the second pair of terminals are stacked relative to one another and joined by one or more linking elements, thus causing the first fusible link and the second fusible link to extend parallel to one another. In some embodiments, a first plurality of terminal pairs are integrally linked adjacent one another along a same plane, and then subsequently coupled to a second plurality of terminal pairs.
US10325744B2
Hollow bodies and hollow body fuses are disclosed. Furthermore, methods to provide hollow bodies and hollow body fuses are disclosed. In one implementation, a hollow body includes a center portion and an end portion. An endcap may be coupled to the end portion. A cavity is formed between an inside surface of the endcap and an outer periphery of the end portion. A fusible element may be disposed within the hollow body, the fusible element may be further disposed within the cavity formed between the inside surface of the endcap and the outer periphery of the end portion, the fusible element traveling a substantially diagonal path through a center of the cavity.
US10325743B2
A circuit breaker assembly including a housing assembly and a tamper detection system. The housing assembly defines a sealed enclosure. The sealed enclosure includes a division interface. The sealed enclosure is structured to be in one of a closed, first configuration, wherein the sealed enclosure defines a generally enclosed space, and an open, second configuration, wherein the sealed enclosure allows access to the enclosed space, and wherein, as the sealed enclosure moves between the first configuration to the second configuration, the sealed enclosure is reconfigured at the division interface. The tamper detection system includes a protective assembly and an indicator assembly. The protective assembly is structured to be coupled to the sealed enclosure at the division interface. The indicator assembly includes a rupturable construct. The rupturable construct is structured to transform from an intact, first configuration to a ruptured, second configuration.
US10325739B2
A circuit protection device including a housing defining a chamber and a metal oxide varistor (MOV) stack disposed within the chamber. A first spring is electrically attached at a first end to a first input terminal of the MOV stack by a solder connection and at a second end to a first input line. The first spring is biased away from the first input terminal. A second spring is electrically attached to a second input terminal of the MOV stack by a solder connection and at a second end to a second input line. The second conductive spring is biased away from the second input terminal. When an overvoltage condition occurs, heat generated by the MOV stack melts at least one of the first or second solder connections to allow the corresponding springs to be displaced away from the respective MOV stack input terminals.
US10325728B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes an anode body having a dielectric layer, a first conductive polymer layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer, and a second conductive polymer layer covering at least a part of the first conductive polymer layer. The first conductive polymer layer includes a first conductive polymer and a first polymer dopant having a sulfonate group. The second conductive polymer layer includes a second conductive polymer and a second polymer dopant having a sulfonate group. A polymerization degree of the first conductive polymer is lower than a polymerization degree of the second conductive polymer.
US10325723B1
An electronic components includes: a multilayer capacitor including a capacitor body and a pair of external electrodes, an interposer including an interposer body and a pair of external terminals, and an adhesive; wherein the external terminal includes a bonding portion, a mounting portion, and a connection portion; wherein an adhesive is provided between the external electrode and the bonding portion, and falls along the connection portion of the external terminal; wherein 1.55≤(L+T22)/T1 in which T2 is a height at which the adhesive falls along the connection portion of each of the external terminals, L is a length of the bonding portion, and T1 is a height of the electronic component.
US10325721B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic device comprising: a ceramic element body, in which a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers are alternately stacked, and at least a pair of external electrodes which are connected to the internal electrode layers on surfaces of the ceramic element body; a thickness of the dielectric layers is 0.4 μm or less, a width (W0) of the ceramic element body along a width-direction is 0.59 mm or less, a gap (Wgap) between an outer face of the ceramic element body and an end of the internal electrode layers along width-direction of the ceramic element body is 0.010 to 0.025 mm, and a ratio (Wgap/W0) of the gap with respect to the width is 0.025 or more.
US10325719B2
An inductive power transfer coil assembly including: a magnetically permeable core including a base having a pair of spaced apart limbs extending therefrom; and a winding located between and above the pair of spaced apart limbs.
US10325715B2
A low profile electromagnetic component assembly for a circuit board such as a power inductor includes a first shaped magnetic core piece comprising a bottom surface for seating upon the circuit board, a top surface opposing the bottom surface, and a groove defined on the top surface. A conductive coil winding includes first and second terminal sections and a center main winding section extending between the first and second terminal sections. The center main winding section comprises an elongated strip of conductor having a thickness oriented extend to perpendicular to a plane of the circuit board. The terminal sections define a different cross sectional area of conductor than in the center main winding section.
US10325712B2
In some embodiments, the instant invention involves an electrical system that at least includes: a three-phase inductor, including: a core, including: a plurality of core lamination pieces. having: a first core lamination piece and a second core lamination piece; where the first core lamination piece includes a plurality of first laminations that have a first shape and arranged in a first pattern to form a plurality of first differential mode gaps; where the second core lamination piece includes a plurality of second laminations that have a second shape and arranged a second pattern to form a plurality of second differential mode gaps; where the first pattern and the second pattern are distinct; where the first core lamination piece and the second core lamination piece are positioned at a particular orientation of the first pattern to the second pattern so that to increase a common mode inductance of the core.
US10325711B2
A coil component: including a first planar spiral wiring and a second planar spiral wiring located above the first planar spiral wiring in a laminated direction and interconnected through connection vias to the first planar spiral wiring. The second planar spiral wiring is wound in a direction different from a winding direction of the first planar spiral wiring when viewed in the laminated direction. The first planar spiral wiring and the second planar spiral wiring have respective innermost circumferential overlapping portions overlapping with each other at the innermost circumferential region when viewed in the laminated direction. At least both end parts of the innermost circumferential overlapping portion of the first planar spiral wiring are in an interconnection with at least both end parts of the innermost circumferential overlapping portion of the second planar spiral wiring through the connection vias.
US10325709B2
There is provided a power transmission device to switch a coupled state and an uncoupled state between a first member and a second member which are arranged in a transmission path of a driving force to thereby control transmission of the driving force. The device includes a movable body having ferromagnetic property, a first magnetic path and a second magnetic path, and a permanent magnet. The device also includes a driving portion to excite the electromagnet in the forward direction and then increases an attraction force on a side on which a magnetic flux is increased or decreased.
US10325702B2
Structurally supported positive temperature coefficient (PTC) materials are disclosed. Furthermore, methods to provide structurally supported PTC materials are disclosed. In one implementation, a structurally supported PTC material includes a support structure that is at least partially covered by a PTC material. In one example, the support structure is a mesh material integrated at least partially in the PTC material.
US10325698B2
An electric cable, in particular a data cable, has a transmission core which is surrounded by a shield and concentrically surrounded by a sheath that includes an outer layer made of an electrically insulating plastic material and a second layer underneath that is made of a semiconducting material. The semiconducting material primary purpose is to divert interference currents.
US10325694B2
An energy cable includes, at least one cable core including an electric conductor, a crosslinked electrically insulating layer, and zeolite particles placed in the cable core. The zeolite particles are able to extract and absorb, very efficiently and irreversibly, the by-products deriving from the cross-linking reaction, so as to avoid space charge accumulation in the insulating material during cable lifespan. A method for extracting crosslinking by-products from a cross-linked electrically insulating layer of an energy cable core, which includes manufacturing the energy cable core containing zeolite particles, heating the energy cable core up to a temperature causing migration of the crosslinking by-products from the crosslinked electrically insulating layer; and then placing a metal screen around the energy cable core.
US10325693B2
Disclosed herein are copper-containing (Cu-containing) conductive pastes, copper (Cu) electrodes formed by firing the Cu-containing conductive paste over a substrate, and articles comprising a structural element with such Cu electrodes, wherein, the Cu-containing conductive paste contains a powder mixture of Cu, Ge, and B particles dispersed in an organic medium.
US10325677B2
An apparatus and computerized method optimizes or generates a sigma profile for a molecule by receiving a sigma profile for the molecule, calculating an activity coefficient for the molecule using the sigma profile for the molecule, calculating a solubility for the molecule using the activity coefficient for the molecule, optimizing or adjusting the sigma profile for the molecule by adjusting the sigma profile using an objective function and one or more constraints, providing the sigma profile to an output device communicably coupled to a processor.
US10325669B2
An error information storage circuit configured to write information stored in a plurality of fuse sets to a plurality of fuse latch sets of a core block and/or to write test data to the plurality of fuse latch sets. The test data is internally generated depending on a fuse clock signal, and the test data has values which cause opposite levels to be written in adjacent latches of the plurality of fuse latch sets.
US10325668B2
Apparatuses and methods for operating mixed mode blocks. One example method can include tracking single level cell (SLC) mode cycles and extra level cell (XLC) mode cycles performed on the mixed mode blocks, maintaining a mixed mode cycle count corresponding to the mixed mode blocks, and adjusting the mixed mode cycle count differently for mixed mode blocks operated in a SLC mode than for mixed blocks operated in a XLC mode.
US10325667B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a word line and a wiring, a first transistor controlled to connect the word line to the wiring, a first booster circuit configured to boost an output voltage thereof to a first voltage, a second transistor controlled to connect the first booster circuit to the wiring, and a control circuit configured to control the first booster circuit, and the first and second transistors during a read operation. During the read operation, the control circuit controls the first booster circuit to start boosting its output voltage to the first voltage while controlling the second transistor to connect the output of the first booster circuit to the wiring so that a voltage of the wiring rises together with the output voltage. After the output voltage has reached the first voltage, the control circuit controls the first transistor to connect the word line to the wiring.
US10325666B2
During a program, read, or erase operation of one or more non-volatile flash memory cells in an array of non-volatile flash memory cells, a negative voltage can be applied to the word lines and/or coupling gates of the selected or unselected non-volatile flash memory cells. The negative voltage is generated by a negative high voltage level shifter using one of several embodiments disclosed herein.
US10325665B2
A controller for a NAND memory array is presented. In embodiments, the controller may include circuitry to provide bias voltages to a NAND memory array that includes two or more decks of memory cells, and an output interface coupled to the circuitry and to wordlines (WLs) of the memory array. In embodiments, the circuitry, in a deck erase operation may: apply a first set of bias voltages via the output interface to active WLs of at least a first deck of the two or more decks of memory cells to be erased; and apply a second set of bias voltages via the output interface to active WLs of at least a second deck of the two or more decks of memory cells not to be erased, wherein the first set of bias voltages is lower than the second set of bias voltages.
US10325661B2
Methods of programming a memory include applying a programming voltage on an access line selected for a programming operation of a single page of the memory, applying a second voltage on an access line unselected for the programming operation, increasing the programming voltage for a first plurality of steps of the programming operation, and increasing the second voltage for a second plurality of steps of a first portion of the programming operation, then decreasing the second voltage at a particular point of the programming operation after completing the second plurality of steps and before completing the first plurality of steps.
US10325649B2
A ternary sense amplifier and an SRAM array realized by the ternary sense amplifier are provided. The ternary sense amplifier comprises the 1st CNFET transistor, the 2nd CNFET transistor, the 3rd CNFET transistor, the 4th CNFET transistor, the 5th CNFET transistor, the 6th CNFET transistor, the 7th CNFET transistor, the 8th CNFET transistor, the 9th CNFET transistor, the 10th CNFET transistor, the 11th CNFET transistor, the 12th CNFET transistor and the 13th CNFET transistor; the SRAM array comprises a ternary sense amplifier, a ternary memory array, the 1st inverter, the 2nd inverter, the 3rd inverter, the 4th inverter, the 14th CNFET transistor, the 15th CNFET transistor, the 16th CNFET transistor, the 17th CNFET transistor, the 18th CNFET transistor and the 19th CNFET transistor; it features in low power consumption, less postponement and high yield of chips.
US10325641B2
Systems and methods for detecting the presence of a body in a network without fiducial elements, using signal absorption, and signal forward and reflected backscatter of radio frequency (RF) waves caused by the presence of a biological mass in a communications network.
US10325640B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: a magnetoresistive element including first and second magnetic layers and a non-magnetic layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers; and a write circuit which controls a first writing setting magnetization of the first and second magnetic layers in a parallel state and a second writing setting the magnetization of the first and second magnetic layers in an antiparallel state, and applies a current pulse to the magnetoresistive element. A first pulse pattern used in the first writing is different from a second pulse pattern used in the second writing.
US10325627B2
[Object] To propose an image processing method, image processing apparatus and program which are capable of exciting the emotions of a viewer more effectively. [Solution] An information processing method including: analyzing a beat of input music; extracting a plurality of unit images from an input image; and generating, by a processor, editing information for switching the extracted unit images depending on the analyzed beat.
US10325617B2
An electronic device includes a first microphone that receives a sound generated for a specific time period, from the outside, a second microphone, which is disposed at a location spaced apart from the first microphone and which receives the sound, an audio converter comprising audio converting circuitry, and a processor electrically connected with the first microphone, the second microphone, and the audio converter. The processor is configured to convert the sound obtained from the first microphone, into a first signal and to convert the sound obtained from the second microphone, into a second signal, using the audio converter, and to determine the sound, which is generated for the specific time period, as a voice or a noise based on a frequency-related correlation between the first signal and the second signal.
US10325604B2
Provided are a frame error concealment method and apparatus and an error concealment scheme construction method and apparatus. The frame error concealment method includes generating a new signal by synthesizing a plurality of previous signals that are similar to a signal of an error frame and reconstructing the signal of the error frame using the generated signal.
US10325600B2
Examples disclosed herein provide the ability to identify the location of an individual within a room by using a combination of microphone arrays and voice pattern matching. In one example, a computing device may extract a voice detected by microphones of a microphone array located in a room, perform voice pattern matching to identify an individual associated with the extracted voice, and determine a location of the individual in the room based on an intensity of the voice detected individually by the microphones of the microphone array.
US10325597B1
A method to transcribe communications may include obtaining audio data originating at a first device during a communication session between the first device and a second device and providing the audio data to an automated speech recognition system configured to transcribe the audio data. The method may further include obtaining multiple hypothesis transcriptions generated by the automated speech recognition system. Each of the multiple hypothesis transcriptions may include one or more words determined by the automated speech recognition system to be a transcription of a portion of the audio data. The method may further include determining one or more consistent words that are included in two or more of the multiple hypothesis transcriptions and in response to determining the one or more consistent words, providing the one or more consistent words to the second device for presentation of the one or more consistent words by the second device.
US10325595B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handing off a user conversation between computer-implemented agents. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer-implemented agent specific to a user device, a digital representation of speech encoding an utterance, determining, by the computer-implemented agent, that the utterance specifies a requirement to establish a communication with another computer-implemented agent, and establishing, by the computer-implemented agent, a communication between the other computer-implemented agent and the user device.
US10325588B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for adaptively selecting an acoustic feature extractor in an Artificial Intelligence system is provided. The present invention may include acquiring a frame of an acoustic signal. The present invention may include checking a status of a flag to be used to indicate a proper acoustic feature extractor to be selected. The present invention may include processing the frame of the acoustic signal by the selected acoustic feature extractor indicated by the checked status. The present invention may include determining, based on data generated in the processing of the frame of the acoustic signal, an actual status of the frame of the acoustic signal. The present invention may include updating the status of the flag according to the actual status.
