US10723317B2
A passive entry system for a vehicle includes a portable fob and a communication and control unit disposed on the vehicle, the communication and control unit configured to control a function of the vehicle. The portable fob and the communication and control unit are configured to communicate ultra-wideband (UWB) signals therebetween. When the function of the vehicle is triggered, the communication and control unit initiates a double-sided UWB ranging session with the portable fob where (i) the portable fob determines a first distance between the portable fob and the communication and control unit, and (ii) the communication and control unit determines a second distance between the portable fob and the communication and control unit. The communication and control unit is configured to prevent control of the function of the vehicle if a final distance, determined from the first and second distances, is greater than the predetermined distance.
US10723305B2
The invention relates to a fixture (10), especially a retaining sheet, for an airbag (92) and/or an airbag module, comprising an arm section (15) which includes at least one contact section (30) for a securing element (91), especially for a securing clip or a securing clamp or a securing bracket. In accordance with the invention, at least one boundary area (40) of the contact section (30) which comprises a lateral edge (41) of the arm section (15) has a smaller material thickness (d1) as compared to the residual arm section (15).
US10723299B2
A body component of a vehicle can comprise a first substrate formed of at least one non-conductive material and defining a back surface that defines a retroreflector geometry and a front surface that defines a different geometry than the retroreflector geometry, wherein the front surface of the first substrate is an exposed A-surface of the body component. The body component can further comprise a conductive layer formed of a conductive material and arranged adjacent to the back surface of the first layer, the conductive layer (i) also defining the retroreflector geometry and (ii) reflecting radar waves transmitted from a radar device of another vehicle.
US10723297B2
A bumper assembly includes a bumper elongated along a first axis. The bumper assembly includes a first energy absorbing device extending from the bumper, the first energy absorbing device having a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, the first energy absorbing device being elastically deformable along the second axis. The bumper assembly includes a second energy absorbing device within the first energy absorbing device and being shorter than the first energy absorbing device.
US10723294B2
A vehicle includes a controller programmed to, responsive to injecting a high frequency voltage signal to an electric machine, determine an estimated negative sequence current phase associated with an electric machine current, and responsive to a rotor of the electric machine being at a predetermined rotor position, inject a pulse torque command to the electric machine and observe a speed change of the electric machine to determine a cable sequence.
US10723281B1
In one embodiment, a method includes detecting multiple reference markers on a vehicle and multiple reference markers on a sensor array attached to the vehicle. The method includes determining a pose of the vehicle and a pose of the sensor array based on the detected reference markers on the vehicle and sensor array and a model of the vehicle and sensor array that includes expected locations of the detected reference markers on the vehicle and sensor array. The method includes computing an observed relative orientation between the sensor array and the vehicle based on a comparison of the determined pose of the sensor array and vehicle. The method includes determining a calibration factor for a sensor of the sensor array based on a comparison of the observed relative orientation between the sensor array and the vehicle to an expected relative orientation between the sensor array and the vehicle.
US10723280B2
A tablet device holder assembly may include a housing defining a housing opening and including a housing lip arranged on a first side of the housing above the housing opening, and a removable bezel having a projection configured to extend through the housing opening and defining a projection opening that when the bezel is rotated to an installed state, the lip is received within the projection opening to maintain the bezel on the housing.
US10723277B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle article carrier system for supporting articles above an outer body surface of a vehicle. The system makes use of a pair of support rails fixedly secured generally parallel to one another on the outer body surface, and at least one cross bar assembly clampable to the support rails, and having a cross bar element having opposing ends. First and second end supports are secured at the opposing ends and able to engage the support rails to secure the cross bar against movement on the support rails. At least one of the end supports includes fixed and movable jaw portions, an actuating lever, and a pivot component pivotally coupled to the actuating lever and including a bore. A barrel nut is positioned in a bore of the movable jaw portion. A threaded member is coupled to both the barrel nut and the pivot component for changing an effective distance between the bore of the movable jaw portion and the pivot component, to thus effectively change a clamping force able to be applied by the movable jaw portion relative to the fixed jaw portion when the actuating lever is moved into a closed position.
US10723275B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for secure access to storage devices within vehicle cargo compartments. An example vehicle includes a rear gate including a gate lock, a cargo compartment accessible via the rear gate, a storage device positioned within the cargo compartment and including a storage lock, and a body control module (BCM) communicatively coupled to the gate lock and the storage lock. The BCM is to simultaneously unlock the rear gate and the storage device for a predefined period-of-time responsive to receiving a storage-access request.
US10723272B2
The present disclosure relates to a step rail system supportable from a structure of a motor vehicle. The system may have an inner step rail element and an outermost step rail element. The inner step rail element may be arranged nestably within the outmost step rail element. The inner and outermost step rail elements may further be arranged at least partially within the same plane. The outermost step rail element may have at least one of a curved leading portion or a curved trailing portion.
US10723271B2
A running board configured for absorbing energy includes an attachment portion extending along a longitudinal axis and a step-assist portion extending from the attachment portion along a latitudinal axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The attachment portion defines a plurality of voids therein each disposed along a respective one of a plurality of horizontal axes that are perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The running board further includes a plurality of tubes disposed within a respective one of the plurality of voids. A device including the running board and a method of forming a running board are also set forth.
US10723261B2
Methods and apparatuses for selectively acknowledging drivers of other motor vehicles. One implementation is a method and apparatus that comprises detecting a share and desired characteristic between a first motor vehicle and a second motor vehicle by illuminating an indicator on the first motor vehicle to acknowledge a driver of the second motor vehicle in response to the second motor vehicle sharing the desired characteristic with the first motor vehicle.
US10723259B2
A brake light control module for activating brake lights of a vehicle in response to activation of an engine brake of said vehicle. A control circuit of the module features a thyristor, a power lead and service lead for connection to the vehicle's electrical system and brake light service line across the thyristor, and a trigger lead for connection between the thyristor's gate terminal and an engine brake activation line of the vehicle to switch the thyristor to its conductive state when the engine brake activation line is energized. A delay circuit is installed in the power lead to prevent energization of the service lead in the event of a momentary gate signal indicative of an engine brake assisted gear shift. An operational indicator mounted within the housing is activated when the engine brake activation line is energized, thus confirming proper installation of the module.
US10723258B2
A lamp assembly is provided herein. The lamp assembly includes first and second light sources operably coupled to an exterior portion of a vehicle. The first light source illuminates a front door and the second light source illuminates a rear door. A controller is configured to activate the first and second light sources to selectively illuminate the front or rear doors to indicate a predefined door of entry into the vehicle.
US10723257B2
A vehicle lighting assembly is provided herein. A grille has raised members pointing in a vehicle-forward direction. Light sources are disposed within each raised member and a photoluminescent structure is coupled to each raised member and is configured to luminesce in response to light excitation from one or more of the light sources.
US10723254B2
A system includes a trailer frame, a lifting mechanism coupled to the trailer frame, wherein the lifting mechanism is configured to raise or lower a coil of pipe or a reel of pipe, a braking mechanism configured to apply pressure to the pipe while the pipe is being deployed by the system, and a hydraulic power unit configured to hydraulically power the system.
US10723249B2
An assembly includes a seat and an armrest moveable relative to the seat. A first arm and a second arm each include a first hinge and a second hinge. The first hinges are spaced from each other and fixed relative to the seat. The second hinges are spaced from each other and fixed relative to the armrest.
US10723247B2
A vehicle seat, which is provided with a collision prediction sensor and with a seat cushion having a seat cushion top face and a seat cushion frame, includes: a pelvis movement suppression member disposed along a seat width direction inside a front portion of the seat cushion; a vertical movement-enabling unit supporting the pelvis movement suppression member at the seat cushion frame and allowing vertical movement of the pelvis movement suppression member to follow vertical movement of the seat cushion top face; and a stopper unit attached to the seat cushion frame and, in a case in which a rapid deceleration of a vehicle is detected or a collision of the vehicle is predicted by the collision prediction sensor, restricting downward movement of the pelvis movement suppression member.
US10723241B2
Generally described, a vehicle occupant monitoring system with front and rear sensors that scan different sections or areas at different times within a vehicle is presented. A number of different sensors may be included that monitor the front row, second row, third row and rear storage of the vehicle. The system may deactivate the front and rear sensors when the vehicle is unlocked. The system may determine whether a rear door has been closed. If the rear door has not been opened, the rear sensors may remain inactive. However, and when the rear door has been closed, the system activates the rear sensors until the vehicle begins moving. A notification may be provided when an occupant has been detected by the rear sensors after the vehicle is placed in park. The front and rear sensors may be activated when the vehicle is locked.
US10723231B2
Systems and methods for charging an electric bus having a charging interface on its roof may include determining that an approaching bus is supposed to be charged at the charging station, lowering the charging head of the charging station to land on the roof of the bus, and moving the bus with the charge head on its roof to engage the charging head with the charging interface.
US10723222B2
An opening and closing device configured for a fuel filler door, may include a base fixedly mounted on a fuel filler housing; a link mechanism pivotably connected to the base; a slider linearly movably connected to the base; and a door bracket relatively pivotably connected to the link mechanism and the slider and fixedly connected to a fuel filler door.
US10723218B2
The invention concerns a structure (2) of a system (1) for managing the air of an air inlet for the front panel of a motor vehicle, said structure (2) comprising:—a frame (3) intended to be positioned facing a heat exchanger (Ra), —one or more deflectors (7) that are secured to said frame (3) and are arranged in such a way as to intercept a flow of air and deflect it through said frame (3). The invention also concerns a system (1) for managing the air of an air inlet for the front panel of a motor vehicle having such a structure (2).
US10723216B2
A hybrid assembly, including: a torque converter; a shaft; a hybrid module; and a module hub. The torque converter includes: a cover; an impeller; a turbine; a stator; and an output hub arranged to non-rotatably connect to a transmission input shaft. The shaft is arranged to receive torque and includes a channel. The hybrid module includes: an electric motor including a stator and a rotor non-rotatably connected to the cover; and a transfer clutch arranged to control transmission of the torque from the shaft to the cover. The hub is non-rotatably connected to the cover and includes a channel: connected to the torque converter; and arranged to receive first pressurized fluid from a first channel in the transmission input shaft. The channel of the shaft is arranged to receive second pressurized fluid, from a second channel in the transmission input shaft, to control operation of the transfer clutch.
US10723213B2
An aspect of the invention provides a roll restrictor system for an automotive powertrain, comprising: a torque roll restrictor bracket configured for attachment to the automotive powertrain; wherein attachment is mediated by a bushing; wherein the bushing is provided within a bearing which facilitates rotation of the bushing within the torque roll restrictor bracket.
US10723207B2
It is provided a module carrier for a door module of a motor vehicle door, wherein at least one functional element is to be fixed to the module carrier. The module carrier is formed substantially by an organic sheet and is delimited by an encircling outer edge with at least one sealing element. On the module carrier, there is provided a multiplicity of interfaces firstly for fixing the module carrier to a door structure of a motor vehicle door and secondly for connecting the at least one functional element and/or further components of the door module to the module carrier.
US10723195B2
A moving body includes a frame, a pair of right and left first wheels, a pair of right and left second wheels, a pair of right and left first parallel links connecting the first wheels and the second wheels, and a second parallel link connecting the pair of right and left first parallel links. Furthermore, a height changing unit connects the second parallel link and the frame and changes a position of the frame in a height direction with respect to the second parallel link, and a controller controls the height changing unit so as to maintain a height of the frame from a road surface.
US10723193B2
A vehicle incorporates a gravity-assist energy harvesting suspension system including one or more gravitational positive displacement pumps. The positive displacement pump has a cylinder and a reciprocating piston inside the cylinder. The piston is adapted for movement along a compression stroke and an opposite extension stroke in response to a gravitational bounce of the vehicle when in motion. A turbine comprising a rotor shaft and attached blades is mounted relative to a distal end of a fluid outlet hose connected to the pump. Fluid discharged through the outlet hose acts on the blades, thereby moving and imparting rotational energy to the rotor shaft. A generator is operatively connected to the turbine, and is adapted for converting the rotational energy generated by the rotor shaft to electrical energy.
US10723184B2
A chamber is provided that works as a peristaltic pump for the pressure correction in the tire, which is a part of the tire or of an ancillary structure placed between the rim and the tire bead and is connected with the tire internal space at one end and with the external environment at the other end. The chamber is in the shape of a curved hollow channel, where at least one enclosing wall is at least partially formed by at least a pair of surfaces coplanar with the longitudinal direction of the chamber. When the tire is mounted on the rim, the pair of surfaces are pressed together thus hermetically closing the chamber. When the chamber is closed during rotation of the wheel, the surfaces can slightly slide on one another taking internal wall tensions onto themselves thus decreasing the possibility of wall damage through ripping.
US10723182B2
A wireless vehicle data communications device is adapted for mounting on a wheel hub assembly of a vehicle and incorporates a self-generating electrical power supply. The vehicle data communications device includes a housing, a microprocessor located inside the housing, a signal transmitting device, a signal receiving device, an electric generator, and an energy storage and supply medium. The housing is adapted to rotate simultaneously with the wheel hub assembly when the vehicle is in motion. The electric generator include a plurality of wire coils and magnets. One of the wire coils and magnets is attached to an independently influenced components carrier, and the other of the wire coils and magnets is designed to rotate substantially simultaneously with the housing. The wire coils and magnets are arranged such that rotation of the housing relative to the components carrier generates a magnetic field and induces an electric current.
US10723180B2
In a tire, in a cross-section of a core of a bead taken at a plane perpendicular to the circumferential direction, two or more rows of wire cross-sections aligned in the axial direction are stacked. When the radially innermost row is a first row and a row immediately outside the innermost row in the radial direction is a second row, the number of the cross-sections of the wire in the first row is less than that in the second row. An inner end of the second row is axially inward of a line drawn from an inner end of the first row and is perpendicular to a direction in which the first row extends. In the cross-section of the core taken at a plane perpendicular to the circumferential direction, an angle between a bottom side of the core and a bead base line is 2° to not greater than 9°.
US10723176B2
The present technology provides a rubber composition for sidewalls containing, a diene rubber, from 10 to 120 parts by mass of a carbon black, and from 3 to 30 parts by mass of an acid-modified polyolefin having a melting point of from 100 to 150° C. per 100 parts by mass of the diene rubber, a main chain of the acid-modified polyolefin being a homopolymer of an olefin; and a pneumatic tire using the same in sidewalls thereof.
US10723175B2
A quick attachment arm is provided for securing to an elevated and structurally supporting location. A multi-sided and compressible pair of bands are constructed of a spring-loaded material attached around a perimeter of a tubular cross section supporting location. A member extends form the band and, at a remote end of the member, an elongated arm is pivotally supported to and extends from the member, the arm adapted to supporting a weighted article placed thereupon.
US10723171B2
A wheel with flexible spokes, including a rim and hub, and spokes between the rim and hub made of fibrous material that causes the spokes to be both lighter in weight and stronger than comparable steel spokes. The spokes are also flexible and resilient such that they can bend while retaining their integrity and strength.
US10723170B2
A nonpneumatic tire includes a tread portion, an upper ring, and a plurality of spokes extending radially downward from the upper ring. Each spoke terminates at a lower end having a spoke mount configured to engage a corresponding hub mount. Each spoke is under substantially no tension when the tread portion is not in contact with a ground surface and when each spoke mount is disengaged from its corresponding hub mount. Each spoke is under tension when the tread portion is not in contact with the ground surface and when each spoke mount is engaged with its corresponding hub mount.
US10723166B1
A highlighter with a see-through area comprising a housing having a hollow body and an opening, an ink reservoir disposed inside the housing for storing ink, a nib disposed at the opening and an ink feeder disposed inside the housing for transporting ink from the ink reservoir to the nib. The housing further comprises a cut-out section disposed behind the nib to provide the see-through area for a user. The see-through area allows the user to see a section of text before highlighting. Alternatively, a section of the housing behind the nib can be constructed using transparent material such as plastic to provide a see-through area for a user.
US10723152B2
A printer includes a printhead assembly and a dryer. A transport mechanism conveys the printed media in a downstream direction between the printhead assembly and a dryer and between the dryer and an output device. The transport mechanism includes an electric field-generating transport member. The transport member includes a continuous belt supported by rollers. The belt is driven to transport the printed media on an upper surface of the belt. The belt includes an electrically-insulating inner layer and an electrically-insulating outer layer. First and second sets of electrical conductors are positioned intermediate the inner and outer layers. Electrical conductors in the second set are grounded and alternate with electrical conductors in the first set, A charging unit selectively applies a voltage to only a subset of the electrical conductors in the first set at a time, to electrostatically attract the printed media to the upper surface of the belt.
US10723151B2
A printer includes a housing, a printer cover configured to rotate between a closed position at which the printer cover closes an interior of the housing and an open position at which the printer cover opens the interior of the housing, a platen roller configured to feed print medium, a thermal head opposed to the platen roller when the printer cover is located at the closed position, and an operation member configured to connect and disconnect the thermal head, the operation member guides the print medium fed by the platen roller when the printer cover is located at the closed position.
US10723143B2
A method includes printing an image on substrate by a printhead using ultraviolet (UV) curable ink. The method includes selectively applying a first amount of UV radiation by a first region of a light source to a first area of the image after a first amount of time passes from printing the first area to form a first gloss level area having a glossy finish. The method also includes selectively applying a second amount of UV radiation by a second region of the light source to a second area of the image after a second amount of time passes from printing the second area to form a second gloss level area having a matte finish. At least one of the second amount of UV radiation is greater than the first amount of UV radiation and the first amount of time is greater than the second amount of time.
US10723139B2
The invention describes a laser printing system (100) for illuminating an object moving relative to a laser module of the laser printing system (100) in a working plane (180), the laser module comprising at least two laser arrays of semiconductor lasers and at least one optical element, wherein the optical element is adapted to image laser light emitted by the laser arrays, such that laser light of semiconductor lasers of one laser array is imaged to one pixel in the working plane of the laser printing system, and wherein the laser printing system is a 3D printing system for additive manufacturing and wherein two, three, four or a multitude of laser modules (201, 202) are provided, which are arranged in columns (c1, c2) perpendicular to a direction of movement (250) of the object in the working plane (180), and wherein the columns are staggered with respect to each other such that a first laser module (201) of a first column of laser modules (c1) is adapted to illuminate a first area (y1) of the object and a second laser module (202) of a second column (c2) of laser modules is adapted to illuminate a second area (y2) of the object, wherein the first area (y1) is adjacent to the second area (y2) such that continuous illumination of the object is enabled.
US10723136B2
An image formation device includes a plurality of nozzles, a processor which forms an image on the basis of print data, and a memory which stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, perform processes including, performing first ejection control which ejects a first amount of the ink at a timing of one of a forward path and a return path in the main scan direction, when printing is performed by a multi-pass method in which each of pixel arrays is printed by a plurality of main scans and, in each of the plurality of main scans, the ink is ejected onto the same pixel array from the respectively different nozzles, and performing second ejection control configured to eject a second amount of the ink at a timing different from the previous timing of the ejection of the ink, the second amount being smaller than the first amount.
US10723109B2
The invention relates to a method for making a structure with at least a first polymer layer and a second polymer layer, each made from a polycarbonate polymer based on bisphenol A, and in between the first polymer layer and the second polymer layer an intermediate layer being arranged, comprising the following steps: a) the intermediate layer is applied at least on a partial region of the first polymer layer, b) optionally the intermediate layer is dried, c) the first polymer layer is coated on the side, on which the intermediate layer is arranged, with a liquid preparation comprising a solvent or a mixture of solvents and a polycarbonate derivative based on a geminally disubstituted dihydroxydiphenyl cycloalkane, the preparation covering the intermediate layer, d) optionally a drying step is made after step c), e) after step c) or step d), the second polymer layer is placed on the first polymer layer, covering the intermediate layer, f) the first polymer layer and the second polymer layer are laminated with each other under pressure, at a temperature from 120° C. to 230° C. and for a defined time.
US10723107B2
Provided is a stretchable laminate which has a sufficient holding ability in the case of being stretched to be bonded onto another material and is excellent in feeling of touch. Also provided is an article including such stretchable laminate. The stretchable laminate of the present invention is a stretchable laminate, including: an elastomer layer; and a non-woven fabric layer arranged on at least one side of the elastomer layer, the stretchable laminate including an elastic lane portion and a rigid lane portion, the rigid lane portion requiring a strength of from 1 N/20 mm to 7 N/20 mm for obtaining a 5% deformation amount.
US10723103B2
A chromatic stratified panel structure (100) for generating a sun-sky-imitating effect in lighting systems (1) comprises two cover panels (102, 104) at least one of which being a transparent panel; an adhesive transparent polymeric layer (106) sandwiched between the two inner faces of the two cover panels; and at least one nanoparticle-based Rayleigh-like diffusing coating (108) applied to an inner face of at least one of the two cover panels (102, 104) and/or to a face of the adhesive transparent polymeric layer (106) and forming an interlayer between one of the cover panels (102, 104) and the adhesive transparent polymeric layer (106).
US10723096B2
The invention relates to a method for producing packaging (18) from paper material (5), in particular paper, cardboard or paperboard, said method comprising the following steps: forming packaging (18) from a blank (19) made of paper material (5), which paper material overlaps at at least one joining site (21); positioning the at least one joining site (21) between a sonotrode (2) and an anvil (3); applying the joining site (21) with a joining force in a joining force direction (6); and making the sonotrode (2) ultrasonically vibrate in order to ultrasonically weld the paper material (5) at the joining site (21), which method is characterised in that the paper material (5) is moistened, preferably on the inner sides of the joining sites (21), before forming the packaging (18) and/or while forming the packaging (18) and/or after forming the packaging (18) and/or during the ultrasonic welding.
US10723094B2
The present invention provides an annular beam of monolithic construction of one homogeneous material and a related efficient, low-cost non-pneumatic tire. Specific geometric design, combined with nonlinear elastomer physical properties, enable the suppression of all reinforcing belts, continuous fibers, or other strengthening layers in the annular beam. The annular beam consists of at least two bands that are continuous in the circumferential direction and connected by a web geometry. The non-pneumatic tire consists of the annular beam, a ground contacting portion, a central wheel, and a plurality of web spokes that connect the wheel and beam. When the tire is loaded to a design load against a flat surface over a design contact length, a contact area of essentially uniform pressure is produced, while the load is transmitted from the beam to the hub via tension in the web spokes. The tire can be economically manufactured.
US10723093B2
A process includes: supplying a main resin from outer and inner flow channel, to a joined flow channel at a predetermined supply velocity for a predetermined time; supplying a second resin from a middle flow channel to the joined flow channel simultaneously with the main resin at a predetermined supply velocity for a certain time within the predetermined time; and sliding a shut-off pin to bring the pin forefront to a predetermined position near an outlet of the inner flow channel, open to the joined flow channel, before the second resin is supplied, or during a time starting after a time from the start of the second resin supply and ending with the termination of the supply, so that the velocity of main resin supply from the inner flow channel to the joined flow channel is reduced to a predetermined level by adjusting the degree of aperture for the outlet.
US10723089B2
A method of manufacturing a composite laminate structure of a wind turbine blade part is performed by resin transfer moulding. The fibre-reinforcement material is impregnated with liquid resin in a mould cavity which includes a rigid mould part having a mould surface defining a surface of the wind turbine blade part. The method includes alternately stacking on the rigid mould part: i) a number of fibre-reinforcement layers including electrically conductive fibres and ii) a flow strip layer in form of a layer of flow strips having a strip width and which are arranged so as to form voids having a void width between two juxtaposed strips. The method includes sealing a second mould part against the rigid mould part in order to form the mould cavity, optionally evacuating the mould cavity, supplying a resin to the mould cavity, and curing the resin to form the composite laminate structure.
US10723073B2
A system for additively manufacturing a composite part is disclosed. The system may include a vat configured to hold a supply of resin, and a build surface disposed inside the vat. The system may also include a print head configured to discharge a matrix-coated continuous reinforcement onto the build surface, and an energy source configured to expose resin on a surface of the matrix-coated continuous reinforcement to a cure energy.
US10723070B2
A production system for simultaneous additive manufacturing of several components using selective laser sintering or laser melting methods, wherein in at least one production processing section at least two construction apparatuses in the form of SLM and/or SLS apparatuses are provided, each having at least one construction container that can be removed from a process chamber of the apparatuses, at least one removal station for extracting a finished component from a construction container, at least one post-processing station for thermal and/or mechanical surface post-treatment of finished removed components, and at least one storage section for storing the components.
US10723068B2
A method of additively manufacturing parts by selectively cooling a liquefied thermoplastic material.
US10723064B2
An armor for a heat shrink kit for joining a first length of heating cable and a second length of heating cable. The armor includes a spring configured to be positioned over at least a portion of the heat shrink kit, a first fastener configured to couple the spring to at least one of the first length of heating cable and the heat shrink kit, and a second fastener configured to couple the spring to at least one of the second length of heating cable and the heat shrink kit. The armor is configured to provide impact protection to the heat shrink kit.
US10723061B2
While naturally suctioning air between a first thermoplastic resin sheet and a second thermoplastic resin sheet from a fluid passage formed in a first thermoplastic resin sheet, the first thermoplastic resin sheet is subjected to vacuum-molding by a first vacuum molding die, a first shaping section is formed in the first thermoplastic resin sheet by a molded section of the first vacuum molding die, the second thermoplastic resin sheet is subjected to vacuum-molding by a second vacuum molding die, a second shaping section is formed in the second thermoplastic resin sheet by the molded section of the second vacuum molding die, and a hollow section is defined between the first thermoplastic resin sheet and the second thermoplastic resin sheet by the first shaping section and the second shaping section.
US10723059B2
A Molding unit for the forming of a container includes: a mold provided with a side wall defining a cavity bearing the impression of a portion of the container; an insert having a frontal surface bearing the impression of a local portion of the container, movable between a retracted position and a deployed position, with this insert being penetrated by ducts; a pierced piston to which the insert is attached and which ensures the mobility of the latter between its retracted position and its deployed position; and at least one pierced screw by which the insert is attached to the piston.
US10723053B2
Provided are skin-forming apparatus and method. The apparatus includes a mold having a cavity defining a skin-forming space and a vent core system coupled to the mold for discharging residual gas. The vent core system includes a vent hole formed in the mold and connecting the cavity of the mold to the outside, a vent core mounted in the mold for opening an inlet of the vent hole to discharge the residual gas or closing the inlet of the vent hole to block leakage of the resin, a temperature sensor disposed in a resin flow course in the cavity while being spaced apart from the inlet of the vent hole by a predetermined distance, a controller, and a core driving unit for driving the vent core to perform opening and closing operations based on the control signal of the controller in accordance with the temperature measured by the temperature sensor.
US10723051B2
An air freshener has a rigidifying core defining a central axis, and an outer portion or sleeve contacting the core that is formed from one or more fragrance loaded polymers. Together, the core and outer portion are shaped to surround a first axis perpendicular to the central axis. The air freshener is made by injection molding a first shot of at least one polymer material to form the core, and injection molding a second shot of at least one polymer material incorporating one or more fragrance materials over or onto or into at least a portion of the core. The second shot of polymer material may be stretched about the portion of the core during injection molding, and may flow into a first hole formed in the core at or near the core distal end, and fills a second hole formed in the core at or near the core proximal end.
US10723047B2
A blade for a hockey stick which can readily absorb impact from the puck, and can allow the user to feel the puck on the blade in contrast to conventional carbon fiber blades. The blade can include a blade member integrally formed of composite material having discontinuous fibers bonded within thermosetting resin. The blade member can have a blade periphery surrounding a central blade region. The central blade region can have a plurality of openings arranged in a pattern to form series of elongate criss crossing ribs that extend between and connect different sides of the blade periphery to each other. The fibers in the blade periphery can be in a generally jumbled orientation, and the fibers in the central blade region can be positioned within the ribs in a manner wherein each rib contains a plurality of fibers that substantially extend in said each rib's elongate direction.
US10723033B2
A sheet material (1) consisting of an mixture consisting essentially of: a) 10-50 percent by weight of random-oriented fibres, and; b) 90-50 percent by weight of a thermoplastic or thermoplastic elastomer; the weight percentages being based on the overall homogeneous mixture; and the sheet material having at room temperature a Shore D hardness of 40 to 85, preferably of 40 to 60, more preferably of 45 to 55. The sheet material (1) is used as a support in punching applications or as the top layer in punching belts (2).
US10723027B2
Robot systems including a robot, an on-premise computing device, and a cloud services system are disclosed. An on-premise computing device includes a processor and a non-transitory memory device storing machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive raw sensor data from a robot, pre-process the sensor data to remove unnecessary information from the sensor data and obtain pre-processed data, transmit the pre-processed data to a cloud services system, receive, from the cloud services system, an object type, an object pose, and an object location of an object corresponding to the pre-processed data, and transmit a signal to the robot based on at least one of the object type, the object pose, and the object location of the object.
US10723025B2
In some aspects, computer-implemented methods for selecting a robotic tool path for a manufacturing processing system to execute a material processing sequence in three-dimensional space can include: providing to a computer-readable product including robotic system data of a robotic tool handling system and workpiece data relating to a processing path of a tool along the workpiece; generating a plurality of possible robotic tool paths to be performed to move the tool along the processing path; identifying one or more obstacles, or an absence of obstacles, associated with the robotic tool paths; comparing robotic tool paths based on a predetermined robotic parameter to be controlled as the tool moves from the start point to the end point; and based on the identified obstacles, determining feasible tool paths, between the start point and the end point that avoid the obstacles, that can be obtained by adjusting the predetermined robotic parameter.
US10723013B2
An apparatus for assembling a panel, the apparatus including a main support, a press head and a movable stop, where the movable stop has at least two adjustable tensioning elements, a stop element and gripping mechanisms, each of the adjustable tensioning elements including a front end and a rear end, each admitting at least one opening position and one closing position, where the stop element is joined in an articulated way to the front ends of the adjustable tensioning elements, where the gripping mechanisms are joined to the rear ends of the adjustable tensioners, the gripping mechanisms admitting a first position in which the adjustable tensioning elements are configured in the opening position and a second position wherein the adjustable tensioning elements are configured in the closing position.
US10723002B1
An inline clamp system having a base, a shoe having a plurality of teeth and a scroll wheel having a helical feature on a cone shaped surface. The helical feature of the scroll wheel meshes with the teeth of the shoe such that rotation of the scroll wheel in a first rotational direction causes linear movement of the shoe in a first linear direction and rotation of the scroll wheel in a second rotational direction causes linear movement of the shoe in a second linear direction, the first rotational direction being opposite the second rotational direction and the first linear direction being opposite the second linear direction. The scroll wheel rotates around an axis of rotation at a slight angle to the linear plane of movement of the shoe such that the helical feature engages the teeth only on one side of the axis of rotation.
US10723001B2
A multi-stage tooling pin clamp capable of holding weld nuts of different sizes includes a housing having a proximal end, a distal end, and a plurality of longitudinal stages extending between the proximal and distal ends. A plunging pin within the housing and includes a plurality of tapered surfaces configured to radially displace at least one locking ball ring assembly disposed in at least one of the plurality of longitudinal stages of the housing. An actuating mechanism is in communication with the plunging pin configured to move the plunging pin toward the distal end of the housing to displace the at least one locking ball ring assembly radially outward to hold the weld nut, and a restoring mechanism in communication with the plunging pin configured to move the plunging pin toward the proximal end of the housing to release the hold on the weld nut.
US10722999B2
A chemical mechanical polishing pad for polishing a semiconductor substrate is provided containing a polishing layer that comprises a polyurethane reaction product of a reaction mixture comprising (i) one or more diisocyanate, polyisocyanate or polyisocyanate prepolymer, (ii) from 40 to 85 wt. % based on the total weight of (i) and (ii) of one or more blocked diisocyanate, polyisocyanate or polyisocyanate prepolymer which contains a blocking agent and has a deblocking temperature of from 80 to 160° C., and (iii) one or more aromatic diamine curative. The reaction mixture has a gel time at 80° C. and a pressure of 101 kPa of from 2 to 15 minutes; the polyurethane reaction product has a residual blocking agent content of 2 wt. % or less; and the polishing layer exhibits a density of from 0.6 to 1.2 g/cm3.
US10722996B2
A polishing method is described for polishing a machine component comprising at least one airfoil portion comprised of a suction side, a pressure side, a leading edge and a trailing edge. The method provides for arranging the machine component in a container and constraining the machine component to the container. A polishing mixture is added in the container, and the container is caused to vibrate together with the machine component constrained thereto, thereby generating a polishing mixture flow along the airfoil portion until a final arithmetic average roughness is achieved.
US10722988B2
A work table support device capable of adapting to a plurality of applications. The workpiece support device includes a base; a conductive work table rotatably supported on the base; a current-collecting brush that is fixed to the base, slidably contacts an end face of the work table, and supplies electric power to work table, and a cover that is removably attached to the base, surrounds the current-collecting brush and the end face, and includes cover segments that can be assembled and disassembled one another.
US10722974B2
A system and method for processing parts from a workpiece is provided. The method may include identifying characteristics of a workpiece to be processed, nesting, by a computer controller, a first nest pattern of a local first part to be cut out of the workpiece, identifying, by a computer controller, an unused portion of the workpiece not occupied by the first nest pattern, querying, by a computer controller, a remote database to identify a remote second part to be cut, wherein the second part comprises material characteristics corresponding to the characteristics of the workpiece and is nestable in the unused portion of the workpiece, and nesting the local first part and the remote second part on the workpiece.
US10722971B2
In some aspects, methods of initiating a plasma arc of a plasma arc torch to pierce a workpiece and detecting plasma piercing through the workpiece to begin a cutting sequence can include calculating a pulse width modulation characteristic of an electrical signal associated with a plasma arc between an electrode of a plasma arc torch and a workpiece to be processed; monitoring the characteristic during operation of the torch over a time period of a workpiece piercing sequence; comparing the characteristic to a threshold value; and responsive to determining that a calculated characteristic meets and/or exceeds the threshold value, ending the workpiece piercing sequence and beginning the cutting sequence and causing the plasma arc torch to move relative to the workpiece to form a cut.
US10722964B2
In solder printer, solder supply device uses positive and negative pressure supply device to apply pressure inside air chamber to move solder cup inside outer tube, such that solder paste is supplied from supply nozzle. Controller, when supply of solder paste from supply nozzle is stopped, performs drive control of positive and negative pressure supply device to decrease the pressure inside air chamber, and uses timer to measure the time required from the starting of decreasing the pressure inside the air chamber to when the pressure inside air chamber has reached a set pressure. Because this required time corresponds to the movement amount of solder cup from the start of supply of the solder paste to when supply is stopped, controller using the measured required to estimate the remaining amount of the solder paste in detail with good accuracy.
US10722962B2
A saw wire and various methods of use and manufacture are provided. The saw wire includes a metal wire containing at least one of tungsten and a tungsten alloy. A nickel plating layer is provided over the metal wire. An adhesion layer is provided at an interface between the metal wire and the nickel plating layer. The adhesion layer contains nickel and tungsten. A plurality of abrasive particles are provided at a surface of the nickel plating layer.
US10722957B2
A cutting device for cutting a number of structural steels in series is disclosed. The cutting device may include a cutting mechanism coupled to an actuating mechanism, both mounted on a support frame. The cutting mechanism may include a stationary cutting member having a plurality of openings and a movable cutting member mounted in side-by-side abutment with the stationary cutting member. Each lateral opening on the stationary cutting member is aligned with the corresponding opening on the movable cutting member, thereby forming a single extended opening, which is capable of receiving a workpiece therein. The movable cutting member is movable relative to the stationary cutting member from a first position to a second position. As the movable cutting member moves, it moves the aligned openings of the individual cutting members out of alignment one after another thereby shearing the workpieces in the process.
US10722951B1
An adjustable holding device having a pair of adjustment drill grooves and a transverse exhaust channel. Attached to the base is a vertical support member having guide supports. At least one of the guide supports is horizontally adjustable. Drill guides are removably attached to the guide support for both vertical and horizontal adjustment.
US10722941B2
A system for separating a part from a monolithic tree includes a camera positioned facing the tree and configured to identify a cut mark on a gate of the tree; and a cutter configured to cut the part from the tree at the cut mark. A method for separating a part from a monolithic tree includes marking the tree with a cut mark; identifying the cut mark with a camera; determining an orientation and a position of the cut mark; determining an orientation and a position of the tree from the orientation and the position of the cut mark; transmitting information on the orientation and position of the tree from the camera to a cutter; and cutting the part from the tree.
US10722940B2
Methods and apparatus for continuously casting thin strip where one or more expansion rings are positioned within at least one of a pair of casting rolls, and automatically measuring a thickness of the cast strip close to the first side edge of the strip using at least one sensor, and if the thickness measured is too thin, automatically decreasing the radial dimension of the expansion ring arranged in close proximity to the first side edge to cause the cylindrical tube to contract and increase the thickness of the cast strip during casting, and if the thickness measured indicates that the thickness of the cast strip is too thick, automatically increasing the radial dimension of the expansion ring arranged in close proximity to the first side edge to cause the cylindrical tube to expand and reduce the thickness of the cast strip during casting.
US10722936B2
A method of rivet bonding a workpiece stack-up that includes one or more polymer composite workpieces, such as carbon fiber composite workpieces, involves several steps. In one step, adhesive is applied to a surface of the workpiece stack-up. In another step, workpieces—including the polymer composite workpiece(s)—are brought together. In yet another step the adhesive is partially or more cured. A rivet is installed through the workpiece stack-up and through the adhesive in another step. The method strengthens the resulting rivet-bonded joint by minimizing or altogether precluding fracture, cracking, and/or delamination thereat.
US10722929B2
To cool a metal strip (1), liquid coolant (5) is supplied to the strip by a supply device (9) from a feed line (10). A valve (13) in the feed line (10) sets the valve (13) to a respective opening position (s) for adjusting the coolant flow (F) to the metal strip (1) per unit of time. An upstream condition detection device (14) upstream of the valve device (13) in the feed line (10) detects an upstream condition (ZV) of the coolant (5). A control unit (6) determines a set point (s*) for an opening position (s) of the valve device (13) corresponding to the set point (F*) for the coolant flow (F) based on a set point (F*) for the coolant flow (F*), the upstream condition (ZV) of the coolant (5) and a valve characteristic (C) of the valve device (13). The valve characteristic (C) follows a characteristic curve (K) of the coolant flow (F) as a function of the opening position (s) of the valve device (13), relative to a reference condition (ZR) of the coolant (5) upstream of the valve device (13) in the feed line (10). The control unit (6) sets the opening position (s) of the valve device (13) according to the set point (s*) that has been determined.
US10722927B2
A disclosed purge filament for cleaning and lubricating a nozzle of a 3-D printing machine includes a carrier resin from 85 to 99.005% by volume of the purge filament, a lubricant between 0.5% to 10% by volume of the purge filament, and a cleaning agent between 0.005 to 5% by volume of the purge filament. The purge filament is utilized as part of a method of cleaning a 3-D printing machine to dissolve and remove residue while cleaning and lubricating internal surfaces of an extruding head and nozzle.
US10722925B2
A treatment head for treating a surface area of a substrate includes a housing having a main surface configured to be arranged adjacent to and facing the surface area of the substrate to be treated. An exhaust opening in the main surface of the housing is connectable to an exhaust device via an exhaust gas path formed at least in part in the housing. A radiative heater is arranged in the housing to emit heat radiation through a radiation opening in the main surface. A plasma source is arranged in the housing to emit a plasma jet through a plasma exit opening in the main surface. An outlet opening in the main surface of the housing is connectable to a gas source via an gas path formed at least in part in the housing. The centers of the exhaust opening, the radiation opening, the plasma exit opening, and the outlet opening are arranged in the above order along a first direction of the main surface.
US10722924B2
The exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the field of clean technologies, and particularly to a dust removal device for a display screen, a dust removal method and corresponding display device. The dust removal device comprises at least one nozzle which is configured to eject gas to the display screen; at least one mobile device which is configured to move the at least one nozzle to a predetermined position; a gas supply device which is connected with the at least one nozzle via a conduit; and a control device which is configured to control the movement of the at least one mobile device and the gas ejection of the at least one nozzle. The dust removal device and the corresponding display device based on the exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure can realize fixed-point mechanical dust removal and improve the dust removal effect.
US10722922B2
A material sorting system sorts materials utilizing a vision system that implements a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, which are then sorted into separate groups based on such an identification or classification determining that the materials are composed of either wrought aluminum or cast aluminum.
US10722919B2
A spoil treatment plant configured within a frame for easy relocation. The spoil treatment plant comprises a dump bin held within the frame for receiving spoil, a vibrating screen separator mounted in the frame away from the dump bin, an elevator located within the frame, the elevator transporting spoil from the dump bin to the vibrating screen separator, a slurry tank within the frame below the vibrating screen separator that collects slurry; and a chute adjacent the vibrating screen separator that delivers spadeable fill. The vibrating screen separator separates the spoil into spadeable fill delivered from the chute and fine slurry delivered to the slurry tank. The spoil treatment plant may also comprise a further dewatering element, such as a rotary press, that extracts water from the spadeable fill.
US10722916B2
A caulk wiping attachment for a caulk gun includes a tube having at least one open end for providing a circular wiping edge. The tube can be attached directly to a barrel of the caulk gun or to a disposable caulk cartridge installed into the barrel of the caulk gun. The tube can be cylindrical with an annular cross section. The tube can be attached to the caulk cartridge using a sleeve slipped over the caulk cartridge, the tube being attached to an outside of the sleeve. A disposable liner or cup can be held within the tube.
US10722915B2
A valve (100, 200, 300) includes a material with a first side surface (114, 214), a second side surface (116, 216), defining between them a thickness of the material. The material includes at least two self-sealing slits (126, 130, 226, 230) extending through the thickness and includes at least one frangible portion (150, 250) extending laterally between the at least two slits (126, 130, 226, 230) for at least part of said thickness of the material. The material includes confronting, openable portions along the at least two slits (126, 130, 226, 230) to define a normally closed orifice to minimize communication through the valve (100, 200, 300). The openable portions are constrained by the at least one frangible portion (150, 250) from moving away from each other into an open condition.
US10722904B2
The present invention relates to a collector composition containing 80 to 100 wt % of at least one alkylethermonoamine, less than 20 wt % alkyletherdiamine, all wt % based on total weight of all amine components, and wherein the alkylethermonoamine contains between 60 and 93% isotridecyl(C13)etherpropylamine, 5 and 30% of isododecyl(C12)etherpropylamine, 0 and 10% of isoundecyl(C11)-etherpropylamine, 0 and 10% of isodecyl(C10)etherpropylamine, 2 and 10% tetradecyl(C14) etherpropylamine, all % being based on total weight of alkylethermonoamine and the use thereof in a process to treat iron ore.
US10722903B2
A tailings recovery process comprises: feeding ore pulp into a concentration barrel of a concentrating machine; driving the concentration barrel to rotate around its own central axis while the ore pulp flows, so as to enable the ore pulp to be continuously stirred and turn over in inner cavity of the concentration barrel; applying a magnetic field to the ore pulp by means of a magnetic field generation device; accurately sorting the ore pulp by means of a classifier, so as to enable selected minerals in the ore pulp to be exposed under the action of the magnetic field in processes of rising and dropping, thus attaching to an inner wall of the concentration barrel and moving upwards until reaching a collecting area; by making the selected minerals fall into a material receiving trough of the concentrating machine in the collecting area, enabling other materials in the ore pulp except the selected minerals to enter into a tailings trough of the concentrating machine at the bottom of the inner cavity of the concentration barrel and then into a tailings conveying system.
US10722900B2
An apparatus for paper shredding and compacting which includes a shredded paper storage portion, a movable disposed within the shredded paper storage portion, and a movable push rod.
US10722895B2
The present disclosure provides a generally cylindrical bowl support for a cone crusher which includes a plurality of evenly, circumferentially spaced ears around the periphery of the support. The ears are designed to have clamping cylinders mounted thereto to provide protection from tramp iron and the like passing through the cone crusher. A plurality of thickened ribs are defined in the support, at least some of the thickened ribs extending downwardly from the ears to form abutting polygon configurations to spread and absorb forces from a crushing operation. Other ones of the ribs define at least one circumferentially-extending, continuous ring forming portions of the polygons.
US10722892B2
An assembly (10) (FIG. 1) having a passive beta port (12) and an active alpha port (14), the passive and the active are complementarily shaped such that they can engage with one another. The passive beta port (12) has an annular flange (16) defining an annular opening to which is releasably securable a passive port door (18). Disposed at the distal end of the passive (12), at the opposite end to the annular flange 16 is an annular clamp (22) having two handles (24). Disposed between the annular ring (16) and the annular clamp (22) is the gaiter (26) of the protective member (28). The protective member has a cylindrical body (30) forming a funnel through which material may pass. The free end (32) is sized so as to be capable of passing through the port formed between the alpha and beta ports (12, 14).
US10722880B2
Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and systems for efficient loading and retrieval of particles. In some embodiments, a fluidic channel of a flowcell comprises a ceiling, a first sidewall, and a bottom, wherein the contact angle of the ceiling is at least 10 degrees smaller than the contact angle of the first sidewall, and wherein the bottom of the fluidic channel comprises a substrate that comprises a plurality of microwells.
US10722877B2
A honeycomb structure includes a pillar-shaped honeycomb structure body having porous partition walls, wherein the partition walls have projecting portions, the projecting portions include specific projecting portions in which side surfaces have a divergent shape inclined at an inclination angle of 40 to 70°, a relation of 0.04≤H/A≤0.40 is satisfied, a relation of 0.04≤H1/A≤0.38 is satisfied, the height H of the specific projecting portion and the height H1 of the hem satisfy a relation of H1
US10722872B2
JMZ-5, an aluminosilicate having an SZR framework type and a sea-urchin type morphology is described. A calcined product, JMZ-5C, formed from JMZ-5 is also described. JMZ-6, an aluminosilicate having an SZR framework type and a needle, aggregate morphology is described. A calcined product, JMZ-6C, formed from JMZ-6 is also described. Methods of preparing these zeolites and their metal-containing calcined counterparts are described along with methods of using these zeolites and their metal containing calcined counterparts in treating exhaust gases.
US10722871B2
A catalyst for the dehydrogenation of alkanes to alkenes comprises a catalytically active material supported on a carrier, wherein the catalytically active material is a metallic sulfide (MeS) comprising Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo or W or any combination of two or more metals selected from Pb, Sn, Zn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Mo and W. The catalyst is regenerated in several steps. The dehydrogenation is carried out at a temperature between 450 and 650° C. and a pressure from 0.9 bar below ambient pressure to 5 bar above ambient pressure.
US10722867B2
Shaped porous carbon products and processes for preparing these products are provided. The shaped porous carbon products can be used, for example, as catalyst supports and adsorbents. Catalyst compositions including these shaped porous carbon products, processes of preparing the catalyst compositions, and various processes of using the shaped porous carbon products and catalyst compositions are also provided.
US10722865B2
Multi-functional composition of matter for removal of mercury from high temperature flue gas streams
A multi-functional composition of matter that is useful for injection into a flue gas stream to rapidly and efficiently remove mercury from the flue gas streams, particularly at above average flue stream temperatures of about 340° F. or higher. The multi-functional composition of matter may include a fixed carbon content of at least about 20 wt. %, a mineral content of from about 20 wt. % to about 50 wt. %, a sum of micropore plus mesopore volume of at least about 0.20 cc/g, a micropore volume to mesopore volume ratio of at least about 0.7, and a tapped density of not greater than about 0.575 g/ml. These compositions may be further characterized by number of particles per gram of the composition of matter such that the composition may have at least about 0.8 billion particles per gram, or even as many as 1.5 billion particles per gram. These physical and chemical properties may enhance (1) the oxidation reaction kinetics for the oxidation of mercury species, (2) frequency of contact events, and (3) capture and sequestration of mercury, to achieve efficient mercury capture by the composition even in high temperature flue gas streams.
US10722856B2
A multi-disk spinning disk assembly for atomization and encapsulation applications. A number of disks 17a and spacers (33, 40) are stacked to form a disk stack 17 having a feed well 31 in the center core of the stack. The fluid to be atomized or encapsulated is delivered to the feed well 31. The fluid then flows into spacer channels (37, 41) within or on the surface of the spacers. The channels (37, 41) communicate the fluid toward the outer edges of the disks 17a. The disk surface past the spacers (33, 40) can have various configurations, such as teeth, weirs, or a bigger or smaller diameter, as desired for particular atomization or encapsulation characteristics.
US10722855B2
A storage and mixing device for two-component polymethyl methacrylate bone cements having a cylindrical interior of a cartridge that is delimited on a front side by a cartridge head, a plunger arranged to be axially movable in the cylindrical interior of the cartridge and spaced from the cartridge head, a powdery first parent component of the bone cement, that is contained in the interior between the plunger and the cartridge head, a feed-through arranged in the cartridge head or in the cylinder barrel of the cartridge between the plunger and the cartridge head. The feed-through is connectable to a fluid line, a receptacle for a monomer liquid, wherein the fluid line connects the feed-through to the receptacle in a liquid-permeable manner, and a press-out device pushable into the receptacle, so that monomer liquid is pressable out of the receptacle into the fluid line. The plunger (2) is spaced from a back side of the cylindrical interior, located opposite the front side, so that, by moving the plunger in the direction of the back side, the press-out device is pushable into the receptacle and a reduced pressure is producible in the interior of the cartridge between the plunger and the cartridge head.
US10722850B2
Disclosed is a hollow fiber that contains an outer layer made of a first polymer and an inner layer made of a second polymer, the inner layer including at its outer surface a macrovoid-free thin interface sublayer in contact with the inner surface of the outer layer. The first polymer is immiscible with the second polymer. Also disclosed is a process of preparing the above-described hollow fiber.
US10722842B2
A carbon abatement system includes at least one carbon abatement panel including a carbon abatement material. The at least one carbon abatement panel is rotatable about an axis to maximize exposure of the carbon abatement material to sunlight.
US10722837B2
A class of water lean, organic solvents that can bind with various acid gasses to form acid gas bound molecules having a high degree of intramolecular hydrogen bonding which enables their use as regenerable solvents for acid gas capture. Unlike the other devices described in the prior art, the present invention takes advantage of shortened distances between the portions of the molecule that form hydrogen bonds within the structures when loaded with an acid gas so as to create a molecule with a higher internal bonding affinity and a reduced proclivity for agglomeration with other molecules.
US10722824B2
A system and methods are disclosed for treating cooling fluid in a continuous metal casting process having a spray chamber. In some embodiments, the system includes a first compartment with an intermittently operable outlet (e.g., valve) with an open state and a closed state, for removing particulate matter, and a second compartment that receives particle-free fluid from the first compartment. The first compartment may be tapered, conical, funnel, pyramidal shape or otherwise narrowed shape to facilitate settling of the particles. One or more sensors measure at least one property of the particle-free fluid to determine the opened or closed state of the outlet and to adjust chemical additives for the cooling fluid. In some embodiments, the system and methods reduce corrosion in spray chambers.
US10722822B2
A transportable separation apparatus for separating spent materials from oil and gas operations into a primarily solid component, a primarily liquid component and a primarily gas component. The transportable separation apparatus includes a first separation unit disposed on the transportable separation apparatus for receiving spent materials and beginning separation of the spent materials. The transportable separation apparatus connectable to a vehicle to be pulled on commercial roadways when the transportable separation apparatus is in a transportation configuration. The transportable separation apparatus further includes a second separation unit in fluid communication with the first separation unit for further separation of the spent materials. A method of using the transportable separation apparatus to separate spent materials.
US10722819B2
A sample catching system for cleaning a drilling fluid in a drilling operation includes a first line having a first entrance valve configured to allow the drilling fluid to flow into the first line, a first chemical sensor for measuring the amount of hydrogen sulfide of the drilling fluid in the first line, and a first sample catch valve configured to allow the drilling fluid to flow out of the first line. The system also includes a second line having a second entrance valve configured to allow the drilling fluid to flow into the second line, a sample catch pump, and a controller configured to determine the amount of hydrogen sulfide is above a predetermined threshold value, and open the second entrance valve to divert drilling fluid intake from the first line to the second line, and close the first entrance valve to stop the drilling fluid from entering the first line.
US10722817B2
An oil/water separator for removing oil-containing constituents from an oil/water mixture includes a main filter designed to separate oil-containing constituents from the oil/water mixture. Untreated oil/water mixture is supplied to the main filter and is removed from the oil/water separator after passing through the main filter, wherein the oil/water separator is designed for supply and removal of these liquids in accordance with the hydrostatic principle. The oil/water separator has a control unit designed to temporarily charge the oil/water separator with control air, by means of which overpressure can be used to push oil/water mixture through the main filter.
US10722813B2
A method of preparing organic or inorganic nanoparticles is useful in the manufacture of of fertilizers, pharmaceutical or phytopharmaceutical active ingredients, or insensitive energy materials. The method includes preparing a solution of a compound in a solvent, heating the solution under a pressure ranging from 3 to 300 bars at a temperature higher than the boiling point of the solvent, atomizing the solution in an spray drying chamber using at least one dispersion device and at an angle ranging from 30 to 150° under pressure ranging from 0.0001 to 2 bars, separating the solvent in gaseous form, and recovering the nanoparticles.
US10722810B1
A distillation system/method for distilling finished beer and beer residues into spirits or non-alcoholic concentrates employs distillation under low temperature(s) via vacuum pressure to beneficially prevent degradation of the base product to further beneficially capture volatile compounds that are distinctly “of beer” (or indicative of other base compounds) aroma and flavor in the final distilled product. The system also distills and separates valuable volatile components, such as hop oils, from beer waste without degradation or contamination of the flavors, thus allowing for their use, reclamation and repurposing. The system/process maintains the quality of beer through the entire distillation process, thus creating spirits and concentrates of higher quality that contain the distinct character of the beers (or other base compound) from which they originate.
US10722803B2
A system incorporates a managing server executing software on a processor, game servers serving video games, a plurality of network-connected mobile computerized appliances in use by persons to play games served by the game servers; and software executing on processors of the computerized appliances. Software at the computerized appliances provides interactive interfaces, enabling a first player launch a chat session through the managing server with one or more other players, enabling any one of the players in a chat session to associate a game served by one of the one or more game servers with the chat session, and enabling players in the chat session to enter the game associated with the chat session, and to leave the game and return to the chat session.
US10722791B2
Systems and methods for creating and delivering an interactive display of thumbnail windows of visual content of different video game sessions are presented. In one embodiment, a method provides for sending, by a server of hosting service, an interactive interface for display on display of a client device. The interactive interface has an array of thumbnail windows and each thumbnail window depicts visual content of different video game sessions being played. Responsive to a selection of a thumbnail window by a user of the client device, the method provides for sending a video stream associated with the selected thumbnail window from the array of thumbnail windows. The video stream enables the user of the client device to view interactive game play of a video game associated with the video stream.
US10722788B2
Systems for managing latency in networked competitive multiplayer gaming may include a latency management server that coordinates communications between game clients and game servers that enable a player to engage in a competitive multiplayer game, as well as other systems that balance the playing field, such as handicapping systems. Exemplary games may include, for example, first-person shooter games, real-time strategy games, fighting games, multiplayer online battle arena games, and the like. The latency management server may analyze network characteristics of the clients and servers and determine an appropriate server for each client or sets of clients. In some embodiments, the latency management server may add latency to particular communications to balance response times between all clients, provide a latency advantage to one or more clients, and the like. Scoring systems may implemented based on in-game actions, and scoring may be weighted based on latencies. Other implementations also are described.
US10722783B2
A portable, handheld game console includes a main body incorporating a touch-sensitive display screen and a variety of input devices. The input devices can include shoulder buttons located on a peripheral side surface of the main body, as well as input devices located on the main body adjacent the touch-sensitive display screen.
US10722775B2
A robotic athletic training system may include a mobile robotic platform, a sensor module associated with the mobile robotic platform and configured to obtain data from an environment. The system may include a drive system that propels the platform, as well as a steering system that steers the platform. The system may include a processor which receives data from the sensor module and control the drive system or steering system to follow a path based on the data received from the sensor module. A method may include controlling a robotic athletic training system (or robotic training platform) so that it moves at a velocity. The robotic athletic training system may include a vision system configured to receive data related to a surface and compare a baseline data of a desired surface to the received data and adjusting a travel direction of the robotic system in response to the comparison.
US10722771B2
A system and method for more efficient tracking and automatically recommend an optimizing pinhole locations on putting greens are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system and method may be directed to identifying a global position of a pinhole location using a turf analysis device having a global positioning system (GPS) module configured to collect and assimilate pinhole location data and condition data to a server database. The server may then determine an optimal location of a new pinhole location based on all previously collected pinhole location data and all previous condition data. By tracking and analyzing the pinhole locations for one or more greens as well as corresponding condition data, follow-on pinhole locations can be optimized. In some embodiments, measurements of turf conditions may be used to influence the optimization of determining pinhole location.
US10722756B2
In a golf ball having a core and a cover of at least one layer, the outermost layer of the cover is formed of a resin composition that includes (A) 100 parts by weight of a thermoplastic resin, and (B) 1 to 30 parts by weight of a compound having a fluorene skeleton, or a derivative thereof, and the resin composition has a melt flow rate of at least 3.0 g/10 min. This resin composition for golf balls has an improved injection-moldability and thus enables the ball to achieve both a reduced spin rate and a good durability (scuff resistance).
US10722747B2
An exercise ring includes a ring comprising a flexible and inelastic material, and the ring includes a plurality of strands in a braid. A plurality of handles are disposed on opposing sides of the ring. The plurality of handles includes a cylindrical body having a first end, a second end, and a center portion, and the plurality of handles can provide an ergonomic gripping surface.
US10722742B2
The method for detoxifying asbestos disclosed here includes: preparing an asbestos-containing substance that contains at least one type of asbestos; preparing an asbestos treatment agent that contains a mineral acid and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone; and bringing the asbestos-containing substance into contact with the asbestos treatment agent so as to detoxify asbestos in the asbestos-containing substance. Due to this configuration, asbestos in the asbestos-containing substance can be favorably detoxified.
US10722740B2
An integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station a chassis; an electrically powered, variable-pressure liquid pump carried by the chassis; one or more rechargeable batteries powering the variable-pressure liquid pump to transfer liquid at variable pressures; one or more AC outlets carried by the chassis and powered by the one or more rechargeable batteries to provide emergency back-up power during power outage; wherein the emergency station includes at least one hardware processor; and one or more software modules that, when executed by the at least one hardware processor, initiates at least one of wireless signaling and wire-based signaling to user-determined outboard equipment to activate user pre-selected functions.
US10722739B2
A self-retracting lanyard including a main body and a retractable line. The retractable line is coupled to the main body so as to be extendible and retractable relative to the main body and to be restricted from extending relative to the main body in response to a user of the self-retracting lanyard falling. The self-retracting lanyard further includes a manual control operable by the user to initiate controlled descent of the retractable line relative to the main body.
US10722729B2
A neural probe is presented for local neural optogenetics stimulation and neurochemistry recordings. The neural probe includes a probe body, a shank extending from the probe body to a tip, a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes (LEDs) positioned across a length of a first surface of the shank for providing neuron-affecting light, a plurality of carbon devices, and a plurality of carbon electrodes positioned across a length of a second surface of the shank, the second surface in opposed relation to the first surface. The plurality of carbon electrodes can be vertically aligned carbon nanotubes or vertically aligned carbon nanofibers. The plurality of carbon electrodes can also be horizontally aligned carbon nanotubes. The plurality of micro LEDs activate neurons and the plurality of vertically aligned carbon electrodes electrochemically record neurotransmitters.
US10722702B2
According to an embodiment, an electrode array for a transmodiolar implant is disclosed. The implant includes a substrate, a conductive metal located at a plurality of discrete portions on the substrate; and a single layer of insulation material over the conductive metal and the substrate. The single layer of insulation material includes a plurality of apertures that expose the conductive metal, the exposed conductive metal forming a plurality of electrodes, wherein stiffness of the electrode array is adapted to allow insertion of the electrode array into a modiolus of a subject.
US10722701B2
A nerve stimulation apparatus is provided. The nerve stimulation apparatus detects nerve activities from a body surface and applies stimulation. The nerve stimulation apparatus includes a stimulation apparatus with multiple electrodes which are arranged on skin and a current supply unit which supplies a current to the electrodes, which stimulation apparatus provides the current to a living body percutaneously to stimulate a target nerve; a measurement apparatus which measures activities of muscles governed by the nerve according to the stimulation from the stimulation apparatus; and an information processing apparatus which determines, based on a measurement result of the nerve activities obtained from the measurement apparatus, which electrode is capable of providing the target nerve activities equal to or greater than a desired value.
US10722696B2
A nano-scale device and method of manufacturing and use. The nano-scale device may be used in-vivo and may comprise a fluid path with an inlet microchannel, an outlet microchannel, and a nanochannel. The fluid path comprises a bio-robust material. In certain embodiments, the bio-robust material may be coated over a material that is not bio-robust.
US10722692B2
Inflatable medical devices and methods for making and using the same are disclosed. The devices can be medical invasive balloons, such as those used for transcutaneous heart valve implantation, such as balloons used for transcatheter aortic-valve implantation. The balloons can have high strength, fiber-reinforced walls.
US10722689B2
Embodiments hereof relate to a guidewire formed from an elongated shaft, at least a portion of the shaft having an outer layer, a plurality of channels formed through the outer layer, and an inner core. The outer layer is formed from a material non susceptible to erosion by an erosion agent and the inner core is formed from a radiopaque material susceptible to erosion by the erosion agent. When exposed to the erosion agent, core material adjacent to the channels is removed to form a pattern of integral radiopaque segments or markers with a plurality of voids therebetween. By controlling the location of channels and the rate of erosion of the core material, the pattern of integral radiopaque segments and voids allow for in situ measurement when viewed under fluoroscopy.
US10722679B2
Embodiments of the invention provide methods and devices for improved drainage systems and tubing. In one embodiment, a context-sensitive flow interrupter is provided that inhibits or facilitates flow of fluid when engaged with a mating holder. In another embodiment, outflow is optimized through control of the pressure in gas pockets in a tube, drainage tube or assembly. In one such embodiment, gas pockets are vented to inhibit excessive back-pressure or suction on an organ, vessel or cavity being drained. In another such embodiment, loops in the tubes are avoided by using a mechanical template in the form of a groove or peg assembly to thread the slack in the drainage tube to generate a monotonic gradient. In another embodiment, such as for active drainage systems, a bypass channel is provided that allows an applied vacuum to go around an obstruction created by the collection of fluid in an undrained dependent loop.
US10722676B2
The present invention provides a gas generator including an electrolytic device, a gas pathway, and a three-way valve module. The electrolytic device is configured for electrolyzing electrolyzed water to generate gas with hydrogen. The gas generated from the electrolytic device is transferred by the gas pathway for inhaling. The three-way valve module is configured on the electrolytic device for balancing a pressure in the electrolytic device by importing an ambient gas. The present invention uses the three-way valve module to balance the pressure in the electrolytic device for maintaining the water level of the electrolyzed water, thereby avoiding the electrolyzed water splashing or corroding the other elements.
US10722675B2
The breathing assistance apparatus of the present invention includes a manifold that is provided with or retrofittable to gases supply and humidifying devices. The manifold allows gases from an oxygen concentrator to be combined with the flow through a gases supply and humidifying device, most usually air The combined output of oxygen and other breathing gases (air) is then humidified. The breathing assistance apparatus and manifold of the present invention provides a safe method to add oxygen to the input air stream of a gases supply and humidifying device and reduces the amount of accumulation of oxygen within the gases supply device, reducing fire risk should sparking occur within the device.
US10722674B2
A disposable breathing circuit is adapted to be connected between a disposable face mask and a vacuum source for delivering fresh gas to the face mask and for scavenging waste gas exhaled from the face mask. The breathing circuit includes a fresh gas supply limb and an exhalation limb, and a scavenging limb coupled to the exhalation limb. The scavenging limb includes a one-way valve to prevent re-breathing, a flexible flow-through reservoir bag used to store exhaled gas, and an output tube adapted to be coupled between the flow-through reservoir bag and the vacuum source.
US10722673B2
A headgear assembly includes a strap of a first flexible material with an elongate edge, and a second flexible material folded around and running along the elongate edge. The second flexible material may be an elastic material. The second flexible material may also cover an intersection or joint in the first flexible material such that the first flexible material may be made from two flexible materials layered together or joined end to end.
US10722671B2
A method and apparatus for determining the optimal endotracheal tube size for the intubation of a patient based upon both optimal tube length and optimal tube diameter which are determined by using either direct or indirect measurement devices or techniques to measure the patient's glottis aperture and tracheal length. The apparatus may include a maneuverable arm, a fiber optic video guidance system and an introducer guide to maneuver an end of the apparatus around obstructions in a patient who has a difficult airway to facilitate insertion of either an optimally sized endotracheal tube or a standard endotracheal tube into the patient's airway.
US10722668B2
An oscillating positive expiratory pressure device comprising a housing enclosing at least one chamber, a chamber inlet configured to receive exhaled air into the at least one chamber, and a chamber outlet configured to permit exhaled air to exit the at least one chamber. A channel is positioned in an exhalation flow path between the chamber inlet and the chamber outlet, with the channel being moveably connected to a chamber of the at least one chamber. An air flow regulator is moveable with respect to the channel between a first position, where the flow of air through the channel is restricted and a second position, where the flow of air through the channel is less restricted, the air flow regulator being configured to repeatedly move between the first position and the second position in response to a flow of exhaled air.
US10722664B2
A hand operable inhalator for dispensing a powdery substance, in particular a pharmaceutical substance, with a supply chamber, a discharge channel and a dosing chamber, wherein the discharge channel protrudes into the supply chamber, and the dosing chamber and discharge channel can be moved relative to each other. In order to indicate an inhalator for dispensing a powdery substance that makes the dosing chamber advantageously fillable, the discharge channel can be rotated around a rotational axis, and that the dosing chamber can be filled while the discharge channel rotates. The inhalator can have a dosing chamber that can be moved from a closed into an open state and vice versa. The inhalator can have a discharge channel that incorporates a turbulence means, which has a helically running wall and is to carry a flow while discharging air provided with the substance.
US10722660B2
There is disclosed a fluid warming system (300) for warming intravenous fluid, comprising: a heater unit (304), including a heating element (314) and at least one temperature sensor; a heat exchanger unit (302), removably attachable to the heater unit (304), which includes an inlet (306) and an outlet (308) through which the fluid can pass, and a controller (316), programmed: to receive at least one temperature measurement (TCI, TCO) from said at least one temperature sensor in the heater unit (304); to compute a fluid flow rate (q), corresponding to the rate of flow of fluid from the inlet (306) to the outlet (308) of the heat exchanger unit (302), in dependence on the amount of electrical power (PH) supplied to the heating element and said at least one temperature measurement (TCI, TCO); and to control the electrical power (PH) supplied to the heating element in dependence on the computed fluid flow rate (q).
US10722654B2
An injection device (1) includes a housing (20) for receiving a cartridge (30) of medicament in use; a drive element (12), moveable from a first position to a second position to expel a dose from said cartridge, and wherein the drive element comprises an electrically-operated indicator module (40) for generating an indication corresponding to the stage of use of the device. The indicator module (40) may be contained within the drive element, for example within an interior of the drive element and may include an audible indicator such as e.g. a sounder or loudspeaker, and a visual indicator such as e.g. one or more LEDs arranged to provide e.g. colour-coded signals.
US10722652B2
The invention provides an injection device for delivering a dose of medicament from a syringe. The injection device comprises a housing (10), a plunger (110) moveably mounted within the housing, an actuation mechanism (120, 122) arranged to provide a forward biasing force to urge the plunger forward in use to express a dose of medicament and a trigger mechanism (40) arranged to (directly or indirectly) releaseably hold the plunger against the force of the actuation mechanism. The injection device further comprises a plunger velocity regulator comprising a cam surface (162) associated with one of the housing or the plunger, and a cam member (152) associated with the other of the plunger or the housing and arranged to engage the cam surface during actuation movement of the plunger such that axial movement of the plunger relative to the housing causes relative rotational movement of the cam member and limits the forward velocity of the plunger movement.
US10722651B2
The application relates to a method for producing a sterilized subcutaneous access device, the method comprising: producing a device carrier unit, comprising providing a carrier, producing a subcutaneous access part on the carrier, the subcutaneous access part being provided with at least one of a sensor device for detecting an analyte present in a bodily fluid and an infusion device for infusion of a substance, and producing an electronic assembly on the carrier, the producing comprising printing a battery on a carrier material, and sterilizing the device carrier unit by radiation sterilization, the sterilizing comprising exposing the printed battery to the radiation applied for sterilization. Furthermore, the application relates to a sterilized subcutaneous access device.
US10722644B2
Embodiments herein describe tools, instruments and methods for aseptic loading, dispensing and/or delivering cells into an implantable device and aseptically and selectively sealing a device inside a sterile package as well as and storing and preparing for shipment the cell-filled device.
US10722637B2
The present invention relates to a cytopheretic cartridge for use in treating and/or preventing inflammatory conditions that affect myocardial function and to related methods. The cartridge can be used in treating a subject with myocardial dysfunction, such as a subject with chronic heart failure and/or acute decompensated heart failure.
US10722630B2
A pressure differential across a blood pump and/or a flow rate of blood pumped by the blood pump is estimated based at least in part on impeller thrust load. A blood pump for a circulation assist system includes a housing forming a blood flow channel, an impeller, one or more support members coupled to the housing, a sensor, and a controller operatively coupled with the sensor. At least one of the one or more support members react a thrust load applied to the impeller by blood impelled through the blood flow channel by the impeller. The sensor generates output indicative of the magnitude of the thrust load. The controller is configured to process the sensor output to estimate at least one of a pressure differential across the blood pump and a flow rate of blood pumped by the blood pump.
US10722625B2
A catheter includes a catheter body, a pump assembly and a cannula. The pump assembly can be disposed at a distal end of the catheter body and has a distal portion. The cannula can be coupled to the distal end portion of the pump assembly and can include a proximal cannula portion and a distal cannula portion. The distal cannula portion has an approximately helical shape which can allow the cannula to be inserted into a patient's right heart and pump blood therethrough. In certain implementations, the distal tip of the helical shape has a slight bias relative to the main helix to further facilitate delivery of the device. In certain applications this bias is toward the central axis of the helix.
US10722623B2
A cost-effective, single use bag or container is provided for storing biological substances that incorporates on its inner wall an electronic device that is configured to measure physiological and/or physical parameters of the enclosed biological substances, such as source history, identification, demographics, time stamping, temperature, pH, conductivity, glucose, O2, CO2 levels etc. The electronic device of the disclosed bag comprises a sensor configured to measure physiological and/or physical parameters of the biological substances enclosed within the bag, and a radio-frequency (RF) device communicably coupled to the sensor and configured to: (a) acquire from the sensor data associated with the measured parameters, (b) store the acquired sensor data in nonvolatile memory, and (c) communicate the stored data wirelessly to a RF reader.
US10722618B2
A method and system assist a physician in controlling pressure in a line during a surgery. The method includes filtering a vacuum signal such that portions of the vacuum signal having a frequency greater than a threshold frequency (e.g., ten Hz) are not passed. Thus a filtered vacuum signal is provided. The method also includes providing a control signal to a vacuum source. The control signal is selected from the vacuum signal and the filtered vacuum signal. The vacuum source provides a vacuum having a level based on the control signal.
US10722617B2
A manifold for a medical/surgical waste collection assembly. The manifold includes a housing shaped to be removably received within a manifold receiver of the medical/surgical waste collection assembly. An inlet fitting is coupled to the housing and adapted to be coupled with a suction line. An outlet opening is in fluid communication with the inlet fitting to define a fluid communication path from the suction line to the outlet opening and through a filter. The manifold includes a data carrier storing data useable to regulate operation of the medical/surgical waste collection assembly. The data carrier may include a radiofrequency identification tag having memory storing data suitable for determining whether the manifold is usable with the medical/surgical waste collection assembly. The RFID tag is adapted to be in electronic communication with a data reader when the manifold is coupled with the manifold receiver for communicating the data from the manifold.
US10722614B2
The present invention is related to compositions comprising decellularized cartilage tissue powder in the forms of paste, putty, hydrogel, and scaffolds, methods of making compositions, and methods of using these compositions for treating osteochondral defects and full- or partial-thickness cartilage defects.
US10722604B2
A device for releasing volatile substances, including a container that contains a solid substrate impregnated with volatile substances and a clamping element. The device also includes at least two retaining arms of the solid substrate. The arms extend substantially from the center of the container and towards the larger exterior edge of the container. The device allows the deformation of the solid substrate to be contained since the arms force the solid substrate to maintain the position thereof in contact with the arms.
US10722603B2
The present invention is generally related to a device and method for sanitizing a medical instrument with ozone, in particular the invention relates to a system, method and a device for sanitizing a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device. The device has an ozone compartment, an ozone operating system and one or more ozone distribution lines that distribute ozone to a continuous positive airway pressure device. The device may further include a heater adapter unit to connect heating systems in CPAP devices while distributing ozone to sanitize the CPAP device in accordance with the present invention.
US10722598B2
Sequences of novel adeno-associated virus capsids and vectors and host cells containing these sequences are provided. Also described are methods of using such host cells and vectors in production of rAAV particles. AAV-mediated delivery of therapeutic and immunogenic genes using the vectors of the invention is also provided.
US10722597B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a cyclodextrin-panobinostat adduct, comprising: a) providing a first aqueous solution comprising a buffering agent, the solution having a pH in the range 2.0 to 4.0; b) dissolving panobinostat in said first aqueous solution to provide a second aqueous solution; and c) mixing said second aqueous solution comprising panobinostat with a third aqueous solution comprising a cyclodextrin to form a fourth aqueous solution comprising a cyclodextrin-panobinostat adduct. Also provided is an artificial cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) solution comprising the cyclodextrin-panobinostat adduct and medical uses of the cyclodextrin-panobinostat adduct, including in the treatment of brain tumours.
US10722590B2
The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical formulations for sustained release, and methods for delivering a treatment regimen with a combination of sustained release and long half-life formulations. The pharmaceutical formulations comprise a therapeutic agent including an active agent and an amino acid sequence capable of forming a reversible matrix at the body temperature of a subject. The disclosure provides improved pharmacokinetics for peptide and small molecule drugs.
US10722585B2
Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition, comprising: a) at least one sorbitan unsaturated fatty acid ester having a polar head with at least two or more —OH (hydroxyl) groups; b) at least one phospholipid; c) at least one liquid crystal hardener which is free of an ionizable group and has a triacyl group with 15 to 40 carbon atoms or a carbon ring structure in a hydrophobic moiety; and d) at least one GnRH (gonadotropin-releasing hormone) analogue as a pharmacologically active substance, wherein said lipid pre-concentrate exists as a liquid phase in absence of aqueous fluid and forms into a liquid crystal in presence of aqueous fluid. The pharmaceutical composition is configured to enhance the sustained release of the pharmacologically active substance GnRH analogue.
US10722583B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising an NSAID such as meloxicam and/or rizatriptan in combination with a cyclodextrin and/or a carbonate or a bicarbonate. These compositions may be orally administered, for example, to improve the bioavailability or pharmacokinetics of the NSAID for the treatment of pain such as migraine, arthritis, and other conditions. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating pain, such as migraine, comprising administering meloxicam and rizatriptan to a human being suffering from pain, such as migraine. For migraine, these methods may be particularly useful when the meloxicam and rizatriptan are administered while the human being is suffering from an acute attack of migraine pain or migraine aura. In some embodiments, the combination of meloxicam and rizatriptan may be administered in a manner that results in a Tmax of meloxicam of 3 hours or less.
US10722572B2
Methods and compositions are provided that can be used to vaccinate against and treat HIV. Specifically contemplated are vaccine compositions and methods of using these compositions treat HIV in patients. Aspects of the disclosure relate to an anti-CD40 antibody-HIV antigen fusion protein comprising (i) an anti-CD40 heavy chain (HCD40)-HIV antigen (Ag) fusion protein comprising the formula: HCD40-Ag, wherein Ag is a polypeptide with at least 80% sequence identity to SEQ ID NO:1; and (ii) an anti-CD40 light chain (LCD40).
US10722561B2
A novel method of using an aquaporin protein from Rhipicephalus microplus (RmAQP2), fragments of RmAQP2, and/or the cDNA encoding RmAQP2 and/or the fragments are described. Immunogenic composition containing recombinant RmAQP2 and/or fragments of RmAQP2 are produced and administered to an ungulate which generates an immune response to RmAQP2. After feeding female ticks on the ungulate injected with RmAQP2 and/or fragments of RmAQP2, the female ticks have lower reproductive viability because of a reduced egg mass, reduced hatching percentage, and reduced survival of larvae. Thus, administering RmAQP2 and/or RmAQP2 fragments to an ungulate can reduce the incidence of R. microplus and also reduce the incidence of tick-borne pathogens in ungulates because of the lower number of R. microplus.
US10722554B2
The invention relates to the use of a homeoprotein of the bicoid family, in particular of the Otx family, for enhancing the survival of cultivated retinal ganglion neurones, and for preventing or treating ganglion neuron degeneration particularly occurring in glaucoma.
US10722536B1
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10722530B2
A method of treating cancer in a subject includes determining the p53 status and the level of UDG in cancer cells of the subject and administering an antimetabolite agent in combination with an AP endonuclease inhibitor or UDG inhibitor if the determined level of UDG in the cancer cells is increased relative to the control level and the cancer cells are p53 mutant or deficient cancer cells.
US10722521B2
β-Lactamase inhibiting compounds, therapeutic methods of using the β-lactamase inhibiting compounds, particularly in combination with β-lactam antibiotics and pharmaceutical compositions thereof are disclosed. The β-lactamase inhibiting compounds are suitable for oral administration.
US10722515B2
The disclosure generally relates to substituted purine analogs that are dual CLK2/CDK1 inhibitors or more potent and specific CLK inhibitors to target CLK2 and CDK1 kinases. These compounds may be useful in the treatment of germ-line mutations of the spliceosome leading to the development of cancers and other human disease. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US10722514B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, compounds and methods of use thereof for the modulation of USP7 activity.
US10722509B2
Methods are provided herein for identifying whether a cancer patient, for example a colorectal cancer patient, will be responsive to treatment with a therapeutic strategy comprising administration of the FOLFOX regimen (5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin). Specified TYMP and UCK2 fragment peptides are precisely detected and quantitated by SRM-mass spectrometry directly in tumor cells, for example colorectal cancer tumor cells, that are collected from tumor tissue obtained from a cancer patient and compared to reference levels in order to determine if the cancer patients will positively respond to treatment with the combination treatment of FOLFOX (5-fluorouracil, leucovorin, and oxaliplatin).
US10722497B2
Compounds of formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, or solvates thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I, and methods of using such compounds and compositions to treat various disorders associated with CRM1 activity.
US10722490B2
This disclosures relates to new compositions and methods for making cannabinoid formulations. In one embodiment, this disclosure provides water soluble compositions comprising a first purified cannabinoid and Vitamin E TPGS. In one embodiment, the disclosure herein comprises a method of making powders comprising heatings material to a first temperature and a second temperature.
US10722487B2
Disclosed herein are methods of treating a tumor or cancer in a subject whose tumor or cancer cells express low levels of asparagine synthetase (ASNS), and compounds and compositions useful in such treatment. Also disclosed herein are methods of evaluating whether to administer a compound that inhibits glutathione production or a glutaminase inhibitor to a subject with a tumor or cancer.
US10722486B2
The present disclosure in various embodiments teaches methods of treating patients in need of treatment with a Factor Xa inhibitor, and who are also concomitantly administered aspirin and verapamil.
US10722477B2
The present discovery pertains generally to the field of therapeutic compounds. More specifically the present discovery pertains to certain di-alkyl-phosphinoyl-alkanes as described herein, DIPA-1-8 and DIPA-1-9, and 2-6 and 2-7 that are collectively referred to herein as “DAPA compounds”, that are useful in the treatment of disorders (e.g., diseases) including: sensory discomfort (e.g., caused by inflammation, irritation, itch, or pain) in the nasal cavity. The applicant has found that localized delivery of DAPA compounds in combination with an intranasal steroid or an intranasal antihistamine immediately relieves nasal discomfort and enhances patient adherence to the use of the nasal medications.
US10722476B2
Disclosed is a device and method for treating a neurodegenerative disease or condition associated with neuroinflammation induced by a leukotriene. The device is a film unit dosage form having a film layer and a safe and effective amount of a leukotriene receptor antagonist or leukotriene synthesis inhibitor. The device is configured and formulated to achieve transmucosal and/or enteral delivery of the leukotriene receptor antagonist or leukotriene synthesis inhibitor. The method includes transmucosally and/or enterally delivering to an animal in need of treatment, a safe and effective amount of a leukotriene blocker capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier.
US10722473B2
There is described, inter alia, a coated bead comprising: (a) a granule; (b) a first layer coated over the granule, the first layer comprising a first amount of an active pharmaceutical ingredient comprising a central nervous system stimulant; and (c) a second layer coated over the first layer, the second layer being present in an amount sufficient to substantially delay release of the active pharmaceutical ingredient in the first layer until after the coated bead reaches a distal intestine portion of a subject to whom the coated bead is administered; and (d) the third layer coated over the second layer, the third layer comprising a second amount of the active pharmaceutical ingredient, the third layer being configured to permit substantially immediate release of the active pharmaceutical ingredient comprised therein. Embodiments related to a solid oral pharmaceutical composition are also described.
US10722467B2
The present invention provides liposome compositions containing sparingly soluble drugs that are used to treat life-threatening diseases. A preferred method of encapsulating a drug inside a liposome is by remote or active loading. Remote loading of a drug into liposomes containing a transmembrane electrochemical gradient is initiated by co-mixing a liposome suspension with a solution of drug, whereby the neutral form of the compound freely enters the liposome and becomes electrostatically charged thereby preventing the reverse transfer out of the liposome. There is a continuous build-up of compound within the liposome interior until the electrochemical gradient is dissipated or all the drug is encapsulated in the liposome. However, this process as described in the literature has been limited to drugs that are freely soluble in aqueous solution or solubilized as a water-soluble complex. This invention describes compositions and methods for remote loading drugs with low water solubility (<2 mg/mL). In the preferred embodiment the drug in the solubilizing agent is mixed with the liposomes in aqueous suspension so that the concentration of solubilizing agent is lowered to below its capacity to completely solubilize the drug. This results in the drug precipitating but remote loading capability is retained. The process is scalable and, in liposomes in which the lipid composition and remote loading agent are optimized, the resulting drug-loaded liposomes are characterized by a high drug-to-lipid ratios and prolonged drug retention when the liposome encapsulated drug is administered to a subject.
US10722463B2
A method of delivering a pharmaceutical agent into a target organ protected by a blood barrier is provided. The method comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an amount of liposomes which comprise the pharmaceutical agent, the amount and the liposomes are selected such that the liposomes accumulate in cells of an immune system of the subject to thereby generate liposome loaded immune cells, the liposome loaded immune cells become activated and cross the blood barrier, and an effective amount of the pharmaceutical agent is released from the liposomes in the target organ of the subject.
US10722456B2
The present invention relates to a stable oral liquid pharmaceutical composition of celecoxib or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The celecoxib present in the compositions as described herein do not show any precipitation when subjected in Fasted-State Simulated Gastric Fluid (FaSSGF) at pH 2.0, temperature of 37° C.±0.5° C. and under stirring at a speed of 50 rpm at least for 60 minutes. It also relates to the process of preparing and method of using said composition of celecoxib.
US10722455B1
Pre-filled syringes, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits and methods relating to same allow for emergency administration of one or more drugs from prefilled glass syringes to a patient via a needleless connector. In preferred embodiments, the prefilled glass syringe has a drug volume of at least 5 mL, has a Luer-lock, and has a syringe tip with an internal channel that has a diameter of about 1.7 mm. Such syringes advantageously allow storage of emergency drugs without leaching of plastic materials and degradation, and substantially improve the safety profile where the syringe is attached to an IV line via a needleless connector.
US10722445B2
Methods and compositions for use in tissue volume replacement are provided. The present invention comprises compositions comprising a combination of materials, comprising preferably a solid polymer particle phase and a gel phase, and also comprises single phase compositions. More particularly, preferred embodiments comprise a solid polymer particle phase made of materials comprising Gore-Tex (micronized e-PTFE), PDS II (polydioxanone, a monofilament), NUROLON (a long chain aliphatic polymer Nylon 6 or Nylon 6,6) ETHILON (a long chain aliphatic polymer Nylon 6 and Nylon 6,6), PROLENE (Polypropylene, isotactic crystalline stereoisomer of polypropylene, a synthetic linear polyolefin.), VICRYL (copolymer made from 90% glycolide and 10% L-lactide), silk, MONACRYL (poly ϵ-caprolactone.), polylactide, polyglycolide, poly lactide-co-glycolide, and BIOPOL (polyhydroxyvalerate), MEDPOR (biocompatible (micronized) polyethylene), BIOGLASS (bioactive glass particulate), NOVABONE and NOVABONE-CM, and the gel phase comprises polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). Preferred single phase compositions comprise PVP. Methods of the present invention comprising injection of such compositions for tissue augmentation.
US10722444B2
The present specification generally relates to an injectable dermal filler composition that includes crosslinked hyaluronic acid-based polymer and an antioxidant.
US10722442B2
The present specification relates to a composition containing novel (20S,24R)-6-O-β-D-glucopyranosyl(1→2)-β-D-glucopyranoside-dammar-3-one-20,24-epoxy-6a,12b,25-triol, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, a hydrate or a solvate thereof as an active ingredient. The composition exhibits an excellent skin brightening effect.
US10722441B2
A use of noreugenin glycoside derivatives of formulas I, II and III as a self-tanning substance or to increase the synthesis of melanin, improve melanin transport and/or improve the distribution of melanin in suprabasal layers, preparations containing noreugenin glycoside derivatives of formulas I, II and III, and noreugenin glycoside derivatives of formulas I, II and III.
US10722436B2
The present invention relates generally to methods and compositions useful for a topical composition comprising encapsulated resveratrol, oligopeptide-1, niacinamide, Opuntia ficus-indica extract, Prunus mume extract, algae extract, malachite extract, adenosine, and/or Opuntia tuna fruit extract.
US10722435B2
A deodorant composition comprising ethylhexylglycerol, triethyl citrate and BHT, wherein the ratio of ethylhexylglycerol to triethyl citrate is from 1:6 to 1:1 by weight and wherein the ratio of BHT to the sum of ethylhexylglycerol and triethyl citrate is from 1:40 to 1:5 by weight.
US10722431B2
A medication dispensing system is provided and includes a medicine transfer device (MTD) and a controller. The MTD transfers medicine between first and second containers. The first container initially stores medicine. The controller: determines a first predetermined amount of medicine to be dispensed from the medicine dispensing system; causes the MTD to discharge a second predetermined amount of the medicine from the first container onto the MTD, and transfer a third predetermined amount of the medicine from the MTD to the second container; subsequent to the transfer of the third predetermined amount, determine whether the second container has greater than or equal to the first predetermined amount; and if the second container has less than the first predetermined amount, cause the MTD to transfer a portion of the medicine on the MTD into the second container or discharge a portion of the medicine in the first container onto the MTD.
US10722410B2
An assistance chair assembly includes a base and a chair is positioned on the base. Two upright boards are perpendicularly connected to the top of the base, and two extension portions extend from the rear end of the base. The chair includes two front legs and two rear legs. The front legs each have a curve slots which allows the chair to be is pivotable about the bolts extending through the rear legs of the chair. The weight center of the chair is not moved beyond the two extensions portions of the base when the chair is pivoted toward the two extensions portions.
US10722400B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for interfacing a surgical laser with an eye using a patient interface device that minimizes aberrations through a combination of a contact lens surface positioning and a liquid medium between an anterior surface of the eye and the contact lens surface.
US10722394B2
A dental orthotic strut having at least one multi-axis rotable joint connecting the strut to either a maxillary and/or mandibular retainer attached to the teeth. Jaw advancement may be accomplished by periodically replacing the strut with a new strut having a slightly longer minimum length, thereby advancing the resting position of the closed jaw. The rotable joint or joints allow greater freedom of movement and comfort when the jaw is opened in a non-sagittal plane. A plurality of strut pairs having a same length, but with progressively longer sets of strut pairs is generally supplied, so that left and right struts can be progressively replaced with longer struts over time.
US10722391B2
A convertible nephroureteral catheter is used in the treatment of urinary system complications, particularly on the need for a single surgically delivered device to treat patients who must be seen by an interventional radiologist (IR). In many current procedures, patients need to return to the operating room to remove a previously delivered nephroureteral catheter to exchange this catheter with a fully implanted ureteral stent delivered though the same access site at the flank. The present convertible nephroureteral catheter reduces the need to return for a second surgical procedure. Two weeks after initial implantation, the proximal portion of the convertible nephroureteral catheter extending out from the body may simply be removed. A simple action at the catheter hub allows this proximal portion to be removed, leaving behind the implanted ureteral stent within the patient's urinary system. Other medical procedures, devices, and technologies may benefit from the described convertible catheter.
US10722389B2
An endoluminal stent (100) is described herein. In an embodiment, the endoluminal stent (100) includes a plurality of sinusoidal-shaped expandable ringlets (102) provided in parallel to form a tubular structure of the endoluminal stent (100). Further, adjacent ringlets (102) can be connected to each other by one or more asymmetrical offset connectors (108), the offset connectors (108) being non-linear in structure.
US10722376B2
An intervertebral insert member and an instrument for positioning the insert in a space between vertebral bodies in vivo. The insert member is advanced by the instrument into a prepared site located between adjacent vertebral bodies. Upon reaching the appropriate insertion point, the sleeve is retracted and a pivotal motion is imparted to the insert. The insert member is pivotally attached to the distal end of the delivery instrument such that it can be articulated about a pivot point that is located on the insert member until it is properly positioned. The positioning instrument is then released from the insert member and removed from the space between the vertebral bodies. An adjustment screw is available to expand the surfaces of the insert member by displacement of a wedge member within the insert.
US10722373B2
Implants, device, systems and methods for replacing an articulation surface in a joint, for example, shoulder prostheses with stemless humeral components or stemmed humeral components. Methods for using the shoulder prostheses with stemless humeral components or stemmed humeral components are also disclosed.
US10722369B2
The fusion device for fusing a synovial joint of a human or animal patient, in particular a human facet joint, finger joint or toe joint, includes two pin-shaped anchorage portions and arranged therebetween a stabilization portion. The anchorage portions include a thermoplastic material which is liquefiable by mechanical vibration. The stabilization portion preferably has a surface which is equipped for enhancing osseointegration. The anchorage portions have a greater thickness and a greater depth than the stabilization portion. Then the fusion device is pushed between the articular surfaces and mechanical vibration, in particular ultrasonic vibration, is applied to the proximal face of the fusion device. Thereby the liquefiable material is liquefied where in contact with the bone tissue and penetrates into the bone tissue, where after re-solidification it constitutes a positive fit connection between the fusion device and the bone tissue.
US10722365B2
Valve devices, methods of making valve devices, and methods of treating various venous-related conditions, disorders and/or diseases are described. In one embodiment, a valve device includes an expandable support frame and a bioprosthetic valve attached to the support frame. The bioprosthetic valve comprises a leaflet and a contiguous wall portion harvested from a multi-leaflet xenogeneic valve. The contiguous wall portion includes the attachment region where the leaflets attaches to the vessel wall and, in some embodiments, includes the natural margins of attachment between the leaflet and vessel wall.
US10722364B2
The present invention relates to a monocusp prosthetic valve comprising a flap made of biocompatible material, and a stent made of biocompatible or bio-absorbable material, said stent having meshes defining holes with profile represented by any closed curve or polygonal shape, wherein in said prosthetic valve the flap is sewn on said stent by means of pairs of suture points that are longitudinally extended along opposite surfaces of said flap.
US10722362B2
An implantable heart valve device has a main body including a first end portion and a second end portion. The main body is configured to be implanted around a native leaflet of a heart valve such that the first end portion is on an atrial side of the leaflet and the second end portion is on a ventricular side of the leaflet, and such that the main body can coapt with an opposing native leaflet during operation of the heart valve. One of the first or second end portions comprises a coupling assembly, and the other of the first or second end portions comprises a coupling member configured to extend through the native leaflet when the heart valve device is implanted in a heart valve. The coupling assembly is configured to releasably engage the coupling member to permit adjustment of the relative positions of the first and second end portions.
US10722358B2
A quick-connect heart valve prosthesis that can be quickly and easily implanted during a surgical procedure is provided. The heart valve includes a substantially non-expandable, non-compressible prosthetic valve and a plastically-expandable frame, thereby enabling attachment to the annulus without sutures. A small number of guide sutures may be provided for aortic valve orientation. The prosthetic valve may be a commercially available valve with a sewing ring with the frame attached thereto. The frame may expand from a conical deployment shape to a conical expanded shape, and may include web-like struts connected between axially-extending posts. A system and method for deployment includes an integrated handle shaft and balloon catheter. A valve holder is stored with the heart valve and the handle shaft easily attaches thereto to improve valve preparation steps.
US10722349B2
A prosthetic valve including an inner frame, an outer frame, and a connection assembly interconnecting the frames. The inner frame defines an interior volume for receiving a valve structure within the interior volume. The outer frame surrounds the inner frame. The inner and outer frames are each configured to be transitionable between compressed and expanded conditions. The prosthetic heart valve provides a initial deployed state in which the inner and outer frames are in the expanded condition, and a radial shape of the outer frame is adjustable via the connection assembly to a final deployed state. A shape of the outer frame can be adjusted upon implant to enable radial anchoring at the native annulus, while addressing possible non-uniformities of the native annulus and possible anatomical concerns such as LVOT obstruction.
US10722339B2
The present disclosure provides tissue fillers. The tissue fillers can include a plurality of tissue particles formed from acellular tissue matrix fragments. The tissue fillers can be used to fill tissue sites, such as voids formed after tissue resection.
US10722335B1
A surgical device for assisting in the placement of a prosthetic implant. One or more sheets of polymer are in the form of a conical frustum such that a proximal end is sealed and a distal end is open, with an elongated slit extending from the distal end toward the proximal end. A single opening is formed by the distal opening and the elongated slit with a set of inter-lockable fastener elements disposed along opposing sides and configured to seal the elongated slit such that the distal end remains open to allow for egress of the prosthetic implant for placement into a surgical pocket. A lubricious coating is applied to the interior cavity of the frustum in addition to one or more surface active coatings. Movement of the prosthetic implant across the one or more surface active coatings causes the coatings to provide one or more offered benefits.
US10722329B2
The present disclosure provides intraoral devices for repositioning the relationship between upper and lower dental arches, particular those in a Class III relation. The devices are attached to appliances on molar teeth of each arch and can be reactivated without removal or replacement of substantial components of the device.
US10722325B2
An apparatus for treating a tooth or gum tissue is disclosed. The apparatus can include a tooth cap for supporting a treatment device during a treatment procedure. The tooth cap can comprise a platform to support the treatment device. The platform can include an access port to provide a portion of the treatment device with access to a treatment region of the tooth or gum tissue. The tooth cap can also include a wall coupled with and angled relative to the platform, the wall configured to be attached to the tooth or gum tissue during treatment.
US10722312B2
A surgical robot comprising a surgical robot arm and a surgical instrument. The surgical robot arm terminates at its distal end in a drive assembly comprising a first drive interface element. The surgical instrument comprises a shaft, an articulation attached to the distal end of the shaft, and a driving mechanism at the proximal end of the shaft. The articulation is for articulating an end effector, the articulation driveable by at least a first driving element and a second driving element. The driving mechanism comprises a first instrument interface element to which the first driving element is connected and a second instrument interface element to which the second driving element is connected. The first drive interface element engages both the first and second instrument interface elements such that: when the first drive interface element moves linearly, both the first and second instrument interface elements move in the same linear direction thereby driving both the first and second driving elements in the same direction; and when the first drive interface element rotates, the first and second instrument interface elements move reciprocally in opposing linear directions thereby driving the first and second driving elements in opposing directions.
US10722309B2
Patient-specific systems and methods are provided for assisting in medical procedures, and can include producing patient-specific devices from computer models of a patient's anatomy, including a first patient-specific device configured to identify and allow access to a resection area in an operation location for a medical procedure; a second patient-specific device configured to refine the procedure, following use of the first patient-specific device and in some embodiments, to identify and allow access to installation locations for an implant and/or surgical hardware; and/or a third patient specific device configured to assist in confirming placement of the implant and/or surgical hardware and refining the procedure, following use of the first and second patient-specific devices. Each of these devices may be developed from patient-specific computer model data via patient-specific image data and may enhance a variety of procedures.
US10722297B2
A minimally invasive surgical assembly broadly includes an outer hollow needle which has an outer diameter, a longitudinal axis, and a sharp distal end. An insulating member extends through the hollow needle and is movable relative to the hollow needle. An elongated member extends through the insulating member and is movable relative to both the insulating member and the hollow needle. A resilient wire projects from the elongated member and is retractable within and extendable outside of the insulating member and the hollow needle. The insulating member, elongated member, and resilient wire are movable relative to the needle using first and second moving means whereby the surgical assembly assumes various configurations having different operational functions.
US10722295B2
An actuation mechanism for actuating an electrosurgical end effector includes a housing and a shaft assembly extending distally from the housing. The shaft assembly includes an elongate collar, a shaft extending through the elongate collar, and a longitudinal bar axially movable relative to the shaft. The elongate collar has an internal threadform extending along a length thereof. The longitudinal bar includes a proximal end having an extension engaged to the internal threadform of the elongate collar and a distal end configured to be coupled to a knife blade of an electrosurgical end effector. Rotation of the elongate collar axially moves the longitudinal bar relative to the elongate collar to move the knife blade.
US10722288B2
Methods and system are provided for thermally-induced renal neuromodulation. Thermally-induced renal neuromodulation may be achieved via direct and/or via indirect application of thermal energy to heat or cool neural fibers that contribute to renal function, or of vascular structures that feed or perfuse the neural fibers. In some embodiments, parameters of the neural fibers, of non-target tissue, or of the thermal energy delivery element, may be monitored via one or more sensors for controlling the thermally-induced neuromodulation. In some embodiments, protective elements may be provided to reduce a degree of thermal damage induced in the non-target tissues. In some embodiments, thermally-induced renal neuromodulation is achieved via delivery of a pulsed thermal therapy.
US10722279B2
A pectus bar stabilizer insertion tool can include a first handle, a second handle, a first head, a second head, and a locking shaft. The first handle can include a first distal portion. The second handle can include a second distal portion, and the second handle can be pivotably coupled to the first handle. The first and second handles can be moveable between an open position and a closed position. The first head can be coupled to the first distal portion and can be engageable with a first portion of a stabilizer. The first head can include a driver engageable with a lock of the stabilizer. The second head can be coupled to the second distal portion and can be engageable with a second portion of the stabilizer. The locking shaft can be coupled to the driver and operable to lock and unlock the stabilizer to a pectus bar.
US10722276B2
A spinal hook includes a hook member, an inner collet, and an outer portion. The hook member includes a head portion and a blade portion. The inner collet includes a base portion configured to rotatably engage the head portion and a pair of engaging portions defining a slot configured to receive a connecting rod therein. The outer portion is movable relative to the inner collet between a locked position in which the outer portion causes the pair of engaging portions to move toward each other and an unlocked position in which the outer portion causes the pair of engaging portions to be spread apart to facilitate insertion or removal of the connecting rod.
US10722271B2
A spinal fixation device is provided. The spinal fixation device includes a body portion including a stud portion defining a first annular groove. An outer housing is positionable on the stud portion of the body portion. An inner housing defines a second annular groove and is positionable between the outer housing and the stud portion. A ring member is positionable within each of the first and second annular grooves of the respective stud portion and inner housing to lock the inner housing to the body portion and to fixedly couple the outer housing to the stud portion.
US10722268B2
External fixator assemblies, systems, and methods thereof. An external fixator system may include a plurality of fixator assemblies configured to connect a plurality of pins, for example, positioned on opposite sides of a fractured bone, with one more rods. The fixator assemblies may include a plurality of clamp assemblies which are configured to rotate relative to one another when the fixator assembly is in an unlocked position.
US10722266B2
A uterine manipulator operable to detach the uterus and cervix from the vagina. The uterine manipulator includes a shaft, a handle, a tip assembly, and a cutting assembly. The shaft includes a first end and a second end, and the handle is coupled to the first end and pivotable relative to the first end about a first axis. The tip assembly is coupled to the second end and pivotable relative to the second end along a second axis parallel to the first axis, and is adapted for insertion into the uterus. The cutting assembly is coupled around the shaft and adapted to receive the cervix when the tip assembly is inserted into the uterus.
US10722250B2
The invention relates to a magnetic-field driven colloidal microbot that employs wall-based propulsion, method of forming the microbot and a method of using the microbot. The microbot can be formed in situ with the use of magnetic fields, and the magnetic fields can be used to translate the microbot to a specified location in a patient. The microbot does not depend on “swimming” or flow currents within a patient to move, but instead can propel itself along a surface using a magnetic field. Once the magnetic field is removed, the microbot disassembles into colloidal particles.
US10722248B2
A depth measurement device includes a guide, a sliding part, a central column and a limit assembly, wherein the guide has a tubular structure. The sliding part is slidably connected to the guide, has a sliding direction parallel to an axial direction of the guide, and is used for connecting a tracer. The central column penetrates through the tubular structure, is able to move in the axial direction and to rotate around an axis, has one tail end for connecting with a cutting tool and another tail end for connecting with a power input. The limit assembly is fixed to the central column, is located on a side of the sliding part adjacent to the other tail end of the central column, and is able to drive the sliding part to synchronously move when moving along with the central column. A grinding device includes the depth measurement device.
US10722243B2
There are disclosed various dispensing mechanisms for dispensing filamentary material through a catheter into a treatment site of a patient, for example into an aneurysm sack in a patient's vessel. In one embodiment, the dispensing assembly includes a chamber having a spherical carrier onto which filamentary material is wound. Upon injecting driving fluid into the dispensing assembly filamentary material unwinds from the spherical carrier and is pulled through the catheter to be dispensed from the distal end of the catheter. The apparatus includes a pressure sensitive valve disposed at the inlet or the outlet of the receptacle, the pressure sensitive valve being closed when the pressure of driving fluid is below a threshold and open when the pressure of driving fluid is above the threshold. The pressure sensitive valve, when open, allows fluid flow through the chamber and dispensation of filamentary material from the outlet.
US10722242B2
An occlusion device formed of a microcoil having a three-dimensional relaxed state employing open looped portions interposed between closed loop portions. Planes defined by sequentially formed open looped and closed loop portions are neither coincident nor parallel to one another.
US10722239B2
One disclosed embodiment comprises a method for treating lesions in the carotid artery of a mammalian body. The method comprises transcervical access and blocking of blood flow through the common carotid artery (with or without blocking of blood flow through the external carotid artery), shunting blood from the internal carotid artery and treating the lesion in the carotid artery.
US10722235B2
A surgical clip includes first and second members. The first member includes a first wall and a second wall each defining a proximal curved portion. A base portion adjoins the first wall and the second wall and defines a locking feature. The second member is pivotably connected to the first member between the first and second walls. The second member includes a mating feature and defines a proximal curved portion. The mating feature of the second member is configured to selectively engage the locking feature of the first member to lock the first and second members into an approximated position. Movement of the proximal curved portions of the respective first and second members towards each other causes the mating feature of the second member to disengage from the locking feature of the first member to move the first and second members from the approximated position into an unapproximated position.
US10722229B2
A suture crimp plate includes a body including a first bone-facing surface and a second opposing surface; a central hole extending through the body from the first surface to the second surface and sized and shaped to receive a bone fixation device; and a first suture hole extending through the body from the first surface to the second surface and sized and shaped to receive a suture therethrough. The first suture hole is open to the central hole via a first slot, a first deformable member being formed between the first suture hole and the central hole. When a bone fixation element is inserted into the central hole, the first deformable member is configured to be deflected away from a central longitudinal axis of the central hole and into the first suture hole to clamp the suture therein relative to the crimp plate.
US10722225B2
Closure systems, kits and methods for sealing a percutaneous puncture or other opening in a blood vessel wall, body cavity or biopsy tract are disclosed. A closure system can comprise an implant assembly, a delivery assembly, and an introducer sheath. The closure system can further comprise a valve bypass and a dilator. The implant assembly can include an inner member, a sealing membrane, and an outer member, each of which can be delivered by the delivery assembly. The inner member can be extended through the puncture or opening and positioned adjacent an inner tissue surface. The outer member can be positioned adjacent an outer tissue surface. The sealing membrane can have a distal end attached to the inner member, a proximal end including an opening configured to receive the outer member, and a mid-region therebetween. The outer member, when expanded from a delivery configuration to a sealing configuration, can urge the mid-region of the sealing membrane radially outward such that its outer surface can contact and conform to a perimeter edge of the puncture or opening.
US10722223B2
Coupling devices and related methods are disclosed herein, e.g., for coupling a surgical instrument to a navigation array or other component. The coupling device can reduce or eliminate movement between the instrument and the navigation array, improving navigation precision. The coupling device can be quick and easy to use, reducing or eliminating the need for extra steps or additional tools to attach or detach the instrument from the coupling device. In some embodiments, the single step of inserting an instrument into the coupling device can automatically lock the instrument within the coupling device in a toggle-free manner. The coupling device can include features for consistently attaching instruments thereto at a known or predetermined location and/or orientation.
US10722221B2
The present invention utilizes tetherless microtools to biopsy tissue. The invention provides a device and method for deployment and retrieval of tetherless microtools. The size of the microtools ensures that tissue damage at a site targeted for biopsy is negligible. As such, large numbers of microtools may be deployed ensuring that a true statistical sampling of biologic tissue is performed.
US10722217B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus according to a present embodiment includes: a transmitting and receiving circuit configured to transmit an ultrasonic wave to an ultrasonic probe and receive a signal based on the ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic probe; a generation circuit configured to generate multiple 2D image data in a chronological order based on the signal; an acquisition circuit configured to acquire three-dimensional multiple position data of the ultrasonic probe; an associating circuit configured to associate the multiple position data with the respective multiple 2D image data; and a correction circuit configured to correct the multiple position data associated by the associating circuit.
US10722214B2
An ultrasonic device includes a substrate that is provided with an opening and a partition wall surrounding the opening, a vibration portion that closes one end side of the opening, and a piezoelectric element that is provided in the vibration portion, in which, in a case where an opening width dimension of the opening is indicated by W, and a thickness dimension of the substrate is indicated by H, a ratio W/H is 0.66 to 0.92.
US10722212B2
A system for determining orientation of a guide sheath introduced by a bronchoscope or similar device. An example system includes a display device, a scope device and a guide sheath. The guide sheath includes a window occupying a predefined circumferential sector of a distal end of the guide sheath and a plurality of markings configured to visually indicate location/orientation and/or distance of the window. The plurality of markings includes a plurality of first markings located along a longitudinal center axis of the window and a plurality of second markings located along one or more other longitudinal axes that are radially separated from the longitudinal center axis of the window by more than 45°.
US10722207B2
A method for geometric calibration of a radiography apparatus acquires tomosynthesis projection images of patient anatomy from a detector and an x-ray source translated along a scan path. An epipolar geometry is calculated according to the relative position of the detector to the scan path by estimating a direction for epipolar lines that extend along an image plane that includes the detector. A region of interest of the patient anatomy that is a portion of each projection image and is fully included within each projection image in the series is defined. A consistency metric is calculated for estimated epipolar lines extending within the ROI. The method iteratively adjusts the epipolar line estimation until the consistency metric indicates accuracy to within a predetermined threshold. A portion of a tomosynthesis volume is reconstructed and displayed.
US10722206B2
An X-ray high voltage device according to an embodiment includes: an inverter circuit including a plurality of switching elements; acquiring circuitry configured to acquire information about an inverter current flowing through the inverter circuit; and controlling circuitry configured to determine, on the basis of the information about the inverter current, a first point in time at which the inverter current becomes substantially 0 and to exercise control by implementing zero current switching control on the switching elements at the first point in time and implementing zero voltage switching control on the switching elements at a second point in time excluding the first point in time.
US10722204B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a system for computed tomography imaging. The method may comprise obtaining original data; obtaining a preprocessing result by preprocessing the original data; obtaining intensity of the artifact based on the preprocessing result; and updating a damaged channel or the air correction table based on the intensity of the artifact. Updating the air correction table may comprise: obtaining a first air correction table corresponding to a first temperature of detector; obtaining real-time temperature of detector; and obtaining a second air correction table corresponding to the real-time temperature based on the real-time temperature and the first air correction table.
US10722194B2
The present invention provides a detector for medical diagnosis. The detector for diagnosis includes a photosensitive element, an X-beam stopping element, a supporting board, and a conductive liner. The photosensitive element is used for sensing an X-beam. The X-beam stopping element is used for stopping the X-beam from penetrating said photosensitive element. The supporting board is provided below the X-beam stopping element to be used for supporting said photosensitive element. The conductive liner is provided between said photosensitive element and said supporting board to fit with said photosensitive element.
US10722192B2
A variable stop apparatus for arrangement between an X-ray source and an object to be measured in a CT-scanner and a CT-scanner including the variable stop apparatus are provided. The variable stop apparatus includes a stop carrier that is pivotable about a pivot axis. The stop carrier has at least two stops. The at least two stops are in each case configured to be brought into a predetermined angular position by pivoting the stop carrier. The at least two stops are arranged at different longitudinal positions with respect to a longitudinal direction that is defined by the pivot axis.
US10722189B2
A method of processing and reconstructing dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) sinogram data comprises: acquiring PET sinogram data using continuous bed motion having a varying velocity; recording a plurality of position-time coordinate pairs while acquiring the PET sinogram data; determining respective acquisition times of each of a plurality of slices of the image, based on the plurality of position-time coordinates; and reconstructing respective parametric images for each respective slice in the plurality of slices.
US10722187B2
A system for imaging is provided. The system includes an x-ray source, a detector, and a controller. The x-ray source is operative to transmit x-rays through a subject while the x-ray source continuously travels along a path defined by a sweep angle. The detector is operative to receive the x-rays after having passed through the subject. The controller is operative to: acquire preliminary data regarding the subject via the x-ray source and the detector; determine at least one acquisition parameter from the preliminary data; and acquire one or more projections of the subject via the x-ray source and the x-ray detector based at least in part on the acquisition parameter.
US10722181B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for identifying when a subject is likely to be affected by a medical condition. For example, at least one processor may be configured to receive information reflective of an external soft tissue image of the subject. The processor may also be configured to perform an evaluation of the external soft tissue image information and to generate evaluation result information based, at least in part, on the evaluation. The processor may also be configured to predict a likelihood that the subject is affected by the medical condition based, at least in part, on the evaluation result information.
US10722176B2
An initial set of parameters for operating one or more detection tools is automatically derived and subsequently adjusted so that each detection tool is more or less sensitive to signal characteristics in a region of interest. Detection tool(s) may be applied to physiological signals sensed from a patient (such as EEG signals) and may be configured to run in an implanted medical device that is programmable with the parameters to look for rhythmic activity, spike activity, and power changes in the sensed signals, etc. A detection tool may be selected, and parameter values derived in a logical sequence and/or in pairs based on a graphical representation of an activity type which may be selected by a user, for example, by clicking and dragging on the graphic via a GUI. Displayed simulations allow a user to assess what will be detected with a derived parameter set and then to adjust the sensitivity of the set or start over as desired.
US10722173B2
Methods for combining anatomical data and physiological data on a single image are provided. The methods include obtaining an image, for example, a raw near-infrared (NIR) image or a visible image, of a sample. The image of the sample includes anatomical structure of the sample. A physiologic map of blood flow and perfusion of the sample is obtained. The anatomical structure of the image and the physiologic map of the sample are combined into a single image of the sample. The single image of the sample displays anatomy and physiology of the sample in the single image in real time. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US10722166B2
A system for biomechanical analysis of user posture and automatic customized manufacture of bicycle parts includes a servo-assisted simulator having a handlebar, a saddle, pedal cranks, and actuators, a device detecting input data that includes a 3D scanner for automatically detecting the position of body segments of the user and the angular ranges therebetween and generating three-dimensional physical data units, an electronic platform detecting pressure data of the user, a pair of insoles detecting plantar pressure, a computer connected to the actuators and to the detection device, a memory unit storing optimized initial data and instantaneous data, software comparing the optimized initial data and the instantaneous data and generating final data of the characteristics of the main parts, a spatial representation device spatially representing the final data, and a device for immediate manufacture of the parts using 3D printers. A method of biomechanical analysis and custom manufacture of bicycle parts.
US10722143B2
The present disclosure relates to determining a corrected exhaled gas measurement during high flow respiratory therapy. Measuring exhaled gas concentration during high flow respiratory therapy is difficult and inaccurate due to a phenomenon known as flushing. The high flows delivered to the patient flush the dead space in the conducting airways, which causes a dilution effect that results in underestimated or overestimated exhaled gas measurement depending on the gas composition delivered by the high flow system. This can lead to incorrect clinical measurements and diagnoses. Various algorithms are disclosed herein to account for the dilution effect caused by flushing, allowing for the method of measuring gas concentrations to still be used accurately for clinical measurements.
US10722137B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to magnetic resonance thermometry. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring undersampled magnetic resonance data associated with an area of interest of a subject receiving focused ultrasound treatment, and reconstructing images corresponding to the area of interest based on the acquired magnetic resonance data, where the reconstructing uses Kalman filtering.
US10722135B2
Systems and methods for measuring signals representative of muscle activity are provided. One method includes detecting an ECG signal through a plurality of electrodes. The ECG signal includes a plurality of ECG sample signals, and each ECG sample signal is a bipolar signal associated with two of the plurality of electrodes and includes a cardiac signal component and a myographic signal component. The method further includes filtering each of the ECG sample signals to remove at least a portion of the cardiac signal component and generate a combined myographic power signal for the two of the plurality of electrodes with which the ECG sample signal is associated. Each combined myographic power signal represents a myographic potential between the two electrodes. The method further includes calculating individual myographic power signals for each of the plurality of electrodes by applying the combined myographic power signals within a covariance matrix.
US10722131B2
The invention provides a system for measuring stroke volume (SV), cardiac output (CO), and cardiac power (CP) from a patient that features: 1) an impedance sensor connected to at least two body-worn electrodes and including an impedance circuit that processes analog signals from the electrodes to measure an impedance signal (e.g. TBEV waveform); 2) an ECG sensor connected to at least two chest-worn electrodes and including an ECG circuit that processes analog signals from the electrodes to measure and ECG signal; 3) an optical sensor connected to a body-worn optical probe and including an optical circuit that processes signals from the probe to measure at least one optical signal (e.g. a PPG waveform) from the patient; 4) a processing system, typically worn on the patient's wrist and connected through a wired interface to the optical sensor, and through either a wired or wireless interface to the TBEV and ECG sensors.
US10722127B2
The invention relates to a photoplethysmography device (20) of the reflectance type, comprising a light source (4), a light sensor (5), and an interface layer (21). The interface layer (21) has a recess between the source (4) and the sensor (5) in order to prevent reflection losses between the device (20) and the skin and to prevent that light from the source (4) can reach the sensor (5) directly via the interface layer (21).
US10722125B2
A system and method for blood pressure signal acquisition using a pressure sensor array. A solution is provided for a non-inflatable, non-invasive, continuous blood pressure waveform and blood pressure acquisition system. The system is operative to combine signals from various sensing elements where the less accurate sensor elements are calibrated utilizing the more accurate sensor elements. Blood pressure measurements are acquired using very sensitive pressure sensors that detect slight pressure changes through the skin, which are sampled and processed to yield a blood pressure signal, which is processed to yield actual systolic and diastolic continuous and or intermittent blood pressure readings. By sampling and detecting the signal in each of the sensors, the sensor that is best placed on the target artery is found and the signals from that sensor is used to weight the signals from other sensors based on signal quality. The sensor array is placed approximately on the target artery making it highly likely that more than one element will acquire signal from the artery. Combining a plurality of such correlated signals with uncorrelated noise yields a signal to noise enhancement and more accurate blood pressure readings.
US10722117B2
A system includes a monitor configured to be coupled to multiple sensors over time to monitor one or more physiological characteristics of one or more patients. A first sensor of the multiple sensors includes a sensor memory, and the monitor is configured to transfer information to the first sensor for storage in the sensor memory of the first sensor. The information includes information related to one or more sensors of the multiple sensors that were coupled to the monitor prior to the first sensor.
US10722108B2
A system comprises a nozzle and a pressure augmenting mechanism connected to the nozzle. The pressure augmenting mechanism is configured to provide a pressurized fluid at a pressure that is higher than a standard operating room pressure. The system further comprises a valve between the pressure augmenting mechanism and the nozzle, the valve configured to control provision of the pressurized fluid from the pressure augmenting mechanism. The system further comprises a valve control mechanism and a control system configured to instruct the valve control mechanism to open the valve to release a flow of the pressurized fluid from the pressure augmenting mechanism through the nozzle and over a surface of a medical instrument. An amount of the flow of the pressurized fluid is determined based on a position of the medical instrument in a patient anatomy.
US10722105B2
A medical imaging device includes: a spectroscopic unit that separates light into a first light component of a wavelength band and a second light component; a first imaging element that includes a plurality of first pixels configured to receive the first light component and convert the first light component into electric signals; and a second imaging element that includes a plurality of second pixels and includes a first color filter on which first filters configured to transmit the light component of the wavelength band of one color in the light components of the wavelength bands of two colors that are contained in the second light component and second filters configured to transmit light components of a plurality of wavelength bands including at least the wavelength band of another color in the light components of the wavelength bands of the two colors are arranged.
US10722100B2
A household dishwasher includes a wash container for holding dishes to be washed and a fill reservoir attached to the wash container. The fill reservoir is filled with fresh water from a fresh water network, and a quantity of fresh water required for the wash sub-cycle is removed from the fill reservoir and feed into the wash container. A heat pump includes an evaporator which is thermally coupled to the fill reservoir to extract heat energy from stored fresh water, and a condenser via which heat energy is fed into an interior space of the wash container. Disposed between the interior space of the wash container and an interior space of the fill reservoir is a single-layer or multilayer insulation material system to reduce a heat flow from the wash container.
US10722098B2
A fluid circulation assembly for a dishwasher appliance includes a pump, a diverter, and a valve. The diverter includes an inlet and a plurality of outlet ports. The inlet of the diverter is in fluid communication with the pump for receiving fluid from the pump. The valve is in fluid communication with the diverter via one or more of the plurality of outlet ports. The valve includes a housing, a dual check valve assembly mounted in the housing and a plurality of conduits. The dual check valve assembly selectively directs fluid from the diverter to one or more of the plurality of conduits.
US10722096B2
A household appliance includes a selectively mountable wireless communication module. The selectively mountable wireless communication module can be selectively mounted in a toe kick area of the household appliance. The household appliance can be, but is not limited to, a dishwasher, an oven, a refrigerator, a freezer, a microwave, a washing machine, a dryer, or a combo washer-dryer.
US10722095B1
The present disclosure is directed to an apparatus for rinsing and disinfecting utensils, on demand, with a controller operating the components that deliver a pre-determined volume or timed flow of water, and exposure time of sanitizer(s) to the intended objects. The spray embodiment has high performance conical spray nozzle(s) controlled by a controller that reduces water usage and that may vary depending on the viscosity of the material to be eliminated. The recirculating embodiment has a recirculating water system, with a controller operating the components that recirculate water throughout the system until the turbidity exceeds a chosen threshold, and displace with fresh water until the turbidity returns to a lower threshold. The water resumes recirculation until it again exceeds the chose turbidity threshold and the water in the system is again displaced by fresh water. Both spray and recirculating embodiments can contain multiple rinse stations.
US10722092B2
Pre-moistened cleaning pads, for example floor cleaning pads, that are suitable for attachment to an implement, such as a cleaning pad holder and handle, wherein the pre-moistened cleaning pads have an attachment portion comprising pulp fibers and a liquid composition, and methods for making same are provided.
US10722089B2
A surface cleaning apparatus has a first air flow path extending from a dirty air inlet to a clean air outlet with a suction motor and an air treatment member positioned in the first air flow path. A second air flow path extends from an ambient air inlet to a secondary air outlet. An energy storage chamber having at least one energy storage member is positioned in the second air flow path. Ambient air can be drawn through the second air flow path to promote cooling of the energy storage members. A fan unit and or a venture can be used to draw ambient air into the second airflow path.
US10722078B2
A food processing system has a wheel-shaped assembly having a stationary sub-assembly and a movable sub-assembly. The movable sub-assembly has three or more arms extending away from the stationary sub-assembly; three or more connecting rods; three or more pivoters; three or more rotators; and three or more food processing devices. The three or more food processing devices comprise a plurality of cooking chambers and a plurality of blenders. The three or more arms are rotatable about a first direction. A horizontal diameter of each connecting rod stays in a respective horizontal position parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction during rotation of the respective arm about the first direction.
US10722077B2
A cooking utensil for securing a food article over a heat source, including an elongate member extending to a fork head, the fork head comprising a first segment having a generally circular portion, the first segment extending to a second segment having at least two prongs.
US10722074B2
A fuel efficient grill that permits effective direct and indirect cooking, permits movement of the fuel grate and has uniquely shaped air intake slots is provided.
US10722072B2
A sous-vide rack system is disclosed. The system is to be used for supporting sous-vide food items inside sous-vide heating containers and comprises a bottom grating (20) with at least one mounting rail (23), each rail comprising at least one mounting arrangement. The system further comprises at least one separator with at least one separator foot (22) to be inserted into one of the at mounting arrangements. Finally, the system comprises a locking device (24) for at least one of the mounting rails to be used in the mounting rail to lock all into the mounting rail inserted separators by their separator feet to the mounting rail and thus the bottom grating.
US10722068B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for adjustably positioning a fuel source. The apparatus includes a first and second fuel source receiving space and a biasing member. The first fuel source receiving space is defined by a substantially planar first fuel supporting surface and a first wall. The first wall extends substantially perpendicularly from the first fuel supporting surface and circumscribes the first fuel supporting surface. The second fuel source receiving space is hingedly coupled to the first fuel source receiving space. The second fuel source receiving space is defined by a substantially planar second fuel supporting surface and a second wall. The second wall extends substantially perpendicularly from the second fuel supporting surface and circumscribes the second fuel supporting surface. The biasing member is configured to bias at least a portion of the first wall against at least a portion of the second wall.
US10722066B2
A filter paper cup for making a beverage pod. The filter paper cup includes a base (or receptacle) and may include a cover. The filter paper cup is formed by forming pleats in walls and a rim around the tops of the wall. Preferably, a heat seal filter paper is used and the pleats in the walls and rim are adhered by the heat to retain the shape. The base in inserted into a pod holder and brewing material is placed into the base. A cover may be positioned over the rim, and a lid is attached to the pod holder to sandwich the cover and rim to seal the pod. The cover, if present, is held taut by the lid of the pod holder to facilitate penetration of the cover by a needle to inject water into the pod.
US10722064B2
An electric cooker is configured to cook in a pressure state and a non-pressure state of an inner pot, thereby improving the cooking quality and convenience of use. The electric cooker includes a main body configured to accommodate an inner pot; a lid coupled to an upper portion of the main body and having a handle portion provided at one side of an upper portion of the lid to interwork with an inner pot locking unit configured to lock the inner pot; a pressure switching unit arranged to pass through the lid and configured to switch or maintain an opened or closed state to discharge internal steam from the inner pot according to a rotation of the handle portion; and a pressure-responsive operating unit which is selectively opened or closed according to a pressure inside the inner pot in a pressure cooking mode in which the pressure switching unit is closed.
US10722061B2
A personal use accessory comprising a utility plate having a front side and a rear side, a backing plate having a front side and a rear side, a first plurality of magnetically attractive elements disposed upon the rear side of said utility plate, a second plurality of magnetically attractive elements disposed upon the front side of said backing plate, and a utility element; said first and second plurality of magnetically attractive elements arranged to permit magnetic attraction between at least a subset of said first plurality of magnetically attractive elements and at least a subset of said second plurality of magnetically attractive elements, said magnetic attraction being of sufficient total force to support the personal use accessory when said utility plate and said backing plate are separated by a non-magnetic divider.
US10722052B2
A first center mirror and a second mirror are each suspended from a main bracket. The second mirror is pivotally connected to a bar which pivotally attaches to the main bracket and also to the second mirror. A third mirror is optionally pivotally connected to an arm pivotally attached to the main bracket. The first mirror is also preferably pivotally attached to an arm which is itself pivotally attached to the main bracket. An adjustably positionable top mirror can also be mounted to the main bracket. A close-up auxiliary mirror can be suspended from one of the other mirrors. Bushings support the arms upon the main bracket and support the mirrors upon the arms, with the bushings including a detent system to hold the mirrors in predefined positions. A person can stand multiple places and have mirrors positioned about the person for viewing different sides at each place.
US10722044B2
A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of individually pocketed springs. Each string is joined to at least one adjacent string. Each string has first and second opposed plies of fabric and a plurality of pockets formed along a length of the string by transverse seams joining the plies. At least one spring is positioned in each of the pockets. The double-layered fabric used to make at least some strings comprises two layers of non-woven spunbonded polypropylene fabric to reduce noise. The layers may be ultrasonically welded or point bonded together.
US10722036B2
A saddle chair contains: a first seat and a second seat. The first seat includes a first connection sheet and an elongated orifice. The second seat includes a second connection sheet and a through orifice. A fixing member includes a slide slot having a slidable face, a receiving orifice, and a chute. A drive member is connected with a retainer via the receiving orifice, the elongated orifice, and the through orifice. The retainer includes a contacting face. Two screw bolts are screwed with the drive member via the retainer. A control bolt is screwed with a threaded orifice of the drive member and includes at least one recess on which at least one engagement block is fitted. Each engagement block has a screw and a forcing edge sliding between the slidable face and the chute, when the control bolt is rotated to move along the threaded orifice.
US10722031B2
A wall for a basic furniture structure, having a panel-like core, which is arranged between two laterally positioned cover layers. The core has a recess extending at least along part of an end side of the wall and serves for accommodating a fitting, which guides a movable furniture part. The core has two core halves, which are located one upon the other by way of their side surfaces located opposite the respective cover layer and have recesses which supplement one another to form the recess.
US10722030B2
A blade based cabinet system and method. A disclosed cabinetry system includes cabinetry system, comprising: a pair of mounting rails that are horizontally mountable to a wall; a set of blade assemblies, each having a substantially planar profile; and a mounting interface adapted to connect the set of blade assemblies to the pair of mounting rails, orthogonal to the wall to form a cabinet chassis.
US10722026B2
A bracket device of a slide rail assembly includes a bracket and a fastening member. The bracket includes a side wall and a mounting member adjacent to the side wall. The fastening member is movable relative to the bracket, and includes a side part, a fastening part and a blocking feature. The fastening part is bent relative to the side part, and the blocking feature is arranged at the side part. When the fastening member is located at a predetermined position relative to the bracket, the blocking feature is adjacent to the mounting member. When the fastening member is moved away from the predetermined position, the blocking feature is away from the mounting member.
US10722018B2
A safety razor cleaning device includes a handle. A plurality of first bristles and a plurality of second bristles are coupled to and extend transversely from a first end of the handle so that the handle, the plurality of first bristles, and the plurality of second bristles are substantially Y-shaped when viewed from a side of the handle. Each first bristle is flexible and each second bristle is substantially rigid so that the plurality of first bristles is soft and the plurality of second bristles is coarse. The handle is configured to be grasped in a hand, positioning a user to insert the second bristles into slots on a back side of a razor assembly to dislodge debris positioned between razors of the razor assembly. The user also is positioned to brush the first bristles across a front of the razor assembly to clear residual debris from the razors.
US10722015B1
The invention discloses a double-safety adjustment hook for a length-adjustable luggage strap, which mainly includes a luggage strap, an adjustment hook housing, a reinforcing bar and a reinforcing crossbeam, wherein the luggage strap is penetrated into a strap inlet hole arranged at the bottom of the adjustment hook housing, penetrated through a strap passage, and passed through a U-turn and through a turn bypassing hole fixed on the reinforcing crossbeam, a strap clamping groove having bevelled teeth on both side walls thereof is arranged below the turn bypassing hole, the luggage strap is passed through the turn bypassing hole into the strap clamping groove and penetrated through the bevelled teeth, and finally exits from a strap outlet hole arranged at the bottom of the adjustment hook housing.
US10722013B2
An expandable luggage bag including a first bag portion made of a first material that forms a first interior volume. The expandable luggage bag further includes a second bag portion made of a second material that has a first state having a first rigidity and a second state having a second rigidity different than the first rigidity. The expandable luggage bag further includes a solar panel in selective electrical communication with the second bag portion. The second bag portion is in the first state when the second bag portion is not in electrical communication with the solar panel. The second bag portion is in the second state when the second bag portion is in electrical communication with the solar panel.
US10722010B2
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for adjustable length, multi-segment, weighted trekking pole are provided. Two or three-segment trekking (or other) poles may benefit from removable slotted annular-shaped weights that may provide liquid storage and may be configured to fit around the pins of a pin-and-hole coupling mechanism that attaches the pole segments together.
US10722009B2
A method for creating an apparent visual appearance of a large rectangular gemstone in a setting comprising the steps of: mounting a plurality of outer stones along sides and ends of a setting; and mounting a rectangular shaped center stone in a first plane that lies above a second plane that contains the plurality of outer stones, the center stone being disposed within a center of the plurality of outer stones and in a partially overlapping manner such that an appearance of the center stone and the underlying outer stones emulates an appearance of an emerald cut gemstone having larger dimensions than the center stone.
US10721998B1
Provided are, among other things, shoes and shoe components, together with systems, methods and techniques for manufacturing the same. One representative embodiment involves a shoe that includes: a sole having a main structure; a strap anchor that has attachment points and is at least partially embedded within the main structure; and a strap that is attached to and/or looped through one or more of such attachment points and that is configured for strapping the shoe to a wearer's foot. Also, in this embodiment, the strap anchor includes a number of strap anchor components attached in a unit, each such strap anchor component including a number of the attachment points and being at least partially embedded within the main structure.
US10721994B2
A footwear article includes an upper defining apertures spaced apart from one another in a first arrangement. A heel structure has a deformable element attached to a base. The deformable element has pegs spaced apart from one another in the first arrangement and extending through the apertures in the upper. A method of manufacturing a footwear article includes placing a deformable element between an inner layer and an outer layer of an upper and attaching the deformable element to a rigid base. The deformable element includes at least one peg extending outward toward the outer layer. The method includes inserting the peg through the outer layer so that the peg extends through the outer layer and is exposed at an exterior surface of the outer layer. After inserting the peg of the footwear element through the outer layer of the upper, the peg is secured at the exterior surface of the outer layer.
US10721993B2
A plantar surface pressure offloading system includes an insole capable of coupling with a shoe and interfacing with a foot. A number of compressible bladders and pressure sensors are coupled to the insole. Each bladder has an adjustable compressibility, and each pressure sensor is configured to measure a pressure exerted on a respective portion of the foot. A controller of the system can perform, for each compressible bladder, a compressibility adjustment process including (i) receiving, from a respective pressure sensor associated with a respective bladder, a signal indicative of a pressure exerted on a respective portion of the foot, (ii) determining, based on the signal, that the pressure exerted on the respective portion of the foot exceeds a threshold pressure, and (iii) responsive to the determination, adjusting the compressibility of the respective bladder, thereby offloading pressure from the respective portion of the foot to a different portion of the foot.
US10721977B2
A temperature regulation system for regulating the temperature of a body includes at least one temperature sensor adapted to generate a temperature measurement that relates to a temperature of a given portion of a body, at least one flexible support to be directly or indirectly positioned against or in proximity of a given portion of the body, at least one temperature adjustment element adapted to provide heat and/or cold to a given portion of the body, arranged on or in the flexible support, a memory unit adapted to store at least one temperature related threshold value, a logical unit in wire or wireless communication with the memory unit and adapted to perform logical processing, a controlling unit in wire or wireless communication with the logical unit, with the temperature sensor and with the temperature adjustment element.
US10721970B2
An electronic vaporizing inhaler comprises a liquid reservoir adapted to receive vaping liquid, and a vaporizer. The vaporizer comprises a solid partition having a plurality of capillary apertures extending transversely through the solid partition, wherein the capillary apertures provide fluid communication between the vaporizer and the liquid reservoir. A sponge is disposed in physical contact with the solid partition and overlays the plurality of capillary apertures. A wick is disposed in physical contact with and overlaying the sponge, and a heating element is disposed above the wick.
US10721966B2
An exemplary atomizer includes a housing, a sealing cover, an atomizing element, an air passage, and an liquid injecting opening. The housing has a first end and an opposite second end. The second end is configured for connecting with a power supply. The housing defines a liquid chamber configured for containing tobacco liquid. The sealing cover is threadedly coupled with the first end. The atomizing element is configured for atomizing the tobacco liquid to form aerosol. The liquid injecting opening is defined in the first end. The sealing cover is configured for sealing the liquid injecting opening. The sealing cover includes a device configured for preventing children from screwing off the sealing cover. The sealing cover can be screwed off via an outer surface thereof only when an external force is exerted on the device to change an internal structural relationship of the device.
US10721951B2
A process for the application of a predetermined amount of oil to food pieces comprises: (a) providing or receiving a plurality of cut or shaped food pieces; (b) applying an oil-water emulsion to the food pieces for a time sufficient to provide a predetermined amount of oil to the food pieces and so that the food pieces have an initial moisture level after applying the oil-water emulsion; and (c) reducing the initial moisture level, in the absence of frying in oil, to a moisture level of from about 0.2 to about 80% by weight to provide a cooked food product, comprising said predetermined amount of oil, wherein step (c) does not comprises frying the food pieces in hot oil.
US10721948B1
A method performs sous-vide style cooking in an oven cavity of a cooking appliance, where air, not water, serves as the cooking medium. The oven cavity temperature is regulated around a desired final food temperature using a PID algorithm to control a convection heating element and associated fan.
US10721945B2
Edible chews having a polygon-shaped cross-section, such as a star-shaped cross section. This cross-sectional shape provides an increased surface area and forms edges, and these features clean teeth of an animal such as a dog. These edible chews have a soft chewy texture which avoids or significantly reduces gum bleeding which is caused by known dental treats with typically have a hard texture.
US10721944B2
A carbonated beverage apparatus includes a freezing cylinder for receiving a mixture, a beater device disposed inside the freezing cylinder for pushing the mixture in a spiral manner from an inlet of the freezing cylinder to an outlet thereof, and a baffle supporting arrangement positioned surrounded by the beater device, wherein the beater device is rotatable to remove the mixture from an inner wall of the freezing cylinder radially back into the freezing cylinder and to stir the mixture via the baffle supporting arrangement before flowing out of the outlet.
US10721943B2
A hand-press coffee machine comprising a water tank, a hand pump which is disposed at the upper end of the water tank, and a brewing component which is connected to the lower end of the water tank; a water hole is disposed at the point where the water tank and the brewing component are connected; the hand pump is used to pump the water in the water tank into the brewing component through the water hole; a unidirectional valve, which is disposed in the water hole between the water tank and the brewing component, is set to merely allow the water in the water tank to flow into the brewing component; the present invention can effectively protect the coffee powder from being pre-soaked.
US10721938B2
A taco shell is produced using a rotary cutter including a shaft, an outer blade extending radially outward from the shaft and a first inner blade extending radially outward from the shaft. The outer blade defines an interior area, enclosed by the outer blade, and an exterior area. The first inner blade is located in the interior area and includes a plurality of teeth. A dough piece is cut from a dough sheet with the outer blade, and a first arcuate line of depressions is created in the dough piece with the plurality of teeth. The dough piece is folded to form a shaped dough piece, and the shaped dough piece is baked to produce a hard taco shell.
US10721925B2
A land animal snare barrier comprising a first layer of netting and a second layer of netting. The first layer defining a first plurality of through holes of a first size. The second layer defining a second plurality of through holes of a second size. Each layer has a width that measures between 9 inches and 24 inches.
US10721911B2
A device for immobilizing, grooming, and rehabilitating animals comprising: a beam, leg set assembly, crossbeam, suspension strap set, suspension strap clasps at the end of each suspension strap, cranking mechanism, hooking bar, and harness. The cranking mechanism comprises a lockable crank attaching to the first angle bracket, a pulley attaching to the beam at the beam midpoint, a hoist line, comprising a line and a first and second line end running through the pulley and connecting to the crank at the first line end, and a hoist hook attaching to the hoist line at the second line end.
US10721907B2
The present invention includes multifunctional compositions, methods and binding systems to provide disinfecting and deodorizing coatings for hard and soft surfaces, inorganic and organic solid surfaces and particulate media and other related substrates, including human and animal skin and skin lesions; to provide neutralizing functions for malodors generated by both human, animal and industrial fluids and solid wastes; and to provide neutralizing and degrading functions for nuisance and noxious chemicals. The present invention provides compositions and methods for producing disinfecting, oxidizing and enzyme-inhibiting fluids enabling preparation of durable, stable biocidal and deodorizing coatings and media which can be widely used for biological agent control, prevention and elimination of odors, and degradation of noxious agents susceptible to chemical oxidation, and which take forms that are inoffensive to users and offer high convenience.
US10721899B2
The present invention relates to a Solanum lycopersicum seed of hybrid tomato variety 72-008 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Solanum lycopersicum plant of the hybrid tomato variety produced by growing the 72-008 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the tomato cultivar, represented by hybrid tomato variety 72-008 RZ.
US10721891B1
A novel maize variety designated PH477R and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH477R with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH477R 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 PH477R or a locus conversion of PH477R with another maize variety.
US10721890B2
The present invention relates to a Cucumis sativus seed designated 19-720 RZ. The present invention also relates to a Cucumis sativus plant produced by growing the 19-720 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the cucumber cultivar, represented by cucumber variety 19-720 RZ.
US10721877B2
A mulch cutting and spreading machine is a machine that is designed to be able to suction mulch out of the bed of a vehicle that is towing the mulch cutting and spreading machine and to simultaneously suction and chop the mulch and discharge it through a discharge hose that is directed by the user. The mulch or other such material can be then blown or spread over an area quickly in one combined action.
US10721868B2
A system including a first carrier configured to carry at least one first robotic system. The system also can include a second carrier configured to be coupled to a vehicle that is movable across a surface. The first carrier can be movably coupled to and carried by the second carrier. The system can be configured to automatically hold the first carrier in a first position and stationary in a first direction with respect to the surface during a first time period while the vehicle moves the second carrier in the first direction with respect to the surface during the first time period, such that at least a portion the at least one first robotic system carried by the first carrier is stationary in the first direction with respect to the surface during the first time period. Other embodiments are provided.
US10721867B2
A shaped conveyor assembly configured for use in association with a harvester comprising a first side lower conveyor sub-assembly and a second lower conveyor subassembly. One or both of the sub-assemblies having a frame structure, a discharge assembly and a conveyor assembly. The frame structure has a gathering portion, an outward portion and a terminating portion. The gathering portion is positioned proximate the first end and spaced apart from the second end. The terminating portion is positioned proximate the second end and spaced apart from the first end. The outward portion extends therebetween, the outward portion being inclined in an upward direction relative to the gathering portion, and directed in an outward direction, thereby extending away from the channel, and away from the other one of the first side and the second side lower conveyor sub-assemblies.
US10721865B2
A combine harvester includes one or more threshing rotors (5) mounted in the harvester, a grain pan (7) and a set of sieves (8), and a drive mechanism configured to drive a longitudinal reciprocating motion of the grain pan (7) and superimpose a lateral reciprocating motion component on the longitudinal reciprocating motion.
US10721854B2
A machine for picking up rocks from soils having a structure suitable for being moved over the surface of the soil. The machine has a pair of side wheels, being towed by a tractor vehicle from which it receives movement through its power take-off. The machine has rock extraction and uprooting elements incorporated on the advancing edge of the machine, made in the form of teeth, associated with a tooth bar region of the structure of the machine, having certain play, a rotating movable feed reel with teeth, a conveyor belt for lifting said rocks up through an inclined plane from a leading edge to a trailing edge located at a greater height; a rock collection and accumulation hopper arranged on the trailing edge.
US10721853B2
An agricultural harrow includes a harrow tine configured to be advanced through the soil in a forward direction. The harrow tine broadly includes an elongated tine element and a laser deposited metallic wear material. The tine element presents a lower end configured to penetrate the soil as the tine is advanced. The tine element also presents an exterior element surface. The wear material is on the exterior element surface adjacent the lower end of the tine element.
US10729049B2
In component mounting device, if a rotary head held by a head holder greatly deviates from a specified reference, a CPU executes a process for a holding error. The process for the holding error includes a process of holding a rotary head again by the head holder or the like, for example. If the rotary head greatly deviates from a specified reference and the component mounting process is executed as is, there is a fear that poor precision will occur during component mounting. Therefore, the CPU does not execute the component mounting process but executes the process for the holding error.
US10729045B2
A wireless communication electronic assembly can include a plurality of integrated modules each having a ground plate interfaced to each other and defining a shielding plane. Each ground plate can have a left edge and a right edge opposite each other. A plurality of wireless communication devices can be positioned on one side of the shielding plane, and a plurality of electronic devices can be positioned on the other side of the shielding plane. One or more electromagnetic shielding elements, such as gasket(s), channel strip(s), stamping element(s), etc. can be disposed between the left edge and the right edge of adjacent ground plates to electromagnetically shield the plurality of electronic devices from the plurality of wireless communication devices. The left and right edges can be recessed or offset on one side of the shielding plane. Rows and columns of integrated modules can be interfaced about a plurality of electromagnetic shielding elements. A method of installing and replacing integrated modules of an antenna array.
US10729043B1
An electromagnetic effect protective cap assembly for enclosing an end portion of a fastener assembly extending through a structure, includes a sidewall configured to define an interior space and having an end portion of the sidewall which defines a first opening aligned with the interior space which allows passage of the end portion of the fastener assembly through the first opening and into the interior space. The protective cap further includes a second opening which is defined by and extends through the sidewall and is spaced apart from the first opening. In addition, the protective cap further includes a valve member positioned in blocking relationship with respect to the second opening with the valve member positioned between the interior space and an exterior of the sidewall.
US10729039B2
A method of assembling a direct-contact, liquid-cooled (DL) Rack Information Handling System (RIHS) includes inserting a leak containment barrier in a node enclosure provisioned with heat-generating functional components. The method also includes attaching a system of conduits supplying cooling liquid through the node enclosure and including a supply conduit extending from a node inlet coupling and a return conduit terminating in a node outlet coupling. A trough of the leak containment barrier underlays a portion of the system of conduits of an LC node and forms a drain path to a drain port of the node enclosure. The method further includes mounting the LC node insertably received in one node-receiving slot having a rear section configured for blind mating of the node inlet and outlet ports to a node-receiving liquid inlet port and a node-receiving liquid outlet port positioned to be inwardly facing to the couplings of the LC node.
US10729033B1
An active heat-dissipation system for a base station of a communication system includes a measuring module, configured to detect a temperature sensing signal of the base station; a controller, configured to receive the temperature sensing signal detected by the measuring module to set a preset temperature signal, to generate a difference between the temperature sensing signal and the preset temperature signal and a time derivative of the difference, and to output a control signal according to the difference and the time derivative of the difference based on a control program; and a power module, configured to receive the control signal and output an electrical signal to a heat-dissipation module according to the control signal, such that the heat-dissipation module performs a heat-dissipation process for the base station according to the electrical signal.
US10729012B2
Methods, systems, and devices for buried lines and related fabrication techniques are described. An electronic device (e.g., an integrated circuit) may include multiple buried lines at multiple layers of a stack. For example, a first layer of the stack may include multiple buried lines formed based on a pattern of vias formed at an upper layer of the stack. The pattern of vias may be formed in a wide variety of spatial configurations, and may allow for conductive material to be deposited at a buried target layer. In some cases, buried lines may be formed at multiple layers of the stack concurrently.
US10729006B2
[Objective] To provide a wiring substrate for electronic component inspection apparatus which includes a first laminate of resin layers with a plurality of pads for probe provided on its front surface and a second laminate of ceramic layers disposed on the back side of the first laminate and which, despite joining by brazing of a plurality of studs to the back surface of the second laminate, is free from deformation of resin of the first laminate caused by softening or the like and from accidental formation of a short circuit between brazing material layers used for the brazing and external connection terminals formed on the back surface of the second laminate.[Means for Solution] A wiring substrate for electronic component inspection apparatus 1 which includes a first laminate 3 composed of a plurality of stacked resin layers j1 to j3 and having a plurality of pads for probe 9 on its front surface 5, a second laminate 4 disposed on a back surface 6 side of the first laminate 3 and composed of a plurality of stacked ceramic layers c1 to c3, and a plurality of studs 20a joined to a back surface 8 of the second laminate 4 and in which the resin layers j1 to j3 of the first laminate 3 are formed of a resin having a thermal deformation temperature of 300° C. or higher, and the studs 20a are joined to surfaces of metal layers 16 formed on the back surface 8 of the second laminate 4 via brazing material layers 28, respectively.
US10728998B2
A replacement part unit for a plasma torch includes an electrode, an insulation guide, and a nozzle. The insulation guide includes a hole into which the electrode is inserted. The insulation guide is coupled to the electrode by press-fitting or adhesion. The nozzle includes a hole into which the insulation guide is inserted. The nozzle is coupled to the insulation guide by press-fitting or adhesion.
US10728997B2
A plasma generator capable of adjusting the amount of plasma generation in a simple configuration includes a control circuit controlling a frequency of an AC power supplied to a piezoelectric transformer and a control signal generation circuit providing a control signal to the control circuit. The plasma generator is configured so that the control signal output from the control signal generation circuit is appropriately adjusted. The control circuit controls the frequency of the AC power so as to bring a target value, which is set based on the control signal provided from the control signal generation circuit.
US10728995B2
A mobile X-ray apparatus includes: an X-ray radiation device configured to emit X-rays; a controller configured to control the X-ray radiation device; a power supply configured to supply operating power to the X-ray radiation device and the controller; and a charger configured to charge the power supply. The power supply includes a lithium ion battery including a plurality of battery cells, at least one current sensor configured to detect current of the lithium ion battery, and a battery management system (BMS) configured to detect an occurrence of an overcurrent in the lithium ion battery via the at least one current sensor in response to receiving an X-ray emission preparation signal, and to control an on-state or an off-state of a discharge current path in which a discharge current flows from the lithium ion battery to the controller and the X-ray radiation device.
US10728990B2
A lighting system utilizes intelligent system elements, such as lighting devices, user interfaces for lighting control or the like and possibly sensors. The system also has a data communication network. Some number of the intelligent lighting system elements, including at least two of the lighting devices, also support wireless communication with other non-lighting-system devices at the premises. Each such element has a communication interface system configured to provide a relatively short range, low power wireless data communication link for use by other non-lighting-system devices at the premises in proximity to the respective intelligent system element. Also, in such an element, the processor is configured to control communications via the communication interface system so as to provide access to the data network and through the data network to the wide area network outside the premises for non-lighting related communications of the other non-lighting-system devices.
US10728989B2
A controller for a lighting system, the lighting system comprising one or more luminaires associated with a lighting channel; the controller comprising: a script interpreter configured to interpret a lighting script for rendering on the luminaires; an effect impact determining module configured to determine a visual impact level of each of the lighting effects if rendered as defined by the lighting script unmodified; a script modifier configured to selectively generate, based on the visual impact levels, effect modification data for modifying the visual impact level of at least one of the lighting effects; a lighting controller configured to control the luminaires associated with the lighting channel to render versions of the lighting effects defined by the lighting script, wherein the lighting controller is configured to use the effect modification data to render a modified version of the at least one lighting effect having the modified visual impact level.
US10728987B1
A distributed lighting control system has a plurality of independently controlled light fixtures. Each light fixture of the plurality of independently controlled light fixtures includes: an illuminating element; driver circuitry operatively coupled to the illuminating element and configured to provide power to the illuminating element; one or more sensors; and a processor operatively coupled to the one or more sensors and the driver circuitry. The processor is configured to: receive signals from the one or more sensors; and control the driver circuitry to provide power to the illuminating element to generate illumination based on the received signals from the one or more sensors. Illumination provided by each light fixture of the plurality of independently controlled light fixtures is controlled independently of the illumination provided by others of the plurality of independently controlled light fixtures.
US10728984B1
A powering circuit for a diode light source includes an inductor charged through an on/off switch. The charging occurs during a charging cycle for a controllable amount of time when the on/off switch is closed. The energy of the charged inductor is used to power the semiconductor light source by opening the on/off switch. In such a driving configuration, the ringing is nearly constant and thus may be suppressed using an appropriately configured circuit.
US10728980B2
A switch driving device 10 comprises: multichannel switch elements SW1 to SW8 which are connected in parallel to a plurality of light-emitting elements included in a vehicle-mounted light-emitting device; and a logic portion 120 which automatically starts a series of switch driving sequence so that the on-off states of the switch elements SW1 to SW8 are sequentially switched in a predetermined pattern in response to the power-on of the device.
US10728977B1
A system and method for independently adjusting the correlated color temperature (CCT) and brightness of a light source having two or more color LED's or LED sets, with each color LED or LED set having a different correlated color temperature. A user person can selectively enable a selected one of the two or more color LED's or LED sets and adjust the brightness thereof and repeat the selection of the second color LED or LED set and adjust the brightness thereof. By independently selecting the color LED or LED set and modifying the brightness thereof, a desired light atmosphere can be created by adjusting the output color mixture of the LED's or LED sets and controlling the brightness of the combination of the color LED's or LED sets. The selection of individual color LED's and the brightness adjustment thereof can be made by a mechanical operable control device or by remote wireless control device.
US10728958B2
A The heating element structure includes: a conductive metal substrate; a heating layer spaced apart from the conductive metal substrate and configured to generate heat in response to an electrical signal; electrodes in contact with the heating layer and configured to provide the electrical signal to the heating layer; and a first insulating layer on the conductive metal substrate, the first insulating layer comprising a first matrix material and a particle, wherein a difference between a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of the first matrix material and a coefficient of thermal expansion of the particle is about 4×10−6 per Kelvin or less.
US10728943B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for utilizing an unlicensed frequency band as a supplementary band is used in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. A secondary component carrier management method of a base station according to the present disclosure includes configuring a secondary component carrier of a second band to a terminal connected to the base station in a first band, determining whether a packet is present over a bearer allowing transmission on the secondary component carrier, and deactivating/releasing the secondary component carrier when no packet is present over the carrier.
US10728929B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods provide for transmitting a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS) or other reference signal over a cellular network operating on an unlicensed radio band. Specifically, an apparatus, such as a User Equipment (UE) or Base Station (eNB), determines one or more channel sensing metrics for a radio channel. Based on the channel sensing metrics, the apparatus then determines a Listen Before Talk (LBT) mode and/or a LBT sensing time. The UE then performs a LBT process using the LBT mode and the LBT sensing time. If the UE determines that the radio channel is not occupied, the UE transmits a signal, such as a control signal (e.g., a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS)), over the radio channel.
US10728923B2
The present disclosure is to provide a method of configuring timing of uplink (UL) transmission, comprising, receiving, by a user equipment (UE), configuration information on carrier aggregation (CA) of at least one frequency division duplex (FDD) cell and at least one time division duplex (TDD) cell; and adjusting, by the UE, starting timing of a UL subframe in a cell participating in the CA.
US10728922B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for scheduling of transmission time intervals. One apparatus includes a processor that determines a first semi-persistent scheduling resource assignment indicating a first set of resources including a first multiple time domain resources. Each time domain resource of the first multiple time domain resources has a first transmission time interval length. The processor also determines a second semi-persistent scheduling resource assignment indicating a second set of resources including a second multiple time domain resources. Each time domain resource of the second multiple time domain resources has a second transmission time interval length, and the first transmission time interval length is different from the second transmission time interval length. The apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits the first semi-persistent scheduling resource assignment using a first semi-persistent scheduling radio network identifier, and transmits the second semi-persistent scheduling resource assignment using a second semi-persistent scheduling radio network identifier.
US10728909B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) is described. The method comprises receiving, through reception circuitry of the UE, a Synchronization Signal (SS) block bitmap from a primary cell (PCell), the SS block bitmap having one or more SS block bits corresponding to one or more SS block indices; monitoring or measuring, through the reception circuitry, one or more SS blocks from a secondary cell (SCell) based on the SS block bitmap.
US10728900B2
A radio terminal (2) receives beam configuration information from a base station (1), measures a plurality of transmission beams (10) transmitted from the base station (1) in accordance with the beam configuration information, and uses one or more beams selected from among the plurality of transmission beams (10) based on a measurement result as a serving beam. Each of the plurality of transmission beams carries a beamformed reference signal to be measured by the radio terminal (2). The beam configuration information includes a reference signal configuration indicating a radio resource used on each beam for transmitting the beamformed reference signal. It is thus, for example, possible to contribute to provision of a procedure for UE mobility between beams.
US10728892B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for scheduling resources in an internet of vehicles system, to centrally allocate timeslot resources in the internet of vehicles system at a network side. The method includes: receiving, by a scheduling device, information of a geographical area reported by a first node and corresponding to the first node; and determining, by the scheduling device, timeslot resources capable of being scheduled within the geographical area reported by the first node, and allocating a timeslot resource from the determined timeslot resources for the first node. Each cell is divided into geographical areas, and an identical timeslot resource can be shared by non-adjacent geographical areas in an identical cell, and/or non-adjacent geographical areas in different cells. By centralized scheduling of timeslot resources, it is able to ensure communication between nodes within a predetermined range, thereby preventing impact of timeslot resources used by the nodes.
US10728888B2
Disclosed is a 5G or pre-5G communication system provided so as to support a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G communication system, such as LTE. A method and a device for transmitting information in a communication system are disclosed. The method for allocating resources in a cellular network using an unlicensed band comprises the steps of: generating at least one resource allocation signal containing information indicating a plurality of continuous uplink subframes capable of communicating through the unlicensed band; transmitting the resource allocation signal to a user equipment (UE) through the unlicensed band for the duration of at least one downlink subframe; and receiving uplink data from the UE for the duration of the continuous uplink subframes.
US10728886B2
A communication device and method adapted for network data decoding and connection modes switching in a mobile communication system consisting of connecting to a network in a first mode comprising decoding data received from the network; receiving a message from the network; transmitting a negative acknowledgement (NACK) for the message to the network; identifying a retransmission of the message from the network; and switching to a second mode comprising skipping data decoding based on the identified retransmission of the message from the network.
US10728870B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for avoiding attempts by a UE to attach to a RAT network when that RAT network is unavailable. According to certain aspects, the UE may detect scenarios when the RAT network is unavailable and take preemptive action to prevent the UE from attempting to acquire service on that RAT. For example, the UE may effectively remove that RAT from a list of supported RATs by sending a UE capability message indicating that RAT is not supported, which may prevent network-initiated transitions of the UE to that RAT. The UE may also remove the unavailable RAT from an internal list of supported RATs, which may prevent UE-initiated transitions to that RAT.
US10728866B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for parallel sniffing of non-identical mediums. An example apparatus includes a device configurator to configure a first sniffer using a first parameter of a second sniffer to generate a first data stream, a parameter determiner to identify a common frame included in the first and second data streams, the second data stream generated by the second sniffer and determine a first time-correction factor by determining a difference between a first timestamp and a second timestamp of the common frame in the first and second data streams, and a stream generator to generate a third data stream including first and second data frames, the first data frames based on the first time-correction factor, the second data frames based on a second time-correction factor based on configuring the first sniffer using a second parameter of the third sniffer.
US10728853B2
Methods and systems for waking up a wireless receiving device having a wake-up radio (WUR) circuit. A low-power wake-up signal is transmitted, comprising a wake-up frame (WUF) including having a portion that is subjected to spectrum spreading and transmitted using a single carrier. The wake-up signal is processed by the receiving using non-coherent detection.
US10728849B2
A method is performed by a first access point (AP) of a plurality of access points (APs). The first AP includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, the method includes determining traffic information for a first set of client devices that are being served by the first AP. In some implementations, the method includes obtaining traffic information for a second set of client devices that are being served by a second AP of the plurality of APs. In some implementations, the method includes synthesizing a unified traffic indicator map (TIM) based on the traffic information for the first set of client devices and the traffic information for the second set of client devices. In some implementations, the method includes transmitting the unified TIM to the plurality of APs. In some implementations, the unified TIM satisfies a network performance criterion.
US10728847B2
A cellular modem is configured for low power applications. In some instances, the cellular modem includes a transceiver, a processor to control the transceiver, a memory device in communication with the processor, and a general-purpose input/output (GPIO) pin, controlled by the processor. In an example, the cellular modem receives an appointed time for an upcoming communication and determines a time to activate a power supply. The determination may be based at least in part on the appointed time for the communication, so that the power supply is ready to supply power at a level consistent with use of the transceiver at the appointed time of the communication. At the determined time, a signal from the GPIO pin is used to activate the power supply, resulting in an increase in power supplied to the cellular modem in a just-in-time manner.
US10728839B2
A method of transmitting includes categorizing a transmission between the first device and a second device as one of a plurality of transmission types, and selecting an air interface from a plurality of air interface candidates in accordance with the transmission as categorized. The method also includes sending the transmission to the second device using the selected air interface.
US10728835B2
When a UE in a first cell operating at a first frequency attempts to discover another UE in a second cell operating at a second frequency, the UE in the first cell may need to constantly monitor communication on the second frequency to discover the UE in the second cell, which may not be desirable. According to an aspect of the disclosure, the apparatus receives, on a first frequency of a first channel from a first base station serving a first cell, discovery information associated with a second frequency of a second channel corresponding to a second cell, wherein the first frequency is a downlink (DL) frequency and the second frequency is an uplink (UL) frequency. The apparatus discovers, based on the received discovery information, one or more UEs on the second frequency of the second channel.
US10728821B2
The claimed subject matter includes techniques for migrating wireless channels. An example method includes initiating, via a first media access controller on an integrated circuit chip, a first connection on a first wireless channel. The example method also includes performing, via a second media access controller on the integrated circuit chip, a scan on additional wireless channels using a second media access controller. The example method also includes detecting, via the second media access controller, an available wireless channel from the additional wireless channels. The method further includes migrating, via the first media access controller, the first connection from the first wireless channel to the available wireless channel. The method further includes combining the second access media controller with the first media access controller to provide increased throughput or signal quality on the available wireless channel.
US10728815B2
A method is provided that facilitates sidehaul minimization by dropping and reconnecting a mobile device when the mobile device has handed off to a second deployable in a deployable ad hoc communication system. A data session is established for the mobile device utilizing resources in the first deployable. At some point the mobile device hands over to a second deployable in the multiple deployable ad hoc network. The data session at the first deployable remains active and continues to send and receive bearer traffic and control traffic for the mobile device. Upon determining that the mobile device has entered an idle state, the mobile device is dropped from the second deployable and reconnects back to the second deployable. By dropping and reconnecting, the data and bearer sessions are moved from the first deployable to the second deployable, thereby eliminating sidehaul between the first deployable and the second deployable.
US10728805B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to the communications field, and provide a bearer establishment method and apparatus, and a system. The method includes: sending, by an eNB, a first request message to an MME in a handover process of UE; determining, by the MME, a target SGW and a target PGW of the UE based on the first request message; requesting, by the MME, the target SGW to establish a first bearer between the target SGW and the target PGW for the UE; and after the first bearer is established, requesting, by the MME, a source eNB to release a radio bearer and delete a second bearer on the source side. In the present application, a process of establishing the first bearer and the cell handover process are completed in parallel, so that the terminal can perform communication through the first bearer after a cell handover.
US10728785B2
A radio communication device includes a transceiver and a cell measurement reporting circuit configured to determine for a signal reception quality related event, whether an event entry condition is fulfilled, in case the condition is fulfilled concerning a cell for the event, to add the concerned cell into a candidate reporting list, to trigger and carry out a first measurement report process for the cell included in the candidate reporting list, after having carried out the first measurement report process, to determine, for each cell included in the candidate reporting list and for which no first measurement report process has been carried out, as to whether a measurement criterion for the respective cell is fulfilled with respect to a cell for which the first measurement report process has been carried out, and to trigger and carry out a second measurement report process for each cell which fulfills the measurement criterion.
US10728780B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a control node comprising means for performing: maintaining information, in a database, on a plurality of network nodes which are configured to perform wireless backhauling in at least one wireless backhaul network and are in communication with the control node, selecting, based on the information on the plurality of network nodes and according to pre-defined criteria, a first and a second set of network nodes from the plurality of network nodes and transmitting to the first set a first command to transmit a reference signal at one or more first pre-defined time instances and to the second set of network nodes a second command to monitor received signals at said one or more first pre-defined time instances to measure the reference signal.
US10728778B2
A user equipment for a wireless communication is configured to interact the radio link monitoring and beam failure recovery for resolving radio link failure quickly. When the out-of-synchronization (OOS) condition is detected in PHY sublayer, a timer may start to wait to receive a beam recovery success indication. Once the beam recovery success indication is received in RRC sublayer, the RRC sublayer may determine to consecutively receive a number of in-synchronization (IS) indications. If the number of the consecutively received IS indication is larger than or equal to a threshold number by comparing, the radio link is identified as being recovered.
US10728769B1
Aspects of the disclosure include determining that a first instance of a first object is present in a first image in accordance with an execution of a first image processing algorithm, generating a first bounding region that at least partially surrounds the first instance of the first object in the first image, determining that the first instance of the first object in the first image has a first attribute in accordance with an execution of a second image processing algorithm, wherein the second image processing algorithm is operative on the first image in accordance with the first bounding region, and selecting the first instance of the first object and/or a second instance of the first object to receive a deployment of a network resource in accordance with the determining that the first instance of the first object in the first image has the first attribute. Other aspects are disclosed.
US10728763B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for securely performing connection release and network redirection in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a first cell. The wireless device may receive a RRC connection release message from the first cell. The RRC connection release message may include an indication to redirect the wireless device to a second cell. The RRC connection with the first cell may be released. It may be determined whether security has been established with the first cell when the indication to redirect the wireless device to the second cell is received. A new serving cell may be selected based at least in part on whether security has been established with the first cell when the indication to redirect the wireless device to the second cell is received.
US10728755B2
The present invention discloses a system and a method for securing the privacy of cellular network subscribers and the security of data stored on the said subscribers' User Cellular Devices (UCDs)The system comprises a Controlled Cellular Network (CCN), interfacing a cellular Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), hosting a plurality of cellular subscribers.The said CCN system provides said security services to “serviced subscribers” of the hosting PLMN.The CCN encapsulates communication between UCDs of serviced subscribers and the hosting PLMN, including at least part of: control, signaling, SMS and data communications.The CCN is configured to identify security threats to the privacy of serviced subscribers and to the data stored on their UCDs, and determine said threats' category and probability, based on analysis of said encapsulated communication.CCN is configured to respond to said threats in real or near-real time, and take active measures to avert said suspected threats.
US10728753B2
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for data communication to mobile electronic devices utilizing nodes equipped with directional transmitters. The mobile electronic devices are classified as registered or unregistered. A current location for each mobile electronic device in an area is determined. A registered mobile electronic device is identified from a group of mobile electronic devices. Based on the determined location, a distance to a registered mobile electronic device from a transmitter is determined. The transmitter is a directional transmitter, capable of transmitting along a sector. A sector corresponding to the registered mobile electronic device based on an angle range and distance from a transmitter to the registered mobile electronic device is determined. Data is transmitted to the registered mobile device with directed communication from multiple transmitters, operating to create constructive interference to enable a suitable signal strength at the location of the registered mobile electronic device.
US10728741B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for dynamic UE-Category switching for enhanced idle mode power savings. A method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method generally includes, determining that a cell supports a second UE category, lower than a first UE category; and while in an idle mode: operating in the cell according to the first UE category; and taking action to operate in the cell according to the second UE category based on the determination.
US10728740B2
A handheld terminal 200 performs wireless communication with a game apparatus 103 and determines whether the wireless communication with the game apparatus 103 is possible. The game apparatus 103 performs wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 and determines whether the wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 is possible. The game apparatus 103 performs a return home determination process, based on the determination about whether the wireless communication is possible, when the wireless communication with the handheld terminal 200 has become, after having become disabled, enabled again.
US10728728B2
The invention relates to a portable object (OP) suitable for rendering at least one secure service (S) via a near field (NFC). The object comprises: a near field module (NFC) having an antenna (AN) and a microcontroller (CLF) for managing near field communication with a near field reader unit (2) external to the portable object; and a secure element (SE) comprising: memory means (MEM) for storing applications (APS) and data (DPS) relating to at least one secure service (S); and a communications module (I1) for communicating with the near field module (NFC) in order to exchange data relating to the secure service (S). The object is characterized in that it also includes a serial communications module (USB) connected to the security element (SE, SIM, I4), and in that the applications (APS) and the data (DPS) of the secure service (S) are transmitted to the security element via said serial communications module (USB).
US10728724B2
A communication device supports a D2D (Device-to-Device) communication and includes a storage, a scheduler and a transmitter. The storage stores a first resource pool information that indicates first resource pool including control resources allocated to control information for transmitting data and a second resource pool information that indicates second resource pool including data resources allocated to data. The scheduler selects a first resource for transmitting control information from the first resource pool and selects a second resource for transmitting data from the second resource pool. The transmitter transmits the control information by using the first resource and transmit the data by using the second resource. The scheduler selects the second resource from the second resource pool according to a received signal intensity in at least one of resources included in the first resource pool and the second resource pool.
US10728721B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for managing a network based on feedback according to one embodiment. In use, the method includes establishing a network, connecting a plurality of devices to the network, the plurality of devices including a master device, and limiting access to the network to a predetermined period of time for one or more of the plurality of devices, where the master device is exempt from the limiting.
US10728719B1
Techniques are disclosed for passing short message service (SMS) messages between sending and receiving SMS service providers over a network comprising a default data center and one or more alternative data centers. The default data center may receive message segments of an SMS message from the sending SMS provider into a local storage area of a concatenator comprising a local and a global storage area. The message segments may include segmentation information indicative of a number of message segments associated with the SMS message, routing information, the sending SMS provider, and the receiving SMS provider. When all the message segments have been received within a local timeout period, the default data center concatenates the message segments into a single SMS message and sends it to the receiving SMS service provider. When not all of the message segments have been received, the default data center moves the message segments to the global storage area sends the received message segments to an alternative data centers. The alternative data center receives all of the message segments from one or more data centers into its global storage area; concatenates them into a single SMS message; and sends the concatenated SMS message to the receiving SMS service provider. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10728715B2
Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for providing seamless PTT services to a user. In an embodiment, a push-to-talk (PTT) component provides, to the user, PTT services with a talk group through connectivity to a data channel in a mobile network. A voice monitoring component monitors attributes of data connectivity on the data channel to determine when a voice quality falls below a threshold. When the voice quality is determined to fall below the threshold, a connectivity component requests the user to switch the connectivity to a voice channel. Then, the connectivity component dials a telephone number through the voice channel to access a voice conference bridge that provides the PTT services. To provide the PTT services, the voice conference bridge sets up a routing path to a session initiation protocol (SIP) session for the talk group, and routes voice communication through the SIP session.
US10728714B2
A base station for a mobile communications network is disclosed, in which the base station includes a plurality of transmitters, in which each transmitter is configured to provide transmit radio signals to a plurality of mobile terminals; and a plurality of receivers, in which each receiver is configured to detect receive radio signals from the plurality of mobile terminals. The base station also includes a processor configured to interrogate each of the plurality of the mobile terminals for an indication of signal quality of a signal received by the mobile terminal; and to assign each of the plurality of the mobile terminals to one of two groups based on the received indications of signal quality. The mobile terminals assigned to the first group are those that indicate relatively low signal quality and the mobile terminals assigned to the second group are those that indicate relatively high signal quality. The plurality of transmitters are configured to communicate with at least some of the mobile terminals in the first group over unicast and to communicate with the mobile terminals in the second group over multicast.
US10728713B2
A radio control method for a vehicle and a system for the same are disclosed. The method take advantage of radio data system (RDS) data in a radio broadcast system prevents unexpected initialization of a preset channel during utilization of a preset function. The radio control method for a vehicle includes receiving information about radio channel selection achieved by a preset function, and when the selected radio channel does not include radio data system (RDS) information, updating a preset slot in a manner that a new radio channel including the RDS information is designated to the preset slot.
US10728712B2
A method for providing a multimedia broadcast/multicast service (MBMS) to a terminal related to a vehicle by a broadcast and multicast service center (BM-SC) is provided. The method includes identifying at least one candidate service area that the terminal is predicted to pass through, and transmitting, to an MBMS-gateway (MBMS-GW), a request for configuring the radio bearer of the at least one candidate service area.
US10728700B2
A method, system and computer program product for privacy assurance in location based services is provided. The method includes receiving a location of a mobile device corresponding to an end user of a multi-user enterprise application. The method additionally includes identifying a valid location of the mobile device that is at least a threshold distance from the received location and that is a public facility. Finally, the method includes presenting the valid location to other end users in the multi-user enterprise application in lieu of the received location.
US10728699B2
Methods and systems are provided for delivering location-based services, wherein the location-based services may include storing data defining a plurality of physical locations and a plurality of geofences associated with the physical locations, monitoring a current location of a user device, comparing the current location of the user device with each of the geofences, and determining based on the comparison that the current location of the user device is within a particular geofence. Rankings are assigned to the physical locations associated with the particular geofence based on various criteria, including, for example, distances between the user device and the physical locations, user interactions with the physical locations, user preferences, demographics, or consumer purchase history. User-selectable icons corresponding to the physical locations are output at the user device, wherein the positions of the user-selectable icons in an interface are determined based on the assigned rankings.
US10728697B2
A method and system for presenting location information on mobile devices is discussed. The method includes tracking, at a mobile device associated with a user, mobile device locations of additional mobile devices associated with additional users. Each of the mobile device locations can be determined based on data indicating location data transmissions of respective additional mobile devices. The method includes providing an interactive map interface on a device display on the mobile device, the interactive map interface indicating, based on the tracking, location representations of locations and user representations of the additional users. The interactive map interface indicates a geofence generated using a location selected by the user. The method also includes displaying, responsive to a determination based on the tracking that one of the mobile devices has entered an area of the geofence, an alert on the device display.
US10728696B2
Methods and systems are disclosed relating to proximity detection of devices and targeted information services, such as information campaigns. Disclosed methods provide targeted campaigns to a user, such as targeted campaigns to presentation devices based on proximity of user devices near the information devices. Other methods provide targeted campaigns across various applications, while other methods provide for scheduling campaigns to premises device identifiers based on an event schedule, and other methods provide a hierarchal system for monitoring different sets of premises device identifiers when a user device can monitor for a limited number of premises device identifiers at a time.
US10728695B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use of crowdsourced microphone or other information with a digital media content environment. A user may bring their media device with media application to a venue/performance, for example a theater, or a music concert, or other event which the user desires to attend. A microphone and/or other hardware components of the media device can be used to indicate a presence of the media device. The system can also, or alternatively, utilize an interaction information by the media device or the user thereof with other systems or environments. The media application can be configured so that, upon determining that the media device is present within a particular venue or attending a particular performance, the media server can enable one or more venue-aware media application features, to provide various types of functionalities that improve the user experience.
US10728694B2
A compound sensor system includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a memory that stores a module, and a processor coupled to the first sensor, the second sensor, and the memory. The first sensor is configured to detect a parameter that indicates a likelihood of having a user enter or leave a target area, and, in response, send a first command signal to the processor. The processor is configured to receive the first command signal from the first sensor and send a second command signal to the second sensor based on receiving the first command signal. The second sensor is configured to operate at a sleep mode and switch to an active mode upon receiving the second command signal, and during the active mode the second sensor is configured to determine if the user enters or leaves the target area.
US10728693B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for configuring a system information transmission resource for an MTC terminal. The method may include configuring a system bandwidth including two or more physical resource blocks with one or more subbands defined by two or more physical resource blocks to enable at least one remaining physical resource block to be located in a center of the system bandwidth and transmitting the system information to a predetermined user equipment (UE) using the subband.
US10728688B2
Described herein is a method for creating an object-based audio signal from an audio input, the audio input including one or more audio channels that are recorded to collectively define an audio scene. The one or more audio channels are captured from a respective one or more spatially separated microphones disposed in a stable spatial configuration. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving the audio input; b) performing spatial analysis on the one or more audio channels to identify one or more audio objects within the audio scene; c) determining contextual information relating to the one or more audio objects; d) defining respective audio streams including audio data relating to at least one of the identified one or more audio objects; and e) outputting an object-based audio signal including the audio streams and the contextual information.
US10728685B2
A method improves performance of a computer that provides binaural sound to a listener. A memory stores coordinate locations that follow a path of how the head of the listener moves. This path is retrieved in anticipation of subsequent head movements of the listener to improve computer performance of executing binaural sound.
US10728680B2
A hearing aid comprising a speaker unit; a speaker snout defining a sound canal having a longitudinal axis, a lateral axis and a sound canal opening; an ear piece configured to be attached to the speaker snout and an ear wax filter. The sound canal is configured to guide sound generated by the speaker unit through the sound canal into the ear piece. The ear wax filter is slidably arranged in the speaker snout through a first opening allowing the ear wax filter to be radially inserted into the sound canal.
US10728656B1
The present disclosure provides an audio device and an audio processing method based on the charger cable. The audio device includes: at least two microphones configured to collect audio signals; and a microcontroller configured to, process the audio signals collected by the at least two microphones to generate one data stream; and when the audio device is connected to a computing terminal, send the data stream to the computing terminal, the data stream being further processed by the computing terminal to perform an action. Each of the at least two microphones is respectively connected to the microcontroller.
US10728649B1
An apparatus for delivering audio signals to a user includes an air-conduction transducer and a bone-conduction transducer. The air-conduction transducer is configured to convert a component of the audio signals to air vibrations detectable by an ear of the user. The bone-conduction transducer is configured to convert another component of the audio signals to vibrations in a cranial bone of the user via direct contact with the user. The apparatus employs one or more filters to separate input audio signals to produce a high-frequency component, a mid-frequency component, and a low-frequency component. The mid- and low-frequency components are processed using compressors to reduce the dynamic range of the components, and then combined to produce a combined component. The combined component is delivered to the user through the bone-conduction transducer, and the high-frequency component is delivered to the user through the air-conduction transducer.
US10728647B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data transmitting method and a system. The target bluetooth earphone is applied to a data transmitting system. The data transmitting system includes a mobile terminal and a plurality of earphones, the mobile terminal and the plurality of bluetooth earphones are connected in sequence thereby forming a connection loop, in which each of the plurality of bluetooth earphones corresponds to two transmission paths for transmitting audio data to the mobile terminal. In the method, the target bluetooth earphone receives audio data. The target bluetooth earphone determines a target device, wherein the target device is adjacent to the target bluetooth earphone in the connection loop and on the shorter of the two transmission paths, and the target device is one of the plurality of bluetooth earphones or the mobile terminal. The target bluetooth earphone transmits the audio data to the target device.
US10728645B2
An earpiece in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present technology includes a housing and a speaker within the housing. The earpiece can also include an earbud and a protrusion carried by the housing. The earbud can extend from the housing toward a canal of a user's ear when the earpiece is mounted to the user's ear. The protrusion can be at least partially received within a recess at least partially defined by a cymba concha of the user's ear and by an anterior ridge of an antihelix of the user's ear when the earpiece is mounted to the user's ear. The protrusion can include resilient members and intervening slots. The individual resilient members can be configured to preferentially bend relative to the housing in a direction parallel to an adjacent length of the anterior ridge when the earpiece is mounted to the user's ear.
US10728642B2
A portable case for storing hearing assistance devices is described that includes at least one retention structure configured to retain at least part of a hearing assistance device, one or more communication units configured to exchange information between the portable case and one or more external devices, and at least one processor. The processor is configured to: detect when the at least one retention structure shares an electrical connection with the at least part of the hearing assistance device that is retained by the at least one retention structure; and responsive to receiving data, from the hearing assistance device, via the electrical connection, while the at least part of the hearing assistance device is retained by the at least one retention structure, cause the one or more communication units to communicate with exchange the information data between the portable case and the one or more external devices.
US10728637B2
An electronic apparatus includes a floating section which has a speaker part and a first box part provided with a first cavity portion functioning as a back chamber of the speaker part and is fixed to a main body chassis in a floatable state inside the main body chassis, a rigid section which has a second box part provided with a second cavity portion and which is rigidly fixed to the main body chassis inside the main body chassis and formed with an antenna on at least a part of the second box part, and a connecting pipe which connects the first box part and the second box part through a vibration buffer part and communicates the first cavity portion and the second cavity portion with each other.
US10728629B2
A system and method includes an automatic content recognition (ACR) headend to perform ACR recognition on a video stream that is also being streamed to a smart TV, to detect timing of an upcoming ad spot to be delivered within the video stream. An addressable TV (ATV) engine can be in communication with the ACR head end and to: determine, from data of an ad campaign, whether a first ad to be delivered to the ad spot is off target for the ad spot; notify the ad replacer client to replace the first ad with an addressable ad when the first ad is off target for the ad spot; and provide, to the ad replacer client, criteria with which to constrain an ad request to obtain a second ad that is on target for the ad spot.
US10728624B2
Systems and methods are described for modifying a fast-forwarding speed based on a reaction time of a user when a frame of interest is detected. A media guidance application may receive a command from a user to fast-forward through a media asset and may execute a fast-forwarding operation through frames of the media asset. The media guidance application may detect that the fast-forwarding operation is approaching a frame of interest to the viewer. The media guidance application may reduce the fast-forwarding speed to a second speed slower than the first speed, where the second speed is determined based on an estimated reaction time of the user. The media guidance application may receive a command to resume playback from the user while the fast-forwarding operation is occurring at the second speed and may play back the media asset at a default playback speed from a point corresponding to a moment when the command was received.
US10728615B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for the detection of boring media. An example apparatus includes a feature calculator to determine at least a first feature and a second feature associated with at least one of a video feed or an audio feed of monitored media when a media monitoring code is not detected in the monitored media, the first and second features representing different characteristics of at least one of the video feed or the audio feed, and a boring media event determiner implemented by hardware or at least one processor to process the first and second features with a neural network, propagate a code absence alert to a first server when an output of the neural network does not satisfy a threshold, and propagate a boring media event notification to a second server when the output of the neural network does satisfy the threshold.
US10728609B2
A receiving device of the present disclosure includes: a first processor that (i) receives a broadcast signal obtained by modulating multiplexed data including at least first multiplexed data in a first multiplexing format, out of the first multiplexed data and second multiplexed data in a second multiplexing format different from the first multiplexing format, (ii) demodulates the broadcast signal received, and (iii) outputs the multiplexed data obtained as a result of the demodulation; and a converter that (i) converts, into the second multiplexing format, a multiplexing format of the first multiplexed data included in the multiplexed data that has been output, and (ii) outputs converted data obtained as a result of the conversion.
US10728608B2
Systems and methods for automatically recording media assets not explicitly scheduled for recording by a user when the user leaves his or her home. For example, when the user leaves home, a media guidance application, being executed on a user equipment device (such as a set-top box), schedules to record media assets that the user has expressed interest in, but has not explicitly scheduled for recording. If the user returns home before a recording has begun, the media guidance application does not record the media assets the user has not explicitly scheduled for recording.
US10728603B2
One method includes receiving information identifying multiple products or services offered by one or more vendors and a set of criteria for each vendor, identifying base content to be presented to a user, selecting one or more of the products or services based on the criteria and the base content, and sending supplemental content associated with the selected product(s) or service(s) to an endpoint associated with the user for display with the base content. Another method includes receiving a request from a vendor associated with an e-commerce website and issuing a sub-account of a merchant processing account to the vendor in response to the request. The e-commerce website is associated with a merchant having the merchant processing account allowing the merchant to perform electronic transactions with a merchant processor, and the sub-account allows the vendor to transact directly with customers and to perform electronic transactions with the merchant processor.
US10728598B2
A system for providing television (TV) service including high definition television (HDTV) service, and for providing verification that a subscriber has connected an HDTV to the system includes a TV service provider headend and a set top box (STB). The HDTV may have an HDTV digital video interface (DVI) interconnect. The STB may be electrically coupled to the headend and have an STB DVI interconnect. When the HDTV DVI interconnect is initially electrically coupled to the STB DVI interconnect, the HDTV generally presents a data signal to the STB and the STB generally presents the data signal to the headend.
US10728592B2
An audio decoding and reading system comprises a computing module, a high-fidelity module, and a buffer-memory assembly which is between the computing module and the high-fidelity module. The buffer-memory assembly is intended to store a sliding segment of a digital audio stream which is transmitted by the computing module to the high-fidelity module. In this manner, a speed of processing of said digital audio stream by a digital-to-analog converter of the high-fidelity module, can be independent of a speed of production of said digital audio stream by the computing module. An improved sound emission quality results from this decoupling.
US10728588B2
A processing system may request, from an edge server, a first video chunk for a first segment and a second video chunk for a second segment of a video program stored in a cache of the edge server, where the first and second video chunks that are requested are encoded at a testing bitrate comprising a second lowest available bitrate in accordance with an adaptive bitrate streaming protocol. The processing system may further receive the first and second video chunks from the edge server via a network link, determine a bandwidth of the network link based upon the testing bitrate, the durations of the first and second video chunks, and an elapsed time to receive the first and second video chunks, and request a third video chunk for a third segment of the video program encoded at a highest available bitrate below the bandwidth of the network link.
US10728583B2
The present disclosure relates to a multimedia information playing method and system, a standardized server and a live broadcast terminal, and relates to the technical field of networks. The method includes receiving n pieces of multimedia information from the n acquisition devices, respectively, each of the n pieces of multimedia information being obtained by acquiring ambient environmental information by a corresponding acquisition device; receiving a selection instruction from the live broadcast terminal; selecting initial multimedia information from the n pieces of multimedia information based on the selection instruction; and sending the initial multimedia information to the playing terminal that is configured to play the initial multimedia information.
US10728578B2
An embedded decoder circuitry for bias minimization in successively reconstructed images from a decoded image obtained from an encoded input image, includes an on-chip memory and a bias control circuit communicatively coupled to the on-chip memory. The on-chip memory stores transform-domain compressed data that includes a plurality of transform blocks of an input image. The bias control circuit is configured to determine a set of conditions associated with each transform coefficient in a transform block of the encoded input image and modify a set of transform coefficients from the plurality of transform coefficients in the transform block based on determination of the set of conditions. The bias control circuit is further configured to generate a decoded image that exhibits a reduced error propagation in successively reconstructed images with respect to the input image, based on inverse transformation of each transform block of the encoded input image.
US10728577B2
A method for intra prediction comprises determining a first MPM candidate corresponding to a left-side candidate block on the basis of a position of the left-side candidate block adjacent to a left side of a current block; determining a second MPM candidate corresponding to an upper-end candidate block on the basis of a position of the upper-end candidate block adjacent to an upper end of the current block; generating an MPM candidate list including a plurality of MPM candidates, on the basis of the first MPM candidate and the second MPM candidate; and determining one MPM candidate of the plurality of the MPM candidates that constitute the MPM candidate list as an intra prediction mode of the current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block on the basis of the determined intra prediction mode to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block.
US10728575B2
Conventional intra-prediction uses pixels from left and upper neighbour blocks to predict a macroblock (MB). Thus, the MBs must be sequentially processed, since reconstructed left and upper MBs must be available for prediction. In an improved method for encoding Intra predicted MBs, a MB is encoded in two steps: first, a first portion of the MB is encoded independently, without references outside the MB. Pixels of the first portion can be Intra predicted using DC mode. Then, the first portion is reconstructed. The remaining pixels of the MB, being a second portion, are intra predicted from the reconstructed pixels of the first portion and then reconstructed. The first portion comprises at least one column or one row of pixels of the MB. The encoding is applied to at least two Intra predicted MBs per slice, or per picture if no slices are used.
US10728571B2
A video decoding method performed by a decoding device includes: deriving control points (CPs) for a current block; acquiring motion vectors for the CPs; deriving a sample-unit motion vector in the current block based on the acquired motion vectors; deriving a prediction sample for the current block based on the sample-unit motion vector; and generating a restoration sample based on the prediction sample, wherein coordinates of a bottom-right sample position of the current block are (0, 0), and coordinates of CPO among the CPs are (0, 0). Inter prediction is effectively performed through sample-unit motion vectors even when an image in a current block is planarly moved and variously changed, and since motion vectors for CPs are derived based on already-decoded neighboring blocks, an amount of information for the motion vectors for the CPs and for a residual signal for the current block is reduced, improving overall coding efficiency.
US10728561B2
An image encoding method includes acquiring a constant bit rate or a variable bit rate, determining temporal layers for a plurality of images, and setting, in a case where the constant bit rate is selected, (1) a first bit rate type of a top temporal layer to the constant bit rate, and (2) a second bit rate type of one or more other layers to the variable bit rate. The method also includes setting, in a case where the variable bit rate is selected, both the first bit rate type of the top temporal layer and the second bit rate of the one or more layers to the variable bit rate. The method further includes encoding each of the plurality of images, prohibiting reference to the images with the temporal layers higher than each of the temporal layers that each of the images belongs to, and generating the bitstream.
US10728553B2
A QP mapping method is capable of preserving consistent visual quality across the encoded frame. It automatically assigns more bits to image blocks which are more sensitive to compression distortion. The texture-descriptive features employed for QP prediction are fast to compute and, together with a deep neural network, are able to effectively approximate the underlying QP mapping strategy deduced from a visual quality measure.
US10728551B2
Apparatus and methods for providing block-based layouts for non-rectangular regions between non-contiguous imaging regions in projections such as, for example, Rotated Sphere Projections (RSP). In one embodiment, methods and apparatus for selecting coding unit block sizes for non-rectangular regions disposed between non-contiguous imaging portions is disclosed. The methods and apparatus may be configured to obtain a frame of captured imaging content, the frame of captured imaging content including the non-rectangular regions disposed between the non-contiguous imaging portions; select a plurality of differing coding block sizes for each of a plurality of regions located within the non-rectangular regions disposed between the non-contiguous imaging portions; determine which one of the plurality of differing coding block sizes optimizes an encoding efficiency for the obtained frame of captured imaging content; and encode the obtained frame of captured imaging content in accordance with the determined one off the plurality of differing coding block sizes.
US10728549B2
Methods, processes, and systems are presented for adaptive loop filtering in coding and decoding high dynamic range (HDR) video. Given an input image block, its luminance information may be used to adapt one or more parameters of adaptive loop filtering and compute gradient and directionality information, activity information, a classification index, and adaptive-loop-filtering coefficients.
US10728546B2
Systems and methods for improving operation of a video encoding pipeline, which includes a sample adaptive offset block that selects an offset sample from image data corresponding with a coding unit; determines edge offset parameters including a first mapping of an edge classification to an edge offset value and band offset parameters including a second mapping of a band classification to a band offset value based at least in part on analysis of the offset sample; and determines sample adaptive offset parameters based at least in part on a first rate-distortion cost associated with the edge offset parameters and a second rate-distortion cost associated with the band offset parameters. Additionally, a decoding device may apply offsets to decoded image data corresponding with the coding unit based at least in part on the sample adaptive offset parameters.
US10728534B2
A volumetric display system for displaying a three-dimensional image. The volumetric display system includes a multi-plane volumetric display with display elements; a graphics processing unit to process the aforesaid image to generate image planes corresponding thereto; and a projector communicably coupled to the aforesaid elements. The projector includes a light source for emitting a light beam; a spatial light modulator to modulate the emitted light beam; a telecentric projection arrangement to direct the modulated light beam towards the display elements, whilst providing a substantially-constant magnification of the modulated light beam; and a driver module coupled to the light source, the spatial light modulator. The driver module receives the image planes from the graphics processing unit, and projects the image planes upon the display elements, by way of the modulated light beam.
US10728532B2
An approach for projecting light may be implemented using a acousto-optical depth switch that uses surface acoustic waves produced along a substrate to guide image light to different areas. The surface acoustic waves may be generated on a substrate using a transducer. Surface acoustic waves of different frequencies can guide image light onto different optical elements at different physical positions. The optical elements may be configured to show objects in an image at different distances from a viewer.
US10728520B2
An exemplary depth data generation system accesses first and second depth maps of a real-world scene, the depth maps independently captured using first and second depth map capture techniques, respectively. The first and second depth maps include, respectively, first and second depth data points both representative of a same physical point on a surface of an object in the real-world scene. Based on the first and second depth map capture techniques and based on an attribute of the surface of the object, the system assigns a first confidence value to the first depth data point and a second confidence value to the second depth data point. Based on the first and second confidence values, the system converges the first and second depth maps to form a converged depth map of the real-world scene that includes a third depth data point representing the physical point on the surface of the object.
US10728509B2
A projector, an optical engine module, an image resolution enhancement device and a driving method are provided. The projector includes an illumination device, an optical engine module and a projection lens. The optical engine module is configured with the image resolution enhancement device configured to enhance a resolution of a projection light, and the image resolution enhancement device is adapted to enhance the image resolution by two times or four times.
US10728504B2
A monitoring camera system includes a camera and a master device communicating with the camera and a mobile communication terminal having a display. The camera detects movement of a person at a first timing in an imaging area and transmits a predetermined notification to the master device at a second timing. The master device transmits an image request for requesting a first captured image captured at the first timing and a second captured image captured at the second timing to the camera, based on the predetermined notification from the camera. The camera transmits the first captured image and the second captured image in association with each other to the master device based on the image request transmitted from the master device. The master device transmits the first captured image and the second captured image in association with each other to the mobile communication terminal to be displayed on the display.
US10728502B2
A method and a system of uploading files over multiple communications channels. The files are associated with correlating metadata with data assets, such as video and audio files, so that the files are rendered as a combination presentation are described herein. The system includes a transceiver and a peer to peer network interface that supports a plurality of different communications transports. The system may receive a remote command from a remote software administration application, over the transceiver via the network interface. A software eventing system responsive to the command may select a custom driver with an event handler to perform the upload over a communications transport than the one the remote command was received.
US10728500B2
The system may provide automatic real-time filtering and information object selection, which may occur at the presentation layer. Presentations may be tailored on a per user basis. Users with different security levels can participate in a video conference call at the same time and only view what their security clearance allows.
US10728482B2
An image sensor may optimize control of each pixel and/or each photodiode therein according to various pixel structures therein. An electronic apparatus may include the image sensor. The image sensor may include a plurality of pixels, each including a photodiode and a transfer transistor configured to transfer charges accumulated in the photodiode to a floating diffusion floating diffusion region, and transfer transistor lines respectively connected to gate electrodes of the transfer transistors of the pixels. The transfer transistor lines may receive voltages having different magnitudes.
US10728475B2
A pixel is included, the pixel including a photoelectric conversion portion configured to convert incident light to a charge by photoelectric conversion and accumulate the charge, a charge transfer unit configured to transfer the charge generated in the photoelectric conversion portion, a diffusion layer to which the charge is transferred through the charge transfer unit, the diffusion layer having a predetermined storage capacitance, a conversion unit configured to convert the charge transferred to the diffusion layer to a pixel signal, and connection wiring configured to connect the diffusion layer and the conversion unit. The connection wiring is connected to the diffusion layer and the conversion unit through contact wiring extending in a vertical direction with respect to a semiconductor substrate on which the diffusion layer is formed and is formed closer to the semiconductor substrate than other wiring provided in the pixel.
US10728472B2
An image sensor is disclosed. The image sensor includes: a pixel coupled to a floating diffusion region; a reset select transistor coupled between the floating diffusion region and a first supply voltage; an n-type source follower transistor coupled between the first supply voltage and a second supply voltage, the n-type source follower being operable to receive electrical signal from the floating diffusion region; an n-type row select transistor coupled between the first supply voltage and the n-type source follower transistor; a first sample-and-hold capacitor coupled between a third supply voltage and the second supply voltage; a first switch coupled between the n-type row select transistor and the first sample-and-hold capacitor; and a second switch coupled between the third supply voltage and the first sample-and-hold capacitor.
US10728465B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for compositing a plurality of images. The method includes obtaining a first exposure time t required for current photographing. The first exposure time t is divided into N segments where N is M power of 4, and M is a positive integer. A micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) controls an image sensor to move clockwise or anticlockwise according to a step length of a preset number of pixels. The image sensor is controlled to expose for a second exposure time t/N after each movement of the image sensor according to the preset number of pixels, to obtain N images. The N images are composited to obtain a composite picture.
US10728443B1
A system and method are provided for automatically concatenating two or more audiovisual clips containing video input from multiple cameras, and producing a combined audiovisual file containing video that switches between the two video inputs. In some examples, two video inputs and an audio input are recorded synchronously and are synchronized. The audio input can be sampled to locate low-noise audio events. The audiovisual file contains video that switches between two or more camera angles at the low-noise audio events. In one aspect, pauses are automatically removed from the audiovisual files. In another aspect, the system detects switch-initiating events, and switches between camera angles in response to detecting a switch-initiating event.
US10728438B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for distributed video and network camera management. A video management system is described that determines the capabilities of a network camera as it is added or on-boarded to a network. Depending on the capabilities of the network camera, the network camera may be assigned to one of a network video collector or a remote storage service for storing video data generated by the network camera.
US10728431B1
A fish eye camera is provided. A main circuit board is fixed to an inside of a base housing. A middle housing is formed to cover both of the main circuit board and a camera module and fixed to the base housing in a state in which a fish eye lens of the camera module is drawn from the middle housing. A bracket includes a bracket body, which is insertion-coupled to a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) substrates and elastically supports the plurality of LED substrates in a state in which the plurality of LED substrates are arranged around an outer side of the middle housing, and metal bodies which are inserted into the bracket body to be in contact with the LED substrates. A cover housing is formed to cover both of the bracket and the middle housing and fixed to the base housing.
US10728427B2
Described herein are apparatus, systems and methods for synchronizing a reference video with an input video. A method comprises extracting first motion data from the input video having a first set of frames, extracting second motion data from the reference video having a second set of frames, computing motion descriptors for each frame in the first set of frames and the second set of frames based on the first and second motion data, respectively, and non-linearly mapping the first set of frames to the second set of frames based on the motion descriptors, respectively.
US10728418B2
An image processing apparatus capable of being remotely operated by a remote operation device includes an operation acceptor, and a hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor executes a process corresponding to the operation accepted by the operation acceptor, in the case where a cooperation mode is set, executes a process in accordance with a command received from the remote operation device, acquires a type of a first medium used by the remote operation device, in the case where the cooperation mode is not set, notifies the user by using a second medium when an operation is accepted by the operation acceptor, and in the case where the cooperation mode is set, if the second medium is different from the first medium, notifies the user by using the first medium when an operation is accepted by the operation acceptor.
US10728417B2
A communication system includes a server and a terminal device. In a memory of the server, first identification information is correlated to a plurality of sets of user information and a plurality of sets of restriction information. The first identification information identifies an image processing apparatus. Each of the plurality of sets of restriction information includes information for restricting settings of an image process available to a user specified by a corresponding set of user information. After receiving the target user information and identification information identifying the image processing apparatus, a server side controller acquires and transmits to the terminal device target restriction information. A terminal side controller receives the target restriction information from the server as a response to transmission of the target user information and the identification information; and outputting the target restriction information.
US10728414B2
A detection apparatus includes a second detection unit configured to detect lowering of a light reflectance of a reflection portion based on an output value based on light received by a light receiving portion while an object is moving on a conveyance path, without depending on at least a part of output values output based on light received by the receiving unit while the object is stopped on the conveyance path.
US10728408B2
A CPU of an MFP receives battery information from a first external device via a first interface, determines whether a total amount of electric power supplied to a plurality of interfaces from a power supply is maintained, and reduces an amount of the electric power supplied to the first external device via the first interface in a case where determining that the first external device has no battery based on the battery information in response to determining that the total amount of the electric power supplied to the plurality of the interfaces from the power supply is not maintained.
US10728398B2
A method of adding a value to a customer account is provided. A request to add a value to a customer account of a customer is received from a point of sale terminal. The request may comprise value identification data associated with the value and account identification data associated with the customer account. The customer account identification data may be entered at the point of sale. The request may be associated with a purchase of the value. The value may be caused to be added to the customer account. During subsequent value purchase transactions, additional value may be added to the account.
US10728397B1
A telecommunication service provider agrees to a prepaid plan including phone, text and data services, which it provides to a user through a mobile device of the user. A computing system of the telecommunication service provider can send a notification to the user's mobile device that refers to benefits and contains a launch prompt. When the launch prompt is selected by the user, an application program is automatically launched in the mobile device, or a browser in the mobile device is automatically navigated to a website, which prompts the user to identify herself using personal information. In response, the computing system can signal the mobile device to display to the user an offer of i) a pre-bundled group of, or ii) an individually selectable variety of, products or services.
US10728396B2
A plurality of users are associated with a system having at least one information processor coupled to a communication network. Multiple wireless access points to the communication network are provided; and multiple of the users associated with the system are provided access to the communication network via the access points.
US10728395B2
Programmatically reversing numerical line identity presented at a communications services gateway into named IP Telephony users with “prior association”, delivers dynamic “reverse address resolution” switching connections from ground to cloud, permitting any conventional telephone to dial and connect to any associated IP Telephony endpoint in the world, without changes to the conventional telephone. Reversing line identity into associated named users bridges both the addressability and economic divide between mass conventional “paying” (mobile and fixed) and “free”. IP Telephony networks. A system for supporting communications between a user on an IP-addressed-communications-device and a telephony subscriber device, the telephony subscriber device having a corresponding telephone number, includes: one or more service nodes configured to: receive from the user the telephone number of the telephony subscriber device and create an association from the telephone number to the user, wherein the association allows the telephony subscriber device to connect to the user.
US10728390B2
A computerized method for automatic detection of an availability of an agent to attend a schedule of customer calls in a call center and reassignment thereof may include assessing an agent availability to attend a schedule in a predefined time interval before a starting time of the schedule. If the assigned agent is not available, candidate agent availability may be assessed from a plurality of schedules to participate in the schedule of the unavailable agent. One or more candidate agents from a plurality of agents may be identified to replace the unavailable assigned agent based on the candidate agent availability. A replacement agent chosen from the one or more candidate agents may be assigned based on skills or preferences for each of the one or more identified candidate agents. A supervisor may be notified that the chosen replacement agent will attend the schedule in place of the unavailable assigned agent.
US10728386B2
A method for filtering a telephone call is provided. The method may comprise receiving from a caller the telephone call directed to a communication device associated with an intended call recipient. The received telephone call may be scored based on predetermined scoring criteria to create a score indicative of a desirability of the telephone call. Furthermore, the method may comprise comparing the score to a predetermined threshold score. Based on the comparison, the method may further comprise selectively classifying the telephone call as an unwanted telephone call. Furthermore, the method may comprise selectively rejecting the unwanted telephone call.
US10728382B2
Based on wireless communication between a mobile device and at least one beacon, a present physical location of a mobile device can be identified. Responsive to determining that the mobile device is located at a particular physical location, at least a first message can be communicated to the mobile device. The first message can specify at least one application to be disabled while the mobile device is present at the physical location. Responsive to not receiving from the mobile device a response to the first message indicating that the at least one application is disabled, the mobile device can be denied to establish presence on a network maintained for the physical location.
US10728377B2
A first electronic device is provided that detects a second electronic device disposed in an area related to the first electronic device while obtaining video. Based on detecting the second electronic device disposed in the area, the video is automatically transmitted, without receiving a user input for transmitting the video, to the second electronic device such that the transmitted video is provided on a display of the second electronic device. A third electronic device disposed in the area related to the first electronic device is detected while providing a still image on the display of the first electronic device. Based on detecting the third electronic device disposed in the area, the still image is automatically transmitted, without receiving a user input for transmitting the still image, to the third electronic device such that the transmitted still image is provided on a display of the third electronic device.
US10728365B2
The invention relates to a process for searching for a place on the basis of a free request of parameters defined by a user on a peripheral unit connected to a central unit, remarkable in that it comprises the following steps: a step of selecting and grouping types of parameters, spatial cutting of the earth's surface into surface cells, with said cells being associated with a plurality of sensors, associating data with a type of parameters and with a surface cell in order to obtain data sub-sets, processing and storing the data sub-sets, constituting the free request, analyzing the language and the interpretation of the free request, searching for and selecting surface cells associated with the sorted and selected data, displaying the place corresponding to the surface cells found. The invention also relates to a device implementing said process.Uses: Expediting the search for places.
US10728362B2
A transmitting terminal can transmit a content held by itself to a specific receiving terminal having no email software as if using a mailer. The transmitting terminal (10) and the receiving terminal (20) are connected to a delivery server (30) via a network (4). The delivery server (30) comprises: a database (36) for registering the device ID that specifies the receiving terminal (20); a content storage (39) for temporarily storing a content transmitted from the transmitting terminal (10); and table (33, 37) for managing contents separately on a per device ID basis of the receiving terminal. The delivery server (30), when receiving a request from the receiving terminal (20), refers to the tables (33, 27) and transmits to the receiving terminal (20) a content, the transmission destination of which corresponds to the device ID of the receiving terminal (20).
US10728351B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein to provide information to a user based on a symbol with a plurality of interpretations. Each candidate interpretation for the symbol is identified and compared to an attribute of a user profile. The meaning of the symbol is determined and the user profile is updated with the meaning of the symbol. This meaning may be used to provide relevant information to the user.
US10728344B2
A service discovery method includes: performing, by a service request end, service discovery separately based on different networks, for a same service; correspondingly receiving, by using each network based on which the same service can be discovered in the different networks, identifier information provided by a service providing end providing the same service, where the identifier information is used to identify the service providing end; when identifier information obtained by using at least two networks matches, determining that services discovered after service discovery is performed based on the at least two networks are the same service provided by the same service providing end; and when accessing the same service at a time, performing service data transmission by using the at least two networks.
US10728342B1
One embodiment is related to a method for setting a tenant context for an application in a multi-tenancy environment, comprising: identifying a tenant identity for a tenant request, wherein the tenant identity is included in the tenant request; and setting a proper context for a first service of the application based on the identified tenant identity.
US10728341B2
Systems and methods of crowd sourcing data are provided. In one embodiment, a method of crowd sourcing data comprises: receiving data region boundary information from an aggregation system, the data region boundary information defines boundaries of data regions; determining membership in a data group for a vehicle based on position of the vehicle within a region; determining whether another member of the data group has been selected as data source; determining whether the vehicle can provide information to the data aggregation system; broadcasting a self-nomination message for the information to members of the data group, wherein the self-nomination message self-selects the vehicle as data source for the information; wherein the self-nomination message identifies the type of information; and transmitting the information from the data source to the data aggregation system via a communication link, wherein only the data source transmits the information to the data aggregation system for the data group.
US10728337B2
An information manager may include processing circuitry configured to receive dynamic aircraft information associated with operation of an in-flight aircraft, receive a message from a communication device on the in-flight aircraft for transmission to a ground based content server via a wireless communication network capable of communicating with in-flight assets, and generate an aviation cookie for communication to the content server along with the message. The aviation cookie may be generated based on the dynamic aircraft information and may enable the content server to generate content based at least in part on the dynamic aircraft information.
US10728334B1
A method includes a processing module issuing CAS-N compatible lists requests to storage units in a dispersed storage network (DSN) and when list request responses are received, determining whether associated data source(s) require rebuilding. When rebuilding is required the method continues with CAS-N compatible read requests for a read threshold number of being transmitted to the storage units. When read responses are received the method continues with the processing module determining whether state information for the data source(s) is unknown and whether there is an ongoing or aborted CAS-N operation associated with the data source(s). When the state information is known and there is no ongoing or aborted CAS-N operation associated with the data source(s) a CAS-N compatible message is transmitted to the data source(s)(CAS-N compatible casnDelete or casnDirectPromote request(s) will be sent to DS units in need of rebuilding based on determined rebuild type to bring associated data source(s) to healthy state).
US10728331B2
A system and method for dynamic caching by a client device having remote memory access to a server. The system includes: a processing circuitry; and at least one memory, the at least one memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, configure the system to: configure a network interface of the client device to: request a memory allocation of at least a portion of a storage of the client device; receive, in real-time, the requested memory allocation of the client device storage; and store, in the allocated at least a portion of the client device storage, at least a first portion of cached metadata, wherein the cached metadata corresponds to at least an access operation between the client device and the server.
US10728329B2
A computer-implemented method for secure data storage is described. In one embodiment, the method may include receiving data at a receiver. The method may further include integrating a storage device with the receiver, and storing the received data on the integrated storage device. The method may further include communicating the received data from the integrated storage device to be stored on a remote distributed storage network.
US10728327B2
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.
US10728323B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for operating an infrastructure layer of cloud computing architecture. A specific implementation of the method comprises: determining, in response to receiving an operation request sent by a user via a user terminal for the infrastructure layer, whether to execute an operation indicated by the operation request; sending, in response to determining to execute the operation, the operation request to the infrastructure layer; updating, after the infrastructure layer successfully executing the operation and updating the resources related to the infrastructure layer, a state of the resources related to the infrastructure layer stored in the intermediate layer database; acquiring changed data in the resources related to the infrastructure layer, and storing the data in the infrastructure layer database; and synchronizing the data in the infrastructure layer database to the intermediate layer database.
US10728316B2
A request input indicative of a request to deploy computing resources in a target server farm is received, and a fixed increment of the computing resources to be removed from a source server farm and deployed in the target server farm is identified. The fixed increment of computing resources is removed from the source server farm, and deployed to the target server farm. Based on deploying the fixed increment of computing resources to the target server farm, it is determined whether the target server farm has deployed adequate resource capacity to service a fixed increment of databases. If so, the fixed increment of databases is moved from the source server farm to the target server farm, and, if not, additional computing resources is reassigned from the source server farm to the target server farm.
US10728312B2
Techniques include systems, computerized methods and computer readable media for creating a private network for one or more execution environments inside of an existing network using a data center container, such that the private network can provide one or more services that are independent of identical services of the existing network. A private network is created in an existing network. A data center container provides a service in the private network that is identical to an existing service provided by the existing network. A data center container manager manages execution of one or more execution environments in the data center container using the service in the private network, such that the one or more execution environments can execute in the private network using the service without interfering with the operation of the existing service in the existing network.
US10728310B1
Time-based media is distributed and promoted in a social networking environment. Accounts of a social networking system author social media content items (SMCIs) from which a social networking system infers relevance of content to users of those accounts. Content distributors submit time-based media content to the social networking system, which creates distributor SMCIs containing the time-based media content. Accounts are identified to receive distributor SMCIs based on SMCIs previously authored by those accounts as well as identifying information and the subject of the SMCI. Content promoters may add promotional material to distributor SMCIs, which the social networking service sends to additional accounts.
US10728304B2
Systems and methods are described to enable synchronized encoding of streaming audio or video content between multiple encoders, in a manner that provides for redundancy of the system to vary based on a demand for the output content. End user devices or content distribution systems can monitor how content is output on end user devices, and report such output to a content encoding system. The encoding system can then redundancy provided for streaming content based on the demand by end users. Streams that are in high demand can be processed with high redundancy among devices that provide seamlessly interchangeable content, thus reducing the likelihood of perceived failure for such streams. Streams that are in low demand can be processed with low redundancy, reducing the computing resources used to process the stream while minimizing the overall impact of a processing failure, should one occur.
US10728303B2
In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for improving media quality at the network edge by encoding the media into a digital stream that is carried, end-to-end, to a peer edge device. For instance, in one example, a method includes initiating, by a first computing device, a connection to a second computing device, selecting, by the first computing device, a codec for encoding data into a data stream, wherein the codec is selected such that the data stream can be decoded by the second computing device without being transcoded by an intermediary, encoding, by the first computing device, the data into the data stream using the codec, and sending, by the first computing device, the data stream to the second computing device.
US10728297B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a streaming media play mode determination method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring a streaming media play status in a current play mode, where the current play mode corresponds to a set of parameters for reflecting software and hardware states corresponding to a current play environment; calculating a candidate play mode according to the current play mode, if the streaming media play status satisfies a preset condition; and judging whether the current play mode is the same as the candidate play mode, and determining a play mode for streaming media to be played according to a result of the judgment. The embodiments of the present application provide a mechanism for intelligently selecting the streaming media play mode, make it possible to intelligently calculate the matching degrees of various types of algorithms in the current environment, enabling a best play mode to be preferentially selected.
US10728295B2
First type cache adapted to be arranged between a client terminal and at least one server, which: is configured to receive, from the client terminal, a request for a first representation of a segment of a multimedia content, said multimedia content being available in a plurality of representations, and comprises a module configured to send a response to the client terminal which comprises: one alternative representation of said segment, which is cached by said first type cache; first additional information preventing a second type cache—arranged between the first type cache and the client terminal—from caching the alternative representation of said response; and second additional information identifying the alternative representation of said response, allowing a further first type cache to cache said alternative representation.
US10728294B2
Methods and systems are presented for providing dynamic and interactive content in an online chat session. When it is determined that an online chat session is established between two devices, an interactive chat engine may begin monitoring chat messages exchanged between the devices to derive a context for the online chat session. A particular workflow from multiple workflows may be selected and initiated for the online chat session based on the derived context. The interactive chat engine may generate a chat object for presenting dynamic and interactive content to the user related to the workflow within the online chat session. The chat object may be inserted into the chat flow of the online chat session. Once inserted the chat object may generate and subsequently modify presentations for the devices participating in the online chat session.
US10728282B2
Input signals may be received from monitoring nodes of the industrial asset, each input signal comprising time series data representing current operation. A neutralization engine may transform the input signals into feature vectors in feature space, each feature vector being associated with one of a plurality of overlapping batches of received input signals. A dynamic decision boundary may be generated based on the set of feature vectors, and an abnormal state of the asset may be detected based on the set of feature vectors and a predetermined static decision boundary. An estimated neutralized value for each abnormal feature value may be calculated based on the dynamic decision boundary and the static decision boundary such that a future set of feature vectors will be moved with respect to the static decision boundary. An inverse transform of each estimated neutralized value may be performed to generate neutralized signals comprising time series data that are output.
US10728275B2
A system and method are disclosed wherein a risk score is generated by interrogating multiple sources of information across a network. The information is aggregated, such that every network action for individuals and organizations are turned into a unique behavioral model, which can be used as a unique identifier (“fingerprint”). This fingerprint is in turn used by a personalized Trust Guardian System to block, modify and/or allow network actions.
US10728269B2
A security agent conditionally hooks a process for malware monitoring based on a persistent hook state for the process that may be stored, for example, in a process cache. When a process launches in a backoff state indicating that the process previously crashed after hooking, the security agent may further conditionally hook the process based on a reputation of the process or any other relevant contextual information.
US10728259B2
The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that, among other things, dynamically authorize pre-stages data exchanges based on contextual data. For example, an apparatus may receive first data characterizing an initiation of a first exchange of data between a client device and a terminal device. Based on the first data, the apparatus may obtain second data that characterizes an expected initiation of a second exchange of data during a corresponding temporal interval, which may be specified relative to an initiation time of the first data exchange. The apparatus may generate and transmit, to a computing system, pre-authorization data that requests a pre-authorization of the second data exchange to a computing system. The pre-authorization data may include a portion of the second data and may instruct the computing system to pre-authorize the second data exchange in accordance with the second data.
US10728257B2
A system includes determination and storage of usage data based on the audit data associated with events within the system, determination of a role associated with a user based on metadata of system objects stored in a system database and instance data of the system objects stored in a file repository, determination of usage information associated with the user based on the stored usage data, determination of one or more metrics based on the role and the usage information, and providing of a home page dashboard to the user including the determined one or more metrics.
US10728240B2
A variable-step authentication system and a method for operating for performing variable-step authentication for communications in a controlled environment is disclosed. The variable-step authentication system may include a communication device and a server. The variable-step method includes steps for determining an authentication process that involves a number of authentication steps. The number of authentication steps is variable and dependent on a trust level associated with each participant in the communication.
US10728238B2
This disclosure includes techniques for using multiple cryptographic certificates for a secure connection. One embodiment is a method including: receiving by a client N public encryption keys over a network from a server, wherein N is an integer greater than 1; generating N session keys in response to receiving the N public encryption keys; encrypting each of the N session keys with a respective one of the N public encryption keys; subsequent to encrypting each of the N session keys, sending the N session keys encrypted over the network to the server; encrypting, with a first one of the N session keys, a first portion of a payload associated with a first message; encrypting, with a second one of the N session keys, a second portion of the payload associated with the first message; and sending the first message, comprising the payload encrypted, to the server from the client.
US10728237B2
Systems, methods, devices, and software can be used to send or receive a software update. In some aspects, a software update notification is received at an electronic device. The software update notification indicates a security requirement. A network connection determined to be secure for receiving a software update based on the security requirement. The software update is downloaded using the network connection.
US10728226B2
A portable encryption format wraps encrypted files in a self-executing container that facilitates transparent, identity-based decryption for properly authenticated users while also providing local password access to wrapped files when identity-based decryption is not available.
US10728225B1
Embodiments include one or more client devices accessible by users, an online system, and one or more partner systems such that the online system is able to identify a user of the online system across different devices and browsers based on the user activity that occurs external to the online system. A user performs user actions (e.g. purchase a product) on a web page of a partner system and may provide personally identifiable information (PII) to the partner system. The partner system provides the hashed PII and user actions performed by the user to the online system. The online system identifies a user profile on the online system by matching personal information in the user profile to the hashed PII. The online system generates a confidence score indicating a likelihood that the identified user of the online system is the individual that performed the external user action.
US10728220B2
A system and method for covertly transmitting a payload of data within a network is provided. A blind host located along a communication pathway of the network between an origin host and a destination host is selected. A datagram is constructed which includes the payload and a source address field containing an address for the destination host. The datagram is constructed to trigger creation of an error message upon receipt at the blind host.
US10728216B2
A system for web application security includes an interface and a processor. The interface of a web server is to receive a pending request made to the web server using an in-line request process. The processor of the web server is to provide information regarding the pending request to an agent process; and in the event that an instruction to block the pending request is received from the agent process at the in-line request process within a time constraint, block the pending request using the in-line request process.
US10728215B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure provide for methods, apparatus, and computer software for enabling a single media access control (MAC) layer to control a variety of physical (PHY) layers or entities for multiplexing signals corresponding to each of the PHY layers over an air interface. Here, the MAC layer may include a resource manager configured to determine a time-frequency resource allocation within the air interface for communication with one or more subordinate entities utilizing each of the PHY layers. In this way, The MAC entity may provide dynamic control over the allocation of time-frequency resources within a given resource group, which may include transmission time intervals (TTIs) having multiple time scales.
US10728212B2
The disclosure belongs to wireless communication technology, and the provided method, device and system of Forward Addressing and Backward Readdressing InterConnect (FABRIC) including, the method of forward addressing and backward readdressing interconnect enables any two devices in the system to establish interconnection channels when data exchange is required, and screens out suitable relay devices among the numerous intermediate devices between the two devices, the transmission of data is controlled within a limited range, and the interconnection channel is not unique, each time of data transmission is likely to pass through different intermediate devices with randomness and redundancy, it can cope with a certain degree of device movements. A plurality of devices can carry out communication between two at the same time without conflict.
US10728207B2
Examples disclosed herein provide methods and systems for selecting Internet Protocol addresses for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) communications. In at least one implementation, a method of operating a communication network utilizing a session initiation protocol (SIP) is provided. The method performed within a second communication device includes receiving a SIP invite from a first communication device, and determining a source IP address for the second communication device, using an IP address for a third communication device as a destination address within a source address selection algorithm (SASA) function. The method further includes adding a Via header within the SIP invite to include the SASA determined source IP address for the second communication device, adding a Record-Route header within the SIP invite to include the SASA determined source IP address for the second communication device, and transferring the modified SIP invite to the third communication device.
US10728204B2
A system and method for facilitating online opinion sharing about proximate motor vehicles with the aid of a digital computer. Motor vehicle identifying indicia uniquely identifying a motor vehicle about which an opinion can be shared is received from a voter who accessed a voter entry page of an online motor vehicle voting service via a user interface. The identifying indicia can be obtained using a computing device executing a mobile application, which can interface with a variety of devices to obtain the indicia. The voter is redirected from the voter entry page to a voting page of a social networking site for sharing the opinion. Then, a plurality of opinions about the motor vehicle is tallied. The voter and the driver of the vehicle can exchange messages.
US10728202B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can provide a messaging interface for distributing visual messages through a social networking system. At least one visual message that was created using the messaging interface can be determined. The visual message can include at least some text inputted by a user that authored the visual message. The at least one visual message can be provided for distribution through the social networking system.
US10728195B2
Technology is disclosed for feeding source images from image stores of client systems into an image processing system using image feeding servers (“the technology”). The technology includes multiple image feeding servers that can feed a source image to the image processing system, using which the image processing system can generate processed images to be served to end users. The image feeding servers can be installed at various locations, e.g., geographically spread, and more proximate to where the source images are stored. An image feeding server obtains the source image from the image store in original size, downsizes the source image, and transmits the downsized source image to the image processing system. The technology selects an image feeding server based on a score of the image feeding server. The score can be determined as a function of one or more image feeding server parameters, e.g., latency, workload, or computing resource.
US10728194B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to determine that a first peer involved in a video communication is a primary peer based on satisfaction of a threshold. It is determined that a second peer involved in the video communication is a secondary peer based on non-satisfaction of the threshold. It is determined that a modified video stream of the second peer is to be superimposed onto a video stream of the first peer to create a composite video.
US10728192B2
A method for referencing a message comprises the steps of receiving selection of an area or object associated with the message on a display, optionally providing an indication that the selection of the area or object has been received, allowing a further message to be formed with a link to the message, wherein the link is associated with the further message responsive to the selection, and causing display of the information associated with the message responsive to selection of a further area or portion.
US10728191B2
A method for establishing communication includes: in receipt of identification information associated with an outside party from an inside party, transmitting, by a closed server, link information to an outside party device associated with the outside party via a public server; in receipt of a request from the outside party device executing an instant messaging application, transmitting, by the public server, an identifier associated with a communication group to the outside party device; and in receipt of the identifier, adding, by the closed server, the outside party to the communication group and enabling the outside party to communicate exclusively with the inside party via an instant messaging service.
US10728189B2
A method of sending a multimedia-message. The method includes: obtaining a multimedia-message to be sent; storing the multimedia-message to be sent into a cache, when a RCS of the electronic device is not online; sending the multimedia-message in the cache by a manner of instant messaging (IM), when a waiting time for transmission is less than a preset time and an online notification of the RCS is received; and sending the multimedia-message in the cache by a manner of MMS, when the waiting time for transmission reaches the preset time and the online notification of the RCS is not received.
US10728185B2
A system includes one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform steps of a method for automatic communication failure recovery. The system may receive customer data associated with a customer and generate a message based on the customer data. The system may transmit the message to the customer and upon determining that the customer has failed to engage the message within a predetermined amount of time, the system may monitor an application service to detect when the customer logs in and then generate a communication link between a CSR terminal and the customer's device and cause a communication interface within the application to launch on the customer's device.
US10728175B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems for fulfilling a service chain request. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to collect network data of a plurality of instances of services and connections between the plurality of instances of services and redefine service chains to direct flow to an alternative instance of a service responsive to determining that an instance of a service in a service chain has become inaccessible. Embodiments of the present invention can be used to fulfill a service chain request and avoid one or more instances of services (and/or connections there between) that could cause a delay between transmitting data packets through the service chain.
US10728173B1
A method of forwarding a multicast packet by a physical forwarding element is provided. The method receives a multicast packet that identifies a multicast group. The method scans a multicast tree associated with the multicast group to identify an ECMP group for forwarding the multicast packet to a member of the multicast group. The method calculates a group of hash values on several fields of the packet and uses a first hash value in the group of hash values to identify a first path in the ECMP. The method determines that the identified path has failed. The method uses a second hash value to identify a second path in the ECMP. The method forwards the multicast packet to the multicast member through the second path.
US10728170B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for determining a number of allowed lists and initiating a change in a number of lists. The method includes receiving a defined list count of a plurality of lists of a coupling facility structure, monitoring list usage by the coupling facility structure, determining that additional lists are required by the coupling facility structure above the defined list count, based on the monitored list usage. The method includes, in response to determining that additional lists are required by the coupling facility structure, determining a new number of lists, where the new number of lists are based on an availability of space for the new number of lists on the coupling facility structure and the new number of lists exceeds the defined list count. The method includes rebuilding coupling facility structure based upon the determined new number of lists.
US10728166B2
Various methods and systems for implementing request scheduling and processing in a multi-tenant distributed computing environment are provided. Requests to utilize system resources in the distributed computing environment are stored in account queues corresponding to tenant accounts. If storing a request in an account queue would exceed a throttling threshold such as a limit on the number of requests stored per account, the request is dropped to a throttling queue. A scheduler prioritizes processing requests stored in the processing queue before processing requests stored in the account queues. The account queues can be drained using dominant resource scheduling. In some embodiments, a request is not picked up from an account queue if processing the request would exceed a predefined hard limit on system resource utilization for the corresponding tenant account. In some embodiments, the hard limit is defined as a percentage of threads the system has to process requests.
US10728164B2
This application describes client devices that control network transmission based on a power state. The client device determines a power state of the computing device and a priority of an application executing on the computing device. The client device determines whether to permit the application to communicate with a remote network accessible device via the network communication hardware based at least on the priority of the application and the power state of the computing device. Also described is a power state service that selects a client device to be provided with a notification based on power states of the client devices.
US10728152B2
Systems, devices, and techniques for providing content via a bandwidth-conserved connection to a client device is described herein. Content can be encoded at reduced rate in response to being presented with a bandwidth-conserved connection. When the encoded content is received at a network provider, the network provider can determine a transmission pattern to transmit the encoded content to the client device. The transmission pattern can include transmission periods where the encoded content is transmitted at a maximum transmission rate, followed by periods where no encoded content is transmitted. Thus, although an instantaneous transmission rate approaches a maximum transmission rate of a network, the average transmission bandwidth provided to the client device can be limited, thereby reducing congestion in the network. Further, a radio element of the client device can enter a low power state when no encoded content is to be transmitted, thereby reducing power consumption at the client device.
US10728148B2
The construction method of NALU (Network Abstraction Layer Unit) for IPv6 label switching and its using algorithms of video encoding, QoS control, and decoding are provided. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the NALU format is composed of the NALH (Network Abstraction Layer Header) including the label and the NAL (Network Ab straction Layer) payload. Here, the label is determined based on layer information which is combination of a spatial scalable level, a temporal scalable level, and a quality scalable level of the encoded data. The decoder uses the label to decide which one of multiple decoding modules is used to decode the current NAL payload. Moreover, the label can be included in the packet header so that the MANE (Media Aware Network Element) can use the label to decide whether to forward the packet or drop it. For example, the label in the packet header can be used for QoS control of video service by using the flow label field in IPv6 packet header. The IPv6 router can identify priority of the video packet by using the 20 bit long flow label, into which the label in NALH can be inserted. According to the embodiment, the MANE assumed in the MPEG and JVT (Joint Video Team) can be implemented effectively.
US10728146B1
According to one or more embodiments, a computer implemented method includes receiving, by an operating system of a computer server, a request to execute an instance of a computer application. The method further includes, based on a determination that the computer application is a non-native application for the operating system, deploying, by the operating system, a virtual container for the instance of the computer application, the virtual container is allocated a dynamic virtual internet protocol address (DVIPA). The method further includes instantiating, by the operating system, an application instance of the computer application in the virtual container. The method further includes setting, by the operating system, a VC-attribute of the DVIPA of the virtual container to a first state, the first state of the VC-attribute indicative that the virtual container is hosting the application instance of the non-native application.
US10728144B2
In association with a virtual area, a first network connection is established with a first network node present in the virtual area and a second network connection is established with a second network node present in the virtual area. Based on stream routing instructions, a stream router is created between the first network node and the second network node. The stream router includes a directed graph of processing elements operable to receive network data, process the received network data, and output the processed network data. On the first network connection, an input data stream derived from output data generated by the first network node is received in association with the virtual area. The input data stream is processed through the stream router to produce an output data stream. On the second network connection, the output data stream is sent to the second network node.
US10728143B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving, at a network node within a network, a packet from another network node within the network, (2) identifying, within the packet, a label stack that includes a plurality of labels that collectively represent at least a portion of an LSP within the network, (3) popping, from the label stack, a label that corresponds to a specific link to a further network node, and then upon popping the label from the label stack, (4) forwarding the packet to the further network node by way of the specific link. Various other methods, systems, and apparatuses are also disclosed.
US10728139B2
Methods and apparatuses for building a programmable dataplane are described. Specifically, the programmable dataplane can work on a list of identifiers, such as those part of OpenFlow 1.5. Specifically, the programmable dataplane can be built by creating a virtual network graph at a controller node using binary identifiers such that a node is broken into an n-ary tree and the tree has 1×2 or 1×1 nodes.
US10728138B2
Analytics enabled radio access network (RAN)- aware content optimization using mobile edge computing
A central analytics server can be utilized to analyze health data associated with one or more radio access networks (RANs) that has been aggregated from one or more mobile edge computing (MEC) servers, to determine throughput available at a radio link interface associated with a user equipment (UE). Further, the central analytics server can determine, based on the available throughput, a recommendation for an action that can be performed by a content server to optimize content delivery to the UE. In an example, the central analytics server can convey the recommendation to the content server(s) via a “window size” field within a header segment of a transmission control protocol (TCP) via in-band and/or out-of-band signaling. In one aspect, the recommendation can comprise instructions to adapt a bit stream and/or comprise instructions indicative of an optimal data transmission route.
US10728137B1
The potential problem of traffic loss during a period when a second PIM router is elected DR after a first PIM router (on the same PIM interface) was previously elected DR and is transiting multicast traffic, is solved by (1) configuring a first interval on a PIM interface for at least the first PIM router; (2) responsive to the PIM interface of the first PIM router booting up, (i) starting, by the first PIM router, a timer corresponding to the configured first interval, (ii) determining, by the first PIM router, whether or not it is the DR on the PIM interface, (iii) upon determining that the timer has expired, redetermining, by the first PIM router, whether or not it is the DR on the PIM interface, and (iv) responsive to a redetermination that the first PIM router is the DR on the PIM interface, (A) increasing, by the first PIM router, a DR priority value of the first PIM router to reduce a likelihood that another of the at least two PIM routers will replace the first PIM router as DR, and (B) sending on the PIM interface, by the first PIM router, a PIM HELLO message including the increased DR priority value.
US10728135B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for location based deployment of test agents in a cloud environment based upon deployment information for previously placed customer processing nodes. The cloud environment is hosted by servers operating to provide cloud services within two or more server zones. A test controller receives deployment information about applications operating with the cloud environment, analyzes the deployment information to determine locations within the cloud environment for deployment of test agents where the locations are associated with a plurality of the applications, sends resource requests to a cloud management controller to deploy the test agents at the locations, and receives test results from the test agents deployed by the cloud management controller at the locations based upon the resource requests. Monitor agents operating along with applications deployed in the cloud can also be used to provide the deployment information to the test controller.
US10728134B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for measuring preempted frame delivery latency in a frame-preemption-capable network are disclosed. One method includes, in a network test tool including at least one processor, simulating frame preemption by generating a plurality of simulated preempted frame fragments of a simulated preempted frame and an express frame. The method further includes inserting a last fragment generation timestamp in a last fragment of the simulated preempted frame fragments, wherein inserting the last fragment generation timestamp in a last fragment of the simulated preempted frame fragments includes inserting the last fragment generation timestamp in a portion of the last fragment that will remain in a last fragment of a refragmentation of the simulated preempted frame in the event that the simulated preempted frame is reassembled and refragmented. The method further includes transmitting the simulated preempted frame fragments and the express frame to a device under test (DUT). The method further includes receiving frame fragments including a frame or frame fragment including the last fragment generation timestamp. The method further includes calculating, using the last fragment generation timestamp, delivery latency of the simulated preempted frame generated by the test tool.
US10728118B2
Service tickets early warning can include: storing a set of service tickets such that the service tickets are accessible by a set of interested individuals, each service ticket describing one or more service issues to be acted upon by one or more service agents; recording a set of parameters describing each of a set of accesses to the service tickets undertaken by one or more of the interested individuals; and generating an early warning of an urgency of one or more of the service tickets by extracting a set of features pertaining to the accesses and sorting the service tickets based on the features extracted.
US10728115B2
A method and system for determining a service provider to perform a service. An indication of willingness by each service provider of at least two service providers to perform the service in conformity with at least two quality of service requirements is received. Both an indication of previous performance of the service by each service provider and statistical data indicative of an extent to which the previous performance of the service by each service provider matches each quality of service requirement are received. A preferred service provider of the at least two service providers is ascertained, by analyzing the statistical data and concluding that the performance of the service by the preferred service provider is a closer match to the at least two quality of service requirements than is a match of the performance of the service by each other service provider to the at least two service requirements.
US10728112B2
Various embodiments of a system and method for tracking service requests are described. Embodiments may include call tree generation logic configured to receive multiple request identifiers associated with a respective one of multiple service requests. Each given request identifier may include an origin identifier, a depth value, and a request stack comprising one or more interaction identifiers. The call tree generation logic may also be configured to, based on multiple request identifiers that each include an origin identifier associated with a particular root request, generating a data structure that specifies a hierarchy of services called to fulfill that particular root request. Based on one or more of the interaction identifiers and one or more of the depth values, the generated data structure may specify for each given service of the hierarchy: a parent service that called the given service, and one or more child services called by the given service.
US10728110B2
A user-defined virtual private cloud computing network is provided that includes a user interface for selecting a plurality of network connectivity features for designing the user-defined virtual private cloud computing network. The virtual private cloud computing network includes tangible storage elements and tangible computing elements selected from a cloud computing network service provider using the user interface, using the user interface each network. The tangible storage elements and tangible computing elements are connected in accordance with network element configuration statements that instantiate actions particular to defined network connectivity features in accordance with defined usage rules. The virtual provide cloud computing network is configured and implemented in accordance with the selected network connectivity features using the tangible storage elements and tangible computing elements.
US10728107B2
Embodiments can provide centralized management of cloud service providers for one or more customers, including adding, changing or deleting end user data for accessing various cloud services from a common user interface. The common user interface can facilitate configuring user settings for a particular user for different cloud services through a user profile for the particular user. The user profile can be constructed from a corresponding user record stored in a databased. The user record can be updated by obtaining user information from the different cloud services. The obtained user information can be matched to the user record by using one or more criteria. In some embodiments, different criteria can be used for matching information from different cloud services to the user record.
US10728102B1
An automated network topology discovery system via smart power cords and system facility device management that uses smart power cords with integrated sensors and wireless interfaces to discover the network topology and manage devices in a facility. Locations of smart power cords may be automatically discovered using either cooperative or non-cooperative localization based on measurement of signal characteristics such as RSSI. Each cord may monitor power delivered to device(s), and measure variables including temperature, humidity, pressure. It may also act as a gateway to other devices in the vicinity. A central control station may manage the devices in the facility via the smart power cords. Data collected from smart power cords may be analyzed to provide alerts and management reports. Alerts may include attempted theft when a device is unplugged, environmental conditions or a staff member requesting assistance via an emergency alert forwarded through a smart power cord.
US10728097B1
Systems and techniques are described for applying a set of policy rules to network traffic. During operation, conditions specified in the set of policy rules can be evaluated, wherein each condition is a logical expression defined over a set of variables, and is evaluated by substituting values of the set of variables associated with the network traffic into the logical expression. Next, a subset of policy rules can be selected whose conditions evaluated as true. A highest precedence policy rule from the subset of policy rules can then be identified by applying a set of precedence rules to the subset of policy rules, wherein the set of precedence rules imposes a precedence order on the set of policy rules based on condition categories and condition specificities. Finally, an action that is specified in the highest precedence policy rule can be performed.
US10728093B2
A main device for use in a computer network, wherein the computer network has a topology and comprises a plurality of interconnected devices, wherein each of the plurality of interconnected devices comprises device information and at least one network port, wherein the devices are interconnected with the computer network by network links, each network link connecting two respective network ports, wherein the main device is interconnected with at least one of devices by a connection, and configured to obtain network information, wherein the network information comprised the topology of the computer network and the device information of the plurality of interconnected devices in the network, retrieve a stored network model, wherein the network model comprises a defined topology of the computer network and defined device information, and compare the network information with the network model to provide the differences between the network information and the network model as distinction data.
US10728092B2
A settings management system in a remote server environment generates user interface displays with settings management user input mechanisms, and detects actuation of those user input mechanisms. Settings configuration metadata is generated, for a given setting, based upon the detected actuation. The settings metadata is output for access by a plurality of different, heterogeneous, computing environments, and the settings metadata is consistent across all of those environments.
US10728091B2
Techniques are provided for topology-aware provisioning of computing resources in a distributed heterogeneous environment. For example, a method includes: receiving a service request from a client system to perform a data processing job in a server cluster; determining candidate accelerator devices that reside in server nodes of the server cluster, which can be utilized to perform the data processing job; determining a connection topology of each candidate accelerator device within the server nodes, and a performance ranking of each connection topology; utilizing the determined performance ranking of each connection topology to select a group of accelerator devices among the candidate accelerator devices, which can be provisioned to perform the data processing job, wherein the selected group of accelerator devices include candidate accelerator devices with connection topologies that have matching performance rankings; and scheduling and provisioning the selected group of accelerator devices to execute the data processing job.
US10728090B2
Examples of systems described herein include a file server virtual machine of a virtualized file server configured to communicate with a user virtual machine over a first virtual network to transfer data and to communicate with a controller virtual machine over a second virtual network to transfer control information.
US10728087B2
Systems and methods for auto creation of bypass tunnels in Fast Reroute (FRR) downstream routers include configuring one or more Label Switched Path (LSP) tunnels between an ingress Label Edge Router (LER) and an egress LER via one or more Label Switch Routers (LSRs); signaling at least one LSP tunnel of the one or more LSP tunnels with a Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) PATH message containing a FAST_REROUTE object with a first flag indicating Facility Backup protection is desired and a second flag indicating auto generation of an associated FB bypass tunnel; and configuring the associated FB bypass tunnel between a Point of Local Repair (PLR) and a Merge Point (MP) based on the first flag and the second flag. The systems and methods can further include bypass tunnel reselection requests to a bypass tunnel with better protection.
US10728083B2
Methods for orientation and tilt identification of photovoltaic systems and solar irradiance sensors
The present invention relates to methods and systems for identifying PV system and solar irradiance sensor orientation and tilt based on energy production, energy received, simulated energy production, estimated energy received, production skew, and energy received skew. The present invention relates to systems and methods for detecting orientation and tilt of a PV system based on energy production and simulated energy production; for detecting the orientation and tilt of a solar irradiance sensor based on solar irradiance observation and simulated solar irradiance observation; for detecting orientation of a PV system based on energy production and energy production skew; and for detecting orientation of a solar irradiance sensor based on solar irradiance observation and solar irradiance observation skew.
US10728080B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A transmitter, such as a user equipment and/or a base station, may perform polar coding to encode bits. The polar coding may be associated with a plurality of component channels associated with a polar code length. The transmitter may interleave the encoded bits. The transmitter may map the interleaved encoded bits to a modulation symbol. The interleaving and mapping of each encoded bit may be based on an asymmetry of a polar code construction. The transmitter may transmit the interleaved encoded bits based on the mapping.
US10728076B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an encoder to encode service data corresponding to each of a plurality of physical paths, a time interleaver to the encoded service data in each physical path by a TI (Time Interleaving) block, wherein at least one virtual FEC block is ahead of FEC blocks in at least one TI block, wherein each TI block includes a variable number of FEC blocks of the encoded service data, wherein a number of the at least one virtual FEC block is defined based on a maximum number of FEC blocks of a TI block, a frame builder to build at least one signal frame including the time interleaved DP data, a modulator to modulate data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme and a transmitter to transmit the broadcast signals having the modulated data.
US10728060B2
A driver for a transmitter includes an output stage comprising a first equalizer and a second equalizer, coupled to an output circuit of the transmitter, being operable for receiving a plurality of differential input data streams to generate an equalized differential output signals, wherein the first equalizer and the second equalizer being coupled and reconfigured to form a plurality of parallel driver segments, each driver segment having a calibration circuit, at least one of the calibration circuits been enabled to control the impedance of the output circuit, the plurality of differential input data streams are processed by the first and the second equalizer to shape the plurality of differential input data streams for compensating the channel loss.
US10728052B2
There is disclosed a secure remote actuation system that includes a network storing one or more acceptable inputs. The system also includes a central signal switch disposed inside an enclosure. The central signal switch stores therein the one or more acceptable inputs and user codes, which comprise a succession of the acceptable inputs. The system further includes a remote input receptor that, in turn, includes a user interface with a communication tilt plate that has a front side and a back side. The front side includes an outer touch surface. The back side includes electronic components mounted thereon, a raised center pivot and a plurality of spring loaded switches mounted thereon disposed around the periphery of the back side. As such, tilting the communication tilt plate by pressing proximate the periphery of the outer touch surface will activate two or more of the spring-loaded switches mounted on the back side of the tilt plate, thereby transmitting the one or more user codes. The system also includes a microcontroller for obtaining and comparing said one or more acceptable inputs to said one or more user codes. The system also includes a web application for receiving the one or more acceptable inputs and the user codes for a user. The web application is in electronic communication with the microcontroller and communicates information pertaining to recent user interactions with the secure remote actuation system to the user through the remote input receptor. The microcontroller obtains the one or more acceptable inputs from the network after the user begins to use the interface.
US10728051B2
System and method for providing network support services and premises gateway support infrastructure
A service management system communicates via wide area network with gateway devices located at respective user premises. The service management system remotely manages delivery of application services, which can be voice controlled, by a gateway, e.g. by selectively activating/deactivating service logic modules in the gateway. The service management system also may selectively provide secure communications and exchange of information among gateway devices and among associated endpoint devices. An exemplary service management system includes a router connected to the network and one or more computer platforms, for implementing management functions. Examples of the functions include a connection manager for controlling system communications with the gateway devices, an authentication manager for authenticating each gateway device and controlling the connection manager and a subscription manager for managing applications services and/or features offered by the gateway devices. A service manager, controlled by the subscription manager, distributes service specific configuration data to authenticated gateway devices.
US10728048B2
Network system for configurable delivery of combined power and data signals over twisted pair wiring
A telecommunications panel and associated system are disclosed. In one example, the panel includes a panel housing having a first side and a second side, one or more data connectors on the first side, and a power input signal connector on the first side. The panel includes one or more combined power output and data signal connectors on the second side, each of the combined power output and data signal connectors configured to electrically connect to a twisted pair cable and including a plurality of twisted pairs each having first and second wire contacts. The one or more twisted pairs are configured to carry a power signal as a direct current voltage difference between the first and second wire contacts, and the remaining twisted pairs from the plurality of twisted pairs are configured to carry differential data signals. The telecommunications panel is configured to selectably allow pairs of the remaining twisted pairs from the plurality of twisted pairs to cooperate to carry a power signal.
US10728044B1
In embodiments, an authentication server interfaces between a user device with a self-signed certificate and a verifying computer that accepts a user name and password. The user device generates a self-signed certificate signed by a private key on the user device. The self-signed certificate is transmitted to a verifying party computer over a network. The verifying party stores the self-signed certificate with user identification data. The user migrates trust to another device by providing the root certificate and intermediate certificate as a certificate chain to a second device, which then adds a new intermediate certificate to create a longer certificate chain with the same root certificate. In subsequent communications, the verifying party receives a certificate chain including the self-signed certificate from the second user device, and matches that with the user identification data stored in a database.
US10728043B2
In one example, an apparatus such as an authorization server and method for secure communication between constrained devices issues cryptographic communication rights among a plurality of constrained devices. Each of the plurality of constrained devices comprises no more than one cryptographic algorithm code module per cryptographic function. The method includes receiving a cryptographic communication rights request associated with at least a first of the plurality of constrained devices in response to a cryptographic algorithm update request, and includes providing a response including an identification of a subset of the plurality of constrained devices that have cryptographic communication rights with the identified first of the plurality of constrained devices. A software update server then updates the cryptographic code modules in the sub-set of the plurality of constrained devices.
US10728041B2
A proof-of-work system where a first party (e.g., a client computer system) may request access to a computing resource. A second party (e.g., a service provider) may determine a challenge that may be provided to the first party. A valid solution to the challenge may be generated and provided for the request to be fulfilled. The challenge may include a message and a seed, such that the seed may be used at least in part to cryptographically derive information that may be used to generate a solution to the challenge. A hash tree may be generated as of generating the solution.
US10728028B2
A transmitter encodes information with randomly flipped bits. A cipher key that includes for each letter of an alphabet a unique string of binary bits of length N and a total amount of bits M to be randomly flipped where M
US10728020B2
A method for achieving consensus amongst a distributed and decentralized set of computers, devices or components in a network interacting via messaging is presented. The method does not rely on the availability of an overall ledger that is consulted for every interaction. Rather, the interacting components communicate directly with each other via messages that contain proofs of consistency that may be used to achieve local consistency amongst the interacting components. Local consistency guarantees global consistency. For regulatory and record keeping purposes, use of an overall ledger may be contemplated for regulatory and record keeping purposes. The latter may be updated by the interacting devices via an asynchronous updating mechanism.
US10727999B2
A method and a device for receiving a signal in a wireless communication system to which a multiplex transmission technique is applied are provided. The wireless communication system proposed therein suggests a method for performing multiplex transmission when base stations within a network are synchronized. Particularly, a terminal receives, from a first base station, control information for the transmission of an M number of transmission blocks. The control information includes information for allocating multiplex transmission resources available for the first base station and a second base station during a predetermined subframe. The terminal receives the M number of transmission blocks from the first base station and the second base station via the multiplex transmission resources. Here, the M number of transmission blocks receives from the first base station and the M number of transmission blocks received from the second base station are decoded by using the same reference signal.
US10727989B2
Various methods and systems are provided for allocating time-frequency resources for downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) communications between base stations and mobile stations. Different forms of resource allocation messages including combinations of bitmaps and bitfields provide additional information about the resources and/or how they are assigned. In some implementations the resource allocation messages enable reduced overhead, which may ultimately improve transmission rates and/or the quality of transmissions.
US10727981B2
A UCI transmission method and a UCI transmission device are provided. A subframe set in which UCI repetition is to be transmitted are determined. If an ACK/NACK and an SR are to be transmitted in a certain subframe in the subframe set, one kind of the UCI is selected from the ACK/NACK and the SR to be transmitted in the certain subframe, and then the selected UCI is transmitted in the certain subframe.
US10727977B2
A system and method for improving forward error correction efficiency in a communication network. The system and method employ a controller configured to evaluate a plurality of frames to identify a first type of the plurality of frames having a first frame processing characteristic pertaining to a first type of frame iteration processing performed by a terminal of the communication network and a second type of the plurality of frames having a second frame processing characteristic pertaining to a second type of frame iteration processing performed by the terminal. The controller is further configured to arrange a plurality of the first type of frames and at least one of the plurality of the second type of frames in an alternating order within a transmission window for transmission to the terminal.
US10727974B2
Techniques for reporting channel quality information (CQI) in a multi-carrier wireless communication system are disclosed. In one aspect, a user equipment determines one or more reporting groups, each comprising a plurality of component carriers which are configured for the user equipment. The user equipment may detect a trigger from a base station that selects a reporting group and may respond to the trigger by sending CQI for at least the activated component carriers in the selected reporting group.
US10727973B1
Systems and methods for self-characterization of a software-defined optical network are disclosed. A test transponder may generate and transmit test traffic using various combinations of transmission parameters to discern physical characteristic of a route between two network elements. The test transponder may compute optical characteristics of the route based on the physical characteristics and transmission parameters. An SDN controller may maintain a characterization database storing test results. The test results may be fed to a machine learning engine, which outputs predictions or recommendations regarding utilization of bandwidth and other resources. The optical network may be adapted to handle requested, observed, or predicted changes in on-demand traffic or traffic surges. The test results may be used to defragment the optical spectrum with minimal or no impact on existing traffic to make space in a flexible grid for newly launched channels or channels being moved to different spectrum locations.
US10727967B2
Performing a superposed transmission in a wireless communications network. The superposed transmission includes a first signal intended for a first wireless device and a second signal intended for a second wireless device that are superposed and transmitted simultaneously by the network node on the same transmission resources. A first ratio and a second ratio of the total transmission power available for the superposed transmission are determined. The first ratio is to be used for the first signal and the second ratio is to be used for the second signal. Information indicating the first and/or second ratio is transmitted to at least the first wireless device and the superposed transmission to the first and second wireless device is performed simultaneously on the same transmission resources by transmitting the first signal using a transmission power according to the first ratio and the second signal using a transmission power according to the second ratio.
US10727962B2
Disclosed are an electronic device in a wireless communication system, and a wireless communication method. The wireless communication system comprises multiple unlicensed carriers. The electronic device comprises: one or more processing circuits configured to: configure each of a plurality of unlicensed carriers to be a primary channel or a secondary channel, so as to obtain at least two primary channels and at least one secondary channel; perform a first channel detection process over each of the primary channels to detect whether each of the primary channels is idle, and perform a second channel detection process over each of the secondary channels to detect whether each of the secondary channels is idle; and perform downlink data transmission over the primary channel determined to be idle by means of the channel detection or over the primary and secondary channels determined to be idle by means of the channel detection. By utilizing the electronic device and the wireless communication method, the probability of access to an unlicensed carrier is improved.
US10727961B2
A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, etc. The method includes receiving a radio resource control (RRC) message including first information associated with a reference signal for a radio link monitoring (RLM) and second information associated with a threshold for the RLM, monitoring a radio link quality of at least one reference signal indicated by the first information, comparing the radio link quality of the at least one reference signal with the threshold and indicating an in-sync or an out-of-sync to a higher layer of the terminal based on the comparison result.
US10727950B2
A method of controlling an optical transmitter comprising a determining step, a dividing step and a determining step. In the determining step, a full range of an optical signal output from a light-generating device is determined by setting an upper and a lower limit thereof by keeping power of a continuous wave (CW) light constant and varying an electrical driving signal, the optical signal having 2n optical levels where n is an integer. In the dividing step, the full range of the optical signal is divided into sub-ranges each between the neighbor optical levels including the upper limit and the lower limit of the full range, the sub-ranges having preset ratios. In the determining step, electrical levels of the electrical driving signal are determined based on a non-linear transfer characteristic of the light-generating device between the electrical driving signal supplied thereto and the optical signal output therefrom.
US10727933B2
Disclosed is a satellite communication system that allocates bandwidth to maximize the capacity of the communication system while providing service to geographical areas having different demands. A smaller portion of the frequency spectrum can be allocated for subscriber beams that supply service to low demand areas. A larger portion of the frequency spectrum can be provided to subscriber beams that provide access to high demand areas. Allocation of bandwidth can be determined by the amount of demand in low demand areas versus the amount of demand in high demand areas. High demand gateways are physically located in low demand subscriber beams, while low demand gateways are physically located in high demand subscriber beams, which prevents interference.
US10727929B2
Disclosed are techniques for receive beam selection for measuring a reference radio frequency (RF) signal. In an aspect, a first node determines a type of measurement to be performed on the reference RF signal, selects a receive beam based on the type of measurement to be performed on the reference RF signal, generates the selected receive beam, receives, from a second node, using the generated receive beam, the reference RF signal transmitted on a wireless channel, and performs one or more measurements on the received reference RF signal according to the type of the measurement to be performed.
US10727923B2
An apparatus has an array of antennae. Each antenna in the array has a tile circuit including a frequency conversion circuit to generate from an incoming reference signal a local oscillator carrier signal operative as an outgoing reference signal for an adjacent tile circuit. A mixer receives the local oscillator carrier signal and combines it with an antenna signal to produce a frequency converted antenna signal. A matrix of phase shifters and variable gain elements produces a set of frequency converted and phase rotated antenna signals. Analog summers combine the frequency converted and phase rotated antenna signals with user input signals from the adjacent tile circuit for distributed analog beam forming of multiple streams. The user input signals correspond to distinct users tracked by the array of antennae.
US10727918B2
A first wireless communication device includes transceiver circuitry to access data corresponding to a beamforming transmission, transmit, from the first wireless communication device to at least one second wireless communication device, a first sounding packet, and receive, from the at least one second wireless communication device, at least one second sounding packet. The second sounding packet includes channel feedback determined at the at least one second wireless communication device. Processor circuitry is to determine a steering matrix based on the channel feedback. The steering matrix is configured to at least one of reduce and avoid interference caused at the at least one second wireless communication device by transmissions from the first wireless communication device. The transceiver circuitry is further to perform the beamforming transmission to at least one third wireless communication device in accordance with the data corresponding to the beamforming transmission and the steering matrix.
US10727899B2
The method includes inputting first groups of frequency samples to be transmitted over, respectively received from, first and second subsets of subscriber lines at respective first tones and following a first group selection order, alternated with mirrored second groups of frequency samples to be transmitted over, respectively received from, the second subset of subscriber lines at respective mirrored second tones of the first tones, and following a mirrored second group selection order of the first group selection order, to a vectoring processor for joint mitigation of first crosstalk present over the first and second subsets of subscriber lines at the respective first tones and second crosstalk present over the second subset of subscriber lines at the respective second tones. The first tones are common to the first and second transmit spectra. Mirroring is with respect to a folding frequency derived from a reference sampling frequency applicable to the first subset of subscriber lines.
US10727893B2
Reconfigurable front-end module for carrier aggregation. In some embodiments, a front-end module can include a plurality of signal ports and a plurality of antenna ports. The front-end module can further include a switch assembly configured to route signals along one or more of a plurality of filtering paths between the signal ports and the antenna ports. Each of the filtering paths can include a filter, and the filtering paths can be configured to allow the antenna ports to be combined outside of the front-end module to accommodate a corresponding antenna configuration. The filtering paths can be further configured to maintain desirable filtering performance levels for different combinations of the antenna ports outside of the front-end module corresponding to the different antenna configurations.
US10727887B1
A receiver apparatus coupled to receive an RF signal having frequency components in a desired band and an image band, includes: an image rejection filter; a local oscillator to produce a first signal; a frequency divider to produce a plurality of second signals; a first mixer, coupled to receive the RF signal and the first signal, to produce an intermediate signal; and a frequency translation filter including a plurality of mixers each coupled to receive the intermediate signal and a different one of the plurality of second signals; and at least one impedance coupled as a load to each of the plurality of mixers, wherein: the image rejection filter and the frequency translation filter are configured to operate in conjunction to form a band-pass filter in the desired band and a band-stop filter in the image band and to apply the band-pass filter and band-stop filter to the RF signal.
US10727882B2
This application discussed trajectory modification techniques for polar transmission architectures. In an example, a method can include receiving a first sample, determining an absolute phase angle change between the first sample and a third sample, and if the first angle change is greater than a threshold phase angle, adjusting phase information of a second sample to provide a modified second sample such that a trajectory associated with the first sample, the modified second sample and the third sample passes through an origin. In an example, the second sample can be received prior to receiving the first sample, and the third sample can be received prior to receiving the second sample.
US10727881B1
A wireless signal interference reduction device includes a digital signal converter, an output device, a first adjustable resistor, and a second adjustable resistor. The wireless signal interference reduction device records an initial SNR value, records an SNR value of wireless reception in real-time at a preset interval when wired data transmission is turned on, determines whether a difference between the initial SNR value and the real-time SNR value is less than a preset value, continuously obtains the real-time SNR value at the preset interval to obtain the difference between the initial SNR value and the real-time SNR value if the difference between the initial SNR value and the real-time SNR value is less than the preset value, and reduces the wired transmission bandwidth by one step value if the difference between the initial SNR value and the real-time SNR value is not less than the preset value.
