US10730584B2
A convertible running bike capable of selectively converting from a non-motorized configuration to a motorized configuration may include a front fork rotatably engaged with a front wheel, a handle bar rotatably engaged with the front fork for steering the bike, a frame and a seat connected to the frame.
US10730583B2
A reconfigurable foot clip having a foot receiver having (i) a base with a foot abutment surface and a bicycle abutment surface on opposite sides of the base, and (ii) a center axis extending from a proximal end to a distal end of the foot receiver. The reconfigurable foot clip also includes a pair of sidewalls extending upward from the foot abutment surface, each of the pair of sidewalls have an uppermost perimeter portion extending toward another one of the pair of sidewalls. The reconfigurable foot clip also includes a fastening member (i) having a bicycle abutment wall extending downward from the bicycle abutment surface, and (ii) operable to secure the reconfigurable foot clip to a portion of a bicycle in one of a plurality of modes, each of the plurality of modes defined by an orientation of the foot clip and the bicycle.
US10730563B2
A reinforcing device for reinforcing a structural element in a motor vehicle includes a support, a reinforcing element and an adhesive. The support has a first surface for orientation towards a first wall of the structural element and a second surface for orientation towards a second wall of the structural element. The reinforcing element is designed for arrangement between the support and the first wall of the structural element. The adhesive is designed to connect the support to the reinforcing element and to connect the support and the reinforcing element to the structural element.
US10730558B2
A front vehicle-body structure of a vehicle, comprising a dash panel, a pair of right-and-left hinge pillars, a suspension tower, and a heat-insulating inner upper portion connecting the suspension tower and the dash panel, wherein the dash panel comprises a dash panel body, a dash cross member interconnecting respective lower portions of the hinge pillars, and a dash-panel reinforcing member joined to a portion which is positioned above the dash cross member, the heat-insulating inner upper portion is connected to the dash panel body via the dash-panel reinforcing member, and the dash-panel reinforcing member comprises a leg portion which connects the heat-insulating inner upper portion and the dash cross member and a bridge portion which interconnects respective rear ends of the heat-insulating inner upper portions.
US10730557B2
A cross car beam assembly is provided herein. A composite beam structure extends transversely across a vehicle. A vehicle floor bracket is disposed below the composite beam. A composite reinforcement has a first portion fixedly engaged to the beam structure and a second portion engaged to the vehicle floor bracket.
US10730556B2
A method for controlling an automated parking operation in which a motor vehicle is controlled autonomously on a route between a drop zone and a parking space includes steps of detecting that a person is on board the motor vehicle during an autonomous driving process, determining that permission does not exist for transporting the person on the trip, and carrying out one or more actions.
US10730547B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic control unit of a steering system for a vehicle. The electronic control unit includes: a case having shaft supporting portions formed at ends of sides facing each other; a connector electrically connected with a substrate and coupled to the case through a rotary shaft coupled to ends of the shaft supporting portions such that that direction of connecting ports to be connected with a harness is adjusted, in which a protrusive first coupling portion is formed at any one of the shaft supporting portion and the rotary shaft and a second recessed coupling portion that is coupled to the first coupling portion is formed at the other one so that the connector is coupled and fixed to the case.
US10730546B2
A steering system equipped with a linear electric actuator includes: a casing, a shaft slidably coupled to the casing with respect to a sliding axis and provided with an end that protrudes externally from said casing, an electric motor, which is housed in the casing and provided with a stator and a rotor that is axially hollow and coaxial with the shaft, in which the rotor is operable in rotation with respect to an axis of rotation parallel to the sliding axis, a nut screw integrated in rotation with the rotor of the motor and provided with an internal thread, the nut screw includes a first cylindrical portion and a second cylindrical portion, axially arranged side by side, a joint adapted to make the first cylindrical portion and the second cylindrical portion integrated in rotation, and a helical groove surface integrated with the shaft and coupled to the internal thread.
US10730534B2
A railcar steering bogie includes: a bogie frame supporting a bolster such that the bolster is swingable relative to the bogie frame about a vertical axis; two wheelsets each including an axle and a pair of wheels; and a steering mechanism configured to steer at least one of the two wheelsets in accordance with the swinging of the bolster relative to the bogie frame. The steering mechanism includes: a steering lever configured to turn relative to the bogie frame about a fulcrum axis; a coupling link coupling the bolster and the steering lever and configured to operate in conjunction with the swinging of the bolster relative to the bogie frame; and a steering link coupled to the steering lever and configured to steer the wheelset in conjunction with the turning of the steering lever. The steering link is coupled to the steering lever by a pin member.
US10730532B2
A track maintenance machine includes a combustion engine mechanically connected by a drive shaft to an electric generator/motor unit. The electric generator/motor unit is connected by a mechanical drive unit to a hydraulic pump. A power accumulator is connected by an electrical supply line to the generator/motor unit and to drives which can be actuated electrically. It is thus possible to mainly electrically supply all of the drives.
US10730530B2
An autonomous vehicle including a sensor system that outputs a sensor signal indicative of a condition of the autonomous vehicle. The vehicle also includes a communication system including a speaker. Based upon a profile of the passenger, the autonomous vehicle can determine that support is to be provided audibly to the passenger when the support is provided to the passenger. Moreover, the autonomous vehicle can detect occurrence of an event that has been identified as potentially causing discomfort to the passenger based upon the sensor signal output by the sensor system. Responsive to detecting the occurrence of the event, and in accordance with the profile of the passenger, the autonomous vehicle can cause the speaker to output an audible support message. Content of the audible support message is based on the detected event, and the audible support message solicits feedback from the passenger of the autonomous vehicle.
US10730518B2
A system includes a first device and a second device connected via an on-board network. In a case where a driving assistance function is selectively installed on a vehicle, the first device transmits repeatedly a CAN frame having a predetermined CAN-ID from start of the vehicle to stop of the vehicle. The second device receives a CAN frame having a CAN-ID uniquely set for a function with regard to the vehicle. And the second device is configured to: (i) record to both a first recording region and a second recording region of a memory in a case where it is determined that the CAN-ID included in the received CAN frame is the predetermined CAN-ID; and (ii) record only to the second recording region in a case where it is not determined that the CAN-ID included in the received CAN frame is the predetermined CAN-ID.
US10730515B2
A method of operating an auto-braking system of a vehicle in coordination with operation of a speed limiting system (SLS) of the vehicle to prevent undesired loss of auto-braking functionality. If: a) a driver input of an engine power control parameter (such as throttle setting) exceeds an activation threshold of the SLS so that the SLS is therefore limiting vehicle speed to a set-speed corresponding to the activation threshold; and b) the driver input of the power control parameter is below a SLS override threshold; and c) the SLS override threshold exceeds an auto-braking override threshold for the power control parameter; then the auto-braking override threshold is increased to at least equal the SLS override threshold. The speed limiter activation threshold may be determined from speed limit information supplied by a vehicle navigation system of by an image evaluating unit from images obtained by a camera of the vehicle.
US10730510B2
A tilt-sensing apparatus for a vehicle, comprising: a controller; and a motion tracker, wherein the controller is configured for communication with the motion tracker and a display, wherein the motion tracker is configured for attachment to a vehicle at a position remote to the display and comprises a first tilt sensor configured to measure a first tilt angle with respect to a first axis and a second tilt sensor configured to measure a second tilt angle with respect to a second axis, wherein the controller is configured to receive data via an output of the motion tracker, said data comprising the first tilt angle and the second tilt angle, and communicate an instruction to the display to display a graphical representation indicative of the first tilt angle and the second tilt angle, and associated method.
US10730499B2
An electronically controllable pneumatic brake system includes a brake circuit, wherein a control valve is associated with the brake circuit for the purpose of adjusting braking pressures at service brakes independently of each other, wherein the control valve comprises an electronic control input for receiving an electrical control signal and a pneumatic control input for receiving a control pressure. The pneumatic brake system additionally includes a first control unit for outputting the electronic control signal depending on a target vehicle deceleration for the electrical actuation of the control valve, a first brake valve configured to specify a first brake valve control pressure, and a second brake valve configured to output a second brake valve control pressure. The second brake valve is disposed such that the first brake valve control pressure and/or the second brake valve control pressure is output as the control pressure to the control valve.
US10730496B2
A hydraulic unit, in particular for a controllable-slip vehicle brake system, includes a housing block, a pump, a first fluid duct, and a second fluid duct. The housing block defines a pump receptacle that receives the pump, which has a suction side and a pressure side. The first duct crosses the pump receptacle in a region of the pressure side of the pump. The second duct leads into the pump receptacle in the region of the pressure side. The first and second ducts are sealed off from each over via a separation point. The hydraulic unit is configured to enable contact with a damping device configured to damp pulsations and reduce operating noise of the hydraulic unit without negatively impacting functional properties of the hydraulic unit, in particular on pressure build-up dynamics of the vehicle brake system, or without jeopardizing a compact construction of the hydraulic unit.
US10730488B2
A low-profile trailer jack for preventing damage to a jack includes a jack module that comprises a plurality of nested sections so that the jack module is selectively extensible. A first coupler is coupled to the jack module. A second coupler is coupled to an upper face of a hitch assembly proximate to an orifice that is positioned through the hitch assembly. The second coupler is complementary to the first coupler. The jack module is configured to be inserted into the orifice, positioning the second coupler to couple to the first coupler to fixedly position the jack module within the orifice. A top of the jack module is positioned proximate to the second coupler. An actuator is operationally coupled to the jack module. The actuator is positioned to extend the nested sections so that a bottom of the jack module contacts a surface to elevate the hitch assembly.
US10730483B2
A transparent window plate is provided with a plurality of defogging heat wires arranged to have a side parallel with a first direction. The transparent window plate includes: a plurality of repetitive patterns that are arranged between one of the plurality of defogging heat wires and an adjacent one of the plurality of defogging heat wires so as to be not in contact with the plurality of defogging heat wires, and each of the plurality of repetitive patterns having at least one side parallel with the plurality of defogging heat wires. The plurality of repetitive patterns are aligned along the first direction; and the plurality of repetitive patterns are repetitively arranged along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US10730480B2
A mobile device detection apparatus is mounted on a vehicle equipped with a plurality of antennas, transmits a request signal for requesting a response to a mobile device that exists within a range communicable with the vehicle from a predetermined antenna among the plurality of antennas, receives a response signal returned from the mobile device to detect an existence of the mobile device, transmits a reply request signal for requesting a reply signal to the mobile device when the existence of the mobile device is detected, and receives the reply request signal from the mobile device using the plurality of antennas to detect an existence position of the mobile device.
US10730479B2
A passive entry/passive start (PEPS) system includes a communication gateway configured to transmit a ping signal based on at least one of a predetermined period and a predetermined transmission power level. The PEPS system includes at least one sensor configured to receive the ping signal and measure a physical characteristic of the ping signal. The PEPS system includes a central module configured to receive the measured physical characteristic of the ping signal, determine a lower threshold and an upper threshold associated with the at least one sensor, and compare the measured physical characteristic of the ping signal to the lower threshold and the upper threshold. In response to determining that the measured physical characteristic is less than the lower threshold and greater than the upper threshold, the central module is further configured to notify a portable device that the at least one sensor has been tampered with.
US10730472B2
An apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle comprises an airbag having a primary chamber and a secondary chamber. The primary chamber has a stored condition and is inflatable to a deployed condition to cover a portion of the vehicle. The secondary chamber has a stored condition and is inflatable to a deployed condition to cover portions of the vehicle left uncovered by the primary chamber. At least one passive vent provides fluid communication between the primary and secondary chambers. At least one active vent is actuatable to provide fluid communication between the primary and secondary chambers. An inflator is actuatable to provide inflation fluid to the primary chamber. The at least one passive vent directs inflation fluid from the primary chamber into the secondary chamber. The at least one active vent is actuatable to direct inflation fluid from the primary chamber to the secondary chamber.
US10730466B2
Provided is a vehicle seat (100) comprising: a seat cushion (101); a seat back (102) capable of being folded toward the seat cushion (101); a slide rail (110) movable in the front-back direction with the seat cushion (101) mounted thereon; a stationary rail (120) for guiding the slide rail (110); and a drive motor (160) for driving the slide rail (110) in the front-back direction along the stationary rail (120). The vehicle seat (100) is configured such that an integral sensor bracket (130) on which a magnetism sensor (141) and a limit switch (151) are mounted is affixed to the slide rail (120), and a magnetic body (142) which is detected by the magnetism sensor (141) and a detection plate (153) which activates the limit switch (151) are mounted to the stationary rail (120).
US10730462B2
According to one embodiment, an unmanned transport vehicle includes a vehicle body, a connector, a bumper, and a bumper driver. The vehicle body includes a moving mechanism and a moving mechanism driver. The moving mechanism driver is configured to drive the moving mechanism. The connector is at the vehicle body and connectable to a transport-object. The bumper is adjacent to the vehicle body in a first direction. The bumper includes a collision detection sensor. The bumper is extendable and contractible in a second direction. The second direction intersects the first direction. The bumper driver is configured to extend and contract the bumper in the second direction by moving at least a portion of the bumper in the second direction.
US10730459B2
A vehicle electronic system having an electronic controller and a power switching device configured to switch between a first power setting and a second power setting. The first power setting includes powering at least one of a plurality of electrically powered accessories with power from an on-board electric power supply. The second power setting includes powering the at least one of the plurality of electrically powered accessories with power from an external power supply thereby preventing the use of electric power from the on-board electric power supply. The electronic controller is configured to electronically operate the switching device to switch between the first power setting and the second power setting such that in response to detection of power from the external power supply, the switching device is switched to the second power mode.
US10730442B2
A cover for a cup holder device for a vehicle includes a cover unit including a body, and a side surface protrusion group formed to be protruded on both side surfaces of the body and provided in plural along the longitudinal direction of the body; and a support unit installed at the bottom surface side of the cover unit to support the load of the cover unit, and having a structure in which a plurality of support members formed in the shape of a slice, respectively, are installed to be spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the cover unit.
US10730441B2
A vehicle includes a body structure defining a front trunk having a front opening. A grille coves the front opening in a closed position and is pivotable about a vertical hinge, or a horizontal hinge along a top edge, secured to the body structure to provide access to the front opening. The grille may include a bin mounted on an inner surface of the grille and pivotable with the grille, a heating/cooling duct or a video display.
US10730436B2
A rearview assembly includes a housing having a front defining an opening. An external band extends laterally about a rear of the housing. A turn signal is defined in the external band. An electro-optic device includes a front substrate defining a first surface and a second surface. A rear substrate defines a third surface and a fourth surface. An electro-optic medium is disposed between the front substrate and the rear substrate. A peripheral seal contains the electro-optic medium between the front substrate and the rear substrate. An imager is adjacent the electro-optic device. A viewing window is disposed on an outboard corner of the electro-optic device. The imager is in optical communication with the viewing window.
US10730435B2
A method for determining the presence of a trailer (12) attached to a vehicle (10), the method comprising: controlling a vehicle system to obtain a primary indication of the presence of a trailer (12); controlling one or more further vehicle systems to obtain one or more secondary indications of the presence of a trailer (12); and determining a confidence level for the presence of a trailer (12) attached to the vehicle (10) in dependence on the primary indication and the or each secondary indication.
US10730418B1
A cover for removable attachment to a vehicle seat includes a first portion formed of a first material. The first portion is configured to be placed on an area of the seat corresponding to a ventilation area of the seat. The first material comprises a mesh fabric defining openings for allowing air to pass through the first portion. The first material also includes a silicone coating to impede the flow of liquid through the first portion. A second portion of the cover is formed of a second material that is different from the first material. The second portion is joined to an edge of the first portion and is configured for covering a lateral portion of the seat. The cover also includes an attachment mechanism for removably attaching the cover to the seat.
US10730415B2
A bracket assembly, such as a child safety seat bracket assembly, for use in a vehicle and an associated method of manufacture. The bracket assembly includes a wire loop structure that has end portions that are stamped to locally widen the wire loop structure a predetermined distance from ends thereof. These end portions are pressed through cylindrical bores of a bracket structure that is configured to be secured to a seat, interior structure, and/or body of the vehicle, for example. The ends of the wire loop structure are deformed to form retention caps that prevent the end portions of the wire loop structure from backing out of the cylindrical bores of the bracket structure. A child safety seat is selectively secured to one more such wire loop structures, bracket structures, and bracket assemblies to selectively secure the child safety seat to the seat, interior structure, and/or body of the vehicle.
US10730413B1
A vehicle seat assembly includes a seat base connected to a seat back. The seat base has a cushion portion and a support portion for supporting the cushion portion. The cushion portion is movable between a seating condition where the cushion portion forms a seating surface and non-seating condition where the cushion portion is tilted forward relative to the seat back about a forward end portion of the support portion. A rail system is mounted to the support portion. In the seating condition the rail system is covered by the cushion portion, and in the non-seating condition the rail system is configured to have mounted thereto an associated child car seat. The rail system is configured to move the associated child seat along a lateral direction of the vehicle seat assembly between a first outboard seating location and a center seating location defined by the seat base.
US10730404B2
In a method for operating a production plant having a vehicle and at least one charging point, and in a production plant having a vehicle for carrying out the method: in a first method step, the vehicle drives to the charging point; in a second method step, the vehicle is rotated, in particular with the aid of the omnidirectional drive or the differential drive; in a third method step, the vehicle moves on; and electrical energy is inductively transmitted from the charging point to the vehicle during the second method step.
US10730401B2
A battery system includes a lithium ion battery that couples to an electrical system. The battery system also includes a battery management system that electrically couples to the lithium ion battery and controls one or more recharge parameters of the lithium ion battery. Additionally, the battery management system monitors one or more parameters of the lithium ion battery. Further, the battery management system controls the recharge parameters of the lithium ion battery based on at least one lithium plating model and the monitored parameters. Furthermore, the at least one lithium plating model indicates a relationship between the one or more parameters of the lithium ion battery and a likelihood of lithium plating occurring in the lithium ion battery.
US10730396B2
An electric vehicle (EV) charging station for fast charging (e.g. 5 to 15 minutes) an electric vehicle (EV). The EV charging station can be configured to charge multiple EVs and multiple conventional vehicles at the same time. The EV charging station can include a power source, an electric reservoir receiving power from the power source, an AC to DC power converter for receiving AC power from the power source and converting the AC power to DC power for supplying DC power to the electric reservoir, an EV charger receiving DC power from the electric reservoir; and a first DC to DC converter receiving DC power from the electrical reservoir and converting the DC power to DC power suitable for charging the electrical vehicle.
US10730394B2
An electromechanical integrated machine (EIM) according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an internal rotor coupled to a vehicle wheel and an external rotor coupled to a flywheel. An electrified vehicle according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first EIM associated with a first wheel, a second EIM associated with a second wheel, a battery having energy to power the first and second wheels, and a flywheel to receive energy from the first and second EIMs during braking. Each EIM includes an internal rotor coupled to the respective first or second wheel and an external rotor coupled to the flywheel.
US10730382B2
A gearbox (1) is placed in a drive train between an electric motor (12) and an engine (13) of a vehicle. The gearbox (1) is placed in direct connection to an output shaft (2) of the electric motor (12). The gear box (1) has means to place it in three different modes.
US10730381B2
A transmission for a motor vehicle having an input shaft, an output shaft, first, second, and third planetary gear sets, a plurality of shift elements, and an electric machine arranged axially parallel to the input shaft and operatively connected to the input shaft with a constant transmission ratio via a spur gear drive or a flexible traction drive mechanism. Various gear steps are formable between the input shaft and the output shaft through the planetary gear sets by selectively engaging shift elements of the plurality of shift elements. Elements of the third planetary gear set are arranged, at least partially, radially within an element of the spur gear drive or of the flexible traction drive mechanism arranged coaxially to the input shaft, and together with the spur gear drive or the flexible traction drive mechanism in a plane oriented orthogonally to the axis of rotation of the input shaft.
US10730373B2
A method for producing an arrangement for a vehicle roof can have the steps of providing a first element with a first end and a second end, the element being couplable by the first end to the vehicle roof. The method can also have the steps of providing a pumpable substance with predetermined material properties, and applying the provided substance by injection molding at a predetermined position at the second end of the first element and thereby forming a second element such that the second element is coupled to the first element and is pivotable relative to the first element about an axis of rotation (A). An arrangement and system for a vehicle roof is also provided.
US10730372B2
A ramp door and door frame include a rail kit that deploys automatically when the door is opened and collapses automatically when the door is closed. The door is supported by a cable mechanism when the door is opened. The cable mechanism causes an end rail to pivot up and away from the door when the door is opened and down and toward the door when the door is closed. The end rail cooperates with a door frame to deploy flexible side barriers when the door is opened and to collapse the side barriers when the door is closed.
US10730371B2
A vehicular door includes an inner panel and an outer panel that is mounted on a vehicular exterior side of the inner panel such that they are mounted to and separated from each other by sliding. The outer panel is mounted to the inner panel while the first outer side stopper and the first inner side stopper being fit to each other and the second outer side stopper and the second inner side stopper being fit to each other. In the relative sliding of the inner panel and the outer panel in the lateral direction, the first outer side stopper, the second inner side stopper, the second outer side stopper, and the first inner side stopper are arranged such that the first outer side stopper is not contacted with the second inner side stopper or the second outer side stopper is not contacted with the first inner side stopper.
US10730367B2
A vent shade assembly for a recreational vehicle ceiling vent comprises a vent shade outer frame having an inner flange, a vent shade inner frame having an inner flange, and a pair of side walls disposed between the inner flange of each of the outer and inner frame to form a slot. A movable pleated shade element disposed within the slot is operable between a closed position and a plurality of positions there between. A first and a second shade string is disposed at least partially alongside and parallel to a first and second of the pair of side walls, respectively, and proximate a first and a second side edge of the movable pleated shade element, respectively. A portion of the inner flange of the vent shade outer frame supports the first and second side edge of the movable pleated shade element.
US10730366B2
A filter trap for a motor vehicle thermal device is made of polymer material and includes two longitudinal edges extending along a length thereof connected by two lateral edges extending along a width thereof. The trap includes a first assembly tab extending along the length thereof and fixed to one of the lateral edges. The trap also includes a snap coupling to block the trap. The snap-coupling is fixed to one of the longitudinal edges and is located in the vicinity of another of the lateral edges. The trap also includes a second assembly tab extending perpendicular to the first assembly tab. The second assembly tab is fixed to another of the longitudinal edges and is located in a vicinity of another of the lateral edges. The trap has sufficient flexibility along the length thereof to permit twisting of the trap about a longitudinal torsion axis of the trap.
US10730358B2
A shock absorber including: a first cylinder having an interior, first and second ends and defining an axis, wherein the interior includes a damping fluid chamber and a damping piston movably mounted therein for movement between the first and second ends, wherein the damping piston is mounted on a first end of a shaft, wherein the first end of the shaft is movably retained within the interior of the first cylinder; first and second bypass openings configured for opening into the damping fluid chamber at first and second axially spaced-apart positions; a bypass channel fluidly coupling the first and second bypass openings; a fluid metering valve; and a floating piston dividing a portion of the shock absorber into a gas chamber and the reservoir chamber, wherein the fluid metering valve and the floating piston define the reservoir chamber there between.
US10730356B2
An electronic unit that is intended to be mounted on the valve of a vehicle wheel fitted with a tire, incorporating electronics for monitoring at least one operating parameter of the wheel and a rechargeable power supply for supplying power to the electronics, including a device for charging the rechargeable power supply, the device for charging including: a movable element, at least a portion of which is magnetized, that is capable of being set in motion by an air flow for inflating the tire that passes through the valve and cooperating with a coil so as to produce variations in the magnetic field and electromagnetic induction; and a device for managing the charging of the rechargeable power supply.
US10730347B2
A tire comprising an innerliner, where the innerliner includes a rubber, a first carbon black having a statistical thickness surface area of at least 50 m2/g, and a second carbon black having a statistical thickness surface area of at most 45 m2/g.
US10730346B2
A caster apparatus is provided. In one embodiment, there is provided a caster apparatus including a caster wheel and a first driving wheel disposed on a first side of the caster wheel. The first driving wheel is configured to be driven by a first motor. A second driving wheel is disposed on a second side opposite to the first side of the caster wheel. The second driving wheel is configured to be driven by a second motor different from the first motor. A first actuator is configured to move the first driving wheel in a vertical direction to a ground according to a curvature of the ground. A second actuator is configured to move the second driving wheel in a vertical direction to the ground according to a curvature of the ground, wherein the first and second driving wheels are configured to steer the caster wheel.
US10730344B2
A low impact turf wheel having a wheel rim including an inner and outer surface, a plurality of pegs extending radially outward from the outer surface of the wheel rim, wherein the plurality of pegs maintain the wheel rim above an area of turf, and a hub. A turf wheel having a wheel rim having an inner and outer surface, a plurality of pegs extending radially outward from the outer surface of the wheel rim, wherein the peg comprises a stem, a collar and a lug, and wherein the lug includes a limited surface area to provide a ground contacting tread, and a hub.
US10730340B2
A mobile and height adjustable bucket system (1) for decorative or protective liquids such as paints and the like made up of a bucket (2) detachably mounted on a height adjustable stand (3) and a toolbox (4) for holding tools which can be attached to the bucket (2), the stand (3) being adjustable as required by a user using a telescopic pole (17) to position the bucket (2) at a desired working height.
US10730339B2
The present disclosure provides a decorative cup. The decorative cup includes a shell. The shell includes a cup body and a base. The cup body includes an accommodating portion and a transparent portion. A cavity is formed in the base. The accommodating portion is disposed in the cavity. The transparent portion is made of a transparent material, and shaped as a polygon prism. The transparent portion may enable light rays to be reflected for multiple times on the cup body because of the polygon prism structure of the transparent portion, so that the cup body looks more crystal clear and more dazzling, thereby greatly improving the ornamental value of the decorative cup.
US10730338B2
The present invention provides devices, systems, and methods for refilling a refillable fluid applicator, such as but not limited to a refillable dry erase marker. The devices, systems, and methods of the present invention advantageously allow the fluid applicator to be refilled quickly, easily, and inexpensively, and provide the benefit of significantly reducing the quantity of solid plastic waste associated with conventional disposable dry erase markers and other fluid applicators.
US10730325B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a head that can eject liquid, a carriage that holds the head and can move in an intersecting direction, a support portion that can support a medium from a side opposite the side on which the head is located, a frame portion that is provided upstream of the carriage in the transport direction, the carriage being attached to the frame portion, a cover portion that covers the carriage, a first adjustment part that is attached to the frame portion, and a second adjustment part that is attached to a positioning portion. A difference between a first adjustment distance and a second adjustment distance is smaller than a difference between a first distance and a second distance.
US10730320B2
A medium transport device includes a first transport route for discharging a medium processed by a processing unit, a second transport route for discharging the medium processed by the processing unit, and a medium receiving tray that is capable of switching a state between a medium receiving state of receiving the medium that is discharged through the first transport route and a medium unreceivable state achieved by performing state switching from the medium receiving state. The first transport route comes into a non-formed state and at least a part of the medium receiving tray forms the second transport route when the medium receiving tray is in the medium unreceivable state, and the second transport route comes into the non-formed state and the first transport route is formed when the medium receiving tray comes into the medium receiving state.
US10730314B2
A printer that performs character printing by driving a character printing section, the printer including a character printing section driving element that electromechanically converts drive power, a switch that switches between states of whether or not to supply the drive power, a reverse voltage regeneration circuit that regenerates a reverse voltage generated by electromechanical conversion, and a circuit board on which the reverse voltage regeneration circuit and the switch are mounted, wherein the reverse voltage regeneration circuit has a first reverse voltage regeneration circuit and a second reverse voltage regeneration circuit, the first reverse voltage regeneration circuit has a first smoothing coil, and the second reverse voltage regeneration circuit has a second smoothing coil, and the switch is mounted on a board surface of the circuit board so as to be disposed between the first smoothing coil and the second smoothing coil.
US10730313B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid chamber that communicates with a nozzle, a communication flow path that communicates with the liquid chamber and that has a first opening into which a liquid flows, a discharge flow path that discharges the liquid and that has a second opening into which the liquid flows, a supply flow path capable of supplying the liquid to the communication flow path and the discharge flow path, and a first slide portion disposed between the supply flow path and the communication flow path and having a first through hole that enables the supply flow path to communicate with the communication flow path. The first slide portion, by sliding along the opening surface of the first opening, changes the position of the first through hole with respect to the communication flow path and changes the flow path resistance of the communication flow path.
US10730310B2
A liquid ejection apparatus includes: a cartridge including a first storage chamber storing liquid; a tank including a second storage chamber storing liquid; at least one nozzle; a detecting portion detecting whether a level of the liquid in the second storage chamber becomes equal to a prescribed position; a notifying portion; and a controller configured to perform: when the level of the liquid in the second storage chamber becomes equal to the prescribed position, calculating first and second volumes; and when the second volume is greater than the first volume, notify that the level of the liquid in the second storage chamber becomes equal to the prescribed position. The first volume is an amount of the liquid in the first storage chamber above the level of the second storage chamber at a time when the level of the liquid in the second storage chamber becomes equal to the prescribed position.
US10730309B2
A liquid cartridge is insertable into an attachment portion of a printing device in an insertion direction and attached thereto in an upright posture. The liquid cartridge includes: a housing defining a liquid chamber; a substrate; a contact; and a memory electrically connected to the contact. The substrate in the upright posture defines a sloped surface facing upward and sloping relative to a first imaginary plane extending in the insertion direction and a widthwise direction orthogonal to the insertion direction and a gravitational direction. The contact is formed on the sloped surface. An acute angle formed between the sloped surface and the first imaginary plane is greater than an acute angle formed between the first imaginary plane and a second imaginary plane passing through: a contact point between the contact and a contact of the device; and a lower end of a wall constituting a holder of the attachment portion.
US10730298B2
A liquid discharging apparatus is provided with a first recording head including a first nozzle, a second recording head including a second nozzle, a first valve provided with a first valve body configured to open and close according to a pressure on the first recording head side, and a second valve provided with a second valve body configured to open and close according to a pressure on the second recording head side. The first and second valves have different openabilities, and a difference between dischargeabilities of a liquid from the first nozzle and dischargeabilities of a liquid from the second nozzle is smaller than the difference in a case in which the second valve is connected to the first recording head via the first flow path and the first valve is connected to the second recording head via the second flow path.
US10730296B2
A liquid ejecting head includes nozzles that eject a liquid, communication paths in which the respective nozzles are disposed and which are arrayed and partitioned from adjacent ones of communication paths by partition walls, pressure chambers which communicate with the respective communication paths and which are arrayed and partitioned from adjacent ones of pressure chambers by partition walls, pressure generating portions that are provided in the respective pressure chambers and that vary a pressure of the pressure chambers to cause the liquid to be ejected from the nozzles, and common flow paths through which at least one of supplying and discharging the liquid is performed to and from flow paths including the communication paths and the pressure chambers. A compliance of the partition walls of the communication paths is made larger than a compliance of the partition walls of the pressure chambers.
US10730294B2
A liquid-discharge-head substrate includes a first covering portion covering a first heating resistance element and having electrical conductivity, a second covering portion covering a second heating resistance element and having electrical conductivity, a fuse, and a common wiring line for electrically connecting the first and second covering portions. The common wiring line is electrically connected with the first covering portion via the fuse. The common wiring line and the fuse each have a multilayer structure including a stack of a plurality of conductive layers including a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer that is less oxidizable than the first conductive layer.
US10730290B2
A recording apparatus performs converting each of recording data and control data for controlling a recording head into transfer data in a command format and transmitting the transfer data to the recording head via a transmission path, and detecting, in the recording head, an error in the received transfer data, and, in the transmission after detecting the error, reconstructs next transfer data in such a manner that a command that has been included in the transfer data in which the error has occurred among commands concerning the control data and that is scheduled not to be included in the next transfer data is included in the next transfer data, and then transmits the next transfer data reconstructed.
US10730280B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to determining a manufacturing batch. In one implementation, the manufacturing batch relates to 3D printing. A processor may determine component parts of a product that. In one implementation, a processor determines a batch of the component parts related to different products based on a comparison to other potential batches.
US10730273B2
The present invention is a resin composition including: (A) an epoxy resin; (B) an epoxy compound shown by the following formula (1) and/or formula (2); (C) an epoxy compound shown by the following formula (3); (D) a phenolic curing agent; and (E) a curing accelerator, wherein “A” represents a single bond or a divalent organic group selected from the following formulae. This provides a resin composition with improved strength, reduced warpage, and excellent adhesion, a resin film with improved strength formed from the composition, a semiconductor laminate containing the cured material of the resin film and a method for manufacturing the same, as well as a semiconductor device into which the semiconductor laminate is diced and a method for manufacturing the same.
US10730266B2
Provided herein are new clad aluminum alloy products and methods of making these alloys. These alloy products possess a combination of strength and other key attributes, such as corrosion resistance, formability, and joining capabilities. The alloy products can be used in a variety of applications, including automotive, transportation, and electronics applications.
US10730260B2
A preformed web and a method of producing dunnage units from the preformed web. The web is an elongate flattened thermoplastic tube having an inflation edge and an opposite edge. The tube includes spaced transverse seals that define sides of pouches. The tube includes lines of perforations that allow adjacent dunnage units to be separated. A starting point of the lines of perforations is spaced apart from the inflation edge. The positions of the starting point of the lines of perforations with respect to the inflation edge is selected such that a cutter that cuts the inflation edge clears the line of perforations. Binding or wrinkling is therefore not caused by engagement of the cutter with the lines of perforations.
US10730259B2
Described are methods for the manufacture of a plastic component, in particular a cushioning element for sports apparel, a plastic component manufactured with such a method, for example a sole or a part of a sole for a shoe, and a shoe with such a sole. According to an aspect of the invention, a method for the manufacture of a plastic component, in particular a cushioning element for sports apparel, is provided which includes loading a mold with a first material which includes particles of an expanded material, and, during loading the mold, pre-heating the particles by supplying energy, wherein the energy is supplied in the form of at least one electromagnetic field.
US10730257B2
A tire vulcanization mold disclosed herein includes sectors molding a tread portion of the tire and a pair of upper and lower side plates molding a sidewall portion of the tire. Mold parting lines formed by the sectors and a pair of the upper and lower side plates are located in the tread portion. A lateral groove molding rib molding a lateral groove in the tread portion is provided to bridge from the sector to the side plate and a protrusion molding recess used to mold a protrusion at a groove bottom of the lateral groove is provided to the lateral groove molding rib. Mold parting planes including the mold parting lines are provided to divide the lateral groove molding rib where the protrusion molding recess is not provided. An evacuation path from the protrusion molding recess to the mold parting plane is provided to the lateral groove molding rib.
US10730247B2
A method of manufacturing a wind turbine blade component in form of a shear web is described. The method comprising the steps of: a) providing a pre-manufactured shear web body having a first side and a second side as well as a first end and a second end; b) providing a first pre-formed web foot flange comprising a fibre-reinforcement material; c) arranging a first fibre layer from the first pre-formed web foot flange and to a part of the first side of the shear web body; d) arranging a second fibre layer from the first pre-formed web foot flange and to a part of the second side of the shear web body; e) supplying a resin to said first fibre layer and second fibre layer simultaneous with or subsequent to steps c) and d); and f) allowing the resin to cure so as to form the shear web.
US10730236B2
An additive manufacturing system is capable of extruding poly-fiber strand having a fiber core coated with a polymer with a high range of flexibility in positioning and orienting extruded fibers. Extruded fibers may be laid in a single direction, or may curve or turn to be laid in multiple directions. Structures of devices and components may be created using interconnected extruded strands having interstitial spaces between and around the strands. This structure may be infused with resin or polymer using a pressure or vacuum based infusion system. In this manner, durable polymeric objects can be created without requiring expensive molds. Other techniques are also possible, including varying the types of strands used in an object to create areas of the object that will preferentially twist or flex in certain ways or directions, as well as producing objects with zones having different types of resin or no resin.
US10730235B2
There is provided a paste for use in producing a three-dimensional shaped article, the paste containing a solvent, a binder that is soluble in the solvent, support layer forming first particles, and a material having a decomposition temperature lower than a sintering temperature of the support layer forming first particles, in which the material is contained in a volume of greater than or equal to 20% and less than or equal to 60% with respect to a total volume of the support layer forming first particles and the material being 100%. By using such a paste, a highly accurate three-dimensional shaped article can be produced.
US10730216B2
An injection moulding apparatus and method for producing a moulded article is disclosed herein. In a described embodiment, the method comprises: (i) securing a layer of film to a part of a first mould half at step 504; (ii) adjusting relative position of the first mould component and a second mould component to an initial moulding position at step 506 to define a mould cavity; (iii) injecting molten moulding material into the mould cavity at step 508 to enable the molten moulding material to contact the layer of protective film; (iv) moving a movable core at step 510 to compress the molten moulding material in the mould cavity; and (v) cooling the compressed molten moulding material at step 514 to bond the layer of film to the cooled moulding material to form the moulded article.
US10730214B2
A decorative sheet decorates a molded-article body in which a fiber-reinforced part, which constitutes a molded article with the molded-article body and contains a matrix resin having fibers and an epoxy group, is exposed to a surface. The decorative sheet includes an adhesive layer containing an amino-group-containing compound, the adhesive layer having an amino group that reacts with the matrix resin when bonding with the fiber-reinforced part. The decorative sheet also includes a decorative layer disposed on the adhesive layer and for decorating the surface of the molded-article body. The decorative sheet also includes a base film that is disposed on the decorative layer and has a polycarbonate-resin layer containing a polycarbonate resin and an inner-side acrylic-resin layer containing an acrylic resin. The inner-side acrylic-resin layer is disposed on the decorative layer, and the polycarbonate-resin layer is disposed on the inner-side acrylic-resin layer.
US10730203B2
A method of making a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) article by combining a preceramic polymer with one or more sized nanopowders and optional surfactants and/or solvents to form a mixture suitable for 3D printing, depositing the mixture on a mandrel, curing it to form a green body, and pyrolyzing the green body such that the nanocrystalline surface of the CMC article has sufficiently the same surface roughness and figure accuracy of the mandrel to enable the CMC article to be used without further polishing. The mixture can be a paste or slurry that is self supporting and exhibit pseudoplastic rheology. The preceramic polymer is preferably a precursor to SiC, and the nanopowders preferably comprise SiC. The article can be densified by using polymer infiltration pyrolysis, with or without nanoparticles. The curing and pyrolysis of the article can be performed with microwave radiation. An example structure is a gradient density lattice with a mirror surface for use in a cryogenically cooled infrared optical system such as an orbiting space telescope.
US10730190B2
A side-loading robotic arm for use with front-end loaders. The robotic arm is configured to separately and independently attach to the forks of the front-end loader, relative to a liftable container. With this configuration, the robotic arm is useable with any type of liftable container that might be useable with the front-end loader. The robotic arm includes a tip arm that is pivotable between a stowed position and an operational position. The stowed position stores the tip arm and gripper arms inside a vertical plane of the lifting forks of the front-end loader. The operational position extends the tip arm and gripper arms outside of the vertical plane of the major lifting arms of the front-end loader.
US10730189B2
[Object] To enable further suppression of the movement amount of an arm section when switching states.[Solution] There is provided a control apparatus configured to execute a current tracking control on a basis of a measurement value of a torque sensor of an actuator provided in at least one of multiple joint sections included in an arm section of a medical support arm apparatus, the current tracking control causing a motor of the actuator to output torque by which a position and an attitude of the arm section are maintained, and switch a first state in which the motor is driven in accordance with a predetermined control method, and a second state in which the joint section is locked using a brake of the actuator.
US10730176B2
A hand tool comprises a handle having a central area having a lower end and an upper end and a pair of outwardly extending arms at the upper end, and a shaft having a fixed end connected to the lower end of the central area and an open opposite end for receiving a tool bit. A ratchet mechanism is formed between the shaft and the central area to control rotational movement of the shaft. A ring is releasably mounted on the shaft and capable of limited movement relative to the shaft.
US10730175B2
A portable power tool, in particular an angle grinder, includes at least one electromotive drive, a first housing, and a rechargeable battery. The electromotive drive, in particular an electronically commutated motor, acts on a drive shaft, and is configured to drive a tool spindle. The first housing has at least one first housing half shell, at least one first housing part configured to receive the electromotive drive, and a second housing part that forms a handle. The battery is configured as a power source for the portable power tool. A ratio of a diameter of the electromotive drive to a diameter of the second housing part is between 0.6 and 1.1, preferably between 0.7 and 0.8.
US10730170B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a universal aerator removal and installation tool, which may include a tool for rotationally engaging and turning an aerator coupled to a faucet spout. The tool may include a tool body having a first end and a second end and various keys positioned at the first end of the tool body. Each of the keys may include projections configured to rotationally engage and turn a different type of aerator. One or more aerator wrenches may be positioned at the second end of the tool body, where the aerator wrenches may project from the tool body and be configured to rotationally engage and turn different types of aerators.
US10730164B2
A process can include forming at least one precursor abrasive component on a core and infiltrating at least a portion of the precursor abrasive component. The precursor abrasive component can include a body including a metal bond matrix and abrasive particles. Infiltrating can be performed after forming the precursor abrasive component with an infiltrant material. The infiltrant material can include a metal element, an alloy or a combination thereof. In an embodiment, forming at least one precursor abrasive component can include simultaneously joining the precursor abrasive component to the core.
US10730162B2
Disclosed is a turntable cloth peeling jig including: a cylindrical winding cylinder including a slit formed on an outer periphery of the cylindrical winding cylinder and extending in an axial direction thereof; a cloth clamping member disposed inside the winding cylinder and configured to clamp an outer peripheral edge of a cloth inserted into the slit; an extension bar attached to one end portion of the winding cylinder so as to extend coaxially therewith; an engaging portion provided at a tip end portion of the extension bar and engaged with a rotation jig configured to rotate the winding cylinder; and a handle provided in the engaging portion and configured to support the winding cylinder when rotating the rotating jig.
US10730154B2
A workpiece conveyance pallet which can reduce the manufacturing cost and improve the reliability. The workpiece conveyance pallet includes a rest surface on which a workpiece is mounted, and a clamping mechanism which clamps the workpiece, the clamping mechanism including an openable and closable, first claw and second claw, a biasing section which biases the first claw and the second claw in the closing direction, and a movement restriction section which detachably engages with the first claw and the second claw when the first claw and the second claw are opened.
US10730153B2
Provided is an attaching device that can convey a component, such as a nut, to a portion to be welded without using an air cylinder.The present invention provides an attaching device (100) that attaches a nut (240) to a bracket (230). The attaching device (100) has a component feeding part (10) that stores the nut therein, a welding part (40) that welds the nut to the bracket by using electrodes (41, 42), a conveying part (20) that conveys the nut stored in the component feeding part to a position where the nut is to be attached to the bracket, and a feeding head (30) that temporarily positioned between the electrodes (41, 42) and that places the nut conveyed from the conveying part on the lower electrode of the pair of electrodes.
US10730147B2
The present invention relates to a pattern forming method of a liquid crystal device.
US10730145B2
A beam structure includes a lower cover plate, an upper cover plate and two side web plates jointed between the upper cover plate and the lower cover plate; wherein the two side web plates are arranged perpendicularly to the upper cover plate and the lower cover plate, respectively, to form a hollow box-shaped structure; rib plates protruding outwardly with a plurality of plug heads are welded within the box-shaped structure; the plug heads are respectively plugged in the upper cover plate, the two side web plates and the lower cover plate, and each plugging joint is fixed by laser-MAG hybrid welding from outside of the box-shaped structure. The method includes: assembling two side web plates, rib plates and a lower cover plate on an upper cover plate to form a box-shaped structure; and welding each of joints from outside of the box-shaped structure by laser-MAG hybrid welding.
US10730143B2
A laser welding device includes: a gun body mounted on a front end portion of an arm of a robot; a laser scanner installed on the gun body; a shielding gun fixed to the gun body in a first direction and shielding a laser beam irradiated from the laser scanner; and a pressing gun installed at the gun body to move in the first direction or in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US10730135B2
An electrode cap and adapter assembly includes a cap having a useful life line inscribed thereon. The cap may be either a circumferentially configured internally finned cap or a self-dressing internally finned cap. The male/female adapter is used to mount a female cap to a male shank.
US10730134B2
The spot welding method of the present invention has steps of preliminary conduction, first conduction, second conduction, and third conduction: Preliminary conduction: Conduction method aimed at improving closeness of contact surfaces of steel sheets and reducing sheet gaps by gradually increasing the welding current (for example, upslope conduction). If rapidly applying current, current would be locally carried and that part would melt resulting in expulsion, so this is a conduction method gradually running current (for example upslope conduction) to avoid local heating. First conduction: Conduction method running a constant welding current and using the heat generated by the electrical contact resistance between steel sheets to cause the formation of a nugget when preliminary conduction results in close contact surfaces between the steel sheets. Second conduction: Conduction method making the current lower than the first conduction to suppress inside expulsion while making the nugget grow in the diametrical direction. Third conduction: Conduction method making the current higher than the second conduction and making the nugget grow not only in the diametrical direction, but also mainly in the sheet thickness direction when the nugget size becomes a certain extent of size at the second conduction step.
US10730130B2
Apparatuses, systems, and/or methods relate to a welding system that provides a field former for use in welding applications. The welding system includes a welding torch that includes one or more coil windings through which flows current that forms a magnetic field. The magnetic field is concentric to the tool center point. An arc is formed between the electrode and a workpiece. The magnetic field forces the arc in a center of the welding torch or the one or more coiled windings.
US10730128B2
A solder ball bonding (SBB) tool includes a rotatable feed plate for transporting solder balls from a translatable solder ball reservoir to a nozzle unit, which is a position at which a laser light source can irradiate and thus melt the solder balls. The SBB tool includes a gap between the reservoir and the feed plate positioned over the reservoir, and a feed mechanism coupled with the reservoir, where the feed mechanism is driven by a pressurized gas to translate the reservoir upward across at least a portion of the gap in preparation for movement of a solder ball to the feed plate and downward in preparation for rotation of the feed plate after a solder ball is moved to the feed plate. The gap may have a maximum size that exceeds a nominal size of the solder balls contained in the reservoir.
US10730124B2
A pipe-tapered-thread machining tap has a thread, four spiral flutes and four cutting edges that include a plurality of thread intersection portions at each of which a corresponding one of the four cutting edges intersects with the thread. The thread intersection portions of the cutting edges have four groups, such that each of the four groups has ones of the thread intersection portions that are portions of a corresponding one of the four cutting edges. Every two of the thread intersection portions of each of the four groups is removed, such that, in each of the four groups, at least one of the thread intersection portions that is removed and at least another one of the thread intersection portions that is not removed are alternately arranged in a direction in which a corresponding one of the four cutting edges extends.
US10730120B2
Pipe machining apparatuses are provided. In some aspects, a pipe machining apparatus may include a hinge to allow two sections of the pipe machining apparatus to move relative to one another. In another aspect, a support member may be provided to support a pipe machining apparatus on a surface. In a further aspect, a support member may be provided that allows lifting of a pipe machining apparatus in either a horizontal position or a vertical position.
US10730119B2
A hole saw is movable about a rotational axis in a cutting direction to cut into a workpiece. The hole saw includes a cylindrical body having a sidewall with a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The cylindrical body also includes a gullet formed in the sidewall between a leading surface, a trailing surface, and a bottom surface of the sidewall. The trailing surface defines a portion having a first radius. The bottom surface has a second radius. The first radius is larger than the second radius. The hole saw also includes a cutting tooth coupled to the first end of the sidewall adjacent the gullet.
US10730116B2
A handheld core drilling device includes a tool receptacle where the tool receptacle has a receiving sleeve and a tool receiving piece disposed in the receiving sleeve. A compression spring arrangement is disposed within the receiving sleeve. Exactly three equally spaced retaining tabs are formed on the receiving sleeve along a circumferential direction and each retaining tab has a respective stop surface that faces the tool receiving piece. Exactly three equally spaced bearing surfaces are formed on the tool receiving piece along a circumference of the tool receiving piece and each bearing surface faces a respective stop surface. Each of the bearing surfaces includes a stud with a stud surface where the stud surfaces in a radial direction are at most half as wide as the bearing surfaces in the radial direction.
US10730115B2
A cutting tool fastener having a rotation axis and configured to secure together, and establish a fluid path between, two cutting tool members, while also accommodating angular and pivotal displacement between the two. The fastener comprising a head with at least one head opening for emitting fluid, and a body which extends from the head and has a body opening for receiving fluid to be emitted via the head opening. The head has a spherical head abutment surface with a bottom spherical seal surface zone. At least a portion of the spherical head abutment surface faces the body, and the head opening opens out to the spherical head abutment surface. The bottom spherical seal surface zone is axially located between the body and the head opening.
US10730103B2
A system for forming a bulk material having insulated boundaries from a metal material and a source of an insulating material is provided. The system includes a heating device, a deposition device, a coating device, and a support configured to support the bulk material. The heating device heats the metal material to form particles having a softened or molten state and the coating device coats the metal material with the insulating material from the source and the deposition device deposits particles of the metal material in the softened or molten state on the support to form the bulk material having insulated boundaries.
US10730102B2
A single roll type apparatus for manufacturing a metal thin strip by injecting a molten metal onto an outer peripheral face of a cooling roll rotating at a high speed and rapidly solidifying it to manufacture a metal thin strip, wherein an airflow blocking device for blocking the airflow along the surface of the cooling roll is provided at an upstream side of a molten metal injection nozzle for injecting the molten metal in a rotation direction of the cooling roll, and a carbon dioxide gas injection nozzle for forming a flow of carbon dioxide gas on an outer peripheral surface of the cooling roll between the airflow blocking device and the molten metal injection nozzle or forming a carbon dioxide atmosphere on the surface of the cooling roll between the airflow blocking device and the molten metal injection nozzle is disposed, and a foreign material removal device for removing foreign material attached to the surface of the cooling roll is disposed at an upstream side of the airflow blocking device in the rotation direction of the cooling roll, whereby a metal thin strip having a good surface quality can be manufactured stably even in the continuous operation for a long time.
US10730094B2
A multi-tool is a constituent part of a punch device, in particular of a turret punch press. An upper tool part has a plurality of upper tools which are activatable from a head side via a machine pusher of the punch device for workpiece-machining purposes. A lower tool part has a plurality of lower tools. A workpiece is arrangeable between the upper tool part and the lower tool part. In each case one of the lower tools interacts with an associated upper tool. The number of the upper tools is greater than the number of the lower tools. This results in a multi-tool for extending the possible uses of a punch device.
US10730090B2
Provided is a method for forming a blank, the method being capable of improving both yields and formability. The method for forming a blank 1 includes forming the blank 1 into a preforming shape by plastic deformation and then plastically deforming the blank 1 from the preforming shape into a final shape. The preforming shape is determined so that, in each of cross sections in the final shape, the ratio (L1/L0) of a cross-sectional line length L1 in the preforming shape to a cross-sectional line length L0 in the final shape in the same cross section position falls within a predetermined tolerance range.
US10730086B2
[Object] To suppress occurrence of shape defects in a material to be rolled and enable efficient and stable production of an H-shaped steel product with a flange width larger than a conventional flange width by creating deep splits on end surfaces of a material (e.g., slab) using projections with acute-angle tip shapes, and sequentially bending formed flange portions.[Solution] Provided is a method for producing H-shaped steel, the method including: a rough rolling step; an intermediate rolling step; and a finish rolling step. In a rolling mill that performs the rough rolling step, a plurality of calibers to shape a material to be rolled are engraved, the number of the plurality of calibers being four or more. Shaping of one or a plurality of passes is performed on the material to be rolled in the plurality of calibers. In a first caliber and a second caliber among the plurality of calibers, projections to create splits vertically with respect to a width direction of the material to be rolled are formed. In a second caliber and subsequent calibers among the plurality of calibers, reduction is performed in a state where end surfaces of the material to be rolled are in contact with caliber peripheral surfaces in shaping of at least one pass. In a third caliber and subsequent calibers among the plurality of calibers, a step of sequentially bending divided parts formed by the splits is performed.
US10730081B2
A method of making a cleaning article. The cleaning article has discrete tufts of tow fibers. The discrete tufts are unequally spaced from adjacent tufts, to provide improved collection and retention of debris from a target surface. The cleaning article may be made by cutting out spaces between tufts from a precursor sheet. Optionally the precursor sheet may be attached to a carrier sheet.
US10730073B2
A circuit for an ultrasonic channel has a first and a second terminal between which extend a resistive and diode signal paths including a pair of diodes with opposing polarities, for example in anti-parallel. Switching circuitry is coupled with the resistive and diode signal paths and is switchable between first and second states. In the first state, the first and the second terminals are coupled with one another via the resistive signal path. In the second state, the first and the second terminals are coupled with one another via the diode signal path. The switching circuitry includes first and second transistor discharge circuits coupled between first and second drive lines and current paths of these transistors, and coupled to control terminals of these transistors. The control terminals are coupled to the first or second drive line and are non-conductive and conductive in first and second operating states, respectively.
US10730063B2
In one or more embodiments, the invention relates to a plasma transfer wire arc thermal spray system, comprising a section for feeding a wire acting as a first electrode, a source of plasma gas providing plasma gas, a nozzle directing the plasma gas stream from the source of plasma gas to a free end of the wire, and a second electrode located in the plasma gas stream towards the nozzle. In certain instances, the nozzle is made at least partially of electrically insulating material. The thermal spray apparatus with the inventive spray gun may have a simplified and faster starting procedure and the spray nozzle can be more durable.
US10730058B2
Apparatus, systems and methods are disclosed relating to certain aspects of blood processing, collecting or storing, including method and system for automated authentication, processing device with scanner, blood container with two dimensional barcode, blood collection containers, blood container label and related tracking method, integrated container system, and processing device with sterile connection device.
US10730056B2
A mineral material processing plant and a method for controlling thereof. The processing plant includes at least one motor, at least one actuator, a control and adjusting system, a switch for switching the processing plant to a standby mode and an arrangement for keeping selected actuators in operation with a reduced standby speed. In the method, a command is given to the processing plant to switch to the standby mode and in response to the command to switch to the standby mode, feeding of mineral material to the processing plant is limited and speed of the motor or motors of the processing plant is reduced from the processing speed (Rf) to a reduced standby speed (Rsb) and it is ensured that selected actuators of the processing plant remain operating with a reduced speed.
US10730054B2
A method for fragmenting and/or weakening pourable material includes guiding a material stream of pourable material immersed in a process liquid along an annular or arcuate channel past a high-voltage electrode assembly. The high-voltage electrode assembly, which includes one or more generators, generates high-voltage punctures through the material flow. Material is supplied to the material stream upstream of the high voltage electrode arrangement. Material is guided away from the material stream downstream of the high-voltage electrode assembly.
US10730042B2
A biological detection system for detecting a liquid sample containing a plurality of target biological particles includes a capturing device including a cell structure, an inlet, an outlet, a monolithic chip, and a layer of binding agent. The monolithic chip includes a substrate and a plurality of discrete nano-sized structures which are displaced from each other and each of which extends uprightly from the substrate to terminate at a top end. The layer of binding agent is formed on the top end of each of the discrete nano-sized structures for capturing the target biological particles.
US10730033B2
The subject matter of the invention is a device for the hydrolysis of at least one compound. The device comprises a first cylindrical section having a diameter Dmax, a central duct, an outer duct which surrounds the central duct coaxially, an outlet having a diameter DA, and a second section which tapers towards the outlet and into which the ducts issue. The second section has, in cross-section along a longitudinal axis AL of the device, a profile which is described by two radii R1 and R2 which merge tangentially into each other, where 0.2
US10730014B2
This boiler has a flue in which a reducing agent supplying device and a selective reduction catalyst are provided, a bypass flow path bypassing economizers is provided, and a first closing device partially closing the bypass flow path and a second closing device partially closing the flue are also provided. A plurality of first closing members, serving as the first closing device, are provided along the direction in which exhaust gas flows through the flue at a predetermined spacing in the width direction of the flue. A plurality of second closing members, serving as the second closing device are provided along the vertical direction at a predetermined spacing in the width direction of the flue. The first closing members and the second closing members are arranged so as to be displaced from each other in the width direction of the flue.
US10730003B2
Systems and methods for circulating air in an enclosed environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system includes an inlet to receive air from outside of the enclosed environment and an air handling unit coupled to the inlet and also configured to receive circulated air from the enclosed environment. The air handling unit can be configured to affect a temperature of at least one of the received outside air and the received circulated air. Based on the received outside air and the received circulated air, the air handling unit can be further configured to generate air for supplying to the enclosed environment.
US10730002B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for removing submicron particles from a gas stream, in particular from urea prilling off-gas, wherein a Venturi ejector is used. A method comprises contacting a gas stream containing submicron particles in a Venturi ejector with an injected high velocity scrubbing liquid to provide a pumping action, wherein the scrubbing liquid has an initial velocity of at least 25 m/s and wherein the ratio of scrubbing liquid and gas flow is between 0.0005 and 0.0015 (m3/h)/(m3/h).
US10729998B2
The oil mist separator separates oil from blow-by gas which flows through a gas flow passage. A chamber, which is partitioned from the gas flow passage including a gas introduction port, is provided between a cylinder head cover and a baffle plate. A first guide wall, which extends with a downward inclination toward the chamber so as to cover the gas introduction port and the chamber, is provided above the gas introduction port and the chamber. A drain hole for discharging the oil within the chamber is formed in the baffle plate.
US10729988B2
The present disclosure is directed to steam generation through the efficient harvesting of solar energy. In particular, the present disclosure is directed to bilayered structures that are cost-effective, scalable and/or biodegradable that provide high steam-generation efficiency.
US10729983B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing an in-game offer to one or more players of an online game. The offer is provided to players that have newly joined the game and/or to players that have not yet made a purchase. In some implementations, the offer may be meant to incentivize purchase upon entry into the game. The in-game offer may comprise an offer to one or more items and a bonus comprising one or more bonus items provided to the player responsive to the offered items being purchased. The in-game offer may only be made available to a qualifying player for a certain amount of time.
US10729975B1
Embodiments of a system and method for dynamically selecting a communication technology based at least in part on the success in forming a peer-to-peer connection for playing an instance of a video game are disclosed. Further, the systems may dynamically select a communication technology based on the quality of service of an established communication connection between two or more computing systems corresponding to two or more users attempting to play the instance of the video game. In some embodiments, the identification of a communication technology may occur during a gaming session and the communication technology used at the start of the game play session may be transitioned to another communication technology enabling the maintenance of a level of quality of service.
US10729970B1
A gaming device includes a base member and a plurality of components. The base member has an upper surface and a bottom surface. A first pair of components is disposed within a first gaming area of the base member and a second pair of components is disposed within a second gaming area of the base member. Each of the components is in one of two selectable states that are toggled by pressing down on the components. Each component has a gaming type characteristic and either surrounds or is surrounded by another component. The gaming device is highly portable as no additional components are needed for game play. The gaming device does not include any electrical components and component states are toggled through entirely mechanical means. In one example, the gaming device provides a tic-tac-toe gaming area where the gaming type characteristics are either an “O” shape or an “X” shape.
US10729966B1
An LED screen for use in interactive golf driving ranges is disclosed. In an embodiment, a system includes a plurality of enclosures each housing LED nodes, where the plurality of enclosures is arranged in a plurality of rows to form an LED screen. The system also includes a coupler configured to couple a first one of the plurality of enclosures to a second one of the plurality of enclosures. The system also includes an LED processor configured to control each of the nodes via the coupler to display media on the LED screen.
US10729965B2
A treadmill may include a platform, at least one pulley attached to the platform, a sliding surface of the platform, a tread belt riding portion of the sliding surface, a tread belt surrounding the pulley and the sliding surface, the tread belt having at least one side edge, and a belt guide incorporated into the platform. The belt guide includes a textured portion of the sliding surface aligned with the side edge of the tread belt and spaced apart therefrom when the tread belt is positioned entirely within the tread belt riding portion. When the textured portion comes into contact the tread belt from the tread belt being misaligned out of the tread belt riding portion, the tread belt and the textured portion collectively produce a misalignment sound audible to a user when the tread belt moves against the sliding surface.
US10729962B2
A method and apparatus for increasing the accuracy of aiming in connection with putting a ball on a green of a golf course. A main part of the aiming aid is placed behind the ball so that the center of the ball is situated in a real or imaginary center of a recess, which can be half-circular. An alignment mark on the aiming aid is directed toward an intended target, such as the hole, and aligned with a marking, such as a text line, drawn line, or other marking, on the ball aligned with or at an angle to a perpendicular end edge of the aiming aid or a marked perpendicular line on the aiming aid. The aiming aid is removed before putting with the straight face of a club parallel to the marking on the ball.
US10729959B2
A rotational stick handling training device, which can be used by athletes, such as hockey players, to improve their stick handling skills. More specifically, a training device comprised of a central support system and one or more rotating projections on which a user can practice avoidance maneuvers. The central support system can include a mechanics housing, rotation mechanics located in the mechanics housing, and a central rod supported by the mechanics housing. Each of the rotating projections can include a shaft and a hockey blade located at a distal end of the shaft. The proximal end of each of the rotating projections can connect to a top portion of the central support system, such as the central rod, and the rotation mechanics can be structured and configured to rotate the central rod, causing the central rod to function as an axis about which the rotating projections can rotate.
US10729956B2
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, includes a face having a ball striking surface, an inner surface opposite the ball striking surface, and a body connected to the face and extending rearward from the face. The head has a deformation limiting member located behind the face and having an end spaced a distance from the inner surface of the face. The face and the deformation limiting member are adapted such that an impact of the ball on the ball striking surface causes deformation of the face toward the deformation limiting member. When the deformation of the face is sufficient to cause the inner surface of the face to engage the deformation limiting member, the deformation limiting member exerts a force on the face to resist further deformation of the face.
US10729954B2
A system is delineated for protecting golf bag contents. The system may comprise a golf bag; a telescopic member coupled to the golf bag, wherein the telescopic member resides in a stowed state substantially within the golf bag and is selectively moved to a deployed state to facilitate protecting the contents of the golf bag; and a cover coupled to the telescopic member, wherein the cover resides in a stowed state when the telescopic member is in its stowed state and is selectively moved by movement of the telescopic member to a deployed state for the cover to protect the contents of the golf bag. The system may be manufactured integrally with a golf bag or as a separate piece for installation on a golf bag.
US10729952B2
A multi-material golf shaft having a butt portion joined to a tip portion and possessing unique relationships, including rigidity relationships, which provide beneficial performance characteristics including improved stability.
US10729947B2
Ball striking devices, such as golf clubs, have a head that includes a face having a striking surface configured for striking a ball, and a body connected to the face and extending rearwardly from the face, with the body having a crown, a sole, a heel side, and a toe side, such that the face and the body combine to define an enclosed internal cavity. A damping member is connected to the body and includes a post extending inwardly into the cavity from an inner surface of the body, a first arm extending from the post toward the heel side of the body, and a second arm extending from the post toward the toe side of the body. The damping member is configured to produce a mass damping effect upon an impact on the face.
US10729942B2
An inflation needle includes a first end for insertion into an inflatable object, a second end for connection to a pump and an elongated member having a conduit for air therethrough and connecting the first end and the second end, where at least a portion of the elongated member includes a flexible portion. The flexible portion may include a flexible bellows.
US10729933B2
An exercise device is disclosed including a first elongated structural member extending in a longitudinal direction. A resistance element is connected to the first elongated structural member, the resistance element providing a resistance force. A seat is connected to the first structural member, the seat includes a seating surface. A drive which drives the resistance element includes a handle to be held by a user. The seat and resistance element are moveable with respect to each other in a direction parallel to the longitudinal direction and a centroid of the resistance element is arranged lower than an upper edge of the first elongated structural member.
US10729930B2
A weight lifting apparatus to assist an exerciser to lift more weight for more repetitions in the squat and deadlift, the apparatus including an upper sleeve, made of strong, inelastic material, in which a weight lifting belt can be inserted therethrough, and two interweaved elastic cross members each having one end attached to the sleeve, where the remaining portions cross behind the exerciser's gluteus, where a second end of each elastic cross member includes a leg cuff.
US10729921B2
A system for particle beam therapy has an adjustable gantry for beam delivery to a patient site. The gantry has a beam coupling section, a first beam bending section with beam deflection and/or focusing magnets. A beam transport section receiving the particle beam from the first beam bending section and guiding the particle beam to a second beam bending section. The beam exits at a window of a beam nozzle. A patient table/chair is rotatable in the horizontal plane or in a plane being parallel to the horizontal plane and optionally being adjustable vertically. The gantry is supported by a tilting mechanism allowing the gantry to be tilted vertically by an angle Φ1ε[−90°; +90°]. A rotation mechanism is disposed in a way that the second beam bending section and the beam nozzle are rotatable by an angle Φ2ε[−180°; +180°] around a direction given by the angle Φ1.
US10729918B2
A chamber (422) for a cryostat (420) includes: first and second annular sections (4221, 4222) separated and spaced apart from each other along a first direction, and a third annular section (4223) extending in the first direction between the first and second annular sections and connecting the first and second annular sections to each other. The first and second annular sections define corresponding first and second internal volumes, the third annular section defines a third internal volume, and the third internal volume is substantially less than the first internal volume and substantially less than the second internal volume.
US10729909B2
A system and method to sense heart sounds with one or more implantable medical devices according to one or more signal processing parameters. The method alters one or more of the parameters as a function of one or more physiologic triggering events. The method then senses heart sounds with the one or more implantable medical devices according to at least the one or more altered signal processing parameters.
US10729906B2
A circuit includes first and second current control sub-circuits connected in series between a DC supply voltage node and a reference voltage node and third and fourth current control sub-circuits connected in series between the DC supply voltage node and the reference voltage node. The circuit also includes a DC/DC converter with a first input terminal coupled to the first load node between the first and second current control sub-circuits, a second input terminal coupled to a second load node between the third and fourth current control sub-circuits, a first output terminal, and a second output terminal. The circuit further includes output electrodes, a routing sub-circuit for selectively coupling the output electrodes to the output terminals, and a controller configured for operating the routing sub-circuit and the current control sub-circuits to cause the DC/DC converter to supply biphasic pulses for at least one of the pairs of output electrodes.
US10729900B2
Example defibrillator electrode assemblies compression assemblies are described that may be dimensioned and configured for use on a patient despite physical constraints that limit the area or locations on a patient onto which an electrode assembly may be placed. A cardio pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) assembly is also described that protects a patient with a transthoracic incision from further injury during application of CPR compressions proximate to the incision.
US10729891B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, and methods for providing access to a patient. The patient access device comprises a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen therethrough. The patient access device further comprises a hollow shaft, an input port and a liquid supply port. At least a portion of the lumen passes through the shaft. The input port is coupled to the lumen, and the lumen and the input port are constructed and arranged to receive an elongate probe. The liquid supply port is in fluid communication with the lumen. The patient access is constructed and arranged to reduce gas from exiting the distal end while a portion of the elongate probe is positioned in the patient access device.
US10729883B2
A lead delivery apparatus and a method of delivering a medical lead to an anatomic target site. The method includes inserting a hydraulic plug into an internal delivery lumen of a delivery shaft, and coupling a medical lead to the hydraulic plug. Hydraulic pressure is applied to the hydraulic plug through the delivery lumen, thereby moving the hydraulic plug toward an anatomic target site, and advancing the medical lead toward the target site.
US10729882B2
A hub assembly is provided for accommodating a medical professional to grip and manipulate two components of a catheter hub and move one component longitudinally relative to the other, then removably engaging the two components of the catheter hub to restrict movement there between. The two catheter hub components include a proximal hub and a distal hub. The proximal hub and the distal hub are configured to removably engage with one another. The proximal hub is affixed to a first catheter member, such as a multi-lumen catheter, while the distal hub is affixed to a second catheter member, such as a sheath. The first catheter member and the second catheter member are cooperatively engaged and concentric with one another. Relative movement of the proximal and distal hubs translates into relative movement of the first and second catheter members.
US10729863B2
A respiratory device comprising a housing enclosing a chamber and an orientation indicator moveable with respect to the housing between a first position indicative of an orientation of the housing predetermined to be suitable for operation of the respiratory device, and a second position indicative of an orientation of the respiratory device predetermined to be less suitable for operation of the respiratory device. The orientation indicator is positioned in a location on the respiratory device visible to a user during the operation of the respiratory device.
US10729861B2
A metered dose inhaler (1) for dispensing aerosol doses comprises an actuation housing (2) adapted to receive a canister (4). The canister (4) is configured to move from a rest position to an activation position in which a valve (7) of the canister (4), positioned at a valve end (8) of the canister (4), is depressed against a bottom portion of the actuation housing such that an aerosol dose is released. The inhaler (1) further comprises a mechanical dose (10) counter comprising an indicator member which is constructed and arrangement to undergo a predetermined count-indicating motion when an aerosol dose is released. Moreover, the inhaler (1) comprises a triggering unit (11) for triggering at least one electrical switch (12) when the canister (4) is moved from the rest position to the activation position whereby an electrical signal is generated. Also part of the inhaler (1) is a processing unit for processing the signal generated by the switch (12) upon being triggered.
US10729859B1
A breathing mask for use in administering inhalable medications to a patient in need of an inhaled drug is provided. The mask disclosed herein is particularly useful for use with very young children. The mask is made from a flexible molded plastic silicone or elastomeric material, and has an anthropometrically/anatomically/ergonomically contoured shape to provide a good seal, a comfortable fit, and minimal dead space within the mask. The airway is aligned with nose. There may be an orifice for use with a soother device to calm a child using the mask. Also provided is a visual flow indicator to provide an indication of the quality of the seal of the mask on the face.
US10729852B2
In an embodiment, a medicament delivery system is provided. The medicament delivery system includes a container for storing a medicament prior to use, the container having a first end and a second end, an injection member in fluid communication with the container, an actuation mechanism associated with the container and configured to deliver the medicament from the container through the injection member when the actuation mechanism is activated. The medicament delivery system further includes at least one detection element associated with the system, wherein in a first mode of operation of the system, medicament is delivered through the injection member and in a second mode of operation of the system, medicament is not delivered through the injection member, and the mode of operation is dependent on an output from the at least one detection element.
US10729850B1
A modular dental material dispenser can include multiple stackable, modular components, each having a syringe extending therethrough. The syringe of each component may include a detachable nozzle attachment to assist in efficiently dispensing the materials contained therein. Two or more modular components may be connected to provide a dispenser capable of dispensing multiple materials using different dispensing nozzles.
US10729849B2
An artificial pancreas system includes a continuous glucose monitoring device, a drug delivery device configured to exchange data with the continuous glucose monitoring device and containing a control algorithm, and possibly a remote controller configured to exchange data with the drug delivery device. The algorithm contains an insulin-glucose model, but is decoupled mathematically from the insulin injected by the user to offset the ingested carbohydrates. The control algorithm is designed to calculate two versions of insulin-on-board-patient-facing insulin-on-board (PFIOB) and system-facing insulin-on-board (SFIOB) to properly parse boluses and inform the system of only the insulin that is intended for high glucose correction, but not carbohydrate offsetting.
US10729845B2
A method of securing an infusion set to a skin surface, comprising the steps of placing a needle or cannula of the infusion set in the skin surface, and controlling a minimum bend radius of the placed needle or cannula to resist deformation and fracture thereof.
US10729843B2
Dual packaging for fill needles and safety needles are described herein. Such packaging can include hard packaging or blister packs. Also described herein are methods of opening the packaging and operating the needles disposed therein.
US10729842B2
A medical liquid vial is disclosed with a resilient inner bladder and a pre-stress member located with the bladder. Injector assemblies are also disclosed for injecting the vial contents into a patient by advancing the vial through a series of stages or positions. Methods of filling and use are also disclosed.
US10729840B2
An assembly for an extracorporeal life support system with a suction line that features a venous cannula and a pressure line that features an arterial cannula furthermore includes a pump that is arranged between the suction line and the pressure line. This assembly has a discharge line with a discharge cannula, wherein the discharge cannula is longer than the arterial cannula, and wherein the discharge line is connected to the suction line or the pressure line.
US10729839B2
A medical fluid management assembly includes: a pneumatic manifold including a plurality of pneumatic passageways and a plurality of pneumatic connectors; a pump and valve engine including a plurality of valve chambers and at least one pump chamber, the pump and valve engine including a plurality of pneumatic connectors mated sealingly and releaseably with the pneumatic connectors of the pneumatic manifold, the pump and valve engine further including a plurality of fluid connectors; and a fluid manifold including a plurality of fluid pathways and a plurality of fluid connectors mated sealingly and releaseably with the fluid connectors of the pump and valve engine.
US10729834B2
A heart failure recovery device includes a fluid pump having an inlet and an outlet in fluid communication with a pump reservoir, and a pumping element disposed within the pump reservoir, the pumping element including a protrusion that in an active state is configured to rotate and move fluid away from the inlet and towards the outlet. A receiver coil can be electrically coupled to the fluid pump and is configured to subcutaneously absorb electromagnetic energy for powering the fluid pump. In certain embodiments, an implantable port provides fluid access to the pump reservoir for cleaning and maintaining the fluid pump. In other embodiments, a valve closes fluid access to at least one of the inlet and the outlet during periods when the device is not being used for treatment.
US10729829B2
A method for automated processing of a blood product, the method comprising providing a reusable separation apparatus controlled by a microprocessing unit, said apparatus configurable with settings and configured to associate with a disposable circuit comprising a separator and in communication with a source blood product having a first concentration and first volume. The apparatus and disposable circuit are configured to flow the source blood product into an inlet of the separator and separate supernatant of the source blood product from a first outlet of the separator into a filtrate container. The apparatus and disposable circuit are also configured to separate platelets and remaining supernatant from a second outlet of the separator into a retentate container, wherein the platelets and remaining supernatant in the retentate container have a second concentration greater than the first concentration and second volume less than the first volume.
US10729799B2
An aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution comprises a stabilizer chosen from the family of substituted or unsubstituted aminopolycarboxylic acids (APCA) or salts thereof. The solution may be used for disinfecting a packaging.
US10729798B2
This present invention generally relates to a process for manipulating the chemistry of a product using high voltage atmospheric cold plasma (HVACP) in the presence of a working gas, and in particular to a process for inactivating pathogenic microorganisms in a liquid product by adding an acidic component to or adjusting an acidic component of a product in combination with HVACP treatment. A product of this process is also in the scope of this disclosure.
US10729795B2
A method for sterilizing a concentrated composition and a diluent. The diluent is contained in a large container, and the concentrated composition is contained in a small container that is positioned within the large container. The combined containers are placed in at least one sealing layer that is hermetically sealed, and is also preferably placed in a second sealing layer that is also hermetically sealed. The bagged container is then placed in a carton, which preferably has a liner, and the carton is closed. The carton is then irradiation sterilized. The carton is delivered to the clean room. At a first staging area, the carton is opened and the bagged container is removed and brought to a second staging area. At the second staging area, the second sealing layer is removed and the container can be stored in the first sealing layer. The container is brought into the clean environment, where the first sealing layer is removed. At that point, the small container is opened and the chemical composition is released into the large container, so that the chemical composition mixes with the diluent. The container can then be shaken until the chemical composition is thoroughly mixed with the diluent.
US10729794B2
The invention provides a method for the purification of 227 Th from a mixture comprising 227 Th and 223 Ra, said method comprising: i) preparing a first solution comprising a mixture of 227 Th and 223 Ra ions dissolved in a first aqueous buffer; ii) loading said first solution onto a separation material such as a strong cation exchange resin; iii) eluting 227 Th from the separation material, whereby to generate a second solution comprising 227 Th; iv) Optionally rinsing said separation material using a first aqueous washing medium; The invention additionally provides a method for forming a radio pharmaceutical comprising complexing the purified 227 Th, the pharmaceutical product and its use in treatment of disease such as cancer and a kit for generation of such a product.
US10729791B2
The application relates to methods for determining a parameter such as toxicity and pharmacokinetic behavior for a pharmaceutical compound against a disease or disorder. The test animals being used are non-human animals not suffering from or is not showing symptoms or signs of the disorder and which do not provoke an immune response against said pharmaceutical compound. These animals are obtainable by administration of a peptide comprising an oxidoreductase motif further comprising an NKT peptide epitope or an MHC class II T cell epitope of said pharmaceutical compound, wherein said motif and said epitope are separated by a linker of between 0 and 4 amino acids.
US10729790B2
The present disclosure relates to nucleic acid promoter sequences that are able to specifically express genes operatively linked to the promoter in brainstem and spinal motor neuron cells, and to methods for using such promoters to selectively express genes in motor neurons in vitro and in vivo. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that the nucleic acid of SEQ ID NO: 1 functioned as a motor neuron-specific promoter and was successful in expressing transgenes in motor neuron cells in vivo. The present disclosure also relates to compositions that can increase the activity or expression level of miR-218 and to compositions that can decrease the expression of miR-218 target nucleic acids.
US10729789B2
The present application discloses a recombinant AAV vector comprising a promoter that targets gene expression to myofibroblast-like lineage of cells in the heart. The present application, also discloses the preparation and use of AAV expression cassettes using a modified periostin promoter that successfully drives gene expression in cardiac myofibroblast-like cells. The present invention encompasses compositions and methods useful for treating myocardial infarction. Further comprising compositions and methods for preparing and using AAV vectors for targeting cells and inducing gene expression. The compositions and methods of the invention are useful for efficiently targeting cardiac myofibroblasts following a cardiac injury, disease, or disorder. Further comprising a kit for effecting alleviation of the various diseases or disorders recited herein.
US10729783B2
The present invention relates to hollow silica nanoparticles as a drug delivery system loading bioactive ingredients. Particularly, the present invention relates to silica nanoparticles comprising multi-layered silica shells with one or more bioactive ingredients encapsulated within and their applications in drug delivery; and processes of preparing the same.
US10729775B2
This invention provides for a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1-R4, L and X are defined herein. The compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are cationic lipids useful in the delivery of biologically active agents to cells and tissues.
US10729772B2
A trace element solution comprises selenium, zinc, manganese and iron at a concentration of at least 60 mg/ml. The solution may further comprise at least one compound selected from the group comprising iodine, potassium iodide, sodium iodide, iron chloride, zinc oxide, manganese sulphate, sodium selenite, copper carbonate, sodium carbonate, anhydrous disodium EDTA and sodium hydroxide.
US10729762B2
This disclosure relates to recombinant bacteria, e.g. L. lactis, expressing heterologous pili containing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) antigens. In certain embodiments, the recombinant bacteria are administered in combination with other HIV antigens, nucleic acids encoding HIV antigens, recombinant virus encoding HIV antigens, anti-viral agents and/or adjuvants in an effective amount to elicit a mucosal immune response against HIV.
US10729759B2
The invention provides an aqueous acidic formulation suitable for use as in the preparation of a pharmaceutically acceptable fluorocarbon-linked peptide formulation, which aqueous formulation comprises a first fluorocarbon-linked peptide, wherein: the peptide linked to the fluorocarbon is at least 20 amino acid residues long, comprises at least 50% hydrophobic amino acid residues and has an isoelectric point greater than or equal to 7; and the fluorocarbon-linked peptide is present in micelles.
US10729757B2
Novel nucleic acid molecules encoding a pre-fusion RSV F protein or immunologically active part thereof are described, and the pre-fusion RSV F protein contains the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2. Use of the nucleic acid molecules, or vectors containing the nucleic acid molecules, as a vaccine against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is also described.
US10729748B2
Undue scarring of healing wounds is decreased and/or the relapse rate of wounds is lowered by applying a composition that includes hemoglobin to the wound area. At least 90% of the hemoglobin in the composition is provided in CO-charged form.
US10729741B2
A treatment window for the intravenous treatment of wounds, including thermal and chemical burns, with cP12 is presented. In particular, Applicants have unexpectedly found that delaying intravenous treatment with fibronectin-derived peptides, such as cP12, from 2 to 6 hours, particularly about 4 hours, after wounding, provides superior wound-closing results than treatment at 1 hour or after 8 or more hours.
US10729740B2
The invention relates to conjugates that bind to Her2/neu, methods of using conjugates that bind to Her2/neu and methods of treating undesirable or aberrant cell proliferation or hyperproliferative disorders, such as tumors, cancers, neoplasia and malignancies that express Her2/neu.
US10729738B2
The invention relates generally to disulfide drug conjugates wherein a linker comprising a sulfur-bearing carbon atom substituted with at least one hydrocarbyl or substituted hydrocarbyl is conjugated by a disulfide bond to a cysteine sulfur atom of a targeting carrier, and wherein the linker is further conjugated to a drug moiety. The invention further relates to activated linker-drug conjugates suitable for conjugation to a targeting carrier by a disulfide bond. The invention further relates to methods for preparing hindered disulfide drug conjugates.
US10729729B2
The present invention provides novel compositions comprising multipotent cells or microvascular tissue, wherein the cells or tissue has been sterilized and/or treated to inactivated viruses, and related methods of using these compositions to treat or prevent tissue injury or disease in an allogeneic subject.
US10729720B2
Embodiments are directed to a stable composition comprising stabilized hydrogen peroxide and 2-propanol and applicators configured to store, dispense, and apply such stable compositions. Such compositions may be used to treat skin conditions such as warts, condyloma accuminatum, molluscum contagiosum, acrochordons, seborrheic keratosis, or a combination thereof. Some embodiments also describe take home compositions, in office compositions, over-the-counter compositions, and kits for the use of such compositions.
US10729718B2
Disclosed are a pharmaceutical use of a gold cluster and a substance containing the gold cluster and the preparation method and use thereof. The gold cluster and substance containing the gold cluster can inhibit the aggregation of Aβ and α-syn, has excellent effects on the levels of cell models and animal models, and can be used to prepare drugs for preventing and treating Alzheimer's disease and/or Parkinson's disease.
US10729715B2
The invention contemplates a copolymer which is a graft or block copolymer useful to change wettability and surface characteristics of biological surfaces. Methods for use of these formulations and coatings to change wettability and sterically stabilize, and lubricate biological surfaces in a subject, for example, in the treatment of dry eye syndrome, and to prevent adherence of unwanted proteins, for example in the treatment of contact lens intolerance, are provided.
US10729705B2
There are disclosed therapies and preventions of prion protein complex infections. The transcription of the amyloid precursor protein gene and PrP gene and the RNA transcript are the rate-limiting steps and are most susceptible for blockage and control of the process of amyloid protein formation and PrPsc formation. Thus, therapies and prevention regimes for prion protein complex infections interrupt this process at the level of DNA transcription to RNA, RNA transport to the mitochondrion for protein synthesis and deposition in the cerebral cortex neurons.
US10729704B2
Provided are nutritional supplements designed for enhancing the growth, particularly the linear growth, of pre-pubertal children with a stature measure short compared to the norm. The nutritional composition comprises an energy source, and a combination of micronutrients, and is adapted separately for the nutritional needs of male or female adolescents.
US10729698B2
The present disclosure relates generally to sol-gel polymer composites that comprise chitosan, a hydrophilic polymer, a gelation agent, and optional additional ingredients in a suitable medium. Advantageously, the sol-gel polymer composite can form a durable seal or strong solid in response to one or more physiological stimulus. The disclosure further relates to medical and veterinary uses of the composite, particularly, methods and delivery systems for reducing or preventing the incidence of a mammary disorder in a dairy animal. More particularly, the disclosure includes methods and sol-gel polymer composite compositions for creating a physical barrier on the teat surface or in the teat canal or cistern of a non-human animal for prophylactic treatment of mammary disorders such as mastitis wherein the sol-gel polymer creates a seal in response to one or more physiological stimulus.
US10729692B2
Dual inhibition of CDK and HSP90 destabilize HIF1alpha and synergistically induces cancer cell death
The present disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions including a CDK inhibitor and an HSP90 inhibitor, as well as methods of treating cancer or a tumor in a subject by administering a CDK inhibitor and an HSP90 inhibitor to the subject.
US10729688B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters, or prodrugs thereof: which inhibit the protein(s) encoded by hepatitis B virus (HBV) or interfere with the function of the HBV life cycle of the hepatitis B virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HBV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HBV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.
US10729683B2
Pharmaceuticals which are effective for treatment, prevention, and the like of cancer and have less side effects are disclosed. The antitumor agent of the present invention comprises as an effective ingredient at least one leukotriene inhibitor. Examples of the leukotriene inhibitor includes leukotriene production inhibitors and leukotriene receptor antagonists, and preferred specific examples of the leukotriene inhibitor include montelukast, zafirlukast, pranlukast, and zileuton; pharmaceutically acceptable salts of these compounds; and pharmaceutically acceptable solvates of these compounds and the salts. The leukotriene inhibitor can also be used as a relieving agent for pain accompanying a tumor(s), and as a stromal hyperplasia inhibitor.
US10729682B2
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising taste-masked immediate release microcapsules which comprise fexofenadine and a water-insoluble polymer coating. These microcapsules and the pharmaceutical compositions comprising them have suitable drug content and desirable pharmaceutical properties, including a quick dissolution rate of fexofenadine combined with a taste masking effect.
US10729680B2
The present invention relates to 5-substituted 2-(morpholin-4-yl)-1,7-naphthyridine compounds of general formula (I) or (Ib), to methods of preparing said compounds, to intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and to the use of said compounds for manufacturing a pharmaceutical composition for the treatment or prophylaxis of a disease, in particular of a hyperproliferative disease as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
US10729671B2
The invention provides complexes of Zn2+ of formulae (la) and (IIa) that are useful for treating cancer, as well as compositions and kits comprising such complexes.
US10729667B2
The present invention relates to improved topical gel compositions comprising an active agent, and uses thereof.
US10729664B2
The invention provides compounds, compositions, methods, and kits for the treatment of neurogenic inflammation.
US10729663B1
The present invention provides a sustained drug delivery system for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration (AMD), comprising corticosteroid encapsulated nanoparticles incorporated into a thermoreversible hydrogel. The corticosteroid may be triamcinolone acetate (TA), dexamethasone, or loteprednol etabonate (LE). The proposed drug delivery system is nontoxic to ARPE-19 (retinal pigment epithelium) cells and significantly reduces VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) expression as compared to solutions of the coticosteroids. The present invention provides sustained delivery of the corticosteroid to the posterior segment of the eye, reducing the frequency of intraocular injections necessary to maintain therapeutic concentrations.
US10729660B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a product comprising one or more nanoparticles of calcium phosphate (CaP-NP) with negative surface charge having a ζ-potential in the range from −41.0 mV to −27.0 mV comprising the steps of: a) maintaining a mixture having a pH in the range from 7 to 10 and comprising an aqueous solution of calcium, an aqueous solution of phosphate and a solution of citrate ions at a temperature in the range from 20° C. to 40° C. for a time in the range from 30 seconds to 10 minutes; b) removing non-reacted ions from the solution of step a), thus obtaining a suspension of one or more nanoparticles of calcium phosphate (CaP-NP); c) recovering the product of one or more nanoparticles of calcium phosphate (CaP-NP) from the suspension of step b). In an advantageous embodiment, the process of the invention provides, in the mixture of step a), also an aqueous solution of one or more therapeutic/diagnostic compounds. The product of the invention may be used as a vehicle for one or more diagnostic/therapeutic compounds for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases through inhalation administration.
US10729659B2
Provided herein are methods of inhibiting proliferation of one or more tumor cells comprising contacting the one or more tumor cells with a composition comprising one or more epigenetic drugs that inhibit one or more epigenetic mechanisms of the tumor cells, wherein the one or more epigenetic drugs are encapsulated in a nanogel. The invention is also directed to methods of treating a tumor, metastasis of a tumor or a combination thereof in an individual in need thereof. The invention is also directed to a method of sequentially delivering one or more epigenetic drugs that alter one or more epigenetic mechanisms of a tumor cell and one or more chemotherapeutic drugs to an individual that has a tumor. Compositions which comprise one or more epigenetic drugs that alter one or more epigenetic mechanisms of a tumor cell, wherein the one or more epigenetic drugs are encapsulated in a nanogel.
US10729654B2
The present invention is directed to a storage-stable formulation of long-chain RNA. In particular, the invention concerns a dry powder composition comprising a long-chain RNA molecule. The present invention is furthermore directed to methods for preparing a dry powder composition comprising a long-chain RNA molecule by spray-freeze drying. The invention further concerns the use of such a dry powder composition comprising a long-chain RNA molecule in the preparation of pharmaceutical compositions and vaccines, to a method of treating or preventing a disorder or a disease, to first and second medical uses of such a dry powder composition comprising a long-chain RNA molecule and to kits, particularly to kits of parts, comprising such a dry powder composition comprising a long-chain RNA molecule.
US10729652B2
A multi-component nanoconstruct for use in diagnostic and therapeutic applications includes at least three nanoparticles linked together to form the nanochain. The nanoparticles are linked to form the nanochain by linking first linkers and/or second linkers disposed on separate nanoparticles.
US10729647B2
The present invention concerns a method for making an inhaled pharmaceutical composition with improved powder handling properties comprising a stearate, a method of preparing such a composition, and the use of such a stearate in a composition when dispensed into a receptacle for use in a dry powder inhaler receptacle.
US10729644B2
A method of treating pain, e.g., acute post-operative pain, by administering to a human patient(s) a therapeutically effective dose of tramadol intravenously in a dosing regimen which includes one or more loading doses administered at shortened intervals as compared to dosing at steady-state is disclosed. In preferred embodiments, the intravenous dosing regimen provides a Cmax and AUC of tramadol is similar to the Cmax and AUC of an oral dose of 100 mg tramadol HC1 given every 6 hours.
US10729641B2
The present invention relates to an inorganic material comprising particles of three-dimensional ordered macroporous structure comprising spherical pores, said pores having an average pore diameter ranging from 50 nm to 10 μm, the pore diameter varying by no greater than 20%, the surface of said pores being coated by an absorber agent of the visible wavelength spectrum, said particles having an average largest dimension ranging from 1 to 50 μm, and wherein said particles are coated with at least a hydrophobic component. The invention further relates to a process for preparing said inorganic material.
US10729638B2
The purpose of the present invention is to solve the problem, in powder hair dye compositions that contain a percarbonate, that a change occurs in the dyed color tone before and after storage when the composition contains metaaminophenol, 5-aminoorthocresol, resorcin, or a salt thereof, as an oxidation dye. To solve the aforementioned problem, a powder hair dye composition containing (A) a percarbonate, (B) a starch, and (C) an oxidation dye is provided, characterized in that the composition contains at least 7 mass % starch (B) and in that the oxidation dye (C) contains at least one selected from metaaminophenol, 5-aminoorthocresol, resorcin, and salts thereof. Thus, a powder hair dye composition can be obtained which suppresses change in the dye color tone before and after storage and which has excellent storage stability.
US10729620B2
An improved baby bottle apparatus having a baby bottle adapted to be filled with a liquid and any chosen additives and then releasably attached to a base member with the base member adapted to releasably connect with the bottle member and heat a liquid to a desired temperature and stir the liquid to mix any chosen additives added to the liquid before a baby sucks on the nipple and drinks the liquid.
US10729617B2
An apparatus to preserve liquid from a medicine vial may include a vial coupling member forming a vial coupling member cavity and a container forming a cavity. The apparatus may further include a first fluid pathway forming a first lumen that is in fluid communication with the vial coupling member cavity and the cavity and a second fluid pathway forming a second lumen that is in fluid communication with the vial coupling member cavity and the cavity. The vial coupling member cavity, the cavity, the first lumen, and the second lumen may form a sterile environment that is sealed from contaminants in an ambient environment. The apparatus may include a disengaging member configured to permit the container to disengage from the first fluid pathway and the second fluid pathway while permanently sealing at least one of the first lumen or the second lumen.
US10729615B2
A CPR system includes a retention structure to retain the patient's body, and a compression mechanism to perform CPR compressions to the patient's chest. The CPR system further includes a processor to control the compression mechanism, and thus the performance of the CPR compressions. In embodiments, the CPR system compresses at a rate or frequency that is varied based on feedback gathered from physiological sensors that detect physiological characteristics of the patient during treatment.
US10729606B2
An adaptive lift includes a base portion including a plurality of rollers, a lift portion coupled to the base portion, the lift portion including a mast extending upward from the base portion in a vertical direction and a lift arm coupled to the mast, a lift bar coupled to the lift arm, a lift system coupled to the base portion and the lift arm, where the lift system raises and lowers the lift bar with respect to the base portion, a support arm pivotally coupled to the mast and positioned above the base portion in the vertical direction, and a braking system coupled to the support arm, the braking system including a release handle that selectively repositions the braking system between an engaged position, in which the braking system prevents rotation of the plurality of rollers, and a disengaged position, in which the plurality of rollers may rotate.
US10729604B2
A sitting motion assist system for assisting a sitting motion of a patient changing their posture from a standing posture to a sitting posture includes a care belt, a knee-bending adviser, and a pulling mechanism. The care belt can be put on the patient and includes a hold mechanism including a first holder capable of holding the neck or shoulder of the patient and a second holder capable of holding their lower back, and a coupler capable of being positioned on their chest and coupled to the hold mechanism. The knee-bending adviser advises the patient to perform a knee-bending motion. The pulling mechanism is coupled to the hold mechanism via the coupler and pulls the care belt downward and slightly forward relative to the patient after the advice by the knee-bending adviser, and thereafter pushes the care belt downward and slightly backward to assist the sitting motion.
US10729603B2
A manual electric folding scooter belongs to the technical field of medical instruments comprises a folding assembly, a push rod shaft and a rotating spindle arranged in turn, one end of an electric push rod is fixed in the push rod shaft, and the other end of the electric push rod is driven by a motor; the folding assembly comprises a hook shaft with both ends welded to a fixing plate, two reinforcing rods are symmetrically welded in the middle of the hook shaft, and the free ends of the reinforcing rods after passing through the symmetrically arranged fixing plate are arranged in sliding slots of frame fixing pieces on corresponding sides.
US10729601B2
An absorbent product includes a liquid permeable topsheet, a liquid impermeable backsheet, and an absorbent core enclosed between the topsheet and the backsheet. The absorbent core includes an absorbent fibrous layer and a liquid inlet foam layer and the absorbent core includes a transversally central liquid inlet region extending in the longitudinal direction of the absorbent core. Within the liquid inlet region, the liquid inlet foam layer is covered by a plurality of inlet openings and has a transversal width, which is equal to, or up to 9 mm smaller than, the minimum transversal width of the absorbent fibrous layer. The liquid inlet foam layer also has side edge regions arranged in front and rear portions of the absorbent core transversally outside of the liquid inlet region, and within which the liquid inlet foam layer is free from liquid inlet openings.
US10729600B2
An absorbent structure comprising one or more absorbent layers wherein the absorbent structure exhibits a first cycle Peak Force compression between about 30 grams and about 150 grams. The absorbent structure further exhibits a fifth cycle dry recovery energy between 0.1 mJ and 2.8 mJ.
US10729598B2
A disposable absorbent article is disclosed herein. The disposable absorbent article includes a topsheet forming a portion of a wearer-facing surface, the topsheet being a composite or laminate structure having a first side and an opposing second side, the composite or laminate structure having a first layer and a second layer, wherein the first layer is a nonwoven and the second layer is a film, the topsheet having a pair of edge regions at least partially disposed on the wings and a central region disposed inboard of the pair of edge regions, wherein the pair of edge regions include a first plurality of discontinuities and the central region comprises a second plurality of discontinuities, wherein the first plurality of discontinuities and the second plurality of discontinuities are different; a backsheet forming a portion of the garment-facing surface; and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet.
US10729597B2
Methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture are shown for creating a soft textile expanded apertured film.
US10729589B2
Oxygen diffusive wound dressings and methods of manufacturing and use are described herein. The wound dressing may generally provide a ready supply of oxygen to a wound being treated via one or more oxygen conduits which are designed to pass oxygen from ambient air or other oxygen reservoirs into proximity to the wound, and may also provide for exudate removal through transecting channels in fluid communication with both the wound surface and a hydrophilic absorbent material.
US10729586B2
A planning device for a scanning pattern of a closed structure in an eye, an ophthalmic laser treatment device and corresponding methods including a scanning pattern of a closed structure in a tissue of a patient's eye in a single-pass method for the control of an ophthalmic laser treatment device, in which a starting point of the macroscopic scanning pattern which contains the scanning pattern is arranged in a region in which the angle between a direction of progress of the macroscopic scanning pattern and a direction of a maximum offset caused by movements of the eye relative to the ophthalmic laser treatment device is minimal, or in a region of a minimum change in the macroscopic scanning pattern (n the z-direction per unit of time, or in a region in which a direction of progress of the macroscopic scanning pattern is parallel to a direction of maximum offset.
US10729580B2
An apparatus and use thereof for clearing a capsular space following removal of a cataract or other ophthalmologic procedure. The apparatus includes a body having an irrigation outlet, an aspiration inlet, and a sweeper head rotatably connected with the body for extending a portion of the body including the irrigation outlet, the aspiration inlet, and the sweeper head into the capsular space. The sweeper head is connected with the body by a flow-to-rotary converter located in a cavity within the body for powering the sweeper head with fluid flow while irrigating the capsular space, aspirating the capsular space, or both. Sweeping a surface of the lens capsule while irrigating facilitates clearing remnants and other material from the capsular space following removal of cataracts or another ophthalmologic procedure.
US10729576B2
A pad for a bandage or orthosis has a front surface and a rear surface. At least a subarea of the rear surface has connection pieces which form a mesh structure having interstices.
US10729573B2
A gastrointestinal device for implanting within a patient's gastrointestinal tract, the device having a central axis and a first expandable portion comprising a hollow tubular braided structure of wire and having a first cylinder extending parallel to the central axis, the first cylinder having a length and a first face; a neck portion extending from the first face of the first expandable portion parallel to the central axis, the neck portion having a first end, a second end, a wall extending between the first end and second end, and a diameter sized to fit within a pylorus; and a second expandable portion comprising a hollow tubular braided structure of wire and having a second cylinder extending parallel to the central axis, the second cylinder having a second face located at the proximal end of the second cylinder and oriented transverse to the central axis.
US10729572B2
Methods, devices and systems for delivering a device assembly into a gastric or other space within the body, allowing the device to expand to occupy volume within the gastric space and, after an effective period of time, delivering a substance or stimulus to begin breakdown of the expanded device so that it may release from the body.
US10729565B2
An upper extremity post-operative residual limb support assembly includes an upper frame; a lower frame adjustably coupled to the upper frame; a liner coupled to the upper frame and the lower frame, the liner including: a first liner portion configured to be positioned adjacent the upper frame and extend at least partially about an arm of a user; and a second liner portion configured to be positioned adjacent the lower frame, the second liner portion including a closed end configured to receive a distal end of a residual portion of the arm.
US10729562B2
A bone fusion method, system and device for insertion between bones that are to be fused together and/or in place of one or more of the bones, such as, for example, the vertebrae of a spinal column. The bone fusion device comprises one or more extendable tabs having a central rib. The bone fusion device includes one or more support channels configured to receive an insertion instrument that is then secured to the bone fusion device via a coupling mechanism. As a result, the coupled device is able to be securely positioned between vertebrae using the insertion instrument with minimal risk of slippage.
US10729557B2
A surgical implant and a method for the making the surgical implant is provided. The surgical implant includes various granules incorporated into an upper surface and a lower surface of a body portion thereof. The granules can be pressed into the upper surface and the lower surface via physical force using at least one mold portion. The physical force applied by the at least one mold portion can deform and/or extrude the upper surface and the lower surface to impregnate these surfaces with the granules. The granules can provide the implant with bioresorbable and/or mechanically-reinforced properties.
US10729551B2
An orthopaedic knee prosthesis includes a femoral component having a condyle surface. The condyle surface is defined by one or more radii of curvatures, which are controlled to reduce or delay the onset of anterior translation of the femoral component relative to a tibial bearing.
US10729544B2
A system for deploying a device to a distal location across a diseased vessel, comprising a sheath comprising an expandable distal portion comprising a porous wall defining a lumen there-through, the distal portion having a collapsed configuration, wherein the sheath has a first cross-sectional outer diameter and a first lumen inner diameter, and an expanded configuration, wherein the sheath has a second cross-sectional outer diameter and a second lumen inner diameter; wherein in the collapsed configuration, the sheath is configured to be advanced across at least a portion of the diseased vessel to a position adjacent the distal location and wherein said system comprises a removable expansion retention member configured to retain the expandable sheath in the collapsed configuration.
US10729540B2
A single piece stent construction having a plurality of commissure posts, each of which extends upwardly from a solid ring along a bend line and generally along a central longitudinal axis of the stent.
US10729534B2
Provided are methods for treating a musculoskeletal tissue interface injury using decellularized, allogeneic or xenogeneic composite tissue bioscaffolds.
US10729524B2
Methods for accelerating orthodontic movement that include administering, within first and second consecutive time periods, light via an intraoral light therapy apparatus having a mouthpiece, are provided herein. During administering, the mouthpiece is disposed within a mouth of a patient, with a light emitter embedded in a flange of the mouthpiece being disposed between alveolar mucosa and buccal mucosa of the patient. A first removable aligner is disposed on a first set of teeth of the patient prior to, during, or subsequent to a first administering. A second removable aligner, different from the first removable aligner, is disposed on a second set of teeth of the patient prior to, during, or subsequent to a second administering. The light directly illuminates a first portion of the alveolar mucosa during the administering.
US10729512B2
A surgical illumination apparatus comprises a fiber optic input, and illuminated surgical instrument, and an optical coupling bracket for coupling the fiber optic input to the illuminated surgical instrument. The coupling bracket comprises an elongate frame having a proximal end, a distal end, and a central channel extending therebetween, wherein the central channel is sized to receive and support optical fibers of the fiber optic input. The proximal end of the bracket is coupled to the fiber optic input, and the distal end of the bracket is coupled to an illumination element of the illuminated surgical instrument. The apparatus may further comprise a shroud disposed around the illumination element that is coupled to the bracket.
US10729504B2
An apparatus for manipulating tissue during a procedure performed within an eye of a patient is disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a hand-held controller and an elongate member configured to be inserted into the eye of the patient. The elongate member has a proximal end and a distal end, with the proximal end of the elongate member being coupled to the hand-held controller. The elongate member also has a lumen extending through the length of the elongate member. The apparatus further includes a plurality of flexible grasping fibers extending through at least a portion of the lumen and beyond the distal end thereof. The grasping fibers are adjustable by the hand-held controller to advance or retract relative to the elongate member by altering a distance between distal ends of the grasping fibers and the distal end of the elongate member.
US10729498B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for removing a vascular obstruction in a subject using a combination of thrombolytic and laser ablation therapy. Treatment methods include positioning a catheter adjacent to an obstruction within a vessel of a subject. A portion of the obstruction may be ablated by delivering laser energy through the optical fibers to the distal end of the catheter, where the optical fibers are exposed, and circulating a fluid containing one or more thrombolytic agents to a remaining portion of the obstruction for a predetermined amount time. Fluid containing one or more thrombolytic agents capable of dissolving a remaining portion of the obstruction may be circulated through the fluid delivery lumen and removed through the fluid removal lumen.
US10729497B2
An apparatus and method for laser-assisted machining (LAM) of non-monolithic composite bone material is described. A high intensity focused laser beam conducts bone material removal in extremely short time duration without causing any thermal (necrosis) and mechanical damage to the material surrounding the bone-laser interaction region. A computer associated with the apparatus for machining bone preferably employs a Multiphysics computational modeling approach which takes into account physical phenomena such as heat transfer, fluid flow, convection mixing, and surface tension when determining bone target volume, calculating material properties of the multicomponent and multicomposition composite bone material, determining parameters for the laser-assisted machining based on the material properties, and performing the laser-assisted cutting/shaping/machining of bone.
US10729490B2
A method and apparatus for treating tissue are disclosed, including intra-operative mapping of a probe ablation zone. The method uses a system that maps the proximal and distal margins of the probe ablation zone using tools that access the ablation target. In some embodiments, the tools comprise a bone drill, and an introducer assembly, including a cannula and a stylet. The tools have features or markings that cooperate to indicate which probe to use to achieve the desired ablation. The method further facilitates planning probe placement for delivering energy to treat (ablate) a desired ablation volume of a target tissue by using a system that maps both the target tissue and possible probe ablation zones.
US10729488B2
A bipolar electrosurgical instrument includes first and second shafts each having a jaw member extending from its distal end. Each jaw member is adapted to connect to a source of electrosurgical energy such that the jaw members are capable of selectively conducting energy through tissue held therebetween. A knife channel is configured to reciprocate a cutting mechanism therealong. An actuator selectively advances the cutting mechanism. A switch is disposed on the first shaft and is configured to be depressed between a first position and at least one subsequent position upon biasing engagement with a mechanical interface disposed on the second shaft. The first position of the switch relays information to the user corresponding to a desired pressure on tissue and the at least one subsequent position is configured to activate the source of electrosurgical energy to supply electrosurgical energy to the jaw members.
US10729487B2
A surgical instrument includes a housing, a shaft extending from the housing, and an end effector assembly that is disposed at a distal end of the shaft. The end effector assembly includes a tubular portion, a connection arm, and a toolbox. The tubular portion defines a lumen and the connection arm is extendable from the lumen. The toolbox has a micro-tip that is configured to be selectively secured to a connection tip of the connection arm. The toolbox has a transport configuration where the toolbox is disposed within the lumen and a deployed configuration where the toolbox is disposed entirely outside of the lumen.
US10729486B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, and methods for operating an electrosurgical generator, including a radio-frequency (RF) output stage configured to output an electrosurgical waveform, a wireless transceiver configured to communicate with an implantable device in a patient, and a controller coupled to the RF output stage and the wireless transceiver, the controller configured to control the RF output stage to generate an electrosurgical waveform based on the implantable device.
US10729475B2
Disclosed is a bone fixation device of the type useful for connecting two or more bones or bone fragments together or connecting soft tissue or tendon to bone. The device comprises an elongate body having a distal anchor thereon. An axially moveable proximal anchor is carried by the proximal end of the fixation device, to accommodate different bone dimensions and permit appropriate tensioning of the fixation device. A sleeve can surround at least a portion of the bone fixation device to promote bone in-growth with or at the bone joint or fracture to facilitate fusion of the bone segment.
US10729474B2
A bone plate is provided including a top and bottom surface. The bottom surface may be adapted to contact bone. The bone plate may further include a plurality of apertures, wherein each aperture includes an annular sidewall and a lip adjacent to the bottom surface of the bone plate. The bone plate may also include at least one slot, wherein the slot includes a sidewall and a lip adjacent to the bottom surface of the bone plate. A bone plate system and method of use are also provided.
US10729473B2
A fixing system for cervical vertebrae includes a fixing apparatus for cervical vertebrae in which a cervical vertebrae-fixing plate is made close contact with cervical vertebrae and a screw is inserted into the cervical vertebrae through a screw hole formed in the cervical vertebrae-fixing plate, and a driver that rotates the screw. Here, clips for holding the inserted screw are provided in the screw hole, a convex portion is positioned at the rear of a front end portion of the driver which is fitted in a groove on the screw, and the driver loosens the inserted screw while spreading the clips using the convex portion, when the inserted screw is loosened.
US10729468B2
A method of conducting a surgical procedure including implanting an anchor into a bone, wherein the anchor comprises a receiving portion and a screw, the screw including a screw head contained within the receiving portion and pivotally engageable with a surface of the receiving portion, and wherein the receiving portion and the screw comprising a different material. The method further includes selecting a rod from a group of rod types and coupling the rod with the receiving portion to stabilize a position of a portion of the spine.
US10729466B2
A uterine manipulator can include a shaft including a first end, a second end, and embodiments of a cutting head configured and arranged to receive a cervix. The cutting head can be configured and adapted to be used to cut the tissue joining the vaginal wall to the cervix and uterus to facilitate removal of the uterus in a minimally invasive manner.
US10729464B1
A system and method for stabilizing an incontinent cervix during pregnancy are described. A system may include a nesting portion designed to surround the cervix without applying pressure to the cervix, while supporting the uterus in opposition to the weight of the developing fetus to prevent untimely effacement and dilatation of the cervix; thereby reducing the risk of premature birth and its consequence.
US10729461B2
A method and system provide a surgical infusion device including a cannula and an optical fiber coupled with the cannula. The cannula has a channel therethrough and an outside diameter. The channel has an inside diameter that is smaller than the outside diameter. The optical fiber is coupled with the cannula. At least a portion of the optical fiber coupled with the cannula has a diameter of not more than one half the inside diameter.
US10729453B2
A guidance system comprises a first guide configured to be detachably mounted to a first portion of a bone. The first guide has a first axis for alignment with a longitudinal axis of the first portion of the bone. A second guide is mountable on the first guide. The second guide is slidably translatable in a transverse direction relative to the first axis. A third guide is mountable on the second guide. The third guide is selectively positionable along a curved path extending at least part way around the longitudinal axis.
US10729449B2
A surgical device includes a handle assembly and a firing counter assembly. The handle assembly includes a housing defining a window, a trigger, and a drive member axially movable within the housing and operatively coupled with the trigger. The firing counter assembly includes a camming pin and a sleeve rotatably supported about the drive member and defining a continuous groove. The sleeve has indicia circumferentially arranged about the sleeve and corresponding to the number of surgical clips in the surgical device. The camming pin is supported on the drive member for concomitant axial displacement with the drive member. The camming pin is configured to slide through the continuous groove of the sleeve, wherein actuation of the trigger causes rotation of the sleeve such that the indicia corresponding to the number of surgical clips remaining in the surgical device is shown through the window of the housing.
US10729439B2
A wound closure device using magnets to draw skin together. When two skin adhering magnets are placed on opposite sides of a wound in a polar opposite configuration, the magnets attract each other, thus drawing the skin underneath the magnets together and reapproximating wound edges. The device includes hollow tubular enclosures that enclose powdered magnetic material and permits two magnets to maintain a linear or non-linear shape along linear or non-linear edges of a wound.
US10729431B2
A suture device including: an elongated shaft member extending along a longitudinal axis; a pair of gripping members provided at a distal end of the elongated shaft member in a pivotable manner about a pivot orthogonal to the longitudinal axis so as to be opened and closed relative to each other; and a passing mechanism which passes a suture needle between the gripping members, in which the gripping members include: fitting hole portions which are formed along an opening-closing direction of the gripping members, and to which the suture needle is detachably fitted; and contact portions which are brought into contact with front and back surfaces of a suture object in a course of a closing action of the gripping members so as to suppress a movement of the suture object along the front surface of the suture object.
US10729422B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a knotless suture anchor for implanting in bone including an outer tubular member having a distal end, a proximal end, an outer wall, and an at least one aperture through the outer wall; an inner member being rotatably disposed within the outer tubular member, the inner member having an at least one aperture for receiving at least one suture thread; a pointed tip configured to facilitate impaction of the anchor into the bone; and at least one suture thread guide positioned on the outer tubular member, wherein the at least one suture thread is positioned through the at least one suture thread guide, the at least one aperture of the outer tubular member, and the at least one aperture of the inner member.
US10729408B2
An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus according to an embodiment includes index image data generating circuitry and controlling circuitry. The index image data generating circuitry is configured to generate index image data indicating a relative positional relationship between extending direction information and information indicating a scanned position by an ultrasound wave transmitted from an ultrasound probe, wherein the extending direction information indicates a blood vessel extending direction and is generated on a basis of volume data representing a three-dimensional region that includes at least a part of the blood vessel region of a subject. The controlling circuitry is configured to cause a monitor to display the index image data.
US10729406B2
Ultrasonic diagnosis of cardiac performance using heart model chamber segmentation with user control
An ultrasonic diagnostic imaging system has a user control by which a user positions the user's selection of a heart chamber border in relation to two myocardial boundaries identified by a deformable heart model. The user's border is positioned by a single degree of freedom control which positions the border as a function of a single user-determined value. This overcomes the vagaries of machine-drawn borders and their mixed acceptance by clinicians, who can now create repeatably-drawn borders and exchange the control value for use by others to obtain the same results.
US10729405B2
Provided is a composition for an acoustic wave probe including a polysiloxane mixture containing polysiloxane and silica particles of which an average primary particle diameter exceeds 16 nm and less than 100 nm and which are subjected to surface treatment, and organic peroxide, and a silicone resin for an acoustic wave probe, the acoustic wave probe, an ultrasound probe, an acoustic wave measurement apparatus, an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, a photoacoustic wave measurement apparatus, and an ultrasound endoscope using the composition for an acoustic wave probe.
US10729403B2
A multi-modality cancer screening and diagnosis system is provided that allows cancer screening and diagnosis of a patient using at least two different and sequential three-dimensional imaging techniques without patient repositioning. The system includes a first three-dimensional image acquisition device, a second three-dimensional image acquisition device having a probe with a transmitter mounted thereon, and a positioning paddle for positioning and immobilizing an object to be imaged during the cancer screening and diagnosis procedure. The positioning paddle is designed to facilitate visualization of the breast in both three-dimensional modalities without movement of the patient, and preferably is designed to position the patient with comfort during a diagnosis procedure which uses both imaging modalities.
US10729400B2
A radiography supporter supports a radiography system including a radiation generator and a radiography apparatus in taking radiographic images, and the radiography supporter includes a hardware processor that: acquires an examination order; transmits corresponding radiation irradiation conditions to the radiation generator, for each examination order; and restricts transmission of irradiation conditions corresponding to a second examination order to be executed after a specific first examination order in a case where a plurality of the examination orders has been acquired for a same examination object, and the irradiation conditions corresponding to the first examination order have been changed.
US10729399B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of a cabinet x-ray incorporating an x-ray tube, an x-ray detector, and a real-time camera, either High Definition or Standard Resolution, for the production of organic and non-organic images. The computing device receives video data from the real-time camera and the x-ray detector and creates, based on the video data, a superimposed image of the captured x-ray image with the captured real-time image. In particular, the disclosure relates to a system and method with corresponding apparatus for capturing a real-time image simultaneously with the x-ray image allowing a cabinet x-ray unit to display a superimposed image of the two images and optimizes the images to result in a superimposed image with exact orientation of the 2 images and overlaying the 2 images on the display.
US10729385B2
Apparatuses and methods for the prevention of bodily injuries through active monitoring of bodily postures, supporting a body while in or restricting a body from entering predetermined postures which heighten the body's susceptibility to injury, and alerting one or more entities (e.g., an apparatus user) of a body's susceptibility to injury is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the method may include one or more operations including monitoring one or more bodily postures and/or bodily movements, storing data associated with bodily postures and/or bodily movements, determining a risk of injury associated with bodily postures and/or bodily movements, and alerting one or more entities when a risk of injury associated with bodily postures and/or bodily movements reaches a predetermined level.
US10729384B2
Embodiments are disclosed that enable an electronic device to instruct as user how to user one or more noninvasive sensors to measure one or more physiological parameters of a patient. In one embodiment, the measured parameters are used to obtain a diagnosis, such as a diagnosis of a critical congenital heart defect.
US10729382B2
Systems and methods for determining a model for predictive inference on an operation of a machine. A processor is configured to acquire time series data, the times series data includes training data and test data, the time series data represents an operation of the machine for a period of time, and the training data includes observations labeled with an outcome of the predictive inference. Apply recursive and stable filters for filtering at a training time, at a test time or both, such that a data point in the filtered time series data corresponds to an observation in the time series data that is a function of the corresponding observation and past observations in the time series data preceding the corresponding observation. Determine the model for the predictive inference using the training data, based on filtering the training data with filters to produce filtered time series data, and store in memory.
US10729381B2
A photoplethysmogram system includes a plurality of sensors, each sensor capable of providing a sensor signal, and an adaptive filter capable of receiving a first input signal and computing an output. The photoplethysmogram system is capable of operating the filter in sequential stages, such that at each different stage the first input signal is a different sensor signal.
US10729374B1
A sleep security method comprises the steps of providing a bed; providing at least one sensor for the detecting of a sleeping condition and for generating a signal in response to such detecting, the at least one sensor being located in operative proximity to the bed; providing a printer; providing a transceiver; operatively coupling the at least one sensor to the printer through the transceiver; and creating a written record by the printer of the detecting of the sleeping condition.
US10729372B2
The invention provides a sensor assembly embeddable within an oral appliance comprising a sensing means; and a data processing means coupled to the sensing means for processing data obtained by the sensing means; wherein the sensing means and the data processing means are sealed within a deformable layer.
US10729370B2
The present disclosure provides a system including one or more sensors, a mounting system configured to removeably mount a computing device such that a camera of the computing device is positioned facing an eye of a subject, and a control system. The control system is configured to (a) receive sensor data from the one or more sensors, (b) determine whether the sensor data is indicative of balance instability of the subject, (c) track a position of the eye of the subject to assess vestibular dysfunction, (d) determine whether the camera data is indicative of vestibular dysfunction of the subject, and (e) in response to (i) the sensor data being indicative of balance instability of the subject and/or (ii) the camera data being indicative of vestibular dysfunction of the subject, display an indication of symptoms that are characteristic of a traumatic brain injury or concussion.
US10729369B2
A testing and training apparatus, comprising: an upright frame; an instrumentation support that is supported by the upright frame so as to be adjustable in height; and instrumentation mountable on the instrumentation support. The instrumentation comprises a plurality of force sensors, and is rotatable relative to the upright frame, and the apparatus is controllable to output data signals indicative of force detected by the force sensors.
US10729368B1
A computer-implemented method and system can include obtaining, by at least one processor, at least one visual input comprising a face of at least one person. The at least one processor can input the at least one visual input into at least one psychodiagnostic neural network (PNN) to obtain at least one personality metric of the at least one person. The at least one personality metric of the at least one person can include at least one personality dimension and at least one numerical personality score. The at least one numerical personality score may provide a numerical indication of the strength of a particular personality dimension and display at least one personality report on at least one screen of at least one computing device. The at least one personality report may include the at least one personality metric of the at least one person.
US10729362B2
Because reprocessing or refurbishing of physiological sensors reuses large portions of an existing sensor, the material costs for refurbishing sensors is significantly lower than the material costs for making an entirely new sensor. Typically, existing reprocessors replace only the adhesive portion of an adhesive physiological sensor and reuse the sensing components. However, re-using the sensing components can reduce the reliability of the refurbished sensor and/or reduce the number of sensors eligible for refurbishing due to out-of-specification sensor components. It is therefore desirable to provide a process for refurbishing physiological sensors that replaces the sensing components of the sensor. While sensing components are replaced, generally, sensor cable and/or patient monitor attachments are retained, resulting in cost savings over producing new sensors.
US10729357B2
A system for monitoring medical conditions including pressure ulcers, pressure-induced ischemia and related medical conditions comprises at least one sensor adapted to detect one or more patient characteristic including at least position, orientation, temperature, acceleration, moisture, resistance, stress, heart rate, respiration rate, and blood oxygenation, a host for processing the data received from the sensors together with historical patient data to develop an assessment of patient condition and suggested course of treatment. In some embodiments, the system can further include a support surface having one or more sensors incorporated therein either in addition to sensors affixed to the patient or as an alternative thereof. The support surface is, in some embodiments, capable of responding to commands from the host for assisting in implementing a course of action for patient treatment. The sensor can include bi-axial or tri-axial accelerometers, as well as resistive, inductive, capactive, magnetic and other sensing devices, depending on whether the sensor is located on the patient or the support surface, and for what purpose.
US10729355B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a receiving unit and a determining unit. The receiving unit collectively receives settings of an imaging region on an image of a subject with respect to at least part of imaging protocols in a series of imaging protocols performed in an examination. The determining unit determines the propriety of the setting with respect to each imaging protocol included in the part of the imaging protocols before imaging is started using the part of the imaging protocols.
US10729338B2
The present application discloses a blood pressure measurement device, includes: a blood pressure measurement body configured to measure blood pressure based on photoplethysmogram (PPG); and a calibrator configured to measure blood pressure values based on Korotkoff sounds. The calibrator is further configured to provide initial calibration parameters to the blood pressure measurement body, and the blood pressure measurement body is further configured to collect an ECG signal and a PPG signal, calibrate a PPG parameter-blood pressure equation according to the initial calibration parameters, and calculate a blood pressure value according to the PPG parameter-blood pressure equation.
US10729337B2
The present application relates to systems and methods for non-invasively determining at least one of left ventricular end diastolic pressure (LVEDP) or pulmonary capillary wedge pressure (PCWP) in a subject's heart, comprising: receiving, by a computer, a plurality of signals from a plurality of non-invasive sensors that measure a plurality of physiological effects that are correlated with functioning of said subject's heart, said plurality of physiological effects including at least one signal correlated with left ventricular blood pressure and at least one signal correlated with timing of heartbeat cycles of said subject's heart; training a machine learning model on said computer using said plurality of signals for periods of time in which said plurality of signals were being generated during a heart failure event of said subject's heart; determining said LVEDP or PCWP using said machine learning model at a time subsequent to said training and subsequent to said heart failure event.
US10729335B2
The present disclosure includes a handheld processing device including medical applications for minimally and noninvasive glucose measurements. In an embodiment, the device creates a patient specific calibration using a measurement protocol of minimally invasive measurements and noninvasive measurements, eventually creating a patient specific noninvasive glucometer. Additionally, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for the processing device to execute medical applications and non-medical applications.
US10729332B2
An apparatus, system, and method monitors the motion, breathing, heart rate and sleep state of subjects, e.g., humans, in a convenient, non-invasive/non-contact, and low-cost fashion. More particularly, the motion, breathing, and heart rate signals are obtained through processing applied to a raw signal obtained in a non-contact fashion, typically using a radio-frequency sensor. Periods of sleep disturbed respiration, or central apnea can be detected through analysis of the respiratory signal. The mean heart rate, and derived information, such as the presence of cardiac arrhythmias can be determined from the cardiac signal. Motion estimates can be used to recognize disturbed sleep and periodic limb movements. The sleep state may be determined by applying a classifier model to the resulting streams of respiratory, cardiac and motion data. A means for display of the sleep state, respiratory, cardiac, and movement status may also be provided.
US10729309B2
An endoscope system includes: a first processor configured to perform first image processing on a set of image data; a second processor configured to perform second image processing on another set of image data; a third processor configured to generate, based on sets of image data output from the first and second processors, display image data; a recorder configured to record therein image data based on the sets of image data output from the first and second processors; a fourth processor configured to generate a first synchronization signal for synchronization among the first processor, the second processor, and the third processor; a fifth processor configured to generate a second synchronization signal for synchronization between the third processor and the recorder; and a controller configured to select one of the first and second synchronization signals, and perform control for synchronization between the third processor and the recorder.
US10729307B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device, an image processing method, and a surgical system that enable detection of a region including a specific living body site in an intraoperative image on the basis of a frequency of a motion vector of a living body in the intraoperative image. A motion detection unit detects the motion vector of the living body in the intraoperative image using the intraoperative images at different times. The analysis unit obtains the frequency of the motion vector detected by the motion detection unit. A frequency map generation unit detects the region including the specific living body site in the intraoperative image on the basis of the frequency obtained by the analysis unit. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a CCU and the like of an endoscopic surgical system.
US10729301B2
A floor cleaning machine having an intelligent system including a recovery tank sub-assembly, a vacuum fan sub-assembly, a solution tank sub-assembly, wherein the solution tank sub-assembly preferably includes a secondary electrochemical cell, a solution flow sub-assembly, a control console sub-assembly, a frame and wheel sub-assembly and/or a frame and transaxle sub-assembly, a scrub head sub-assembly, a scrub head lift sub-assembly, a squeegee sub-assembly, a solution flow sub-assembly, and an intelligent system associated with at least one of the above-identified sub-assemblies, wherein the intelligent system at least one of selectively gathers, obtains, monitors, stores, records, and analyzes data associated with components of the floor cleaning machine assembly, and at least one of controllably communicates and disseminates such data with at least one of another system and user.
US10729296B2
A cyclone vacuum cleaner includes two suction fan stages, three stages of separation, plus a HEPA filter and allows capturing of wet or dry material in bag-less or bagged configuration in non-porous paper or plastic bags as well as ordinary garbage bags with pull tie tops for removal, with no suction loss. A steam generator may be added to provide substitute working vacuum fluid to the normal air for dirt pickup. Acoustic sound dumping may also be provided in the architecture of the assembly.
US10729295B2
An upright surface cleaning apparatus comprises a surface cleaning head a cleaning unit moveably mounted to the surface cleaning head between a generally upright position and a rearwardly inclined in use position, a push handle and an above floor cleaning assembly. The above floor cleaning assembly comprises a flexible conduit having an inlet end and an outlet end, wherein in a floor cleaning mode the above floor cleaning assembly is positioned between a front transverse plane that extends transverse to the central longitudinal axis of the surface cleaning head and is located at the front side of the cleaning unit and a rear transverse plane that extends transverse to the central longitudinal axis and is located at the rear side of the cleaning unit.
US10729293B2
A hand-held debris blower including a blower tube and an associated ejector. The blower includes an airflow generator adapted to generate a primary airflow that is directed into a blower tube. A flow ejector is operable to selectively increase a working airflow provided by the blower by selectively entraining a secondary airflow within the primary airflow.
US10729289B2
A dispenser is disclosed that includes a housing defining an interior volume for receiving a stack of sheet products, an actuator, a dispensing member, a roller, and a support structure for engaging a front face of the stack including opposed shelves for supporting opposed sides of the front face. The actuator is operable by a user to activate a dispensing member to dispense a desired number of sheet products. The actuator includes two or more user interfaces that a user can actuate to transmit to the dispensing member an amount of movement corresponding to different numbers of sheet products being dispensed depending upon which of the user interfaces is actuated. The roller is located between the opposed shelves and engages and grips on the front face of the stack. The actuator imparts a predetermined amount of rotation to the roller depending upon which of the user interface ledges is actuated, which causes the roller to separate one or more sheet products at the front face of the stack in a one-at-a-time fashion.
US10729288B2
A universal cover for hygiene cloth dispensers includes a flexible pouch for holding hygiene cloths stored in a plurality of different hygiene cloth dispensers. The flexible pouch has a top wall, a bottom wall, and an interior space between the top and bottom walls. The universal cover includes a seam that can be opened to an open position and resealed to a closed position to connect the top wall to the bottom wall. The open position defines a refill opening for receiving the different hygiene cloth dispensers. A dispensing opening is formed in the top wall of the universal cover. The dispensing opening is reinforced against deformation due to exposure to moisture, body oils, dirt, and stretching. The dispensing opening is sized such that different sized movable and non-movable covers of at least two different commercial hygiene cloth dispensers are accessible through the dispensing opening.
US10729286B2
A blade driving assembly includes a blade-supporting shaft disposed to rotate parallel to, but laterally offset from, the axis of a food processor's drive outlet. A planetary drive system conveys rotational drive to the blade-supporting shaft, so that the blade-supporting shaft rotates around its own axis, thereby spinning the blade or blades, while at the same time the blade-supporting shaft rotates bodily around the drive-outlet axis, describing a locus, centered on the drive-outlet axis but separated therefrom by a radial distance corresponding to the lateral offset.
US10729284B2
A device for grinding coffee beans (12) includes a grinding member (14) configured to grind coffee beans (12) and produce a ground coffee powder (15). A transit chamber (16) receives the ground coffee powder (15). A discharge member (18) is configured to discharge the ground coffee powder (15) arriving from the transit chamber (16) toward the outside of the device. An air-powered powder removal member (20) removes the ground coffee powder (15) from the grinding member (14) and from the transit chamber (16).
US10729278B2
A fluid pourover device for brewing a beverage is adapted to deliver a fluid, and includes a driving unit defining a vertical rotating axis, a transmitting shaft extending along a transmitting axis inclined relative to the rotating axis and coupled with the driving unit to be rotated about the rotating axis, a fluid delivering member connected and rotated with the transmitting shaft and having a nozzle assembly to deliver the fluid in a direction of the transmitting axis for forming an inclined fluid delivering path during rotation.
US10729275B2
A cold water extraction system and method for preparing a beverage includes a cold water extraction chamber for brewing a beverage; an insulated beverage storage chamber for storing the beverage brewed in the cold water extraction chamber; a drip band for controlling flow of liquid between the cold water extraction chamber and the beverage storage chamber and a sealing cap configured to seal the beverage storage chamber.
US10729274B2
Cold-brewed compositions and methods for preparing them are disclosed that comprise the general steps of: (a) adding together ingredients comprising unheated aqueous liquid, a variety of brewing ingredients, and emulsion stabilizers comprising polysaccharides to obtain various aqueous mixtures; (b) grinding brewing ingredients amidst the obtained aqueous mixtures for a period of 30 seconds to three minutes to obtain various dispersions of finely ground brewing particles; and (c) removing brewing particles large enough to be detected by the tongue or mouth to obtain a variety of novel cold-brewed compositions that possess stabilized emulsions.
US10729272B2
Systems, devices, and methods of use and manufacture are provided for a modular grill and smoker device for cooking food that include a first chamber, a door for opening and sealably closing the first chamber, an airflow corridor creating a hull around the first chamber for channeling air around the first chamber with at least one lower vent and at least one upper vent, as well as integration with electronic user devices.
US10729269B2
An attachment (60) for a spout (140) of a food processing apparatus (10), including a housing (70) with a liquid inlet (80), a front face (160), and a liquid outlet (100). The housing defines a posterior cavity (110) that removably receives the spout and position the liquid inlet next to the spout. The attachment also includes a drip-stop flap (150) which is attached to and covers the front face of the housing. The drip-stop flap reversibly pivots about a horizontal pivot axis between a closed position where the liquid outlet is blocked by a sealing element on the flap, and an open position where the liquid outlet is exposed.
US10729268B2
A product include an item for hanging. The item has a top edge and a plurality of spaced holes formed therein proximate the top edge. The plurality of spaced holes are arranged in pairs, wherein between each pair of holes, therein is a slit formed through the item. The slit is defined by a linear center portion and first and second angled end portions at respective ends of the linear center portion. A hanger ring assembly is also provided and includes grommet backings that mate to grommet bases so as to capture the item therebetween and are arranged about the holes at the first and second angled end portions of the slit.
US10729262B2
A beverage container lid. The lid provides a drink outlet that allows liquid to fill a drink well base, from which a consumer may sip a beverage similar to using a cup or mug. The lid provides a natural drinking experience. The base is sized and shaped to sealingly engage the opening of the beverage container. A hollow raised lip portion is provided, with an exterior portion extending upwardly. An outer lip portion is provided having an interior portion sloping downwardly and inwardly. The drink well base may slope upwardly from a peripheral side.
US10729250B2
An office-type chair including a back support having a suspension mesh back support and a back support frame. The suspension mesh back support has an integral retaining channel disposed at a peripheral edge thereof, and the back support frame includes a central pair of upright support posts and wedge base for mounting to a chair frame. The back support frame includes a plurality of flexible and spaced support arms extending laterally outward from the upright support posts. The support arms each have a peripheral edge configured for fastenerless attachment in a tensioned state within the suspension mesh retaining channel. An upholstery cover encapsulates the suspension mesh and back support frame. The office chair also includes a lumbar mechanism including a resilient cushion that may be positioned in the space between the suspension mesh and the support frame and adjusted along the vertical extent of the back support by rolling the resilient cushion on the rear of the suspension mesh.
US10729247B2
A resettable pressure bar module includes a pressure bar, a rotation element, and a resetting element. The pressure bar includes an outer tube, an upper sealing element, and a lower sealing element. The upper sealing element and the lower sealing element are disposed in the outer tube and respectively disposed on the opposite two sides of the outer tube. The rotation element is fixed to the outer tube and the lower sealing element through a fixing element. One side of the resetting element includes a first guiding slope and a second guiding slope. The pressure bar passes through the resetting element. The rotation element is configured to rotate to a normal position along the first guiding slope or the second guiding slope.
US10729236B2
A reconfigurable carrying device, such as a cart, is provided for storing and/or transporting objects. The cart may include a first storage section for receiving the objects, and a second storage section pivotally attached to the first storage section. The second storage section may be movable upwards relative to the first storage section to be positioned on top of the first storage section in a first mode of operation of the cart and may be movable downwards relative to the position in the first mode of operation to be positioned adjacent to the first storage section in a second mode of operation of the cart.
US10729230B2
Applicator (2) for applying a cosmetic product to the eyelashes and/or eyebrows, having an applicator member (8), the applicator member (8) having: a core (10) that extends along a longitudinal axis (X), and a plurality of different arms (20) that are oriented longitudinally, the arms (20) being connected to the core (10) by their two ends, the length of each arm (20) being greater than the distance (P) along the longitudinal axis of the core (10) between the two ends of the arm (20), the core (10) having at least one portion, between the ends of the arms (20), with a non-circular cross section, and the arms (20) being distributed irregularly around the core (10).
US10729229B2
A device for three-dimensionally printing a sleeve (10) for receiving a cosmetic applicator (20) is disclosed. The device includes a printer for printing in three dimensions. The printer is designed to receive a digital file and to print the sleeve. The device further includes a calculator capable of adapting the dimensions of the sleeve (10) to be printed to those of a user's finger. A method for three-dimensionally printing a sleeve (10) for receiving a cosmetic applicator (20) also is disclosed.
US10729222B2
A removal and re-application board for hair extensions and process of using same. The board contains at least 3 serially spaced apart lines (linear or curvilinear), vertically or radially spaced apart. Hair extension bands are mounted on, above or below the lines. Board indicia conveys sequential band removal and board placement, and then band board-dismount and re-application sequential order data to re-apply the hair bands on a user's head. When the bands are on-board, the bands from a columnar matrix; therefore the serially spaced apart lines provide board-mounting and board dismounting data to the stylist (board-mounting is hair band removal; board dismounting is band re-application). The indicia and the serially spaced apart lines allow for hair bands to be easily stored (board-mounted) and organized, such that the hair bands can be reliably re-applied to substantially the same location on a user's head.
US10729201B1
An impact protection apparatus (IPA) may include an impact switch configured to transition from an open-circuit state to a close-circuit state when a force is exerted on the IPA in a first direction and exceeds a force threshold. The IPA may further include a protective headgear and linear and rotational locks that can limit movement of the protective headgear upon a threshold level of pressure or impact.
US10729199B2
A wearable equipment is adapted for substation maintenance mobile inspection and includes a binding strap and a controlling wireless communication module. A thermal imager is disposed on one side of the binding strap. A prism display component and a voice interaction module are disposed on the other side of the binding strap. The thermal imager, the prism display component, and a microphone and a speaker of the voice interaction module are connected to the controlling wireless communication module through cables, to transmit information in a power system intranet. An application method includes mounting the wearable equipment to an electric power helmet, and automatically sending an infrared image, a visible light image, power monitoring information, voice, and a video in a power operation area to a background management controlling system for the substation maintenance mobile inspection.
US10729194B2
An apparel garment includes a polyimide aerogel or aerogel-infused insulator 12 directly bonded to at least a portion 10 of the garment. A method for bonding an aerogel to an insulator 12 for an apparel garment includes providing a polyimide aerogel component, which may be a powder or other form, and directly bonding the polyimide aerogel component to the apparel garment. The bonding may be through at least one of thermal, chemical (adhesive/solvent), hydrogen, and mechanical bonding.
US10729193B2
A necktie holder for securing, around the neck of a wearer, an article of clothing having first and second ends includes: a central portion defining a channel that passes through the necktie holder, the central portion having first and second sides; and first and second wings extending, respectively, from the first and second sides of the central portion. The first and second wings each are arranged with respect to the central portion so that the necktie holder formed by the central portion and the first and second wings is the shape of a knot of a necktie. The channel is configured to permit the first and second ends of the article of clothing to slideably, snugly, and adjustably interact with the channel, whereby the necktie holder can be drawn upwardly over the first and second ends of the article of clothing toward the neck of the wearer.
US10729192B2
An athletic glove having an inner glove with one or more protective members is discussed. Protective members may include metacarpal support members attached to the dorsal side of the inner glove configured to protect at least a portion of a metacarpal bone of the human hand; volar and dorsal metacarpal support member attached to the volar and dorsal sides of the inner glove, respectively, and configured to protect at least a portion of a carpometacarpal joint, a metacarpal bone, a metacarpal joint, and a proximal phalanx of a thumb of the human hand; and volar and dorsal distal phalange support members attached to the volar and dorsal sides, respectively, of the inner glove and configured to protect at least a portion of a distal phalanx of the thumb of the human hand. Optionally, the inner glove may include a protective strap.
US10729191B2
A medical surgical wound support device comprising a flexible support garment designed to be worn by a patient, the flexible support garment having an inner surface that comes in direct contact with the patient and an outer surface facing outward from the patient, a plurality of permanent magnets embedded within the flexible support garment, each of which is oriented such that its north magnetic pole faces the outer surface, a rigid base component, that has an outer surface facing upward from a support on which the rigid support structure rests, a plurality of permanent magnets embedded within the outer surface of the rigid base component, each embedded magnet oriented such that the north magnetic pole faces the outer surface; and a repelling magnetic force originating from the outer surface of the flexible support garment and the outer surface of the rigid base component such that a portion of the patient wearing the flexible support garment is elevated a controllable distance above the rigid base component.
US10729184B2
An electronic smoking article, a method of manufacturing an electronic smoking article, and a method of achieving a smoking experience without combusting tobacco are disclosed. The electronic smoking article includes an authenticated first section, which includes an aerosol generation unit having at least one heater; an authenticated second section, which includes a power supply operable to apply voltage to the at least one heater for heating a liquid in at least a portion of the aerosol generation unit to form an aerosol; and a conductive ink circuit embedded within the first and second sections, and wherein the power supply and the aerosol generation unit are electrically connected upon joining the first and second sections, and wherein each of the first and second sections has a portion of the conductive ink circuit.
US10729174B2
An electronic smoking device includes a battery portion including an electric power supply, an atomizer/liquid reservoir portion having a mouthpiece opening in an end, and a liquid reservoir adapted for accommodating a liquid. The electronic smoking device further includes an atomizer arranged at a first end face of the liquid reservoir and operable when connected to the power supply to atomize liquid to create an aerosol, wherein the atomizer comprises a plurality of openings adapted for providing the aerosol, and an actuator movable inside the liquid reservoir towards the first end face and adapted for supplying liquid to the plurality of openings.
US10729172B2
A product for holding a tobacco product or a tobacco substitute includes an integrated electronic device with: a power source; an input means comprising a sensor to generate an input signal from an external stimulus; an output means to generate an output signal; digital processing means to process the input signal and deliver a command signal to the output means based at least in part on processing of the input signal; and circuitry connecting the power source, the input means, the output means and the digital processing means; wherein the power source, the input means, the output means, the digital processing means and the circuitry are printed on a substantially flexible substrate. Use of packaging for holding a tobacco product or tobacco substitute includes such a product with an integrated electronic device.
US10729168B2
A food composition and method of making is provided, the food composition comprising a first structural food unit comprising an edible matrix encapsulating an edible substance that optionally comprises one or more thickening agents; a second structural food unit, between about 10 times and about 106 times the size of the first structural food unit, comprising an edible hydrocolloid matrix encapsulating a first visco-elastic substance, the first visco-elastic substance comprising a soft food, xanthan gum, and galactomannan and a plurality of first structural food units, and wherein an outer surface of the first visco-elastic substance substantially adheres to an inner surface of the edible hydrocolloid matrix encapsulating the first visco-elastic substance.
US10729166B2
A plant (1) for cold extraction of puree, or juice, from a fresh food product of vegetable, or animal origin, includes a treating machine, for example a softening machine (20) downstream of which an extraction machine (30) is provided for extracting juice, or puree, from the food product of vegetable, or animal origin. Upstream of the treating machine (20) a cutting machine is provided (40,40′) in which a cutting means is arranged to cut the starting food product of vegetable origin into parts of predetermined size. More in detail, the cutting means (40) is arranged to cut the vegetable product (100) into parts (105) of size set between 50 mm and 130 mm, which are then fed to the treating machine (20).
US10729162B2
A method of creating a meat piece includes cooking a meat product until it is fully cooked including cooking the meat product until it has an internal temperature of approximately at least 165° F. After cooking the meat product, the meat product is sliced into meat pieces. The method then includes coating the meat pieces with a coating agent with at least cane sugar, salt, liquid smoke, and starch. Then the coated meat pieces are packaged.
US10729160B1
Method of reducing the mTOR pathway stimulating activity of amino acid containing nutritional materials. This method comprises treating an enzymatically hydrolysed protein material such as casein, whey, or soy protein with at least one enzyme capable of converting mTOR pathway stimulating amino acids and amino acid residues, such as leucine or methionine, into alternate chemical entities that do not stimulate or stimulate to a significantly lesser degree the mTOR pathway, while preserving the non-mTOR stimulating amino acids. These one or more alternate chemical entities should ideally be suitable for consumption, or alternatively be capable of being removed from the treated material through low cost extraction or conversion techniques. The material may then be sold as is, or alternatively packaged with low glycemic carbohydrates, healthy lipids, vitamins, and flavors and sold as a variety of different food products intended for an artificial diet intended to mimic the effects of caloric restriction.
US10729152B2
Described are cheese compositions and methods of making cheese compositions, including methods of formulating cheese compositions, wherein the cheese compositions may include combinations of casein protein, fiber, non-casein protein, non-pregelatinized, modified starch, and a fat component.
US10729147B2
Processing apparatus for poultry that may include one or more transfer units placed intermediate and conveying poultry from a first line to a subsequent second line. The transfer means may include at least one magnet for inducing eddy currents in a circulating support that counteracts relative motion between the transfer means and the circulating support. The at least one magnet may be embodied with a series of alternating north-poles (+) and south-poles (−) facing the circulating support.
US10729142B2
The present invention is directed to methods of producing de-oiled sabadilla extract by removing the oil from sabadilla seeds or a sabadilla extract. The invention also relates to methods for controlling pests by application of de-oiled sabadilla extract to pests' or to their environment.
US10729135B2
The present invention is directed to a method of controlling a pest comprising applying an effective amount of one or more terpendoles to the pest or an area in need of pest control. The present invention is further directed to a method of controlling a pest comprising applying an effective amount of one or more compounds having the following chemical structure to the pest or an area in need of pest control.
US10729133B2
A cornfield herbicidal composition comprising pyrazolone compounds and an application thereof is provided. The cornfield herbicidal composition comprises an herbicidally effective amount of an active ingredient A, an active ingredient B, and a safener compound C, wherein the active ingredient A is a compound of the formula (I); the active ingredient B is selected from one or more of the following compounds: triazines, nitriles, sulfonylureas, pyridine carboxylic acids, benzyl carboxylic acids, bentazone, amides, pyridines and amicarbazone; and the safener compound C is selected from one or more of the following compounds: C1 isoxadifen-ethyl, C2 cyprosulfamide, C3 mefenpyr-diethyl, C4 cloquintocet-mexyl, C5 gibberellic acid, C6 furilazole and C7 N-(2-methoxybenzoyl)-4-[(methylaminocarbonyl)amino]benzenesulfonamide. The composition can effectively prevent and remove weeds in the cornfield, and has the characteristics of extending the weed control spectrum, reducing the application dose, being safe for crops, being able to remove resistant weeds and the like.
US10729129B2
A liquid herbicidal composition free of alkyl polyglucoside includes glufosinate and/or a salt thereof, an alkyl ether sulfate or a salt thereof, a hydrotrope; a polycarboxylate having a weight average molecular weight ranging from greater than or equal to 1,000 g/mol to less than 70,000 g/mol, and water. The alkyl ether sulfate is according to the average formula (I): R—(OCH2CH2)n—OSO4 (I), wherein R is linear or branched alkyl group having from 8 to 18 carbon atoms and wherein the subscript n ranges from 1 to 10.
US10729113B2
A spear-fishing tip that combines the strengths of the two most prevalent tips: barbed and slip tip. The tip features the superior hold of the slip tip and the durability of the barb. The tip has a detachable side-located barb which passes through a fish with the spear tip and then pulls away from the tip to remain on the side of the fish opposite that of penetration. The barb includes a longitudinal slot on one side that enables it to lie flush against the side of the tip when impaling a fish and protects it from being damaged during impact. The barb is tethered to the user or the shaft and includes slots received securely on pins radially protruding from the shaft. The slots have rearward openings to allow for detachment when protrusions on a rear end of the barb catch on the flesh of the fish as the tip is pulled from the fish.
US10729112B2
The present invention relates to a transgenic pig comprising a mutated IAPP gene and displaying a phenotype associated with diabetes. The invention also relates to a transgenic blastocyst, embryo, fetus, donor cell and/or cell nucleus derived from said transgenic pig. The invention further relates to use of the transgenic pig as a model system for studying therapy, treatment and/or prevention of diabetes.
US10729110B2
An installation for the farming of fish is described and also a method to establish a water reservoir for the farming of the fish.
US10729106B2
A connector assembly for a leash system including a connector and a connector receiver. The connector includes a first connector end that has a connector end center. The connector receiver includes a first gate that moves between a locked and an unlocked position. The first gate defines at least a portion of a connector cavity, with the connector cavity selectively receiving the first connector end when the first gate is in the unlocked position. The connector cavity also has a cavity center, with the cavity center and the connector end center being substantially identical when the first connector end is received by the connector cavity. The connector receiver further includes a receiver actuator that is coupled to the first gate. The receiver actuator can move in a first direction and a second direction, wherein moving the receiver actuator in the second direction moves the first gate to the unlocked position.
US10729104B2
The invention is a novel pet toy wherein a specialized reed and accordion style squeaker tube is attached to a dual layer self-inflating chamber and mimics the “moo” of a cow when an animal depresses the toy. A plush fabric outer layer is designed to look like a cow.
US10729103B2
A method of using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to guide a target includes receiving, via the UAV, a signal indicative of a target area for guiding the target, determining an indicator based on a location of the UAV and/or a location of the target area while the target is in motion, and performing, via the UAV, an operation in response to the indicator.
US10729100B2
A method for recording and predicting position data for a self-propelled wheeled vehicle (1) carrying a load (14) is provided whereby the vehicle (1) is caused to move along a ground surface (5) along a predominantly straight line trajectory (17) by rotating at least one load carrying wheel (3) in frictional engagement with the surface (5), angular rotation data of at least one wheel (3) is obtained, absolute position data are obtained at different predetermined fixed positions Pn of the vehicle (1) with respect to the surface (5) along the straight line trajectory (17), whereby the distance travels is measured independently and used to calibrate motion sensors on board the vehicle. The invention also comprises a delivery or pick up system, a program for an on-board computing device and an on-board computing device.
US10729099B2
The present invention is related to the pet feeder bowl. The bowl has three layers. Non-skid rubber is permanently attached to the bowl and raised till the top to give additional strength and Hermosa looks, so that the rubber cannot tear off or get damaged in different weather condition. The bowl can directly be put into the dishwasher, as all the materials, i.e. plastic, steel bowls and rubber are permanently attached to each other.
US10729094B2
An apparatus includes a platform, controller, and first and second extension members, brush tool members, and brush tools. The platform has a length orthogonal to and greater than its width. The first and second extension members are movably coupled to the platform and their longitudinal axes are parallel to the length of the platform. The first and second brush tool members are coupled to and extend along the longitudinal axes of the first and second extension members respectively. The first and second brush tools are coupled to and extend along the longitudinal axes of the first and second brush tool members respectively. The controller moves the first extension member towards the front end of the platform, retracts the first extension member towards the back end of the platform, and at a second time after the first time, moves the second extension member towards the front end of the platform.
US10729090B1
A novel maize variety designated X05P304 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X05P304 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05P304 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X05P304, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05P304 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05P304 and methods of using maize variety X05P304 are disclosed.
US10729089B2
A novel maize variety designated X00P560 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X00P560 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X00P560 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X00P560, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X00P560 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X00P560 and methods of using maize variety X00P560 are disclosed.
US10729068B2
A method for automatically controlling a position of one or more ground engaging tools of an agricultural implement is relative to a ground surface may include monitoring a position signal indicative of a position of a ground engaging tool of the implement. The position signal may have an associated system delay time. The method also may include estimating an arrival time when the position of the ground engaging tool will be within a predetermined threshold of a target position based on the monitored position signal and the system delay time associated with the monitored position signal. The method may include adjusting the position of the ground engaging tool and terminating the adjustment of the ground engaging tool at a termination time determined based on the arrival time.
US10729063B2
A seed delivery system for a seeding machine having a seed meter comprises a housing that defines an upper seed loading area and a lower seed discharge area. A drive pulley is mounted to rotate with respect to the housing. A belt is supported for rotation by the drive pulley within the housing. A loading wheel is mounted to rotate with respect to the housing to transfer seeds from the seed meter into the belt at the seed loading area. The belt conveys the seeds through the housing as the belt travels from the seed loading area to the seed discharge area.
US10729059B2
A system for remote moisture monitoring and control includes: a measurement vehicle, including a vehicle body, a vehicle control unit, a transmitter antenna, and a receiver antenna; a moisture control server, including a processor, a non-transitory memory, an input/output, and antenna manager, a multi spectrum analyzer, a sensor manager, an irrigation manager, a soil simulator and a data bus; a vehicle storage facility; an irrigation controller; irrigation valves; a mobile control device; ground sensors. Also disclosed is a method including piloting measurement vehicle; obtaining moisture measurements, including controlling outbound transmission, determining reflected power, calculating dielectric constant via reflection calculation, determining soil moisture via lookup in soil calibration table; obtaining sensor measurements; calculating soil model; and adjusting irrigation.
US10736251B2
A CPU of a controller of a mounting device determines an aperture and a light exposure time so that tip portion falls within the depth of field (DOF) of component camera based on information about the height of tip portion which is an imaging target portion in component and controls component camera so as to image the component with the determined aperture and light exposure time.
US10736249B2
A corona shielding paper for use in a corona shielding system for an electric machine, e.g. a high-voltage machine, may be produced by compacting partial discharge-resistant, planar, conductive particles but can include both reinforcement fibers and a woven fabric.
US10736246B2
An electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding can be couplable to a circuit board. The EMI shielding can include a fence couplable to the circuit board, a lid couplable to the fence, and a shield arm extending from the lid and being configured to couple to the fence. The shield arm can be hingedly or rotatably coupled to the lid. The shield arm can be magnetically couplable to the lid. The shield arm and/or the fence can include a magnet to provide a magnetic attraction between the shield arm and the fence.
US10736243B2
A cooling module for a parallel type power module of an inverter may include parallel type power modules configured to be disposed in three or more columns and rows, wherein three parallel type power modules are disposed to correspond to U, V, and W phases of the inverter in the three or more rows in each of the three or more columns, a first cooling water passage having a passage through which cooling water flows and configured to be brought into contact with an upper surface and a lower surface of a power module disposed at a first row, and a second cooling water passage having a passage through which the cooling water flows and configured to be brought into contact with an upper surface and a lower surface of a power module disposed at a third row.
US10736242B2
A load controller includes a casing; a busbar module, the busbar module including a DC busbar and an AC busbar connected to a load; a capacitor connected to an external DC power supply, the capacitor being connected to the DC busbar; an IGBT power module, an input end of each IGBT being connected to the DC busbar, and an output end of each IGBT being connected to the AC busbar; a heat-dissipating module, the heat-dissipating module including multiple heat-dissipating fins, each IGBT in a same column of IGBTs being sandwiched between adjacent two heat-dissipating fins; a driving circuit board, the driving circuit board being electrically connected to each IGBT; and a control circuit board, the control circuit board being connected to the driving circuit board, where all of the busbar module, the IGBT power module, the heat-dissipating module, the driving circuit board and the control circuit board are disposed on the casing.
US10736228B2
A removeable drive-plane board may include (1) keyhole openings that are configured to interlock with keyhole fasteners of a retaining member of a storage-system chassis, (2) storage-drive connectors, (3) a storage-system module connector, and (4) electrical interconnects that electrically couple the storage-drive connectors to the storage-system module connector. In some examples, the keyhole fasteners of the retaining member may be oriented downward relative to the storage-system chassis. Various other removeable drive-plane apparatus, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10736227B1
The solution of the present disclosure connects the power in parallel distribution chains. A horizontal pizza box in the middle of the equipment stack represents the power box (PB), which houses the power modules (PMs), such as the power input modules (PIMs) or the power supply units (PSUs). The PMs in the PB are connected to the office power source(s), and the PB supplies power to the parallel distribution chains (A′ and B′). The parallel distribution chains are composed of jumper segments that are based on busbar-like technology, with each jumper segment being the length of the distance between coupled boxes. Any box can be removed without disrupting either distribution chain. Advantageously, the jumper segments are touch-proof, from a safety perspective. Thus, instead of a jumper created using a cable, PCB, etc., or a jumper composed of a custom molded back-to-back connector, the jumpers are based on busbar-like technology.
US10736218B1
Apparatuses, systems, and associated methods of manufacturing are described that provide a networking card arrangement with increased thermal performance. An example arrangement includes a primary network card that defines a first card-to-board connection and a networking chipset supported by the primary network card. The arrangement also includes an auxiliary network card that defines a second card-to-board connection and networking cable connectors supported by the auxiliary network card that receive networking cables therein. The arrangement further includes a card connection element that operably connects the primary network card and the auxiliary network card. In an operational configuration in which the primary network card and the auxiliary network card are received by a server board via the first card-to-board connection and the second card-to-board connection, the primary network card is spaced from the auxiliary network card such that air may pass therebetween.
US10736217B2
A surface mounting component module according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a multi-layer substrate; a side via formed by penetrating the multi-layer substrate, and electrically connecting the multi-layer substrate; a side via pad positioned on at least one layer of the multi-layer substrate, and formed in the vicinity of the side via; and an RF pattern connected to the side via pad by a signal line, wherein all of the RF pattern, the side via, and the side via pad are electrically connected.
US10736207B1
A wiring assembly includes a differential input port, a differential output port, and first and second pairs of electrical conductors. The differential input port is configured to receive a differential signal from a sensor at a first end of the wiring assembly. The differential output port is configured to output the differential signal at a second end of the wiring assembly. The first and second pairs of electrical conductors are laid out in a three-dimensional (3D) crossover configuration relative to one another and configured to conduct the differential signal from the first end to the second end, and to cancel pickup of a magnetic field by the wiring assembly. The electrical conductors of each pair are connected to one another at the first end and at the second end.
US10736204B2
A hand-held plasma power tool is provided, which includes a hand-held housing, a plasma delivery tip section at least partially disposed within the housing for delivering a plasma arc to a workpiece, an air compressor disposed within the housing for providing a gas to the plasma delivery tip section, and a power source disposed within the housing for providing a current to at least one of the air compressor or the plasma delivery tip section. The hand-held plasma power tool further comprises a handle section defined by at least a portion of the housing. The handle section is configured to enable an operator to manipulate the plasma power tool by hand while delivering the plasma arc to the workpiece.
US10736203B2
The invention relates to a system comprising a remote control (21), a pull-out box (8) comprising an emitting and receiving RF chip (16), a switch (14) controlling the electrical power supply of the energiser (4), and a first electronic circuit (15) for operating the switch (14), exchanging RF signals with the RF chip (16). The system comprises a remote control (20) for reading and emitting signals conducted by the fence wire (2), a galvanic connection (9, 10) to the electric fence, and in the pull-out box, a second electronic circuit (19) for operating the switch (14) in connection with the remote control (20), and means for transforming signals conducted by the wire (2) into RF signals emitted by the RF chip (16).
US10736186B2
The present disclosure provides a cooking appliance, comprising a base and an oven door articulated with the base, wherein the cooking appliance further comprises a cooking platform and a microwave shield, the cooking platform comprises a frame and a carrier plate mounted on the frame, the carrier plate is made of a non-microwave shielding material, the frame is detachably mounted on a top plate of the base, an abutting supporting surface is formed between the lower surface of the frame and the upper surface of the top plate, a magnetron is mounted at the bottom of the top plate, the magnetron is used for emitting microwaves from the inner side of the supporting surface to the carrier plate, and the microwave shield is mounted on the top plate, surrounds the outer side of the supporting surface and is used for shielding the microwaves leaked from the supporting surface.
US10736182B2
Substrate temperature control apparatus and electronic device manufacturing systems provide pixelated light-based heating to a substrate in a process chamber. A substrate holder in the process chamber may include a baseplate. The baseplate has a top surface that may have a plurality of cavities and a plurality of grooves connected to the cavities. Optical fibers may be received in the grooves such that each cavity has a respective optical fiber terminating therein to transfer light thereto. Some or all of the cavities may have an epoxy optical diffuser disposed therein to diffuse light provided by the optical fiber. A ceramic plate upon which a substrate may be placed may be bonded to the baseplate. A thermal spreader plate may optionally be provided between the baseplate and the ceramic plate. Methods of controlling temperature across a substrate holder in an electronic device manufacturing system are also provided, as are other aspects.
US10736181B2
A basking heater for an animal, such as a reptile, includes a housing, a heating element within the housing, and an opening in a bottom of the housing, so that the heating element may radiate heat through the opening, and an attachment arrangement. The attachment arrangement can be used to selectively attach the heater to a terrarium. The housing can be made of thermal plastic resin and can include vents for cooling the housing. The housing can have low profile shape. The heater may have multiple power settings.
US10736177B2
In some configurations, the method of operating a system with dynamic wireless network topology with reduced spectrum flooding involve scanning with a first device in mesh network for beacon packets from other devices in the mesh network during a random back off period. In response to the first device not receiving a beacon packet from the other devices during the random back off period, the first device initiates an election protocol by sending an election protocol packet with its unique election protocol identifier to the other devices. In response to receiving a beacon packet from a second device, the first device stores the unique node identifier, assigns the second device as a leader node device, retransmits the unique node identifier of the second device and leader node information in a protocol packet. A command packet is communicated through the mesh network by way of at least one leader node device.
US10736173B2
A method for setting up/releasing by a user equipment (UE) a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an evolved node B (eNB) in a communication system is provided. The method includes detecting that traffic occurs. The method also includes that after detecting that the traffic occurs, determining a traffic type of the traffic The method further includes adaptively adjusting a timing point at which the UE releases a RRC connection between the eNB and the UE based on the traffic type.
US10736168B2
A communication device for handling a User Plane Evolved Packet System (EPS) Optimization procedure comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage unit. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions a RRC layer of the communication device receiving system information from a cell of a network; the RRC layer informing an EPS mobility management (EMM) layer of the communication device that a User Plane EPS Optimization functionality (e.g., a resume/suspend functionality) is allowed in the cell, when the system information indicates that the User Plane EPS Optimization functionality is allowed; and the RRC layer informing the EMM layer that the User Plane EPS Optimization functionality is not allowed in the cell, when the system information indicates that the User Plane EPS Optimization functionality is not allowed.
US10736163B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform substantially concurrent communications with a next generation network node and a legacy network node. The wireless device may be configured to establish a first wireless link with a first cell according to a RAT, where the first cell operates in a first system bandwidth and establish a second wireless link with a second cell according to a RAT, where the second cell operates in a second system bandwidth. Further, the wireless device may be configured to perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT by TDM uplink data for the first RAT and uplink data for the second RAT if uplink activity is scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT.
US10736157B2
Systems and methods for providing multitenancy gaming platform services are presented. In one embodiment a method for providing multitenancy gaming platform services comprises receiving, at a server computer, a request from one of a plurality of applications for an operation associated with a service, the request including a token, data related to an application, and a target user identifier. The method further comprises, decoding the token to determine an application identifier and a user identifier. The method further comprises, determining which service of a plurality of multitenancy gaming platform services is requested, and sending the data related to the application to a second server computer responsible for the service, wherein the operation is authorized by the second server computer based on the user identifier and target user identifier. The method further comprises receiving a response from the second server computer responsible for the service, indicating a status of the operation.
US10736154B2
Wireless systems and methods are disclosed for establishing a continuous real-time data link communicating flight data of a small UAV to a first smart device over a wireless network. An airborne wireless sensor system is adapted to be removably attached to the UAV. The airborne wireless sensor system has a sensor module for sensing UAV flight data, a communication module for establishing the wireless data-link network and transmitting the sensed UAV flight data the smart device. The smart device may have a software application which permits the user to define data formats for display which may them be communicated to the airborne sensor system to use in building the data pages transmitted to the smart device. Smart devices such as smart phones, smart watches, tablet computers and the like are contemplated to be used.
US10736147B2
A DL signal including a plurality of SS blocks can be received. At least one SS block can be detected from the plurality of SS blocks. A SS block can be selected from the detected at least one SS block. A SS block can be selected from at least one SS block detected from the plurality of SS blocks. A subset of RACH resources and a subset of RACH preambles associated with the selected SS block can be identified. A RACH resource can be selected from the subset of RACH resources and a RACH preamble can be selected from the subset of RACH preambles. The selected RACH preamble can be transmitted on the selected RACH resource. An RA-RNTI can be determined based on at least the selected RACH resource. At least a PDSCH including a RAR message can be received. The PDSCH can be based on the selected SS block and based on the determined RA-RNTI.
US10736141B2
An electronic device that dynamically adapts RTS-CTS protection is described. During operation, this electronic device may obtain communication parameters associated with communication in a WLAN, which includes the electronic device and a second electronic device. For example, the communication parameters may include a collision probability, a PPDU airtime, an RTS airtime, a SIFS airtime and/or a CTS airtime. Then, the electronic device may determine an RTS-CTS performance metric based at least in part on the communication parameters. For example, the RTS-CTS performance metric may be based at least in part on the collision probability, the RTS airtime, the SIFS airtime, and/or the CTS airtime. Next, the electronic device may compare the RTS-CTS performance metric and the PPDU airtime. Moreover, based at least in part on the comparison, the electronic device may selectively use RTS-CTS protection during communication of a PPDU with the second electronic device.
US10736137B2
A method includes triggering, by a Medium Access Control (MAC) entity of a User Equipment (UE), a first Scheduling Request (SR) procedure for a first logical channel, wherein the first logical channel is not configured with a valid Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource for the first SR procedure; and performing, by the MAC entity of the UE, a plurality of procedures in response to triggering the first SR procedure, wherein the procedures includes: initiating a Random Access (RA) procedure and canceling the first SR procedure.
US10736134B2
Techniques for a user equipment to perform uplink communication in a wireless communication system. The user equipment performs operations that include: receiving configuration information for a codebook set related with a modulation scheme; receiving a UL grant including a specific codeword index; selecting a codebook based on the specific codeword index included in the codebook set; and transmitting data based on the selected codebook, wherein the codebook set includes a plurality of codebooks predefined for non-orthogonal coded multiple access (NCMA) scheme based communication, and wherein the codebook set is configured based on a spreading factor or an overloading factor.
US10736133B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for burst-based transmission scheduling. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory that stores code executable by the processor. The code, in various embodiments, determines multiple consecutive uplink subframes to be transmitted from a user equipment. In a further embodiment, the code forms an uplink grant message to schedule transmission of the multiple consecutive uplink subframes. The apparatus may include a transmitter that provides the uplink grant message to the user equipment.
US10736131B2
[Object] To provide a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other.[Solution] A terminal device that communicates with a base station device includes: a higher layer processing unit configured to perform SPDSCH setting through signaling of a higher layer from the base station device; a receiving unit configured to perform a reception process on all of one or more SPDSCH candidates set on a basis of the SPDSCH setting, and receive an SPDSCH; and a transmitting unit configured to use a resource set on the basis of the SPDSCH setting to report response information for the SPDSCH. In a case in which the SPDSCH is correctly received, the response information is reported, and in a case in which the SPDSCH is not correctly received, the response information is not reported.
US10736126B2
A method of processing a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) message in a V2X message transmitting entity may comprise obtaining, at the V2X message transmitting entity, status information of a transmission target entity; determining adaptively a security level for a V2X message to be transmitted to the transmission target entity based on the obtained status information; and generating the V2X message according to the determined security level, and transmitting the V2X message to the transmission target entity. Because security levels of V2X messages are adaptively determined, the V2X messages can be processed according to a processing capability of the transmission target entity and the type of the V2X message, thereby assuring the safety of the driver.
US10736117B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a wireless communication node that receives instructions in a control channel directing it to utilize a spectral segment at a first carrier frequency to communicate with a mobile communication device. Responsive to the instructions, the wireless communication node receives a modulated signal in the spectral segment at a second carrier frequency from the base station, the modulated signal including communications data provided by the base station. The wireless communication node down-shifts the modulated signal at the second carrier frequency to the first carrier frequency, and wirelessly transmits the modulated signal at the first carrier frequency to the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10736114B2
According to one configuration, an analyzer resource determines an ability of a wireless access point to wirelessly communicate over each of multiple available wireless communication channels in a wireless frequency band. The analyzer resource produces performance information (performance metrics or calibration information) based on the measured ability. The analyzer resource assigns the performance metrics to the wireless access point. When operating in the field (such as in a wireless network environment), to provide mobile communication devices access to a remote network, the wireless access point uses the assigned performance metrics as a basis to select amongst multiple available wireless communication channels to communicate with one or more mobile communication devices in the wireless network environment. These and other techniques are disclosed herein.
US10736113B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) and a base station may establish narrowband communications. The base station may configure positioning reference signal (PRS) resources based at least in part on wideband or narrowband transmissions, and a UE may receive the PRS transmissions over one or more narrowband regions. The UE, may determine PRS resources and receive portions of wideband PRS transmissions that are transmitted in one or more narrowband regions of the system bandwidth. The base station may configure PRS resources separately for narrowband devices, such as according to a bandwidth of the narrowband devices or with a single PRS tone per symbol compared to two PRS tones per symbol that may be used for wideband PRS transmissions. The base station may perform positioning measurements for a UE based at least in part on timing of uplink transmissions from the UE.
US10736111B2
Wireless communication devices are adapted to facilitate transmission and reception of non-orthogonal communications. In one example, wireless communication devices can encode an amount of data in accordance with information that at least some of the data will be transmitted as part of a non-orthogonal transmission. The wireless communication device may further transmit the encoded data, and the encoded data can be non-orthogonally combined as part of a non-orthogonal transmission. In another example, wireless communication devices can receive a wireless transmission including a plurality of data streams non-orthogonally combined together. The wireless communication device may decode at least one of the data streams. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US10736102B2
The present disclosure relates generally to wireless devices (e.g., Internet of Things (IoT) devices) and, more particularly, to improving the capacity of a logical channel such as the Random Access Channel (RACH) to cater to wireless traffic (e.g., IoT traffic). In one embodiment, a wireless device, when deciding to attempt a system access in accordance with the present disclosure, would first select a Training Sequence Code (TSC) based on the device's coverage class and then transmit one or more access request bursts (each including the selected TSC) on a logical channel to a wireless access node.
US10736101B2
A flexible radio frame structure for both FDD and TDD is proposed. Under the flexible frame structure, each radio frame consists of a plurality of slots, and each slot within a radio frame has a flexible slot type. As a basic scheduling unit, each slot can be configured by the base station via physical layer signaling. The slot type can be changed dynamically based on current system needs to support different DL/UL ratios and latency requirements. With the support of different slot types and asynchronous DL/UL HARQ operation, HARQ operation for DL/UL can share the same HARQ timing to simplify the system design and reduce implementation complexity.
US10736099B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station may transmit or otherwise indicate a semi-static slot format configuration and a dynamic slot format configuration to a user equipment (UE). The UE may determine a slot format configuration based on the received semi-static and dynamic slot format configurations. In some cases, the UE may replace certain resources of the semi-static slot format configuration with resources from the dynamic slot format configuration depending on a certain embodiment. Additionally or alternatively, the base station may transmit an anchor slot configuration to the UE, which may indicate which resources of the semi-static slot format configuration can be overridden or replaced by the dynamic slot format configuration.
US10736095B2
Method of scrambling signals, transmission point device, and user equipment using the method are provided. The method includes: sending an ID table to a user equipment through higher layer signaling, the ID table being a subset of the whole ID space and containing available IDs for the user equipment; notifying the user equipment an ID in the ID table to be used through physical layer signaling or UE specific higher layer signaling; generating a random seed based on the notified ID; initializing a scrambling sequence by the random seed; and scrambling the signals with the initialized scrambling sequence. The method of the disclosure, by combining physical layer signaling and higher layer signaling, may notify the used group ID and the blind detection space to a UE, wherein the blind detection for the UE is enabled and the signaling overhead is reduced.
US10736087B2
A wireless communication system is presented for future scheduling of secondary component carrier(s) (SCC) during carrier aggregation in LTE wireless communications. A primary component carrier in a first subframe can be used to indicate at what future subframe SCC data may exist for the mobile device (e.g., UE, etc.). The UE can then leave off all SCC receive circuitry until the future subframe, when it can turn on all needed SCC receive circuitry to receive the SCC data. After receiving the SCC data, the UE can again power off the SCC receive circuitry.
US10736086B2
Provided is a technique capable of reporting resource block allocation information with no waste when an allocated resource block is reported, because in the current LTE downlink, the waste of the amount of resource allocation information increases in some cases since a restriction is imposed such that 37-bit fixed scheduling information is transmitted. A resource block group consisting of at least one or more resource blocks continuous on the frequency axis is allocated to a terminal, and the number of controlling signals for reporting allocation information indicating the allocated resource blocks is determined.
US10736085B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an uplink control information sending method, an uplink control information receiving method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, channel indication information from an access network device on a physical control channel; determining the channel resource set that is of N channel resource sets and that matches a type or a size of the UCI as a first channel resource set; determining a channel resource that is in the first channel resource set and that is indicated by the channel indication information; and sending uplink control information UCI to the access network device on the channel resource. A quantity of bits that need to be added to the channel indication information in the embodiments of the present invention is less than that in the prior art.
US10736076B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a methods and apparatus for wireless communication. In one aspect, a method of wireless communication comprises assigning, by an access point, an interval of time for transmission on an unlicensed communication spectrum to a LTE-U device, and broadcasting an anchor signal during the interval of time on the unlicensed communication spectrum, the anchor signal comprising a paging indication for the LTE-U device. In another aspect, a method of wireless communication comprises determining, by a LTE-U device, an interval of time for reception of a paging indication on an unlicensed communication spectrum and receiving an anchor signal during the interval of time on the unlicensed communication spectrum, the anchor signal comprising the paging indication.
US10736070B2
A method for Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) communication registration through a relay user equipment, the method including: receiving, at the relay user equipment from a remote user equipment, an association message, the association message containing a remote user equipment identifier; and responsive to the receiving, performing a registration from the relay user equipment with a network node, the registration including an association between the remote user equipment and the relay user equipment.
US10736066B2
A device-to-device (D2D) communication method and a D2D terminal device, where the method includes determining, by a first device, a time that the first device is out of coverage of a synchronization source after leaving the coverage of the synchronization source determining, by the first device, target timing based on the time, and performing, by the first device, D2D communication based on the target timing. Hence, the target timing can be selected more accurately for the first device.
US10736058B2
Various embodiments include methods for adjusting timing advance values on a mobile communication device that includes receiving, on the mobile communication device, a timing advance adjustment value from a base station and determining whether the timing advance adjustment value exceeds an adjustment threshold. The mobile communication device may ignore the timing advance adjustment value in response to determining that the timing advance adjustment value exceeds the adjustment threshold, and may adjust a timing advance value stored on the mobile communication device by the timing advance adjustment value in response to determining that the timing advance adjustment value does not exceed the adjustment threshold.
US10736049B2
The method of the terminal transmitting the SRS on the basis of the aperiodic SRS triggering according to the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information from the base station; receiving an aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator from the base station; selecting the specific aperiodic SRS configuration information among the plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information on the basis of at least one among a sub-frame index for receiving the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator, a time relation between the aperiodic SRS transmission sub-frames, and an uplink channel state; and transmitting an aperiodic SRS for the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator on the basis of the selected aperiodic SRS configuration information, the plurality of aperiodic SRS configuration information including the information about a resource for transmitting the aperiodic SRS corresponding to the aperiodic SRS transmission triggering indicator. In addition, according to the present invention, the terminal can be used for receiving a power offset value for transmitting the aperiodic SRS from the base station and determining a transmission power value for transmitting the aperiodic SRS.
US10736041B2
Various aspects related to various apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable medium are described herein. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to protect downlink (DL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform DL communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to communicate regarding uplink (UL) communication(s). Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to an allocation vector. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform operation(s) related to random access. Some aspects may enable an apparatus to perform UL communication(s). The written description and appended drawings provide detailed descriptions regarding these and many other aspects.
US10736028B2
Techniques are described using network slice information to negotiate and select network services by determining a set of desired required network provided functionalities; identifying a set of network slices providing one or more of the functionalities in the set of required functionalities; and communicating, to a network, a slice identifier for each slice in the set of the identified network slices.
US10736027B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus, comprising a receiver configured to receive a first distribution factor relating to using a first access, at least one processing core configured to determine, using a probabilistic procedure, based at least in part on the first distribution factor, whether the apparatus is to use the first access, and wherein the at least one processing core is configured to, based on a result of the determination, select an access and to cause the apparatus to use to the selected access.
US10736022B2
In some embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, e.g., direct communication between the wireless stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a mechanism for peer NAN devices to assist one another in receiving communications from an access point common to the peer NAN devices. In some embodiments, a wireless station may establish a communication link with a Wi-Fi access point and establish a peer-to-peer communication link with one or more neighboring wireless stations. In addition, the wireless station may receive transmissions intended for at least one neighboring wireless station of the one or more neighboring wireless stations from the Wi-Fi access point and relay the transmissions to the at least one wireless station on behalf of the Wi-Fi access point.
US10736020B2
A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.
US10736017B2
A user equipment, a method for controlling the user equipment and a network side device are provided in the present disclosure. The method includes transmitting broadcast-type signals and channels to the user equipment through a dedicated resource unit so that the user equipment can access a network; wherein the dedicated resource unit is only configured to transmit the broadcast-type signals and channels, and is continuous in a frequency domain and a time domain. The present disclosure can control the user equipment to access the network.
US10736015B1
In one embodiment, a controller of a multi-hop wireless network may access an interference map indicating interference among network nodes, each network node comprising sectors that each comprise an array of beamforming antennae. The controller may identify desired links between network nodes, each desired link being associated with a transmitting (TX) beamforming weight variable and a receiving (RX) beamforming weight variable. The controller may generate a factor-graph representation of the multi-hop wireless network comprising a first and second set of vertices, wherein the first set of vertices are variable nodes representing pairs of beamforming weight variables associated with identified desired links, and the second set of vertices are function nodes representing capacity equations associated with identified desired links. The controller may determine adjustments for beamforming weights of the identified desired links to reduce interference among the network nodes by applying a belief-propagation algorithm to a portion of the factor-graph representation.
US10736003B2
A method may include determining that a user equipment (UE) device is a dual connectivity device capable of communicating via a Fifth Generation (5G) network and a non-5G network. The method may also include receiving, a radio resource control (RRC) connection request, establishing an RRC connection with the UE device and determining whether the first wireless station is a dual connectivity wireless station. The method may further include initiating, in response to determining that the first wireless station is not a dual connectivity wireless station, a handover of a wireless connection to the UE device from the first wireless station to a second wireless station that is a dual connectivity wireless station, or identifying, in response to determining that the first wireless station is a dual connectivity wireless station, a 5G wireless station in the 5G network to act as a serving cell for the UE device.
US10735982B2
A radio terminal according to one embodiment comprises a controller configured to monitor a PDCCH within an On duration occurring every DRX cycle, and a receiver configured to receive, from a base station, special downlink control information not including scheduling information via the PDCCH within the On duration. The controller continues the monitoring of the PDCCH across a DRX inactivity duration, in response to the reception of the special downlink control information.
US10735980B2
It is recognized herein that as the number of transmit antennas in cellular systems (e.g., NR or 5G systems) increase, the Channel State information (CSI) feedback overhead may increase to unacceptable levels, and the current CSI feedback might not support beamforming training for NR. Embodiments described herein provide an enhanced and more efficient design for Channel State Information feedback as compared to current approaches.
US10735979B2
A self-organizing backhaul radio (SOBR) and related arrangements are disclosed. A “primary” link between an first SOBR enabled radio and a second SOBR radio includes a secondary transmission link, referred to as a signature control channel (SCC), as a spread spectrum modulated signal embedded within and transmitted simultaneously with the primary link. The SCC transmissions from the first SOBR radio may be utilized by other SOBR enabled radios to determine an interference level to or from the first SOBR radio's primary link. The SCC transmission may be utilized to allow transmit beam forming between SOBR-enabled radios without damaging other friendly SOBR radios within the propagation distance of the transmitted signals based upon the detection of the SCC transmissions.
US10735971B2
The present disclosure provides a communication method and a communication device. The method includes: configuring at least one serving cell for each terminal, each of the at least one serving cell working on an unlicensed carrier; selecting at least one of the at least one serving cell as a primary cell or a primary secondary cell of the terminal, the selected serving cell forming a primary cell group or a primary secondary cell group of the terminal; and controlling the primary cell group or the primary secondary cell group to send a MIB to the terminal. The technical solution improves a transmission probability of the MIB of the primary cell group or the primary secondary cell group on an unlicensed frequency band, ensuring that a user receives the MIB in time to perform a time synchronization, the communication is normal, and delay and efficiency requirements of communication are met.
US10735968B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique and system for combining IoT technologies with 5G communication systems to support a higher data rate after 4G communication systems. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services based on 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, and security and safety. Provided are is a method and apparatus for supporting the licensed-assisted access (LAA) technology in a wireless communication system. The method for a user equipment (UE) may include: sending a first report message containing information on whether the LAA technology is supported to a base station (ENB) supporting a first communication technology; detecting usage of a second communication technology in a first band of the unlicensed spectrum; and sending, upon detecting usage of the second communication technology in the first band, a second report message containing information on usage of the second communication technology to the ENB.
US10735965B2
A system for controlling accesses to network enabled devices includes a network interface over which a hub communicates with network enabled devices, a processor, and a multilayer access control layer. The access control layer includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to detect, at the hub, a request representing an attempt by an application executing on a remote host device to access a network enabled device communicatively coupled to the hub, characterize the request according to a user of the remote host device, the application making the attempt, and the network enabled device, and determine whether to allow or deny the request based upon the characterization and a plurality of rules. The rules may include definitions of access rights, with respect to the network enabled device, for users, applications, commands or queries made by applications, remote host devices, and network domains.
US10735961B1
Methods and systems for multimedia messaging service (MMS) authentication over IP networks are disclosed. An access identifier records message corresponding to a user by a multimedia messaging service center (MMSC) forwarded by a server is received. Data from the access identifier records message including a mobile directory number, a framed IP address, access network information and a session ID is extracted and stored in a cache accessible to the MMSC. Network IP authentication is executed to determine that the user has a valid IP address. Client IP authentication of the user is executed to determine that the valid IP address is stored in the cache. A correspondence between the valid IP address and a mobile directory number of the user is determined. The user is authenticated for MMS over the IP network based on the correspondence.
US10735960B2
Methods and systems for authenticated wake-up radio frames are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes generating a wake-up radio (WUR) integrity group key (IGTK) for authentication of WUR frames when received by a wake-up radio (WURx). The WUR IGTK may be identified via a key identifier in the WUR frame. The key identifier may be updated when the WUR IGTK is updated, facilitating WUR IGTK key updating across multiple associated stations.
US10735957B2
An apparatus suitable for at least to: select a cell in a low activity state, and; in the case the selected cell is the same as a serving cell while carrying out a state change to the low activity state, transmit a radio connection resume request to the selected cell; or in the case the selected cell is another cell than the serving cell while carrying out a state change to the low activity state, transmit a radio resume request to the selected cell with information on the location of the user device provided the information on the location has not been transmitted in relation to a cell change carried out in the low activity state; receive, as a response to the radio connection resume request, a radio connection resume request response, and carry out a radio connection resume for the data transmission.
US10735956B2
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 of a terminal according to the present disclosure includes: transmitting connection request messages for network slices, which are networks constructed for each service, to a network; receiving response messages including identifiers of the network slices from a base station; and generating security contexts for each network slice based on at least one of the identifiers of the network slices and tokens generated during an authentication process with a third party.
US10735954B2
One method for allowing and controlling access to an open WLAN network is through the use of a secure website such as a Hotspot or Captive Portal landing page that the device must “log in” to in order to have access to the network. Credentials for a Captive Portal or Hotspot landing page (or other websites) are conventionally managed by a browser application and stored in a browser data storage space. According to some aspects of the disclosure, an electronic device obtains credentials for a website, such as a Captive Portal or Hotspot landing page. The credentials are stored in a network settings space on the electronic device. The credentials may be stored in a WLAN profile. The device may automatically log in to a webpage using the credentials, which may facilitate seamless connectivity.
US10735949B1
A system for updating a preferred nodes list for a wireless device in a wireless network includes a server in communication with a plurality of nodes each configured to deploy a radio air interface to provide wireless services to wireless devices. The server includes a processor configured to instruct, in response to a trigger, a first node to send a message to a wireless device connected to the first node. The message instructs the wireless device to contact the server for an updated preferred nodes list. The processor receives a request for the updated preferred nodes list from the wireless device, and provides the updated preferred nodes list to the wireless device. The updated preferred nodes list enables the wireless device to change from connecting to the first node included in the preferred nodes list to connecting to a second node included in the updated preferred nodes list.
US10735944B2
An eSIM management framework can serve as an abstraction layer between various partners, mobile network operators, mobile-virtual network operators, and/or enterprises and SIM or eSIM vendors. The eSIM management framework can facilitate real-time SIM and/or eSIM profile provisioning to reduce consumption of network resources. In some examples, an eSIM management framework can facilitate just-in-time client-side provisioning, which can include on-demand generation of an appropriate SIM or eSIM profile.
US10735939B2
This application provide example mobility management methods, access network control devices, and communications systems. One example method includes receiving, by an access network control device, a location area request message of user equipment (UE) through a first station, where the UE is located in a cell managed by the first station. The access network control device can configure at least one location area identity list for the UE based on the location area request message, where the location area identity list includes at least one location area identity, and the location area identity is used to identify a location area. The access network control device can then send the at least one location area identity list to the UE through the first station.
US10735936B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to transmission of emergency event notifications and reception of responses corresponding to the emergency event notifications. A computing platform may receive emergency event information. The computing device may identify, based on the emergency event information, a first target device. The computing device may transmit, a first notification to the first target device. Thereafter, the computing device may receive, from the first target device, a response corresponding to the first notification. The computing device may identify, based on the first response and the emergency event information, a second target device. Then, the computing device may transmit a second notification to the second target device. The second notification may comprise information that is different from information in the first notification.
US10735935B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires first communication information for connecting with an apparatus via a first network and second communication information for connecting with the apparatus via a second network, a determination unit that determines whether communication between an information processing apparatus and the apparatus via the first network based on the first communication information is possible, a connection unit that connects the information processing apparatus with the apparatus via the second network based on the second communication information when the communication via the first network is impossible, and a request unit that transmits a processing request to the apparatus via the first network when the communication via the first network is possible, and transmits the processing request to the apparatus via the second network when the information processing apparatus is connected with the apparatus via the second network.
US10735926B2
Provided is a method for operating a transmission buffer in a wireless communication system. The method is performed by a user equipment (UE), and comprises detecting, in a switching layer, whether a transmission of data on a first transmission link is successful via the lower layer, determining whether to keep the transmission of the data on the first transmission link or to perform the transmission of the data on a second transmission link when the transmission of the data is not successful and performing the transmission of the data on the determined transmission link.
US10735921B2
A fireman positioning system includes: a first radio wave emitting device and a second radio wave emitting device, spaced with a predetermined distance and utilized for correspondingly emitting a first frequency modulated signal and a second frequency modulated signal; and a position receiving device, carried or worn by a fireman, and utilized for receiving the first frequency modulating signal and the second frequency modulating signal, and can demodulate the first frequency modulated signal via a first carrier signal so as to obtain a first output signal, and demodulate the second frequency modulated signal via a second carrier signal so as to obtain a second output signal, wherein a phase difference is formed between the first output signal and the second output signal, and the position receiving device can determine a direction angle of the fireman relative to the two radio wave emitting devices via the phase difference.
US10735911B2
A wireless communication device used in a vehicle is provided, includes a communicator that performs wireless communication with a service provider terminal, a vehicle condition acquirer that acquires a condition of the vehicle, a correspondence storage that stores a correspondence of what type of service is available under what condition of the vehicle, and an availability determiner that determines whether the service provided by the service provider terminal is available under the condition of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle condition acquirer, based on service type information included received by the communicator, the condition of the vehicle acquired by the vehicle condition acquirer, and the correspondence stored in the correspondence storage. When the availability determiner determines that the service is unavailable, the communicator does not open a service channel designated by the service provider terminal.
US10735904B2
In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method and system for providing job status information for an IoT device are disclosed. The method providing job status information for an IoT device includes receiving location information of the IoT device; receiving job assignment information for the IoT device; and evaluating the location information to determine the job status for the IoT device based on a specified condition. The system for providing job status information for an IoT devices includes at least one IoT device, a data processing system and a user interface, wherein the data processing system further comprises a storage database, wherein the storage database receives location information of the IoT device and job assignment information for the IoT device; an analytics engine, wherein the analytics engine evaluates the location information to determine the job status for the IoT device based on a specified condition.
US10735898B2
A device and method determine a location of a terminal by selecting one of a GPS signal and a beacon signal when a terminal moves indoors and outdoors. The device includes a measurement unit for measuring a signal strength of a GPS signal and a signal strength of a beacon signal, respectively; a selection unit for comparing the measured signal strengths and selecting one signal of the GPS signal and the beacon signal based on the comparison; and a determination unit for determining the location of the terminal using the selected signal. The selection unit compares the measured signal strengths based on at least one of a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to select a signal having a comparatively stronger strength, and selects a signal whose strength is increasing when the measured signal strengths are substantially equal to each other.
US10735890B1
A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries.
US10735886B2
A method of generating binaural headphone playback signals given multiple audio source signals with an associated metadata and binaural room impulse response (BRIR) database, wherein the multiple audio source signals can be channel-based, object-based, or a mixture of both signals. The method includes grouping the multiple audio source signals according to positions of the audio sources in a hierarchical manner, and parameterizing BRIR to be used for rendering. The method also includes dividing each audio source signal to be rendered into a number of blocks and frames, averaging the parameterized BRIR sequences identified with a hierarchically grouping result, and downmixing the divided audio source signals identified with the hierarchically grouping result.
US10735880B2
Systems and methods of forming transducer diaphragms are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method of producing a transducer diaphragm includes receiving a workpiece between a first forming tool and a second forming tool. The workpiece can have an inner boundary defining a central aperture. The workpiece with the aperture is compressed between the first and second forming tools to form the transducer diaphragm.
US10735874B2
Various methods and apparatus for processing audio signals are disclosed herein. The assembly may be attached, adhered, or otherwise embedded into or upon a removable oral appliance to form a hearing aid assembly. Such an oral appliance may be a custom-made device which can enhance and/or optimize received audio signals for vibrational conduction to the user. Received audio signals may be processed to cancel acoustic echo such that undesired sounds received by one or more intra-buccal and/or extra-buccal microphones are eliminated or mitigated. Additionally, a multiband actuation system may be used where two or more transducers each deliver sounds within certain frequencies. Also, the assembly may also utilize the sensation of directionality via the conducted vibrations to emulate directional perception of audio signals received by the user. Another feature may include the ability to vibrationally conduct ancillary audio signals to the user along with primary audio signals.
US10735873B2
A hearing aid apparatus contains a housing having a housing face. The housing face is directed outwardly when the hearing aid apparatus is being worn. The hearing aid apparatus further has an antenna and a transmitter and/or receiver for electromagnetic waves disposed in the housing. The transmitter and/or receiver is coupled to the antenna element. A grip element is disposed on the housing face of the housing, and the antenna is integrated at least in part in the grip element.
US10735865B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for microspeaker devices. In one aspect, a microspeaker element may include a deformable dielectric membrane that spans a speaker cavity. The deformable dielectric membrane can include a piezoactuator and a dielectric layer. Upon application of a driving signal to the piezoactuator, the dielectric layer can deflect, producing sound. In some implementations, an array of microspeaker elements can be encapsulated between a glass substrate and a cover glass. Sound generated by the microspeaker elements can be emitted through a speaker grill formed in the cover glass.
US10735858B2
A system includes an audio transducer. The audio output of the transducer may be directed at an operator. The directionality of the audio output may ensure privacy in audio delivery. Further, the directionality of the audio output may reduce the potential for other nearby individuals to be disturbed by the audio output. A directed audio system may control the content of the audio output. The content of the audio output may be configured for applications in individual operator workspaces, multiple-operator common spaces, shared-use spaces or a combination thereof. The directed audio system may customize the audio output in accord with a stored audio profile for the operator.
US10735847B2
An earphone includes an earphone body and an adjustment assembly. The earphone includes a shell and a speaker unit. The shell has a chamber, an audio hole and a ventilation hole. The audio hole and the ventilation hole are connected to the chamber. The speaker unit is located in the chamber and is corresponding to the audio hole. The adjustment assembly includes a baffle and a button. The baffle is located in the chamber and is located between the speaker unit and the ventilation hole. The button is connected to the baffle and is movably disposed on the shell so that the baffle is movable to connect the ventilation hole to the chamber or to disconnect the ventilation hole from the chamber by the button.
US10735844B2
Provided is a wearable device that is worn on a human ear and mainly outputs or inputs sound. The outer casing 110 is formed into an elongated shape so as to fit the cymba conchae 306 formed between the antihelix inferior crus 302b and the crus helicis 309. The sound generating unit 120 includes a vibration element 121 and a weight 122. The vibration element 121 has an elongated shape along the longitudinal direction of the outer casing 110, and has one end fixed to the inner wall of the outer casing 110, and the other end to which a weight 122 is attached, the other hand being an open end. By applying an alternating electric field to the vibration element 121, vibration corresponding to audio is generated.
US10735823B2
A method and device for providing live adaptive bitrate (ABR) video to a client device using a multicast-to-unicast-ABR proxy is disclosed. The method includes responsive to the client device tuning to a channel or requesting a change in profile for the channel, requesting from a distribution server a burst of video fragments for the channel using a selected profile, the burst of video fragments to be delivered via unicast; responsive to the burst being completed, requesting to join a multicast for the channel, the multicast using the selected profile; and providing video for the channel to the client device via unicast using the selected profile.
US10735798B2
A method and system for distributing video content across a distributed network is described. The system comprises a first device having video data provided thereon. A first application is operable on the first device and is configured for associating control data with the video data, wherein the control data contains information for creating auxiliary data which is to be presented with the video data subsequent to the video data being broadcast to one or more second devices across the network. A control centre is in communication with the first application for receiving the video data and the associated control data from the first device. The control centre is operable to broadcast the video data and the associated control data to one or more second devices. A media player is provided on the respective second devices which is operable in response to reading the control data to create the auxiliary data on the respective second device. The media player is operable to launch the auxiliary data while the media player is playing the video data.
US10735797B2
Multimedia content to participant client devices may be simultaneously presented using a moderator device. An interactive program with the multimedia content and an interactive component associated with the multimedia content may be generated. Participant client devices and the user of the moderator client device may interact with the interactive program to cause the multimedia content and the interactive component to be simultaneously displayed on the display of each of the participant client devices and the display of the moderator client device.
US10735796B2
A system finds and aggregates the most relevant and current information about the people and things that a user cares about. The information gathering is based on current context (e.g., where the user is, what the user is doing, what the user is saying/typing, etc.). The result of the context based information gathering is presented ubiquitously on user interfaces of any of the various physical devices operated by the user.
US10735794B2
The present disclosure relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and an information processing system capable of appropriately performing scaling of a distribution device which distributes an audio stream encoded by a lossless compression system. An original distribution server performs scaling of a premium server which distributes the audio stream to a premium client on the basis of bit rate information including an average value of a predetermined period of bit rates of the audio stream encoded by a lossless DSD system. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, the original distribution server or the like.
US10735785B1
An Internet Layer end-to-end security connection (an Internet protocol (IP) encrypted tunnel) is established between a television receiving device and each player device on a home local area network (LAN) as part of the initial pairing process between each player device and the television receiving device. Traffic between the television receiving device and the player device is communicated via IP on the LAN, such that data between the two devices is securely encrypted at the Internet Layer, thus reducing potential security issues related to managing security and encryption at the application layer. This results in a secure virtual private network (VPN) between each player device and the television receiving device.
US10735769B2
Techniques related to temporal noise reduction in captured video are discussed. Such techniques include performing motion estimation on a portion of a downsampled current frame performed during the downsampling of the current frame, replacing one or more of the resultant motion vectors based on confidence scores of the resultant motion vector, and blending the current frame and a temporally previous frame to generate a temporally filtered current frame. The temporally filtered current frame may be displayed to a user and/or encoded to generate a bitstream.
US10735766B2
A method for coding auxiliary information of 3D point cloud data is described herein. The coding method utilizes 3D surface patches to represent point clouds, and performs flexible mapping of 3D patch surface data into 2D canvas images. Auxiliary data is transmitted in order to correctly identify and reconstruct the 3D patches from 2D information. The auxiliary data is encoded using a video encoder.
US10735759B2
An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block in a current coded picture. The prediction information indicates a prediction mode that uses a motion vector predictor candidate list for reconstructing the current block. The processing circuitry includes a new motion vector predictor into the motion vector predictor candidate list. The new motion vector predictor is one of a first motion vector predictor and a second motion vector predictor. The first motion vector predictor is a first average result of a pair of existing motion vector predictors in the motion vector predictor candidate list and a temporal motion vector predictor (TMVP). The second motion vector predictor is a second average result of a pair of history-based motion vector predictors (HMVPs) in an HMVP buffer. The processing circuitry reconstructs the current block based on the motion vector predictor candidate list.
US10735754B2
Techniques of compressing color images in the presence of chromatic aberrations involve performing, prior to compression, a chromatic aberration correction operation on a color image. Along these lines, the chromatic aberration of an imaging system may be represented as a vector displacement map between a red channel and a green channel of a color image, a blue channel and a green channel of the color image, or both. In some implementations, prior to adding the vector displacements to each of the images of the red channel and the blue channel, these displacements are weighted according to proximity from an edge of each of the respective red and blue images. In some further implementations, the vector displacement maps as well as the weights are blurred with a blurring kernel such as a gaussian. Once these vector displacements are added to each of the red and blue images, the resulting color images are linearly combined to produce a new brightness channel Y. This new brightness channel Y is compressed to form the compressed color image.
US10735751B2
Systems, methods and computer readable mediums are presented for encoding a stream of input video frames, in which the input video frames are down sampled and the down sampled frames are encoded in a first encoding pass to generate a set of first pass coded frames forming a single first pass I frame and a plurality of first pass P frames formed into first pass sub-groups of pictures (SUB-GOPs). First pass encoding statistics are generated for individual first pass SUB-GOPs, and the statistics are used to encode the input video frames in a second encoding pass to generate a set of second pass coded frames.
US10735747B2
Approaches to selection of motion vector (“MV”) precision during video encoding are presented. These approaches can facilitate compression that is effective in terms of rate-distortion performance and/or computational efficiency. For example, a video encoder determines an MV precision for a unit of video from among multiple MV precisions, which include one or more fractional-sample MV precisions and integer-sample MV precision. The video encoder can identify a set of MV values having a fractional-sample MV precision, then select the MV precision for the unit based at least in part on prevalence of MV values (within the set) having a fractional part of zero. Or, the video encoder can perform rate-distortion analysis, where the rate-distortion analysis is biased towards the integer-sample MV precision. Or, the video encoder can collect information about the video and select the MV precision for the unit based at least in part on the collected information.
US10735745B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video encoding/decoding. Processing circuitry of the apparatus can decode first prediction information of a first coding block in a first key picture from a coded video bitstream. The first key picture is one of multiple key pictures in a video sequence and includes a first intra coded region and a first inter coded region. When the first prediction information indicates that the first coding block is in the first intra coded region, the processing circuitry reconstructs at least one sample of the first coding block based on the first intra coded region. When the first prediction information indicates that the first coding block is in the first inter coded region, the processing circuitry reconstructs the at least one sample of the first coding block based on a region different from the first inter coded region.
US10735743B2
A method for encoding a multi-view frame in a video encoder is provided that includes computing a depth quality sensitivity measure for a multi-view coding block in the multi-view frame, computing a depth-based perceptual quantization scale for a 2D coding block of the multi-view coding block, wherein the depth-based perceptual quantization scale is based on the depth quality sensitive measure and a base quantization scale for the 2D frame including the 2D coding block, and encoding the 2D coding block using the depth-based perceptual quantization scale.
US10735739B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses may encode a media content item based on metadata from previous encoding. The encoding may also generate encoding metadata, which may comprise a qualitative or quantitative characterization of the encoded media content item. A prediction engine may, based on this metadata, determine new encoding settings for the same or a different video resolution. The prediction engine may cause an encoded media content item to be stored and may cause encoding of the media content item using the new encoding settings.
US10735738B2
The refinement of a lower-pel resolution motion estimation vector is made more effective by preceding the actual refinement with a determination of a context out of a set of context candidates based on coding costs of a set of lower-pel resolution vectors within a neighborhood of the lower-pel resolution motion estimation vector, wherein each context candidate is associated with a ranking among a set of higher-pel resolution candidate vectors surrounding the lower-pel resolution motion estimation vector. The actual refinement of the lower-pel resolution motion estimation vector to obtain the higher-pel resolution motion estimation vector may thus use the ranking associated with the context determined: sequentially arranged accordingly, the set of higher-pel resolution candidate vectors may be tested sequentially.
US10735736B2
An apparatus for decoding transform coefficients using an alphabet of transform coefficient tokens includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to select a first probability distribution corresponding to a first context, select a second probability distribution corresponding to a second context, and, in response to determining that the second probability distribution includes a probability for a transform coefficient token, mix the first probability distribution and the second probability distribution to generate a mixed probability and entropy decode, from an encoded bitstream, the transform coefficient token using the mixed probability. The first probability distribution is defined for all tokens of the alphabet. The second probability distribution is defined over a non-trivial partition of the tokens.
US10735730B2
A method and apparatus for partitioning a block to permit the encoding or decoding of a video sequence includes partitioning the block using a split-to-square partition pattern, a horizontal binary tree partition pattern, or a horizontal ternary tree partition pattern to generate a set of sub-blocks, wherein a same priority is allocated to the split-to-square partition pattern, the horizontal binary tree partition pattern, and the horizontal ternary tree partition pattern such that the split-to-square partition pattern may be used before, after, or interleaved with the horizontal binary tree partition pattern and the horizontal ternary tree partition pattern. Encoding or decoding the video sequence is performed based on partitioning the block using the split-to-square partition pattern, the horizontal binary tree partition pattern, or the horizontal ternary tree partition pattern.
US10735728B2
Disclosed are a method for processing an image and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for decoding an image comprises: a step of deriving an initial block size information indicating information in which a first block, which is a basic unit for dividing an image, is divided into one or more initial blocks; a step of deriving a division information indicating information in which the initial block is divided into a plurality of second blocks in the initial block unit divided from the first block based on the initial block size information; and a step of decoding in a second block unit recursively divided from the initial block based on the division information.
US10735721B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: generates a prediction image to be used to encode a current block to be processed; derives a luminance correction parameter by referring to an image region which is included in an image including the current block and is outside the current block; and corrects the prediction image to be used to encode the current block, using the luminance correction parameter. The luminance correction parameter is used in common between a plurality of blocks included in the image.
US10735716B2
A system, comprising a computer that includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to actuate a first actuator movingly connected to the camera cover and the light to move the calibration pattern and the light to cover a lens window of a camera. The processor can further execute instructions to actuate a second actuator movingly connected to the calibration pattern and the light to move the calibration pattern and the light along an optical axis of the camera.
US10735712B2
A method and system are described. The method includes capturing a set of images from an array of cameras, each camera of the array of cameras having an overlapping field of view (FOV) with an adjacent camera of the array of cameras. The method further includes synchronously capturing a supplemental image from an additional camera, the additional camera having an at least partially overlapping FOV with every camera of the array of cameras. Supplemental information is extracted by comparing the supplemental image with the set of images. Portions of the set of images are stitched based in part on the supplemental information to produce a combined stitched image, the combined stitched image having a higher resolution than each image of the set of images.
US10735708B2
A method and apparatus are provided for transforming data provided in a spherical format. A spherical format is created of an image obtained by a camera, the spherical format comprising a notional sphere that has a centre corresponding to the position from which the image was obtained by the camera. A first surface represented in the image had a first orientation and was at a first distance from the camera when the image was obtained. A selected point in said spherical format is obtained, which is defined by spherical coordinates consisting of a yaw angle and a pitch angle defining a line from the centre of the sphere. A plane is identified that has the first orientation and is at the first distance from the centre. A location in a Cartesian coordinate system is calculated where the plane intersects with the line, wherein two of the axes of the Cartesian coordinate system are parallel to the first plane. Thereby, the position of the point on the first surface is identified. This location, and other locations corresponding to to other selected points, may be used to transform data in the spherical image for display.
US10735707B2
A method includes capturing, by a camera, two-dimensional imagery. The method also includes determining, by a positioning sensor, a viewing perspective of a viewer of the two-dimensional imagery. The method also includes generating at least a first imagery based at least on the captured two-dimensional imagery and the determined viewing perspective. The method also includes displaying a three-dimensional representation of the two-dimensional imagery to the viewer. The displaying the three-dimensional representation includes displaying dual imagery, and the dual imagery includes the first imagery.
US10735706B2
Disclosed is a method for compensating for motion blur when performing a 3D scanning of at least a part of an object by means of a 3D scanner, where the motion blur occurs because the scanner and the object are moved relative to each other while the scanning is performed, and where the motion blur compensation comprises: —determining whether there is a relative motion between the scanner and the object during the acquisition of the sequence of focus plane images; —if a relative motion is determined, performing a motion compensation based on the determined motion; and —generating a 3D surface from the sequence of focus plane images.
US10735703B2
An electronic device and an associated image processing method are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an image to be processed, and determining whether the image to be processed is a non-standard image; when the determination result is affirmative, automatically converting the image to be processed as a non-standard image into a standard image adapted to a signal output range of the electronic device; and outputting the standard image. With the above method, a non-standard image can be converted to a standard image and outputted without involving manual adjustment of a user, thereby improving image output effects of the electronic device and satisfying user utilization requirements.
US10735696B1
A backup communication system and method provides communicating between a video doorbell and a doorbell sound output device when communication between the video doorbell and a remote server us unavailable. When a front button of the video doorbell is pressed or motion is detected in front of the video doorbell, the video doorbell attempts to send a message to the remote server via a wireless local area network (WLAN). The video doorbell determines when the message is not received by the remote server, such as when the WLAN is not connected to the internet and/or the remote server does not acknowledge the message, and sends, via the WLAN, a broadcast message to the doorbell sound output device. The doorbell sound output device detects the broadcast message from the video doorbell and generates the audio tone.
US10735692B2
A high mast light pole inspection system includes a command center and a transport vehicle. The transport vehicle has a frame configured to be secured around a high mast light pole, and a plurality of sets of wheels. Each set of wheels has a spring mechanism that biases a respective set of wheels inward towards a center of the frame. The plurality of sets of wheels are wirelessly controlled from the command center. In addition, the transport vehicle includes a plurality of cameras mounted to the frame, a power supply coupled to each set of wheels and camera, and a RF digital video transmitter coupled to the plurality of cameras. The transmitter is configured to transmit a wireless multiplexed output of the cameras to the command center.
US10735685B2
A control method of presented information in a control device, having first and second sensor sections and that is connected to a network, is provided. The method includes acquiring information concerning a human activity detected by first and second sensor sections during first and second periods. The method also includes a first control operation of (i) determining content that is to be output by the first output section during the second period, based on the information concerning a human activity detected during the first period by the first and second sensor sections, and then (ii) causing the first output section to output the determined content in a case where it is determined that a human activity is performed during the second period in a space in which the first sensor section is disposed, based on the information concerning a human activity during the second period acquired from the first sensor section.
US10735679B2
HDR image generating processing is performed which generates one image from a plurality of images captured with different exposures within an image pickup device so that increases of power consumption and frame rate reduction can be improved.
US10735678B2
There is provided an image sensor comprising: a pixel unit having a plurality of pixels; an A/D converter which converts an image signal from the pixel into a digital image signal; a gradation converter which performs a gradation conversion to the digital image signal; and a selector which selects gradation converting characteristics of the gradation conversion to the digital image signal performed by the gradation converter.
US10735671B2
An automated electronic video surveillance system enables a high-resolution mega-pixel camera to capture high quality, detailed, magnified images at multiple locations, simultaneously with an overview of the whole scene. A preferred embodiment requiring no moving parts provides full 360-degree continuous viewing with up to 5× all-digital zoom capability. The system performs continuous surveillance and active resolution allocation in the form of a feedback control subsystem that dynamically allocates resources so that important details within a scene receive appropriate scrutiny, while uninteresting areas are imaged at a lower resolution.
US10735665B2
An information handling system operating a wearable headset IR emitter saturation correction system may comprise an infrared emitter emitting IR light, a camera capturing a calibration image and a first session image of the IR light reflected from a landmark, and a SLAM engine generating a first session SLAM frame. A processor may execute code instructions to compare the measured calibration pixel brightness value for each pixel associated with the landmark in a calibration image with a measured first session pixel brightness value for each pixel associated with the landmark in the first session image to determine whether the first session SLAM frame is over or under saturated, and determine an adjusted brightness if the first session SLAM frame is over or under saturated. The infrared emitter may emit light according to the adjusted brightness.
US10735663B2
An image sensing device includes an image sensor that converts incident light into a first image by operating the image sensor under a first exposure time and a second image by operating the image sensor under a second exposure time which is different from the first exposure time; a calculation circuit to receive the first image and generate a third image corresponding to the second image based on the first image and a exposure ratio between the first and the second exposure times; a combination circuit to combine the second image and the third image to generate a combination image; a conversion circuit to convert or maintain each code value of the combination image to have the same bit depth based on the combination image and the exposure ratio; and a memory circuit coupled to the conversion circuit to store image values outputted from the conversion circuit.
US10735662B2
A digital camera includes an imaging control unit that images a subject by performing driving based on a rolling shutter method on an imaging sensor, and a light emission control unit that emits auxiliary light a plurality of times from a light emission device while the imaging is performed. A difference Δt between start timings of exposure started by the driving in two adjacent pixel rows is a value other than 1/n (n is an integer greater than or equal to 1) of an exposure time in which the exposure is performed. The light emission control unit controls a light emission cycle of the auxiliary light to be a time that is m (m is an integer greater than or equal to 1) times the difference.
US10735655B2
An image processing circuit obtains filter information individually corresponding to two or more types of image stabilization processing used in shooting and performs predetermined computational processing based on the filter information individually corresponding to the two or more types of image stabilization processing to create a correction filter for use in correcting a captured image. Then, the image processing circuit performs correction processing using the created correction filter on the captured image captured using the two or more types of image stabilization processing.
US10735649B2
A virtual or augmented reality display system that controls power inputs to the display system as a function of image data. Image data itself is made of a plurality of image data frames, each with constituent color components of, and depth planes for displaying on, rendered content. Light sources or spatial light modulators to relay illumination from the light sources may receive signals from a display controlled to adjust a power setting to the light source or spatial light modulator based on control information embedded in an image data frame.
US10735641B2
An in-vehicle display control device includes a display video data generating unit 31 that obtains captured video data from a rear camera 2 used in capturing the rearward portion of a vehicle, and generates display video data to be displayed in a rearview monitor 3 meant for displaying rearward videos of the vehicle; a range setting unit 35 that sets a first-type range and a second type range with respect to the display video data, the second-type range being placed on either side of the first-type range and positioned in each side portion of the display video data; a video processing unit 36 that, with respect to the video data in the second-type range set by the range setting unit 35, performs an information volume reduction operation for reducing the volume of information to be provided to the driver; and a display control unit 40.
US10735638B2
A display system for a vehicle includes a first imager configured to capture image data in a field of view rearward of the vehicle. A second imager is also configured to capture image data in the field of view rearward of the vehicle. The display system additionally includes a first display device disposed in a passenger compartment of the vehicle and a second display device also disposed in the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The display system also includes a controller in communication with the first and second imagers and the first and second display devices wherein the controller is operable to adjust at least one of an orientation and a scale of two desired views of the image data for display on the first and second display devices.
US10735616B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium has control instructions to control a computer of an information processing device including a communication interface used to perform communications with an image processing apparatus, and the control instructions cause the computer to perform: determining whether updating of firmware of the image processing apparatus is necessary to execute specific processing in the image processing apparatus; and outputting information based on a result of the determining.
US10735595B2
Systems and methods for voice mail delivery may include receiving a voicemail by a device of a subscriber, determining if the subscriber is a member of a group of members, and, upon a determination that the subscriber is a member of the group, combining the voice mail message with a second voice mail message received by a member of the group other than the subscriber to generate a combined voice mail message.
US10735581B2
A method of obtaining and automatically providing secure authentication information includes registering a client device over a data line, storing information and a changeable value for authentication in subsequent telephone-only transactions. In the subsequent transactions, a telephone call placed from the client device to an interactive voice response server is intercepted and modified to include dialing of a delay and at least a passcode, the passcode being based on the unique information and the changeable value, where the changeable value is updated for every call session. The interactive voice response server forwards the passcode and a client device identifier to an authentication function, which compares the received passcode to plural passcodes generated based on information and iterations of a value stored in correspondence with the client device identifier. Authentication is confirmed when a generated passcode matches the passcode from the client device.
US10735572B2
An expandable spinning accessory for a portable media player. The accessory includes a platform for attaching the spinning accessory to the portable media player or a case for the portable media player. The accessory also includes a skin operably coupled to the platform, a button operably coupled to the skin opposite the platform, and a bearing assembly operably coupled to the skin and to the button. The bearing assembly is configured to facilitate rotation of the button relative to the skin.
US10735571B2
A display device includes: a display panel configured to display an image; a sound element on a rear side of the display panel; and a rear chassis configured to receive the display panel and protect the rear side of the display panel, and including a protruding portion protruding away from the rear side of the display panel and corresponding to the sound element. The sound element includes a pair of electrodes, and a vibration material layer between the electrodes.
US10735568B2
A device comprising a means to re-direct the line of sight of a camera function of a smartphone.
US10735559B2
A card device is adapted to accept a load packet for an applet and to process and apply to the load packet an INSTALL command in order to prompt an installation of an instance of the applet in the card device. The INSTALL command is adapted to set up in the card device an application identifier comprised in the loading package that relates to the instance of the applet to be installed. The INSTALL command is adapted to install the applet instance while considering the application identifier and to set up in the card device at least one further application identifier that relates to the same instance of the applet.
US10735551B2
A method and system for generating a digital profile defined by digital behavior expressed by a device includes receiving digital behavior data and identifying information defined by a device in communication with a content server, generating a device profile for the device, associating the device with at least one device population, and generating a population profile defined by the device population. The device profiles and population profiles may be made accessible to users of a social network. Related contents, including identifying information, device behavior analysis, comparative ratings, service and diagnostic information, messages and alerts may be associated with a device profile or population profile and published to the social network. A population profile may define normal digital behavior of the population, such that the population profile may be compared with the device profile of a device, to determine whether the device operation is abnormal with respect to the population profile.
US10735550B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for providing a smart cache. In embodiments, a variable time to live (TTL) may be calculated and associated with data as it is stored in a cache. The variable TTL may be calculated based upon reputation and/or category information related to the source of the data. The reputation and/or category information may include TTL modifiers for adjusting the TTL for data from a particular data source that is stored in the cache. In further embodiments, a feedback method may be employed to update reputation and/or category information for a particular data source.
US10735549B2
A network apparatus according to one embodiment is provided in a radio access network of a mobile communication system. The network apparatus comprises: a storage configured to store content data delivered from a server outside the radio access network; and a controller configured to recognize content data requested by a radio terminal, and to determine whether or not the requested content data is stored in the storage. The controller is configured to, when the requested content data is stored in the storage, deliver the requested content data to the radio terminal on behalf of the server.
US10735535B2
Embodiments for analyzing viewer engagement of online content by one or more processors are described. For each of a plurality of online channels having a piece of content posted thereon, viewer engagement associated with the piece of content and information associated with the posting of the piece of content on the respective online channel is received. The viewer engagement from each of the plurality of online channels is compared to the viewer engagement from the others of the plurality of the online channels. Based on the comparing of the viewer engagement and the information associated with the posting of the piece of content, a correlation between the viewer engagement from each of the plurality of online channels and the information associated with the posting of the piece of content on each of the plurality of online channels is determined. A signal representative of the determined correlation is generated.
US10735528B1
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) service provider is described that monitors historical data of a geographic distribution of requests and makes source relocation recommendations based on the historical data. Based on a selected recommendation, the CDN service provider can migrate the source of content from a first geographical region to a second geographical region closer to where the requests are generated. As a result, a round-trip time (RTT) for requests is reduced, even for first time requests.
US10735526B2
A communication apparatus capable of data communication includes a controller that temporarily permits data communication of an application. Upon the application transitioning to the background, the controller maintains temporary permission for data communication of the application when the application transitioned to the background as a result of an interrupt not intended by a user, and prohibits data communication of the application when the application transitioned to the background as a result of an interrupt other than an interrupt not intended by the user.
US10735519B2
In a system for providing computer network connectivity to transit cars that each include first and second mobile radios, and a memory and a processor in each car performing the steps of (a) causing the first and second mobile radios of the car to enter into a far-field mode of operation in communication with a wayside radio; (b) following step (a), the processor of a first car causing its second mobile radio to enter into a couple mode of operation with a first mobile radio of a proximate car; and (c) following step (a), the processor of a second car causing its first mobile radio to enter into a couple mode of operation with a second mobile radio of a proximate car. In the couple mode of operation, first and second mobile radios in proximate cars communicate only with each other.
US10735518B2
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting a network of mobile nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide autonomous vehicle network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable network of autonomous vehicles comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes.
US10735516B1
Systems and methods to facilitate cloud-based point-to-point data transfer via machine learning are described herein. A request for a transfer of data between a sending system and a receiving system may be obtained. Receiving system information for the receiving system may be obtained. Values of transfer parameters for performing the transfer may be determined through machine-learning. The transfer may be performed based on the determined values. Results of the transfer may be obtained and provided to the machine-learning algorithm to further train the algorithm.
US10735515B2
A two-layer erasure-coded fault-tolerant distributed storage system offering atomic access for read and write operations is described. In some embodiments, a class of erasure codes known as regenerating codes (e.g. minimum bandwidth regenerating codes) for storage of data in a backend layer is used to reduce a cost of backend bulk storage and helps in reducing communication cost of read operations, when a value needs to be recreated from persistent storage in the backend layer. By separating the functionality of edge layer servers and backend servers, a modular implementation for atomicity using storage-efficient erasure-codes is provided. Such a two-layer modular architecture permits protocols needed for consistency implementation to be substantially limited to the interaction between clients and an edge layer, while protocols needed to implement erasure code are substantially limited to interaction between edge and backend layers.
US10735510B2
A storage and application controller that is coupled to a plurality of storage and application execution clouds is maintained. The storage and application controller transmits, via a first communications protocol, an application to a first storage and application execution cloud. The storage and application controller transmits, via a second communications protocol, a copy of the application to a second storage and application execution cloud. In response to a compromise of the first communications protocol, execution of the application is stopped and replaced via execution of the copy of the application.
US10735508B2
Described are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, or computer program product embodiments for controlling streaming of media content. An embodiment operates by halting a presentation of future content from a buffer upon determining that the buffer is exhausted of content to present. The embodiment includes receiving one or more packets over a network connection, the one or more packets including media information corresponding to a first portion of streaming media content, in which the first portion corresponds to a second portion of the streaming media content. The one or more packets in a buffer are stored as buffered content. Responsive to determining that the network connection is not experiencing a burst condition, the buffer is trimmed. Then, presentation of buffered content is resumed and the first portion is caused to be presented in sync with the second portion.
US10735507B2
A method of facilitating peer-to-peer connection involves transmitting, by a first peer device, an identification of the first peer device and information regarding its capabilities. The information regarding its capabilities including a list of transmission channels that the first peer device is capable of supporting, an indication of which transmission channels the first peer device is capable of supporting as a group owner, and/or an indication of which transmission channels the first peer device is capable of supporting as a client. The first peer device receives from a second peer device, an identification of the second peer device and information regarding its capabilities including a list of transmission channels that the second peer device is capable of supporting. The first peer device and the second peer device then negotiate which of the first and second peer devices should be the group owner and which should be the client.
US10735502B2
Provided is an interactive system in which program processing which is performed by a server apparatus in response to a request from a terminal apparatus can be preserved in a desired condition. An interactive system includes a terminal apparatus that is connected to a server apparatus via a network, requests the server apparatus to perform program processing, receives a processing result from the server apparatus, and displays the processing result, and the server apparatus that performs program processing in response to a request from the terminal apparatus, and transmits a processing result to the terminal apparatus, in which the terminal apparatus determines a predetermined condition in which execution of a display process of displaying the processing result from the server apparatus is suspended, and transmits a suspension signal to the server apparatus.
US10735490B2
Devices and systems for voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) for identifying network traffic are described herein. One or more embodiments include a VoIP device for identifying network traffic comprising a signal monitor to identify a signaling protocol from the network traffic and an artificial intelligence engine configured to receive signaling protocol sample data to train a signal artificial intelligence (AI) model and process the signaling protocol identified by the signal monitor in the signal AI model to identify the network traffic.
US10735472B2
The container deployment system of the present disclosure provides systems and processes to perform authorization of each unique container instance by the enterprise organization that published the container image and requested the container instance. A controller may be programmed or configured to apply one or more authorization policies to determine if a container instance should be executed or not. The authorization policies may include rules that restrict the number of containers running, cost consideration for executing a container, violations of time constraints for the execution of a container image, and violations of location constraints for execution of a container image, among other variations.
US10735470B2
Methods and systems for developing and distributing applications and data for building security applications can be provided. A plurality of data policies can be set for access and/or filtering security data based on selected parameters. One or more modules can be generated for processing the security data, with each of the modules governed by one or more module policies. Upon receipt of a request to initiate execution of the one or more modules to access and process a selected portion or filtered set of the security data, it can be determined if the request violates the data policies and/or the module policies applicable for processing the selected portion or filtered set of the security data, and if the data policies and/or the module policies are not violated, the one or more modules can be executed to process the selected portion or filtered set of the security data.
US10735461B2
Provided is a method for assigning a time-to-live (“TTL”) value for a domain name system (“DNS”) record at a recursive DNS server. The method comprises obtaining, from a client, the TTL value for the DNS record; and storing, in a memory of the recursive DNS server, the TTL value, an identifier of the client, and the DNS record.
US10735460B2
A denial of service (DoS) detection and circumvention system is described herein. The DoS detection and circumvention system can track phone calls that are initiated and store a list of phone numbers that are called. The DoS detection and circumvention system can also track the number of carrier congestion messages over a certain time window. Using the list of called phone numbers and the tracked number of carrier congestion messages, the DoS detection and circumvention system can identify excessive congestion. If the DoS detection and circumvention system identifies excessive congestion, the DoS detection and circumvention system can delay calls so as to prevent a possible DoS condition.
US10735459B2
A first computing system receives a user request. The user request includes a first set of data. The first computing system determines that one or more resources have exceeded at least one resource utilization threshold. In response to the determining that one or more resources have exceeded the at least one utilization threshold, a first data transfer rate is modified to a second data transfer rate based on transmitting a first subset of the first set of data to one or more host devices, wherein a second subset of the first set of data is not transmitted to the one or more host devices. The one or more host devices validate the user request against one or more security policies in order to complete or terminate the user request.
US10735456B2
A system for mitigation of cyberattacks employing an advanced cyber decision platform comprising a time series data store, a directed computational graph module, an action outcome simulation module, and observation and state estimation module, wherein the state of a network is monitored and used to produce a cyber-physical graph representing network resources, simulated network events are produced and monitored, and the network events and their effects are analyzed to produce security recommendations.
US10735444B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: detecting a security event within a computing platform based upon identified suspect activity; gathering artifacts concerning the security event; and assigning a threat level to the security event based, at least in part, upon the gathered artifacts.
US10735439B2
A method and system for matching event sequences for predictive detection of cyber-attacks are discussed. The method comprises receiving a reference event sequence and a query event sequence; converting the reference event sequence to a first step-value list and the query event sequence to a second step-value list; and matching the first and second step-value lists to identify at least one optimal common pattern.
US10735434B2
A computer-implemented method for controlling a connection between a virtual machine and a physical device comprises receiving a connection request for connecting the physical device to the virtual machine and determining whether the virtual machine satisfies a first connection permission condition and whether the physical device satisfies a second connection permission condition. In response to a determination that the virtual machine does not satisfy the first connection permission condition, a configuration of the virtual machine is changed to satisfy the first connection permission condition. In response to a determination that the physical device does not satisfy the second connection permission condition, a configuration of the physical device is changed to satisfy the second connection permission condition. In response to a determination that the virtual machine satisfies the first connection permission condition and that the physical device satisfies the second connection permission condition, the received connection request is accepted.
US10735426B2
Computing systems and related methods are provided for retrieving data residing behind a firewall. One exemplary method involves a server receiving a first request from a data transfer client, maintaining the first request in a first queue of requests associated with a data transfer agent coupled to the network via a firewall, and providing the first request from the first queue to the data transfer agent in response to a second request received from the data transfer agent. The server receives a first response from the data transfer agent, maintains the first response in a second queue of responses associated with the data transfer client, and provides the first response from the second queue to the data transfer client in response to a third request received from the data transfer client.
US10735424B2
The described embodiments of the present invention include a method for controlling authorization of a multimedia service requested by a user device. In one embodiment, the method includes examining an identity of an access network associated with the user device and an identity of the service requested to determine whether the service is supported; authorizing resources in the access network required by the service if the service is supported; rejecting the service if the service is not supported and if a policy associated with the access network requires unsupported services to be rejected; and authorizing a default level of resources in the access network if the service is not supported and if the policy associated with the access network does not require unsupported services to be rejected.
US10735423B2
A system for enforcing a security policy on an application stored at a mobile device has an application at the device provided with software code for issuing a request for authenticating a user, and a security enforcement unit; an authentication agent at the device, which is separate from the application, and which is configured with an authentication data collecting unit for collecting authentication data upon receipt of the request for user authentication from the application, and for conveying the collected authentication data to an authentication-authorization server; and an authentication-authorization server for receiving the collected authentication data, evaluating the same, and issuing an enforcement level signal which is conveyed to the security enforcement unit. Upon receipt of the enforcement level signal, the security enforcement unit accordingly applies a security level at the application.
US10735414B1
A method for authenticating a user of a mobile electronic computing device to perform operations on a first electronic computing device includes receiving a request to access the first electronic computing device. In response to the request to access, a first identifier is sent to the mobile electronic computing device. A second identifier is received from a second electronic computing device. The second electronic computing device is different from the mobile electronic computing device. A determination is made as to whether the first identifier matches the second identifier. When the first identifier matches the second identifier, a trust score is calculated for the user. A determination is made as to whether the trust score is equal to or greater than a threshold. When the trust score is equal to or greater than the threshold, the user is authenticated to login to the first electronic computing device.
US10735407B2
A system and method for of temporary password management may include: obtaining, by a password management entity, a request to login a local device into an authentication authority; generating, by the password management entity, a temporary password; sending, by the password management entity, the temporary password to the authentication authority; sending, by the password management entity, the temporary password to a user device; obtaining, at the authentication authority the temporary password from the local device; comparing, by the authentication authority, the temporary password obtained from the local device with the temporary password obtained from the password management entity; and authorizing the login if a match is found.
US10735405B2
Systems and methods for performing network-side Simultaneous Authentication of Equals (SAE) to allow an end user device to access a network. A passphrase is assigned to an end user device for use in authenticating the end user device for a network using SAE. An identification of the end user device is determined during an authentication process. The passphrase assigned to the end user device is determined at a network side using the identification of the end user device. A shared secret is generated using the passphrase. Whether the end user device has generated the shared secret is determined by comparing network side and user side confirmation values. The end user device is authenticated for the network, if it is determined that the end user device has generated the shared secret.
US10735403B1
Static and dynamic embodiments are presented for generating chaff passwords for use in a password-hardening system. Chaff passwords are generated by modifying portions of base passwords based on a distribution with which particular strings of digits and symbols appear in user passwords. Location oblivious chaff passwords are generated from a chaff set of passwords obtained from a chaff generation method by applying a random permutation over the elements of the obtained chaff set of passwords.
US10735400B2
Disclosed is a system and technique for validating a user for a single sign on without exposing secure information about the user to any part of the system except the connection server and the identity provider. In the technique, instead of relying directly on a SAML assertion, the technique uses an artifact representing the assertion and wraps the artifact in an access token. The access token is able to carry the artifact through one or more gateways on its way to a connection server without revealing any security information. Upon the access token being verified by either the gateway or the connection server, the artifact can be extracted from the access token and verification of the user for the single sign on can proceed between only the connection server and the identity provider.
US10735393B2
A data communication method, and a user equipment relate to the communications field and implement isolation for programs using a container technology. The user equipment includes a host machine running on a hardware layer of the user equipment, and at least one container running on the host machine, where each container corresponds to a different container instance. The user equipment determines whether an application program runs in a safe mode when a start instruction for running the application program is received, and performs security authentication with a server when the application program runs in the safe mode. The user equipment starts the application program in a container instance selected by a user when the security authentication succeeds, and performs data communication with the server using a communication channel corresponding to the selected container instance.
US10735390B2
In an authentication method according to an embodiment, an electronic device receives an authentication request message based on identification information from a server apparatus. In response to the authentication request message, the electronic device receives at least one of an input for authentication approval of a specific device and an input for authentication approval of a service offered through the specific device. Then, in response to the input, the electronic device transmits authentication approval information to the server apparatus.
US10735382B2
A system detects human activity through browser canvas events to mitigate the effects of an attack on a host, such as an application layer (layer 7) DDoS attack. A proxy, such as a HTTP/HTTPS “HTTP(S)” proxy server, configured to handle network traffic between a host and clients challenges clients engaging the host. The proxy challenges the clients by injecting code having a beacon and a shared encryption key into the content received from the host prior to transmission of the client. The code, when executed by the client, is configured to monitor user interactions (or lack thereof) with the content at the client in order to determine whether there is human activity at the client. The proxy receives and analyzes the information about interactions (or lack thereof) to determine whether a client is malicious (e.g., non-human activity) or non-malicious (e.g., human activity).
US10735379B2
Embodiments relate to detecting and mitigating network intrusions. Packets are inspected at their source/destination hosts to identify packet trends local to the hosts. The local packet trends are combined to identify network-wide packet trends. The network-wide packet trends are used to detect anomalies or attacks, which in turn informs mitigation actions. The local inspection may be performed by reconfigurable/reprogrammable “smart” network interfaces (NICs) at each of the hosts. Local inspection involves identifying potentially suspect packet features based on statistical prevalence of recurring commonalities among the packets; pre-defined threat patterns are not required. For network-wide coherence, each host/NIC uses the same packet-identifying and occurrence-measuring algorithms. An overlay or control server collects and combines the local occurrence-measures to derive the network-wide occurrence-measures. The network-wide occurrences can be used to automatically detect and mitigate completely new types of attack packets.
US10735378B1
Embodiments relate to systems, computer readable media, devices, and computer-implemented methods for providing improved network security by receiving a network packet, applying a filter rule in a first instance of a distributed reputation database to the network packet, determining, using a network interface card with a field programmable gate array, to drop or modify the network packet based on the applying, and transmitting reputation data to a security control center that includes a second instance of the distributed reputation database, where the reputation data includes information corresponding to the network packet that was dropped or modified.
US10735373B2
A method and technique for communications over multiple protocol interfaces in a computing environment includes identifying a first communications protocol of a network interface for ingress data packet communications. Responsive to the identified first communications protocol of the network interface differing from a second communications protocol used for the data packet communications, fragmentation data according to a data packet fragmentation protocol corresponding to the second communications protocol is derived from an application layer header of the data packet communications. A logical packet is re-assembled from the data packet communications using the data packet fragmentation protocol and the fragmentation data.
US10735367B2
A method to prioritize email such that a number of interruptions experienced by a user is reduced may include obtaining a threshold cognitive load of a user and a threshold importance; in response to receiving an email in an inbox of the user, determining an importance of the received email; comparing the importance thereof with the threshold importance; and based on the importance thereof not satisfying the threshold importance, determining a priority thereof with respect to emails in the inbox. The method includes determining a cognitive cost of the received email and that the user is handling a first group of emails, and comparing the priority of the received email with a priority of emails of the first group of emails; obtaining a current cognitive load of the user; and identifying a second group of emails; and presenting the second group of emails to the user.
US10735365B2
A conversation attendant and assistant platform implements a method of receiving by a computer a plurality of messages in a plurality of conversations via one or more messaging applications. The platform tags each message of the plurality of messages with a message cohort and an amelioration action, and assigns a risk to the given message based on the message cohort. The platform also determines a user context of a user of the computer, and, in response to factors including the user context and the risk, assigns a concern level to the given message. The platform accumulates and summarizes the given message along with other messages in a conversation of the given message. In case the concern level exceeds a threshold, the platform selects one or more delivery channels for surfacing a summary of the conversation and surfaces the summary via the one or more delivery channels.
US10735363B1
This disclosure discloses a technique for presenting a conversation message in a messenger application.
US10735355B1
A client device receives a request to initiate a communication session with a particular user of a first plurality of users that are registered with the client device. The client device determines, using a sensor of the client device, a respective identity of each of a second plurality of users that are proximate to the client device. The client device determines whether an identity of the particular user matches the respective identity of any of the second plurality of users, and, in response to determining that the identity of the particular user matches the respective identity of any of the second plurality of users, the client device transmits the request to a device of the particular user.
US10735352B2
An information processing device includes a reception unit that receives messages from terminals of a plurality of users constituting a group, a storage unit that stores reception times of the messages, a transmission unit that transmits the message, to a terminal of at least one user, a specification unit that specifies an unread message for which a reception time difference for a predetermined number of continuous messages, among a plurality of the unread messages, satisfies a predetermined condition, as a trigger message, based on the reception time of an unread message for which read information is not received from the terminal of the user, the read information indicating that the message has been viewed, and a generation unit that generates display information for displaying information regarding the trigger message on a display unit of the terminal of the user.
US10735350B1
Embodiments described herein provide a method for providing a compatible backplane operation mechanism for 2.5-gigabit Ethernet. A first input of data including a first sequence-ordered set in compliance with a first interface protocol is received from a medium access control (MAC) layer. The first input of data is encoded into four outputs of encoded data including a second sequence-ordered set in compliance with a second interface protocol. The first sequence-ordered set in a first form of a sequence code followed by three bytes of data is mapped to the second sequence-ordered set in a second form of consecutive units of the sequence code followed by an encoded data byte. The four parallel outputs of encoded data are serialized into a serial output. The serial output to a linking partner is transmitted on a physical layer of an Ethernet link at a speed specified in the second interface protocol.
US10735346B2
An IoT device Internet of Things (IoT) device including storage to store instructions and a processor to execute the stored instructions to prioritize data blocks of a data payload by dynamically assigning priority levels of the data blocks, and to transmit one or more of the data blocks based on the prioritizing.
US10735338B2
An encoding or transcoding system uses hypothetical reference decoder occupancy data to at least calculate parameters for output buffers for data streams. An output thread receives HRD buffer occupancy data and calculates buffer occupancy based on duration, rather than absolute occupancy, and correlates the HRD buffer occupancy data with target durations for buffered packets prior to release from the buffer.
US10735337B1
A network traffic manager receives, from an ingress port, a cell of a packet destined for an egress port. Upon determining that a number of cells of the packet stored in a buffer queue meets a threshold value, the manager checks whether the ingress port has been assigned a token corresponding to the queue. Upon determining that the ingress port has been assigned the token, the manager determines whether other cells of the packet are stored in the buffer, in response to which the manager stores the received cell in the buffer, and stores linking information for the received cell in a receive context for the packet. When all cells of the packet have been received, the manager copies linking information for the packet cells from the receive context to the buffer queue or a copy generator queue, and releases the token from the ingress port.
US10735327B2
Techniques are described for balancing traffic load for networks configured in multi-rooted tree topologies, in the presence of link failures. Maximum flows (through minimum cuts) are calculated for subgraphs that incorporate effective link capacities on links between source and destination nodes. Effective link capacities may be determined that take into account link failures, as well as sharing of current available link capacities by multiple nodes. Traffic is balanced while simultaneously fully utilizing available link capacities, even available link capacities on partially failed links (e.g., partially failed Link Aggregation Groups (LAGs)).
US10735323B2
A service traffic allocation method and apparatus, where first leaf node repeatedly sends a probe packet through each physical link of multiple physical links of the first leaf node coupled to a backbone node, for each physical link, the first leaf node receives a returned response packet through the physical link, where each response packet is returned by a second leaf node after a probe packet that is sent through a physical link arrives at the second leaf node, for each path, the first leaf node calculates a transmission parameter of the path according to multiple response packets received on the path to obtain the transmission parameter of each path, and the first leaf node allocates to-be-transmitted service traffic to the physical links according to the transmission parameter of each path.
US10735322B2
A method and system for generating optimization instructions for accelerating traffic between a client and a server. The method includes receiving intercepted responses, wherein each intercepted response is sent by the server in response to a request for content from the client; analyzing the received responses to determine at least a context of each response; compiling at least one optimization instruction based on the determined contexts of the responses; and saving the compiled at least one optimization instruction in a storage device.
US10735315B2
A method of forwarding packet flows in a network includes originating the packet flows from a plurality of end hosts in the network; and transmitting the packet flows from a respective end host of the plurality of end hosts to a sink node via a predefined routing path that includes one or more SDN switches that are under control of an SDN controller. The one or more SDN switches include an edge switch having at least one port connected to the end host. Forwarding of a packet flow from the respective end host by the edge switch is enabled by a dedicated door-opener packet that, when being processed at the one or more SDN switches, effectuates activation or installation of a forwarding rule within the one or more SDN switches for forwarding the packet flow to a next switch along the predefined routing path.
US10735313B2
A first network device detects a link down event associated with a second network device, where the link down event is detected by the first network device prior to being detected by a third network device, and the second network device is a designated network device of a network. The first network device starts a delay timer before processing the link down event, and detects an event that includes at least one of receipt, from the third network device, of a link state advertisement message based on the link down event, or an expiration of the delay timer. The first network device determines the first network device to be a new designated network device for the network based on detecting the event, and provides, to the third network device, information indicating that the first network device is the new designated network device for the network.
US10735304B2
This invention discloses a novel system and method and system for sharing a data item among a plurality of computers connected in an arbitrary network topology. In the preferred embodiment, each of the plurality of computers has a local copy of the data item, but can only edit the copy by obtaining a token from the current token owner, thereby becoming a new current token owner. When the token owner makes a change to the data item, the change is broadcast to the other computers, along with the identity of the new current token owner. Routing of token requests and broadcasts is accomplished by means of each computer calculating a routing table based on information it receives from those computers to which it is directly connected on the network.
US10735303B2
A method is disclosed for optimizing packet transmission paths in a mobile communication network (400) in which packets are transmitted and received between mobile stations (10-14) or between a mobile station and a fixed network (120) by way of a plurality of packet transmission device (60-64, 70-72, 80, and 81) and radio base stations (50-57). When a mobile station uses a service that is provided by a fixed network (300), imposed are applied on the packet transmission path such that packets pass by way of specific packet transmission devices (80 and 81) depending on the fixed network (external network) 300. When the mobile station uses a service that is provided by the mobile communication network (400), on the other hand, no restrictions are imposed on the packet transmission path, and the packet transmission path is thus set such that the link costs are a minimum.
US10735300B1
A method includes receiving, at a test identification service, a request to test a first service in an enterprise environment, identifying a service call of the first service, and identifying, using an endpoint of the service call, a second service called by the first service, the second service executing in the enterprise environment. The method further includes identifying a subset of tests from a test registry service including multiple tests, the subset of tests being configured to test the second service, and testing, using the subset of tests, the second service in the enterprise environment.
US10735296B2
Various methods and systems for facilitating network traffic monitoring in association with an application running on a client device are provided. In this regard, aspects of the invention facilitate monitoring network traffic being transmitted to and/or from a client device, such as a mobile device, so that network performance can be analyzed. In various implementations, packet headers of data packets are read to obtain or extract desired network metrics that indicate network performance. Packet headers are generally read to the extent necessary to identify various network data. As such, by avoiding examination of a packet payload and, in some cases, examination of the entire header, the efficiency of monitoring network traffic at a client device is improved.
US10735294B2
Integrating a further communication bridge into a running data processing system. The data processing system includes a communication client running a first operating system having no own communication stack and at least a first communication bridge running a second operating system having an own communication stack. The first communication bridge is configured as a master communication bridge. The further communication bridge announces itself as a slave communication bridge at an announcement time. The master communication bridge executes a quiesce process on the network adapter and on the API of the communication client when there are no data packets in the queue with a sending time earlier than the announcement time. The master communication bridge extracts the state of its communication stack and sends it to the further communication bridge. The master communication bridge resumes the network adapter and the API.
US10735293B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for estimating a web page download time on a web browser in a user device from a corresponding web server and to a network monitoring device for performing the method.
US10735289B2
A method receives error measurements from network elements. Groups of network elements are generated based on similarity of error measurements and a bitloading profile for each of the groups of network elements is generated based on the error measurements for each respective group. Each bitloading profile includes a modulation level determined to be sufficient for transporting content to respective groups of network elements. The method then assigns a set of bitloading profiles to each network element based on the groups of network elements and the bitloading profile generated for each of the groups. The bitloading profile for each of the groups of network elements and the assigned set of bitloading profiles are output to a network device. The network device uses the bitloading profiles to modulate content sent to respective customer premise equipment.
US10735280B1
Various examples are described for the integration and customization of third-party applications and services with computing infrastructure of a data center. One or more computing devices can maintain a remote computing environment for an enterprise that provides at least one remote computing service on behalf of the enterprise. The one or more computing devices can identify existing infrastructure used by the remote computing environment in providing the at least one remote computing service, identify third-party services that are compatible with the existing infrastructure, present the third-party services in a console in association with operation of the remote computing environment, and in an instance in which one of the third-party services is selected for deployment in the console, automatically reconfigure the remote computing environment to include the one of the third-party services selected.
US10735278B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for computing availability metrics for an integrated service. One of the methods includes generating, for a service installed on a software platform, a plurality of availability logs, each availability log representing an occurrence of the service becoming unavailable. The plurality of availability logs are aggregated according to one or more aggregation criteria. The aggregated availability logs are processed to compute one or more availability metrics for the service, wherein each availability metric quantifies the availability of the service to process requests from the plurality of workloads in the presence of system failures and interruptions. An availability rating for the service is computed from the one or more availability metrics.
US10735270B1
Embodiments of systems and methods for network modelling include determining a device representation of each device on a network. A normalized device representation associated with a device representation of each device is determined using a library of device representation parser functions. A static network map of the network is generated based on each normalized device representation. A routing protocol peering session is established between each device and a routing protocol server using a routing protocol. A status of each device and each link is determined based on updates from each routing protocol peering session. A live map of the network is generated based on the status of each device. Configuration errors and network errors are determined based at least in part on the static network map and the live map, and routing errors are determined based at least in part on a comparison between protocol prefixes and predetermined network invariants.
