US10755342B1
Examples of a multisource augmented reality model are defined. In an example, the system receives a query from a user. The system obtains representative data corresponding to an environment associated with the query and identifies at least one context therein. The system obtains product parameter data and identifies a parameter set therein to process the query. The system implements an artificial intelligence component to sort the product parameter data, the representative data, and the context for identifying pertinent data domains associated with the query. The system may establish a product augmented reality model corresponding to the product by performing a first cognitive learning operation on a domain from the updated pertinent data domains and the identified parameter set. The system may a list of related products for guided selling facilitating a shopping decision of the user. The system may generate an augmented reality result for the user.
US10755341B2
A decade from now, a visit to the supermarket will be a very different experience than the familiar experiences of decades past. Product packaging will come alive with interactivity—each object a portal into a rich tapestry of experiences, with contributions authored by the product brand, by the store selling the product, and by other shoppers. The present technology concerns arrangements for authoring and delivering such experiences. A great variety of other features and technologies are also detailed.
US10755339B2
The systems and methods may identify order requests from internal messaging or collaboration systems. Once order requests are identified, the systems and methods determine purchase orders based on the requests, and generate tokens (e.g., virtual credit cards) specific to a purchase order, to be used by the requestor to complete the purchase of requested items or services. Once the tokens are used, the systems and methods may then track the purchases in various databases, providing the organization with various views or insights into their employee's expenditures.
US10755317B2
Disclosed aspects relate to managing a set of offers using a dialogue. An adaptive profile may be received with respect to a client. The adaptive profile may indicate a set of client profile data, a set of client event data, and a set of client context data. A dialogue may be established with the client based on the adaptive profile. A set of offers may be resolved by an offer management engine based on the dialogue. The set of offers may be presented to the client.
US10755307B2
A method for simulating a social media account history may be provided. The method may include generating social media identification information (“social media ID”). The method may also include creating an account history for the social media ID with respect to a pre-determined entity. The creating may include identifying the social media ID with respect to at least one of a time-stamped indication of affinity for the predetermined entity. The creating may also include tagging of a photograph of the entity. The creating may also include linking of a photograph of the pre-determined entity. The creating may also include a threshold amount of streaming audio time relating to the predetermined entity. The method may also include querying the account history to determine whether the account history includes one or more parameters that indicate whether the social media ID information is related to an automated entity or a human entity.
US10755305B2
Techniques are provided for use in connection with online advertising exchanges. Methods are provided in which information is obtained, including, for each of multiple publisher sites, a set of publisher site tags, and for each of multiple advertisements, a set of advertisement tags. Methods are provided that include, in selection of an advertisement to be served in connection with a serving opportunity, utilizing, as a factor in the selection, matching of publisher site tags, associated with a publisher site associated with the serving opportunity, with advertisement tags of the advertisement.
US10755298B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing targeted marketing to goods and services provides and consumer resource management services to consumers. An example system and method for targeted marketing comprises collecting transaction data from point-of-sale (POS) terminals and using a consumer identifier in the transaction data to access stored information about the consumer. This information may be used to target offers and advertisement to the consumer. In an example system for consumer resource management, a consumer may configure a consumer account on the enterprise infrastructure via a web-site. The consumer may use the consumer account to purchase and configure gift cards that may be used for purchasing goods and services. A universal transaction identifier may be associated with the consumer account and used to purchase goods and services from more than one selected goods and services providers.
US10755291B1
A method and system receive consumer media consumption data and dynamically prioritize the allocation of marketing resources amongst a variety of media intellectual property (IP) assets and for a variety of media IP asset managers and owners to run automated targeted marketing campaigns. The system identifies patterns in consumer media consumption using a statistical model which detects media IP assets demonstrating a high likelihood of realizing an efficient marketing opportunity. The efficiency of a marketing opportunity is evaluated using a statistical model based on the identification of customers who are most likely to increase the frequency with which they stream the assets after being exposed to them via a marketing action in addition to the projected costs of reaching this audience. The system automatically constructs a marketing campaign. The campaign is presented to the asset manager/owner in a graphical user interface (GUI) which enables the option to purchase and execute the marketing actions. Conditional on the execution of the marketing actions, the system performs an analysis on the efficacy of the marketing actions.
US10755288B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for determining advertising conversion metrics. In some implementations, a method includes receiving spatial information associated with a user in connection with an advertisement presented through a wireless device 102. The advertisement is associated with an offline 110 store having a geographic location. A likelihood of conversion is determined based, at least in part, on the spatial information and the geographic location of the offline store 110.
US10755286B2
A computer-implemented method for targeting marketing content to an online user, includes the steps of collecting data describing the user or the user's ownership item in a user profile, comparing the user profile with a target profile and presenting the user with content based on the comparison. The user profile includes a photographic likeness of the user or the user's ownership item, as well as information derived from the photographic likeness. Certain content may be dynamically created for the user based on the user profile and that content may include the photographic likeness, which may be altered to incorporate a portion of the content into the photographic likeness. In this manner, personalized advertisements for cosmetics, jewelry, clothing, cosmetic procedures, home improvement products, and other products or services may be created. The user profile also includes data describing the user's browsing habits and responses to context-specific survey questions. In one embodiment, metrics are assigned to the user profile data, and a data index identifying the user's preferences and purchasing habits is calculated for the user based on the assigned metrics. Each metric may also have an associated confidence factor, which causes the metric value to decay over time.
US10755276B2
One or more embodiments of the specification provide a method, apparatus, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for processing an event involving a plurality of users in a blockchain. The method is implementable by any user involved in the event, the method comprising: generating, by a computing device of the user of the event, descriptive information of the event; sending the descriptive information to a computing device of another user of event through an off-chain channel for the another user to verify the descriptive information and to submit triggering information associated with the another user corresponding to the event to the blockchain after verifying the descriptive information; and submitting, by the computing device of the user, triggering information associated with the user corresponding to the event to the blockchain for the blockchain to process the event according to the descriptive information after verifying all triggering information submitted by the plurality of users.
US10755267B2
The systems may include receiving a token request for a transaction from a merchant, the token request comprising a consumer identifier associated with a consumer and a merchant identifier (MID) associated with the merchant, matching the MID with a token requestor identifier (TRID) assigned to the merchant, matching the consumer identifier with an account identifier associated with a transaction account of the consumer, generating a digital token comprising the TRID and the account identifier, and transmitting the digital token to the merchant.
US10755266B2
A system for updating a digital wallet installation is disclosed. Event information is received. The received event information is evaluated against a set of rules. A digital wallet asset logical instance to be updated is identified based at least in part on the evaluation. The identified instance is updated. An installation of a digital wallet asset associated with the identified instance is identified. An update instruction is provided to a device associated with the installation.
US10755258B1
A method that includes receiving, from one or more motion sensors in a device, data describing a signature arc in three-dimensional space, the signature arc having been generated by gesturing using the device; identifying, from the data describing the gestured signature arc, a plurality of points that correspond to the gestured signature arc in three-dimensional space; generating a curve along the identified plurality of points corresponding to the gestured signature arc; generating a two-dimensional representation of the gestured signature arc; and displaying, on a display screen, the generated two-dimensional representation of the gestured signature arc.
US10755252B1
A method includes generating, by a computing device, a unique identifier (ID) based on copyright information associated with the textual content, wherein the copyright information and the textual content are recorded on a blockchain of a blockchain network; identifying, by the computing device, one or more attributes associated with fonts used in the textual content; and embedding, by the computing device, the unique ID in the textual content by changing the one or more attributes associated with the fonts to be representative of the unique ID, wherein the embedding produces information-embedded text enables retrieval of the copyright information from the blockchain based on the unique ID, and wherein a visual difference between the textual content and the information-embedded text is not apparent to an unaided human eye.
US10755246B2
Systems and methods which allow for a money transfer transaction to be funded without providing payment at the point in time when the transaction is originated and which also do not require a customer to undertake a separate transaction with a separate entity prior to initiating the money transfer transaction with a money transfer service are provided. Embodiments may therefore allow for money transfers, such as in emergency situations, when customers would not otherwise have payment readily available at the time of the transaction.
US10755239B1
Systems and methods for preparing customer check deposit requests with a mobile device and a reflective surface are described. A check frame is positioned between a customer mobile device with a built-in camera and a mirror such that, when a check is placed in the check frame, the camera can view both sides of the check simultaneously. The camera can take a single picture that includes both sides of the check, process it, and submit it as a check deposit request to the customer's financial institution.
US10755232B2
System and method for omni-channel retailer operations that integrate a network of brick-and-mortar stores with their online channel. The system and method includes calibrating a demand model for both brick-and-mortar sales and on-line channels over which a product is sold, the calibrating based upon a cross-channel fulfillment-aware inventory effect. An omni-channel sales prediction and fulfillment model is then constructed based on the calibrated demand model. Using constructed linear demand and revenue models, a plan is generated to optimize one or more: allocating of the product across physical stores, partitioning of the product for sales, and pricing of the product. Customer choices are jointly modeled across channels to allow switching, and a ship-from-store (SFS) inventory effect feature only for brick choice is applied to capture asymmetry. Inventory decision variables are introduced into an omni-channel pricing formulation to manage SFS-effect induced non-convexity and specific reformulations applied to recover a linear MIP.
US10755230B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes receiving, over a network, one or more sensor-recorded data elements related to information selected from the group consisting of: product identification, condition associated with a consumer product at a particular time and/or place, location associated with the consumer product at the particular time and/or place, and current state associated with a consumer product at a particular time and/or place. The received data elements are used to create or update an entry for the payload of a transaction in a blockchain. The entry is sent for recording as a transaction in a specified blockchain ledger.
US10755225B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for tracking the location of a shipped item. According to various embodiments, the systems and methods may include features designed to determine whether the shipped item is likely to comply with customer-defined shipping requirements throughout the entire shipping process. In various embodiments, the systems and methods are configured to indicate to a user certain shipments that are likely to arrive without complying with all of the customer-defined shipping requirements, such that a user can take remedial action to minimize or eliminate the likelihood of the shipment failing to comply with the customer-defined shipping requirements.
US10755221B2
Particular embodiments may receive results of a benchmark task performed by a worker, wherein fraud analysis information is provided for each of the results. An accuracy confusion matrix may be determined based on the results. For each of the results, an accuracy confidence score may be determined based on the fraud analysis information. Based on the accuracy confusion matrix and the accuracy confidence score, an accuracy of the worker when performing the benchmark task may be predicted.
US10755216B2
A system, method and program product for evaluating energy suppliers from a set of energy suppliers to meet demand for a distribution grid. A system is disclosed that includes: a bid volatility index (BVI) calculator that determines a BVI for each supplier for an offer; a profiling system that profiles each supplier with a set of predictor variables; a ranking system that determines a winning bid probability of each supplier based on the predictor variables; a modeling system that refines the winning bid probability based on changes to at least one predictor variable; and a scoring system that determines a confidence score for each supplier, wherein the confidence score indicates a confidence level that the supplier can meet the offer.
US10755214B2
A computer system and method optimize feedstock selection planning for an industrial process by evaluating first and second stages at separate intervals throughout the planning process. Evaluating the first stage determines a set of robust feedstocks to procure on long-term contracts. The computer system and method solve, in parallel, multiple simulation cases of a non-linear model generated with different expectation values for uncertain input parameters related to selecting feedstocks to procure on long-term contracts. Probabilistic analyses on the solutions from the simulation cases, including the application of chance-constraints, determine the set of robust feedstocks to procure on long-term contracts. Evaluating the second stage determines a set of robust feedstocks to procure in the spot market, using the information from the first stage. Specifically, the computer system and method solve each of multiple new simulation cases of the non-linear model, generated with different expectation values for uncertain input parameters related to selecting feedstocks to procure in the spot market. Each simulation case is solved to determine breakeven prices for one or more available spot feedstocks, and probabilistic analyses are performed on the breakeven prices for these spot feedstocks to determine a set of robust feedstocks to procure in the spot market.
US10755212B2
The global proliferation of high speed communication networks has created unprecedented opportunities for geographically distributed resource interaction. However, while the opportunities exist and continue to grow, the realization of those opportunities has fallen behind. A dynamic process execution architecture solves the enormous technical challenges of providing effective and efficient process execution environments for geographically distributed resources to execute a complex project.
US10755211B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes generating, by a server having a processor, temporal and event based risk predictions for each of a plurality of workers at a workplace, using a prediction window of a work shift. The method further includes creating, by the server having the processor, a work schedule for the plurality of workers that is optimized to maintain a cumulative workplace risk below a given threshold, based on the temporal and event based risk predictions.
US10755210B2
One embodiment includes a method for monitoring a CIP process previously performed. The method includes accessing CIP process data stored in a CIP library. The CIP process data includes CIP phase data associated with a plurality of CIP phases in the CIP process previously performed, equipment data associated with objects used in the CIP process during one or more of the CIP phases, and consumable data associated with consumables consumed by corresponding equipment in the CIP process. In addition, the method includes displaying at least a portion of the CIP process data, and providing a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is configured to: organize the CIP process data into at least one of (i) a plurality of CIP phases or (ii) consumable data, and sort equipment data according to one or more of the plurality of corresponding CIP phases or corresponding consumables.
US10755209B2
Gradually automation of a workflow by a configuration change management system is provided by a first workflow template having a relatively low level of automation and complexity in which at least a plurality of tasks require manual input, manual response, or manual approval, operating the first workflow by a workflow automation system engine, monitoring a measurement of the maturity level of the process during the operation the first workflow, and responsive to detecting the maturity level meeting pre-determined benchmark, automatically selecting, engaging, and operating a second workflow template which increases automation by automating one or more subprocesses, adding one or more subprocesses, or eliminating one or more subprocesses.
US10755208B2
A computerized method for providing a service is described. The method may instantiate an instance of a process object. The process object may be configured to manage two or more business process objects of one or more backend systems to provide the service. The service may be performed utilizing the process object.
US10755198B2
Methods, apparatus, and system determine if a data class in a plurality of data classes is separable, such as by determining an average intra-class similarity within each data class, inter-class similarity across all data classes in the plurality of data classes, and determining separability based on the average intra-class similarity relative to the inter-class similarity. Data classes determined to be highly variable may be removed. Pair(s) of data classes not separable from one another may be combined into one class or one of the data classes may be dropped. A hardware accelerator, which may comprise artificial neurons, accelerate performance of the data analysis.
US10755193B2
One or more time correlations of noise within a quantum computing circuit of a quantum processor are determined. The quantum computing circuit includes one or more qubits. A coherence time for each qubit is determined, and one or more stretch factors are determined based upon the time correlations of the noise and the coherence times. A first loop is initialized that performs for each of the stretch factors: initializing the qubits to a ground state, executing the quantum computing circuit with a the stretch factor, performing one or more single-qubit post-rotations associated with one or more expectation values, measuring a state of each qubit to determine the one or more expectation values of interest, and resetting each qubit to the ground state. A mitigated estimate is determined for the expectation values based upon an extrapolation of the expectation values determined for each stretch factor.
US10755190B2
An electrical filter includes a dielectric substrate with inner and outer coils about a first region and inner and outer coils about a second region, a portion of cladding removed from wires that form the coils and coupled to electrically conductive traces on the dielectric substrate via a solder joint in a switching region. An apparatus to thermally couple a superconductive device to a metal carrier with a through-hole includes a first clamp and a vacuum pump. A composite magnetic shield for use at superconductive temperatures includes an inner layer with magnetic permeability of at least 50,000; and an outer layer with magnetic saturation field greater than 1.2 T, separated from the inner layer by an intermediate layer of dielectric. An apparatus to dissipate heat from a superconducting processor includes a metal carrier with a recess, a post that extends upwards from a base of the recess and a layer of adhesive on top of the post. Various cryogenic refrigeration systems are described.
US10755187B2
A mood score calculation system includes a processor and a memory. The memory is configured to hold relationship information on a relationship between a mood score of a user and a statistical feature for indicating fluctuation of operational interval time of a user terminal. The processor is configured to acquire an operation log of a first user terminal. The processor is configured to calculate, from the operation log, a value of a statistical feature for indicating fluctuation of operational interval time of the first user terminal. The processor is configured to determine a mood score of a user of the first user terminal based on the value of the statistical feature and the relationship information and output the mood score.
US10755183B1
Selecting data from a source text corpus for training a semantic data analysis system includes selecting an item of the text corpus, validating the item, extracting at least one section of the item, determining a length of each of the at least one section of the item, and subdividing each of the sections having a length greater than a predetermined amount into a plurality of fragments that are deemed to be similar. The predetermined amount may be approximately twice a size of a fragment. A fragment may have approximately 100 words or between 40 and 60 words. Fragments from different items may be deemed to be dissimilar. Sections having a length less than the predetermined amount may be ignored. Validating the item may include parsing editorial notes and other accompanying data. The source text corpus may be Wikipedia. The item may be an article.
US10755182B2
A method for training a question answering system includes providing training questions to a question answering system executing on a computer and to a plurality of subject matter experts. The question answering system generates first answers to each training question. Second answers to the training questions are received from the subject matter experts. Feature scores for each of the first answers and the second answers are generated and compared across the second answers and the first answers. Each of the feature scores is representative of a quality of an answer that is indicative of relevance to a corresponding training question. Based on the comparing, a measure of consistency of the feature scores of the second answers is determined, and a measure of consistency of the feature scores of the second answers to the first answers is determined. The measures of consistency are transmitted to the subject matter experts.
US10755175B2
After beginning an evaluation of a first generation of a first plurality of candidate solutions and prior to completion of the evaluation, a system can determine a first plurality of tournament participants from the first plurality of candidate solutions The system may determine whether each of the first plurality of tournament participants have been evaluated. In response to determining each of the first plurality of tournament participants have been evaluated the system can determine a first one or more winners of the tournament and determine whether a first quantity of the first one or more winners is above a predefined threshold. In response to determining the first quantity is above a predefined threshold, the system can determine a second generation of a second plurality of candidate solutions, the second plurality of candidate solutions based, at least in part, on the first one or more winners.
US10755171B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for hiding information using neural networks. One of the methods includes maintaining data mapping each of a plurality of classes to a respective piece of information that may potentially be hidden in a received data item; receiving a new data item; receiving data identifying a first piece of information to be hidden in the new data item; and modifying the new data item to generate a modified data item that, when processed by a neural network configured to classify input data items belonging to one of the plurality of classes, is classified by the neural network as belonging to a first class of the plurality of classes that is mapped to the first piece of information in the maintained data.
US10755168B2
An information processing device includes a storage unit that stores learning information acquired by machine learning, an input unit that acquires identification information, and a processing unit that performs recognition processing using the learning information that is specified by the storage unit on a basis of the identification information. An information processing method is executed by a processor, the information processing method includes storing learning information acquired by machine learning, acquiring identification information, and performing recognition processing using the learning information that is specified from storage on a basis of the identification information.
US10755163B1
A system for prospectively identifying media characteristics for inclusion in media content is disclosed. A neural network database including media characteristic information and feature information may associate relationships among the media characteristic information and feature information. Personal characteristic information associated with target media consumers may be used to select a subset of the neural network database. A first set of nodes, representing selected feature information, may be activated. The node interactions may be calculated to detect the activation of a second set of nodes, the second set of nodes representing media characteristic information. Generally, a node is activated when an activation value of the node exceeds a threshold value. Media characteristic information may be identified for inclusion in media content based on the second set of nodes.
US10755162B2
A method to reduce a neural network includes: adding a reduced layer, which is reduced from a layer in the neural network, to the neural network; computing a layer loss and a result loss with respect to the reduced layer based on the layer and the reduced layer; and determining a parameter of the reduced layer based on the layer loss and the result loss.
US10755151B2
An inkjet printing apparatus obtains data of a second image by correcting, using shading data, signal values of pixels in an image of a read test pattern so that a signal value of a pixel lower than a value of the shading data becomes a value corresponding to a lowest luminance; specifies an area of a pattern of each of the plurality of inks in the image of the test pattern using the data of a first image and the data of the second image; and calculates a position deviation amount of a printhead based on a position of the pattern of the specified area.
US10755149B2
Described is a system that can recognize novel objects that the system has never before seen. The system uses a training image set to learn a model that maps visual features from known images to semantic attributes. The learned model is used to map visual features of an unseen input image to semantic attributes. The unseen input image is classified as belonging to an image class with a class label. A device is controlled based on the class label.
US10755143B2
Provided is an object detection device or the like which efficiently generates good-quality training data. This object detection device is provided with: a detection unit which uses a dictionary to detect objects from an input image; a reception unit which displays, on a display device, the input image accompanied by a display emphasizing partial areas of detected objects, and receives, from one operation of an input device, a selection of a partial area and an input of the class of the selected partial area; a generation unit which generates training data from the image of the selected partial area and the inputted class; and a learning unit which uses the training data to learn the dictionary.
US10755128B2
Provided is a technique for determining a context of an image and an object depicted by the image based on the context. A trained context classification model may determine a context of an image, and a trained object recognition model may determine an object depicted by the image based on the image and the context. Provided is also a technique for determining an object depicted within an image based on an input location of an input detected by a display screen. An object depicted within an image may be detected based on a distance in feature space between an image feature vector of an image and a feature vector of the object, and a distance in pixel-space between an input location of an input and location of the object within the image.
US10755125B2
The present disclosure provides a non-invasive, inexpensive and unobtrusive system that enables heart rate (HR) monitoring by addressing the traditionally known issues with face video based systems due to respiration, facial expressions, out-of-plane movements, camera parameters and environmental factors. These issues are alleviated by filtering, pulse modelling and HR tracking. Quality measures are defined which incorporate out-of-plane movements to define the quality of each video frame unlike existing approaches which provide a single quality for the entire video. To handle out-of-plane movement, Fourier basis function is employed to reconstruct pulse signals at affected locations. Bayesian decision theory based method performs HR tracking using previous HR and quality estimates for improved HR monitoring.
US10755123B1
Various embodiments relate to sensing defects associated with a window. Furthermore, various embodiments relate to performing image processing to produce a corrected image of a scene based at least partly on data corresponding to the detected defects. In some examples, one or more lighting modules may be used to illuminate the window to facilitate detection of the defects by one or more sensor devices.
US10755122B2
A method for an enhanced vehicle monitoring system that utilizes cameras and other sensors to determine the state of the interior and/or exterior of a vehicle is provided. The method comprises detecting that a driver has exited a vehicle. The method further comprises monitoring a state of the vehicle. The method further comprises determining based, at least in part, on the monitoring, if an object has been left in the vehicle unintentionally or if the vehicle has been left running unattended. The method further comprises, upon determining that the object has been left in the vehicle or the vehicle has been left running unattended, sending a notification to the driver.
US10755121B2
A driving oriented digital video recorder (DVR) system may comprise a camera; a memory; and a control circuit. The occurrence of a predefined driving event type may be determined based on received data. An event object that includes details of the determined event may be generated, including the type of the determined event and a time association with a segment of captured driving video. Metadata tags may be generated, which contain the type of the determined event and the location of the event object in the memory of the DVR. The DVR may retrieve segments of the driving video by identifying the metadata tag as having the same event type as a query parameter and, in turn, identify the event object using the location of the event object included in the metadata tag. The driving video segment may then be located via the association with the event object.
US10755116B2
An image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to obtain a range image having pixel values corresponding to a distance of an object in a plurality of captured images obtained by capturing the object on a road surface so as to extract pixel values from the range image, generate vertical direction distribution data indicating a frequency distribution of distance values in a vertical direction of the range image based on the extracted pixel values, calculate a height of the road surface in the range image before generation of the vertical direction distribution data is completed, and generate horizontal direction distribution data indicating a frequency distribution of distance values in a horizontal direction of the range image based on the extracted pixel values and the calculated height of the road surface.
US10755113B2
A method for estimating an inherent movement of a vehicle. The method includes a step of classifying, a step of detecting, and a step of ascertaining. In the step of classifying, at least one portion of a camera image representing a classified object is classified into an object category which represents stationary objects. In the step of detecting, at least one detection point of the portion in the camera image classified into the object category is detected in the camera image by utilizing a detection algorithm. In the step of ascertaining, an estimated inherent movement of the vehicle is ascertained by utilizing the detection point.
US10755109B2
A monitoring system comprising an imaging unit installed in a position from which a plurality of structures can be imaged and which is higher than at least some of the plurality of structures, and configured to generate an image by imaging a monitoring area including the plurality of structures and a ground adjacent to the plurality of structures, a setting unit configured to set a plurality of detection target regions, wherein the detection target region includes at least a region of the ground in the image, and excludes at least a region which is included in a region corresponding to the structure and is not in contact with the region of the ground in the image; and a processing unit configured to count persons in each detection target region in the image.
US10755107B2
An information processing apparatus, which predicts a waiting time with higher accuracy, acquires a number of objects waiting in a queue in a set area, changes the acquired number of objects in a case where the acquired number of acquired objects is less than or equal to a threshold, and predicts a waiting time of the queue, based on the changed number of acquired objects and a passage frequency in the queue.
US10755105B2
System, apparatus, method, and computer readable media for on-the-fly captured video summarization. A video stream is incrementally summarized in concurrence with generation of the stream by a camera module. Saliency of the video stream summary is maintained as the stream evolves by updating the summary to include only the most significant frames. In one exemplary embodiment, saliency is determined by optimizing an objective function including terms that are indicative of both the diversity of a selection, and how representative the selection is to the processed portion of the video data corpus. A device platform including a CM and comporting with the exemplary architecture may provide video camera functionality at ultra-low power, and/or with ultra-low storage resources, and/or with ultra-low communication channel bandwidth.
US10755098B2
The present invention proposes an evaluation method of solar energy utilization potential in urban high-density areas based on low-altitude photogrammetry, comprising the following steps: low-altitude data acquisition using drones, acquisition of three-dimensional point cloud data, screening of building subject points, selection of seed region, region growth and point cloud patch segmentation, three-dimensional reconstruction, building geometry model, solar radiation simulation and solar energy utilization potential assessment steps. The invention utilizes low-altitude photogrammetry to obtain point cloud data in a high-density area of the city, and performs semantic division and three-dimensional reconstruction on the point cloud data through a parameterization tool to obtain a singular geometric model. Therefore, the solar radiation and dynamic change obtained from the roof and facade of the building are simulated and analyzed in the same platform.
US10755094B2
An acquiring unit includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, and an extracting unit. The first acquiring unit acquires first data from contract data indicating a contract. The second acquiring unit acquires, from an information source other than contract data, second data different from the first data by using the first data acquired by the first acquiring unit. The extracting unit extracts features of the contract from first data acquired by the first acquiring unit and second data acquired by the second acquiring unit. The features include at least second data. A calculating unit calculates an evaluation value of the contract according to a user, by using the features of the contract acquired by the acquiring unit and a calculation criterion read from a calculation criterion DB.
US10755089B2
There is provided a framework including systems and methods for analyzing skin parameters from images or videos showing skin. Using a series of Hierarchical Differential Image Filters (HDIF), it becomes possible to detect different skin features such as wrinkles, spots, and roughness. The hierarchical differential image filter computes two enhancements to an image showing skin at two different levels of enhancement, determines a differential image using the two enhancements and computes the skin analysis rating using the differential image. These skin ratings are comparably accurate to actual ratings by dermatologists.
US10755074B2
Systems and methods may be used by an automatic fingerprint identification system to estimate patterns of a latent fingerprint. A latent fingerprint image, and a plurality of reference ridge flow maps may initially be obtained. Each reference ridge flow map may be associated with a particular fingerprint pattern. A latent ridge flow map for the obtained latent fingerprint image may be computed. One or more characteristics associated with the latent ridge flow map may be compared to one or more characteristics associated with each of the plurality of reference ridge flow maps. A similarity score between the latent ridge flow map and a particular reference ridge flow map may be computed for each of the plurality of reference ridge flow maps. One or more fingerprint patterns present within the latent fingerprint may then be determined and provided for output.
US10755072B2
A display panel includes a transparent substrate, a visible light backlight source, an infrared backlight source, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of display data lines, a plurality of sensing data lines, a plurality of display transistors, a plurality of display pixels, a plurality of sensing pixels, and plurality of sensing transistors. When the display transistors receive the scanning signals, the display pixels are configured to display grayscale according to the visible light and the display data signals. When the sensing transistors receive the scanning signals, the sensing pixels are configured to generate detecting signals after conducting the sensing signals to the plurality of sensing data lines. Fingerprint recognition can be implemented on the display area of display panel without extra fingerprint recognizing components so that the screen can be minimized and the smart terminals can be lighter.
US10755064B2
A transaction code identification method comprises scanning a transaction code, the transaction code comprising: a two-dimensional code and a check code; parsing the two-dimensional code to obtain a two-dimensional code content contained in the two-dimensional code; obtaining the check code; and sending the two-dimensional code content and the check code to a server to cause the server to verify the transaction code based on the two-dimensional code content and the check code.
US10755062B1
Evaluating a symbol on an object can include acquiring a first image of the object, including the symbol. A second image can be derived from the first image based upon determining a saturation threshold for the second image and possibly scaling of pixel values to a reduced bit-depth for the second image.
US10755055B2
Disclosed are language recognition methods, apparatuses, and systems, which are related to the field of information technology. A corresponding grammar rule may be obtained through mapping of a data structure inputted by a user and thereby improving the processing efficiency in language recognition. The main technical solutions of the disclosure are as follows: first, information of a service data structure sent by a client is received. Then, a grammar rule is obtained from the information of the service data structure; upon receiving to-be-recognized sentence information sent by the client, the to-be-recognized sentence information is translated with the grammar rule and a translation result is stored in the service data structure; and the translation result in the service data structure is sent to the client, so that the client displays the translation result. The disclosure is mainly used for language recognition.
US10755054B1
An iterative language translation system includes multiple communicatively connected statistical speech translation systems. The system includes an automatic speech recognition component adapted to recognize spoken language in a source language and to create a source language hypothesis. A machine translation component is adapted to translate the source language hypothesis into a target language. The system also includes a second automatic speech recognition component and second machine translation component. The translation results are used to adapt the automatic speech recognition components and the language hypotheses are used to adapt the machine translation components.
US10755053B1
Artificial intelligence (AI) technology can be used in combination with composable communication goal statements and an ontology to facilitate a user's ability to quickly structure story outlines in a manner usable by an NLG narrative generation system without any need for the user to directly author computer code. This AI technology permits NLG systems to determine the appropriate content for inclusion in a narrative story about a data set in a manner that will satisfy a desired communication goal. The AI technology permits multiple communication goal statements to be arranged into a story outline that defines a narrative structure for the narrative story.
US10755044B2
A method and device. The device determines an initial estimate of an amount of time for a generic user to read a document, wherein the initial estimate is determined based on a value of one or more parameters associated with the document. The device determines an estimate correction parameter for modifying the determined initial estimate to compensate for a particular user who will read the document, a particular context n which the particular user will read the document, or a combination thereof. The device uses the initial estimate and the estimate correction parameter to determine an estimate of the amount of time for the particular user to read the document.
US10755041B2
A conversion tool enables XPS documents to be automatically converted into the Open XPS format and for Open XPS-formatted documents to be automatically converted into the XPS format. The conversion tool may convert content types, package-level relationships, part-level attributes, and image parts into a format supported by either document format.
US10755034B2
An information processing apparatus processes an electronic document including operation target data items. The electronic document is controlled by a processor performing an interpreter module which includes a first acquisition instruction for acquiring edit information, a second acquisition instruction for acquiring relevance information, and a generation instruction for generating electronic data from the electronic document based on the edit information and the relevance information. The relevance information includes first selection information for selecting some operation target data item, and second selection information for selecting another operation target data item. The electronic data includes first display data which is displayed based on the some operation target data item, and second display data which is displayed based on the another operation target data item in order that easy-to-read performance of the second display data is decreased to be lower than the first display data.
US10755033B1
Systems and methods for digital content editing and assessment are described. Software tools may perform heuristic processing of the digital content, producing computer-generated edits to the digital content. In addition, a user may accept, reject, or modify these computer-generated edits, and/or make additional edits to other portions of the digital content. The digital content may be subjected to additional processing steps prior to completion or publication. Various metrics associated with the editing of the digital content may be stored and analyzed to evaluate the performance of the digital content editing. This evaluation may be used to make changes to the editing process, such as to refine the detection heuristics for automated editing or modify other processes of the editing workflow.
US10755026B1
A method of improving a design rule fixing process comprises receiving an integrated circuit design, including layout elements, and identifying a plurality of design rule violations in the integrated circuit design. The process then identifies a plurality of possible actions, each action comprising fixing a design rule. The process then uses a deep learning algorithm to select an action, the action representing fixing of a particular design rule violation. The process then comprises applying a first patch, based on the order returning to step (b) to select a next patch to apply.
US10755020B1
Computing assemblies, such as blade servers, can comprise a plurality of modular computing elements coupled onto an associated circuit board assembly. Assemblies and systems having enhanced individual computing module placement and arrangement are discussed herein, as well as example systems and operations to manufacture such assemblies. In one example, a method includes executing a performance test on a plurality of computing modules to determine at least variability in power consumption across the plurality of computing modules, and binning the plurality of computing modules according to graduated levels of the variability in power consumption. The method also includes selecting from among the graduated levels for placement in an assembly of ones of the computing modules in a progressively lower power consumption arrangement with relation to an airflow of the assembly.
US10755017B2
A computer-implemented method of cell placement is provided. The method includes representing a non-rectangular cell to be placed into a cell row and searching the cell row to identify existing objects that are representative of cells in the cell row that are disposable to share space with the non-rectangular cell. The method further includes determining whether a representation of the non-rectangular cell is fittable into a modified mapping of the existing objects in the cell row and, in an event the representation is fittable into the modified mapping, overlapping the representation over one or more of the portions of the existing objects.
US10755016B2
Metrology overlay targets are provided, as well as method of monitoring process shortcomings. Targets comprise periodic structures, at least one of which comprising repeating asymmetric elements along a corresponding segmentation direction of the periodic structure. The asymmetry of the elements may be designed in different ways, for example as repeating asymmetric sub-elements along a direction perpendicular to the segmentation direction of the elements. The asymmetry of the sub-elements may be designed in different ways, according to the type of monitored process shortcomings, such as various types of hot spots, line edge shortening, process windows parameters and so forth. Results of the measurements may be used to improve the process and/or increase the accuracy of the metrology measurements.
US10755005B1
A computer-implemented method and system uses a single command to modify a feature type of a feature in a computer-aided design model. The method and system construct a three-dimensional (3D) model comprised of at least one feature, where the feature type is an extrude, a revolve, and a sweep. A command is provided that upon execution creates an extrude feature, a revolve feature, or a sweep feature. The feature is modified such that the feature changes from one feature type to another feature type. And after modifying the feature, references to a set of faces of the feature are maintained such that other features dependent on the feature properly update.
US10755001B2
A device may detect a user interaction, via a user interface, with a particular component of a model. The device may generate a set of components, associated with the particular component, based on detecting the user interaction with the particular component of the model. The device may cause a representation of the set of components to be provided, via the user interface, in association with the model. The representation may indicate that the set of components are associated with permitting interoperability.
US10754978B2
A computer-implemented system and method for storing and retrieving sensitive information is provided. Segments of sensitive data each encrypted via a single use encryption key and associated with a reference code are maintained. The reference code is received for at least one of the segments of encrypted sensitive data and the encryption key is recreated based on the received reference code. The encrypted sensitive data segment is decrypted using the recreated encryption key and the decrypted sensitive data segment populates a field in a display.
US10754974B2
Systems, methods, and devices for implementing secure views for zero-copy data sharing in a multi-tenant database system are disclosed. A method includes generating a share object in a first account comprising a share role. The method includes associating view privileges for the share object such that an underlying detail of the share object comprises a secure view definition. The method includes granting, to a second account, cross-account access rights to the share role or share object in the first account. The method includes receiving a request from the second account to access data or services of the first account and providing a response to the second account based on the data or services of the first account. The method is such that the underlying detail of the share object that comprises the secure view definition is hidden from the second account and visible to the first account.
US10754970B2
Data masking is provided by, for at least one predetermined data item in data to be sent, applying a one-way function to that data item to produce a first value, producing a masked data item by encrypting the first value via a deterministic encryption scheme using a current encryption key for a current epoch, and replacing that data item by the masked data item. A data-provider computer sends the masked data to the data-user computer. On expiry of the current epoch, the data-provider computer generates a new encryption key for the encryption scheme in a new epoch, produces mask-update data, dependent on the current and new encryption keys, and sends the mask-update data to the data-user computer. The mask-update data permits updating, at the data-user computer, of masked data items produced with the current encryption key into masked data items produced with the new encryption key.
US10754964B2
A building management system comprising an integrated sensor and control system integrated on a single application specific integrated circuit (ASIC). The ASIC combines sensor inputs necessary to monitor ambient light levels, light color, occupation/motion sensors, security sensors, temperature and humidity, barometric pressure, smoke and toxic substance sensors, and a processor to receive the sensor inputs and deliver control output signals to effect changes and make settings to each of the environmental systems that are monitored. The ASIC also provides communication and control security for the building management system, preventing hostile intrusions into the system. The storage, intelligence and processing all reside within the ASIC.
US10754952B2
An example method of authenticating software executing in a computer system includes: receiving, from the computer system over a network at a server computer, a trusted platform module (TPM) quote, an event log, and a metadata database, the TPM quote provided by a TPM in the computer system, the event log including first checksums for the software executing in the computer system, and the metadata database including second checksums of binary files stored in packages from which the software is installed; establishing a root of trust in the computer system at the server computer based on the TPM quote and the event log; and determining, at the server computer in response to establishing the root of trust, integrity of the software executing in the computer system by comparing the first checksums with the second checksums.
US10754942B2
A system, a method, and a program for providing a virtual code, a virtual code generating device, and a virtual code verifying device are provided. The method includes receiving, by a virtual code verifying means, a virtual code from a virtual code generating means, extracting, by the virtual code verifying means, a plurality of detailed codes included in the virtual code, and searching for, by the virtual code verifying means, a storage location of a real code based on the plurality of detailed codes.
US10754936B1
A computer-implemented method includes selecting a prompt from a plurality of prompts stored in a prompt database, wherein the prompt comprises instructions to draw a mark, and wherein other prompts of the plurality of prompts comprise instructions to draw other marks different from the mark. The method also includes the steps of providing the prompt to a user as part of a logon process for an online account session, identifying behavioral characteristics of the user while the user draws the mark, comparing the behavioral characteristics to a behavioral profile previously developed based on prior behavioral characteristics of the user, and providing access to the online account session in response to determining that a variation between the behavioral characteristics and the behavioral profile is within a threshold.
US10754935B2
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations. The operations include collecting, by a processing device, raw data regarding a user action. The operations also include converting, by the processing device, the raw data to characteristic test data (CTD), wherein the CTD represents behavior characteristics of a current user. The operations also include identifying, by the processing device, a characteristic model corresponding to the behavior characteristics represented by the CTD. The operations also include generating, by the processing device, a predictor from a comparison of the CTD against the corresponding characteristic model, wherein the predictor comprises a score indicating a probability that the user action came from an authenticated user.
US10754931B2
According to one embodiment, a security manager of a first operating system executed by a processor of a data processing system receives a request received from an application to modify a security settings of the data processing system. In response to the request, the data processing system is restarted into a second operating system, where the second operating system includes functionalities that are fewer than the first operating system. The security settings of the data processing system is modified within the second operating system. After the security settings of the data processing system has been modified, the data processing is rebooted back to the first operating system. A security measure within the first operating system is enforced based on the modified security settings.
US10754922B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for sensor fusion. The method includes receiving, by a processor, track reports of at least a first sensor and a second sensor for sensor fusion, selecting a best track from at least the first sensor and the second sensor to reduce track error, determining a fused track that combines at least the first sensor and the second sensor and selecting one of the fused track and the best track as a system track of sensor fusion to minimize a system error.
US10754919B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are presented for maintaining cupolets in a state of mutual stabilization. A first cupolet and a second cupolet are generated. A first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a first time to produce a first visitation code. The first visitation code is transformed based on an exchange function to produce a second control code. The second control code is applied to the second cupolet to produce a second visitation code. The second visitation code is transformed based on the exchange function to produce the first control code. The first control code is applied to the first cupolet for a second time.
US10754917B2
The present invention provides a method and a system for the display of customized pages with Double WebView. The method includes: determining a template type to generate a customized page based on loaded information of an original web page, wherein the original web page is loaded via a mobile Internet; creating a new WebView associated with a primary web page based on the template type, wherein the primary web page is the original web page or a web page evolved from operating on the original web page; loading a template corresponding to the template type of the new WebView; creating a built-in JavaScript object within the new WebView; obtaining data of the primary web page through the built-in JavaScript object; generating a customized page within the new WebView based on the data of the primary web page; and displaying the customized page. The present invention can realize the customization of web pages without the support of a customization server and the modification to the primary web page. They can also make possible the switch between the primary web page and the customized page seamlessly, almost instantaneously. At the same time, they are able to screen and block advertisements on the web page.
US10754909B2
Dynamic link preview generation techniques are described that overcome the challenges of conventional techniques by supporting link preview generation by a content provider system that proves the digital content via a respective network address. In one example, a content provider system, based on a request received from a service provider system, identifies a communication platform of the service provider system that is to be used to communicate the shared link. Upon identifying the communication platform, the content provider system locates customization data that describes how the link preview is to be generated for the communication platform. In response, the content provider system renders digital content available via the network address to generate the link preview.
US10754908B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for indexing actions for resources. In an aspect, a method receiving, for each resource a plurality of resources that are each accessible by a user device, action data describing actions supported by each resource, each action being an action that can be performed by the user device processing the resource; for each resource: determining, from the action data, an action type for each action supported by the resource, determining, from the action data, action parameters for each action supported by the resource, and indexing the action data, action types and action parameters for the resource in an index that is searchable by a search engine.
US10754907B2
A method allowing a user confidentially to query a server including a database. The user builds, from an index of a desired entry, a vector encrypted by a homomorphic probabilistic cryptosystem, and transmits a request having the vector as an argument to the server. The server performs a scalar product between the vector of entries of the database and returns the result to the user. The user decrypts the scalar product to obtain the desired entry. The method can be used for example for querying a location-based service and for navigation by concealed routes.
US10754904B2
Methods and systems for determining accuracy for media are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes identifying a data segment of an electronic data object that is encoding one or more assertions including a first assertion, compiling a search query based on the one or more assertions, generating search results by conducting a first information search using the search query, identifying a most recent time associated with a search result of the search results that relates to the first assertion, generating an accuracy weighting for the first assertion based on search result, and annotating the first assertion based on the accuracy weighting to indicate the assertion's accuracy.
US10754894B2
In examples, an apparatus comprises: a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor to: adaptively order an ordered set of regular expressions based on training messages to produce a set of adaptively ordered regular expressions having an adaptive order, determine a first of the adaptively ordered regular expressions that matches an additional message, and determine whether a second of the adaptively ordered regular expressions matches the additional message. Responsive to determining that the second of the other of the adaptively ordered regular expressions matches the additional message, the processor to: classify the additional message with the first regular expression if the first regular expression has a higher priority in the adaptive order; and classify the additional message with the second regular expression if the second regular expression has a higher priority in the adaptive order.
US10754891B2
Example methods and systems for inserting information into playing content are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems may identify a break in content playing via a playback device, select an information segment representative of information received by the playback device to present during the identified break, and insert the information segment into the content playing via the playback device upon an occurrence of the identified break.
US10754878B2
A storage system is described. The storage system includes an object store having a plurality of objects to implement a quota policy or a part of a relational database. The plurality of objects include a first plurality of immutable objects, a second plurality of immutable objects and a head object. The first plurality of immutable objects contain information kept within the database. The second plurality of immutable objects contain a hierarchy of pages for accessing the first plurality of immutable objects. The plurality of objects also include a mutable object that contains a mapping table that maps identifiers of the pages to identifiers of objects of the second plurality of immutable objects. The information is one of: quota policy information; information within a table of a relational database; a stripe of a thin provisioned file.
US10754877B2
A system and method for providing big data analytics responsive to dynamically-changing data models are provided. The method includes parsing, based on a logical data schema, a user query into a plurality of sub-queries; sending the plurality of sub-queries to a plurality of data stores, wherein each data store is selected based on a physical data schema of a dynamic data schema; receiving a plurality of sub-result datasets, wherein each sub-result dataset corresponds to a sub-query; and combining the plurality of sub-result datasets into a single resulting data set based on a logical schema of the dynamic data schema, wherein the combining includes at least any of: an aggregation operation and a join operation.
US10754874B2
A computer receives a database request to be executed on a source database or a target database. The source database is configured to efficiently process database queries of a first query type, the target database is configured to efficiently process database queries of a second query type, data changes in the source database are asynchronously replicated to the target database, and all changed data in the source database impacting a result of the database request are replicated to the target database before executing the database request. The computer determines a latency time to asynchronously complete a replication of unreplicated data changes and determines a velocity of replication. The computer predicts, using the latency time and velocity of replication, which of the databases will complete an execution of the database request first and dispatches the database request to the database predicted to complete the execution of the database request first.
US10754869B2
The present disclosure relates to system(s) and method(s) for storing sensor data received from a device connected an Internet of Things (IoT) network. The system may store one or more record tables corresponding to one or more devices connected in an Internet of Things (IoT) network, in a database. Further, the system may receive a modification request from a device connected in the Internet of Things (IoT) network, wherein the modification request comprises a unique identification number corresponding to the device and a sensor configuration data. Further, the system may modify a table structure of a record table corresponding to the device to generate a modified table structure, based on the modification request. Further, the system may execute a programmed instruction stored in the memory to store the sensor data received from the device, in the record table, based on the modified table structure.
US10754863B2
A system and method of ranking a plurality of documents on a search engine results page (SERP) in response to a query, the method comprising: computing a ranking score for each document, a given ranking score being indicative of an original rank of a respective document; computing a class association value for each document, a given class association value being a probability of a respective document to be associated with a predetermined class of documents having been determined by an operator, a given class association value being instrumental in increasing a magnitude of change of the original rank of the respective document; computing an amended ranking score for each document based on a respective ranking score and a respective class association value; and triggering a display of the SERP with the documents being ranked based on the respective amended ranking score.
US10754860B2
An apparatus and method are provided for ranking content categories. Multiple sessions of usage data is collected for usage activities of a plurality of users (associated with a group) on a plurality of categories of content. The usage data is analyzed for an average group usage of each category across the sessions and a variation of the average group usage of each category across the sessions. Individual usage data is also collected for usage activities of at least one user on the categories of content. The individual usage data reflects an aggregated usage of each category for the at least one user. Category usage is estimated on each category for the at least one user based on a weighted combination of the aggregated usage and the average group usage according to the variation. An amount of weight of the aggregated usage in the weighted combination is inversely related to the variation. The categories of content are ranked, via at least one processor, utilizing the estimated category usage on each category. Further, a presentation including the ranking is sent to a user device of the at least one user for being output via an interface.
US10754859B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system obtains a group of two or more integer values. Next, the system sets, for each integer value in the two or more integer values, a delta encoding tag that represents a delta encoding of the integer value with respect to at least one other integer value in the group and uses a delta encoding state represented by the delta encoding tag to calculate an encoded value from the integer value. The system then encodes a length of the encoded value in a length tag for the integer value. Finally, the system replaces the integer value in the group with an encoded version containing the delta encoding tag, the length tag, and the encoded value.
US10754851B2
Systems and techniques are described that provide for question answering using data visualizations, such as bar graphs. Such data visualizations are often generated from collected data, and provided within image files that illustrate the underlying data and relationships between data elements. The described techniques analyze a query and a related data visualization, and identify one or more spatial regions within the data visualization in which an answer to the query may be found.
US10754841B2
Described in detail herein is a method of copying data of one or more virtual machines being hosted by one or more non-virtual machines. The method includes receiving an indication that specifies how to perform a copy of data of one or more virtual machines hosted by one or more virtual machine hosts. The method may include determining whether the one or more virtual machines are managed by a virtual machine manager that manages or facilitates management of the virtual machines. If so, the virtual machine manager is dynamically queried to automatically determine the virtual machines that it manages or that it facilitates management of. If not, a virtual machine host is dynamically queried to automatically determine the virtual machines that it hosts. The data of each virtual machine is then copied according to the specifications of the received indication.
US10754838B1
A registration framework is disclosed that allows assets to be registered with an analytics platform. When an asset is ingested into the analytics platform, the registration framework operates to register the asset in an asset roster. The asset roster identifies the asset and stores information about the asset. The registration framework can then be used by users to discover assets. Assets may also be deployed by the registration framework to workspaces.
US10754832B2
A composite database containing virtualized objects of a transport node in a virtualized network, and methods pertaining thereto is disclosed. The composite database supports each of many clients having their own database values. The composite database is formed by augmenting a key-value database to have an augmented key that comprises an original key, indicating the type of object stored, concatenated with a list of database identifiers. The composite database stores at the augmented key, values of objects in the database that pertain to each database identifier in the augmented key, where each object is in serialized form. Accessing the database includes scanning the database for a list of augmented key-value pairs containing a given key. Getting a database record includes specifying a key and a database identifier. The list of augmented key-value pairs is searched for the record having the specified database identifier.
US10754828B2
An in-place information management system having a management application built on a common data model and configured for asynchronous query-based application of policies on content stored in the disparate data storage systems through a query interface which may be part of a set of integration services. The common data model may be configured based on common architectures of the disparate data storage systems. The query interface may be configured for running a query on a data storage system in response to a search request received by the management application from a records manager and for mapping semantically equivalent keys from disparate data storage systems to a key in the common data model. The query may define a set of records to be treated similarly according to corporate policy on content lifecycle and records compliance.
US10754821B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a system for migrating a virtual file server. In an example of a method, a virtual file server is migrated from a first storage to a second storage, wherein the virtual file server comprises a server layer and a data layer. Identity information is retrieved from the server layer from the server layer for the second storage. The identity information is updated so instantiation of the virtual file server on the second storage appears the same as on the first storage.
US10754819B1
An embodiment of the present invention is directed to an automated archiving tool. A system that implements an automated archiving tool comprises: a memory component; an interactive interface that receives one or more user inputs; and a processor, coupled to the memory component and the interactive interface, the processor configured to perform the steps comprising: querying for issues that meet an archive criteria; performing an export of the queried issues that meet the archive criteria; executing a script creating a macro for tickets and associated attachments; archiving the tickets as flat files; executing a script to index the archived issues by project; moving support files to a common directory; macro archiving the attachments; and identifying local references.
US10754813B1
Methods, apparatus, and computer-accessible storage media for optimizing block storage I/O operations in a storage gateway. A write log may be implemented in a block store as a one-dimensional queue. A read cache may also be implemented in the block store. When non-ordered writes are received, sequential writes may be performed to the write log and the data may be written to contiguous locations on the storage. A metadata store may store metadata for the write log and the read cache. Reads may be satisfied from the write log if possible, or from the read cache or backend store if not. If blocks are read from the read cache or backend store to satisfy a read, the blocks may be mutated with data from the write log before being sent to the requesting process. The mutated blocks may be stored to the read cache.
US10754810B2
An interposer for a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCI-e) host device and a PCI-e target device may include a plurality of linear repeaters to perform repetition or crosspoint switching of signals en route from the PCI-e host device to the PCI-e target device or from the PCI-e target device to the PCI-e host device; and a plurality of interposer components, the plurality of interposer components to receive the signals from the plurality of linear repeaters or provide the signals to the plurality of linear repeaters, and at least one interposer component, of the plurality of interposer components, being associated with a resistance of at least 50 ohms. Thus, the interposer may be compliant with a PCI-e protocol, such as the PCI-e Gen 4 protocol.
US10754795B2
Providing memory management unit (MMU)-assisted address sanitizing in processor-based devices is disclosed. In one aspect, a processor-based device provides an MMU that includes a last-level page table that is configured to store page table entry (PTE) tokens for validating memory accesses, as well as fragment order indicators representing a count of page fragments for each memory page in the system memory. Upon receiving a memory access request comprising a pointer token and a virtual address of a memory fragment within a memory page of the system memory, the MMU uses the virtual address and the fragment order indicator of the PTE corresponding to the virtual address to retrieve a PTE token for the virtual address from the last-level page table, and determines whether the PTE token corresponds to the pointer token. If so, the MMU performs the memory access request using the pointer, and otherwise may raise an exception.
US10754791B2
Examples of techniques for software translation prefetch instructions are described herein. An aspect includes, based on encountering a translation prefetch instruction in software that is being executed by a processor, determining whether an address translation corresponding to the translation prefetch instruction is located in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) of the processor. Another aspect includes, based on determining that the address translation is not located in the TLB, issuing an address translation request corresponding to the translation prefetch instruction. Another aspect includes storing an address translation corresponding to the address translation request in the TLB.
US10754782B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to circuitry to accelerate store processing are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a (e.g., L1) cache, a fill buffer, a store buffer, and a cache controller to allocate a first entry of a plurality of entries in the fill buffer to store a first storage request when the first storage request misses in the cache, send a first request for ownership to another cache corresponding to the first storage request, detect a hit in the cache for a second storage request, update a globally observable buffer to indicate the first entry in the fill buffer for the first storage request is earlier in program order than the second storage request in the store buffer, allocate, before the second storage request is removed from the store buffer, a second entry of the plurality of entries in the fill buffer to store the third storage request when the third storage request misses in the cache, send a second request for ownership to another cache corresponding to the third storage request, and update the globally observable buffer to indicate the second entry in the fill buffer for the third storage request is later in program order than the second storage request in the store buffer.
US10754774B2
Systems, methods, apparatus and computer-readable medium are described for improving efficiency and robustness for sharing data across different users, agents, processes, drivers, and applications in a system. A shared buffer between multiple entities may be used for sharing data such that the data is only stored once and accessed by multiple entities without copying the data over and over again. An example system may be a network device. For a received packet at a network interface of a network device, the packet may be stored directly in memory. The application or process responsible for accessing and/or manipulating the packet can directly do so by simply using a buffer pointer provided by the buffer manager.
US10754770B2
A process may utilize multiple garbage collector threads, each having the capability to steal partially-marked object references from an accessible mark stack having additional work that has yet to be processed. A partially-marked object reference may be represented as a pair of entries on a mark stack. A garbage collector thread may utilize an atomic operation to access the pair of entries in a prescribed manner to steal an unprocessed partially-marked object reference. In this manner, the workload of an overloaded garbage collector thread is offloaded to another garbage collector thread that may be idle thereby balancing the workload more evenly among multiple garbage collector threads.
US10754766B2
A method for memory management includes allocating an available block of memory for use by a first object, determining that the block of memory includes at least a portion of a second object, the second object no longer being used by an application associated with the second object, determining that the second object utilized at least one resource that was not shutdown, releasing the at least one resource, and writing to the block of memory with the first object.
US10754765B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for validating an operating system are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of providing, to a computing device running an operating system that includes, a framework layer, a hardware abstraction layer, and a kernel that includes firmware and drivers, a reference system image that is configured to replace, supplement, or modify the framework layer. The actions further include providing, to the computing device, test data that is configured to verify functionality of the operating system by interacting with the reference system image to test functionality of the hardware abstraction layer without modifying the hardware abstraction layer, wherein the computing device with the framework layer replaced, supplemented, or modified by the reference system image is a non-rooted device. The actions further include determining whether the operating system of the computing device is functioning properly.
US10754759B1
An execution circuit inputs a plurality of data units, performs unit operations on the data units, and registers results of the unit operations in response to oscillations of a clock signal. A control circuit controls activation of the unit operations, and outputs a start signal to the execution circuit to activate each unit operation and/or a completion signal to indicate completion of each unit operation. A debug circuit stores breakpoint flags associated with the unit operations. Each breakpoint flag has a state that specifies whether to stop oscillations of the clock signal. The debug circuit further receives the start and/or completion signal and evaluates, while the clock signal oscillates to the execution circuit, a state of the start and/or completion signal and a state of the breakpoint flag associated with the unit operation. Oscillations of the clock signal are stopped in response to the evaluation of the signals.
US10754745B2
A method of tracking and reporting data associated with a component of a system is provided. The method includes: creating a subscription that is associated with a component of a system based on subscription parameters; receiving component data associated with the component of the system; and generating repotting data based on the subscription and the component data.
US10754742B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for computing systems are provided herein. In one example, a computing system includes a first processor configured to establish a network connection with a target system, and transfer to a second processor information describing the network connection comprising a network address and a network port. The computing system includes the second processor configured to identify when the first processor has failed, and responsively inherit the network connection with the target system based at least on the information describing the network connection and packet sequence information received from the target system to resume packet acknowledge or sequence counts established between the first processor and the target system.
US10754741B1
A migration system or service may implement event-driven replication for migrating a computing resource from a source network to a destination network. A replication event may be detected to obtain a state of a data volume for a computing resource hosted in a client network. A request to a replication agent hosted in the source network may instruct the replication agent to copy at least some of the data of the data volume and send the data to the destination network. The migration service may generate a state of the data volume from the received data in a format that is operable to host the computing resource in the destination network and store the generated state of the data volume.
US10754732B1
A storage system may include an interface configured to connect with a mainframe computing system. The interface converts the protocol used by the mainframe computing system to another protocol. Once the data, which may be present in a backup data stream, from the mainframe computing system is converted, the storage system may direct or transmit the backup data stream for further processing such as deduplication and/or compression. The de-duplicated and/or compressed backup data stream is then stored to storage of the storage system.
US10754731B1
A compliance audit log of a data storage is obtained. The compliance audit log is analyzed to identify one or more files associated with a mounted storage volume that have changed since a previous backup snapshot of the mounted storage volume associated with the data storage. An incremental backup snapshot of the mounted storage volume is caused to be performed based on a result of the analysis of the compliance audit log.
US10754728B2
Embodiments include accelerating capture of a system dump at system failure in a computer system. A method includes capturing a system snapshot that includes data from real memory frames of the computer system and storing the system snapshot in a storage. The method also includes monitoring periodically a change between the data in the system snapshot and a current state of the real memory frames of the computer system and updating the system snapshot according to the changed real memory frames based on a rate of change of the real memory frames. Further, in response to encountering the system failure, the snapshot is updated based on a delta between the system snapshot and the current state of the real memory frames. The snapshot on the storage is used as the system dump. The present document further describes examples of other aspects such as systems, computer products.
US10754727B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for storing data and a method and an apparatus for recovering data, where the method of recovering data may include: reading partial check data and partial data corresponding to to-be-recovered data from prestored data, where the partial check data is obtained by coding entire data of the to-be-stored data based on a partial generator matrix, the partial generator matrix is obtained by dividing a row of an entire generator matrix and rows of the partial generator matrix which are obtained by dividing include a zero element; and recovering the to-be-recovered data based on the read partial check data and partial data. The examples of the present disclosure can reduce read data volume during data recovery and further reduce I/O consumption substantially.
US10754724B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory chips storing and outputting data in response to a control command and an address command, at least one ECC memory chip providing an error check and correction (ECC) function on the data stored and output by the plurality of the memory chips, and a controller, marking a memory chip in which a defective memory cell is detected among the plurality of memory chips, as a defective memory chip, storing data of the defective memory chip in the ECC memory chip, and controlling the defective memory chip to execute a post package repair (PPR).
US10754723B2
In some embodiments, a processing system includes at least one hardware block configured to change operation as a function of configuration data, a non-volatile memory including the configuration data for the at least one hardware block, and a configuration module configured to read the configuration data from the non-volatile memory and provide the configuration data read from the non-volatile memory to the at least one hardware block. The configuration module is configured to: receive mode configuration data; read the configuration data from the non-volatile memory; test whether the configuration data contain errors by verifying whether the configuration data are corrupted and/or invalid; and activate a normal operation mode or an error operation mode based on whether the configuration data contain or do not contain errors.
US10754721B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods related to assets and asset operating conditions. In particular, examples involve defining and using a predictive model that is configured to output an indication of whether at least one failure type from the group of possible failure types is likely to occur at an asset within the given period of time in the future.
US10754707B2
Examples include registering a device driver with an operating system, including registering available hardware offloads. The operating system receives a call to a hardware offload, inserts a binary filter representing the hardware offload into a hardware component and causes the execution of the binary filter by the hardware component when the hardware offload is available, and executes the binary filter in software when the hardware offload is not available.
US10754706B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage devices, for task scheduling in a multiprocessor system. The processors of a multiprocessor system are partitioned into two groups, a first group of processors that preferentially execute new, short-running tasks and a second group of processors that preferentially execute suspended, long-running tasks. A scheduler of the multiprocessor system maintains queues of new and suspended tasks, suspends tasks, and assigns tasks to the processors according to their group preference. By designating different processors to preferentially execute new, short-running tasks or suspended, long-running tasks, the multiprocessor system may more efficiently manage workloads that contain a mixture of task types.
US10754696B1
Embodiments are directed to a load balancer process for use in a deduplication backup process implemented in a cluster system that provides ideal placement of the Mtrees on the expanded capacity by monitoring the available capacity and providing recommendations on the best node to place newly created Mtrees. Continuous monitoring of the capacity and activity level of the nodes helps identify the appropriate node to place a new Mtree. The monitoring of existing node in the cluster and balancing capacity by recommending migration of files from heavily-utilized nodes to under-utilized nodes produces an overall increase in cluster performance.
US10754692B2
There are provided a memory controller and an operating method thereof. The memory controller includes a host interface layer for receiving a host program request and a host read request, a flash translation layer for generating and outputting a program command and a plurality of program addresses in response to the host program request, checking a program progress state for a program address corresponding to a target read address when the target read address corresponding to the host read request is included in the program addresses, and controlling a read operation on the target read address according to whether a program operation on the program address corresponding to the target read address has been completed, and a flash interface layer for transmitting a command and addresses, which are output from the flash translation layer, to a memory device.
US10754689B1
A stream manager for managing the distribution of instructions to a plurality of processing devices includes a dispatcher module configured to: receive multiple instruction streams, wherein each instruction stream includes a plurality of requested computations for processing perception data from a perception data source; partition each instruction stream into a plurality of partitions based on type of device to perform a requested computation from the instruction stream; assign a release time and deadline to each partition, and dispatch partition computations to a plurality of scheduling queues to distribute processing of the partition computations amongst the plurality of processing devices. The plurality of scheduling queues include: a plurality of CPU schedulers, wherein each CPU scheduler is assigned to a specific CPU and a specific scheduling queue; and a plurality of accelerator schedulers, wherein each accelerator scheduler is assigned to a specific scheduling queue and a specific type of accelerator.
US10754684B2
A method for controlling process includes the follows. When it is determined that a duration that each of N processes in a kernel space of a terminal device is in an uninterruptible sleep state reaches or exceeds a preset period, whether the N processes have undergone a searched and killed operation within the preset period is detected. N is an integer greater than or equal to 1. When the N processes have undergone the searched and killed operation within the preset period, states of the N processes are changed, and an operating system is controlled to run the N processes according to the changed states of the N processes. A related terminal device is also provided.
US10754677B2
A hierarchical tree of nodes for layered images may be maintained. The hierarchical tree may include paths that each includes nodes representing layered images for a virtual machine. A request indicating a child component may be received. A subset of the paths of the hierarchical tree may be identified where each of the subset of the paths includes a child node representing the child component, one or more intermediary nodes representing layered images of intermediary components, and a root node. A path, from the subset of paths, with fewer nodes representing layered images that are not present in a storage of a machine may be selected. Furthermore, the layered images that are not present in the storage of the machine may be provided to the machine to instantiate a virtual machine to execute the child component.
US10754674B2
A method for reducing memory usage of a browser in a portable terminal device is disclosed. The method comprises mapping an anonymous memory, allocated by an operating system of the portable terminal device, into a process space of a browser; and removing the mapped anonymous memory from the process space of the browser, after an operation of the browser using the anonymous memory is completed.
US10754667B1
An industrial plant module-based engineering system includes a group module library navigator that contains: a plurality of group class modules and a respective plurality of child class modules under an associated group class module of the plurality of group class modules. A group module instantiation engine is configured to instantiate the group class module with reflecting a hierarchy of the group class modules to generate, in an application structure navigator, a group application module (group APM) and a hierarchy of the group application module (group APM) from the group class module, and to instantiate the child class module to generate, in the application structure navigator, a child application module (child APM) from the child class module. The group module update engine is configured to update the allocation of each group class module and a respective topology of the complex loops of each group class module.
US10754661B1
A firmware, such as a unified extensible firmware interface (UEFI)-compliant firmware, provides a network protocol stack in a pre-boot execution environment. A network layer in the network protocol stack receives network packets. A firmware driver executing in the network layer determines whether individual network packets received at the network layer meet one or more pre-defined criteria. If individual network packets meet the pre-defined criteria, the firmware driver provides the network packets to a transport layer in the network protocol stack. If, however, the network packets received at the network layer do not meet the pre-defined criteria, the firmware driver discards the individual network packets.
US10754655B2
A processing device includes a branch IP table and branch predication circuitry coupled to the branch IP table. The branch predication circuitry to: determine a dynamic convergence point in a conditional branch of set of instructions; store the dynamic convergence point in the branch IP table; fetch a first and second speculative path of the conditional branch; while determining which of the first speculative path and the second speculative path is a taken path of the conditional branch and determining whether a dynamic convergence point is fetched corresponding to the stored dynamic convergence point, stall scheduling of instructions of the first speculative path and the second speculative path; and in response to determining that one of the first speculative path and the second speculative path is the taken path and the fetched dynamic convergence point corresponds to the stored convergence point, resume scheduling of the instructions of the taken path.
US10754654B2
An apparatus that includes a program controller to fetch and issue instructions is described. The apparatus includes an execution lane having at least one execution unit to execute the instructions. The execution lane is part of an execution lane array that is coupled to a two dimensional shift register array structure, wherein, execution lane s of the execution lane array are located at respective array locations and are coupled to dedicated registers at same respective array locations in the two-dimensional shift register array.
US10754647B2
In an approach for providing adaptive software inventory scan frequencies and schedules, a processor receives information from an initial scan of a set of software inventory scans, wherein the information includes at least one of: running processes, file system entries, registry entries, and software catalog evaluations. A processor analyzes the information from the initial scan. A processor predicts an outcome for future software inventory scans based on the analysis of the information, wherein the prediction includes a scanning frequency and a scanning schedule.
US10754646B2
A microprocessor with Booth multiplication, in which several acquisition registers are used. In a first word length, a first acquisition register stores an unsigned ending acquisition of a first multiplier number carried in multiplier number supply data, and a third acquisition register stores a starting acquisition of a second multiplier number carried in the multiplier number supply data. In a second word length that is longer than the first word length, a fourth acquisition register stores a middle acquisition of a third multiplier number carried in the multiplier number supply data. A partial product selection circuit is required for selection of a partial product, to get the partial product from Booth multiplication based on the third acquisition register (corresponding to the first word length) or based on the fourth acquisition register (corresponding to the second word length).
US10754633B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, systems, and devices for generating an application installation package. In one aspect, a computing system receives an application generation request sent by a terminal. The request carries a web page address and application attribute information of a to-be-generated application. In accordance with the request, the computing system obtains a corresponding first application template, updates the first application template according to the web page address and the application attribute information to obtain a second application template. Next, the computing system generates an installation package of an application corresponding to the web page address and in accordance with to the second application template, and returns the generated installation package to the terminal.
US10754627B2
A system may determine one or more data sources which the system is configured to access. The system may provide a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for interacting with data stored in one or more data sources. The APIs may be accessible to one or more web applications which the system is configured to serve. The system may determine that a web application has requested an operation for interacting with the data through one or more APIs in the set of APIs. The system may determine one or more responses based at least in part on the operation requested by the web application. The system may provide the response(s) to the web application.
US10754622B2
A workflow extraction method, system, and computer program product include analyzing, for each of the design screens, a relatability of one design screen to a previously analyzed design screen in the database and generating a tag that represents a workflow and creating a database linking the tag to a sequence of design screens from a transition graph that details how to move from one of the design screens to another.
US10754619B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to provide an entropy extractor including a physically unclonable function (PUF), a true random number generator (TRNG), an entropy source coupled to both the PUF and the TRNG, and a circuit to self-calibrate the entropy extractor. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10754611B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: creating, for a user, a sound desirability index comprising (i) a plurality of sounds and (ii) desirability of the sound to the user with respect to each of the plurality of sounds, wherein the sound desirability index is created in response to the user hearing a sound and the environment of the user when hearing the sound; receiving an audible input within hearing proximity of the user; identifying the current environment of the user; determining the desirability of the audible input to the user by accessing the sound desirability index, and determining the desirability of the audible input based upon a sound in the audible input and the current environment of the user; and modifying a characteristic of at least a portion of the audible input based upon the desirability of the audible input to the user.
US10754604B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus and a method for controlling same. The display apparatus comprises: a main display unit for displaying a first application group; a sub display unit stored in the display apparatus or exposed therefrom; a sensor unit for sensing whether the display apparatus is rotated; and a control unit, wherein the sub display unit is exposed from the display apparatus to display a second application group, and the control unit controls the main display unit to display a previously configured screen when the sub display is stored, and when the display apparatus is sensed by the sensor unit to have been rotated in the lateral direction within a previously set time by an angle equal to or greater than a previously set angular value, then the control unit can control the main display unit so that the second application group is displayed thereon on a full screen.
US10754598B2
Provided are a print controller for controlling print processing that divides a one-page document into page pieces and prints multiple page pieces per sheet, a non-transitory computer-readable recording medium and a print control method. As one embodiment, the print controller adjusts a layout of the page pieces, in which fields for the page pieces are arranged in multiple lines extending in the page-division direction, so as to reduce the number of the lines to one, and creates print data according to the adjusted layout. As another embodiment, a computing device for creating a print job for printing a one-page document, displays a screen showing candidates for a layout of the page pieces, including an adjusted layout, in which the number of lines of fields for the page pieces extending in the page-division direction are reduced to one, and creates a print job according to the layout selected on the screen.
US10754591B2
A document processing system includes a print controller and a user interface for displaying production routes for a print job leading to an end product due to printing by at least one printer and finishing by at least one finisher. The user interface is configured to receive a user selection of a document type of the print job and at least one selection criterion for the print job. The print controller is configured to determine production routes based on simulation of the print job by device models for the at least one printer and the at least one finisher, and to select from the determined production routes a production route with smart settings which corresponds to the document type and fulfills the selection criterion.
US10754586B2
Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the same. A storage device for protecting the storage device from physical movement may include a nonvolatile memory device, a sensor unit configured to collect information about physical movement of the storage device, and a memory controller configured to perform a device lock operation of protecting data in the nonvolatile memory device, based on a sensor value acquired from the sensor unit.
US10754584B2
The present invention provides a data processing method and system for a 2R1W memory. The data processing method comprises: selecting 2n+1 SRAM2P memories with the same depth and width in accordance with a depth and a width of the 2R1W memory to construct a hardware architecture of the 2R1W memory, one of the plurality of SRAM2P memories being an auxiliary memory, and the rest of the SRAM2P memories being main memories; and when the data are written in and/or read from the 2R1W memory, associating data in the main memories and data in the auxiliary memory in accordance with a current pointer address of the data and performing an XOR operation on the associated data to complete data writing and reading. Only extra ½n of the memory area is required to construct the 2R1W memory based on a conventional SRAM unit.
US10754574B1
Technologies are provided for storing data in a storage device based on an associated attribute or attributes. A storage device can be configured to write data to a storage location of the storage device based on an associated attribute. The attribute can describe one or more storage-related requirements of the data. The storage device can identify one or more storage locations where the data can be stored that meet the storage-related requirements described by the attribute. A host computer can transmit an updated attribute for the data to the storage device to reflect new storage-related requirements for the data. The storage device can write the data to a new storage location that meets the new requirements. A mapping table can be maintained that associates a logical identifier for the data with the actual storage location where the data is stored.
US10754573B2
Described are techniques for performing data movement optimization processing comprising: receiving a list of proposed data movements; ranking the list in accordance with one or more criteria associated with each of the proposed data movements of the list, wherein the one or more criteria for each proposed data movement, that moves a data portion to a target storage tier, includes at least one characteristic about each proposed data movement other than I/O workload directed to the data portion; selecting a subset of the proposed data movements of the list; implementing the subset of the proposed data movements by performing each of the proposed data movements of the subset; and revising the list to remove proposed data movements of the subset implemented in said implementing. A new list may be obtained each time period. A subset of the ranked list may be implemented each time period in a cycle.
US10754571B2
Provided herein may be a storage device and a method of operating the storage device. The storage device includes a memory device including a plurality of system blocks; and a memory controller configured to perform a read reclaim operation of copying system data stored in a selected system block to another one of the plurality of system blocks using information obtained during loading of the system data into the selected system block.
US10754560B2
A storage device includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory and a controller. The controller is configured to predict power consumption that is required to carry out operations in accordance with access pattern and throughput received from a host, notify the predicted power consumption to the host, determine operating resources of at least one of the nonvolatile semiconductor memory and the controller to carry out the operations, on the basis of the permissible power consumption received from the host, and carry out the operations using the determined operating resources.
US10754557B2
Asynchronous data replication between source and target data storage devices of a data storage system can be directed by a connected network controller. A source data set to be replicated from the source data storage device to the target data storage device may be stored in a staging cache while portions of the source data set are parsed by the network controller so that less than all of the source data set is transferred to the target data storage device.
US10754549B2
An append-only streams capability may be implemented that allows the host (e.g., the file system) to determine an optimal stream size based on the data to be stored in that stream. The storage device may expose to the host one or more characteristics of the available streams on the device, including but not limited to the maximum number of inactive and active streams on the device, the erase block size, the maximum number of erase blocks that can be written in parallel, and an optimal write size of the data. Using this information, the host may determine which particular stream offered by the device is best suited for the data to be stored.
US10754543B2
Operating a touch-screen device includes displaying at least a portion of a keyboard on a touch-screen, detecting a touch on the touch-screen, and detecting movement of the touch on the touch-screen. Operating the touch-screen device also includes moving the displayed keyboard in response to the detected movement of the touch on the touch-screen, detecting a release of the touch from the touch-screen, and assigning a character according to a final location of the touch relative to a location of the displayed keyboard.
US10754535B2
An icon control method and terminal that include detecting first input of a user, moving a first icon towards a second icon in response to the detected first input, instructing to perform a first operation on the first icon and the second icon when a distance between the first icon and the second icon falls within a first distance range, and that in the first distance range, duration in which the first icon is in a staying state is greater than a first preset time length, and instructing to perform a second operation on the first icon and the second icon when the distance between the first icon and the second icon falls within a second distance range, and that the first icon is in the staying state in the second distance range.
US10754534B1
Images are displayed in an album mode in which an image occupying a focus position is separated by bars from adjacent images in the album. The bars serve as a visual separator between the images and signify to a user that the images can be vertically scrolled. If the focus image occupies less than the full height of the screen, then part of the adjacent images are shown above and below the focus image. If the focus image occupies the full height of the screen, then the image is reduced in size to occupy less than the full height, causing the adjacent images to also be displayed. If the user scrolls the image, the image reduction decreases linearly with the scrolling until the image is shown at full height. Continued scrolling causes the image to move off the screen and the previous or next image to be displayed.
US10754533B2
Techniques of providing spatiotemporal visualizations are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a spatiotemporal visualization of at least a portion of data of a dataset is generated and displayed to a user in a graphical user interface of a device. An embodiment comprises receiving data comprising a plurality of measures and a plurality of dimensions; calculating a minimum and maximum magnitude of velocity for measures in the data; defining intervals in a range defined by the minimum and maximum velocity; selecting configuration settings for rendering a spatiotemporal visualization corresponding to the data and the intervals; generating the spatiotemporal visualization, the spatiotemporal visualization comprising a graphical representation of at least a portion of data comprising at least one of the measures and at least one of the dimensions over the defined intervals; and causing display of: the spatiotemporal visualization, and a plurality of selectable interaction controls corresponding to the spatiotemporal visualization.
US10754531B2
In a method for displaying a three dimensional interface on an electronic device, a three dimensional user interface control with three dimensional effects is displayed on a display of the electronic device, the three dimensional effects based at least in part on a position of a user relative to the display. The position of the user relative to the display is tracked. Responsive to detecting a change in the position of the user relative to the display, the three dimensional effects of the three dimensional user interface control are dynamically changed based at least in part on the change in the position of the user relative to the display.
US10754526B2
A tool for interacting with a rendered environment is configured to render a representation of a real-world environment and receive input data indicative of a position for a zoom window to be placed within the representation. The zoom window is rendered having a size that is determined based on one or more criteria. A magnified view of a portion of the representation is rendered that is proximate to the position of the zoom window. Input data is received that is indicative of a first gesture indicative of a new position for the zoom window. The zoom window is repositioned on the UI and the size of the zoom window is maintained during the repositioning. Within the zoom window, a magnified view of a portion of the representation is rendered that is proximate to the new position of the zoom window. The zoom window is movable to any rendered portion of the representation.
US10754521B2
Methods and apparatus for providing an advertisement in a sidebar, and/or in a slidesheet associated with an application module displayed in the sidebar. The advertisement is targeted to the sidebar user based upon user specific information maintained by a content provider. The user specific information can comprise, sidebar application information, user preference information, shared user information and other information associated with the user that can be used to select an advertisement targeted to the user. An advertisement displayed in a slidesheet can be selected based upon user information and/or the functionality provided by the application module associated with the slidesheet.
US10754518B1
Techniques are provided herein for utilizing a push notification action engine (e.g., a push notification action engine of a client device). The techniques include receiving a push notification comprising a structured data payload, the structured data payload comprising a specification of content to be rendered on a display of the client device. The push notification action engine generates display information in accordance with the specification and sends the display information to the operating system of the client device. Sending the display information to the operating system may cause the operating system to render a user interface component on the display of the client device. The push notification action engine may receive user input associated with the user interface component and cause execution of one or more workflows in response to receipt of the user input.
US10754510B1
A Document Integration and Viewing System (DIVS) can perform a method that comprises accessing a plurality of electronic documents, assigning each of the electronic documents to an appropriate category of a plurality of user-specified document categories, establishing a sequence for the electronic documents in each of the user-specified document categories, and generating a graphical user interface that includes a plurality of panes. Each of the user-specified document categories is assigned to a different pane of the plurality of panes so that each of the electronic documents is assigned to a corresponding one of the panes. Within each pane, all of the electronic documents assigned to the pane are viewable sequentially in response to user inputs according to the sequence determined for the electronic documents of the corresponding category, with seamless visual transitions between contents of the electronic documents assigned to each pane.
US10754507B1
Techniques for providing notifications to user devices for the purpose of re-engaging users in content items they are consuming, such as electronic books, movies, videos, and the like. For instance, the techniques may calculate a frequency at which a user reads an electronic book. If the user does not request to read this electronic book for an abnormal amount of time, the techniques may provide a notification encouraging the user to again read the electronic book.
US10754501B2
A navigation screen generator displays only icons of objects of an object category set as “DISPLAY” in an icon presentation control table on a map image. If a touch occurs at a position on the map image of the navigation screen where no icon is displayed, a controller sets the object category of the object corresponding to the touch position as “DISPLAY” in an icon presentation control table. Then, icons of the objects having the same object category as that of the object corresponding to touch position are displayed on the map image of the navigation screen.
US10754499B2
A program for causing a computer to execute: receiving an instruction to change a position and a direction of a viewpoint disposed in a virtual space from a user; controlling a viewpoint to change the position and the direction of the viewpoint in response to the instruction; rendering a spatial image that depicts an aspect of an interior of the virtual space on the basis of the position and the direction of the viewpoint; and switching over between a first mode of changing the direction of the viewpoint about the position of the viewpoint and a second mode of changing the position and the direction of the viewpoint about an object of interest to which the user pays attention in the virtual space in a case of receiving an instruction to change the direction of the viewpoint from the user at a time of controlling the viewpoint.
US10754498B2
A first computing device determines a scene graph that is representative of a three-dimensional scene that includes objects to be viewed from a specified virtual camera location. The scene graph is processed locally by the first computing device to generate a raster image. The scene graph is sent to a second computing device, such as a server, that processes the scene graph and generates illumination data. The illumination data may be indicative of brightness value for a given pixel that is representative of optical effects such as reflection, refraction, and so forth. The illumination data is received by the first computing device. The first computing device combines the raster image and the illumination data to produce an output image. The output image may then be presented using a display device.
US10754494B2
A large-scale information handling system (LIHS) includes a plurality of nodes each having at least one functional component. An Interactive, Component-Level Visual Monitoring and Control (ICVMC) system displays on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a display device a selected one of the different levels of visual representations of a plurality of nodes, including a system level, node levels, sub-node levels, and component levels. The ICVMC system displays a control affordance on the display device, receives a selection of the control affordance from a user input component that is capable of manipulating and/or interfacing with one or more items on the GUI, and performs a control action to an identical functional component in each of the plurality of nodes in response to the selection of the control affordance.
US10754493B2
A system comprising at least one computer hardware processor configured to perform: generating an object hierarchy comprising a plurality of objects corresponding to active graphical user interface (GUI) elements of at least one application program; controlling the at least one application program to perform a task comprising a sequence of actions at least in part by using the object hierarchy to invoke actions in the sequence of actions.
US10754489B2
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed to a method for pinning a tab in a tabbed browser. Briefly stated, browsing software is configured to recognize a “pin” event, such as a hot key, a menu selection, and the like. Upon recognizing the pin event, the browsing software splits a display screen into a pinned window and a tabbed window. The tabbed window displays one or more open tabs and the content of the currently in focus tab. The pinned window may display content that was previously displayed within one of the tabs in the tabbed window or may display new content. The browsing software may configure the navigation of the pinned window differently than the navigation for the tabs in the tabbed window.
US10754484B2
The invention provides a touch panel, manufacturing method for touch panel and a touch device. The touch panel comprises: a substrate; a plurality of first electrode chains disposed on the substrate, spaced apart, each of the first electrode chains comprising a plurality of first electrodes; a plurality of second electrode chains disposed on the substrate, spaced apart, each of the second electrode chains comprising a plurality of second electrodes, the second electrode chains being cross-insulated from the first electrode chains; at least a conductive bridge, electrically connected to the first electrode chain, the conductive bridge extending into a contour region of the second electrode chain and insulated from the second electrode chain. The invention improves the mutual capacitance between the first electrode chain and the second electrode chain to provide higher touch detection accuracy.
US10754483B2
A flexible display device and a method of driving a flexible display device, in which the method of driving the flexible display device includes detecting a capacitance change with respect to at least some coordinates of a display area, determining whether bending is occurring through the detected capacitance change, and setting a driving mode in response to a result of the step of determining whether bending is occurring. The driving mode is converted into a bending mode when it is determined that bending is occurring, and the driving mode is set into a force touch mode when it is determined that bending is not occurring.
US10754479B2
A data transmission method applied to a touch panel includes: determining an overlapped quantity of at least one first touch electrode pad and at least one second touch electrode pad that are electrically coupled to each other; determining a transmission bit number according to the overlapped quantity; and making the at least one first touch electrode pad transmit at least one data signal to the at least one second touch electrode pad according to the transmission bit number and a transmission frequency, where the at least one first touch electrode pad is configured on a first electronic apparatus, and the at least one second touch electrode pad is configured on a second electronic apparatus.
US10754478B2
A device is described. In an example, a device comprises a capacitance sensor layer and a conductive grounded layer. The conductive grounded layer is placed under the capacitance sensor layer in a direction opposite to a targeted sensing direction of the device. The distance between the capacitance sensor layer and the conductive grounded layer is configured to remain within a threshold over a range of deformation. In other examples, a method for manufacturing a device and a module are discussed along with the features of the device.
US10754477B2
A touch screen controller system for controlling a touch screen having row conductors and column conductors includes analog-digital circuitry coupled to the row conductors and column conductors to produce digital signals representative of self capacitance changes of one of the column conductors during an element proximity scanning mode and also representative of mutual changes of the touch screen during an element location scanning mode. The analog-digital circuitry indicates the influence of an element on the self-capacitance during the element proximity scanning. Proximity-determining circuitry operates on the digital signal changes during the element proximity scanning to determine if the element is proximate to the touch screen, and also to determine if the element is a specific kind of element by comparing the digital signal changes to a predetermined data profile.
US10754472B2
A touch sensor device includes a calibration processor that calibrates capacitance of each of a plurality of capacitance sensors. The calibration processor calculates an initial calibration value when the touch sensor device is activated, and maintains the initial calibration value when a calibrated capacitance calculated with the initial calibration value exceeds a touch determination threshold value. If the calibrated capacitance calculated with the initial calibration value does not exceed the touch determination threshold value even after a specified period elapses subsequent to calculation of the initial calibration value, the calibration processor obtains a value equal to or approximate to a minimum value of the capacitance that changes in accordance with a re-touch as a recalibration value when the calibrated capacitance represents an anomaly of the initial calibration value.
US10754465B2
A display device includes, on a display substrate having a display region, a proximity sensor arranged outside the display region, and a terminal section connected to the proximity sensor. The proximity sensor includes a plurality of conductors arranged so as to surround the periphery of the display region while being spaced apart from each other. The plurality of conductors are configured such that one ends thereof are connected to the terminal section, a predetermined voltage is applied thereto via the terminal section, and a capacitance is formed with an object to be detected. The proximity sensor includes capacitance adding regions that are provided in the vicinity of a gap portion at which the plurality of conductors are spaced apart from each other and that are adapted to compensate for the capacitance formed with the object to be detected in the gap portion.
US10754464B2
A display device able to provide uniform display brightness comprises a first substrate and spaced common electrodes which on the first substrate. The common electrodes are used for display and include at least one first sub-electrode and a plurality of second sub-electrodes, an area of each first sub-electrode being smaller than an area of any one of the second sub-electrodes. When the device is in display, a first common electrode voltage is applied to the first sub-electrodes, and a second common electrode voltage is applied to the second sub-electrode, the voltage value of each being different.
US10754456B2
A method for power-efficient touch input, in which touch sensor data from a touch input is obtained by touch circuitry. Touch sensor data is obtained from touch input at touch circuitry included in a device that also includes a system-on-a-chip (SOC) and a display controller stack outside of the SOC. The touch sensor data is stored in a buffer. When the SOC is in a low-power state, the touch sensor data is communicated to the display controller stack for immediate display.
US10754452B2
The described technology is directed towards normalizing input received from various types of device types for providing the input to user interface (UI) elements in a unified way that reflects the invoke intent of the user. Input from different device types is classified as button input, pointer input or command input, and routed to a corresponding button provider, pointer provider or command provider. Each provider includes logic for communicating input data (e.g., events) to a UI element or elements. Based upon the input events, a UI element can execute a corresponding invoke handler to take an invoke action for that particular event.
US10754448B2
An electronic stylus includes a hollow cylindrical casing having an opening defined in an axial end portion thereof, a core body mounted in the casing and having an axial end portion projecting out of the opening, and a core body protector covering and accommodating therein the axial end portion of the core body, and protecting the core body. The casing has, adjacent to the opening, an abutment surface lying in a direction transverse to an axial direction of the casing and an inner wall surface extending in the axial direction of the casing. The core body protector has a first surface facing the abutment surface of the casing and a second surface facing the inner wall surface of the casing.
US10754442B2
Various implementations of the invention comprise a surface or film having a plurality of three-dimensional structures embodied on or within the surface or film, each of the three-dimensional structures having a reflecting surface configured to retro-reflect radiation from a radiation source back to a detector located at the radiation source.
US10754421B2
A method for rendering views to an output device, including receiving vehicle data, the vehicle data associated with a vehicle, and receiving user data including a health data about a user. The method including generating a view based on the vehicle data and the user data. The method including determining a difference between the user data and the vehicle data indicative of a perspective based on motion of the vehicle. The method including rendering the view at a rendering speed to the output device by controlling the output device to update display of the view according to the determined difference, wherein the rendering speed is based on the health data.
US10754412B2
The present invention provides an electronic device with added capabilities of preventing power supplying to an external device, and a controlling method for the electronic device. The electronic device includes: a connector capable of being connected to an external device and capable of allowing power supply to the external device; and a controlling unit configured to, in a stage before determining whether the external device has a predetermined functionality, notify the external device with information indicating first power, in a form of information indicating a power capable of being supplied to the external device. The controlling unit is also configured to, after determining that the external device has the predetermined functionality, notify the external device of information indicating second power, which is higher than the first power, in a form of information indicating a power capable of being supplied to the external device.
US10754410B2
A power management system having: a core rail, configured to provide a core voltage to a core; a GT rail, configured to provide a GT voltage to a graphic terminal; and a VR thermal indicative pin, coupled to a core thermal indicative pin of the core; wherein the VR thermal indicative pin is pulled down for a preset time duration once the core rail is commanded to exit a PS4 state, or for a time duration beginning when the core rail is commanded to exit the PS4 state ending when the GT rail is commanded to exit the PS4 state.
US10754407B2
An image forming apparatus includes a hardware processor including CPUs each including cores, a process being executed by the CPUs, wherein the hardware processor managing the cores causes a first process or a second process to be executed, when the first process is executed, while electric power is uniformly supplied to the cores, allocates a pre-process in which sequential processing is performed to a part of the cores and a post-process in which parallel processing is performed to another part of cores, and when the second process is executed, for a part of the CPUs, allocates the pre-process to a part of the cores while electric power is supplied thereto and causes electric power supply to another part of cores to be stopped, and for another part of the CPUs, allocates the post-process to at least a part of the cores while electric power is uniformly supplied to the cores.
US10754397B2
A water-cooled server and an electronic device are provided. The water-cooled server comprises a cooling main tubing, wherein the cooling main tubing guides cooling water; a drainage branch tubing operatively coupled to cooling main tubing; a piston having a first end disposed in the drainage branch tubing and a second end disposed in the cooling main tubing, wherein the first end drives the second end to a first position under pressure of the cooling water to prevent the second end from plugging the cooling main tubing; and an elastic member operatively coupled to the piston, wherein the elastic member drives the second end of the piston to move to a second position to plug the cooling main tubing. An elastic force applied to the piston by the elastic member is smaller than maximum pressure applied to the piston by the cooling water.
US10754396B1
A touchpad module includes a touch member and an elastic member. The touch member is disposed within a fixing frame of a computing device. The touch member includes a recess. The recess includes a first end and a second end. The elastic member is installed in a casing of the computing device, and includes a first elastic part, a second elastic part and an intermediate part. A portion of the first elastic part and a portion of the second elastic part are extended into the fixing frame, and contacted with the first end and the second end of the recess, respectively. When the touch member is moved from an initial position to a first position in a direction toward a first lateral wall of the fixing frame in response to an external force, the computing device executes a first function.
US10754391B2
The description relates to devices that include hinged portions and controlling rotation of the portions. One example can include a display coupled to a first end of an arm. The example can also include a base rotatably secured to a hollow shaft that is fixed to the arm. The hollow shaft defines an axis of rotation of the arm relative to the base. The base can also include first and second opposing axial cam elements positioned on the hollow shaft and a spring positioned on the hollow shaft. The first and second opposing axial cam elements can be oriented relative to one another such that rotation of the arm toward the base causes the first and second axial cam elements to move away from one another along the hollow shaft thereby compressing the spring.
US10754386B2
An electronic device is provided, which includes an expanding flexible display. The electronic device includes a first structure including a first face facing a first direction and a second face facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; a second structure that encloses at least a part of the first structure, and configured to guide a sliding movement of the first structure in a direction parallel to the first face or the second face of the first structure; a flexible display including a first region mounted on the first face of the first structure and a second region, which is different from the first region, the second region configured to be accommodated in the second structure or exposed to a first face of the second structure depending on the sliding movement of the first structure; and a first electronic component inside the second structure and exposed through a second face of the second structure, the second face of the second structure facing the second direction and facing away from a first face of the second structure. The flexible display includes an overlapping region at a portion of the flexible display that overlaps a region in which the first electronic component is disposed.
US10754384B2
A display device may include: a window disposed on the display panel, including: a window base including a light transmission portion and a light blocking portion; a light blocking layer disposed on the light blocking portion of the window base, the light blocking layer including a touch key pattern portion; a printed circuit board disposed on the light blocking layer; a touch key light source disposed on the printed circuit board; a first light blocking member disposed on the printed circuit board and the touch key light source, including: a first distal end between the touch key light source and the light transmission portion of the window base; and a second distal end between the touch key light source and an edge of the window base; and a second light blocking member disposed between the second distal end of the first light blocking member and the light blocking layer.
US10754381B2
A docking system may comprise a case mount for a portable computing device. The case mount can releasably dock and lock with a base mount in any of a number of docking position orientations. A plurality of case mount contacts can be organized into a plurality of case mount contact groups, wherein the case mount contact groups are arranged in a pattern on the case mount that permits a physical connection between a plurality of base mount contacts and a different one of the case mount contact groups for each of the different docking position orientations. Furthermore, an actuator can cause base mount latches to move in a manner that permits disengagement of the case mount from the base mount to an undocked position for the case mount if an undocking force is applied to the case mount.
US10754380B2
A wearable computing device mount may include a harness wearable by a user; a plate attached to the harness, wherein a computing device is selectively mounted to the plate via mechanical fasteners, the plate including a plurality of stanchions to separate a back side of the plate from the harness; and a docking station, the docking station to communicatively couple to the computing device.
US10754378B2
A touch sensor includes a sensor electrode layer having a plurality of sensor electrodes, a front surface protective layer disposed on an operation surface side, and a back surface protective layer disposed on an opposite side of the operation surface, the front surface protective layer and the back surface protective layer being stacked together. In the touch sensor, the back surface protective layer includes a suppressing member configured to prevent easy detection of a change in capacitance from the opposite side of the operation surface.
US10754377B2
The description relates to hinged devices, such as hinged computing devices. One example can include a first portion and a second portion that have hinge ends rotatably secured by a hinge assembly. The example can also include a flexible display positioned over the first portion, the hinge assembly, and the second portion. The example can further include a deployable bridge support that is deployed to support the flexible display at the hinge assembly when the first and second portions are rotated from a closed orientation to an open orientation.
US10754374B2
According to some embodiments, a removably coupled stand for a screen comprises a holder portion to removably couple a screened device and a foot portion to move from a closed position to an open position. The foot portion is hinged to the holder portion and the holder portion comprises a top side, a rear side, and a bottom side.
US10754373B2
A liquid-crystal display (LCD) device includes: an array substrate on which a sub-pixel is disposed; a color filter substrate on which a color filter corresponding to the sub-pixel is disposed; and a liquid-crystal layer between the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The array substrate comprises a lens hole, the color filter substrate comprises a lens hole guide, and a diameter of the lens hole is smaller than an inner diameter of the lens hole guide.
US10754370B2
A periodic output generator has a first clock source coupled to a first counter and a second clock source with a frequency greater than the first clock source, the second clock source coupled to a second counter, the first clock source operating continuously, the second clock source enabled when the first clock source reaches a count C1. The second clock source generates an output when a count C2 is reached, and the counters are reset and the process repeats. In another example, a timestamp generator has a high speed clock and a real time clock operative on a low speed clock. The timestamp generator receives an external event, turns on the high speed clock generator and counts high speed clock cycles C until the arrival of the next time stamp, and computes an event timestamp as the next timestamp less c/f, less the startup time of the high speed clock.
US10754350B2
An example system includes a vehicle and a sensor connected to the vehicle. The system may receive a predetermined path for the vehicle to follow. The system may also receive a plurality of objectives, associated with a corresponding set of sensor data, for which to collect sensor data. The system may determine, for each of the plurality of objectives, a portion of the environment for the sensor to scan to acquire the corresponding set of sensor data. The system may determine, based on the portion of the environment determined for each of the plurality of objectives, a sensor trajectory through which to move the sensor. The system may cause the sensor to move through the determined sensor trajectory and scan portions of the environment corresponding to the determined sensor trajectory as the vehicle moves along the predetermined path.
US10754348B2
An autonomous vehicle (AV) can process a live sensor view to autonomously operate acceleration, braking, and steering systems of the AV along a given route. While traveling along the given route, the AV can identify an encoded road stripe in the live sensor view, and decode the encoded road stripe to determine location data corresponding to the encoded road stripe.
US10754343B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a reference to an object located in an environment of a robot, accessing mapping data that indicates, for each of a plurality of object instances, respective probabilities of the object instance being located at one or more locations in the environment, wherein the respective probabilities are based at least on an amount of time that has passed since a prior observation of the object instance was made, identifying one or more particular object instances that correspond to the referenced object, determining, based at least on the mapping data, the respective probabilities of the one or more particular object instances being located at the one or more locations in the environment, selecting, based at least on the respective probabilities, a particular location in the environment where the referenced object is most likely located, and directing the robot to navigate to the particular location.
US10754336B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. This may include receiving, by one or more processors of the vehicle, first information identifying a current relative humidity measurement within a sensor housing of a vehicle having an autonomous driving mode. The relative humidity measurement and pre-stored environmental map information may be used by the one or more processors to estimate a condition of a sensor within the sensor housing at a future time. This estimated condition may be used by the one or more processors to control the vehicle.
US10754333B2
A method for monitoring the operation of a turbomachine controlled by a digital control system including at least one component, includes acquiring operating state information relating to the state of at least one component; determining, depending on the state information acquired, a current degraded configuration in which at least one of the components has failed; determining a classification of the current degraded configuration using at least one classification table stored in a storage device, the classification tables associating with at least one degraded configuration one classification expressing the level of criticality of the degraded configuration, the tables being obtained by calculating a conditional probability of a predefined anticipated event from the probability of occurrence of elementary events relating to a failure of one of the components; and estimating an operating time permitted for the turbomachine depending on the classification determined for the current degraded configuration.
US10754326B2
Capturing randomness in the chemical structure of a lump of matter, which then can be easily and quickly measured to read that randomness and thereby recapture it as bit-wise randomness, applicable as (i) a source of randomness, and as (ii) a means to verify the claimed identity of a material article.
US10754325B1
A method of manufacturing customized ceramic labial/lingual orthodontic brackets by digital light processing, said method comprises measuring dentition data of a profile of teeth of a patient, wherein measuring dentition data is performed using a CT scanner or intra-oral scanner, based on the dentition data, creating a three dimensional computer-assisted design (3D CAD) model of the patient's teeth using reverse engineering, and saving the 3D CAD model on a computer, designing a 3D CAD bracket structure model for a single labial or lingual bracket structure, importing the 3D CAD bracket structure model into a Digital Light Processing (DLP) machine, directly producing the bracket by layer manufacturing.
US10754322B2
A method of identifying a multi-component cutting tool assembly to a user includes the steps of: receiving an indication from the user of a desired characteristic of at least one of the cutting tool assembly or of a workpiece to be machined, determining at least a portion of a first set of characteristics associated with a first component of the plurality of tool components corresponds to the desired characteristic, determining at least a portion of a second set of characteristics associated with a second component of the plurality of tool components corresponds to a portion of the first set of characteristics and responsive thereto grouping the first component and the second component together to form a combination and identifying the combination to the user as the cutting tool assembly.
US10754321B2
Movement commands in a sequence of movement commands each define a position to be adopted by a tool of a processing machine relative to a workpiece. During the execution of the sequence of movement commands by a control device of the processing machine, the tool machines the workpiece at least intermittently. The movement commands, during their execution by the control device of the processing machine, are converted into a trajectory including the defined positions. A depiction of the trajectory defined by the sequence of movement commands is output to a user. The distances between the positions of directly successive movement commands are ascertained. Positions of directly successive movement commands whose distance is below a predetermined minimum distance are highlighted in the depiction by means of a marker.
US10754318B2
Techniques described herein relate to using reduced-dimensionality embeddings generated from robot sensor data to identify predetermined semantic labels that guide robot interaction with objects. In various implementations, sensor data obtained from one or more sensors of a robot includes data indicative of an object observed in an environment in which the robot operates. The sensor data is processed utilizing a first trained machine learning model to generate a first embedded feature vector that maps the data indicative of the object to an embedding space. Nearest neighbor(s) of the first embedded feature vector is identified in the embedding space. Semantic label(s) are identified based on the nearest neighbor(s). A given grasp option is selected from enumerated grasp options previously associated with the semantic label(s). The robot is operated to interact with the object based on the pose and using the given grasp option.
US10754316B2
A method and a system are provided to re-create an internal shape of a shoe using a pneumatically-powered inflatable sock. For example, a shoe last used to manufacture a shoe product based on a selected shoe identifier may be identified. A description of the dimensions of the shoe last may be accessed. The description of the dimensions of the shoe last may be expressed as a set of fills per chamber of a sock having a plurality of fillable chambers. The set of fills per chamber may be determined based on the displacement of an inner wall of the sock when the fillable chambers are in an inflated state. Further, an instruction to cause the plurality of fillable chambers to inflate according to the accessed description may be transmitted.
US10754309B2
A system for auto defect screening using adaptive machine learning includes an adaptive model controller, a defect/nuisance library and a module for executing data modeling analytics. The adaptive model controller has a feed-forward path for receiving a plurality of defect candidates in wafer inspection, and a feedback path for receiving defects of interest already screened by one or more existing defect screening models after wafer inspection. The adaptive model controller selects data samples from the received data, interfaces with scanning electron microscope (SEM) review/inspection to acquire corresponding SEM results that validate if each data sample is a real defect or nuisance, and compiles model training and validation data. The module of executing data modeling analytics is adaptively controlled by the adaptive model controller to generate and validate one or more updated defect screening models using the model training and validation data according to a target specification.
US10754308B2
A computer-implemented method executed by a robotic system for performing a positional search process in an assembly task is presented. The method includes decomposing, by the robotic system, a perturbation motion into a plurality of actions, the perturbation motion being a motion for an assembly position searched by the robotic system, each action of the plurality of actions related to a specific direction. The method further includes performing reinforcement learning by selecting an action among decomposed actions and assembly movement actions at each step of the positional search process based on corresponding force-torque data received from at least one sensor associated with the robotic system. The method also includes outputting a best action at each step for completion of the assembly task as a result of the reinforcement learning.
US10754306B2
A new position control apparatus is provided which can reduce deviation caused by a non-linear spring characteristic of a rolling apparatus. In a position control apparatus (5) that controls the position of a movable body (1), in a positioning apparatus (9) including a rolling apparatus (2), a deviation e(t) or d of the movable body 1 caused by the non-linear spring characteristic of the rolling apparatus (2) is subtracted from or added to a position command Xref or r of the movable body (1). The deviation d is calculated by carrying out equivalent exchange on a control circuit for a friction force of the rolling apparatus (2), which is set as a quantity of the dimension of displacement.
US10754302B2
A clock apparatus, with: (i) a gas cell, including a cavity including a sealed interior for providing a signal waveguide; (ii) a first apparatus for providing a first electromagnetic wave to travel in the cavity and along a first direction; (iii) a second apparatus for providing a second electromagnetic wave to travel in the cavity and along a second direction opposite the first direction; (iv) a dipolar gas inside the sealed interior of the cavity; and (v) receiving apparatus for detecting an amount of energy in the second electromagnetic wave after the second electromagnetic wave passes through the dipolar gas.
US10754291B2
An image forming apparatus includes a toner container, and a lock drive portion. The toner container is attached to an attachment position set in an apparatus main body. The lock drive portion acquires a identification information from a storage portion, and upon determining, based on the identification information, that the toner container has an attachment compatibility, places a lock member at a lock position, and upon determining that the toner container does not have the attachment compatibility, places the lock member at a unlock position.
US10754287B2
An image post-processing method includes a glossiness control step of irradiating a fixed toner image with a glossiness control light. The toner image is formed with a toner containing a compound that absorbs light. The glossiness control light is capable of at least reducing a glossiness of the fixed toner image. The glossiness control light has a maximum emission wavelength in a wavelength region which is absorbed by the compound.
US10754280B2
A heater including a rectangular substrate; a resistance heat-generating element that is provided on one surface of the substrate along a longitudinal direction of the substrate; a thermistor that is provided on the other surface, which is a rear side of the one surface of the substrate, and measures temperature of the substrate; and a conductor that is provided on the other surface of the substrate, is extended up to an end portion of the substrate from the thermistor along the longitudinal direction of the substrate, and supplies power to the thermistor. A first connecting portion and a second connecting portion, which are connected to the conductor, are provided at both ends of the thermistor. A connection direction, in which the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion are arranged on the other surface of the substrate, is different from a lateral direction of the substrate.
US10754278B2
An image forming apparatus including: a fixer that fixes a toner image formed on a recording medium by pressing and heating the recording medium nipped in a nip portion formed by causing two rotating bodies to pressedly abut on each other, and conveying the recording medium by rotating the rotating bodies; a motor that drives the rotating bodies by transmitting a torque to at least one of the rotating bodies; a torque detector that detects the torque transmitted to the rotating body by the motor; a temperature detector that detects temperature of the rotating body; a speed detector that detects a conveyance speed for conveying the recording medium by the fixer; and a controller that corrects the detected torque based on at least any one of the detected temperature and the detected conveyance speed and predicts a life of the fixer based on the corrected torque.
US10754276B2
A developer supply includes a developer container body configured to accommodate developer, a gear portion configured and positioned to receive a force for rotating the developer container body, and a pump portion configured and positioned to act upon the developer container body to discharge the developer out of the developer supply container, with the pump portion having a volume that changes with reciprocation of the pump portion. A weight is configured and positioned to reciprocate the pump portion with a rotation of the developer container body by the force received by the gear.
US10754275B2
A toner container includes a container body, an opening, a cover, a toner discharge port, a shutter, a cylindrical structure, protrusions, and an identifier. The shutter is attached to the cover and includes a main shutter covering the toner discharge port. The main shutter moves between a closed position to close the toner discharge port and an open position to open the toner discharge port. The protrusions are on both sides of the cover and protrude in a direction orthogonal to a toner container mounting direction. The identifier is on the cover to indicate a toner color. The cylindrical structure's leading end is downstream of leading ends of the protrusions in the mounting direction. The main shutter's leading end is downstream of the protrusions' leading ends in the mounting direction when the main shutter is in the closed position. The protrusions are downstream of the identifier in the mounting direction.
US10754273B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a developer bearing member, a driving unit, a latent image forming unit that forms an electrostatic image having light area potential and a dark area potential, and an application unit that applies a developing bias. The driving unit drives the image bearing member and the developer bearing member in a first peripheral speed ratio and a second peripheral speed ratio larger than the first peripheral speed ratio. The image forming apparatus further includes an acquiring unit acquiring information related to a change in an electrostatic capacitance of the image bearing member and a determining unit determining a developing contrast according to the electrostatic capacitance. The determining unit determines the developing contrast based on the acquired information when the driving unit drives the image bearing member and the developer bearing member in the second peripheral speed ratio.
US10754267B2
Provided is an electrophotographic photosensitive member that can achieve both of the suppression of a fluctuation in potential of the photosensitive member at the time of its repeated use, and the prevention of the occurrence of a black spot-like image defect at high levels. The electrophotographic photosensitive member includes in this order: a support; an intermediate layer; and a photosensitive layer, the intermediate layer containing particles each containing titanium oxide, and the particles having a mass increase ratio of 0.005% or more when heated under a nitrogen atmosphere from 300° C. to 900° C.
US10754264B2
The present invention provides a lithography apparatus that forms patterns on substrates including a first substrate and a second substrate following the first substrate, the apparatus including a decision unit configured to obtain a first layout of a plurality of shot regions on a first substrate from detection values of marks in sample shot regions included in each of a plurality of different combinations each constituted by at least two sample shot regions, of sample shot regions where a detection unit has detected the marks in fine alignment with respect to the first substrate and decide sample shot regions included in one of the plurality of combinations as sample shot regions where the detection unit detects the marks in pre-alignment with respect to a second substrate based on the first layout.
US10754251B2
Development unit, substrate processing apparatus, development method and substrate processing method
A substrate having a film of a coating liquid containing metal is held by a spin chuck, the film having been exposed in a predetermined pattern. A slit nozzle supplies a development liquid to a surface to be processed of the substrate supported by the spin chuck. A cleaning liquid for removing or dissolving metal is supplied by a cleaning nozzle to the surface to be processed of the substrate to which the development liquid has been supplied.
US10754248B2
The present invention provides a sulfonium salt capable of providing a resist composition having few defects in photolithography where a high energy beam is used as a light source, and excellent in lithography performance by controlling acid diffusion.The present invention was accomplished by a sulfonium salt including an anion and a cation, the cation having a partial structure represented by the following general formula (1), except for a sulfonium salt having a cation represented by the following general formula (1′),
US10754247B2
The present disclosure proposes a manufacturing method for a metal grating, a metal grating, and a display device. The manufacturing method comprises: forming a metal layer, an antireflective layer and a deep UV photoresist layer sequentially on a base substrate; etching the deep UV photoresist layer by a photolithography process, so as to form a grating mask pattern; etching the antireflective layer by a dry etching process with the help of the grating mask pattern, so as to form an etch mask pattern identical to the grating mask pattern; peeling off the grating mask pattern; etching the metal layer by a dry etching process with the help of the etch mask pattern, so as to form metal grating strips; and removing the etch mask pattern, thus forming a metal grating.
US10754246B2
According to one embodiment, a sliding inhibition portion extracting method is applied to pattern formation to press an original having a pattern against a resin on a transferred object and cure the resin to transfer the pattern of the original, and extracts a sliding inhibition portion that inhibits sliding of the original in a state of being in contact with the resin before curing in a shot region that is a region in which the pattern is formed by single transfer by either a first technique of estimating the sliding inhibition portion on the basis of at least one of an uneven distribution on a surface of the transferred object, a pattern layout of the original, and a result of misalignment of a transfer pattern, changing a thickness of the resin in the shot region on the basis of the estimation, and determining whether sliding inhibition of the original occurs, or a second technique using a table indicating a relationship between a distribution of the sliding inhibition portion in the shot region and the misalignment of a transfer pattern.
US10754245B2
A pattern is formed on a substrate with forming a layer of a curable composition (A1) containing a component (a1) serving as a polymerizable compound and a component (d1) serving as a solvent on a surface of the substrate, then dispensing droplets of a curable composition (A2) containing at least a component (a2) serving as a polymerizable compound dropwise discretely onto the layer of the curable composition, subsequently sandwiching a mixture layer of the curable composition (A1) and the curable composition (A2) between a mold and the substrate, then irradiating the mixture layer with light to cure the layer, and releasing the mold from the mixture layer after the curing.
US10754239B2
A projection optical system (1) that projects from a first image plane on a reducing side to a second image plane on an enlargement side, including a first refractive optical system (11) that includes eight lenses (L1) to (L8) and forms a first intermediate image (31) on the enlargement side using light that is incident from the reducing side, a second refractive optical system (12) that includes six lenses (L9) to (L14) and forms the first intermediate image (31) on the reducing side into a second intermediate image (32) on the enlargement side, and a first reflective optical system (20) that includes a first reflective surface (21a) with positive refractive power that is positioned closer to the enlargement side than the second intermediate image (32).
US10754231B2
In a projector, a first fixation section and a second fixation section are formed at two places located at a distance in an optical axis direction in a lens barrel of a projection optical system. A holding member has contact with the first fixation section from an optical axis direction-rear side, and is fixed, an optical component housing of an illumination light guide optical system has contact with the holding member from the optical axis direction-rear side, and is fixed. A light modulating/combining optical system for generating image light has contact with the second fixation section from the optical axis direction-rear side and is fixed. In other words, the light modulating/combining optical system is directly fixed to the lens barrel without the intervention of the holding member for fixing the illumination light guide optical system to the lens barrel.
US10754225B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a camera module comprising: a housing; a bobbin arranged inside the housing; a first magnet arranged on the bobbin; a first coil arranged in the housing and facing the first magnet; a plurality of lenses attached to the bobbin; and an iris unit coupled to the bobbin, wherein the plurality of lenses comprises a first lens and a second lens distanced from each other, and at least a portion of the iris unit is positioned between the first lens and the second lens.
US10754223B2
A system may include a laser source configured to generate a first laser light beam, an atom trap, and a multi-channel acousto-optic modulator (AOM). The multi-channel AOM may include a beamsplitter to split the first laser light beam into a plurality of second laser light beams for the atom trap, a common acousto-optic medium configured to receive the plurality of second laser light beams, and a respective plurality of electrodes coupled to the common acousto-optic medium for each of the second laser light beams. The system may also include a plurality of radio frequency (RF) drivers each configured to generate respective RF drive signals for each of the plurality of electrodes.
US10754222B2
A light steering apparatus is provided including a tunable laser source and a system including the light steering apparatus. The light steering apparatus includes the tunable laser source and a steering device. A plurality of laser beams having optical coherence with each other and output from the tunable laser source are incident onto the steering device, and the steering device includes a plurality of modulation units for beam steering.
US10754216B2
An array substrate having a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array where each pixel unit has a first switching structure, a second switching structure, a first pixel electrode, and a second pixel electrode. The first switching structure has a first gate, a first source, a first drain, and a first active layer located between the first source and the first drain; the first gate is on a side of the first active layer. The first pixel electrode is on a side of the first active layer away from the first gate and electrically connected to the first drain. A projection of the first pixel electrode on a plane where the first active layer resides at least partially overlaps with the first active layer; a projection of the second pixel electrode on a plane where the second active layer resides does not overlap with the second active layer.
US10754213B2
Disclosed herein is a thin film transistor substrate, including: an insulating substrate having a dummy area and a display area; a signal line formed in the dummy area on the insulating substrate; a switching element positioned in the display area on the insulating substrate; a color filter layer positioned in the display area on the insulating substrate and exposing a portion of the switching element through at least one contact hole; and a dummy color filter layer positioned on the dummy area on the insulating substrate and exposing a portion of the signal line through at least one dummy contact hole, wherein the at least one dummy contact hole formed on the dummy color filter layer and the at least one contact hole formed on the color filter layer are formed on the same position in a plane view.
US10754212B2
A display may have pixels configured to display images. The pixels may be formed from thin-film transistor circuitry on a substrate. Color filter elements formed from colored polymer such as colored photoimageable polymer may be formed on the substrate. A black matrix formed from black photoimageable polymer may have an array of openings. The colored polymer may have first portions that overlap the black matrix and second portions in the openings that form the color filter elements. In some portions of the pixels, the thin-film transistor circuitry may be interposed between the first portions of the colored polymer and the black matrix. In other portions of the pixels, data lines may be formed that are overlapped by the black matrix and that are interposed between the first portions of the colored polymer and the black matrix.
US10754210B1
A display device according to an aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of connection terminals and a plurality of lead lines, and the plurality of lead lines includes first lead lines, second lead lines, and third lead lines. Signal-line-side first lead lines are formed of a first conductive layer, signal-line-side second lead lines are formed of a second conductive layer, and signal-line-side third lead lines are formed of a third conductive layer. A lowest conductive layer of each switching element is formed of the second conductive layer. Among the plurality of lead lines, the connection-terminal-side first lead lines, the connection-terminal-side second lead lines, and the connection-terminal-side third lead lines are formed of conductive layers that include at least the third conductive layer but do not include the first conductive layer.
US10754208B2
To prevent the display quality from being degraded as a result of (i) a boundary portion of an edge region of the display region being visibly in the shape of stairs and/or (ii) emitted light having an unintended color, a display panel includes a light-shielding section including, for each pixel (5) through which a curved boundary line (ideal line) extends, sub-pixel light-shielding sections (3a) each overlapping a corresponding one of a red sub-pixel (4R), a green sub-pixel (4G), and a blue sub-pixel (4B).
US10754207B2
A liquid crystal display device includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate; and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the upper and lower substrates. The lower substrate includes a pixel electrode, a first auxiliary capacitance electrode, and a second auxiliary capacitance electrode for one pixel, and one or two auxiliary capacitance lines for one pixel line including pixels. The two auxiliary capacitive electrodes are electrically connected to different auxiliary capacitance lines. Each of the first auxiliary capacitance electrode and the second auxiliary capacitance electrode and the pixel electrode overlap each other in a plan view. The first auxiliary capacitance electrode and the second auxiliary capacitance electrode differ from each other in shape in a display region of each of the pixels. The shape of the first auxiliary capacitance electrode in a first pixel is identical to the shape of the second auxiliary capacitance electrode in a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel.
US10754205B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The electronic device may include an enclosure that includes a metal band and a wall. The electronic device may further include a filler compound positioned in an opening of the metal band, where a split between two sidewall components defines the opening. The filler compound provides an RF communication path through the enclosure. In order to reduce or prevent liquid ingress into the enclosure, the electronic device may include a sealing compound that infused into the opening between the filler compound and the sidewall components, thereby providing a seal. The infusion process including placing the metal band (with the filler compound) in a chamber, providing a vacuum to remove air between the metal band and the filler compound, and subsequently providing a positive pressure to force the sealing compound between the metal band and the filler compound. The sealing compound may include an adhesive.
US10754190B2
A lighting device includes a substrate and light sources that are top-emitting light sources. The substrate includes a first plate surface and a second plate surface. The light sources include first electrodes and second electrodes. A reflection layer made of metal, an insulating layer, and a first conductive pattern are formed on the first plate surface in this sequence from a lower layer side. A second conductive pattern is formed on the second plate surface. The light sources are disposed on the first plate surface with the first electrodes and the second electrodes electrically connected to the first conductive pattern and at least the first electrodes or the second electrodes electrically connected to the second conductive pattern via holes in the substrate. The reflection layer is divided into divided reflection areas by slits. The holes are formed in the divided reflection areas, respectively.
US10754189B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a backlight film that uses a wavelength conversion film used for a liquid crystal display or the like, has satisfactory durability, and is able to emit light without color unevenness. The object is achieved by including a wavelength conversion film having a wavelength conversion layer and a gas barrier film that sandwich the wavelength conversion layer; and at least one reflective layer provided on one main surface of the wavelength conversion film and causing a film thickness distribution of the reflective layer to be ±5% or less.
US10754186B2
A display device and a display method are provided. The display device includes: a first substrate; a light guide plate opposite to the first substrate; a grating layer including gratings, on the light guide plate and at a side of the light guide plate facing towards the first substrate, wherein each grating corresponds to one pixel; and a light source at a lateral surface of the light guide plate parallel to a light emergent direction of the display device, wherein the light source includes monochromatic light emitting components and an optical component, lights of different colors emitted by the monochromatic light emitting components are incident into, via the optical component, the light guide plate at different incident angles and are emergent from the gratings, and the incident angles are greater than a total reflection angle of the light guide plate.
US10754182B2
The purpose of the invention is to realize the liquid crystal display device that has narrow frame area and light from the back light does not leak. The structure of the present invention is: A liquid crystal display device having a liquid crystal display panel and a back light comprising; the liquid crystal display panel has a first side, a second side, which crosses the first side, and a corner that connects the first side and the second side, the side surface of the liquid crystal display panel and the side surface of the back light are fixed to each other by the black resin at the first side and at the second side, a light shield film that is different from the black resin is formed on the side surface of the liquid crystal display panel and the side surface of the back light at the corner.
US10754181B2
The present disclosure provides a flexible display panel, which includes: a flexible substrate; and a first pattern layer and a second pattern layer on the flexible substrate, which are spaced apart from each other in a thickness direction of the flexible display panel. The first pattern layer is a stress neutral layer of the flexible display panel. The first pattern layer includes a plurality of first touch electrode lines and a plurality of second touch electrode lines in a same layer, the first touch electrode lines are arranged to intersect with the second touch electrode lines, the second touch electrode lines are disconnected at intersections with the first touch electrode lines, the second pattern layer includes a plurality of bridging lines, and the bridging lines are arranged to electrically connect parts of the second touch electrode lines disconnected at the intersections.
US10754180B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a first outer surface and a second outer surface which is on a side opposite to the first outer surface, a light-modulating element opposed to the first outer surface, a first optical sensor which measures brightness on a first outer surface side of the display panel, and a controller which controls a transmittance of the light-modulating element on the basis of a measurement result obtained from the first optical sensor.
US10754179B2
An optical modulator includes an optical waveguide of a ridge type formed of a thin film of a dielectric material having an electro-optic effect over a substrate, a buffer layer covering the optical waveguide, and a signal electrode provided over the optical waveguide via the buffer layer, wherein a width of the signal electrode is greater than a ridge width of the optical waveguide and wherein the signal electrode covers at least one of sidewalls of a ridge of the optical waveguide.
US10754177B1
Embodiments provide an eyewear apparatus that include an additional structural component that resembles a character. Although, the location of the additional structural component on the frame can vary depending on implementation, in at least one example, the additional structural component is located on the top of the frame of the eyewear apparatus such that the additional structural component conceals the forehead of a user when the user is wearing the eyewear apparatus. In at least one embodiment, the additional structural component may be located at any point along the frame, however, in some embodiments, the additional structural component is located on the top or the sides of the frame, e.g., such that the additional structural component does not interfere with the user's ability to see out of the eyewear apparatus.
US10754167B2
A structured-light projector includes a light source that emits an emitted light with a predetermined pattern; and a diffractive optical element (DOE) that directly receives the emitted light and generates a plurality of light tiles, which are randomly or regularly disposed.
US10754149B2
Techniques for correcting image data in a lens shading correction circuit include accessing numerical constants associated with channels of a captured image represented by a pixel array from a memory. The techniques further include calculating lens shading correction factors for the captured image for each pixel of a channel in the pixel array according to the x-y pixel position of the pixel based on a lens shading correction formula and the numerical constants. For the channel in the pixel array, the correction formula applies different subsets of the numerical constants to different radial portions of the pixel array. The techniques also includes performing lens shading correction for the captured image based on the calculated lens shading correction factors to produce corrected image data, and storing the corrected image data in a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US10754138B2
Certain aspects pertain to multi-well systems, devices, and methods of Fourier ptychographic and fluorescence imaging.
US10754126B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens having positive refractive power; and a sixth lens having negative refractive power, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. The fourth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface on the object side is concave and a surface on the image plane side is convex near an optical axis. The fifth lens is formed in a shape so that surfaces on the object side and the image plane side are convex near an optical axis. The sixth lens is formed in a shape so that surfaces on the object side and the image plane side are concave near an optical axis. The fifth lens and the sixth lens have specific focal lengths, and the fourth lens has a specific Abbe's number.
US10754123B2
A camera system with an autofocus actuator with flex members is provided for actuating the lens of the camera. A set of flex members reside on opposite sides of a lens assembly with a lens. The flex members suspend the lens assembly within the frame of the camera. The flex members may be made of a material with a flexural modulus and ducts to enhance the flexural modulus. The flex members are optimized to provide linear movement of the lens assembly with limited lateral movement. The camera may further include a shuttle driver to move the lens of the camera and actuate a flex in the flex members.
US10754121B2
A displacement detecting apparatus includes a first electrode including a base electrode segment and a plurality of detecting electrode segments, a second electrode having a predetermined periodic pattern and movable relative to the first electrode, a detector configured to detect a displacement based on a capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a wiring configured to connect the plurality of detecting electrode segments and the detector with each other. A portion of the wiring facing the second electrode is located opposite to the second electrode with respect to the base electrode segment.
US10754114B2
A fiber optic distribution cable includes a central inner jacket formed from one of a polyvinyl chloride or a low smoke zero halogen material, a plurality of optical fibers disposed within the inner jacket, and a plurality of first strength members disposed within the inner jacket. The fiber optic distribution cable further includes an outer jacket surrounding the central inner jacket, the outer jacket formed from the one of the polyvinyl chloride or the low smoke zero halogen material, and a plurality of second strength members disposed between the outer jacket and the central inner jacket. A fiber density of the cable is greater than 0.65 fibers per square millimeter.
US10754108B2
An optical subassembly may have an optical waveguide for transmitting an optical signal, a lens element with a lens and a mirror integrated, a supporting element to which the optical waveguide and the lens element are attached, an optical element for converting the optical signal and an electric signal from one to another at least, and a substrate to which the optical element and the supporting element are attached.
US10754107B2
A process of making a coupling device for physically and optically coupling an optical fiber to route optical signals to/from optical receiver/transmitter. The coupling device includes a structured reflective surface that functions as an optical element that directs light to/from the input/output ends of the optical fiber by reflection, and an optical fiber retention groove structure that positively receives the optical fiber in a manner with the end of the optical fiber at a defined distance to and aligned with the structured reflective surface. The open structure of the structured reflective surface and fiber retention structure lends itself to mass production processes such as precision stamping. The coupling device can be attached to an optical transmitter and/or receiver, with the structured reflective surface aligned to the light source in the transmitter or to the detector in the receiver, and adapted in an active optical cable.
US10754105B2
A multi-piece optical coupling device comprises a first piece that includes one or more first receiving elements configured to receive and secure one or more optical waveguides. The first piece further includes one or more light affecting elements configured to affect one or more characteristics of light from the optical waveguides while propagating the light within the optical coupling device. A second piece is separate from the first piece and includes one or more second receiving elements configured to receive the waveguides, the first receiving elements and the second receiving elements configured to align the second piece and the first piece using the optical waveguides. The second piece also includes one or more mating alignment features configured to engage with a mating optical coupling device and to align the optical coupling device with the mating optical coupling device.
US10754100B2
A sealing enclosure is configured to connect to a mating enclosure. The sealing enclosure loosely receives a connector within a connector volume so that the connector, which may be of a standard type used in electronic or optic data transmission, may be displaced within a plug face at the forward end of the connector volume. The connector may compensate variations in the position of a mating connector with respect to the mating enclosure. The sealing enclosure allows to seal off the connector volume and engage the sealing enclosure with a mating enclosure in a single motion. This is affected by having a cable seal interposed between an inner body and an outer body. If the outer body is moved forward to engage the mating connector, the cable seal is squeezed between the cable and the inner body sealing off the connector volume at the rearward end of the inner body.
US10754096B2
A double flexible optical circuit includes: a flexible substrate supporting a plurality of optical fibers; a first connector terminating the optical fibers at a first end of the double flexible optical circuit; and a second connector terminating the optical fibers at a second end of the double flexible optical circuit. Each of the optical fibers is positioned in one of a plurality of separate extensions formed by the flexible substrate as the optical fibers extend from the first connector to the second connector. The first and second connectors are configured to be tested when the first and second connectors are connected through the double flexible optical circuit. The double flexible optical circuit is configured to be divided in half once the testing is complete to form two separate flexible optical circuits.
US10754084B2
A light source device includes a light source configured to emit illumination light and a flat plate shaped transparent lightguide element. The lightguide element includes: an incident surface facing the light source; a reflecting surface formed in one of side surfaces of the lightguide element to reflect the illumination light incident into the lightguide element from the incident surface; and an exit surface formed in a side surface of the lightguide element on an opposite side to the reflecting surface, the illumination light reflected by the reflecting surface exiting from the exit surface. The reflecting surface is formed into a curved surface, the curved surface collimating the illumination light reflected by the reflecting surface in a surface including a lengthwise direction of the reflecting surface, and the reflecting surface is formed into a concave mirror in a surface including a short direction of the reflecting surface.
US10754083B2
An optical sheet for a backlight unit for guiding toward a front face side rays of light emitted by an LED light source. The optical sheet includes one or more resin layers. Ultrafine grooves oriented in specific directions are provided on a front face side or a back face side of at least one resin layer of the one or more resin layers. An average number of the ultrafine grooves per unit length in a direction perpendicular to an average orientation of the ultrafine grooves is preferably no less than 10/mm and no greater than 10,000/mm. A face of the at least one resin layer provided with the ultrafine grooves preferably has an arithmetic average roughness (Ra) in a direction perpendicular to an orientation of the ultrafine grooves being no less than 0.01 μm and no greater than 5 μm. Ultrafine grooves preferably constitute a diffraction grating.
US10754078B2
A light source, a shaping system using the light source, and a method of using the light source in a shaping system. The light source may comprise one or more actinic energy sources; and a light guide plate. The light guide plate may have at least: a light output face; an input edge; and a back surface facing opposite the light output face. Wherein, the input edge of the light guide plate may be arranged to receive UV light from the one or more actinic energy sources. Wherein, the light guide plate may have a plurality of scattering features that are configured to scatter UV light received from the input edge. Wherein, the back surface may reflect UV light towards the light output face and is transparent to non-UV light.
US10754074B2
A holographic display apparatus for providing an expanded viewing window includes a spatial filter configured to separate a plurality of holographic images generated by the hologram pattern displayed on the spatial light modulator from a plurality of lattice spots generated by a physical structure of the spatial light modulator. The spatial filter includes a plurality of color filters or a plurality of dichroic mirrors separating a first color image, a second color image, and a third color image from a first color lattice spot, a second color lattice spot, and a third color lattice spot.
US10754055B2
Methods and systems for determining petrophysical parameters of a formation are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring formation data with a borehole imaging tool deployed in a well penetrating a formation and acquiring additional formation data with a dielectric logging tool deployed in the well. The method also includes calibrating the formation data acquired with the borehole imaging tool based on the additional formation data acquired with the dielectric logging tool. The calibrated formation data can then be used in determining a petrophysical parameter of the formation. Additional methods, systems, and devices are also disclosed.
US10754052B2
It is described a node handling device for use during deployment or retrieval of a plurality of seismic nodes (10) attacked to a cable (8), the node handling device comprising: a wheel device (1) adapted for damping of the cable (8) with attached seismic nodes (10) during deployment or retrieval. A wheel device and a method for deployment or retrieval are also disclosed.
US10754042B2
A device for producing timing information comprises equipment (101) that extracts first preliminary timing information from a first circular polarized component of a radio signal and second preliminary timing information from a second circular polarized component of the radio signal. The second circular polarized component has an opposite handedness and a time-delay with respect to the first circular polarized component. The device comprises a processing system (102) that produces the timing information based on the first preliminary timing information and/or the second preliminary timing information, and uses stored correction data for reducing the effect of the time-delay on the timing information when using the second preliminary timing information for producing the timing information. Thus, the timing information corresponds to the first preliminary timing information also when the timing information is produced based on the second preliminary timing information.
US10754041B2
Provided are systems, methods, and devices for identifying correct satellite signals to improve the accuracy of a satellite navigation system. In some embodiments, identifying correct satellite signals may include receiving a plurality of satellite signals; demodulating the satellite signals to extract a first plurality of parameters; determining a first subset of parameters from the first plurality of parameters, wherein the first subset of parameters is based on a first geographic location; determining a second subset of parameters from a second plurality of parameters outside the first subset, the second plurality of parameters comprising one or more parameters of the first plurality of parameters outside the first subset, wherein the second subset of parameters is based on a second geographic location; and identifying an exemplary subset from the first subset and the second subset, wherein the exemplary subset comprises parameters corresponding to correct satellite signals.
US10754034B1
A lidar scanning instrument includes one or more optical elements for redirecting a portion of the output beam sweep of the lidar scanning instrument in a different direction. Three dimensional environment data for both fields of view can be generated. The optical element(s) can be static or moveable, with constant or dynamic motion patterns, to change the direction of the second field of view if desired for the application.
US10754029B2
A computing device in a vehicle can determine a plurality of lane change maneuvers based on the time to collision. The computing device can determine a field of safe travel to execute the lane change maneuvers without braking to a stop and display the field of safe travel to an occupant.
US10754028B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for computer-implemented processing of SAR raw data, which comprises radar echoes from radar pulse. An interference radar echo and an interference pulse are associated with a respective radar pulse, wherein the interference pulse and the respective radar pulse have orthogonal waveforms. SAR raw data are focused by a first focusing on the interference pulses including a range compression and an azimuth compression, to obtain first focused data, where a filtering is used for the range compression of a respective radar pulse, which filtering is matched to the waveform of the associated interference pulse. Thereafter, the first focused data undergo a signal suppression, which at least partially suppresses the interference radar echo, as a result of which second focused data are obtained. These second focused data finally undergo a defocusing including range decompression and azimuth decompression to obtain modified SAR raw data.
US10754022B2
Using communication unit positional information acquired using infrastructure communication and moving body positional information detected using millimeter-wave radar, a moving body existing in a blind spot of a radar detection region is recognized, and behavior is predicted from movement information of the moving body, by deleting the moving body information detected by millimeter-wave radar from the communication unit information acquired using infrastructure communication.
US10754016B1
The system adjusts the phase of an ultrasound channel by removing sample clock voltage pulses from a rectangular electrical waveform that drives the transducer. Each channel's transducer applies or acts as a band-pass filter in the conversion of the electrical waveform to mechanical motion, generating an ultrasound sine wave. Removing clock voltage pulses from the electrical waveform can shift the phase of the ultrasound by an amount less than a sample clock period. The system focuses and directs the ultrasound during shooting at a specific angle by applying phase delays to successive channels. Removing sample clock voltage pulses allows the system to shoot at smaller angles and create a greater scan density and focal point density of imaging data and reduces the power. Partial sample clock voltage pulses may also be removed. If needed, the system can increase the power by adjusting the power supply voltages. The system can utilize a lower frequency clock generator lowering the power utilization.
US10754014B2
In order to measure distances precisely, a receiver device for determining a distance from an object is proposed, comprising: a receiver having a semiconductor structure with a photosensitive region for generating photo-induced charge carriers, which region faces the rear side, and having a transportation region, which faces the front side, wherein the photosensitive region and the transportation region are spatially separated from one another by a separation layer which has a passage between the photosensitive region and the transportation region, wherein the transportation region has an arrangement of at least two gates lying one next to the other, at least one of the gates thereof being located in the overlapping region of the passage.
US10754013B2
A method for controlling an emitted light output of a light source of an optical sensor system, in which a portion of the emitted light output is represented in an electrical signal, a characteristic variable of the signal representing a pulse energy of an emitted light pulse is determined, and a control signal for the light source is provided using the characteristic variable and a setpoint value of the characteristic variable.
US10754012B2
A system and method for scanning of coherent LIDAR. The system includes a motor, a laser source configured to generate an optical beam, and a deflector. A first facet of the plurality of facets has a facet normal direction. The deflector is coupled to the motor and is configured to rotate about a rotation axis to deflect the optical beam from the laser source. The laser source is configured to direct the optical beam such that the optical beam is incident on the deflector at a first incident angle in a first plane, wherein the first plane includes the rotation axis, wherein the first incident angle is spaced apart from the facet normal direction for the first facet. A second facet of the plurality of facets includes an optical element configured to deflect the optical beam at the first incident angle into a deflected angle.
US10754009B2
A lidar apparatus including a laser transceiver assembly, a wireless charging assembly and a driving assembly is provided. The wireless charging assembly is coupled to the laser transceiver assembly. The wireless charging assembly is configured to provide a charge power to the laser transceiver assembly. The driving assembly is configured to drive the laser transceiver assembly to rotate. The wireless charging assembly and the driving assembly are respectively located at two opposite sides of the laser transceiver assembly.
US10753992B2
A magnetic resonance (MR) system includes a main magnet having a bore and producing a substantially homogenous magnetic field (B0) within a scanning volume. A mobile radio-frequency (RF) coil (MRF) includes at least one transmit antenna for transmitting a location signal within the bore of the magnet. At least one receive antenna os situated substantially at a known location and configured to receive the transmitted location signal. A controller is configured to align the transmit antenna of the MRF with reference to the known location of the receive antenna based upon an analysis of the received location signal.
US10753987B2
A detector access chamber (10) for a wireless directional detector (40), comprises a hollow body (12) having an open a upper end (20) and a lower end (24) at an opposing end, a lid (16) engageable with the open upper end (20) of the body (12) and preferably adapted to accommodate at least a 40 tonne vehicular load, and a detector holder (38) within the body (12) to hold a wireless directional detector (40). In use, the lid (16) and the detector holder (38) together define a volume adapted to constrain internal reorientation of the wireless directional detector (40) caused by vibrations. A submergible detector system (42) is also provided.
US10753986B2
Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for assessing the integrity of electrical connections between elements of interfacing electronic devices. In some aspects, a system includes an analysis device having electronics that interface with an assay cartridge inserted into the analysis device, wherein the analysis device is configured to conduct a preflight test in which impedance values for each circuit between the assay cartridge and analysis device are rearranged and assessed to determine the electrical connection integrity of the assay cartridge to the analysis device prior to implementing the assay.
US10753979B2
The present disclosure provides a system, method, and apparatus for battery monitoring. In one or more embodiments, the disclosed method involves injecting at least one test signal into a battery, and receiving at least one response signal from the battery. In one or more embodiments, the response signal(s) comprises at least one reflected signal. The method further involves comparing, with at least one processor, the response signal(s) with at least one baseline signal to produce at least one comparison signal. Also, the method involves detecting, with at least one processor, at least one anomaly within the battery by using the comparison signal(s). Further, the method involves determining, with at least one processor, a location at least one anomaly within the battery by using the comparison signal(s).
US10753967B2
An apparatus configured to measure electromagnetic radiation coupled from an image sensor integrated circuit (IC) to a nearby cell phone antenna has an image sensor PCB with the image sensor IC on a first side and image sensor decoupling capacitors disposed on a second side, the image sensor PCB disposed within a shielding box. The apparatus also has an image processor PCB with an image processor IC on a first side and at least one image processor decoupling capacitors, the image processor IC electrically coupled to the image sensor IC. The image processor IC is located outside the shielding box, and the at least one image processor decoupling capacitor is within the shielding box. In embodiments, the decoupling capacitors are shielded with separate, additional, metal covers.
US10753954B2
An apparatus for a vacuum-driven microfluidic probe includes a body with an apex and a processing surface, at an end of the body. The apparatus also includes a partially open cavity formed as a recess on the processing surface and a set of apertures in the cavity, where the set of apertures include a sample outlet aperture intersected by a vertical axis of the cavity. The apparatus also includes aspiration apertures radially distributed around said vertical axis, wherein the apex is further configured to generate a pressure in the cavity upon aspirating an external liquid through the aspiration apertures that causes to aspirate a liquid sample from the sample outlet aperture, so as to eject the aspirated liquid sample from the probe.
US10753951B2
Disclosed is a method for determining a blood specimen, comprising preparing a first measurement sample by mixing a blood specimen of a subject with a first coagulation time measurement reagent and measuring first coagulation time, preparing a second measurement sample by mixing the blood specimen with a second coagulation time measurement reagent and measuring second coagulation time, and acquiring a value based on the first coagulation time and the second coagulation time, wherein the second coagulation time measurement reagent contains a metal ion and/or normal plasma, and the value is used to determine whether the blood specimen of a subject is a blood specimen containing a lupus anticoagulant or a blood specimen containing a direct anticoagulant.
US10753949B2
A method of diagnosing or assessing risk of a tauopathy in a person is disclosed. The method may comprise collecting a nasal sample of exhaled breath from the person's nose, analyzing the nasal sample to detect the presence of tau protein in the sample, and determining the concentration of tau protein in the nasal sample, wherein the tau protein concentration in the nasal sample indicates susceptibility to the tauopathy.
US10753939B2
Modified hepatitis C virus polypeptides are described. The polypeptides include the HCV NS4a domain and modified NS3 domain. The polypeptides retain conformational epitopes. HCV immunoassays including the polypeptides are also described.
US10753931B2
In one aspect, an assay test strip includes a test label that specifically binds a target analyte and a control label that is free of any specific binding affinity for the target analyte and has a different optical characteristic than the test label. In another aspect, an assay test strip includes a test label that specifically binds a target analyte and at least one non-specific-binding label that is free of any specific binding affinity for the target analyte. Systems and methods of reading assay test strips also are described.
US10753930B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for detecting extracellular ligands. The disclosed systems and method for detecting extracellular ligands typically comprise or utilize engineered red blood cells (eRBCs) that comprises modular extracellular sensors. The eRBCs may comprise: (i) a first exogenous extracellular sensor; the first extracellular sensor comprising: a) a ligand binding domain, b) a transmembrane domain, and c) a first fragment of a functional protein, and (ii) a second exogenous extracellular sensor; the second extracellular sensor comprising: a) a ligand binding domain, b) a transmembrane domain, and c) a second fragment of the functional protein. In the eRBCs, the ligand binding domain of the first exogenous sensor and the ligand binding domain of the second exogenous sensor bind to the same ligand to form a ternary complex, and the first fragment of the functional protein and the second fragment of the functional protein interact in the ternary complex to reconstitute functional activity of the functional protein.
US10753927B2
A method for assaying a sample for each of multiple analytes is described. The method includes contacting an array of spaced-apart test zones with a liquid sample (e.g., whole blood). The test zones disposed within a channel of a microfluidic device. The channel is defined by at least one flexible wall and a second wall which may or may not be flexible. Each test zone comprising a probe compound specific for a respective target analyte. The microfluidic device is compressed to reduce the thickness of the channel, which is the distance between the inner surfaces of the walls within the channel. The presence of each analyte is determined by optically detecting an interaction at each of multiple test zones for which the distance between the inner surfaces at the corresponding location is reduced. The interaction at each test zone is indicative of the presence in the sample of a target analyte.
US10753919B2
According to one embodiment described herein, the forces of a shrink film may be measured. The method of measuring the forces may include providing a shrink film processing unit and a testing vehicle moveable within the shrink film processing unit, positioning a shrink film around the testing vehicle, processing the wrapped testing vehicle by shrinking the shrink film around the testing vehicle as the testing vehicle moves through the shrink film processing unit, and measuring the forces applied by the shrink film on the testing vehicle with one or more force sensors at multiple separate sensor positions on the exterior of the testing vehicle during processing, after processing, or both.
US10753916B2
Systems, methods, and devices for detecting leaks in chromatography systems are disclosed. The leak detection system includes a sealable compartment disposed to surround at least one component of a chromatography system. The detector is in communication, e.g., fluid communication, with an interior of the sealable compartment and configured to detect the leak by various mean including the presence of liquid or the presence of vapor, or both within the sealable compartment.
US10753915B2
A method for analyzing and quantifying a panel of drugs in a clinical sample comprises: trapping a first portion of drug parent compounds and their metabolites on a first chromatographic column; trapping a second portion of the drug parent compounds and their metabolites on a second chromatographic column; separately eluting the first and second portions of the drug parent compounds and their metabolites from the first and second chromatographic columns; detecting concentrations of each of the drug parent compounds and metabolites eluted from each of the first and second chromatographic columns with a detector; and summing the detected concentration of each drug parent compound together with the detected concentrations of all of its respective analytes so as to derive a respective total concentration of each drug in the sample.
US10753911B2
A chiral analysis method of a bound amino acid includes a step of hydrolyzing a bound amino acid using a deuterium chloride-deuterium oxide solution and/or deuterium oxide; a step of separating, by chiral separation, a D-form and an L-form of an amino acid generated by the hydrolyzation; a step of generating fragments from the separated amino acid; and a step of selecting and analyzing a predetermined fragment that contains an α carbon and does not contain a side chain from the generated fragments, by mass spectrometry.
US10753901B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for the detection of bacteria in a sample. The methods comprises contacting the sample with an antibacterial agent and a bacteria identification sensor, and involves the permeabilization of the bacteria by the antibacterial agent, and the subsequent detection of an efflux of potassium ions using a bacteria identification sensor comprising a potassium-sensitive ISFET. Also disclosed are bacteria identification sensor comprising a potassium-sensitive ISFET useful in the practice of the disclosed methods.
US10753888B2
A method and a system for resolving a crystal structure of a crystal at atomic resolution by collecting X-ray diffraction images. The method includes the steps: a) ejecting a droplet of fluid comprising single or multiple of crystal into an ultrasonic acoustic levitator; b) levitating the droplet of fluid with the crystal in the ultrasonic acoustic levitator; b) monitoring the position and the spinning of the droplet with a visualization apparatus; c) applying X-ray to the crystal, the X-ray stemming from an X-ray source; and d) detecting the X-ray diffraction images from the crystal irradiated by the X-ray source by an X-ray detector being capable to capture two dimensional diffraction patterns.
US10753884B2
Systems and methods associated with nondestructive inspection of composite material components using fluorescent penetrants for detecting undesirable defects in such components are described. Ceramic matrix composite components include high porous surfaces making defect detection challenging, including contributing to excessive bleed back during the process. The systems and methods include a solvent washing of the component prior to inspection.
US10753868B2
There is provided a chirped diffractive element (20) in the form of a grating (22) configured for supporting a plurality of guided mode resonances (54), which resonances (54) may be considered to comprise a standing wave. Chirping the grating (22) may allow guided mode resonances (54) to be distinguishable in terms of position within a section (34) the grating (22). An incident electromagnetic field may be coupled into at least one of the sections (34) when the electromagnetic field has a wavelength value within a predetermined wavelength range and a sample has a refractive index value within a predetermined index range. The incident electromagnetic field may be reflected by at least one of the sections (34) of the grating (22) exhibiting a guided mode resonance (54). The reflected electromagnetic field from the section (34) can then be detected by directly imaging the grating (22), thereby revealing the position of the exhibited guided mode resonance (54) in the grating (22), and thereby inferring the refractive index value of the sample.
US10753865B2
Systems and methods for verifying that light absorption is caused by a targeted gaseous chemical compound. A first transmittance of light, either generated at, or filtered to, a first wavelength range and a second transmittance of light, either generated at, or filtered to, a second wavelength range are measured by first and second photon detectors. A ratio of the first and second measured transmittance is determined and that ratio is compared to a transmittance ratio associated with a targeted gaseous chemical compound to verify that the light absorption is caused by the targeted gaseous chemical compound.
US10753861B2
A method includes determining the presence or concentration of an analyte in a sample. Determining the presence or concentration of an analyte in a sample includes receiving a first image containing an image of the sample, the first image obtained using an image sensor having two or more colour channels. Determining the presence or concentration of an analyte in a sample includes extracting first and second mono-colour arrays from the first image, the first and second mono-colour arrays corresponding to different colour channels of the image sensor, wherein each mono-colour array comprises one or more entries and each entry is determined by aggregating one or more pixels of the first image. Determining the presence or concentration of an analyte in a sample includes determining a filtered array based on the first and second mono-colour arrays, each entry of the filtered array calculated as a ratio of the corresponding entries of the first and second mono-colour arrays, or calculated as a difference of the corresponding entries of the first and second mono-colour images. Determining the presence or concentration of an analyte in a sample includes determining the presence or concentration of the analyte based on the filtered array.
US10753859B2
Provided herein are IEF focusing methods for determining the number of drug molecules present in at least one antibody-drug conjugate (ADC) species subpopulation. In one embodiment, the method comprises performing free solution isoelectric focusing on a sample comprising at least one ADC species, to obtain a focused sample. The absorbance of the sample at two different wavelengths is then measured, for example, over a range of pI values. Absorbance values at the two different wavelengths are compared at at least one corresponding pI value, where the at least one corresponding pI value is the pI of the ADC subpopulation. The number of drug molecules in the at least one ADC species subpopulation is then determined based on the comparison. The methods provided herein can also be used to determine the number of specific binding pair members bound to its target specific binding pair member.
US10753855B2
There are provided a cross-cut test device and a cross-cut method capable of safely making incisions for testing the adhesion of a coating film at high-precision interval and depth under stable conditions using a simple operation. A cross-cut device, comprising: a plurality of blades respectively having an engagement hole; a fulcrum shaft for pivotably mounting thereon the blades parallel to each other and arranged in the blade thickness direction; and a blade holder for housing the blades pivotably mounted on the fulcrum shaft, wherein a magnet is interposed between the cutting edges and the coating film to be tested, and wherein the blades are pulled in the direction toward cutting edges by the magnetic force of the magnet.
US10753854B2
The high selectivity corrosion sensor system includes: a sensor group including at least one selected from SPR sensors whose sensor surfaces have metallic thin films made of different materials, SPR sensors whose sensor surfaces have functional films made of different materials, and LSPR sensors including different metallic fine particles; a light projector projecting light toward the sensors; a detector detecting, as signal intensities, light beams being from the sensors and corresponding to the light beam intensities; a database in which information on corrosion of a subject metal is accumulated; and an analyzer analyzing a degree of corrosion of the subject metal by pattern recognition based on the signal intensities from the detector and the information in the database.
US10753852B2
A computer-based corrosion/erosion module, communicatively coupled with a probe, estimates corrosion/erosion rates in a pipeline based on metal loss measurements. A High Integrity Protection System (HIPS), upstream of the corrosion/erosion module, includes at least two pressure-sensing elements, connected to the pipeline, for capturing pressure readings associated with inside pressures of the pipeline. The HIPS also includes at least two final elements configured to stop a flow of fluid through the pipeline. A logic solver, coupled with the corrosion/erosion module and the HIPS, is configured to automatically monitor mechanical integrity of the pipeline in real time using the captured pressure readings and estimated metal loss measurements. The logic solver determines a trip set point adjustment using the estimated metal loss measurements and provides the trip set point adjustment to the final elements.
US10753850B2
A drop-detection device (11, 11a, 11b) for the detection of drops (TR) that escape from a nozzle of a metering valve (DV), preferably a micro-metering valve, is described. The drop-detection device (11, 11a, 11b) comprises a signal-generation unit (20), which is configured to produce a carrier signal (TS) with a defined pulse frequency. In addition, the drop-detection device (11, 11a, 11b) has a modulation unit (30, 30a) which is configured to generate a modulated signal (MS) due to a physical interaction of the carrier signal (TS) with a drop to be detected (TR), Furthermore, the drop-detection device (11, 11a, 11b) has an evaluation unit (50), which is configured to determine if a drop (TR) has been dispensed by the metering valve (DV) based on the measurement signal (MS) under consideration of the defined pulse frequency. A method (600) of detecting a drop (TR) of a metering valve (DV) is also described.
US10753848B2
Methods and systems for efficient contour and gating in flow cytometry are provided. Event data is compressed to reduce the number of points needed to represent polygon contours for the event data. Selection of a level within the contour then causes the generation of a gate. This allows limited resource devices, such as touchscreen wireless devices, to render and gate flow cytometry data in a resource efficient manner.
US10753835B2
An improved apparatus and method for sampling fluids without volume limitation comprises, in one implementation, a holder unit, a pumping unit, and a control unit. The pumping unit includes an inlet channel, an outlet channel, a pumping motor, and a circulation hose in which the pumping motor is configured to circulate a fluid specimen from the inlet channel to the outlet channel into the circulation hose. The circulation hose is attached to the outlet channel, and secured to the holder unit displaced from a user to prevent direct contact with the fluid specimen during sampling when dealing with a hazardous specimen. The control unit includes a switch, a regulating module, and an electronic board, and is configured to regulate circulation of the fluid specimen through the pumping unit. The switch is configured to START/END the sampling process and to send signals to the electronic board to stay ON/OFF during sampling, and the regulating module is configured to adjust voltage of the pumping motor consistent with viscosity of the fluid specimen to allow circulation without volume limitation.
US10753829B2
A non-contact aerodynamic sampling tool for collecting particles and vapors from the surfaces. Opposing planar jets or planar jet arrays are used to liberate material from surfaces so that particulate matter and vapors can be collected for analysis in real time. High-speed valves may be triggered to create pressure waveforms for high velocity pressurized planar jet bursts, or continuously operated opposing wall jets may be angularly directed toward a target surface, permitting sampling from large standoff distances. The wall jets traverse the surface and exhibit significant drag forces to lift particles into a suction intake. Unlike axisymmetric jets, the wall jets sustain the flow momentum over the target surface for a greater distance, dislodging particles submerged in the boundary layer and significantly improving particle resuspension and vapor collection. Real-time analysis and detection of target analytes are achieved by efficient sample liberation from the surface in the sampling tool and the efficient sample delivery to an analytical module.
US10753828B2
This tire management device enables tire management for equalizing the use period of tires mounted on a vehicle, and is provided with a deterioration state prediction unit which, for each mounting position, predicts the deterioration tendency and the deterioration state of the tires mounted on the vehicle; a usable period prediction unit which, for each tire mounting position, predicts the usable period of the tire on the basis of the deterioration tendency and deterioration state predicted by the deterioration state prediction unit; and a mounting position planning unit which, setting the deterioration tendency of each tire predicted by the deterioration state prediction unit as a mounting position deterioration characteristic of each mounting position of a tire in the vehicle, creates, on the basis of said mounting position deterioration characteristics and the usable periods of the tires predicted by the usable period prediction unit, a modification proposal for changing the mounting positions of the tires on the vehicle in order to equalize the use period of each tire.
US10753827B2
A method and system for measuring vertical wheel impact force in real-time based on tire pressure monitoring is provided by the present invention. The system mainly includes the four modules, namely a tire pressure derotation preprocessing, a tire pressure-wheel force system identification, a calibration method, and an integrated device for tire pressure-wheel force measurement. The method uses the integrated device to collect tire pressure data in real-time. The corresponding vertical wheel impact force is obtained through the derotation preprocessing and the tire pressure-wheel force system identification, and is calibrated according to the calibration method. The present invention provides an efficient, accurate, and highly adaptable wheel force measurement solution in the theoretical aspect and device aspect, which meets the requirements for the quick evaluation of the bridge health condition. Also, the present invention has a great potential in the fields such as road safety diagnosis, automobile performance related design, etc.
US10753825B2
A pressure sensor for an internal combustion engine, which includes: a body containing a pressure-measuring membrane and a device for attaching to the cylinder head of the engine; and an end piece which extends substantially in an axial extension of the body, and includes a long part, and a substantially hemispherical convexity positioned on the end part of the long part.
US10753813B1
A belt tension measurement device includes a sleeve with an opening in at least one end, a shaft insertable into the opening where at least a portion of the shaft protrudes from the opening when in a zero position, and a first securing component configured to couple the sleeve to a surface of a power transmission belt and an additional securing component configured to couple the shaft to the surface of the power transmission belt. The shaft includes one or more sets of marks. A set of the one or more sets of marks includes at least one mark. The at least one mark corresponds to at least one shaft position where the power transmission belt is tensioned a pre-determined amount via an extension force generated by an elongation of the power transmission belt. The shaft is moveable between the zero position and the at least one shaft position.
US10753807B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a methodology and process of hot junction formation and sheath closure for a dual-wall mineral insulated thermocouple cable. The new methods are required to maintain the integrity of both the inner and outer sheaths or inner and outer walls of a dual-walled thermocouple design. As the inner and outer sheaths are different materials, they may require closure separately with no mixing of the sheathing materials during welding.
US10753805B2
A radiation shield for near-infrared detectors of the type used in Raman spectroscopic systems comprises a chamber enclosing the detector and a cooling device in thermal contact with the chamber and the detector to reduce the level of unwanted radiation to which the detector would otherwise be exposed. The chamber may include a window in optical alignment with the detector, and the window may include one or more coatings to pass wavelengths in a range of interest or block radiation at wavelengths outside of this range. The shield may be enclosed in an evacuated dewar having a window which may also include one or more coatings to favor the wavelength range.
US10753794B2
Technologies are generally described for concurrent activation of multiple illumination sources to analyze a sample. A controller may be configured to activate the illumination sources substantially simultaneously, where a current or voltage of each activated illumination source is modulated at a different frequency by respective circuit drivers of the controller. Each activated illumination source may be configured to illuminate the sample with light at a different emission wavelength, and one or more detectors may be configured to detect a composite signal from the sample in response to the illumination. The composite signal may include multiple returned signals, where each returned signal corresponds to light emitted from one of the activated illumination sources at a respective emission wavelength. One or more filters, each associated with a respective modulation frequency of one activated illumination source, may be configured to extract each returned signal from the composite signal for analysis.
US10753791B2
A multi-channel remote audio monitoring device based on a heterodyne interferometric laser Doppler vibrometer. The multi-channel remote audio monitoring device transmits two invisible laser beams to a reflecting surface being vibrated by sound sources in the proximity. Reflected beams constituting two channels are then received back and converted into audible signals for on-line listening and on-line storing. Aforementioned signals can also be processed for on-line noise reduction purposes through a graphical user interface and a filtering module.
US10753790B2
An improved system and method for analyzing motor performance to detect vibration of an electric machine controlled by a motor drive is disclosed. A load observer determines an estimated torque present as a load on the motor as a function of input signals corresponding to a desired torque to be generated by the motor and to a measured angular position of the motor during operation. The motor drive determines a frequency response of the estimated torque to identify at what magnitude and frequency any vibration components are present within the estimated torque signal. The motor drive compares the frequency response of the estimated torque signal to set points. If the measured magnitude of vibration at a particular frequency, as seen in the frequency response, exceeds a threshold set in one of the set points for that frequency, the motor drive generates an output signal indicting an excessive vibration is present.
US10753781B2
A three-dimensional printing device including a body, a tank, an origin target, a sensor, and a control module is provided. The tank is rotatably assembled on the body, and the tank is filled with a liquid forming material. The origin target is disposed on the tank and rotates along with the tank. The sensor is disposed on the body and located above the liquid forming material to sense a liquid level of the liquid forming material. The control module electrically connects the tank and the sensor and drives the tank to rotate. The sensor is located above a rotation path of the origin target, and the control module senses the origin target through the sensor and positions a rotation origin of the tank.
US10753775B1
An optical fiber flow sensor, including: a housing, an elastic component, an optical fiber detection component, a floating element, and a fixed sealing joint. The elastic component includes a first and second elastic members that are symmetrical and are disposed in a closely fitted manner, with fitting surfaces of the first and the second elastic members being respectively provided with a corresponding seating groove. The optical fiber detection component is disposed in the seating grooves, and both ends of the optical fiber detection component are welded in the seating grooves via a glass solder. The elastic component is enclosed in the housing, and one end of the housing is fixed at the fixed sealing joint. The optical fiber detection component is sealed within the elastic component so as to avoid direct contact with an external fluid, and prevent damage by corrosion, hydrogen loss, or the like. The optical fiber detection component is welded to the elastic component via a glass solder, thereby avoiding a high-temperature creep deformation of the glue and thermal mismatch.
US10753773B2
A angle detection system, includes a first member pivotally coupled to a second member. An optical cable connecting an optical transmitter provided on the first member and an optical receiver provided on the second member is used by an angle detection engine to determine signal loss of an optical signal provided by the optical transmitter through the optical cable to the optical receiver. The angle detection engine then determines, based on the signal loss, a first angle of the second member relative to the first member. The angle detection engine then performs an instruction based on the first angle.
US10753768B2
A magnetic field sensor has a plurality of magnetic field sensing elements and operates as a motion detector for sensing a rotation or other movement of a target object.
US10753761B2
Methods, devices, and systems for a universal modular battery and power system are provided. The universal modular battery may include a number of modular interconnection features that enable a number of universal modular batteries to be stacked for use in a universal battery power system. The modular interconnection features facilitate the modular addition or subtraction of batteries in the universal battery power system to, among other things, alter a power capacity of the system. The universal batteries in a power system may be exchanged, swapped, or moved from one power system to another, including power systems associated with different vehicles and/or buildings.
US10753754B2
In some embodiments, a method for an autonomous vehicle obtaining services can include: detecting, by the autonomous vehicle, a need for service; sending, over a network interface of the autonomous vehicle, a request for service; determining a rendezvous location at which service will be received; maneuvering, by the autonomous vehicle, to the rendezvous location; receiving, by the autonomous vehicle over a network, an authentication code; in response to receiving the authentication code, enabling, by the autonomous vehicle, access to components of the autonomous vehicle; determining, by the autonomous vehicle, that the service is complete; and transmitting, by the autonomous vehicle, an indication that the service is complete.
US10753753B2
A computer determines that a rate of travel value for a route segment being traversed by a first vehicle exceeds a predetermined threshold. A maneuver is planned for the first vehicle to depart from the route segment based on collected vehicle operating data from one or more second vehicles previously traversing the route segment. The first vehicle is instructed to execute the maneuver to depart the route segment.
US10753752B2
A system for providing manual guidance of a vehicle includes a first inertial measurement unit (IMU) attached to a steering wheel, a second IMU attached to a fixed part of the vehicle, a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver, a data storage device for storing a pre-planned path, and a feedback module. The feedback module is configured to determine a current angle of the steering wheel, determine a deviation of the current position of the vehicle from the pre-planned path, determine a current heading of the vehicle, determine a current velocity of the vehicle, and determine a desired angle of the steering wheel relative to the vehicle. The system further includes a user interface configured to provide a visual indication of the desired angle of the steering wheel or a deviation of the current angle of the steering wheel from the desired angle of the steering wheel.
US10753751B2
A system and method for street level routing includes dividing a mapping of a geospatial region into cells, each cell having one or more pathways located within the cell. A traversability weighting is determined for each of the cells, based at least on a traversability measure associated with the one or more pathways located within the respective cell. Total weights associated with one or more routes for traversing every cell to every other cell are pre-calculated, and the pre-calculated total weights are used to determine one or more routes between a first point and a second point in the geospatial region, with one or more preferred routes determined in accordance with a ranking of the one or more routes between the first cell and the second cell, the ranking based on one or more efficiency criteria.
US10753748B2
A system corrects errors of a measurement system. The system comprises base measurement system BS and a correction system. BS sensor data is acquired and provided to an algorithm. The data is stored associated with a time stamp indicating time of sensing. Output values are calculated and stored with time stamps indicating time of the sensor data upon which the output values are calculated. Data having corresponding time stamps are supplied to a filter where correction values and correction increments are calculated. The correction increments reflect the change of error in a base system output value over time due to integration or summing up BS sensor data errors in the processing algorithm. The correction values are applied to the BS data and corrected base navigation output values are calculated. These output values are corrected by the correction increments. Output values of the processing algorithm are further processed in succeeding applications.
US10753745B2
There is provided a method of sensing a rotation rate using a vibrating structure gyroscope, said gyroscope comprising an electronic control system comprising one or more control loops, wherein at least one of said control loops comprises a filter having a variable time constant, said method comprising the steps of: determining or estimating a characteristic of the vibrating structure of said gyroscope; and adapting or varying said time constant of said filter with the determined or estimated characteristic of said vibrating structure.
US10753742B2
A micromechanical rate-of-rotation sensor includes a first Coriolis element. The micromechanical rate-of-rotation sensor further includes a first drive beam arranged along the first Coriolis element. The first drive beam is coupled via a first spring to the first Coriolis element. The micromechanical rate-of-rotation sensor further includes a first drive electrode carrier extending from the first drive beam in a direction opposite to the first Coriolis element. The first drive electrode carrier is configured to carry a multiplicity of first drive electrodes extending parallel to the first drive beam.
US10753730B2
Method for analyzing surface waviness of tooth flanks of a gearwheel, comprising measuring two or more teeth of the gearwheel, wherein a deviation of their tooth flank geometry from the setpoint geometry is measured along at least one measuring path on each of the teeth; measuring at least one further tooth, wherein a deviation of its tooth flank geometry from the setpoint geometry is measured along at least one partial measuring path whose length is less than the length of the measuring path; and/or measuring at least one further tooth, wherein a deviation of the tooth flank geometry from the setpoint geometry is measured by touching at least one point on the tooth flank; associating a rotational angle with each measured value and determining a geometrically captured order spectrum by order analysis of the deviations plotted over the rotational angle, wherein one or more compensation and/or interpolation functions are determined.
US10753729B2
A device for detecting and determining deformations on a structure surface containing diffractive stress indicator elements comprises a portable computing device having a camera, a processor, a memory, and a display screen, and a casing for conformably enclosing the portable computing device. In one embodiment, the casing includes an elongated light source, a first window positioned to provide access to the display screen of the portable computing device, and a second window positioned to allowing the light source to emit a band of light outside of the casing, and a port hole aligned with the camera of the portable computing device. When the device is positioned proximate to the structure, the elongated light source emits a band of illumination onto the diffractive stress indicator elements, the diffractive elements diffract the emitted radiation and the camera of the portable computing device receives at least a portion of the diffracted radiation.
US10753716B2
Warhead (1) comprising a tubular structure comprising: a front end (15) and a front region (2) adjoining the front end (15); a rear end (14) and a rear region (3) adjoining the rear end (14); a central axis (11) connecting the front end (15) and the rear end (14); a wall portion (4); and a central cavity (6), whereby the outer wall portion (4) tapers in the front region (2) and comprises fragments (7; 9) in the rear region (3) and the tubular structure in the rear region (3) comprises a generally cylindrical portion (12) and a generally conical portion (13) relative to the central axis.
US10753711B2
A movable ballistic resistant panel includes ballistic resistant leaf hinges that allow multiple panels to be attached to each other to form an openable and movable barrier capable of numerous different configurations.
US10753703B2
A cushioned article includes a cage and a compressible material. The cage has at least one opening, an interior volume, and an outer surface. The at least one opening provides a passage from the outer surface to the interior volume. The compressible material extends through the at least one opening in the cage. A method for manufacturing a cushioned article includes providing a mold having at least one cavity, placing a cage within the mold, and injecting a compressible material into an interior of the cage. The cage includes at least one opening. A portion of the compressible material flows through the at least one opening in the cage and fills the at least one cavity of the mold. One or more shields may be connected to the cage before injection. The shields may be removed with the cage and heat treated with the shields still connected to the cage.
US10753699B2
An improved firearm suppressor is provided. The firearm suppressor generally includes a primary flow path and a secondary flow path. The primary flow path is centrally disposed within the suppressor and includes multiple internal chambers that are separated by conical baffles. The secondary flow path is helically disposed within the firearm suppressor. A diverter directs a portion of the propellant gas rearward, over a firearm barrel, before entering spiral lanes in the forward direction. The primary flow path slows the movement of propellant gas escaping through a projectile exit port, while the secondary flow path slows the movement of propellant gas escaping through a plurality of propellant gas exit ports.
US10753687B2
A heat exchanger for an apparatus including a burner has at least one tube extending along a centerline from an inlet end adjacent the burner to an outlet end. A plurality of indentations is formed in the tube adjacent the inlet end and extend radially inward towards the centerline. The indentations are formed in opposing pairs extending towards one another to a depth sufficient to create turbulent fluid flow through the inlet end of the tube.
US10753686B2
A condenser for a vehicle includes an integrally formed receiver-drier and a plurality of stacked plates. The condenser may be used in an air conditioning having an expansion valve expanding liquid refrigerant, an evaporator evaporating the refrigerant expanded at the expansion valve through heat-exchange with air, and a compressor receiving from the evaporator and compressing gaseous refrigerant, may be provided between the compressor and the expansion valve, and may circulate coolant supplied from a radiator so as to condense the refrigerant supplied from the compressor through heat-exchange with the coolant and the refrigerant.
US10753683B2
The present disclosure relates to a device and a system for gas injection in cavities of building structures, particularly for drying, decontaminating or drying and decontaminating building structures. The present disclosure also relates to a device and a system for gas extraction from cavities of building structures, particularly for drying, or for drying and decontaminating building structures. The present disclosure also generally relates to a system for monitoring parameters of a gas injection/extraction process using the device and system provided herein.
US10753669B2
An appliance includes a cabinet having an outer wrapper, an inner liner and a trim breaker defining a joint therebetween. The outer wrapper, inner liner and trim breaker define an insulating cavity. A vacuum insulated structure is disposed within the insulating cavity. A metallic frame is in communication with the outer wrapper and includes an upper hinge mount and a lower hinge mount that are connected by a vertical frame member. The metallic frame is at least partially disposed within the insulating cavity. A door panel is rotationally mounted to the cabinet via an upper hinge mounted to the upper hinge mount and a lower hinge mounted to the lower hinge mount.
US10753665B2
An ice making device is provided. In an ice making device, a convex part reflecting the shape of a recessed part for water storage is formed on a bottom surface of the ice making tray. A temperature sensor is in contact with a side wall of the convex part. The temperature sensor is covered with a flexible member. In addition, a cover member pressing the temperature sensor against the ice making tray is fixed to the bottom surface of the ice making tray through the flexible member. In the temperature sensor, a sealing coating layer is provided to cover a temperature detection chip, but an exterior case is not used.
US10753663B2
A vapor compression system that includes a baffle that separates a first condenser and a first fan from a second condenser and a second fan. A controller that switches between first and second modes of operation. In the first mode of operation the controller closes a valve to block a flow of a refrigerant through a first condenser and turns off the first fan. In the second mode of operation the controller opens the valve to enable the flow of the refrigerant through the first condenser and turns on the first fan.
US10753654B2
A thermal energy removal system is provided to cool a rail of a railway track in a self-powered mode and/or an externally-powered mode. The system comprises a cooling module configured to mount on a side of the rail to remove heat stored inside the rail. The cooling module includes a solid state electrical insulation sandwiched between a plate and a heat sink. The cooling module further includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first and second terminals to provide an electric energy source based on the heat extracted and harnessed for powering at least one of an electronic circuit, a light source, and a communication device associated with railways infrastructure.
US10753651B1
Systems, devices and methods for increasing the concentration level, longevity and efficiency of photovoltaic (PV) systems via optical filtering waveguides. The waveguides can transfer absorbed heat via steam (or other gasses) and water (or other liquids) for subsequent solar thermal (ST) energy conversion and provide low-loss transmission of the filtered light over a grid of PV systems. These include new balloon/bulb type collectors interfacing with the optical filtering waveguides which then mode-couple solar energy into the PVs.
US10753646B2
An apparatus for heating a process fluid is presented. The apparatus is for improving the foot-print of a fired heater and to reduce the fired heater volume. The apparatus includes a W-shaped process coil to provide for a smaller single-cell fired heater, and a fired heater with a lower profile, providing flexibility in positioning relative to downstream reactors.
US10753637B2
A frameless HVAC door system for reduced noise transmission leakage, and improved installation. The system includes a first member having opposed first and second surfaces and a first size that defines a first perimeter extending around the first and second surfaces. The first member is further equipped with a latch spaced apart from a hinge member on the first member. The door further includes a second member mounted on the first member first surface. The second member includes a sidewall extending around the second member to define a second member perimeter. The second member further includes a second member surface extending between the side walls and along the second member perimeter to define a compartment. The compartment is insulated against noise and temperature change. The second member perimeter is smaller than the first member perimeter, which defines a flange extending from the second member perimeter to the first member perimeter to define a flange perimeter. The flange is equipped with a resilient elastic foam sealing material along its perimeter. The first member is hingedly mounted to a surface around an opening for pivotal movement relative thereto. When the latch engages the latch receiver, it distributes a uniform compressive sealing force along the flange when the first member is in a closed position relative to the opening.
US10753627B1
An energy efficient and quiet air cooling system for a building structure is provided. The air cooling system includes an evaporator system mounted in the wall of the building, a remotely mounted fan, an air intake, and a sound and heat insulating duct. The fan is mounted in the attic and configured to draw air from the living area of the building through the sound insulating duct with sufficient power to create a negative static pressure in the living area. The negative static pressure in turn causes outside air to flow through the evaporator system which removes heat from the outside air. The cooled air is in turn drawn into the building and pulled into the attic through the duct and expelled through the attic. The fan expels warm air into the attic, creating a positive pressure environment which causes the warm air to be expelled from the attic through natural vents.
US10753625B2
A dehumidification system includes an evaporator, a condenser positioned proximate to the evaporator, and a drain pan. The drain pan is disposed at least partially below the evaporator and the condenser. The drain pan includes a top piece and a bottom piece disposed at least partially below the top piece. The top piece includes a drainage opening, and is configured to collect water condensed from the evaporator and drain the condensed water to the bottom piece via the drainage opening. The bottom piece includes an enclosed wall, and the condensed water drained from the top piece is directed into an area of the bottom piece that is at least partially surrounded by the enclosed wall.
US10753624B2
Methods and systems are provided for air conditioning, capturing combustion contaminants, desalination, and other processes using liquid desiccants.
US10753623B2
A furnace includes a controller configured to instruct a blower of the furnace to increase an exhaust flowrate of the furnace, instruct a gas regulation device of the furnace to increase a fuel input rate of the furnace, or both in response to a determination that the fuel input rate is below a threshold fuel input rate for a threshold time period. In some embodiments, the controller is configured to instruct the blower to maintain an increased exhaust flowrate for a flame-stabilizing time period the gas regulation device to maintain an increased fuel input rate for the flame-stabilizing time period, or both.
US10753622B2
A heating installation comprising: a first circuit (C1); a second circuit (C2); a first heat pump (4) for heating the medium in the first circuit; a heat exchanger (10) which is arranged in the second circuit and connected between a condenser (4b) and an expansion valve (4d) of the first heat pump; a second heat pump (11) arranged for heating a medium by absorbing heat energy from the medium in the second circuit; and a first and a second accumulator tank (A1, A2) arranged in series in the second circuit for accumulating the medium in the second circuit. The accumulator tanks are alternately connectable to the second heat pump in order to allow medium to circulate between the first accumulator tank and the evaporator of the second heat pump in a first operating situation and allow medium to circulate between the second accumulator tank and the evaporator of the second heat pump in a second operating situation.
US10753621B2
An oven appliance includes a sensor that is positioned coplanar with a broil heating element in a plane that is perpendicular to a vertical direction. The sensor is also positioned at a center portion of the broil heating element and/or between terminal ends of the broil heating element along a lateral direction that is perpendicular the vertical direction. A sensor shield is positioned between the broil heating element and the sensor in the plane that is perpendicular to the vertical direction.
US10753620B2
A burner assembly shielding device for preventing blowout of a flame generated by the burner assembly includes a tube that is sized and shaped complementarily to a perimeter of a well of a burner assembly. A lower end of the tube is configured to insert into the well so that an upper end of the tube is fixedly positioned proximate to an upper plane that is defined by an upper limit of a grate of the burner assembly. A wall of the tube is configured to shield a flame that is generated by the burner assembly from wind to prevent the flame from being extinguished.
US10753616B2
A stove using biomass pellets as fuels is disclosed herein, comprising a stove body that comprises a firebox, at least one hopper, and a feed tube, wherein the at least one hopper is connected to the firebox via the feed tube, and fuels contained inside the at least one hopper can enter the firebox along the feed tube under gravity. The stove has a simple structure and removes any mechanically or electrically controlled feeding system by feeding the firebox using gravity of the fuels, therefore lowers the cost.
US10753609B2
A rotating machine component, particularly a gas turbine combustion component, having at least one part built from a porous material with a plurality of pores, wherein at least a subset of the plurality of pores is at least partly filled with a gas with a composition different from air and/or with a powder, wherein the porous material is a laser sintered or laser melted material in which void local regions form the plurality of pores. The component counter-acts vibrations. A rotating machine or gas turbine engine may have such a component.
US10753606B2
A gas burner includes a first tube and a second tube, wherein the first tube includes a first section and a second section which are connected to each other; the second section includes a chamber and an air outlet disposed at one side of the chamber; a cross-sectional area of the chamber of the second section is larger than a cross-sectional area of one end of the first section communicating with the second section. The second tube includes an air inlet section, a venturi section, and an extending section, wherein one end of the air inlet section includes an air inlet; the air inlet is adapted to supply gas; the venturi section is between the air inlet section and the extending section; the extending section extends into the chamber of the second section of the first tube and has a cross-sectional area small than the cross-sectional area of the chamber.
US10753604B2
In a method for the combustion management in firing installations, in which a primary combustion gas quantity is conveyed through the fuel into a primary combustion area, part of the waste gas flow is extracted in the rear grate area and returned to the combustion process in the form of internal recirculation gas. In this case, no secondary combustion air is supplied between the grate and the supply of the internal recirculation gas. A firing installation for carrying out this method features nozzles above the firing grate such that no air supply is arranged between the firing grate and the nozzles.
US10753598B2
The light device has USB charger has AC outlet power source and has AC-to-DC circuit to change one of Alternative current to 1st voltage DC and the 1st voltage DC though the circuit-inside or IC or DC-to-DC circuit to get 2nd voltage or though more DC-to-DC devices to get more voltage DC current. The light device has at least one of 5 Volt DC to supply to USB Charger Charging-port output-end and one of desire voltage DC to supply to DC light source. Or/The 1st AC to AC light source and has one of DC selected from 1st, 2nd, or more voltage DC current to USB Charger charging-port's output end so the said light device has (1) illumination function by DC or/and AC light source and (2) USB charger function by supply desired 1st or 2nd or more other voltage DC current to USB charging-port at 5 Volt DC. The light device optional has outlet-ports to get 1st AC directly though conductive parts to outlet-ports to supply AC to other device. Furthermore, the light device Optional can add other function(s) select from (a) Time piece related (b) Reflect Image (c) Power station (d) project image (e) heater (f) Air Flow (g) wireless communication (h) remote controller (g) APP controller (h) Blue-tooth controller.
US10753589B2
A junction box includes a bottom portion including a first end portion and a second end portion and a top portion configured to mate with the bottom portion. The top and bottom portions form a first opening to receive a first cable at the first end portion and form a second opening to receive a second cable at the second end portion. Interchangeable connection blocks are included for receiving wires of different gauges to make connections between the first cable and the second cable. A connection block receiving-feature is formed in the bottom portion to secure the connection blocks.
US10753585B2
A utility light comprises a main body and a light assembly defined on the main body including a light source disposed within a light housing. The light housing is pivotable and rotatable relative to the main body. The utility light also comprises a handle movably coupled to the main body. The handle is linearly extensible relative to the main body to a position in which an opening is defined between the handle and the main body, such that the opening is configured to receive a workpiece to support the utility light. The handle has a gripping portion defined by an aperture extending through the handle.
US10753584B2
A light board mounting system includes a fixture frame having a planar surface and a plurality of alternating bosses disposed along a length of the fixture frame. The system also includes a light board having a first side and a second side, a plurality of lights disposed along a length of the light board on the first side, and a pair of electrical contacts coupled to the plurality of lights and mounted to the second side of the light board and extending away from the second side. In addition, the light board mounting system includes a first edge and opposing second edge of the light board secured to the planar surface of the fixture frame between the plurality of alternating bosses, the second side of the light board being adjacent to the planar surface of the fixture frame and the pair of electrical contacts extending through the planar surface.
US10753583B1
An angled connector which allows connection between two LED lighting strips without the creation of an undesirable dark gap at connecting corners. The angled connector has a plurality of terminal pairs arranged such that when two LED light strips are connected, a distance between an end LED on one strip and an end LED on the other strip is approximately the same as a distance between adjacent equally-spaced LEDs on surfaces of the two strips. Used in a lighting fixture, a non-linear light source is retained within a housing having an opening through which light from LEDs can be directed. At least first and second adjacent LED light strips are connected at an angle to one another and a distance between end LEDs is approximately the same as a distance between equally-spaced LEDs on the surface of both the first and second LED strips. This configuration eliminates dark gaps at the corners of the fixture.
US10753578B2
The invention relates to an illumination system converting light beams into wide-angle light transmissions. It includes i) a cylindrical member having a cone-shaped depression in a distal end; and ii) a semi-circular member having an inner radial surface adjacent to a sidewall of the cylindrical member; and angled upper and lower annular surfaces extending from the cylindrical member and meeting at an outer radial edge. A light beam entering the proximal end of the cylindrical member strikes a first edge of the cone-shaped depression and is reflected out as a first light transmission; or it strikes a second edge of the cone-shaped depression, is reflected against the upper and lower annular surfaces, and exits the cylindrical member as a second light transmission parallel to the first diffused light transmission. At least one light path passes through a diffuser on the cylindrical member.
US10753552B2
Systems and methods to provide multiple channels of light to form a blended white light output, the systems and methods utilizing recipient luminophoric mediums to alter light provided by light emitting diodes. The predetermined blends of luminescent materials within the luminophoric mediums provide predetermined spectral power distributions in the white light output.
US10753547B2
An LED lamp that can take the place of incandescent lamps. An elevated light source is positioned above a screw-type base. A first plurality of LEDs is connected in a series on one side of a flat substrate and a second plurality of LEDs, equal in number to the first, is connected in series on an opposite side of the substrate. Each LED of the first and second plurality of LEDs is mounted proximate a heat sink and a drive circuit is provided for the LEDs, with the drive circuit being located proximate and electrically connected to the screw base.
US10753533B2
System and method can support a servo system. The servo system comprises a motor with a rotor and a stator, wherein said rotor is arranged internally to said stator. Furthermore, said rotor, which is rotatable relative to said stator, can be configured to receive at least a portion of a functional module. Additionally, the servo system can be used for supporting a payload stabilization system, such as a gimbal system.
US10753532B2
A gimbal includes a yaw-axis structure, a roll-axis structure connected to the yaw-axis structure and configured to be rotated by the yaw-axis structure, and a pitch-axis structure connected to the roll-axis structure and configured to be rotated by the roll-axis structure. The yaw-axis structure includes a locking structure, a rotating member including a rotor of a motor or a member fixedly connected to the rotor, and a bearing member rotatably connected to the rotating member and including a stator of the motor or a member fixedly connected to the stator. The pitch-axis structure is configured to support a load and drive the load to rotate. The yaw-axis structure is configured to be locked by the locking structure when the yaw-axis structure rotates to a preset position in a non-operational state of the gimbal.
US10753531B2
A multi-display stand configured to support a plurality of displays is provided. The multi-display stand includes a standing rod, a plurality of supporting arms, and a position-limiting member. The standing rod extends along a central axis. The supporting arms are disposed on the standing rod. Each of the supporting arms supports one of the displays. The position-limiting member is disposed between the standing rod and each of the supporting arms and includes at least one first position-limiting wall, at least one second position-limiting wall, and at least one tenon. Each of the supporting arms is radially rotatable about the central axis with respect to the standing rod between a first position and a second position. When the supporting arm is at the first position, the tenon abuts against the first position-limiting wall. When the supporting arm is at the second position, the tenon abuts against the second position-limiting wall.
US10753530B2
A quick-release mounting structure of an action camera casing includes a casing for accommodating an action camera, an insert member, a circular sleeve, a fixing member, and a quick-release assembly. An underside of the casing is provided with a coupling portion. The insert member is in a cylindrical shape and has a pivot end at an upper end thereof. The pivot end and the coupling portion are pivotally connected together by a coupling bolt. The circular sleeve is provided with an axial slit. An underside of the circular sleeve is provided with a coupling end. The insert member is inserted into the circular sleeve. The fixing member is provided with a pivot portion. The pivot portion and the coupling end are pivotally connected together by a bolt assembly. The quick-release assembly includes a fastening collar. The fastening collar is fitted onto the circular sleeve.
US10753529B2
The present disclosure relates to a supporting device which is suitable for installing a display and comprises a support assembly, an adapter, two upper securing screws, and two lower securing screws. The adapter includes a base plate installed on the support assembly and used for connecting to the display. The base plate has a top edge, a bottom edge, a front face, a back face, at least one pair of hanging slots disposed on the top edge and extending from the front face to the back face, and two slot holes extending from the front face to the back face, wherein the slot holes respectively correspond to the at least one pair of hanging slots. The upper securing screws are respectively and detachably passed through and embedded in the at least one pair of hanging slots and are used for connecting to the back side of the display. The lower securing screws are respectively and detachably passed through and embedded in the slot holes and are used for connecting to the back side of the display.
US10753525B2
A pipeline pig (5) for cleaning pipelines (6) and/or for recovering products from a pipeline is disclosed. The pipeline pig (5) comprises at least one radiofrequency identification tag (4a, 4b) as a means for identification and for the sending, receiving and storing of data. The pipeline pig (5) may be used in pipeline systems used for the production of sterile food or pharmaceutical products.
US10753523B2
Pipe joints and more particularly cylindrical push-on type pipe joint fittings with earthquake resistant functions.
US10753522B2
A method includes providing, around an end section of the pressure sheath, of a crimping ring that is intended to be introduced into the pressure sheath; placing, around the end section and the crimping ring, of an end vault of the end piece, the end vault having an engagement surface for engaging with the crimping ring capable of pushing the crimping ring radially into the pressure sheath; relatively moving of the crimping ring in relation to the engagement surface in order to crimp the crimping ring in the pressure sheath. The method includes, prior to the relative movement, a heating of the end section of the pressure sheath, capable of reducing the Young's modulus of the polymer material of the end section of the pressure sheath and of maintaining a reduced Young's modulus during the relative movement step.
US10753501B2
An outlet device includes an electronic outlet mode and a mechanical outlet mode. The outlet device has a mechanical outlet control device, an electronic outlet control device and a central control module. The central control module comprises a first outlet passage controlled by the mechanical outlet control device, a second outlet passage controlled by the electronic outlet control device, and a central controller. The first outlet passage includes a sensor and the second outlet passage includes an electromagnetic valve. When the mechanical outlet control device controls the first outlet passage to open, the sensor detects water flowing in the first outlet passage, whether the electromagnetic valve opens or not, the central controller switches the electromagnetic value to a normal closed state.
US10753500B2
A combination mechanical/electrical valve actuator providing tactile feedback similar to a purely mechanical valve actuator is disclosed.
US10753499B2
A proportional control valve system and a method for operating the same is provided. The system includes a proportional control valve (PCV), an electric motor, a worm gear drive, and a programmable drive. The proportional control valve has a sealing structure that is positionable in a closed position, a fully open position, and a plurality of partially open positions there between. The worm gear drive is in driving communication with the sealing structure of the proportional control valve. The programmable drive is operable to control the positioning of the sealing structure within the proportional control valve.
US10753493B2
Disclosed is a method of applying a biasing force against a piston in a valve as the piston moves along a piston stroke axis in a first direction and an opposing second direction, the piston having a first axial end that is a distal end of the piston, the method including: moving the piston along a piston stroke axis in the first direction and the opposing second direction, wherein while moving the piston along the piston stroke axis: applying a first biasing force in the second direction against the first axial end of the piston from a first spring, and applying a second biasing force in the second direction against the first spring from a second spring.
US10753492B2
A check valve includes a casing in which a fluid inlet, a valve chamber, a valve seat portion, and a fluid outlet are formed; a valve body disposed in the valve chamber; and an urging unit that urges the valve body to the valve seat portion side. The valve seat portion includes a first valve seat portion disposed on the fluid inlet side of the valve chamber, and a second valve seat portion disposed on an outer periphery side of the first valve seat portion. The valve body includes a first seal portion capable of coming into close contact with the first valve seat portion, a second seal portion capable of coming into close contact with the second valve seat portion, and a first hinge portion and a second hinge portion each of which is a starting point of bending of the second seal portion. The first seal portion is formed in a disk shape using a non-elastic material, and the second seal portion is formed in a recessed frusto-conical shape in which a surface on a lower bottom side is formed of an elastic material.
US10753489B2
An electronic faucet device includes a water discharge port for discharging water mixed at a faucet main body; a valve for electrically opening and closing a passage on an upstream side of the water discharge port; a first operation unit and a second operation unit for opening and closing the valve; and a control unit for controlling the valve based on an electrical signal transmitted from each of the first and second operation units, in a case where a water discharge and stop operation is performed on one operation unit among the first operation unit and the second operation unit in a state where the water discharge and stop operation is performed on the other operation unit, the control unit controls the valve by prioritizing an electrical signal transmitted from the one operation unit so as to enable discharge and stopping of water at the water discharge port.
US10753486B2
A cartridge is disclosed that has a base with a first base portion with a first inlet opening for a first of the cold and hot fluids to be mixed, and a second base portion with a second inlet opening for the second fluid and an outlet opening for a mixture of the cold and hot fluids. The cartridge also has a thermostatic element, as well as a control spool for controlling the temperature of the mixture. The control spool defines a spool axis that is parallel to the base axis. In order to maximize the flow sections of the fluids through the base, the spool axis is offset relative to the base axis.
US10753485B2
The content exhaust pump is provided which includes a pump body fastened to a container, a cylinder as a cylindrical member having opened upper and lower portions of which an outer flange is screw-coupled to an inner circumferential surface of the pump body, and a elevating device which ascends and descends on the inner circumferential surface of the cylinder by a pushing operation of a push button, in which in a lower cylinder having an inner diameter smaller than that of the cylinder at the lower portion of the cylinder, a cylindrical fixing member having a projection formed on the upper outer circumferential surface, and a dome-shaped valve suspended and fixed to the projection of the cylindrical fixing member is provided, and the dome-shaped valve is a dome-shaped flexible member of which the lower portion is opened and the upper portion is convexly projected thereof.
US10753484B2
A pin-fastening structure includes a first shaft portion provided in a valve shaft; a cylindrical portion into which the first shaft portion is fitted, the cylindrical portion being provided in a valve body; and a connecting pin that passes through both the first shaft portion and the cylindrical portion in a state in which the first shaft portion is fitted into the cylindrical portion and that restricts relative movement of the first shaft portion and the cylindrical portion in an axial direction. The first shaft portion has a first end surface perpendicular to the axis of the valve shaft. The cylindrical portion has second end surfaces perpendicular to the axis of the valve body. The first shaft portion and the cylindrical portion are fastened by the connecting pin in a state in which the first end surface and the second end surfaces are in contact with each other.
US10753483B2
A material supply assembly includes a valve assembly having an outer valve member and an inner valve member rotatable relative to the outer valve member. A plurality of discharge seals may be provide between the outer valve member and the inner valve member, with one of the discharge seals extending around openings of the outer valve member or openings of the inner valve member. A first circumferential seal may also be provided. An engagement structure including a plurality of spaced apart vertical engagement projections and a plurality of complementary configured engagement recesses may be provided between the valve assembly and the base. A locking arm having a locking member may be provided with the locking member positioned in a locking receptacle. A projection engages the locking arm to move the locking member from the locking receptacle.
US10753480B2
Valve assemblies include a valve body having a fluid passage through the valve body and a valve member disposed in a chamber of the valve body. The valve assembly further includes a first seat and a second seat, where both seats are configured to contact and provide a seal between the valve body and the valve member to at least partially inhibit fluid flow through the fluid passage. Methods of providing a seal in a valve include forcing a primary seat into a seat portion of a valve body to provide a seal between a valve member and the valve body with the primary seat and deflecting at least one arm of a secondary seat to provide another seal between the valve member and the valve body with the secondary seat.
US10753478B2
A bearing isolator having a simple design and made from low-cost materials but which performs comparably to other higher-cost bearing isolators is described. The bearing isolator generally includes a rotor having a snap fit feature protruding from a radially-oriented flange and a stator having a snap fit feature recess for receiving the snap fit feature to thereby join together the stator and rotor without need for, e.g., a separate unitizing element. Furthermore, the rotor and/or stator can be made from lost cost material, such as a nylon/moly material. In some embodiments, the stator further includes a lip seal biased against the radially-oriented flange of the rotor, which, when combined with the labyrinth passage formed at least in part by the snap fit feature and snap fit feature recess, helps to prevent egress and ingress of lubricant and/or contaminates.
US10753469B2
A hydrostatic transmission for a traction drive of a mobile working machine includes a variable-displacement pump and one or more motors connected to one another in a closed hydraulic circuit. An electronic control unit of the hydrostatic transmission is configured to initiate and to end a braking operation by the hydrostatic transmission if a traveling speed of the mobile working machine reaches a threshold value. The threshold value is adjustable by the electronic control unit automatically or in a manner dependent on a driver demand. The braking torque is also adjustable.
US10753467B2
In a transmission control device, a controller determines failure of one of a variator input side rotation sensor and a variator output side rotation sensor. A hydraulic control circuit and the controller variably control line pressure, and in a case where the failure is determined, fix the line pressure to a predetermined value or more. The hydraulic control circuit and the controller variably control a speed ratio of a variator by a double pressure regulation method, and in a case where the failure is determined, variably control the speed ratio of the variator by a single pressure regulation method.
US10753466B2
In a transmission control device for controlling a transmission, a controller determines failure of a specific section. The controller variably controls line command pressure and secondary command pressure, and in a case where the failure is determined, fixes the line command pressure to a line pressure set value and the secondary command pressure to a secondary pressure set value. In a case where the failure is determined, the controller further starts a change in the secondary command pressure after start of a change in the line command pressure, and controls the secondary command pressure in such a manner that the secondary command pressure takes a first predetermined time to have the secondary pressure set value.
US10753465B2
A device synchronizes primary speed of a primary shaft receiving an electrical torque from an electric machine with a secondary speed lower than the primary speed of a secondary transmission shaft. The primary shaft and secondary shaft are decoupled. The primary shaft has a kinetic energy associated with the primary speed. The device provides electrical braking torque to the primary shaft until the primary speed is substantially equal to the secondary speed. The device also at least partially recovers, in the form of electrical energy, the kinetic energy lost by the primary shaft and transmits the electrical energy to an energy storage device.
US10753457B2
An operating device includes a tiltable operating member, a support supporting the operating member, a first movable member and a second movable member configured to move together with the operating member, a first magnetic body provided on the first movable member, a second magnetic body provided on a second movable member, and a permanent magnet supported by the support. When the operating member is in a reference position, the permanent magnet and the first and second magnetic bodies attract each other. When the operating member is tilted in a first direction from the reference position to be positioned in multiple positions, first, the first magnetic body moves away from the permanent magnet with the tilting of the first movable member, and next, the second magnetic body moves away from the permanent magnet with the tilting of the second movable member.
US10753430B2
A transmission includes a first planetary gear set and a second planetary gear set that are the only planetary gear sets interconnected from an input to an output. The first planetary gear set includes an input-only first input gear and a first non-input/output gear, a first pinion gear meshed therebetween, and a first output planetary carrier carrying the first pinion gear. The first output planetary carrier is alternatively output-only or output-and-input. Moreover, the first non-input/output gear is alternatively held when the first output planetary carrier is output-only or released when the first output planetary carrier is output-and-input. The second planetary gear set includes an input-only second input gear and a grounded second non-input/output gear, a second pinion gear meshed therebetween, and an output-only second output planetary carrier carrying the second pinion gear.
US10753428B2
A device, transmission and universal mechanical coupling which allows transforming rotating forces of different magnitudes and directions being applied on the same rotating shaft (1) and obtaining a unidirectional motion in an output shaft (2) which can be used in any environment. The device consists of an input shaft (1), an output shaft (2) and two linking means (3 and 5) and (4, 9, and 6) between these two shafts (1 and 2) which are provided with at least a unidirectional coupling device (7a and 7b) each, and which, in the most basic form thereof lacks of a rotation inverter (15a ).
US10753427B2
A rotary actuator has: one motor, two strain wave reduction gears disposed symmetrically on both sides of the motor, and one output shaft. The output rotation of the motor is reduced in speed at the same reduction ratio by the two strain wave reduction gears and is outputted from the output shaft to a load side. The first and second externally toothed gears of the first and second strain wave reduction gears are flexed into ellipsoidal shapes with 90 degrees shifted in phase, and are meshed with first and second internally toothed gears. The angle transmission errors of the first and second strain wave reduction gears transmitted to the output shaft are reduced by cancelling each other out in the output shaft. Reduced-speed output rotation that has the reduced angle transmission errors is outputted to the load side from the output shaft.
US10753426B2
Provided are: a geared motor with which a large torque can be obtained without an increase in size; and a method for producing said geared motor. In this geared motor (1), an output member (8) having a helical groove (83) formed in an outer circumferential section is provided between a first plate part (31) and a second plate part (32) of a frame (3), and the rotation of a motor pinion (55) is reduced in speed by a reduction gear mechanism (9) and is transmitted to a gear part (85) of the output member (8). In this geared motor (1): the output member (8) is arranged between the first plate part (31) and the second plate part (32); then, a first fixing shaft (35) is inserted from a through hole (37) in the second plate part (32) into a shaft hole (81) in the output member (8), and a first shaft end part (351) is fitted into a first fixing shaft support hole (36); and then, a second shaft end part (352) and the second plate part (32) are fixed.
US10753418B2
Architected materials with superior energy absorption properties when loaded in compression. In several embodiments such materials are formed from micro-truss structures composed of interpenetrating tubes in a volume between a first surface and a second surface. The stress-strain response of these structures, for compressive loads applied to the two surfaces, is tailored by arranging for some but not all of the tubes to extend to both surfaces, adjusting the number of layers of repeated unit cells in the structure, arranging for the nodes to be offset from alignment along lines normal to the surfaces, or including multiple interlocking micro-truss structures.
US10753416B1
A system for monitoring incursion depth of a disk having an outer surface for use in a disk brake system includes a plurality of conductive leads each configured to be located at different distances from the outer surface of the disk. The system further includes a plurality of resistors each coupled to one of the plurality of conductive leads such that total resistance across the plurality of conductive leads changes in response to disconnection of one or more of the plurality of conductive leads caused by wearing of the outer surface of the disk.
US10753415B2
A method for monitoring the performance of a mechanical brake for a linear electromagnetic motor, the linear motor having a linearly moveable output shaft, comprising monitoring travel of the output shaft over the duration of actuation of the mechanical brake and comparing said travel with a predetermined travel threshold.
US10753414B2
An integrally formed wheel for cooling a brake assembly of a vehicle, comprising a barrel for mounting a tire thereon, a center disc, and a plurality of spokes. The barrel extends from an outboard face to an inboard rim edge and defines a chamber radially inside the barrel. The chamber is located adjacent a brake mechanism when the wheel is on a vehicle. The center disc has a center bore and a plurality of lug holes. A plurality of spokes interconnects the center disc to the barrel. A plurality of cooling passageways is integrally formed with the barrel, the spokes and the center disc. The plurality of passageways is disposed circumferentially around the spokes and extend from the outboard face to a location inside the barrel to direct air into the chamber through the passageways when the wheel is in rotation.
US10753410B2
A fluid arrangement for controlling a transmission of a motor vehicle in a hydraulic circuit is disclosed. The fluid arrangement includes a dual clutch including a first sub-clutch and a second sub-clutch, wherein the first sub-clutch is configured to be actuated via a first reversing pump actuator and the second sub-clutch is configured to be actuated via a second reversing pump actuator. The first and second reversing pump actuators each have a first delivery direction and a second delivery direction for delivering a working fluid in the hydraulic circuit. A first gear ratio mechanism with a variable gear ratio for actuating the dual clutch is configured to be actuated via the first delivery direction of the first and second reversing pump actuators a and a second gear ratio mechanism with a variable gear ratio for actuating a consumer arrangement is configured to be actuated via the second delivery direction.
US10753408B2
A switchable one-way clutch includes an outer race, an inner race, a plurality of rollers, and a drag plate. The outer race has a ramped inner surface. The rollers are contactable with the outer race and the inner race. The cage is for positioning the plurality of rollers. The drag plate is rotationally engaged with the cage and frictionally engageable with the inner race. In an example embodiment, the cage has a notch and the drag plate has a tab installed in the notch to engage the drag plate to the cage. In an example embodiment, the drag plate or the inner race includes a friction material ring bonded thereto for increasing a friction coefficient between the drag plate and the inner race. In an example embodiment, the clutch has an arc spring. The outer race includes a pocket, the cage includes a tab, and the arc spring contacts the pocket and the tab to displace the cage in a first rotational direction. In an example embodiment, the inner race includes an inner splined surface.
US10753405B2
A clutch assembly for a driveline of a motor vehicle comprises a friction plate clutch having an inner plate carrier, to which inner plates are connected in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, and having an outer plate carrier to which outer plates are connected in a rotationally fixed and axially movable way, and wherein the inner plates and the outer plates jointly form a plate package, wherein the inner plate carrier comprises at least one bore in an axial overlapping region with the plate package through which bore oil can flow to the plate package, a supporting plate against which the plate package is axially supported, an axially movable pressure plate for axially loading the plate package, an operating device for operating the friction plate clutch by axially moving the pressure plate, a flow controller for controlling an oil volume flow rate through the at least one bore of the inner plate carrier, wherein the flow controller comprises a setting member which is operable by the operating device for the friction plate clutch, wherein the setting member comprises a cover portion for covering a mouth region of the at least one bore.
US10753400B2
A bearing assembly having an axially extending axis of rotation is provided having an inner ring, an outer ring, and a plurality of bearing elements. The plurality of bearing elements are disposed between the inner ring and the outer ring. The outer ring includes an outer radial surface, an inner radial surface, and a raceway disposed in the inner radial surface. The raceway is defined by a first surface and a second surface, and the first surface intersects with the second surface at a point aft of an axial midpoint of the raceway. The outer ring includes a plurality of apertures that provide a fluid passage between the raceway and an exterior surface of the outer ring. A first end of each of the plurality of apertures is substantially aligned with the intersection of the first surface and the second surface.
US10753398B2
A power transmission device for a vehicle includes a support member; a first bearing rotatably supporting a first rotation shaft with respect to the support member; a second bearing, provided adjacent to the first bearing, rotatably supporting a second rotation shaft with respect to the support member, the second rotation shaft being rotated around an axis line same as an axis line of the first rotation shaft; and a partition wall formed in the support member and including a notch. Further, the support member includes an oil gallery to supply lubricating oil into a space formed between the first bearing and the second bearing, the space is partitioned into a first space on a side of the first bearing and a second space on a side of the second bearing by the partition wall, and the oil gallery is formed to eject the lubricating oil toward the notch.
US10753380B2
A ring clip for connecting two wire mesh panels. The clip has a first arm and a second arm. The arms connected at respective first ends by a hinge. A second end of the first arm defines a recess which is adapted to receive a second end of the second arm when the clip is in a closed condition. The first arm includes a first tab, and the second arm includes a second tab, such that, in the closed condition the first and second tabs are substantially opposed. The first and second tabs are substantially misaligned laterally.
US10753377B2
A lock valve including a poppet valve element which is disposed within a spring chamber, a spring which biases the poppet valve element leftward, and a valve seat which comes into contact with the poppet valve element is disposed in a cavity formed in a valve body to mount a relief valve therein and is positioned further inward than the sleeve of the relief valve. The outer peripheral portion of the poppet valve element has hole portions formed therein at regular intervals. The outer peripheral portion of the valve seat, too, has hole portions formed therein at regular intervals. The valve portion of a solenoid valve is disposed between a passage which is in communication with the spring chamber and a passage which is in communication with a second flow passage open to a low-pressure region such as a hydraulic tank.
US10753376B2
A hydraulic cylinder spool valve device, which extends and retracts a cylinder rod of a hydraulic cylinder, includes: a first spool valve having a first dead band and a first opening characteristic; a second spool valve having a second dead band and a second opening characteristic; and a controller performing communication with the hydraulic cylinder by using the first spool valve and positioning the second spool of the second spool valve within the second dead band and performing communication with the hydraulic cylinder by using the second spool valve and positioning the first spool of the first spool valve within the first dead band, and adjusting a characteristic of a switching dead band between the first opening characteristic and the second opening characteristic.
US10753375B2
An actuating unit for a process valve is described, which comprises a pilot valve unit, a separate removable seal arranged between two parts through which a fluid can flow, and a piston configured for the adjustment of the process valve. The seal has through openings for the passage of fluid, and the adjacent parts have holes, such that different holes are in fluid communication with each other via the through openings or are fluidically separated due to an intermediate wall portion of the seal depending on the fitting position of the seal. A process valve having such an actuating unit is furthermore described.
US10753373B2
The invention provides an ejector for generating a vacuum, a drive nozzle for generating a drive jet of air from a compressed air source and directing the drive jet of air into an outlet flow passage at the outlet of a drive stage of the ejector to entrain air in a volume surrounding the jet of air into the jet flow to generate a vacuum across the drive stage. The drive nozzle substantially consists of an inlet flow section and an outlet flow section aligned in a direction of air flow through the nozzle. The outlet flow section diverging in the direction of airflow, from an outlet end of the inlet flow section to an exit of the nozzle, the outlet flow section having a shape which is more divergent near the outlet of the inlet flow section and less divergent near the exit of the nozzle.
US10753365B2
A cooling fan module for a heat exchanger or the like, has a motor, a fan driven by the motor and a speed controller connected between the motor and a power supply. The speed controller is configured to operate the motor in a high speed mode and a low speed mode. The speed controller includes a high speed branch and a low speed branch connected in parallel. The low speed branch includes a pulse width modulation circuit configured to reduce an average voltage by a fixed duty ratio to achieve a low speed operation of the motor. By eliminating the conventional voltage dropping resistor, the speed controller reduces the power consumption, thus increasing the efficiency of the module, in the low speed mode of operation.
US10753364B2
An assembly including a wearable blower having a fan, a motor, an air duct having a duct housing thereof, a handle attached to the duct housing, and a hanger disposed on the duct housing. The hanger has an attachment part attached to the duct housing and adjacent to the handle and a hanger part connected to the attachment part for holding an accessory attached to the blower. The hanger part rotates with respect to the duct housing at a first hanging position whereat the hanger part is unfolded with an opening mouth for holding the accessory of the blower and the hanger part rotates with respect to the duct housing at a second folded position. Thus, the arrangement of the hanger can help the user to hold the accessory of the blower at the work states.
US10753363B2
A vacuum pump includes; a rotor, a stator, a motor, a heating section heating the pump base portion, a base temperature detection section detecting a temperature of the pump base portion, a rotor temperature detection section detecting a temperature equivalent as a physical amount equivalent to a temperature of the rotor, and a heating control section to control heating of the pump base portion by the heating section such that a detection value of the rotor temperature detection section falls within a predetermined target value range. A monitoring device comprises: an estimation section configured to estimate, based on multiple temperatures detected over time by the base temperature detection section, maintenance timing at which the temperature of the pump base portion reaches equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature; and an output section configured to output maintenance information based on the estimated maintenance timing.
US10753355B2
A pump system for pumping liquid from a well into a pipe is disclosed. The pump system comprises: a suction cavity in fluid communication with the well via an inlet port controlled by an inlet port valve, a plunger, reciprocally movable within the suction cavity, and a delivery conduit. The delivery conduit is in fluid communication with the pipe via an outlet port, and with the suction cavity via a connection port controlled by a connection port valve. The pump system also comprises a tubular encapsulation, encapsulating the suction cavity, the plunger, the delivery conduit and the valves.
US10753349B2
A compressor has a crankcase in which a crankshaft is rotatably mounted in a crankspace. The crankcase contains at least one cylinder space in which a piston, mounted eccentrically on the crankshaft by way of a connecting rod, can be driven in reciprocating motion. The crankshaft is connected, via a gearing having a modulus m, to a drive source, wherein the gear wheel arranged on the crankshaft engages with the gear wheel on the drive source. The axis of rotation of the crankshaft is offset with respect to the center axis of the cylinder space by an amount dl which is a whole multiple of m/2. The center axis of the cylinder space is understood as the axis which proceeds from the center point of the base area of the cylinder space, perpendicular to this base area, and along which the piston moves. This makes it possible to change the transmission ratio of the gearing within an advantageous range, without it being necessary to undertake modifications to the external dimensions of the compressor or to the motive source. Depending on the transmission ratio, it is possible to reduce the operating noise of the compressor or to increase the air capacity.
US10753346B1
A microwave electrothermal thruster (MET) and its control system is disclosed and claimed. The MET control system uses a dielectric resonator oscillator (DRO) in series with a GaN MMIC-based Solid State Power Amplifier (SSPA) to generate microwave energy, transfer it to a thrust chamber, and heat a propellant that exits a nozzle, providing thrust. The control system uses feedback to provide autonomous control of the MET. A wide variety of propellants may be used, including, for example, hydrazine, ammonia, and water.
US10753343B2
The invention relates to a heat exchanger for an electrical machine. The heat exchanger comprises a housing and a tube bundle. The tube bundle comprises a plurality of tubes within the housing extending between a first end and a second end of the housing in the direction of the length of the heat exchanger. The housing comprises a top wall, end walls extending in the direction of the width of the heat exchanger and first and second side walls extending in the direction of the length of the heat exchanger and a bottom frame. Between a first side wall of the housing and a side of the tube bundle is a mounting space for receiving one or more cooling fluid circulating devices.
US10753339B2
A retention fixture for retaining a first end of a first member, such as a section of a wind turbine tower, a wind turbine rotor blade or a wind turbine hub, having an axial direction, a transverse direction perpendicular to the axial direction, and a vertical direction perpendicular to the axial and transverse directions. The transverse and vertical directions define a first plane. A first axial end console counteracts relative horizontal displacement between the first end of the first member and the retention fixture in the axial direction. The first axial end console also has transverse positioning means to transversely position the first end of the first member relative to the retention fixture when attaching the retention fixture to a first end of a first member. The transverse positioning means counteracts relative displacement between the first end of the first member and the retention fixture in the transverse direction.
US10753332B2
A fuel injector for fuel injection systems of internal combustion engines, in particular for direct injection of fuel into the combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, is described, including a solenoid, an armature, which is acted upon by the solenoid in a closing direction by a return spring, and a valve needle, which is connected to the armature in a force-locked manner for actuation of a valve closing body, which together with a valve face forms a sealing seat. An adjusting element for adjusting the spring force of the return spring is situated in a connector sleeve which provides the fuel feed on the inlet side. The adjusting element is delimited toward the outside by a thin-walled sleeve, into which a disk-shaped throttle element having a throttle borehole is introduced as a separate insert part.
US10753330B2
A drain for a fuel-water separator (FWS) bowl is disclosed. The drain may include a valve element configured to float in a first fluid and not in a second fluid, wherein the valve element is in a valve element chamber of the drain, wherein the valve element chamber includes an opening configured to drain the first fluid from the valve element chamber, and wherein the valve element seals the opening when the drain is in an open position and when the first fluid has been drained from the valve element chamber; and a member configured to unseal the valve element from the opening when the drain is in a closed position.
US10753329B2
A filter element is installed in an inside of a fuel tank to filter stored fuel by passing the stored fuel into an inside space through the filter element. A partition wall element is exposed in the inside space. The partitioning portion includes: a partitioning portion that is placed to partially partition the inside space into a first space, into which filtered fuel filtered through the filter element is supplied, and a second space, in which a suction inlet for suctioning the filtered fuel opens, wherein the partitioning portion conducts the filtered fuel from the first space to the second space; and a communication window that is formed in the partitioning portion at a location, which is offset to a side that is away from the suction inlet, wherein the communication window communicates between the first space and the second space while bypassing the partitioning portion.
US10753328B2
A fuel supply device has a cover member which is attached to an opening of a fuel tank, a pump unit provided with a pump, and a connecting portion for connecting the cover member and the pump unit. The fuel supply device has a connecting shaft which is formed on either one of the connecting portion or the pump unit, and a connecting hole which is formed on the other. The fuel supply device has a guide mechanism which can guide the pump unit. The guide mechanism includes a first guide portion formed at the connecting portion and a second guide portion formed at the pump unit. One of the first guide portion or the second guide portion includes a protruding portion which protrudes in a position spaced apart from the connecting shaft. The other guide portion is formed to restrict a movable range of the protruding portion.
US10753320B2
A tubular air cleaner for an internal combustion engine includes a tubular housing, a tubular filter element, and a planar adsorbent filter. The tubular housing includes a circumferential wall including an inlet, a top wall including an outlet, and a bottom wall opposed to the top wall. The tubular filter element is accommodated in the housing. The planar adsorbent filter is located at an inner side of the filter element to adsorb evaporated fuel of the internal combustion engine. The adsorbent filter extends in an axial direction of the filter element. The filter element includes an inner surface spaced apart from each of opposite planes of the adsorbent filter by a gap that allows air to reach the outlet without passing through the adsorbent filter.
US10753319B2
A tubular air cleaner for an internal combustion engine includes a housing and a filter element. The housing includes a case and a cap coupled to the case in a removable manner. The cap includes a cap body and an adsorbent filter assembly. The adsorbent filter assembly includes a planar adsorbent filter, which adsorbs evaporated fuel of the internal combustion engine, and a fixing portion. The adsorbent filter is located at an inner side of the filter element and extends in an axial direction of the filter element. The inner surface of the filter element is spaced apart from each of opposite planes of the adsorbent filter by a gap that allows air to reach an outlet without passing through the adsorbent filter.
US10753316B2
Provided is a high pressure fuel pump that smoothly achieves fuel supply while running and quickly relieves vapor generated during a restart by a piston operation of a high pressure fuel pump to improve a startup delay phenomenon, and an LPDI system including the same.
US10753315B2
The present disclosure relates to a rear assembly of a turbojet engine nacelle that includes a thrust reverser fixed structure having at least one half-cowl mounted on a beam pivotally hinged by at least one hinge, a suspension mast on which the fixed structure is movably mounted, a hatch for access to the hinge of the half-cowl, and a fireproof sealing device which includes a sealing gasket adapted to provide sealing between a median section of the nacelle and the beam area. The sealing gasket includes a tubular gasket type lower portion which extends at least partially over a seal bearing edge of the half-cowl that is adapted to cooperate with a seal bearing wall of the mast and an upper portion including an elastically deformable sealing sheet extending from the seal bearing wall of the mast to the rear face of the hatch for access to the hinge.
US10753314B2
A nacelle includes a fixed structure supporting a fixed cowl and a movable cowl, the movable cowl being movable translationally between a closing position and an opening position. A blocker door is movably mounted rotationally on the nacelle between a closed position and an open position. The nacelle includes a drive mechanism of the blocker door and of the movable cowl between the closed/closing position and the open/opening position of the blocker door/movable cowl, respectively, and vice versa, the drive mechanism includes at least one actuator fixed, to the fixed structure of the nacelle and, to a fitting fixed to the movable cowl. The drive mechanism includes, for each actuator, a flexible member having a first end fixed to the fixed structure of the nacelle and a second end fixed to the fitting.
US10753313B2
Disclosed herein is a support structure for a rotary part of an engine (2). The support structure includes crank journal bearing metals (14) and crank pin bearing metals (24, 124). Each crank journal bearing metal (14) includes chamfers (16) and crowned portions (17). On the other hand, each crank pin bearing metal (24, 124) includes chamfers (26) and no crowned portion or crowned portions (127) on its inner peripheral surface. The crowned portions (127) are inclined at a smaller angle than the crowned portions (17).
US10753309B2
An intake passage structure for an engine includes an intake port in a cylinder head of the engine, and connected to a combustion chamber to define an intake passage. The intake passage structure further includes a heat insulating member disposed along an inner surface of the intake port, and including a bulge having an upstream end surface which is a portion of an upstream end surface of the heat insulating member, the bulge has a radially outwardly protruding radially outer surface and has an increased wall thickness. The wall thickness of the bulge increases from downstream to upstream of the intake port. The upstream end surface of the bulge includes an injection machine connecting portion facing an injection gate configured to inject resin for forming the heat insulating member into the intake port.
US10753303B2
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a cylinder valve deactivation mechanism in an engine system having cam-actuated valves. Movement of a latch pin of the deactivation mechanism is inferred from an induction current generated by a solenoid coupled to the latch pin, and the inferred movement is used to diagnose operation of cylinder valve deactivation mechanism. The inferred movement and a profile of the induction current is also used to estimate camshaft and crankshaft timing for improved cylinder fuel delivery in the absence of a camshaft sensor.
US10753302B2
A method of analyzing fuel component using an RF (Radio Frequency) sensor for a vehicle includes: receiving a new fuel into a fuel tank so as to mix existing fuel in the fuel tank with the new fuel, measuring a resonance frequency of the mixed fuel using an RF sensor, comparing the measured resonance frequency of the mixed fuel with a resonance frequency of a standard fuel, determining whether the mixed fuel is a normal fuel through the comparison, maintaining an engine combustion pattern corresponding to the standard fuel when the mixed fuel is a normal fuel, and operating reflecting an engine combustion control.
US10753295B2
A controller for an internal combustion engine includes processing circuitry that performs a dither control process on condition that a temperature increase request of a catalyst is made. The processing circuitry operates fuel injection valves so that during the dither control process, one or more cylinders are lean combustion cylinders in a first period and another one or more cylinders are rich combustion cylinders and so that the average value of an exhaust gas-fuel ratio is a target air-fuel ratio in a second period including the first period. The dither control process is restricted in a manner that, on condition that the rich process is performed, the degree of richening of the richest exhaust gas-fuel ratio of exhaust gas-fuel ratios in the cylinders is reduced.
US10753290B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for operating an engine that includes a knock control system that may determine contributions of individual noise sources to an engine background noise level. The contributions of the individual noise sources may be the basis for establishing the presence or absence of knock in one or more engine cylinders. The contributions of individual noise sources may be determined when engine cylinders are deactivated.
US10753276B2
A gas turbine system has a source of ammonia and a source of an oxygen-containing gas, a first combustion chamber connected to receive ammonia, a hydrogen-rich gas stream and oxygen-containing gas, a turbine connected to receive an exhaust gas stream from the first combustion chamber; and a second combustion chamber connected to receive an exhaust gas from the turbine, ammonia and a hydrogen-rich gas stream.
US10753270B2
A first line-to-line terminal voltage of a three-phase electric motor is measured while the three-phase electric motor free-spins. A second line-to-line terminal voltage of a three-phase electric motor is measured while the three-phase electric motor free-spins. A motor's rotor position is determined based on the first line-to-line terminal voltage and the second line-to-line terminal voltage. Three-phase current is sent to the motor after the rotor position has been determined. The three-phase current being in-phase with the rotor position.
US10753264B2
An exhaust system for an internal combustion automotive engine, comprising: a left exhaust tract connected or to be connected to a left group of cylinder of the internal combustion automotive engine and a right exhaust tract connected or to be connected to a right group of cylinder of the internal combustion automotive engine, the left and right exhaust tracts, each comprising a branching structure defining a tract inlet, at least one exhaust outlet directly or indirectly opening into atmosphere, and an interconnecting outlet interconnecting said left and right exhaust tracts, wherein said interconnecting outlets are interconnected with each other by a common exhaust gas cleaning and/or silencing device downstream said interconnecting outlets such that exhaust gas flows coming from said interconnecting outlets are unified within said common exhaust gas cleaning and/or silencing device.
US10753255B2
A method (300) for operating an SCR catalytic converter system which has a first SCR catalytic converter (12) and a second SCR catalytic converter, characterized by a step of controlling (310) an NH3 mass flow after the first SCR catalytic converter (12).
US10753250B2
An improved venting and/or air admission valve for an operating fluid reservoir, wherein different shutoff levels (SOH) can be achieved. The venting and/or air admission valve is distinguished by the fact that it comprises an adapter, which can be fastened on an operating fluid reservoir wall, and that a valve housing of the venting and/or air admission valve can be fastened on the adapter in such a way that the adapter is arranged between the operating fluid reservoir wall and the valve housing.
US10753249B2
An exhaust emission control device for an internal combustion engine according to the present disclosure includes an exhaust emission control catalyst provided in an exhaust passage in an internal combustion engine and divided into a preceding catalyst and a succeeding catalyst, and a heating device provided in the exhaust passage between the preceding catalyst and the succeeding catalyst. The exhaust emission control catalyst is divided into the preceding catalyst and the succeeding catalyst so that a ratio of a capacity of the preceding catalyst to a total displacement of the internal combustion engine is from 0.3 to 1.5.
US10753248B2
A three-way catalyst article, and its use in an exhaust system for internal combustion engines, is disclosed. The catalyst article for treating exhaust gas comprises: a substrate; and a catalytic region on the substrate; wherein the catalytic region comprises a platinum group metal (PGM) component, an oxide, and a rare earth metal component; wherein the oxide is an inorganic oxide, an oxygen storage component (OSC) material, or a mixture thereof; wherein the rare earth metal component concentration by element on the surface of the oxide per unit specific surface area of the oxide is 1 μmol/m2 to 20 μmol/m2.
US10753244B2
A plugged honeycomb structure includes: a honeycomb substrate and a plugging portion, and is configured to trap particulate matter included in fluid flowing from an inflow side end face to an outflow side end face. The partition wall includes, as raw materials, particulates of a base material and a binder and having a melting point lower than that of the base material, the base material has a particle diameter in a range of 5 μm to 60 μm, a mass ratio of the binder to a total mass of the raw material of the base material and the binder is in a range of 22 mass % to 45 mass %, and the cells include round cells as a part, the round cells being defined by a circular-arc partition wall having a circular-arc shape that is at least a part of the partition wall to have a circular shape or the like.
US10753232B2
Retention assemblies and retention assembly cooling methods are provided. An exemplary retention assembly comprises an annular baffle, an annular attachment bracket comprising a gas turbine engine component, and first and second cooling passages defined by the baffle and attachment bracket. The first cooling passage is configured to receive a first airflow and the second cooling passage is configured to receive a second airflow. The first airflow has a lower pressure than the second airflow. An exemplary method comprises flowing a first airflow to a first cooling passage defined by a baffle and an attachment bracket of a retention assembly, and flowing a second airflow to a second cooling passage defined by the baffle and the attachment bracket. The second cooling passage is separate from the first cooling passage. The first airflow cools radially outward structures of the retention assembly, and the attachment bracket comprises a CMC component.
US10753230B2
A spoolie manifold including two or more spaced apart caps including outlets and one pair of caps connected together in flow communication by a jumper tube assembly. Jumper tube assembly including a jumper tube having first and second spoolies attached to opposite ends of the jumper tube. Ends may be welded into counterbores of the spoolies having spherical spoolie ends press-fitted into first and second sleeves in bores in pair of the caps and sleeves retained in bores with retainer clips. A duct connected in flow communication to an inlet of one of the caps. Spoolie manifold may include three spaced apart caps including a distributor cap between two port caps connected in flow communication to distributor cap by jumper tube assembly. Cap outlets may be feed strut ports in casing of turbine frame including hub spaced inwardly from casing and having spaced apart hollow struts with strut ports.
US10753227B2
A turbocharger includes a housing and a rotor with a shaft that is housed within the housing. The turbocharger also includes a bearing structure that supports rotation of the shaft within the housing and a locating fastener that retains the bearing structure in a position relative to the housing. Furthermore, the turbocharger includes a heating system coupled to the locating fastener and that is configured for selectively heating the locating fastener.
US10753225B2
Pressurized fluid is stored while a jet engine is running. After engine shutdown, the fluid is used to drive a pneumatic or hydraulic turning motor that rotates the engine's High Pressure (HP) rotor. The rotation encourages even heat distribution across the HP rotor and thus prevents bowing of the HP rotor.
US10753218B2
An example turbomachine assembly includes, among other things, a nose cone of a turbomachine, and a pump at least partially within an interior of the nose cone. The pump is selectively rotated by a motor to communicate air to the interior.
US10753217B2
An axial flow rotating machine has: a rotor with a plurality of rotor blades; a stator with a plurality of stator blades; an axial flow rotating portion defined by the rotor and the stator; and a diffuser connected to the axial flow rotating portion on a downstream side of the axial flow rotating portion. A final blade portion inner-circumferential inner wall, which is a portion of an inner-circumferential inner wall of the axial flow rotating portion, is defined such that a diameter thereof at a trailing edge position of a final blade is smaller than the diameter at a leading edge position of the final blade. In addition, a diameter of all or a portion of a diffuser inner-circumferential inner wall decreases in a direction of the downstream side in an axial direction.
US10753212B2
A turbine blade, installed on a rotor disk of a turbine and configured to rotate the turbine by a force of flowing gas, includes a root configured to be coupled to the rotor disk; a platform integrally formed with an upper portion of the root, the platform having opposite sides respectively extending in an axial direction of the rotor disk; an airfoil integrally formed with an upper portion of the platform; and an angel wing configured to be removably coupled to each of the opposite sides of the platform. When coupled, the angel wing protrudes from the platform in the axial direction. The turbine blade, which may be included in the turbine of a gas turbine, is capable of improving the castability and adjusting a clearance between an airfoil and a turbine rotor disk such that space between the airfoil and the turbine rotor disk can be reliably sealed.
US10753200B2
Systems and methods for transmitting power and information using acoustic energy produced by transducers are provided. The systems have particular application for powering and communication with electronics through drilling and pipe systems. Pairs of acoustic wedges holding transducers are provided for sending energy and information through a substrate which may be a steel pipe. Each wedge has an angled transducer which can be used to produce shear waves. The waves propagate through the substrate and are received by a second acoustic wedge. The shear waves, on reaching the second acoustic wedge, are converted back into electrical signals by a second transducer. Tangential shear waves, high, shallow wave transmission angles, and direct steel-steel bonding between wedges and substrates may be used.
US10753197B2
A method for monitoring well operations comprises sensing oscillations occurring in the well during a well operation and generating a signal indicative of the oscillations. The signal is processed into sensed data indicative of the oscillations sensed in the well, and the sensed data is then compared with reference data associated with previously detected well operations, to identify the well operation that generated the sensed oscillations. The system that performs the well monitoring, comprises one or more transducers configured to sense the oscillations, and a processing system in communication with the transducer which identifies the well operation and the device that caused the oscillations, based on comparisons of data indicative of the oscillations, with reference data associated with previously detected well operations.
US10753194B2
Systems and methods for using pressure signals to assess effectiveness of a diverter in a stimulation wellbore are disclosed. A pressure signal in an observation wellbore in the subsurface formation may be assessed using a pressure sensor in direct fluid communication with a fluid in the observation wellbore. The fluid in the observation wellbore may be indirect fluid communication with a fracture emanating from the observation wellbore. The pressure signal may include a pressure change that is induced by a fracture being formed from a stimulation wellbore in the subsurface formation. The pressure signal may be a pressure-induced poromechanic signal. The slope in the pressure signal before and after the diverter are provided into the stimulation wellbore may be assessed to determine the effectiveness of the diverter.
US10753182B2
A subsea connection system has a subsea structure with a flow channel therein and a port at one end of the flow channel, a stab having a flowline connected thereto, and a frame affixed to the stab. The stab is adapted to engage the port of the subsea structure so as to allow a fluid to flow from the flowline into the flow channel. The frame has a hook portion that is engageable with a tool hanger of the subsea structure so as to support the stab in alignment with the port. The frame is pivotable about the tool hanger so as to move the stab toward the port. An actuator is cooperative with the stab so as to move the stab between a retracted position and an extended position.
US10753175B2
A spring biased device having a plurality of operational spring rates including a housing; a first spring disposed between a selective support and a functional component; a second spring disposed between the selective support and another support; and a releasable connection between the selective support and the housing. A valve including a housing; a seat disposed within the housing; poppet movable to a position on the seat and a position off the seat, the poppet having a valve stem; a selective support; another support attached to the housing, the selective support and the another support allowing through passage of the valve stem; a first spring disposed between the selective support and the poppet; a second spring disposed between the another support and the selective support; and a connection between the selective support and the housing, the connection being selectively defeatible.
US10753170B2
A composite circular connector seal, or an assembly comprising a plurality of such seals, may be engineered to seal across a predetermined tolerance band for such seals by using two substantially circular seal elements sized to slidingly fit about a tubular that has a positive and negative outer diameter tolerance range, where each seal element is terminated at one circumferential edge with a packer cap, and a core element disposed intermediate the two substantially circular seal elements at their respective non-packer cap terminated circumferential edges. The two substantially circular seal elements comprise an organic thermoplastic polymer and the core seal element, which typically comprises a synthetic rubber, is also typically molded to the two seal elements at their respective non-packer cap terminated circumferential edges.
US10753169B2
A pressure control device may include a body having a central axis extending therefrom; at least one rotatable seal within the body, the rotatable seal configured to seal against a tubular extending through the pressure control device along the central axis and rotate within the body with the tubular; at least one coil within the body wrapped at least once around the central axis, wherein the at least one coil is configured to send characteristics of the tubular to a controller; an outlet to divert fluid from an annulus, wherein the outlet being located axially below the at least one rotatable seal, wherein the controller is configured to control the at least one rotatable seal and its engagement against the tubular based on the characteristics of the tubular received by the controller.
US10753168B2
A subsea wellhead assembly is provided. The subsea wellhead assembly comprises: a conductor; a subsea wellhead; and subsea riser system equipment mounted on the subsea wellhead; wherein the subsea riser system equipment is connected to the conductor such that forces can be transmitted from the subsea riser equipment to the conductor.
US10753166B2
A method for installing an electrical submersible pump (ESP) in a well containing a production conduit includes securing an ESP to a lower end of a coiled tubing segment containing an electrical power cable. An operator secures a load transfer device with a gripping member to the coiled tubing segment above the ESP. The operator lowers the coiled tubing segment into the well along with the ESP and the load transfer device. The load transfer device contacts an interior side wall of the production conduit with the gripping member and transfers a load on the coiled tubing segment to the production conduit. When powered, the ESP causes well fluid to flow upward from the ESP through the load transfer device up the production conduit.
US10753161B2
A system includes a housing section positioned within a wellhead area, the housing section also includes a removable wellhead bushing arranged over at least one engagement feature of the housing. The system also includes a Christmas tree including a treehead area, the treehead area includes a removable treehead bushing arranged over at least one engagement feature of the treehead area. The system further includes a tubular extending through both the wellhead bushing and the treehead bushing, wherein the tubular includes an installation and removal tool adapted to remove at least one of the wellhead bushing and the treehead bushing during wellbore operations.
US10753154B1
A fluidic oscillator includes a vortex chamber in fluid communication with a flow volume, an outlet, a first control port, and a second control port. The flow volume is defined by a first wall and a second wall. The first wall and the second wall are arranged to direct a fluid flow to create a vortex flow in the vortex chamber. The pressure differential cycles the attachment of fluid flow between the first wall and the second wall at a cycle rate. Because the fluidic oscillator can operate at a low cycle rate, the fluidic oscillator can provide an extended reach.
US10753151B2
A bearing assembly for a downhole drilling motor can include a housing having an inner wall, an outer bearing race within the housing, and an inner bearing race. The outer bearing race can include a reduced-diameter portion forming a gap between the outer bearing race and the inner wall of the housing to allow for radial displacement of the outer bearing race relative to the housing. The design combines the functions of a bearing and a compliant feature into a single unit.
US10753128B2
Barricade devices and methods of barricading a door are disclosed. Such devices and methods may be used to barricade a door, and thereby prevent an intruder from entering a sheltering space, such as a classroom, storeroom, or hallway. The barricade-device may have a pivotable stop-device that is pivotable from a location adjacent to a door. The pivot-location may be at an elevation that is lower than a door handle. The stop-device may be pivotable from a reserve-position to a stop-position. In the reserve-position, the stop-device does not barricade the door. In the barricade-position, the stop-device barricades the door. Operation of the barricade-device may require the application of an activation operation to an activator. A wide range of people having differing physical and mental capabilities may use the barricade-device properly and quickly.
US10753126B2
A lock system for a motor vehicle includes a handle for opening a door or hatch, a drive device coupled to the handle, and a control device which is suited for checking an access code of a mobile ID transmitter, coupled to the drive device. A lock device is provided for the door or hatch. The handle can move between a non-use position in which it is flush with an outer contour of the door or hatch and an opening position in which it protrudes at least in part from the outer contour. The drive device is coupled and designed for opening or closing the door or hatch such that it moves along a movement path along which the drive device extends the handle into its opening position or retracts it into its non-use position, as well as actuating the lock device.
US10753124B2
Certain aspects of the technology disclosed herein include an apparatus and method for electrically and mechanically connecting a deadbolt to a main housing of a lock. The main housing can be configured to extend a deadbolt along a path to lock and/or unlock a door while receiving electrical energy from an energy storage device disposed in the deadbolt. The energy storage device disposed in the deadbolt can be proximate to one or more electrical contacts electrically connected to one or more components in the main housing via conductive components of a bolt carriage. The bolt carriage includes a groove attachable to a male detent connector attached to the deadbolt. The groove in the bolt carriage provides a mechanical connection to the deadbolt and also aligns pogo pins with electrical components of the bolt carriage to enable electrical transmission from the deadbolt to the main housing.
US10753116B1
Pedestals, pedestal systems, and methods of mounting a slab on a pedestal are described herein. The pedestals have a slab placement surface containing a vase assembly receiving area that can safely support and display a slab combined with protruding vase cup. The vase cup protrudes through a mounted slab into the vase assembly receiving area and does not interfere with the slab sitting against the slab placement surface of the pedestal.
US10753111B2
A rod detensioning unit including a gripping unit removal device that engages a gripping unit on a rod, a chair frame configured to engage a rod, a rod tensioning unit that applies tension to an external portion of the rod to remove load from the gripping unit, a load cell unit that measures a tension level applied to the rod by the tensioning unit, a plate gripping unit that engages the rod and secures the chair frame, rod tensioning unit, load cell and plate gripping unit to the rod, a drive unit that engages the gripping unit removal device, and an extension unit affixed to the external portion of the rod when the original external rod length is too short to accommodate the de-tensioning unit.
US10753105B2
Floor panel, characterized in that it is of the type that can be installed according to the fold down-technique, that it comprises coupling means in one piece on all four edges, and that measures are taken in order to avoid an undesired shifting on the long edges during the turning down of the floor panel.
US10753100B2
A flooring panel is provided with a quick-release adhesive sheet such that the flooring panel can be quickly attached to a support surface and removed therefrom. More particularly, the flooring panel includes a top floor layer attached or laminated to the adhesive sheet, which underlies the floor layer. The top flooring layer can be any type of flooring material, such as vinyl flooring, real or engineered wood flooring, etc.
US10753073B2
A slide-easy slide seat structure for a portable and liftable rod, that includes: a slide sleeve, a main body, an insertion seat, and a hold tight mechanism. The slide sleeve includes a hollow portion and a through-hole, the main body is fixed to the hollow portion of the slide sleeve, one end of slide sleeve is connected to the insertion seat. Wherein, the hold tight mechanism includes a control sway rod, a movable piece, a hold tight piece, and a restoring spring. One end of the control sway rod is disposed in the main boy, and a central portion of the control sway rod is hinged to the main body. One end of restoring spring is disposed in the main body, and the other end of the restoring spring is connected to the movable piece.
US10753059B2
Surface treatment compositions and their methods of preparation. Such surface treatment compositions can comprise a solid cross-linking agent and a water-soluble polymer. Such solid cross-linking agent can include a plurality of dialdehyde residues, and the water-soluble polymer can include a plurality of pendant groups capable of covalently bonding with the solid cross-linking agent. The surface treatment compositions can further comprise a fibrous material. Applications for such surface treatment compositions include soil erosion prevention, dust control, and landfill cover.
US10753058B2
The present invention generally relates to containment and control of an oil spill caused by a damaged or broken riser in deep water. More specifically, the present invention relates to a reusable unit that will contain oil spills to a specific location and will also allow oil to be harvested as it flows to the top of the unit while minimizing or even eliminating any environmental clean-up impact or cost. The unit of the present invention is dropped over a damaged or broken riser in a closed position, the unit is released and stabilized in sections until the surface is reached and the containment unit is completely erected.
US10753054B2
A support for positioning a marking pole relative to a driving surface and a method of using the same is disclosed. The support includes a shaft member extending between a first end and a second end and an intermediate portion between the first end and the second end. A first anchor extends from the second end of the shaft member. A second anchor extends from an area of the shaft member between first end and the second end of the shaft member. The shaft member defines a cantilevered section between the first end and the intersection of anchor. A receiver is at the first end of the shaft and configured to receive a marking pole.
US10753040B2
A cable comprises a first and a second thimble (2, 4), and at least one main yarn (6) and an auxiliary yarn (7). The first and the second thimble are provided at opposite ends of the cable. The at least one main yarn (6) and the auxiliary yarn (7) each forms turns around the first and second thimble (2, 4). Each thimble (2, 4) comprises a bearing surface (40), and holds a stack (19) of layers (10) of turns of the main yarn (6). A stack (119) of turns of the auxiliary yarn (7) comprising at least a first layer (13) of turns of the auxiliary yarn (7) lies on the bearing surface (40) of the respective thimble (2, 4).
US10753036B2
An overcoat to be applied to an ink printed on fabric or fabric to be printed with an ink, includes: a carbodiimide group-containing compound.
US10753028B2
A laundry treating apparatus is disclosed, which is provided with a first treating apparatus washing laundry, a second treating apparatus arranged at a side of the first treating apparatus, washing laundry, and a third treating apparatus provided to be mounted on the second treating apparatus, drying laundry.
US10753018B2
A double-sided fabric stacked with a continuous cord material and forming a thickness in a knitted sack is knitted from a face yarn by a flat knitting machine including a front needle bed, a back needle bed and a loop presser bed. The front needle bed includes a plurality of front knitting needles. The back needle bed includes a plurality of back knitting needles. The loop presser bed is disposed above the front or back needle bed, and includes right-directed and left-directed knitting pressing pieces. The double-sided fabric further includes at least one knitted sack including loops knitted from the face yarn by the front and back knitting needles. The knitted sack includes therein at least one continuous cord material, which is pressed into the knitted sack by the right-directed and left-directed knitting pressing pieces to become folded and stacked to form a thickness.
US10753016B2
In one embodiment, a method to form a downhole element is disclosed, including weaving a continuous glass filament and a continuous degradable thermoplastic filament to form a commingled glass fiber. In another embodiment, a commingled glass fiber is disclosed, including a continuous glass filament, and a continuous degradable thermoplastic filament interwoven with the continuous glass filament. In another embodiment, a downhole element is disclosed, including a commingled glass fiber. The commingled glass fiber includes a continuous glass filament, and a continuous degradable thermoplastic filament interwoven with the continuous glass filament.
US10753015B2
A cover for a vehicle seat is provided. The cover may include a woven top layer and a woven bottom layer, interwoven with the woven top layer. The woven top layer may include a plurality of first warp yarns and a plurality of first weft yarns. The woven bottom layer may include a plurality of second warp yarns and a plurality of second weft yarns. The plurality of second warp and weft yarns may include wool.
US10753014B2
A half-slide matched device and its application for ultra-smoothly reconstructing yarn hairy structure belong to a textile processing field. According to the half-slide matched device of the present invention, a vortex device static part and a vortex device moving part are matched. In practice, multiple devices are connected in tandem. When yarn moves, the parts of half-slide matched device are closed, for efficiently constraining and utilizing the vortex airflow. A directional jet tube one-directionally stretches hairiness on yarn surface to avoid hairiness random dispersion and entanglement, remove yarn surface impurities. Tandem-connected devices repeatedly superimpose and strengthen the reconstructed ultra-smooth yarn structure. The half-slide matched device can be opened when the yarn breaks, which facilitates splicing and maintenance. The half-slide matched device has a reasonable structure and is very convenient for wide application.
US10753005B2
A steel sheet for cans has, on the surface thereof, in order from the steel sheet side, a chromium metal layer and a hydrous chromium oxide layer. The chromium metal layer is deposited in an amount of 65-200 mg/m2, and the hydrous chromium oxide layer is deposited in an amount of 3-15 mg/m2 in terms of chromium. The chromium metal layer includes: a flat chromium metal layer that has a thickness of at least 7 nm; and a granular chromium metal layer that includes granular protrusions that are formed on the surface of the flat chromium metal layer. The maximum grain size of the granular protrusions is 100 nm or smaller. The number density of the granular protrusions per unit area is 10/μm2 or higher.
US10753003B2
Various embodiments may include a method of electrochemical production of synthesis gas comprising: reducing carbon dioxide to a first product gas including carbon monoxide in a carbon dioxide electrolysis cell; splitting water to generate a second product gas including hydrogen in a water electrolysis cell; delivering at least one catholyte from the group consisting of: a first catholyte from the carbon dioxide electrolysis cell and a second catholyte from the water electrolysis cell, into a gas scrubbing apparatus; and removing non-reduced carbon dioxide from the first product gas in the gas scrubbing apparatus using the at least one catholyte as an absorbent.
US10752999B2
An article that includes a structured substrate having a macro-porous structure that defines a plurality of pores, and a metallic nano-crystalline coating on at least a portion of the structured substrate, where the metallic nano-crystalline coating defines an average grain size less than about 20 nanometers.
US10752989B2
A method of vapor depositing a silane chemical onto a wire grid polarizer can include introducing a silane chemical and water into a chamber where the wire grid polarizer is located. The silane chemical and the water can be in a gaseous phase in the chamber. The silane chemical and the water can be maintained simultaneously in the gaseous phase in the chamber for period of time. The silane chemical and the water can react to form a (R1)2Si(OH)2 molecule, where each R1 is independently any chemical element or group. A silane coating can be formed on the wire grid polarizer from a chemical reaction of the (R1)2Si(OH)2 molecule with the wire grid polarizer and with other (R1)2Si(OH)2 molecules. The silane coating can be relatively thick and multi-layer. A thicker or multi-layer silane coating can have improved high temperature resistance relative to a thinner or mono-layer silane coating.
US10752976B2
The present invention is in the field of surfactants to extract a platinum group metal or gold, in particular palladium, from organic compositions. In particular, the invention concerns the use of surfactants to back-extract a platinum group metal or gold, in particular palladium, from organic compositions further comprising an extractant of said platinum group metal or gold, in particular palladium from an aqueous solution.
US10752965B2
The present disclosure concerns a Protein Quantification Reporter (PQR) linker which is capable of being cleaved during the translation of a messenger RNA to quantify a protein of interest. The PQR linker can encode a peptide of SEQ ID NO: 23 and have the nucleic acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 25. The PQR linker is located in a nucleic acid molecule encoding a poly-protein between a reporter protein and the protein of interest. While the messenger RNA encoding the poly-protein is being translated, the presence of the PQR linker causes cleavage of the poly-protein and consequently the release at a stoichiometric ratio of the reporter protein and the protein of interest. The signal associated with the cleaved reporter protein can be measured to estimate or quantify the protein of interest.
US10752963B2
A micro-fluidic chip and its modification method and application in detection of food bacteria quality, includes the following steps: changing a functional group —CH3 on the internal surface of micro-fluidic channel of micro-fluidic chip to a functional group —OH through modification; Supplying amino silane reagent to the micro-fluidic channel; supplying dendritic polymer as modified by —COOH to internal surface of the micro-fluidic channel after drying; grafting primer of aminated aptamer RCA on terminus 5′ and hybrid from its padlock probe on dendrimer on internal surface of the micro-fluidic channel; wherein, the padlock probe is the complementary sequence of the aptamer of the target pathogenic bacteria to be tested; after that, supplying RCA reaction reagent to the micro-fluidic channel to make aptamer RCA generate long-chain aptamer in series. The present invention adopts two RCA reactions of varied functions in combination, and uses dendritic polymer to modify internal surface of the chip.
US10752958B2
A diagnostic analysis method and system is provided for identifying a microorganism from a genome sequence. Partially or fully assembled microbial genomes or short reads from whole-genome sequencing of microbial genomes are processed into a 4 MB Boolean array while preserving 1% of the genomic information in a way that allows for rapid comparison of a query genome to a large reference database. This represents a critical savings in storage space and speed by which large reference libraries can be queried.
US10752946B2
High-fidelity, high-throughput nucleic acid sequencing enables healthcare practitioners and patients to gain insight into genetic variants and potential health risks. However, previous methods of nucleic acid sequencing often introduce sequencing errors (for example, mutations that arise during the preparation of a nucleic acid library, during amplification, or sequencing). Provided herein are methods and compositions for sequencing nucleic acids. Further provided are methods of identifying an error in a nucleic acid sequence.
US10752945B2
Methods and devices for accurate genome sequencing, including sequencing of single cells by single-stranded amplification and sequencing are provided herein.
US10752943B2
The present invention provides methods and kits for preparing a collection of degraded DNA fragments isolated from a biofluid sample of an individual. The prepared collection of nucleic acid sequences can be used in a diagnostic method such as for example detection and/or prognosis of cancer.
US10752942B2
In some aspects, the present disclosure provides methods for enriching amplicons, or amplification products, comprising a concatemer of at least two or more copies of a target polynucleotide. In some embodiments, a method comprises sequencing the amplicons comprising at least two or more copies of a target polynucleotide. In some embodiments, the target polynucleotides comprise sequences resulting from chromosome rearrangement, including but not limited to point mutations, single nucleotide polymorphisms, insertions, deletions, and translocations including fusion genes. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides compositions and reaction mixtures useful in the described methods.
US10752941B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a single cell analysis device in which the improvement of the nucleic acid capturing efficiency and the improvement of the cell capturing efficiency are both achieved and a highly accurate single cell analysis data is thereby obtained. The present invention relates to an improvement of a cell analysis device including a two-dimensional array chip having a plurality of cell capture parts capable of capturing a single cell in each of the capture parts, and nucleic acid capture parts corresponding to the respective cell capture parts, the nucleic acid capture parts being capable of capturing a nucleic acid extracted from the cell captured by the cell capture part.
US10752940B2
The present invention provides methods of detecting and/or quantitating a target oligonucleotide in a biological sample.
US10752938B2
The present invention relates to detection of a target nucleic acid sequence in a sample using two different detection temperatures. The present invention using difference between signals detected at two detection temperatures enables to decrease well-to-well variation or sample-to-sample variation generated in real-time PCR processes in more convenient and effective manner.
US10752934B2
The present invention provides a soluble pyrroloquinoline-quinone-dependent glucose dehydrogenase (PQQ-sGDH) mutant, wherein the amino acid positions thereof correspond to a wild-type PQQ-sGDH sequence of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus as shown in SEQ ID NO 1 comprising one of the following group of mutations: A194F, a combined mutation based on A194F, a combined mutation based on Q192A or a combined mutation based on Q192S. Said PQQ-sGDH mutant has good glucose substrate specificity and significantly reduced cross-reactivity to maltose and the like, and is suitable for detecting glucose in a sample such as blood.
US10752932B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a semiconductor device. A non-limiting example of the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a plurality of metal nanopillars formed on the substrate. The semiconductor device also includes an amperometric sensor associated with one of the plurality of nanopillars, wherein the amperometric sensor is selective to an enzyme-active neurotransmitter. The semiconductor device also includes a resistivity sensor associated with a pair of nanopillars, wherein the resistivity sensor is selective to an analyte.
US10752931B2
The invention further relates to a process for the enzymatic synthesis of an (oligo)peptide. The invention relates to a method for designing an enzymatic synthesis process of an (oligo)peptide, comprising identifying two or more (oligo)peptide fragments of an (oligo)peptide, which fragments are (oligo)peptides suitable for preparing the (oligo)peptide by enzymatic condensation of the two or more peptide fragments using a ligase. The invention relates to a method for designing an enzymatic synthesis process of a cyclic (oligo)peptide, comprising identifying a non-cyclic (oligo)peptide from which the cyclic (oligo)peptide can be prepared by cyclisation, catalysed by a cyclase. The invention further relates to a process for the enzymatic synthesis of an (oligo)peptide.
US10752924B2
Methods for the recovery of lipids, sugars, and proteins from microbial biomass by enzymatic digestion are disclosed. The methods involve treating microalgae with a fungal acid protease, or with a mixture of at least one protease and at least one amylase.
US10752923B2
The present invention generally relates to the field of biotechnology as it applies to the production of hydroxycinnamic acids using polypeptides having tyrosine ammonia lyase activity. More particularly, the present invention pertains to polypeptides having tyrosine ammonia lyase activity and high substrate specificity towards tyrosine, which makes them particularly suitable in the production of p-coumaric acid and other hydroxycinnamic acids. The present invention thus provides processes for the production of p-coumaric acid and other hydroxycinnamic acids employing these polypeptides as well as recombinant host cells expressing same.
US10752921B2
The subject technology generally relates to biosynthesis of styrene. Certain embodiments of the subject technology is based, in part, on the recognition that phenylalanine can be converted to styrene by a two-step pathway of deamination and de-carboxylation, with trans-cinnamic acid (tCA) as the intermediate. Two types of enzymes are directly involved in this process, phenylalanine ammonia lyase (PAL), which converts phenylalanine to tCA, and cinnamic acid decarboxylase, which coverts tCA to styrene. Host cells expressing these two types of enzymes can be cultured in bioreactor to produce styrene from renewable substrates such as glucose.
US10752918B2
The present invention relates in part to nucleic acids encoding proteins, therapeutics comprising nucleic acids encoding proteins, methods for inducing cells to express proteins using nucleic acids, methods, kits and devices for transfecting, gene editing, and reprogramming cells, and cells, organisms, and therapeutics produced using these methods, kits, and devices. Methods and products for altering the DNA sequence of a cell are described, as are methods and products for inducing cells to express proteins using synthetic RNA molecules. Therapeutics comprising nucleic acids encoding gene-editing proteins are also described.
US10752910B2
The present invention provides novel DNA molecules and constructs, including their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants and plant cells. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, seeds, and commodity products comprising the DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable polynucleotides, along with methods of their use.
US10752908B2
Methods and compositions for improved bacterial-mediated plant transformation are provided. The methods generally allow plant transformation with reduced vector backbone integration and a high frequency of low-copy transformation events. Vectors for achieving these results are described, as are methods for their use.
US10752906B2
Stably immunized cells and methods of making stably immunized cells are provided. Methods of altering the microbiota of an ecological environment are provided. Methods of modifying target chromosomes are provided. Methods of delivering genetic material to target cells are provided.
US10752905B2
This document provides methods and materials for assembling nucleic acid constructs (e.g., TALENs). For example, methods for assembling TALEs that are rapid, flexible for use in many cloning scaffolds (such as common nuclease and nickase backbones), and achievable with standard molecular biology laboratory tools, thereby making TALEs a more accessible genome system, are provided.
US10752902B2
The disclosure relates to, among other things, agents that modulate the homophilic interaction between two CRACC polypeptides, methods for making such agents, and therapeutic applications in which the agents are useful. For example, the agents described herein are useful for modulating an immune response in a mammal. Also featured are screening methods for identifying additional agents capable of modulating the activation of an immune cell exposed to an antigen.
