US10762408B2
The virtual machine includes a receiving module, an instruction assigning module, a downloading module, an application registry maintenance module, a state switching module, a storage managing module, and a communication module. The state switching module is configured to in response to determining that it is required to move the code segment, allocate a storage space of the off-chip FLASH for the code segment of the application to be loaded, acquire a second base address of the code segment of the application to be loaded, and modify the current running address as the second base address. The off-chip FLASH is configured to store the code segment of the application to be loaded on the off-chip FLASH.
US10762393B2
A method for learning an automatic labeling device for auto-labeling a base image of a base vehicle using sub-images of nearby vehicles is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device inputting the base image and the sub-images into previous trained dense correspondence networks to generate dense correspondences; and into encoders to output convolution feature maps, inputting the convolution feature maps into decoders to output deconvolution feature maps; with an integer k from 1 to n, generating a k-th adjusted deconvolution feature map by translating coordinates of a (k+1)-th deconvolution feature map using a k-th dense correspondence; generating a concatenated feature map by concatenating the 1-st deconvolution feature map and the adjusted deconvolution feature maps; and inputting the concatenated feature map into a masking layer to output a semantic segmentation image and instructing a 1-st loss layer to calculate 1-st losses and updating decoder weights and encoder weights.
US10762388B2
A lighting plan generator configured to generate a lighting plan comprising a map of locations of a plurality of light units located on a ceiling of an interior space, the lighting plan generator being configured to generate the lighting plan from overlapping images captured by a mobile device from different locations as the mobile device moves through the interior space. The lighting plan generator comprises: an input configured to receive at least two images, the at least two images comprising at least partially overlapping areas; an image rectifier (160) configured to rectify the at least two images; an image data combiner (406) configured to combine data from the rectified at least two images, wherein a lighting plan (413, 415) is generated from the combined data from the rectified at least two images.
US10762386B2
The invention is related to a method of determining a similarity transformation between first coordinates and second coordinates of 3D features, comprising providing a first plurality of 3D features having first coordinates in a first coordinate system which is associated with a first geometrical model of a first real object, wherein the first plurality of 3D features describes physical 3D features of the first real object, providing a second coordinate system, providing image information associated with a plurality of images captured by at least one camera, for each respective 3D feature of at least part of the first plurality of 3D features, wherein the respective 3D feature is captured by at least two of the plurality of images, determining camera poses of the at least one camera in the second coordinate system while the at least two of the plurality of images are captured, determining for the respective 3D feature a second coordinate in the second coordinate system according to the at least two of the plurality of images and the camera poses, and the method further comprising determining a similarity transformation between the first coordinates and the second coordinates of the at least part of the first plurality of 3D features, wherein the similarity transformation includes at least one translation, at least one rotation, at least one scale and/or their combinations in 3D space.
US10762380B2
The invention relates to a registration system (13) for registering an imaging device (2) like an x-ray C-arm device with a tracking device (4) like an optical shape sensing tracking device. An object detection unit (5) is adapted to a) allow a user to add markers to an image of an object for indicating arbitrary positions on the object and b) provide a representation of the object based on the added markers, wherein a registration unit (6) determines registration parameters based on a location of the object tracked by the tracking device and on the location of the representation. This kind of registration can be performed with any object being visible for the user in the image, thereby permitting to use a wide variety of objects for the registration.
US10762376B2
A method and apparatus for detecting text are provided. The method includes: extracting features of a to-be-detected image; predicting using a character detection network a probability of each pixel point in the to-be-detected image being a character pixel point, and position information of each pixel point relative to a bounding box of a character including the pixel point when the pixel point is the character pixel point; determining position information of bounding boxes of candidate characters based on the prediction result of the character detection network; inputting the extracted features into a character map network, converting a feature map outputted by the character map network, and generating character vectors; determining a neighboring candidate character of each candidate character, and connecting each candidate character with an associated neighboring candidate character to form a character set; and determining a character area of the to-be-detected image.
US10762371B1
Techniques, devices, and systems to improve detection and security of a displayed image on a screen of a computer device, such as a device, including detection of an object in an environment, where the object has an inverse-colorspace relationship in relation to the colorspace of the environment. A system includes: a first camera device configured to determine a first underlying colorspace corresponding to an environment, a second camera device configured to determine a second underlying colorspace corresponding to either i) an actual change in the environment or ii) a predicted change in the environment, and a computer device configured to determine an inverse colorspace of at least one of i) the first underlying colorspace or ii) the second underlying colorspace and configured to detect an object in the environment based on the inverse colorspace determination.
US10762364B2
An approach is provided for traffic sign learning. The approach involves, for example, receiving a plurality of traffic sign observations generated using sensor data collected from a plurality of vehicles. Each of the plurality of traffic sign observations includes location data and sign property data for an observed traffic sign corresponding to said each of the plurality of traffic sign observations. The approach also involves clustering the plurality of traffic speed sign observations into at least one cluster based on the location data and the sign property data. The approach further involves determining a learned sign for the at least one cluster, and determining a learned sign value indicated by the learned sign based on the location data, the sign property data, or a combination of the plurality of traffic sign observations aggregated in the at least one cluster.
US10762356B2
There is provided a computer-implemented method for generating an output with respect to a group of individuals. The method includes: identifying the group of individuals amongst a plurality of individuals in an area being monitored by one or more sensors; determining, for each individual in the group of individuals, one or more individual-based features associated with the individual based on sensing data obtained from the one or more sensors; determining a group characteristic information associated with the group of individuals based on the one or more individual-based features determined for each individual in the group; and generating the output based on the group characteristic information determined for the group of individuals. There is also provide a corresponding system for generating an output with respect to a group of individuals.
US10762355B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a number of objects included in a queue as a group of objects and an estimation unit that executes estimation processing of estimating a waiting time of the queue based on the acquired number of objects included in the queue and history information relating to a number of objects having moved out of the queue, where the estimation unit executes the estimation processing based on a previous estimated waiting time.
US10762352B2
There is disclosed a method to automatically identify fuzzy video content copies, which is performed on a computer device that has access to a previously generated database of original video content. The method comprises: receiving identifiers for video content; extracting each Nth frame from the video stream of received video content to obtain a sequence of frames, where N>1; identifying the sequence of scenes by comparing at least fragments of adjacent frames; creating a vector of the sequence of scenes of the received video content; comparing the vector of the sequence of scenes of received video content with the vector of the sequence of scenes of at least one template of original video content from a previously generated database of original video content; identifying a fuzzy copy of original video content when the sequence of scenes of original video content and scenes of received video content coincide to an extent that exceeds a predefined threshold.
US10762347B1
An optical code system for manipulating an optical code that represents an audio waveform present in an audio file, for example, includes a server, a database module, and a non-volatile storage system, all interconnected and preferably in communication with a network to remote users. The system includes two primary sub-systems: a code generating system and a code matching system. The code generating system generates an optical code based on the audio waveform, such an optical code being subsequently scanned and identified by the code matching system. As such, once the code matching system matches an optical code to a particular audio waveform, the associated audio file and associated waveform data may be delivered to the user.
US10762338B2
A method and apparatus for detecting fake license plates of vehicles, a readable storage medium, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: performing vehicle identification analysis and face recognition analysis on a current vehicle picture captured by a capturing unit at a current lane checkpoint, so as to obtain current vehicle information and current face information corresponding to a current vehicle, the current vehicle information including current license plate information and current vehicle structure information (S101); obtaining, according to the current license plate information, vehicle owner information corresponding to the current license plate information, obtaining, according to the current face information, driver information corresponding to the current face information, and determining whether the vehicle owner information is consistent with the driver information (S102); if not, obtaining vehicle information of all vehicles; and if yes, marking the current vehicle as a fake license plate vehicle (S104).
US10762327B2
Provided is an image-processing device that includes:a processor including hardware; the processor configured to: analyze an image of the inside of a culture vessel that cultures cells, and acquire quantitative data of living cells and quantitative data of dead cells inside the culture vessel; and generate comparison data that allows comparison of the acquired quantitative data of the living cells and the acquired quantitative data of the dead cells.
US10762317B2
Examples of techniques for quick response (QR) code deformation are described herein. An aspect includes receiving a first QR code, wherein the first QR code is scannable by a QR code scanner at a first range of angles. Another aspect includes determining a scanner angle, the scanner angle being outside of the first range of angles. Another aspect includes generating a second QR code based on the first QR code and the scanner angle, wherein the second QR code comprises a deformed QR code that is scannable by the QR code scanner at a second range of angles that is distinct from the first range of angles.
US10762316B2
A system may include a plurality of stations that implement a workflow process. The workflow process may include reading a barcode in connection with at least some of the plurality of stations. The barcode may be attached to an item that is moved between the plurality of stations during the workflow process. The system may additionally include a plurality of devices. Each of the plurality of devices may be located at one of the plurality of stations. At least some of the plurality of devices may include barcode reading capability. The system may additionally include process management code stored in memory on at least some of the plurality of devices. The process management code may be executable by one or more processors on the plurality of devices to determine auxiliary data corresponding to the workflow process and send the auxiliary data to a server.
US10762309B2
A mobile radio frequency identification (RFID) device for use with supply chain operations, association of things, and work in process operations. The mobile RFID device comprises a cart comprising four wheels and a handle for guiding its motion. The cart also comprises a top surface, an open lower shelf below the top surface, and a lower enclosure below the open lower shelf. The top surface of the cart comprises a very refined RF field which only scans items within a defined area. The defined area can be a flat work surface or a recessed well. The top surface also comprises a directional antenna that is completely hidden and communicatively coupled to an RFID reader. The lower enclosure below the open lower shelf is an enclosed storage cabinet that can house an RFID reader, an inverter (DC to AC), a battery, and a charger for the battery.
US10762306B2
A computing system comprising: a control unit configured to: receive an input request for a point of interest; determine a first linguistic context for the input request based on one or more input request characteristics, a user profile, a location, and a first connotation database; translate the input request to a second linguistic context based on a translation flag and a second connotation database, wherein the second connotation database is mapped to the first connotation database; and a user interface, coupled to the control unit, configured to display a translation result for the input request based on the first linguistic context or the second linguistic context.
US10762305B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for generating chatting data based on AI, a computer device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: converting chatting data inputted by a user into an input word sequence; converting a tag of the user into a tag word sequence; based on a preset encoding-decoding model with an attention model, predicting according to the input word sequence and the tag word sequence to obtain a target word sequence; and converting the target word sequence into reply data of the chatting data.
US10762297B2
Embodiments for semantic hierarchical grouping of short text fragments by a processor. Sub-terms are extracted from a plurality of input text fragments according to a lexical sub-term hierarchy. Each of the sub-terms in the lexical sub-term hierarchy are matched with concepts based on an ontology of concepts representing a domain knowledge. The input text fragments are automatically grouped into a hierarchy of concepts based on the matching and a semantical relationship between each concept and matching sub-term.
US10762296B2
Embodiments of the specification disclose a risk address identification method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The risk address identification method includes: acquiring an address word sequence corresponding to an input address; determining an address word in the address word sequence, the determined address word matching a risk word corresponding to a risk address; generating an observation sequence corresponding to the address word sequence according to the determined address word; processing the observation sequence using a hidden Markov model obtained based on semantics learning before and after address words, to obtain a decision vector, wherein the decision vector represents probabilities of the risk address being matched by address words contained in the address word sequence; and identifying whether the input address is a risk address by making a classification decision on the decision vector.
US10762291B2
Systems and methods are provided for automatically translating one or more electronic spreadsheets into scripts. One or more electronic spreadsheets containing data arrays and formula arrays may be accessed. The electronic spreadsheet(s) may implement various logic using the data arrays and the formula arrays. The range(s) of the formula arrays may be determined. The range(s) of the data arrays may be determined based on the range(s) of the formula arrays. Conversion ranges may be determined based on the range(s) of formula arrays and the range(s) of data arrays. One or more dependencies between the conversion ranges may be determined and used to generate source code modeling the logic implemented by the electronic spreadsheet(s).
US10762285B2
In a method for generating an electronic form, programmer input in a programming language is received, the programmer input including specification data corresponding to an electronic form to be generated. The programmer input is evaluated to generate an electronic form object that includes one or more user-interface mechanisms for receiving the user input, including evaluating the specification data to generate code in the electronic form object, the generated code capable of being processed by an application to render the electronic form on or via a user interface device such that the electronic form serially prompts the user over time for multiple user inputs. The electronic form object is stored in a memory of or communicatively coupled to the one or more computers.
US10762272B2
The present disclosure provides a pattern density analysis method for analyzing a local pattern density of a layout, the method comprising: obtaining a pattern attribute of each layout pattern located on a layout region to be analyzed; setting, for each layout pattern, a relevant window for the layout pattern based on the corresponding pattern attribute; calculating the pattern density of each relevant window; and selecting the maximum value of the pattern densities of the relevant windows as the maximum local pattern density of the layout, and selecting the minimum value of the pattern densities of the relevant windows as the minimum local pattern density of the layout.
US10762270B2
The invention discloses a clock tree synthesis method including steps of: determining a driving strength of a clock cell; determining a reserved space corresponding to the clock cell according to the driving strength; generating the clock cell and the reserved space, wherein the reserved space is adjacent to the clock cell; setting a decoupling capacitor filler cell in the reserved space, wherein the area and/or capacitance of the decoupling capacitor filler cell are/is associated with the driving strength; and fixing the attribute(s) of the clock cell and the attribute(s) of the decoupling capacitor filler cell.
US10762263B1
A method includes inputting to a computer processor a search value. Bit values of bit element signals of a bus at a current time are determined time-ordered value pairs of timestamps and associated bit values of the bit element signals. Whether the bit values at the current time match values of corresponding bits of the search value is determined from the time-ordered value pairs. Data indicative of the current time and bit values of the bit element signals is output if the bit values at the current time match the search value. If any of the bit values at the current time do not match the search value, the current time is advanced to a later time indicated by a time-ordered value pair not matched to the search value and having a latest timestamp of the bit element signals that do not match corresponding bits of the search value.
US10762262B1
A constraint solver utilizes a modified relaxation process to generate multiple different stimulus stream arrays that comply with multi-dimensional (e.g., 2D or 3D) constraints. First, an array is generated including rows and columns of randomly generated test vector values. During a first revision phase, the array is modified to comply with first-dimension constraints (e.g., selected test vector values are changed in non-compliant rows until every row complies with all row constraints). A second revision phase is then performed in multiple cycles, where each cycle includes identifying a current element having a greatest impact on non-compliance of the array on second-dimension (e.g., column and/or diagonal) constraints, and revising the current element's test vector value in a way that both minimizes the non-compliance, and also maintains compliance of the array with the first-dimension constraints. The second revision phase repeats until the array converges on a solution that complies with all multi-dimensional constraints.
US10762260B1
Disclosed are methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for implementing an electronic design having embedded circuits. These techniques identify a specification of an electronic design, a parameter for optimization, at least one optimization target for the parameter, and initial grids for the electronic design. An optimization map may be determined, by at one or more optimization modules that are stored at least partially in memory of and function in conjunction with at least one microprocessor of a computing system, for the electronic design at least by performing one or more analyses that refine the initial grids for the optimization map with respect to the parameter and the at least one optimization target. The electronic design may be implemented based at least in part upon the optimization map.
US10762251B2
Method and apparatus for conducting a Service Call using orienteering methods. The AVM may assist in determining whether or when equipment needs repair and can automatically call a service technician. By referencing the AVM on a smart device, the technician can quickly and easily locate the equipment to be repaired. Additionally, the data contained within the AVM may provide valuable clues to solving any service-related problem. Technical walkthroughs may also be displayed on the service technician's smart device.
US10762250B2
A method for an interpreter framework is described. The method includes an interpreter module of a computing system receiving a first data file that includes multiple data sections. The interpreter module identifies each of the data sections of the first data file. Each data section includes data representing a real-world entity. For each respective data section of the first data file, the interpreter module parses information about the real-world entity represented by the data included in the data section. The interpreter module generates a second data file based on the parsed information for each of the data sections. The second data file includes encoded data for rendering a digital geographic structure using information about the real-world entity.
US10762249B1
The present invention relates generally to a system for acquiring images of real stone slabs, visualize them virtually them in a 1:1. ratio, and design and view the final installation in 2D and 3D with the actual slabs instead of sample photography. This feat is achieved by the combination of multiple systems. Which include: 1. —A process to take the photographies 2. —A computer system to store and manage a virtual warehouse of actual slab images, 3. —a 1:1 display system, 4. —a catalog application and 5. —a visualization tool.
US10762246B2
An information processing apparatus includes a matching design element determination unit and a creation unit. The matching design element determination unit determines a combination of matching design elements that meets a base impression evocation criterion, by combining plural design elements which define a design and correspond to a base style having the base impression and plural design elements which correspond to an auxiliary style having an auxiliary impression different from the base impression of the base style. The creation unit creates a design sample by using the combination of the matching design elements.
US10762230B2
A method for providing access to objects associated with a particular client in a cloud storage system is disclosed. The method includes the steps of establishing a connection with a user, providing a client namespace associated with the client to the user, where the client namespace represents objects stored on the cloud storage system and objects stored on a private storage system apart from the cloud storage system, receiving a request from the user to access an object stored on the private storage system, and providing information to the user to facilitate access to the object stored on the private storage system by said user. Other systems and methods are also disclosed. Important advantages of the present invention are facilitated by separating the logic for user access (control plane) from the actual storage (Storage plane). Private file system access can still be managed from the cloud, while keeping the client data private.
US10762225B2
The herein described technology facilitates sharing of notes and files with a locked computing device. The locked computing device may receive a file sharing request that includes a file identifier identifying a location of a source file. The locked processing device provides a user account of the processing device with access to content of the source file responsive to authentication of a recipient access credential associated with the user account.
US10762220B2
An apparatus includes a memory and a hardware processor. The memory stores security restrictions. The processor detects that a user attempted to access a third-party application that does not use the stored security restrictions and communicates the stored security restrictions to the third-party application. The processor also receives a message indicating that the third-party application registered the security restrictions, determines, based on the stored security restrictions, that the user should be granted access to the third-party application, and in response to the determination that the user should be granted access to the third-party application, redirects the user to the third-party application.
US10762218B2
Network buildout of cloud computing environments subject to different data control policies is performed in a manner that ensures compliance with the data control policies. A buildout service is located in a remote cloud computing environment separate from the cloud computing environments at which buildout is being performed. The buildout service implements workflows to manage different aspects of network buildout in the cloud computing environments. The buildout service does not have access to restricted data in the cloud computing environments, including access control data, such that the buildout service cannot directly interact with network devices. The buildout service issues requests for device configuration to hardware proxies in the cloud computing environments. In response to the requests, the hardware proxies obtain access control data to access and configure the network devices.
US10762197B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for program execution and data proof scheme to prove that sub-logic code that was expected to be executed within a TEE was indeed executed, and that the resulting data is trustworthy. In some implementations, each sub-logic code of a plurality of sub-logic code is registered, and stored within the TEE, and a key pair (private key, public key) corresponding to the sub-logic code is generated. The client receives and stores the public key, sends requests to the TEE with an identifier of the sub-logic that is to be executed. The sub-logic code corresponding to the identifier is executed within the TEE, which signs the result using a digital signature that is generated using the private key of the sub-logic code. The client verifies the result based on the digital signature and the public key of the sub-logic code.
US10762195B2
Systems and methodologies for accessing resources associated with a Web-based application in accordance with one or more embodiments disclosed herein may include a browser that obtains at least first resources from a first domain and second resources from a second domain and a resource management component that facilitates controlled communication between the first resources and the second resources and prevents the first resources and the second resources from accessing other resources that the first resources and the second resources are not permitted to access. The resource management component may be further operable to contain restricted services in a sandbox containment structure and/or to isolate access-controlled resources in a service instance. In addition, the resource management component may be operable to facilitate the flexible display of resources from disparate domains and/or controlled communication therebetween.
US10762191B2
An identity management system detects the occurrence of a trigger event, such as a time period expiration, or an action on the identity management system. The identity management system accordingly generates a new password for an account of a user on a third-party service and causes the account of the user on the third-party service to use the new password. The identity management system can also detect a manual user change of a password for a third-party service and cause configuration of client devices of the user to reflect the new password.
US10762184B2
An authentication device that authenticates a user using person specifiable information includes a first storage unit configured to store person specifiable information specifying a registered user, a second storage unit configured to store association information in which the registered user is associated with a predetermined terminal possessed by the registered user, a first acquisition unit configured to acquire person specifiable information from an authentication target user, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire identification information, a user specifying unit configured to specify a user associated with the terminal transmitting the identification information based on the association information and the identification information, and an authentication processing unit configured to authenticate the authentication target user by executing a comparison process between the person specifiable information of the authentication target user and the person specifiable information of the registered user in an order that is set based on the specified user.
US10762180B2
The disclosure generally describes methods, software, and systems, including a method for publishing messages through a messaging client of a database server. A message to be published to one or more message brokers is received at a server and from a database client. The message is in the form of a SQL statement. The received message is processed at the server. Message broker configurations associated with the received message are determined. The message is published to the one or more message brokers by invoking a messaging client at the server and using at least the message broker configurations.
US10762172B2
A method and apparatus for tracking a medication to be administered by a user. The method includes the steps of determining the identity of a medication to be administered by a user, identifying one or more characteristics associated with the medication that are to be used to continue to track the medication, the one or more characteristics including less than a total number of characteristics associated with the medication to be administered, and tracking the medication to be administered in accordance with the identified one or more characteristics through one or more future video images.
US10762171B2
A system for patient data exchange is provided and includes a plurality of sensors monitoring a patient according to a default sensor configuration, and a patient data exchange engine that receives a request comprising one or more parameters, identifies at least one applicable sensor from the plurality of sensors based on the one or more parameters, and reconfigures the at least one applicable sensor from the default sensor configuration to a different sensor configuration in accordance with the one or more parameters to generate applicable sensor data responsive to the request. In specific embodiments, the patient data exchange engine further computes a monetary value for the generated sensor data based at least on an attribute of the patient and an attribute of the sensor data.
US10762169B2
A system for determining adverse effects associated with a substance includes a side-effect recognizer, a relationship extractor, a processor, and a reporting system. The side-effect recognizer utilizes a first recurrent neural network (RNN) to identify a first portion of received data associated with an adverse effect to thereby determine the adverse effect associated with the received data. The relationship extractor utilizes a second RNN to identify a second portion of the received data associated with a substance and a third portion of the received data that indicates a relationship between the substance and the adverse effect to thereby determine the substance associated with the received data and the relationship between the substance and the adverse effect. The processor is in communication with the adverse effect recognizer and the substance relationship extractor and aggregates and relates the adverse effect, substance, and relationship. The reporting system is in communication with the processor and generates a report to convey the relationship between the substance and the adverse effect.
US10762160B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that delivers content to an electronic device, The system includes a content provider that obtains a public address of the electronic device from a first request for the content from the electronic device, Next, the content provider uses the public address to identify a local caching server on a local area network (LAN) of the electronic device. Finally, the content provider provides a local address of the local caching server to the electronic device, wherein the local address is used by the electronic device to obtain the content from the local caching server and the LAN without accessing a content delivery network (CDN) outside the LAN.
US10762158B2
Presenting a marking element in a social networking interaction where the marking element includes a question specifier and an answer specifier, creating a knowledge element in response to a user activating the marking element on the social networking interaction or a portion thereof, and presenting a knowledge element indicator in the social networking interaction.
US10762157B2
Encouraging broader engagement with a target publisher's content by balancing on-site topic engagement. Responsive to receiving notification of a recipient's request of an item of content from the target publisher, the on-site and off-site content consumption history of the recipient is analyzed. For each of a plurality of topics, historic engagement with on-site and off-site content is measured. Deficient topics having better off-site engagement than on-site engagement are detected. Supplemental content comprising links to items of content available from the target publisher which are characterized by deficient topics is selected and sent to the recipient. In an embodiment, the supplemental content comprises a plurality of links to other web pages on the target publisher's website which are sent to the recipient browser before the requested item of content finishes loading.
US10762147B2
There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving a request for access to data, (b) identifying a data store that stores the data, and (c) communicating with the data store, by way of an electronic communication, to access the data. There is also provided a system that performs the method, and a storage medium that includes a program module for controlling a processor to perform the method.
US10762136B2
A tag-based, user-directed media recommendation scheme is described herein. For example described herein is a recommender system (and method implemented by the recommender system) comprising: a recommendation engine configured to generate a recommendations list which includes a current set of recommendations for a user of a client device; and, a tag engine configured to: (1) receive the recommendations list; (2) obtain information about representative items associated with the user of the client device; (3) correlate the recommendations with tags; (4) correlate the representative items with the tags, (5) sort the tags into a tag list; and (6) provide the recommendations list and the tag list to the client device. The representative items include at least one of following: (1) an item previously purchased by the user; (2) an item previously watched by the user; (3) an item previously placed on a wish-list by the user; and (4) an item recommended by the recommendation engine for the user. Further described herein, are the client device and method implemented by the client device.
US10762134B1
This disclosure describes systems and methods that facilitate the generation of recommendations by traversing a graph. Walks that traverse the graph may be initiated from a plurality of different nodes in the node graph. In order to give greater or lesser weight to particular nodes, the walks may have different lengths depending on the nodes from which they are initiated, or an unequal amount of walks may be distributed between nodes from which walks are initiated. A plurality of walks through a node graph may be tracked, and visit counts or scores for nodes in the node graph may be determined. For example, scores may be increased for nodes that are visited by a walk initiated from a first node and a second walk initiated from a second node, or scores may be decreased for nodes that are not visited by a first walk initiated from a first node and a second walk initiated from a second node. Content corresponding to nodes may be recommended based on the scores or visit counts.
US10762129B2
Examples described herein involve facilitating playback of media content via a webpage. An example implementation involves a computing device: identifying one or more playback zones including at least one respective playback device; transmitting, via a web browser, a webpage request; receiving a webpage that includes a link to a media item; modifying the received webpage to include a representation associated with the link; causing, via the web browser, display of the modified webpage; responsive to a selection of the representation, causing display of the option; and responsive to a selection of the option, causing display of a list of the one or more playback zones, wherein at least one playback zone of the one or more playback zones is selectable to cause the media item to be added to the playback queue associated with the at least one playback zone.
US10762123B2
Systems and methods for searching for a media asset are described. In some aspects, the system includes control circuitry that receives a first search query from a user. The control circuitry identifies media assets related to the first search query from a content database. The control circuitry receives a second search query following the first search query. The control circuitry determines whether a media asset from the media assets is related to the second search query. In response to determining that less than a threshold number of media assets from the media assets are related to the second search query, the control circuitry transmits an instruction requesting the user to repeat the second search query. The control circuitry receives a third search query related to the first search query. The control circuitry determines a media asset from the media assets that is related to the third search query.
US10762120B1
Through use of crowd sourced information, media files may be transformed into or used to create product files that are derived from the media files. A product file may be generated using feedback from the crowd sourced information received from an electronic device. The crowd sourced information may indicate one or more portions of the media file to exclude from the product file to create a consolidated product file. In some embodiments, the crowd sourced information may indicate supplemental material and/or portions of other media files that may be included in the product file.
US10762108B2
Dispatching a database request. A database request is received. Latency times are determined for databases managed by the DBMS, the latency times being estimates of the times to complete replications from the other databases of all unreplicated data changes in the other databases. For each database, a capture velocity and an apply are determined, which are a number of data changes applied to the database that can be identified or applied in a predefined time interval. For each database, an estimated time to complete the database request is determined. The database request is dispatched to the database having an estimated minimum time of execution of the database request, wherein the time of execution is function of the estimated time for the database to complete the database request, the latency time of the database, and the capture and apply velocities of the database.
US10762106B2
A system and method for managing data storage and data access with querying data in a distributed system without buffering the results on intermediate operations in disk storage.
US10762105B2
The preservation of the user interface state of first application on a first device allows, in one embodiment, a user to resume use of at least a portion of the user interface state on a second application on second devices. The first and second applications can be the same or different (with some common user interface UI features or elements and other UI features that are different). Other embodiments are also described.
US10762094B1
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method comprises receiving a query comprising a time period associated with events data stored in a longitudinal database. Using a processing system, a variable data structure is identified in view of the query. The variable data structure is used to identify attributes associated with the events data from the longitudinal database. A tree of operators is generated to evaluate the events data in view of the variable data structure and the time period. Thereupon, results corresponding to the query are provided by applying at least one operator of the tree of operators to the variable data structure. The results include a time series of outcomes related to the events data.
US10762093B1
The current disclosure describes a preselected information sharing application (PISA) system configured to generate a virtual queue dataset for a facility using data received from different users via a facility customer application (FCA) on devices of the users. The system further includes a facility management application (FMA) on devices within the facility configured to generate an interactive hyperlink associated to the facility and request the users within the virtual queue dataset to share the interactive hyperlink on social media platforms associated to the users. The FMA then monitors the activation of the interactive hyperlink by other users, and accordingly updates the virtual queue dataset to include other users and notify all users in the virtual queue dataset regarding the updated virtual queue dataset in real-time.
US10762088B2
Automated database managers identify each of a plurality of different constraints that are each individually active for a data operation on a data value of a table data field of a relational database for a data operation. A database manager processor selects an untested one of the plurality of constraints as a selected constraint, and tests a field data value of the table data field for a defined condition of the selected constraint. In response to the test of the field data value meeting the defined condition of the selected constraint, the processor performs the data operation on the data value of the table data field, without testing any other untested ones of the plurality of different constraints.
US10762085B2
Automated query tuning. A database query to be executed against a database is received. The database query is analyzed to determine one or more potential indexes to be evaluated. The one or more potential indexes are evaluated to determine if an optimization utilizing a selected potential index provides improved performance over performing the database query without the selected potential index. The one or more potential indexes are scored based on results of the evaluating. A recommendation of one or more of the potential indexes is provided to a source of the database query.
US10762077B2
A system is provided for updating an aggregate value used to generate a display on a client device. The system can include a server device including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to: generate the aggregate value based on a set of records stored in a database; generate a metadata record that includes values based on the set of records used to generate the aggregate value; identify a change to the set of records; determine whether the change will affect a validity of the aggregate value; generate an updated aggregate value based on the change and a metadata record; update the metadata record to include values based on the change; and communicate the updated aggregate value to the client device.
US10762074B2
A system (100) for managing data is provided. The system includes at least one processor (102) configured to convert a source dataset (302) to a root dataset (312) by obtaining a plurality of intermediary datasets (306, 308). The root dataset (312) is shorter compared to the source dataset (302) and the intermediary datasets (306, 308) are intermediate to the source dataset (302) and the root dataset (312). At least one of the intermediary datasets comprises reference bits, wherein the reference bits enable identification of one or more functions that should be used to obtain a dataset from which the intermediary dataset comprising the reference bits was obtained in the process of converting the source dataset (302) and the root dataset (312).
US10762071B2
Innovations in performing sort operations for dictionary-compressed values of columns in a column-store database using value identifiers (“IDs”) are described. For example, a database system includes a data store and an execution engine. The data store stores values at positions of a column A dictionary maps distinct values to corresponding value IDs. An inverted index stores, for each of the corresponding value IDs, a list of those of the positions that contain the associated distinct value. The execution engine processes a request to sort values at an input set of the positions and identify an output set of the positions for sorted values. In particular, the execution engine iterates through positions stored in the lists of the inverted index. For a given position, the execution engine checks if the given position is one of the input set and, if so, adds the given position to the output set.
US10762065B2
A mechanism is described for facilitating dynamic data management for computing devices according to one embodiment. A method of embodiments, as described herein, includes tracking one or more factors relating to a plurality of data sets, evaluating the plurality of data sets based on the one or more factors. The evaluating may include speculating at least one of relevancy and accessibility of each of the plurality of data sets. The method may further include generating data scores, the data scores being associated with the plurality of data sets based on the evaluation of the plurality of data sets, performing a first comparison of the data scores of the plurality of data sets with a criteria score, and classifying each data set based on the first comparison. The classifying may include setting caching order for each data set of the plurality of data sets.
US10762063B2
A mobile application design search method, system, and computer program product include detecting a feature in an uploaded design source files, generating keywords that describe each feature for design screens in the design source files, and creating a database including the feature and the keywords associated with the feature to enable a keyword search for a type of the feature that can be reused in a new application design source file.
US10762062B2
A method for change management includes providing a dependency graph as an instantiation of a linked resource model in which a plurality of resources are linked by at least one dependency. The resources include at least one source resource and at least one target resource, each of the at least one dependency specifying preconditions on at least one of the at least one source resources for the dependency to be activated and an impact on at least one of the at least one target resources when the dependency is activated. A change to one of the plurality of resources is propagated to at least one other of the plurality of resources in the graph and information based on the propagation is output.
US10762053B2
Techniques for synchronization for cross-context digital item containers and collaboration are provided, receiving a user command to share a particular digital item from a first portfolio of digital items with a second portfolio of digital items. In response receiving the command to share the digital item, making a digital copy of it and placing it in the second portfolio of digital items. Subsequently, an alteration is made to the digital item and a determination is made with whom to share the alteration among those with whom the digital item had been previously shared. Those alterations can be accepted (or rejected) by the other portfolios. When they are accepted, they are applied to the digital copy.
US10762052B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for an improved database. The systems, methods, and computer-readable media described herein may enhance the response time of databases and improve user experiences. In an example method described herein, a database management system may store, at a first database, a first data block. The first data block may be stored in association with one or more identifiers. The one or more identifiers may include an item identifier for an item associated with the first data block and at least one of a first identifier designating at least a portion of the first data block as public data or privileged data and a second identifier designating at least a portion of the first data block as optional data or mandatory data.
US10762051B1
A system obtains a first data chunk and a second data chunk of a plurality of data chunks associated with a first data snapshot of a computing system. A hash record is assigned to a data chunk, and used to create a hash value that is written to a first lookup table. The hash function is selected from a plurality of hash functions. The system creates a first archive by saving the plurality of data chunks and the first lookup table to a datastore. The system writes a second hash record for the individual data chunks to a second lookup table using the same hash functions that were used for the first lookup table. Dissimilar hash values between the first lookup table and the second lookup table are identified, and a second archive that includes data chunks with different data from the corresponding data chunks from the first data snapshot is created based on the data chunks with the dissimilar hash values.
US10762050B2
The distribution of global namespace to achieve performance and capacity linear scaling in cluster filesystems. Specifically, the disclosure entails the distribution of files, tracked in namespace trees, among various cluster nodes while linking the namespace trees through a centralized access point, thus providing a global namespace abstraction for the distributed cluster.
US10762049B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing data associated with isolated execution environments. A chunk of data associated with an isolated execution environment can include log data and non-log data. At least a portion of the log data can include log data generated by the isolated execution environment. The system can parse the chunk of data to identify the log data and the non-log data and extract at least a portion of the log data from the chunk of data. The extracted data can be further processed to generate one or more events.
US10762047B2
A technique for writing data in a file system includes aggregating data received in a set of I/O requests into a batch that includes multiple extents of data. After compressing a current extent of the batch and determining that the compressed extent does not fit in a space where a previous version of the extent is stored, the technique performs an FS-relocate operation by accessing an F S-hole list provided for the file system and selecting a hole, from the FS-relocate list, which is large enough to accommodate the compressed extent. The technique then places the compressed extent in the selected hole.
US10762037B2
A data processing system according to an embodiment of the present invention may manage one or more tables and a plurality of archive files including one or more records extracted from the table. Upon receiving a search request for the table, the data processing system may generate a query (first partial query) to search for a record from the table corresponding to a condition specified by the search request, and generate a query (second partial query) to identify the archive file including the record extracted from the table specified as a search target in the search request, and search the identified archive file for the record corresponding to the condition specified by the search request. A query for deriving a union of the output results of the first partial query and the second partial query may be generated, and processing related to the generated query may be executed in parallel.
US10762029B2
An electronic apparatus and a detection method using the same are provided. The electronic apparatus includes a processor, a platform controller, and an auxiliary controller. The processor includes a first bus compatible with a first standard. The platform controller is coupled to the processor, and the processor is connected to peripheral devices of the electronic apparatus through the platform controller or the first bus according to the first standard. The auxiliary controller is coupled to the processor through the first bus, and the processor controls the auxiliary controller through a second bus and the platform controller. The auxiliary controller receives a detection signal to detect the processor, the platform controller, or at least one of the peripheral devices in the electronic apparatus through the first bus compatible with the first standard according to the detection signal.
US10762027B2
A data bus system includes a processor having a data output and a transceiver connecting the data output to a data bus. The transceiver includes a bus-hold circuit configured to maintain a latest value of the data output. At least one output latch connects the data bus to at least one corresponding controlled system.
US10762016B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a circuit including a squelch detector having a first input coupled to a first node and configured to receive a positive component of a differential signal with a floating center tap, a second input coupled to a second node and configured to receive a negative component of the differential signal, and an output coupled to a logic circuit, a first resistor coupled between the first node and a third node, a second resistor coupled between the third node and the second node, a third resistor coupled between the first node and a fourth node, a fourth resistor coupled between the fourth node and the second node, a capacitor coupled between the fourth node and a ground terminal, a comparator having a first input coupled to the third node, a second input coupled to a fifth node, and an output coupled to the logic circuit.
US10762011B2
In at least some examples, a computing node includes a processor and a local memory coupled to the processor. The computing node also includes a reflective memory bridge coupled to the processor. The reflective memory bridge maps to an incoming region of the local memory assigned to at least one external computing node and maps to an outgoing region of the local memory assigned to at least one external computing node.
US10762010B2
A memory module comprises an address buffer circuit, a command/address channel, and a plurality of memory components controlled by the address buffer circuit via the command/address channel. At least one memory component comprises a plurality of data ports, a memory core to store data, and a data interface. The data interface is capable of transferring data between the memory core and the data ports. The data interface supports a first data width mode in which the data interface transfers data at a first bit width and a first burst length via the data ports. The data interface also supports a second data width mode in which the data interface transfers data at a second bit width and second burst length via the data ports. The first bit width is greater than the second bit width and the first burst length is shorter than the second burst length.
US10761999B1
A method of accessing data by a storage device includes issuing a DMA read request of a host memory to a host. A host turnaround time is estimated. The host turnaround time is a time interval between when the DMA read request is issued and when an initial data packet of requested data from the host from the DMA read request arrives to the storage device. A data-path of the storage device is initialized to transfer the requested data of the DMA read request to a device buffer of the storage device. Initialization of the data-path is started after issuance of the DMA read request and is completed at an end of the estimated host turnaround time. The requested data is received from the host. The received requested data is transferred utilizing the data-path to the device buffer.
US10761992B2
A processor reduces bus bandwidth consumption by employing a shared load scheme, whereby each shared load retrieves data for multiple compute units (CUs) of a processor. Each CU in a specified group monitors a bus for load accesses directed to a cache shared by the multiple CUs. In response to identifying a load access on the bus, a CU determines if the load access is a shared load access for its share group. In response to identifying a shared load access for its share group, the CU allocates an entry of a private cache associated with the CU for data responsive to the shared load access. The CU then monitors the bus for the data targeted by the shared load. In response to identifying the targeted data on the bus, the CU stores the data at the allocated entry of the private cache.
US10761990B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for managing cache. The method comprises in response to receiving a read request, determining whether data associated with the read request is present in a first cache, the first cache being a read-only cache. The method also comprises in response to a miss of the data in the first cache, determining whether the data is present in a second cache, the second cache being a readable and writable cache. The method further comprises: in response to hitting the data in the second cache, returning the data as a response to the read request; and reading the data into the first cache.
US10761989B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of storage management, a storage system and a computer program product. The method comprises determining whether a number of I/O requests for a first page in a disk of a storage system exceeds a first threshold. The method further comprises: in response to determining that the number exceeds the first threshold, caching data in the first page to a first cache of the storage system; and storing metadata associated with the first page in a Non-Volatile Dual-In-Line Memory Module (NVDIMM) of the storage system.
US10761987B2
An apparatus and method are provided for processing ownership upgrade requests in relation to cached data. The apparatus has a plurality of processing units, at least some of which have associated cache storage. A coherent interconnect couples the plurality of master units with memory, the coherent interconnect having a snoop unit used to implement a cache coherency protocol when a request received by the coherent interconnect identifies a cacheable memory address within the memory. Contention management circuitry is provided to control contended access to a memory address by two or more processing units within the plurality of processing units. The coherent interconnect may receive, from a first processing unit having an associated cache storage, an ownership upgrade request specifying a target memory address, the ownership upgrade request indicating that a copy of data at the target memory address, as held in a shared state in the first processing unit's associated cache storage at a time the ownership upgrade request was issued, is required to have its state changed from the shared state to a unique state prior to the first processing circuitry performing a write operation to the data. The coherent interconnect is arranged to process the ownership upgrade request by referencing the snoop unit in order to determine whether the first processing unit's associated cache storage is identified as still holding a copy of the data at the target memory address at a time the ownership upgrade request is processed. In that event, a pass condition is identified for the ownership upgrade request independent of information held by the contention management circuitry for the target memory address.
US10761981B2
Examples disclosed herein relate, in one aspect, to method of searching a content addressable memory (CAM) that stores a plurality of entries. The method may include obtaining a search word corresponding to a matching data word stored in a matching entry of the CAM, where the matching entry may include a plurality of data words. The method may also include determining, based at least on a value of a predetermined bit of the search word, a search mask to mask off any data words within the matching entry other than the matching data word. The method may also determine, based on the search mask and a search key that includes the search word, the address of the matching entry within the CAM.
US10761973B2
In some examples, a system includes a segment identification engine and a coverage determination engine. The segment identification engine may a code segment in application code for updating a code coverage threshold applicable to the code segment. The coverage determination engine may update the code coverage threshold for the code segment based on a usage frequency of the code segment and a change frequency of the code segment.
US10761965B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for improving computer processing efficiency comprises using a main processing thread, in response to detecting an error in one or more function calls, tracing the one or more function calls at runtime and collecting stack trace data; and using a background processing thread, generating and displaying a function call tree based on the stack trace data.
US10761960B2
A device may receive, from a user device, a request for a code assessment of a proposed change to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system of an organization to identify an impact of implementing the proposed change on custom code associated with the ERP system. The device may obtain data identifying custom items associated with the custom code from a data structure associated with the ERP system. The device may generate custom code metadata for the custom items by performing error checks to determine whether the custom items will cause errors after the proposed change is implemented. The device may generate an assessment report for the code assessment by processing the custom code metadata. The device may provide the assessment report for display on an interface of the user device, and may perform actions to permit the proposed change to be implemented without the errors occurring.
US10761957B2
A method and system for collecting statistics associated with multiple memory nodes to determine if a read-only page is read accessed in aggregate by multiple processing devices of the multiple memory nodes at or above a first threshold value. If so, the read-only page may be replicated to an additional memory node. If a determination is made that the read-only page is read accessed in aggregate by the multiple processing devices below the first threshold value, the read-only page may be de-replicated upon receipt of a write request associated with the read-only page.
US10761948B1
A computer-implemented method, computer-implemented apparatus, and non-transitory, computer-readable medium for restoring state data of a blockchain. Account state data in the blockchain is organized into a Merkle state tree and stored in a database. The Merkle state tree includes a current Merkle state tree obtained by organizing a latest account state of each blockchain account and a historical Merkle state tree obtained by organizing a historical account state of each blockchain account. A target block to be restored is determined, where the target block is any historical block preceding a latest block of the blockchain. State restoration logic is iteratively performed until a latest account state corresponding to each blockchain account on a current Merkle state tree of the latest block is restored to a historical account state corresponding to each blockchain account on a historical Merkle state tree of the target block.
US10761947B2
Methods and systems for transferring a host image of a first machine to a second machine, such as during disaster recovery or migration, are disclosed. In one example, a first profile of a first machine of a first type, such as a first client machine, is compared to a second profile of a second machine, such as a recovery machine or a second client machine of a second type different from the first type, to which the host image is to be transferred, by a first processing device. The first and second profiles each comprise at least one property of the first type of first machine and the second type of second machine, respectively. At least one property of a host image of the first machine is conformed to at least one corresponding property of the second machine. The conformed host image is provided to the second machine, via a network. The second machine is configured with at least one conformed property of the host image by a second processing device of the second machine.
US10761944B2
Examples are disclosed for identifying duplicated media content in a plurality of media files. In some examples, according to a media file format, media content sequences may be located and duplicated media content sequences identified. For these examples, at least a portion of the identified duplicated media content sequences may then be deleted or not stored at a storage system. Other examples are described and claimed.
US10761941B1
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for backing up data. A tracking utility may receive a start request and then enter a holding mode until a first modifiable or writable snapshot is created. The tracking utility can track such a first snapshot and determine if any modifications such as writes have been made to the first snapshot. If the first snapshot has not been modified it can be backed up using a read only snapshot scheme. If the first snapshot has been modified, a record of the modifications thereto are used to update the frozen changes and the current changes. The resulting or finalized snapshot is generated and includes all of the modifications, modifications 1 to N made to the first snapshot. This process can be repeated for one or more or all of the modifiable or writable snapshots.
US10761939B1
A circuit at an interface between a device and an interconnect fabric is configured to track outstanding transactions associated with the device and ensure the completion of the outstanding transactions before rebooting or powering down the device. In some embodiments, the circuit is also configurable to provide appropriate responses when the device is powered down or is being rebooted such that other devices in the system can still operate even without knowing that the device is inactive and would not hang because no response is received from the device.
US10761937B2
The present disclosure generally relates to recovering storage devices in-field without the need to return the storage device to the factory. The storage device tracks detailed failure information. After receiving a signal or sequence of commands from a host device to prepare the storage device for a recovery download, the storage device determines whether to enter an adaptive field recovery state or a host-selected recovery state. If the storage device enters the adaptive field recovery state, the storage device determines which error state the device is in based on the detailed failure information, and selects an appropriate recovery level. After selecting the appropriate recovery level while in the adaptive field recovery state or after entering the host-selected recovery state, the storage device receives and downloads a recovery download package. The recovery download package comprises one or more recovery actions necessary to repair the error state.
US10761936B2
A versioned records management system that uses a restart era in order to promote rapid recovery. A persistent store includes a plurality of items that are each marked with a restart era. Any item that was created in the current restart era is marked with the current restart era. The persistent store also includes a first subset of the items comprising a plurality of records. At least one record includes multiple corresponding versions. The persistent store also includes a second subset of the items comprising a collection of objects that conform to an object model that is used to operate upon the plurality of records via the object collection. The versioned records management system recovers from a crash by promoting an item in the persistent store to the current restart era, in parallel with normal operation of the versioned records management system.
US10761927B2
A method of correcting one or more bit errors in a memory device includes retrieving a codeword from a memory device. The codeword includes a data and an error correcting code. The method further includes determining whether the one or more bit errors are present in the retrieved codeword and correcting the retrieved codeword for the one bit error in response to determining one bit error is present in the retrieved codeword. The method also includes flipping a bit of the retrieved codeword in response to determining a plurality of bit errors is present in the retrieved codeword and correcting the retrieved codeword for the plurality of bit errors based on the bit-flipped codeword.
US10761918B2
Embodiments of the present invention facilitate handling corrected memory errors on kernel text. An example computer-implemented method includes identifying a correctable error (CE) in a physical error location of a memory and a kernel function impacted by the CE. The identified kernel function includes a plurality of instructions including a first instruction of the identified kernel function at a first physical memory location in a first region of the memory. The first region includes the physical error location. The plurality of instruction is loaded to a second region of the memory. The loading includes storing the first instruction of the identified kernel function at a second physical memory location in the second region of the memory. The first physical memory location in the first region of the memory is updated to include an instruction to branch to the second physical memory location in the second region of the memory.
US10761914B2
A package generated by a compiler of a computing environment is to be used in inter-process communication between one module and another module running in a single address space of the computing environment. The one module is one class of module and the other module is another class of module, in which the one class of module is different from the other class of module. The one module calls the other module using the inter-process communication, which employs the package generated by the compiler. The called module performs one or more operations, and the one module is placed in a wait state.
US10761910B2
An application program interface (API) analyzer that determines protocols and formats to interact with a service provider or smart device. The API analyzer identifies an API endpoint or websites for the service provider or smart device, determines a service category or device category, selects a category-specific corpus, forms a service-specific or device-specific corpus by appending information regarding the service provider or smart device to the category-specific corpus, and parses API documentation or the websites.
US10761909B2
Devices and methods for providing alert notifications. The device includes an input module, a display, and memory having instructions. The device receives, via the input module, a first signal representing a command to set an alert condition associated with an identifier and, in response, generates the alert condition. The device transmits a second signal representing the alert condition to a monitoring system for setting up a targeted notification. The device receives a third signal representing an asserted alert indicating that the alert condition is satisfied and displays on the display, based on the third signal representing the asserted alert, an alert notification including the identifier and a first selectable option associated with a first application interface. In response to receiving, via the input module, a fourth signal representing selection of the first selectable option, the device displays the first application interface and auto-populates a first field based on the identifier.
US10761908B2
Various embodiments relate generally to computer software and systems, including a subset of intermediary executable instructions constituting an communication interface between various software and/or hardware platforms, and, more specifically, to an application interface integration design management platform configured to analyze distinctive repositories (e.g., version-control application-based repositories) and identify application interface files and data components to form a consolidated data source with which to perform a unified search (e.g., a global search) to implement different portions of various application interfaces in development of application program interfaces (“APIs”), and the like. For example, a method may include indexing portions of application interfaces disposed in distinctive repositories, extracting the portions of application interfaces for storage in a consolidated data storage to facilitate, among other things, a unified search operation over data derived from multiple repositories.
US10761906B2
Examples relate to multi-device collaboration. The examples disclosed herein enable identifying, by a first computing device having a first processor, a first role to be played by the first computing device when the first computing device is connected with a second computing device having a second processor. The second computing device may play a second role when the second computing device is connected with the first computing device. The examples further enable determining, by the first computing device, when at least one predetermined triggering event occurs that causes the first role and second role to be switched such that the first role is played by the second computing device and the second role is played by the first computing device.
US10761896B2
In one embodiment, a network functions virtualization infrastructure can be managed in a decentralized fashion. A front end can receive a request to provision a virtualized network function. The front end can create service descriptors for the request according to the virtualized network function, the service descriptors comprising a hierarchy of information elements organized based on distributed back-end agents operable to provision and manage the virtualized network function. The front end can store the service descriptors in a distributed data store.
US10761894B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to systems for building a model of changes to data items when information the data items is limited or not directly observed. Exemplary embodiments allow properties of the data items to be inferred using a single data structure and creates a highly granular log of changes to the data item. Using this data structure, the time-varying nature of changes to the data item can be determined. The data structure may be used to identify characteristics associated with a regularly-performed action, to examine how adherence to the action affects a system, and to identify outcomes of non-adherence. Fungible data items may be mapped to a remediable condition or remedy class. This may be accomplished by automatically deriving conditions and remedial information from available information, matching the conditions to remedial classes or types via a customizable mapping, and then calculating adherence for the condition on the available information.
US10761893B1
Techniques are described for automatically scaling (or “auto scaling”) compute resources—for example, virtual machine (VM) instances, containers, or standalone servers—used to support execution of service-oriented software applications and other types of applications that may process heterogeneous workloads. The resource requirements for a software application can be approximated by measuring “worker pool” utilization of instances of each service, where a worker pool represents a number of requests that the service can process concurrently. A scaling service can thus be configured to scale the compute instances provisioned for a service in proportion to worker pool utilization, that is, compute instances can be added as the fleet's worker pools become more “busy,” while compute instances can be removed when worker pools become inactive.
US10761889B1
Systems and methods scale an instance group of a computing platform by determining whether to scale up or down the instance group by using historical data from prior jobs wherein the historical data includes one or more of: a data set size used in a prior related job and a code version for a prior related job. The systems and methods also scale the instance group up or down based on the determination. In some examples, systems and methods scale an instance group of a computing platform by determining whether to scale up or down the instance group by at least evaluating on-demand job request data for resource units (RUs), observing current job state data, and predicting resource unit need using historical data from prior related job executions. The systems and methods scale the instance group up or down based on the determination.
US10761888B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes acquiring a number of processes in a queue storing a process executed by a node; generating information for specifying an execution completion point for a new process in a case where the node is to execute the new process based on the acquired number of processes in the node, information regarding a process execution rate in the node, and information regarding a communication delay between a management node generating the new process and the node; and transmitting the generated information for specifying the execution completion point generated for the node to the management node.
US10761883B2
According to one embodiment, a program executing apparatus includes an event management portion to configure migration timing of the program on the basis of a state of the program being executed at reception of a migration request from the program, and a state transmission portion to migrate state information of the program on the basis of the migration timing configured in the event management portion.
US10761880B2
A data storage device includes a data storage medium and a control unit. The control unit is electrically connected to the data storage medium. When switched to a command queue mode, the control unit is configured to receive a queue command comprising at least one task from a host, determine whether the at least one task is a ready-for-execution task, sort at least one ready-for-execution task and selectively reply the host with first queue status information. The first queue status information contains a task quantity corresponding to the at least one ready-for-execution task and at least one task serial number corresponding to the at least one sorted ready-for-execution task.
US10761879B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for executing service calls, and include receiving a service call including a flat structure of a set of key-value pairs, providing a blueprint including one or more blueprint expressions, for at least one blueprint expression included in the blueprint, determining a specific value by processing at least one blueprint expression of the blueprint using a value of a key-value pair, and providing the specific value for execution of the process.
US10761877B2
Methods and apparatuses relating to accelerating blockchain transactions are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a hardware accelerator to execute an operation of a blockchain transaction, and the hardware accelerator includes a dispatcher circuit to route the operation to a transaction processing circuit when the operation is a transaction operation and route the operation to a block processing circuit when the operation is a block operation. In another embodiment, a processor includes a hardware accelerator to execute an operation of a blockchain transaction; and a network interface controller including a dispatcher circuit to route the operation to a transaction processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a transaction operation and route the operation to a block processing circuit of the hardware accelerator when the operation is a block operation.
US10761874B2
A method includes, migrating a guest operating system from a first hypervisor to a second hypervisor, the first hypervisor utilizing a first virtual networking device associated with a first Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) node, the first virtual networking device corresponding to a physical network device. The method further includes, after the migrating, with the second hypervisor, providing to the guest operating system, a second virtual networking device associated with a second NUMA node, the second virtual networking device having a same physical address as the first virtual networking device, the second virtual networking device corresponding to the physical network device.
US10761872B1
A method for zeroing guest memory of a VM during boot up, includes the guest OS attempts to set a page to zero. A page fault is generated and is handled by the hypervisor. The page is mapped by the hypervisor to a page in host memory, and is given to the guest. The guest OS attempts to set the next page to zero. Another page fault is generated the hypervisor unmaps the host memory page, and the second page is mapped to the same page. The hypervisor then gives the page to the guest, which contains all zeros. The process is repeated for remaining pages of the guest memory.
US10761869B2
The present disclosure provides a cloud platform and a construction method thereof. The cloud platform includes a plurality of compute nodes and at least two storage backends. The construction method includes: establishing an association relationship between the compute nodes and the at least two storage backends, such that each compute node is associated with one and only one storage backend. Different storage backends are associated with different compute nodes. When the compute node generates an image file, a type of the image file is determined. The type of the image file includes a base image file or an exported image file. The image file is stored according to the type of the image file and the storage backend associated with the compute node that generates the image file. The technical solutions of the present disclosure enhance the overall disaster tolerance and stability of the cloud platform.
US10761862B2
A server may store application objects for a plurality of application scenarios of an application. The server may receive from a remote terminal configured to access a first application scenario, an operation message indicative of an interaction with an interactive graphic displayed on the remote terminal. The interactive graphic may be representative of an application object for a second application scenario. The server may select from the application objects, a group application objects for the second application scenario. The group of application objects not include the application object represented by the interactive graphic displayed on the remote terminal. The server may include, in a cache configured for the first application scenario, the selected group of application objects for the second application scenario. The server may cause the remote terminal to display interactive graphics corresponding to the selected group of application objects that are included in the cache.
US10761860B2
A method and architecture for using dynamically loaded plugins is described herein. The dynamically loaded plugin architecture comprises a parent context and a plugin repository. The parent context may define one or more reusable software components. The plugin repository may store one or more plugins. When a plugin is loaded, a child context may be created dynamically. The child context is associated with the plugin and inherits the one or more reusable software components from the parent context.
US10761857B2
In one example, a non-transitory computer readable medium for hardware management includes instructions to generate an instruction volume by copying a master volume, wherein the instruction volume is a computing device image, execute a set of scripts to alter the instruction volume based on a profile for a computing device, and deploy the instruction volume to the computing device to configure the computing device based on the profile for the computing device.
US10761856B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are described for performing instruction execution using an instruction completion table (ICT) that is configured to accommodate shared ICT entries. A shared ICT entry maps to multiple instructions such as, for example, two instructions. Each shared ICT entry may be referenced by an even instruction tag (ITAG) and an odd ITAG that correspond to respective instructions that have been grouped together in the shared ICT entry. The instructions corresponding to a given shared ICT entry can be executed and finished independently of one another. A shared ICT entry is completed when each execution of each instruction corresponding to the shared ICT entry has finished and when all prior ICT entries have completed. Also described herein are system, methods, and computer-readable media for flushing instructions in shared ICT entries in response to execution of a branch instruction.
US10761855B2
A method performed in a processor, includes: receiving, in the processor, a branch instruction in the processing; determining, by the processor, an address of an instruction after the branch instruction as a candidate for speculative execution, the address including an object identification and an offset; and determining, by the processor, whether or not to perform speculative execution of the instruction after the branch instruction based on the object identification of the address.
US10761852B2
Addressability of instructions and the addressing of data ranges are extended. One or more operands obtained from fields explicitly specified by an instruction are overridden (i.e., ignored), and instead, an address based on the instruction (e.g., an instruction address) is substituted for the one or more operands. This provides an address having more bits than allowed by the operand being overridden, thereby extending addressability of the instruction and extended data range addressing. Further, in one aspect, additional bits may be added to one or more immediate fields of the instruction, thereby extending addressability of the instructions and extending data range addressing.
US10761849B2
A processor of an aspect includes a decode unit to decode a prior instruction that is to have at least a first context, and a subsequent instruction. The subsequent instruction is to be after the prior instruction in original program order. The decode unit is to use the first context of the prior instruction to determine a second context for the subsequent instruction. The processor also includes an execution unit coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit is to perform the subsequent instruction based at least in part on the second context. Other processors, methods, systems, and machine-readable medium are also disclosed.
US10761836B2
At least one ALM artifact, indexed by a unified data store, that does not comply with at least one process convention can be identified. Responsive to identifying the ALM artifact, indexed by the unified data store, that does not comply with the process convention, a determination can be made by a process convention agent executed by a processor as to whether script code is available to update the ALM artifact to comply with the process convention. Responsive to the process convention agent determining that script code is available to update the ALM artifact to comply with the process convention, the process convention agent can automatically execute the script code to update the ALM artifact to comply with the process convention.
US10761833B2
Apparatus, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for providing software updates to client devices. A client device (such as a thermostat) executes software to perform one or more functionalities of the device. Upon receiving an indicating that a software update is available, the device waits to download the software update until pre-download conditions are satisfied. Once the software update is downloaded, the device then waits to install the software update until pre-install conditions are satisfied. If the software update is non-critical and received during an initial installation of the device, the software update may not be installed until after installation of the device is complete. If the device is a thermostat, the device may delay installation of the software update until a controlled HVAC system in inactive. Control of the HVAC system may be disabled during installation of the software update.
US10761831B2
An authentication module may be internally or externally installed on a lift control of a vehicle lift and allows new and updated features to be added to the vehicle lift without requiring a connection to a local or cellular network. The authentication module connects to one or more other electrical components of the lift control to allow for the exchange of data. A module containing software and configurations for enabling a feature may be removably attached to the authentication module, which uses the stored configurations to verify and enable the associated feature. The use of enabled features may be persistently tracked by the authentication module even in the absence of an external power source or network connection, and may be disabled by the authentication module if the feature use expires or is exhausted.
US10761830B2
Web portal software presents a GUI for installing and updating software applications on a computer. A method of using the GUI includes steps of: (a) specifying the configuration of an end user computer, (b) selecting on the GUI a software application program, (c) downloading a software package containing said selected software application program and arranged for the specified configuration, and (d) installing the software program by executing the software package. If the selected software package is not available for the specified configuration, step (c) is preceded by (e) the supplier creating a software package arranged for installing the software program on a computer having the specified configuration. The specified configuration may comprise an operating system type, a processor type, software application programs already installed on the end user computer, and/or a required dynamic link library, a registry entry, and a required parameter name in computer files.
US10761823B2
Techniques for imposing a common build system for disparate software products are described. In an embodiment, a first virtualization environment and second visualization environment are generated for a first software product and a second software product respectively. The virtualization environments include one or more script files identifying steps to take to build an executable package for the first software product and the second software product respectively. An API endpoint is defined for an output of the first virtualization environment. When a first generic build command is received through a first user interface associated with the first software product, the first generic build command is translated into a first software specific build command. The first virtualization environment then executes the first software build command using the one or more script files. When the first generic build command is received through a second user interface associated with the second software product, the first generic build command is translated into a second software specific build command. The second virtualization environment then executes the second software build command using the one or more script files.
US10761822B1
Provided are systems and methods for generating program code for an integrated circuit, where instructions in the code synchronize computation engines that support non-blocking instructions. In various examples, a computing device can receiving an input data set including operations to be performed by an integrated circuit device and dependencies between the operations. The input data set can include a non-blocking instruction, and an operation that requires that the non-blocking instruction be completed. The computing device can generate instructions for performing the operation including a particular instruction to wait for a value to be set in a register of the integrated circuit device. The computing device can further generate program code including the non-blocking instruction and the instructions for performing the operation, wherein the non-blocking instruction is configured to set the value in the register.
US10761820B2
A parallelization assistant tool system to assist in parallelization of a computer program is disclosed. The system directs the execution of instrumented code of the computer program to collect performance statistics information relating to execution of loops within the computer program. The system provides a user interface for presenting to a programmer the performance statistics information collected for a loop within the computer program so that the programmer can prioritize efforts to parallelize the computer program. The system generates inlined source code of a loop by aggressively inlining functions substantially without regard to compilation performance, execution performance, or both. The system analyzes the inlined source code to determine the data-sharing attributes of the variables of the loop. The system may generate compiler directives to specify the data-sharing attributes of the variables.
US10761818B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to identifying types of user interface components based on one or more existing user interfaces. The disclosed techniques may include, for example, determining a plurality of visible elements of a graphical user interface, based on user interface code. Additionally, techniques include determining coordinates for bounding boxes for ones of the plurality of visible elements, based on the user interface code. Disclosed techniques may also include grouping the visible elements into at least first and second groups and determining types of elements within the first and second groups. The techniques also include, in response to detecting a match between the types of elements within the first and second groups, determining a similarity metric for the first and second groups based on the coordinates of determined bounding boxes within the first and second groups. In response to the similarity metric meeting a threshold value, the techniques include storing information defining a component type that corresponds to the first and second groups.
US10761817B2
In certain embodiments, an instance-specific user interface may be facilitated via entity-associated application metadata. In some embodiments, access information associated with an entity may be provided to one or more servers via a first executable instance of a same user application during a launch of the first executable instance. Based on the access information, application metadata associated with the entity may be obtained via the first executable instance from among a set of application metadata during the launch of the first executable instance, where the application metadata indicates data fields that correspond to data accessible to the entity. Based on the application metadata, the data fields may be loaded for a user interface of the first executable instance during the launch of the first executable instance. One or more of the data fields may be presented via the user interface of the first executable instance.
US10761815B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for supporting different data sources provided in developing applications. An embodiment operates by a processor receiving the application descriptor, which includes a first data source for providing a first portion of data for the application, the first data source providing the first portion of data as a first data type that is incompatible with the application. The processor can then determine whether the first data source provides the first portion of data as the first data type and request based on the determination, the first portion of data from the first data source. The processor can thereafter receive a modified first portion of data in the second data and create a model for the application based thereon.
US10761813B1
Systems and methods are described for graphical user interfaces that enable users to graphically design nodes and interconnections of pipelines for preprocessing data later ingested into an indexing system. The preprocessing can include receiving messages published to a first publish-subscribe messaging system, the messages containing raw machine data generated by one or more components in an information technology environment, performing one or more processing operations on at least some of the messages to generate preprocessed messages, republishing the preprocessed messages to a second publish-subscribe messaging system, and providing to the indexing system, a subset of the messages from the second publish-subscribe messaging system. Nodes in the pipeline can specify the preprocessing operations, and interconnections in the pipeline can represent data flow through the nodes of the pipeline.
US10761810B2
A device creates tasks to implement a software code change in a software code and to generate new software code, and performs, via a development environment, a unit test on the new software code to generate a unit test result. The device performs, via the development environment, a functional test on the new software code to generate a functional test result, and updates, based on the unit test result and the functional test result, the new software code to generate updated new software code. The device performs, via a quality assurance environment, a regression test on the updated new software code to generate a regression test result, and updates, based on the regression test result, the updated new software code to generate final software code. The device automatically deploys the final software code in a production environment, and performs actions based on deploying the final software code.
US10761807B2
This invention discloses a floating-point number operation circuit and a method thereof. The floating-point number operation circuit is configured to perform a fused multiplication and accumulation (fused mac) operation or a multiplication and accumulation (mac) operation on a first operand, a second operand, and a third operand, or perform a multiplication operation on the first operand and the second operand. The floating-point number operation circuit includes two rounding circuits, a multiplication circuit, a selection circuit, a control circuit, and an addition circuit. The control circuit controls the scheduling of various operations and the use of resources on each calculation path.
US10761804B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a computerized method and computerized system, which enables to detect usage of a screen reader, by modifying screen reader functionality of elements in a webpage.
US10761791B2
Wireless printing devices that are configured to register with a service over a network (e.g., the Internet) for providing printing services without a device specific printer driver are herein disclosed and enabled. The printing device may include an interface (e.g., a touch sensitive screen) to receive security information for connecting to a wireless local area network (WLAN). While connected to the wireless WLAN, the printing device registers the printing device with the service and transmits, to the service, device information related to the printing device. Subsequent to registration, one or more client devices, using the service over the network, may select the registered printing device for printing. The printing device is configured to receive output data either from the service over the network or from the one or more client devices over the network. The output data is related to the device information transmitted from the printing device to the service.
US10761790B2
An information processing apparatus executes an operating system (OS) including a printing system that supports a first search protocol, and a printing function to generate a print job conforming to a first printing method and send the generated print job to a printer as a standard. A memory stores instructions, and a processor executes the instructions causing the information processing apparatus to receive a message conforming to the first search protocol from another printer that has been newly detected via the first search protocol if instructions for the use of the printing system included in the OS are provided by a user, and activate, upon condition that the detected printer has been selected and is determined not to conform to the first printing method based on contents of the received message, a function for downloading a print plug-in that supports the detected printer, wherein the print plug-in generates another print job and sends the generated another print job to the detected printer.
US10761767B2
A computer system includes a management computer, a first storage apparatus, and a second storage apparatus. A first logical device of the first storage apparatus and a second logical device of the second storage apparatus constitute a remote copy pair. The second logical device and a third logical device of the second storage apparatus constitute a copy pair. The second logical device and the third logical device have virtual IDs to be recognized by an issuer of an I/O request. The second storage apparatus interchanges the virtual IDs of the third logical device and the second logical device with reception of a command from the management computer as a trigger during processing of the I/O request from the issuer of the I/O request to the third logical device, thereby switching an access destination of the issuer of the I/O request from the third logical device to the second logical device.
US10761764B1
A storage system includes at least one drive chassis connected to at least one host computer via a first network, and a storage controller connected to the drive chassis, in which the storage controller instructs the drive chassis to create a logical volume, and the drive chassis creates a logical volume according to an instruction from the storage controller, provides a storage area of the storage system to the host computer, and receives an IO command from the host computer to the storage area of the storage system.
US10761762B2
A technique for writing data in a data storage system includes aggregating data received in a set of I/O requests into a batch that includes multiple extents of data. After compressing a current extent of the batch and determining that the compressed extent does not fit in a space where a previous version of the extent is stored, the technique performs a batch-relocate operation by gathering a set of mapping metadata for mapping each of the extents in the batch, identifying a set of holes indicated by the set of mapping metadata, and adding the holes to a batch-hole list. The technique then selects a hole, from the batch-hole list, which is big enough to accommodate the compressed extent, and places the compressed extent in the selected hole.
US10761760B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to improve the duplication of data between disparate deduplication systems. Source fingerprints are generated for data blocks using a source fingerprint algorithm at a source deduplication system. The source fingerprints and previously-generated source fingerprints are used to determine whether the data blocks are new or modified. If the data blocks are new or modified, target fingerprints are generated for the data blocks using a target fingerprint algorithm associated with a target deduplication system. The target fingerprints are sent to the target deduplication system.
US10761759B1
Preventing duplicate entries of identical data in a storage device, including: receiving a write request to write data to the storage device; calculating one or more signatures for the data associated with the write request; determining whether any of the calculated signatures match a calculated signature contained in a recently read signature buffer, each entry in the recently read signature buffer associating a calculated signature for data that has been read with an address of a storage location within the storage device where the data is stored; and responsive to determining that one of the calculated signatures matches a calculated signature contained in the recently read signature buffer, determining whether the data associated with the calculated signature is a duplicate of data stored at a particular address that is associated with the calculated signature contained in the recently read signature buffer.
US10761742B1
A method and system for dynamic redundancy in storage systems is described. The method may include receiving a data fragment from a data stream of user data to be archived. The method may further include splitting the data fragment into a first number of data chunks. The method may also include, in response to determining that the data fragment is not a last data fragment in the data stream, generating a second number of additional data chunks based upon, at least in part, the first number of data chunks. The method may additionally include, in response to determining that the data fragment is the last data fragment in the data stream, generating a third number of additional data chunks based upon, at least in part, the first number of data chunks.
US10761741B1
A computer-implemented method and system for managing and sharing data using smart pointers. The computer-implemented method includes obtaining original data and storing the original data in memory. Further, the computer-implemented method includes creating a smart pointer for the original data in a first thread. Furthermore, the computer-implemented method includes duplicating the smart pointer from the first thread to a second thread. Moreover, the computer-implemented method includes share the original data across the first thread and the second thread.
US10761734B2
Various embodiments provide a copy-on-write data frame (CoW-DF) that permits lightweight copies of a data frame, where the copies comprise memory allocation for only changed portions of a data frame. A CoW-DF may have semantics of a data frame, and a CoW-DF may appear and behave like a traditional data frame copy, while on the backend of a CoW-DF, only data differences created by modifications to a data frame may be maintained, rather than whole copies of a modified data frame. For various embodiments, the CoW concept is applied to other types of data structures, such as a column, a row, or a data frame value.
US10761729B2
A multi-cloud user interface apparatus facilitates transparent use of multiple Internet-based clouds. A network interface compatibly interacts with the multiple Internet-based clouds, a database management system of information, and a user interface that includes a non-human agent. The database management system pertains to a world model that represents a plurality of entities such as workgroups, products, humans, animals, plants, positions, and assets. The database itself can be configured such that the items of information are partially but not wholly stored on individual ones of each of the multiple Internet-based clouds. The non-human agent can be configured to receive input from a human user and to respond to the input by accessing the database. The nature of the response can be automatically derived as a function of an information relevance measurement that is itself calculated as a function, at least in part, of an entity relationship-based metric.
US10761727B2
A region of a memory component is determined to include a type of memory. A frequency to perform an operation on the region of the memory component is determined based on the type of memory. The operation is performed on a memory cell at the region of the memory component at the determined frequency to transition the memory cell from a state associated with an increased error rate for data stored at the memory cell to another state associated with a decreased error rate for the data stored at the memory cell.
US10761726B2
Computer system and method for managing storage requests in a distributed storage system uses congestion data related to processing of storage requests for local storage to adaptively adjust a bandwidth limit for a first class of storage requests to be processed. The bandwidth limit is enforced on the storage requests belonging to the first class of storage requests without enforcing any bandwidth limit on the storage requests belonging to a second class of storage requests.
US10761720B2
A display control device includes a touch panel and a controller. The controller includes a display section and a receiving section. The display section displays at least one object on the touch panel. The receiving section receives a slide operation on one object of the at least one object. When the slide operation is received by the receiving section, the display section determines, based on the slide operation, a character corresponding to the one object and displays the character on the touch panel.
US10761716B2
In some embodiments, a device displays content on a touch screen display and detects input by finger gestures. In response to the finger gestures, the device selects content, visually distinguishes the selected content, and/or updates the selected content based on detected input. In some embodiments, the device displays a command display area that includes one or more command icons; detects activation of a command icon in the command display area; and, in response to detecting activation of the command icon in the command display area, performs a corresponding action with respect to the selected content. Exemplary actions include cutting, copying, and pasting content.
US10761715B2
An apparatus for sharing contents includes: a touch screen to sense a user's touch input for one or more contents; a processor to detect the user's touch input, and generate a transmission image according to instructions corresponding to the detected user's touch input to share the one or more contents with an external device; and a communication unit to establish connection with the external device, and transmit the transmission image to the external device.
US10761705B2
A computer-implemented method of setting a parameter. The method comprises detecting a user input on a first location on a graphical user interface, the user input being maintained. The method also comprises displaying on the graphical user interface a pie menu centered on the first location, the pie menu comprising at least one angular sector that is associated with a customizable parameter, detecting a second location of the user input on the graphical user interface in the at least angular sector, and selecting among a set of values, a value of the customizable parameter according to the detected second location.
US10761703B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an image data processing method performed at a computing device, including: obtaining target image data, and creating grid information on a target display region corresponding to the target image data; obtaining a sliding operation track corresponding to a touch screen, and extracting a touch point in the sliding operation track, as a target touch point; creating position coordinates of the target touch point, and calculating, according to the grid information and the position coordinates of the target touch point, a cleaning number corresponding to the target touch point; adding a grid number same as the cleaning number to a preset number set, and deleting subimage data covered by the target touch point; and completely deleting, when the quantity of grid numbers in the number set meets a cleaning condition, the target image data from which a plurality of pieces of subimage data has been deleted.
US10761702B2
Systems, methods, and devices can allow applications to provide complication data to be displayed in a complication of a watch face. A client application can create a complication data object according to a template to efficiently select how the complication data is to be displayed. For example, a complication controller on the watch can receive new data and determine which template to use. The complication data object can be sent to a display manager that can identify the selected template and display the data according to the template.
US10761699B2
Systems and methods for virtual opening of packages such as boxes and packs of cards are provided herein. Exemplary systems may execute methods via one or more processors, which are programmed to generate a visual representation of a package, receive input from the user, the input indicating opening of the package, and provide feedback to the user corresponding to the opening of the package that at least partially mimics a physical opening of the package.
US10761697B2
An electronic mail (email) system generates an email user interface display, that allows the user to enter message content. A context-sensitive calendar preview can be triggered and displayed on the email user interface display. The email system detects a user drag and drop input dragging at least a portion of the message content onto the calendar preview, and automatically generates a calendar event based upon the detected drag and drop input, and the particular portion of the message content dragged onto the context-sensitive calendar preview.
US10761695B1
Techniques are described that facilitate remotely interfacing with a vehicle touchscreen. According to an embodiment, a method is provided comprising determining touch controls included in a GUI configured for displaying on a touchscreen of the vehicle, wherein the touch controls provide for controlling functions of the vehicle based on first interaction with the touch controls as displayed on the touchscreen. The method further comprises generating a representation of the GUI for display via an auxiliary display of the auxiliary device, the representation comprising one or more graphical controls corresponding to one or more touch controls of the touch controls, and enabling remote control of one or more functions of the functions of the vehicle by the auxiliary device based on second interaction with the one or more graphical controls as displayed via the auxiliary display.
US10761694B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, at information handling device, an indication to display extended reality content in a field of view; identifying, using a processor, at least one portion in the field of view where the extended reality content should not be displayed; and excluding, responsive to the identifying, the extended reality content from being displayed on the at least one portion in the field of view. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10761689B1
An example operation may include a system, comprising a processor and a memory on which are stored machine readable instructions that when executed by the processor causing the processor to one or more of obtain a first caller name of an first received call, display a notification on the device, wherein the notification includes a first button and a first document, wherein the first document is associated with the first caller name, display a list on the device of at least one name of a second document when the first button is pressed, wherein the at least one second document is associated with the first caller name and replace the first document with the second document when the at least one second document name is selected from the list.
US10761688B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for editing an object. The method includes: displaying a navigation bar and a user interface of an application in a terminal device, where the navigation bar is a control for displaying n virtual buttons provided by an operating system of the terminal device, and n is a positive integer; when an editable object exists in the user interface, displaying an editing control interface corresponding to the editable object in the navigation bar; receiving a first signal, where the first signal is generated according to a first designated operation triggered by the editing control interface; and performing an editing operation corresponding to the first signal for the editable object.
US10761677B2
A processing executing apparatus includes: a display; a storage that stores group identifying information for identifying a first group of a plurality of groups; a communication device communicable with a server that stores user information corresponding to each of users and at least including group belonging information indicating which group each of the users belongs; and a controller. The controller executes: a first receiving processing in which the controller receives, from the server, user information including the group belonging information indicating the first group identified by the group identifying information stored in the storage; and a first display processing in which the controller controls the display to display at least one operation button for each user corresponding to the user information received in the first receiving processing. The at least one operation button is for instructing execution of at least one processing.
US10761672B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining whether a user of the mobile computing device is currently actively using an application on the mobile computing device; and if the user is not currently actively using an application on the mobile computing device, then automatically and without user input providing for display to the user on the mobile computing device a user interface (UI) including a number of interactive elements that each correspond to one of a number of social-networking functionalities provided at least in part by a social-networking system remote from the mobile computing device.
US10761653B2
A display panel able to receive full fingerprint impressions in a display area together with command touches, in addition to showing images, includes a substrate, scan lines, data lines, touch scan lines, touch lines, sub-pixels, and fingerprint sensing units. A method for driving such multifunctional touch display panel is also provided.
US10761652B2
A touch panel, a touch device with the touch panel and a method of manufacturing the touch panel are provided. The touch panel includes a base substrate, a touch structure and a touch shift register circuit. The touch structure includes: touch scanning electrodes, arranged on the base substrate along a first direction; and touch sensing electrodes, arranged on the base substrate along a second direction, the first direction intersecting with the second direction. The touch shift register circuit is arranged on the base substrate, electrically connected to the touch scanning electrodes and configured to provide touch scanning signals to the touch scanning electrodes.
US10761650B2
A touch sensing device determines a contact location of a pen by using a first electrode signal generated from a first electrode of the pen, determines additional information related to the pen by using a second electrode signal generated from a second electrode of the pen, and can determine tilt information of the pen and/or rotation information of the pen by using a profile of the first electrode signal and a profile of the second electrode signal.
US10761647B2
According to one embodiment, the touch drive device includes a plurality of drive electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a single direction, a detection electrode which extends in a direction crossing the direction in which the drive electrodes extend, and generates capacitances at intersections of the detection electrode and the drive electrodes, and a driver (DDI) which groups the drive electrodes into a plurality of drive electrode portions each including at least one drive electrode, and performs a touch scanning drive by supplying a touch drive signal (TSVCOM) having a pulse waveform for detection of a closely situated external object to a target drive electrode portion which is a selected one of the drive electrode portions. The number of the drive electrodes included in each of the drive electrode portions and the target drive electrode portion to which the touch drive signal. (TSVCOM) is supplied can be designated.
US10761637B2
A pressure sensing detection circuit and a driving method thereof, an electronic device. The pressure sensing detection circuit includes: an excitation signal circuit, configured to output an alternating current voltage signal; a pressure sensing circuit, configured to sense a magnitude of an external pressure and output a detection voltage signal under excitation of the alternating current voltage signal; and a phase detection circuit, configured to detect a phase change value of the detection voltage signal and convert the phase change value into a voltage value.
US10761628B2
Provided is a touch control system of an electronic product in underwater environment. The touch control system includes a sealing device which is configured to accommodate the electronic product. The sealing device includes a sealed chamber interlayer and a sealed shell. Herein the sealed chamber interlayer is opposite to the touch screen of the electronic product and is capable of being pressed and rebounded and is transparent, and the sealed shell is connected with the sealed chamber interlayer in a sealing manner. The sealed chamber interlayer covers a surface of the touch screen completely. The sealed shell covers other surfaces of the electronic product, and implements touch control to the touch screen by applying an external force to the sealed chamber interlayer. Underwater high-accuracy maneuverability of the touch screen of the electronic product may be implemented when an external force is applied to the sealed chamber interlayer by a finger.
US10761619B2
Disclosed are a touch-sensing system, a display device, an active pen, and a pen recognition method which can perform rapid and accurate pen recognition as the active pen provides pen identification information to the display device through a predetermined path, and which can also simultaneously process pen inputs through many active pens by distinguishably recognizing the many pens.
US10761616B2
A common method for providing user-input to an electronic system consists of tracking the position and motion of an object moved by the user and conveying this information to the electronic system. One embodiment of a positional tracking system for an object has an external and stationary magnetic-field emitter, a magnetic-field sensor which moves with the tracked object, and a microprocessor that compares magnetic-field intensity measurements taken by the sensor and compares it to magnetic-field characteristics defined for the external magnetic field emitter. A nonlinear equation solver, particle filter, or other method is used to determine the position of the sensor in the magnetic field. In this way the position of an object can be tracked using a single magnetic field emission source. This positional information can be combined with an inertial tracking system to mitigate drift errors.
US10761611B2
This document describes techniques and systems that enable a radar-image shaper for radar-based applications. A radar field enables an electronic device to accurately determine a characteristic disposition (e.g., a location, orientation, velocity, or direction) of an object in the radar field. The characteristic disposition is determined by detecting a radar cross-section (or radar signature) of a radar-image shaper that is included in the object. The shape of the radar-image shaper produces a known signature when illuminated by the radar field. Using these techniques, the electronic device can determine a characteristic disposition of the object, which allows the object to be used to interact with the electronic device using gestures and other position-based techniques. Because the radar-image shaper enables a passive object to control applications on the electronic device, users have an interaction method with a rich library of gestures and controls that does not require additional components or a battery.
US10761601B2
A system for evaluating a point of gaze of a user on an object, the system comprising: an eye tracker, comprising: at least one eye tracker camera associated with a first coordinate system; a light source; at least one computer; at least one positioning camera associated with a second coordinate system, the geometrical data of the object is stored in a storage device accessible to the at least one computer; wherein any combination of the at least one computer is configured to determine: a gaze line of the user relative to the first coordinate system; the position of the at least one eye tracker camera relative to the second coordinate system; the position of the object relative to the second coordinate system; and a gaze point, based on the gaze line in any coordinate system and the at least one object's position in the any coordinate system.
US10761600B2
A simulation control device includes: a display processing section; a measurement section that measures a gaze time of a user with respect to an object that is placed in the virtual space, and decreases a measured value obtained by the measurement corresponding to a time in which the user does not gaze at the object when the user has removed his/her gaze from the object; and a reception section that determines that the object has been selected when the measured value has reached a first threshold value, determines that the selection of the object has been confirmed when the measured value has reached a second threshold value that is larger than the first threshold value, and determines that the selection of the object has been canceled when the measured value has decreased to a third threshold value before the selection of the object is confirmed.
US10761598B2
A system and method for generating wireless signals from the physical movement of a person utilizing a movement detection mechanism attached to the person wherein the system allows a person to manipulate the generated wireless signals to selectively control digital responses which may be in the form of sensory-perceivable outputs such as sounds and/or visual effects, for example, through the person's physical movement. Movement sensors attached to the person (e.g., on one foot or both feet) communicate with other system components such as microprocessors, transmitters and/or tactile interface controls, for example, to wirelessly send signal pulses from a person to a computer or mobile device and allow the person wearing the sensors and/or another person to selectively control the dynamics of the digital responses so to create a unique sensory output.
US10761572B1
The description relates to hinged devices. One example relates to a device that has a first portion and a second portion. The device can include a hinge assembly secured to the first portion and the second portion and a flexible display secured to the first portion and the second portion. The device can include a support member positioned between the hinge assembly and the flexible display. The hinge assembly can be configured to control a length of the device as defined by the first portion, the hinge assembly, and the second portion, based at least in part upon an orientation of the first and second portions, and configured to control a shape of the support member based at least in part upon the orientation of the first and second portions.
US10761569B2
Techniques for layout for a touch input surface are described. Generally, the described techniques enable a touch input surface and/or combination of touch input surfaces to be characterized as a single logical input surface. Based on different contextual factors, the single logical input surface can be divided into different touch input zones that can each receive touch input to invoke a different respective functionality. In at least some implementations, different haptic effects can be output to correspond to different touch input zones.
US10761568B2
The disclosed apparatus is a display panel (with electronic display) made wearable by suspending it from an operator's neck (or shoulder) by a strap and including a prop to push the display panel away from the operator's stomach/chest and into his comfortable view without using of his hands. The bottom end of the prop makes contact with the operator using an interface designed to provide lateral tipping stability and sliding stability in all directions. The display distance from the operator's face may be adjusted by adjusting the strap length. The prop may include an adjustable extension to better position the display. The apparatus may include only electromagnetic communication for computer remote control, may receive television, may connection to multiple sources with a separate telecommunication housing, may include various accessory holders, may include display panel back side controls or may include computer equipment.
US10761565B2
An aspect provides an apparatus, including: a receptacle for an information handling device having a user display, the receptacle having at least a first side, a second side, and at least one edge, wherein the first side of the receptacle has at least one opening therein through which the information handling device is insertable there-through and the second side forms a back of the receptacle; a protrusion from the second side of the receptacle pivotably attached to the second side of the receptacle and of sufficient length such that the protrusion will wrap around an edge of the receptacle and cover the opening in the first side of the receptacle; and wherein at least a portion of the protrusion comprises thereon a mechanism that permits the edge of the receptacle to be held in position. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10761557B2
A magnetic spring input device is disclosed. In various embodiments, an input device as disclosed includes a manual input structure movably coupled to a base assembly; and a non-stationary magnet fixedly coupled to the manual input structure; a stationary magnet coupled to the base assembly in a manner that is fixed with respect to at least a first input axis of the input device, the stationary magnet being coupled to the base assembly with a first magnetic pole having a first magnetic polarity is oriented opposite a corresponding magnetic pole of the non-stationary magnet having the first magnetic polarity, in a position that is adjacent to but offset from the non-stationary magnet when the manual input structure is in a neutral position. The non-stationary magnet is coupled to the manual input structure in a position such that movement of the manual input structure about or along the first input axis of the input device brings said poles have said first magnetic polarity within sufficient proximity to generate a repulsive magnetic force.
US10761555B2
This shifting device is equipped with an operation unit that is operated for switching among a plurality of shift ranges of a transmission installed in a vehicle. The operation unit includes: a first operation portion that is operated by pressing; and a plurality of second operation portions that are arranged on either side of the first operation portion and are operated in different directions about their common turning axis.
US10761548B2
A method for use in an information handling system comprising a processor, an information handling resource communicatively coupled to the processor, the information handling resource including a controller and a temperature sensor for sensing a temperature associated with the information handling resource, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and the information handling resource, and having stored thereon a program of instructions configured to perform thermal management of the information handling system, may be provided. The method may include periodically communicating information indicative of the temperature from the information handling resource to the management controller, storing by the management controller the information indicative of the temperature in a data record associated with the temperature sensor, and based on information stored in the data record, performing by the program of instructions closed-loop thermal management of the information handling system.
US10761539B2
A method and system for docking a robot with a charger docking station, including receiving an initial pose and receiving a mating pose associated with the robot charger docking station, performing a first navigation from a location to the initial pose, and performing a second navigation of the robot from the initial pose to the mating pose. The second navigation may proceed substantially along an arc path from the initial pose to the mating pose, thereby, upon arriving at the mating pose, an electrical charging port of the robot mates with an electrical charging assembly. The arc path may be associated with a section of a unique circle having a radius and a center equidistant from the initial pose and the mating pose. Controlling for error may include a proportional control and/or weighted control or switching between the controls to maintain an error below a threshold.
US10761538B2
Enhanced systems and methods for collision avoidance of a high value asset with reflective beacons around it using multi-sensor data fusion on a mobile industrial vehicle. The system has a sensing processing system with a LiDAR and camera sensors, and a multi-processor module responsive to the different sensors. The sensing processing system fuses the different sensor data to locate the reflective beacons. A model predictive controller on the vehicle determines possible control solutions where each defines a threshold allowable speed for the vehicle at discrete moments based upon an estimated path to a breaching point projected from the reflective beacons, and then identifies an optimal one of the control solutions based upon a performance cost function and associated with an optimal threshold allowable speed. The system has a vehicle actuator configured to respond and alter vehicle movement to avoid a collision when the vehicle exceeds the optimal threshold allowable speed.
US10761537B1
An autonomous or semi-autonomous excavation vehicle is capable of determining a route between a start point and an end point in a site and navigating over the route. Sensors mounted on the excavation vehicle collect any or more of spatial, imaging, measurement, and location data to detect an obstacle between two locations within the site. Based on the collected data and identified obstacles, the excavation vehicle generates unobstructed routes circumventing the obstacles, obstructed routes traveling through the obstacles, and instructions for removing certain modifiable obstacles. The excavation vehicle determines and selects the shortest route of the unobstructed and obstructed route and navigates over the selected path to move within the site.
US10761532B2
A vehicle control system includes a first detection unit configured to detect a direction of a face or a line of sight of an occupant of a subject vehicle, an automatic driving control unit configured to execute an automatic driving control, and a switching control unit configured to switch an automatic driving mode for causing the automatic driving control unit to execute the automatic driving control to one of a plurality of automatic driving modes including a first automatic driving mode and a second automatic driving mode. The switching control unit prevents the automatic driving control executed by the automatic driving control unit on the basis of a detection result by the first detection unit.
US10761531B2
The present invention is an induction control system for an autonomous-traveling vehicle that performs traveling and work autonomously while measuring the position of the traveling vehicle by using a satellite positioning system, the induction control system being characterized by, when the autonomous-traveling vehicle is moved backward, setting a virtual antenna position more backward, by a predetermined distance, than the antenna position of the satellite positioning system, and performing a lateral control by using a lateral deviation from a target path at the virtual antenna position. This makes it possible to travel along a pre-designed target path during a forward movement, turning, and a backward movement of the autonomous-traveling vehicle.
US10761526B2
An asset inspection system includes a robot and a server. The server receives a request for data from the robot, wherein the requested data comprises an algorithm, locates the requested data in a database stored on the server, encrypts the requested data, and transmits the requested data to the robot. The robot is configured to collect inspection data corresponding to an asset based at least in part on the requested data and transmit the collected inspection data to the server.
US10761524B2
A process device with diagnostics for use in an industrial process includes a process variable sensor or controller element which is configured to sense or control a process variable of a process fluid of the industrial process. Circuitry is coupled to the process variable sensor or control element and configured to measure or control a process variable of the industrial process. A wireless communication adapter includes wireless communication circuitry configured to communicate in the industrial process. The wireless communication circuitry is further configured to receive a process signal from another process device. Diagnostic circuitry is configured to diagnose operation of the industrial process as a function of the sensed process variable and the received process signal.
US10761522B2
Closed-loop model parameter identification techniques for industrial model-based process controllers
A method includes obtaining closed-loop data associated with operation of an industrial process controller, where the industrial process controller is configured to control at least part of an industrial process using at least one model. The method also includes generating at least one noise model associated with the industrial process controller using at least some of the closed-loop data. The method further includes filtering the closed-loop data based on the at least one noise model. In addition, the method includes generating one or more model parameters for the industrial process controller using the filtered closed-loop data.
US10761507B2
An instant correction method for an encoder includes the following steps. The motion of a device under test is sensed to obtain a first wave signal and a second wave signal. The first and second wave signals are sampled to generate N first digital signal values and N second digital signal values. N positioning positions are generated according to the N first and second digital signal values, and the N positioning positions are added to a calculation group. A regression analysis is performed for the calculation group to generate a regression curve. The (N+1)-th prediction position is predicted using the regression curve. The ideal position of the device under test is determined at a time point of the (N+1)-th prediction position according to an ideal position curve. An error value between the (N+1)-th prediction position and the ideal position is applied to correct the device under test.
US10761505B2
The present invention relates to a safety controller for the safety-directed monitoring and control of a machine, said safety controller having at least one monitoring input that is configured to receive a detection signal from a protective device; at least one control output that is configured to output a shutdown signal to the machine to be monitored and to be controlled; at least one bypass input that is configured to receive a bypass demand from an independent control system. The invention further relates to a safety system having a safety controller and having at least one protective device connected to the safety controller.
US10761488B2
A watch packaging box including a base containing a removable tray, a lid cooperating in a complementary manner with the base to close the box, the tray including compartments for receiving a watch, each delimited by a bottom and a partition, the box including, centred inside each compartment, a resilient pad pressed onto a watch by the lid in the closed position, and the box includes, in each compartment, a main orifice for passage of a sensor or tool, included in a device performing a watch testing and/or timing method, on the watch occupying the compartment, and each resilient pad includes a secondary orifice aligned with a main orifice for access of the sensor or tool to the watch.
US10761487B2
A convertible smart watch including a smart watch and an analog watch together, which is convertible between the smart watch and the analog watch at user's option, is disclosed. The convertible smart watch includes a frame with a through hole in the center, a watch body including an analog watch unit and a smart watch unit combined against their backs such that that analog watch be exposed to one side and the smart watch be exposed to the other side, which is rotatable inside the through hole of the frame, and a smart watch on-off unit to operate the smart watch unit, when the smart watch is exposed to the front of the frame and the analog watch is exposed to the rear of the frame.
US10761483B2
Provided are a mechanical part, a timepiece having the mechanical part, and a method of manufacturing a mechanical part that suppresses separation and rotation of a rotating member to a staff member, and can be manufactured at a competitive cost. A escape wheel and pinion 35 as an example of a mechanical part has a staff member 102; an escape wheel 101 with a hole 115 to which the staff member 102 is inserted, and ribs 112 that extend toward the staff member 102; and an annular fastening member 130 that affixes the escape wheel 101 to the staff member 102. The fastening member 130 is disposed touching the ribs 112 and deforming to protrude into the hole 115.
US10761481B2
Disclosed is a holographic display including a spatial light modulator (SLM) with pixels, the SLM pixels being on a substrate, the SLM including circuitry which is on the same substrate as the SLM pixels, the circuitry operable to perform calculations which provide an encoding of the SLM.
US10761480B2
An electronic apparatus includes an attachment mechanism to which an attachment unit is detachably attachable and a processor. The processor is configured to perform a determination operation to determine whether or not an attachment unit attached to the attachment mechanism is of a specific type, and transmit a determination result of the determination operation.
US10761473B2
A developing device includes a housing, a developer holding device, and a directing device. The housing includes a container portion containing developer and has a developing opening. The developing device has a through portion disposed at a portion of the housing including a downstream edge portion at a downstream portion of the developing opening in a direction in which the developer holding device is rotated. The through portion has an inlet, an outlet, and a passage that connects the inlet and the outlet to each other so as to allow part of an airflow generated by rotation of the developer holding device to be introduced thereinto and flow therethrough. The directing device extends from a portion of the housing opposite to the developing opening with the inlet of the through portion interposed therebetween toward the developer holding device so as to direct the part of the airflow toward the inlet.
US10761468B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit containing a special recording material and circuitry configured to control the image forming unit to form a hardly visible image on a recording medium with the special recording material. The hardly visible image is formed of a halftone dot image comprising isolated dots in a number smaller than that of isolated dots forming a visible image having the same image area ratio as the hardly visible image.
US10761465B2
A fuser device for fusing a developer image on a medium by applying heat includes an endless fuser belt, a belt supporting part that has a contact face shaped in an arc centering on a first central axis and contacts with the inner circumferential face of the fuser belt on the contact face, a driven ring that is disposed on at least one side of the fuser belt in the width direction of the fuser belt, and a ring supporting part that has a contact face shaped in an arc centering on a second central axis and contacts with an inner circumferential face of the driven ring on the contact face, wherein the first central axis is shifted from the second central axis.
US10761462B2
According to embodiments, an image forming apparatus includes a fixation member, a pressurization member, a heat source, a drive unit, a measurement unit, and a control unit. The measurement unit measures the time that elapses after the image forming apparatus ends image forming processing until the image forming apparatus receives an instruction to perform the next image forming processing. If the elapsed time does not exceed a predetermined threshold, the control unit causes the drive unit to start to drive the fixation member after a temperature of the fixation member reaches a first control temperature. If the elapsed time exceeds the predetermined threshold, the control unit causes the drive unit to start to drive the fixation member after the temperature of the fixation member reaches a second control temperature that is higher than the first control temperature.
US10761448B2
A charging roller has a curved roller surface, and the shape of the roller surface is represented by Y/Y1=(X/X1)exp(α). A distance between a central portion of the roller body and a first arbitrary point on a rotation axis is denoted by X, a reduction in a radius at the first arbitrary point from the maximum radius at the central portion is denoted by Y, a distance between the central portion and a second arbitrary point on the rotation axis is denoted by X1, and a reduction in the radius at the second arbitrary point from the maximum radius at the central portion is denoted by Y1. The second arbitrary point is closer to an end portion of the roller body than the first arbitrary point.
US10761438B2
A lithographic projection apparatus is disclosed in which a liquid supply system provides a liquid between the projection system and the substrate. An active drying station is provided to actively remove the liquid from the substrate W or other objects after immersion of all or part of a surface of the substrate W or other objects.
US10761436B2
An optical arrangement, for example a lithography system, includes: a first component, in particular a carrying frame; a second component, in particular a mirror, which is movable in relation to the first component; and at least one stop with at least one stop face for limiting the movement of the second component in relation to the first component. The optical arrangement, preferably the stop, can have a fixing device for fixing the second component. The fixing device can have a fixing element that is movable in relation to the stop face of the stop. Further aspects of the device likewise relate to an optical arrangement with a fixing device or with a transport lock.
US10761434B2
There is provided a substrate holding apparatus including a base provided with a gap and a reflection member disposed in the gap and configured to reflect light that has transmitted the substrate to the substrate side, and an exposure apparatus including the substrate holding apparatus.
US10761429B2
A projection exposure method and apparatus are disclosed for exposing a radiation-sensitive substrate with at least one image of a pattern of a mask under the control of an operating control system of a projection exposure apparatus, part of the pattern lying in an illumination region is imaged onto the image field on the substrate with the aid of a projection lens, wherein all rays of the projection radiation contributing to the image generation in the image field form a projection beam path.
US10761428B2
A method for fabricating calcite channels in a nanofluidic device is described. A photoresist layer is coated onto a top surface of a silicon nitride (SiN) substrate. After coating the photoresist layer, the photoresist layer is scanned with an electron beam in a predefined pattern. The scanned photoresist is developed to expose portions of the top surface of the SiN substrate in the predefined pattern. Calcite is deposited in the predefined pattern using atomic layer deposition (ALD) using a calcite precursor gas. Using a solvent, a remaining portion of the photoresist layer is removed to expose the deposited calcite in the predefined pattern and on the top surface of the SiN substrate, where a width of the deposited calcite is in range from 50 to 100 nanometers (nm).
US10761424B2
The present invention provides an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition which is capable of forming a pattern having a low LWR and is further suppressed in the collapse of the formed pattern, a resist film, a pattern forming method, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device. The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition of the present invention contains a photoacid generator represented by General Formula (1) or a resin having a residue obtained by removing one hydrogen atom from the photoacid generator represented by General Formula (1).
US10761423B2
A method includes forming a tri-layer. The tri-layer includes a bottom layer; a middle layer over the bottom layer; and a top layer over the middle layer. The top layer includes a photo resist. The method further includes removing the top layer; and removing the middle layer using a chemical solution. The chemical solution is free from potassium hydroxide (KOH), and includes at least one of a quaternary ammonium hydroxide and a quaternary ammonium fluoride.
US10761419B2
Systems and methods for use in tri-spot point spread function imaging are provided that include a phase mask. The phase mask includes three partitions that each include a subset of the total area that is asymmetrical to other partitions. Each partition includes a phase delay ramp aligned along a phase delay axis, and includes a gradient of phase delays. Each phase delay axis is oriented in a different direction with respect to each other. Included is a source that outputs an excitation beam into a sample containing at least one light emitter that emits a radiation pattern when illuminated. Included is at least one sensor arranged to capture at least one image of the radiation pattern and a phase mask positioned between the at least one emitter and the at least one sensor. The phase mask is configured to produce a tri-spot point spread function.
US10761416B2
The PET-film-bonded type transparent anti-UV projection screen includes a PET film layer, an adhesive layer and a transparent supporting layer which are sequentially stacked from top to bottom. The PET film layer is prepared by uniformly mixing PET resin, an antioxidant, a light stabilizer and a nanoparticle dispersion in a molten state, pre-crystallizing and drying the mixture, and then extruding, stretching and molding the mixture. The production method for the PET-film-bonded type transparent anti-UV projection screen includes preparing a nanoparticle dispersion; preparing a PET film; and performing coating and bonding the film.
US10761414B2
A projection apparatus and a light source apparatus are provided. The light source apparatus includes at least one first light source, at least one second light source, a wavelength conversion device, and a filter device. The wavelength conversion device is disposed on a transmission path of the first light beam from the first light source, and converts the first light beam into a conversion light beam. The filter device corresponds to the wavelength conversion device and is disposed between the first light source and the wavelength conversion device and disposed between the second light source and the wavelength conversion device. The filter device allows the first light beam and the conversion light beam to pass through, and reflects the second light beam. The projection apparatus and the light source apparatus have favorable light source utilization efficiency.
US10761413B2
A HUD including a projection display unit, a housing, a cover, a region detection unit, an object removing mechanism and an object removal control unit is provided. The projection display unit spatially modulates light emitted from a light source as image information and projects image light obtained from spatial modulation onto a windshield to display an image. The housing accommodates the projection display unit and has an opening portion through which the image light exits. The cover covers the opening portion. The region detecting unit detects an object adhesion region in which the object is adhered to the cover. The object removing mechanism removes an object adhered to a front surface of the cover by scraping the front surface of the cover. The object removal control unit activates the object removing mechanism when important display content is included in a portion of the image light, the portion being blocked.
US10761411B2
An imaging apparatus including a main unit, a grip, and an arm. The main unit includes an imaging device and imaging lens. The grip is configured to be gripped by a user. The arm includes a first attaching portion and a second attaching portion. The grip is attached to the first attaching portion, and the second attaching portion is attached to the main unit of the imaging apparatus. A position of the grip is adjustable, with respect to the main unit, about the second attaching portion. Further, an orientation of the grip is adjustable, with respect to the main unit, about the first attaching portion of the arm.
US10761409B2
The present disclosure provides for an adjustable camera enclosure. The camera enclosure includes a housing, a camera mounting assembly, and a base. The housing is aligned along a longitudinal axis and includes a hollow interior, a first end, a second end and an aperture through a wall of the housing. The aperture extends in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis. The camera mounting assembly is disposed in the hollow interior of the housing and slidable within the hollow interior along the longitudinal axis. The camera mounting assembly can receive a camera such that a lens of the camera is oriented to the aperture of the housing. The base is coupled to the second end of the housing and is mountable to a surface. The base is rotatable about the longitudinal axis relative to the surface to rotate the housing about the longitudinal axis.
US10761408B2
This application is directed to a camera assembly that includes a camera module and a magnet mount for physically receiving the camera module. The camera module includes a housing having an exterior rear surface of a first shape and a magnetic plate attached to a rear portion of the housing. The magnet mount includes a receiving surface of a second shape and a magnetic material covered by the receiving surface. The second shape of the receiving surface is substantially complementary to the first shape of the exterior rear surface of the housing of the camera module, and the receiving surface is configured to engage the exterior rear surface of the housing of the camera module. The magnetic material of the magnet mount magnetically couples to the magnetic plate of the camera module.
US10761406B2
An optical system (L0) that forms an image of an object and that includes an aperture stop (SP), a first reflection surface (R2), and a second reflection surface (R3) which are disposed in order from an enlargement side to a reduction side, an area of the first reflection surface is larger than an area of the second reflection surface, a reference axis is a path of a reference ray that passes through an opening center of the aperture stop to reach a center of a reduction plane, and an angle ∠QPR (deg) between a line segment PQ connecting the opening center P and an intersection Q of the reference axis and the first reflection surface, and a line segment PR connecting the opening center P and an intersection R of the reference axis and the second reflection surface satisfies a predetermined condition.
US10761404B2
A privacy shutter selectively covers and exposes a camera lens on a computer device. The privacy shutter has a frame with an aperture and a slider carried by the frame and slidable in the aperture. The slider slides between open and closed positions. The frame has a channel in an outer side of the frame and extending from the aperture to a perimeter of the frame. The channel has an outer opening and an inner cavity slidably receiving the slider therein. The outer opening of the channel exposes the outer surface of the slider in both the closed and opened positions.
US10761402B2
In a device for generating output laser pulses having a tunable central wavelength, based on parametric amplification, a laser system is to be provided that has less complexity, but that nevertheless provides great tunability for the wavelength, permits rapid switching of the wavelength, and allows the spectral bandwidth of the emitted pulses to be adjusted. This is attained in that for adjustability of the bandwidth of the output laser pulses, an optical device is provided that is designed to influence the spectral phase of the pump pulses as a function of the spectral phase of the seed pulses.
US10761399B2
A laser exposure system includes an electrically-controlled diffraction grating which can be controlled to be in a first state where the incident light beam is undiffracted and a second state where the incident light beam is diffracted into a plurality of light beams including a zero-order light beam and first and second diffracted light beams. An aperture structure which passes the first and second diffracted light beams while blocking the zero-order light beam. A polarization rotator rotates a polarization state of the second diffracted light, and a polarization beam combiner combines the first diffracted light beam and the polarization-rotated second diffracted light beam onto a common path forming a combined light beam. An optical element focuses the combined light beam onto an imaging medium. A controller controls the state of the electrically-controlled diffraction grating in accordance with pixel data to form a printed image.
US10761391B2
A device includes a number of grating stages having a liquid crystal layer disposed between at least two substrates, where at least one is coated with a photo-alignment layer and transparent electrodes. Each grating stage may be switchably responsive to a voltage, with grating periods of each grating stage selected such that, when the voltage is applied to a grating stage and a laser beam is passed therethrough, optical energy from the laser beam in plus and minus first orders is deflected toward sides of the grating stage and optical energy from a zero order of the laser beam is allowed to pass through the grating stage. A polarization state of the laser beam may be maintained from an input through an output. Each grating stage may include a thickness selected to achromatize the laser beam through the grating stages.
US10761383B2
A phase modulator includes; a first liquid crystal element and a second liquid crystal element, wherein: in the state in which no voltage is applied to the first liquid crystal element nor to the second liquid crystal element, both of the first liquid crystal material and the second liquid crystal material show optical isotropy; and in the state in which a predetermined range of voltage is applied both to the first liquid crystal element and to the second liquid crystal element, the first liquid crystal material shows optically uniaxial anisotropy with a first ordinary refractive index and a first extraordinary refractive index which is larger than the first ordinary refractive index, and the second liquid crystal material shows optically uniaxial anisotropy with a second ordinary refractive index and a second extraordinary refractive index which is smaller than the second ordinary refractive index.
US10761380B2
A reliability of seal portion of a liquid crystal display device can be improved by the following structure. A liquid crystal display device includes: a TFT substrate which includes a display region and a terminal part, and has an inorganic insulating film formed on an organic passivation film and an alignment film formed over the inorganic insulating film; a counter substrate, the TFT substrate and the counter substrate bonded together by a sealing material formed at a seal part surrounding the display region; and a liquid crystal sealed inside. At the seal part, a transparent conductive oxide film is formed between the inorganic insulating film and the alignment film. The transparent conductive oxide film exists inside an edge of the TFT substrate and hence, the edge of the TFT substrate is free of the transparent conductive oxide film.
US10761374B2
A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: a first display panel and a second display panel. A liquid crystal layer is between the first display panel and the second display panel with a sealant therebetween. The first display panel includes a display area and a non-display area. First light blocking members are disposed in the non-display area. The liquid crystal layer includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules and a plurality of protrusions. The protrusions are adjacent to at least one of the first display panel or the second display panel. The protrusions include a polymer including a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 or a polymer including a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2:
US10761370B2
An optical film and a display device comprising the same are disclosed, in which luminance may be prevented from being deteriorated. The optical film comprises a first base film; a second base film spaced apart from the first base film to face the first base film; and an optical pattern arranged between the first base film and the second base film, absorbing a portion of light incident to the optical film, wherein the optical pattern has a reflective surface at one end.
US10761368B2
An electronic apparatus using a liquid crystal display device, a display control method used in the liquid crystal display device, and a non-transitory recording medium for storing a display control program, sets a region having a larger area of an information display region and a background region as a transmission region and a region having a smaller area as a shielding region in an illumination mode. A tint change of the shielding region caused by a TN type liquid crystal and a light source for backlight is reduced, and thus, it is possible to make the tint change depending on the viewing direction unremarkable.
US10761367B2
A backlight unit and a display apparatus including the same are disclosed. The backlight unit includes a support member being concave rearward so as to define an interior space, the support member including a central portion defining a central area of a rear surface of the interior space and a side portion extending outward from a peripheral edge of the central portion while being inclined forward, a plurality of light sources disposed on the central portion so as to radiate light, a plurality of lenses respectively disposed on the plurality of light sources so as to disperse light from the light sources, a reflective sheet covering front surfaces of the central portion and the side portion, and a plurality of scattering members disposed on corner portions of the reflective sheet and protruding from the reflective sheet. The display apparatus includes the backlight unit and a display panel disposed in front of the backlight unit.
US10761365B2
The present invention provides a display module which comprises a display panel, a cover, and an upper polarizer. The upper polarizer is attached to a light emitting surface. The cover is disposed on the upper polarizer, and a first microstructure has a curved concave surface is on the cover. A second microstructure having curved convex surface is on the upper polarizer and faces to the cover, and the first microstructure is corresponding to the second microstructure. The present invention also provides a manufacturing of display module. In the present invention, the cover of the display module and the surface of the upper polarizer are subjected to a special anti-glare surface treatment so that the microstructure on the surface of the cover and the microstructure of the surface of the upper polarizer form a substantially complementary relationship to achieve better anti-glare effect.
US10761363B2
A method of fabricating a display device may include the following steps: patterning a light blocking layer on a first surface of a first substrate, forming a color filter layer on a second surface of the first substrate opposite the first surface after the patterning of the light blocking layer, and forming a light conversion layer including a plurality of conversion filters on the first surface of the first substrate after the forming of the color filter layer. Each of the conversion filters may include a plurality of conversion particles, and the color filter layer may be formed to selectively transmit light emitted from each of the conversion filters.
US10761359B2
A touch display device including a first substrate, a second substrate, a display medium, and a pixel array structure is provided. The pixel array structure includes a scan line, a data line, an active device, pixel electrodes, a signal electrode layer and a signal transmission layer. The scan line intersects the data line. The active device is connected to the scan line and the data line. The pixel electrodes are arranged in an array. The signal electrode layer includes signal electrodes. The signal transmission layer includes a signal line disposed between two adjacent columns of the pixel electrodes and electrically connected to one of the signal electrodes. The data line includes at least a portion located outside of the signal line.
US10761357B2
A liquid crystal display panel and a display device, comprising: an array substrate, an opposite substrate arranged opposite to the array substrate, a driver circuit; a common electrode layer on a side of the opposite substrate facing the array substrate; and a liquid crystal layer located between the opposite substrate and the array substrate; the array substrate includes: a display area, a non-display area, a signal line in the display area, and a switchover terminal in the non-display area, where the switchover terminal includes: a first connection terminal electrically connected with the driver circuit, a second connection terminal electrically connected with the signal line, and an electrically-conductive layer covering the first connection terminal and the second connection terminal; the electrically-conductive layer is insulated from the common electrode layer.
US10761354B2
The purpose of the invention is to realize the flexible display device of high reliability; specifically in a structure that a bending area is in a terminal area, and in that disconnection of the wiring does not occur in the bending area. The concrete structure is that: a display device having a display area, a driving circuit area and a bending area comprising: a first thin film transistor and a first interlayer insulating film are formed in the display area, a second thin film transistor and a second interlayer insulating film are formed in the driving circuit area, terminal wirings to connects the display area and the driving circuit area are formed in the bending area.
US10761352B1
The invention relates to optical devices comprising polarization diversity couplers.An embodiment of the invention relates to an optical device comprising a polarization diversity coupler configured to receive a beam of optical radiation. The optical device may further comprise a phase shifter, a 2×N coupler, a photodetector and a control unit configured to generate a control signal based on a monitor signal of the photodetector.
US10761346B1
A head-mounted wearable device utilizes electronics placed in one or more of a left temple or a right temple. The temples are joined to a front frame using hinges. The hinges provide passageways, slots, or other openings to permit passage of a flexible printed circuit (FPC) within an open core of the hinge. The FPC allows communication between the left temple and the right temple. During motion of the hinge, the FPC may twist such that the ends within the hinge are rotated relative to one another while remaining substantially parallel to one another. The overall length of the FPC passing through the hinge remains substantially unchanged between the hinge being open or closed. The FPC remains protected within the hinge and is minimally displaced, preventing the introduction of a crease in the FPC at a hinge line.
US10761341B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display module which emits display light, an optical element which transmits or reflects the display light, and a reflective element which retroreflects the display light reflected from the optical element. The reflective element includes a first reflector including a first retroreflective surface having retroreflective properties, a first end portion, and a second end portion which is more separated from the optical element than the first end portion, and a second reflector including a third end portion, which overlaps the second end portion and is closer to the optical element than the second end portion, and a second retroreflective surface having retroreflective properties.
US10761339B2
A lens moving apparatus includes a bobbin including a first coil disposed therearound, a first magnet disposed to face the first coil, a housing for supporting the first magnet, upper and lower elastic members each coupled to both the bobbin and the housing, a base disposed to be spaced apart from the housing by a predetermined distance, a second coil disposed to face the first magnet, a printed circuit board on which the second coil is mounted, a plurality of support members, which support the housing such that the housing is movable in second and/or third directions and which connect at least one of the upper and lower elastic members to the printed circuit board, and a conductive member for conductively connecting the upper and lower elastic members.
US10761332B2
A light-guiding device according to an aspect of the invention includes an incident section configured to make light incident, a light guide configured to guide the light incident from the incident section, a bonding layer configured to bond the incident section and the light guide, and a reflection member provided on a side surface of the bonding layer.
US10761330B2
A waveguide display includes a first substrate and one or more grating layers on a first surface of the first substrate. The one or more grating layers are configured to cause destructive interference between ambient light diffracted by at least two grating layers or between ambient light diffracted by different portions of one grating layer. In some embodiments, the waveguide display also includes an angular-selective transmissive layer. The angular-selective transmissive layer is configured to reflect, diffract, or absorb ambient light incident on the angular-selective reflective layer with an incidence angle greater than a threshold value.
US10761327B2
A head-mounted display (HMD) includes an electronic display element, a microlens array, and an optics block. The electronic display element outputs image light via sub-pixels having different colors, the sub-pixels separated from each other by a dark space region. The sub-pixels have associated emission distributions that describe ranges of angles of light emitted from the plurality of sub-pixels. The microlens array includes microlenses that are each coupled to at least one corresponding sub-pixel, of the sub-pixels, where the microlenses concentrate the emission distributions and direct the emission distributions toward a target region. The optics block, which is located in the target region optically corrects the image light and directs the optically corrected image light from the microlens array to an exit pupil of the HMD corresponding to a location of an eye of a user of the HMD.
US10761324B2
The present invention relates to a method for uncovering a branch of a pipe system that is renovated with a lining tube, comprising the following steps, in particular in this sequence: a) providing an uncovering device in the renovated pipe and arranging the uncovering device in front of the branch to be uncovered; b) virtually representing for a user the branch that is concealed by the lining tube; and c) uncovering the branch by the user by means of the uncovering device, based on the virtual representation.
US10761323B2
There is provided a lens array and an lens array capable of suitably preventing irregular brightness without reducing resolution. A microlens array 20 of a screen 2 includes upper-level microlenses 21H and lower-level microlenses 21L which are formed on the incidence surface of the screen 2, which have the same effective diameter, and which have a structure that generates an optical path length difference Δ in transmission light. By disposing the upper-level microlenses 21H and the lower-level microlenses 21L at an interval based on the effective diameter, the basic periodic structure of a lens period PL is formed. Further, the upper-level microlenses 21H and the lower-level microlenses 21L form a basic block comprising a combination of the lenses having a structure that generates the optical path length difference. A concave-and-convex period PC based on the basic block is an integer multiple of the lens period PL.
US10761315B2
According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a mirror structure for adaptive optics devices, characterized in that it comprises: an elastically deformable layer in response to an applied force, said deformable layer comprising a central portion reflective to said an incident light beam (F); a support substrate positioned spaced with respect to said deformable layer; a spacer element connected to said elastically deformable layer and support substrate and positioned there between, said spacer element being arranged so that the separation distance between said first and second inner surface is in the range between 2 and 100 micron; an inner chamber at least partially defined by said first and substrate and by said spacer element, said inner chamber containing a pressurized gas (G); an actuator system capable of causing a deformation of said central portion counteracting the pressure of said pressurized gas; wherein, in use, said central portion is deformed according to profiles such as to control said light beam. Advantages may include thermal robustness and improved dimensional scaling properties.
US10761314B1
The disclosed apparatus may include a planar substrate including a first dimension, a second dimension perpendicular to the first dimension, and a thickness perpendicular to a plane defined by the first dimension and the second dimension. The planar substrate may include material that is transparent to at least one wavelength band of visible light and at least one wavelength band of infrared light. The apparatus may also include a plurality of reflective segments embedded in the planar substrate and distributed along the plane. The face of each reflective segment may be oblique to the plane. In addition, the reflective segments may be transparent to the wavelength band of visible light and at least partially reflective to the wavelength band of infrared light. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10761311B2
The present invention relates firstly to a method for acquiring a stack of microscopic images of a specimen. The microscopic images of the stack are acquired from different focus positions. According to the invention, a plurality of the microscopic images of the specimen are respectively acquired from at least some of the focus positions using different settings of an illumination unit for illuminating the specimen. According to the invention, the illumination settings with which the microscopic images of the specimen are acquired is decided upon individually in each case at least for several of the focus positions. The invention further relates to a digital microscope for microimaging a specimen.
US10761307B2
An optical system (e.g., a telescope) comprising an optical assembly that reflects and refracts light rays through a single window about an optical path to a detector. A field-of-view switch assembly comprises a mount, having a pair of diverter mirrors, movably coupled to the optical assembly and being selectively movable between a non-bypass position and a bypass position. The diverter mirrors bypass a first field-of-view and translate a second field-of-view (both through the single window) when moved from the non-bypass position to the bypass position to redirect the optical path. The diverter mirrors straddle the optical path in the non-bypass position. A dynamic shutter shields the second diverter mirror and exposes the second diverter mirror when moved between non-bypass and bypass positions. A four-bar linkage mechanism rotates the mount with an on-board motor and a torsional shaft to absorb impact forces. Associated methods are provided for facilitating switching between fields-of-view.
US10761305B2
Provided is a zoom lens including: positive first unit; negative second unit; aperture stop; positive third unit; positive fourth unit; and rear lens group including at least one lens unit, wherein the fourth unit includes a positive lens, and wherein an amount of movement of the fourth unit during zooming from wide angle end to telephoto end, distances between the aperture stop and the fourth unit at the wide angle end and between the aperture stop and the fourth unit at the telephoto end, focal lengths of the fourth unit and of the zoom lens at the wide angle end, a length of the zoom lens at the wide angle end, an Abbe number of material of the positive lens with respect to d-line, and a partial dispersion ratio of the material of the positive lens with respect to g-line and F-line are each appropriately set.
US10761304B2
A zoom optical system (ZL) comprises, in order from an object: a first lens group (G1) having positive refractive power; an intermediate group (GM) including at least one lens group and having negative refractive power as a whole; an intermediate side lens group (GRP1) having positive refractive power; a subsequent side lens group (GRP2) having positive refractive power; and a subsequent group (GR) including at least one lens group. The intermediate group (GM) includes a partial group satisfying following conditional expressions: 1.4
US10761297B2
A six-piece optical image capturing system is provided. In order from an object side to an image side along the optical axis, the optical image capturing system includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element. A least one of the first lens element through the fifth lens element has positive refractive power. The sixth lens element has negative refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface thereof is aspheric. At least one of the surfaces of the sixth lens element has an inflection point. The six lenses have refractive power. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the image quality for use in compact cameras.
US10761292B2
The present embodiments relate to a dual camera module comprising: a first camera module including a first lens module and a first image sensor disposed below the first lens module; and a second camera module including a second lens module and a second image sensor disposed below the second lens module, wherein the second camera module has a wider angle of view than the first camera module, and the second image sensor is disposed at a position higher than the first image sensor.
US10761286B2
A clamp assembly includes a first clamp half-piece and a second clamp half-piece. In one example, the clamp half-pieces are identically shaped. In one example, each of the clamp half-pieces has at least one integral pin and at least one aperture. The first and second clamp half-pieces are pivotally connected to each other via a first snap-fit interface in which the integral pin of the first clamp half-piece snap-fits into the at least one aperture of the second clamp half-piece. The clamp assembly can also include a link arm connected to the first clamp half-piece via a second snap-fit interface. A lever arm can also be included that is pivotally connected to the link arm via a third snap-fit interface. The clamp assembly does not require separate link pins or other parts and only includes four components: the clamp half-pieces, the link arm, and the lever arm.
US10761283B2
The present invention relates to an optical interconnection for interconnecting a first contact and a second contact, which need to be optically interconnected, the optical interconnection comprising: a nanorod formed on at least one of the first contact and the second contact; and a nanowire extending from the first contact or the nanorod formed on the first contact so as to transmit an optical signal toward the second contact or the nanorod formed on the second contact. The optical interconnection according to the present invention shows improved optical signal characteristics due to a reduction in coupling loss.
US10761277B2
A vent or slot is provided between the ferrule and stub body that enables gases generated from the low melting glass sealing process of an optical fiber to the ferrule stub to escape, thus creating a stronger and more resilient and reliable seal between the optical fiber and low melting point glass and the stub body, creating the hermetic seal. Without such a vent, which is the conventional configuration, generated gases are forced into the molten glass during the sealing process, thus reducing the strength or resilience of the hermetic seal.
US10761275B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to an integrated circuit structure and methods of forming them in which photonic devices are formed on the back end of fabricating a CMOS semiconductor structure containing electronic devices. Doped regions associated with the photonic devices are formed using microwave annealing for dopant activation.
US10761271B2
Advantageously, at least one embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a polarization maintaining PROFA (“PM-PROFA”) coupler in which the polarization axes of the individual vanishing core waveguides thereof are oriented or aligned without the need to adjust the orientation of each individual VC waveguide.
US10761269B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of fusion splicing an optical fiber. The method includes the steps of mechanically stripping a coating layer from the optical fiber to form a bare fiber end and inserting the bare fiber end of the optical fiber into a resistive heating element structure to remove residual coating from a cladding layer. The resistive heating element structure shapes a severed end of the coating layer such that the severed end is fully within a cylindrical envelope defined by a non-disturbed portion of the coating layer. The method further includes a step of loading the optical fiber into an alignment groove of a fiber alignment fixture such that the shaped severed end of the optical fiber is in contact with the alignment groove. The method includes a step of fusion splicing the bare fiber end of the optical fiber to a cable fiber.
US10761268B1
A fiber optic mechanical splice for splicing input and output optical fiber. The splice includes a capillary tube for enclosing fiber ends of the input and output optical fiber cables, two metallic cable-splice bridging flanges for insertion onto the input and output optical fiber cable jackets, a first metallic crimping tube, a second metallic crimping tube, a first protection tube, a second protection tube, and polyurethane tape. The fibers extending from the input and output optical fibers can be frustoconically inserted into a corresponding bridging flange. The crimping tubes enclose corresponding cable ends and bridging flanges. The first protection tube encloses the crimping tubes, while the second protection tube encloses the first protection tube and the tape is disposed over the second protection tube, the bridging flanges, and the crimping tubes.
US10761255B2
Disclosed is a light guide including a core bar of a transparent material extended in a length direction from a first side to a second; and a plurality of reflection parts printed in parallel along with the length direction of the core bar on the outer surface; wherein spaces between the reflection parts are the same or decreased from the first side of the core bar toward the second side of the core bar.
US10761252B2
A wire grid polarizer (WGP) can have a conformal-coating to protect the WGP from at least one of the following: corrosion, dust, and damage due to tensile forces in a liquid on the WGP. The conformal-coating can include a silane conformal-coating with chemical formula (1), chemical formula (2), or combinations thereof: A method of applying a conformal-coating over a WGP can include exposing the WGP to Si(R1)d(R2)e(R3)g. In the above WGP and method, X can be a bond to the ribs; each R1 can be a hydrophobic group; each R3, if any, can be any chemical element or group; d can be 1, 2, or 3, e can be 1, 2, or 3, g can be 0, 1, or 2, and d+e+g=4; R2 can be a silane-reactive-group; and each R6 can be an alkyl group, an aryl group, or combinations thereof.
US10761240B2
A notional source signature of a bubble may be determined. For example, a method for determining a notional source signature of a bubble can include estimating a position of a bubble created by actuation of an impulsive source. A notional source signature of the bubble can be determined based on the estimate.
US10761236B2
Disclosed is a self-propelled container and/or vehicle inspection device, comprising: a rack, a power supply apparatus, a radiation source, a detector cabin, at least two driving motors, and a controller. A fixed beam, a first vertical beam, a transverse beam and a second vertical beam of the rack are fixed to one another; the bottom of the second vertical beam is rotatably mounted with a swing beam forming a balancing suspension. Where a road surface below the device is uneven, the swing beam correspondingly rotates relative to the second vertical beam so as to keep two wheels on the swing beam in close contact with the ground all the time. In the device, a cab of the inspection device is dispensed with, thus staff is not required to drive within the cab and any anxiety of the staff can be eliminated.
US10761233B2
Sondes and sonde arrays for use with portable buried object locating systems are disclosed.
US10761232B2
The present disclosure provides a vector denoising method for the multicomponent seismic data, including: obtaining a wave vector of the multicomponent seismic data; calculating a first mean wave vector for the multicomponent seismic data by applying a first moving window, performing a median filtering for the first mean wave vector to obtain a true modulus of the ground roll, subtracting the wave vector of the ground roll from the multicomponent seismic data to obtain a vector time-series; performing a mean filtering for the vector time-series by using a second moving window to obtain a second mean wave vector, performing a median filtering and performing a median the median filtering within the same receiving line for the second mean wave vector to suppress the wave vector of the random noise in the vector time-series, thereby obtaining a wave vector of a purified effective signal.
US10761230B2
A method is described for seismic imaging that may include receiving digital seismic data; processing the digital seismic data to create a digital seismic image in a seismic domain; flattening the digital seismic image to generate a digital flattened image; identifying artifacts in the digital flattened image; transforming the artifacts back into the seismic domain; and reprocessing the digital seismic data based on the artifacts in the seismic domain to generate a digital image with reduced artifacts. The method may be executed by a computer system.
US10761225B2
An X-ray detection panel and a gate driver circuit driving gate lines disposed on the X-ray detection panel are discussed. A high-level scanning signal is output to the gate lines before X-rays are input to the X-ray detection panel, and a low-level scanning signal is input to the gate lines during an X-ray incidence period in which electrical charges are generated in pixels. Gate driving for accurate X-ray reading is enabled. The gate driver circuit is provided as a gate-in-panel (GIP) using transistors operating in response to an X-ray incidence signal. An X-ray detection panel that is able to accurately read X-rays can be provided.
US10761224B2
A detector assembly is provided that includes a semiconductor detector, a collimator, and a processing unit. The semiconductor detector has a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other. The first surface includes pixelated anodes, and the second surface includes a cathode electrode. The collimator includes openings defined by septa. The collimator defines a pitch D between adjacent septa, with the septa defining a septa length L. A ratio of L/D is less than 14. The processing unit is configured to identify detected events within virtual sub-pixels distributed along a length and width of the semiconductor detector. Each pixel comprises a plurality of corresponding virtual sub-pixels, and absorbed photons are counted as events in a corresponding virtual sub-pixel.
US10761223B1
A radiation detector assembly is provided that includes a plurality of multi-detector arms (e.g., between 2 and 5), and plural detector head units disposed in each multi-detector arm. Each of the multi-detector arms defines a cavity therein. At least two detector head units are disposed within the cavity of each multi-detector arm. Each detector head unit includes an absorption member and associated processing circuitry, with the processing circuitry configured to generate electronic signals responsive to radiation received by the absorption member. Each detector head unit is configured to pivot along a sweep direction.
US10761219B2
A dual-energy detector array for a radiation system is provided. The dual-energy detector array includes a circuit board assembly having a first side and a second side. A first conversion package is coupled to the first side of the circuit board assembly and has a first effective photon energy. A second conversion package is coupled to the second side of the circuit board assembly and has a second effective photon energy different than the first effective photon energy. A radiation filtering material is disposed within the circuit board assembly between the first conversion package and the second conversion package. The radiation filtering material attenuates at least some of the radiation photons impinging thereon.
US10761217B2
There is provided an information processing system including: a plurality of survey markers each including a GNSS reception unit that receives a signal from a GNSS satellite; a first position measurement unit that measures a ground position of at least one survey marker on the basis of the signals received by the plurality of survey markers; and a processing unit that detects the survey marker from a captured image captured by a UAV and including the survey marker, and associates a position of the detected survey marker in the captured image with the ground position.
US10761215B2
A code positioning part calculates a position of a subject vehicle and a receiver clock based on an orbit of a GNSS satellite in which an error indicated by a positioning reinforcing signal is corrected and a first corrected pseudorange being a pseudorange of the GNSS satellite in which an error indicated by the positioning reinforcing signal is corrected. A receiver clock bias error correction part determines a difference between a two-point range between a position of each of a plurality of GNSS satellites and the position of the subject vehicle and the first corrected pseudorange as an unknown error, and determines a receiver clock bias error of the pseudorange based on the unknown error. A code positioning correction part recalculates the position of the subject vehicle, using a second corrected pseudorange that is obtained by correcting the first corrected pseudorange using the receiver clock bias error.
US10761213B2
A navigation satellite system, one or more NSS reference station is set out for providing information to one or more rover receivers. The NSS reference station comprises a processing unit configured to determine one or more first range intervals representing first ambiguity windows based on estimated atmospheric effects, and determine one or more second range intervals representing a second ambiguity window smaller than each of the first ambiguity windows based on uncertainties of range measurements within a predetermined previous period. The NSS reference station further comprises a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the NSS rover receivers, first messages each comprising a modulo a first ambiguity window, and transmission of two first messages, to range measurement transmit between the NSS rover receiver, a plurality of second messages, each second message comprising a range measurement modulo one of the second ambiguity windows.
US10761209B2
The present invention relates to a triangulation light sensor for the detection of objects on a conveying path having a light transmitter for transmitting transmitted light into a detection zone that extends over a part region of the conveying path, having a light receiver, a reception optics arranged in an optical path between the detection zone and the light receiver, and an evaluation unit that is configured for generating an object detection signal from the received signals.
US10761208B2
The present technology provides a beam forming device for performing both analog beam forming and analog-to-digital conversion. The present invention provides a probe having a beam forming device therein, and a system comprising the same. A beam forming device, according to the present technology, comprises: a signal storage circuit configured to receive the plurality of analog signals to store the analog beam signal corresponding to a combination of the plurality of analog signals; and a control circuit configured to control the signal storage circuit so that the signal storage circuit receives the plurality of analog signals and stores the analog beam signal, to generate a digital signal corresponding to the analog beam signal and to control the signal storage circuit so that an output voltage of the signal storage circuit is updated while the digital signal is being generated.
US10761207B2
Systems and methods for automatic uplink of weather information are provided. In one embodiment, a ground-based system for automatically communicating crowdsourced weather information comprises: at least one transceiver configured to communicate with vehicles via one or more communication links; a weather data processing system coupled to the at least one transceiver, the weather data processing system comprising at least one processor coupled to a memory, the at least one processor configured to: receive weather information from the vehicles; aggregate the weather information received from the vehicles and store aggregated weather information in the memory; automatically transmit aggregated weather information to a first vehicle of the vehicles via the one or more communication links in response to the weather data processing system receiving a radar error report from the first vehicle.
US10761205B2
A system (1) and a method for finding the direction (θ) of a target (6) in a detection plane, e.g. the azimuthal plane. The system comprises a plurality of transceivers (2a, 2b, 2c) which transmit continuous-wave radio signals (4) oriented in distinct main directions of transmission (5a, 5b, 5c) and receive a return radio signal (7) reflected from a target (6), wherein the transceivers have partially overlapping angular fields of view. A controller (9) analyzes the transmitted and return signals by calculating signal amplitudes associated with the return signals and determining the direction (θ) of the target as a direction of a mean signal vector obtained from signal vectors having as a modulus the signal amplitudes of respective transceivers.
US10761203B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for signal processing resource allocation. The method comprises receiving (S10) streaming signal data. The method further comprises, at a first computational resource, determining (S20) a first data subset of the streaming signal data based on a selection criterion, the selection criterion having a contextual relationship with a predetermined scenario. The method also comprises determining (S25) a second data subset of the received streaming signal data based on the first data subset and the contextual relationship. The method additionally comprises, at a second computational resource, analysing (S30) the second data subset using an algorithm based on the contextual relationship. The method further comprises forming (S40) aggregated signal data based on the received streaming signal data and the analysed second data subset. The method yet further comprises outputting (S50) data based on the aggregated signal data. The present disclosure also relates to corresponding systems and computer programs.
US10761201B2
An object detection device includes: a classifier that receives, from a radar device that transmits a transmission wave and receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave reflected by an object around a subject vehicle, detection result information indicative of an intensity, an azimuth, and a Doppler velocity obtained from a Doppler frequency shift of the reflected wave, and determines whether the detection result information is first detection result information corresponding to a moving object or second detection result information corresponding to a still object; a calculator that calculates distances from the radar device to reflection points of the moving object on the basis of the first detection result information; and an output that supplies, to a predetermined device, first reflection point information indicating the distances of the reflection points and azimuths of the reflection points based on the radar device.
US10761193B2
An optoelectronic sensor (10) according to the principle of triangulation for detecting an object (36) in a monitoring region (18) comprises a light transmitter (12) and a spatially resolving light receiver (26). A receiving optics (22) and an optical element (24) are arranged in front of the light receiver (26), wherein the optical element (24) comprises a converging partial region (24a) and a diverging partial region (24c) and is arranged such that a remitted light bundle (20) from an object (36) in a near range of the monitoring region (18) passes through the converging partial region (24) and a remitted light bundle (20) from an object (36) in a far range of the monitoring region (18) passes through the diverging partial region (24c).
US10761183B2
A system for a vehicle includes a trio of ultrasonic sensors, and a controller configured to, responsive to a location of an object identified from a distance between the ultrasonic sensors, a receive time at each of the ultrasonic sensors associated with a same ultrasonic pulse from a transmitter of the object, and an absence of data regarding a send time of the ultrasonic pulse, steer the vehicle to the object.
US10761178B2
An in-vehicle system includes: a position information reception unit configured to receive position information from a satellite positioning system; a first control unit; a communication line connected to the first control unit; and a second control unit that is connected to the first control unit through the communication line and has a first conversion process unit configured to convert a datum of the position information. The first control unit is configured to transmit the position information received by the position information reception unit to the second control unit through the communication line, and the second control unit is configured to convert a datum of the position information received from the first control unit by the first conversion process unit.
US10761171B2
A system and method for generating quantitative images of a subject using a nuclear magnetic resonance system. The method includes performing a navigator module to acquire navigator data, and performing an acquisition module during free breathing of the subject to acquire NMR data from the subject that contains one or more resonant species that simultaneously produce individual NMR signals in response to the acquisition module. The above steps are repeated to acquire data from a plurality of partitions across the volume. The navigator data is analyzed to determine if the NMR data meets a predetermined condition and if not, the above steps are repeated for at least an affected partition corresponding to NMR data that did not meet the predetermined condition. The NMR data is compared to a dictionary of signal evolutions to determine quantitative values for two or more parameters of the resonant species in the volume.
US10761166B2
A guide map is created for use in placing a spectroscopic single voxel in a region of interest in single voxel magnetic resonance spectroscopy. An anatomical planning image of the region of interest is obtained through MRI. As a spectroscopy voxel is stepped across the region of interest, characteristics of the magnetic field used in the MRI are measured at each location of the imaging voxel, and a guide-FWHM map indicative of the homogeneity/inhomogeneity of the magnetic field over the region of interest is derived using the measurements. The guide map is created by overlaying the guide-FWHM map on the anatomical planning image. A spectroscopic single voxel of a size corresponding to that of the spectroscopy voxel is placed within the region of interest as per the guide map. Then spectral data is acquired from the region of interest confined to the single voxel.
US10761165B2
A system and method of acquiring an image at a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. Accordingly, an analog signal based on a pulse sequence and a first gain is obtained. The analog signal is converted into a digitized signal. A potential quantization error is detected in the digitized signal based on a boundary. When the detection is affirmative, a replacement analog signal based on the pulse sequence is received. At least one portion of the replacement analog signal can be based on an adjusted gain. The adjusted gain is a factor of the first gain. The replacement analog signal is digitized into a replacement digitized signal. At least one portion of the replacement digitized signal corresponding to the at least one portion of the replacement analog signal is adjusted based on a reversal of the factor.
US10761160B2
A method for adjusting a field distribution of an antenna arrangement of a magnetic resonance system is provided. The symmetry of the field distribution may be impaired by positional inaccuracy of the antenna arrangement in the magnetic resonance system. The antenna arrangement comprises oscillating circuit antenna elements and switching elements. Each of the oscillating circuit antenna elements is assigned a respective switching element of the switching elements. A respective switching element is configured to couple the assigned oscillating circuit antenna element operatively to the antenna arrangement in dependence on a status of the respective switching element. During the method, symmetry information on the field distribution in the antenna arrangement is measured, and the switching elements are automatically adjusted using the measured symmetry information, such that the symmetry of the field distribution in the interior of the antenna arrangement is increased.
US10761152B2
A superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) for mobile applications comprising: a superconducting flux transformer having a pickup coil and an input coil, wherein the input coil is inductively coupled to a Josephson junction; a resistive element connected in series between the pickup coil and the input coil so as to function as a high pass filter such that direct current (DC) bias current is prevented from flowing through the input coil; and a flux bias circuit electrically connected in parallel to the superconducting flux transformer between the pickup coil and the input coil so as to reduce motion-induced noise.
US10761146B2
Provided are a wafer probe card that matches in one-to-one correspondence with an LED wafer by implementing a probe system having the same size as the LED wafer, and inspects brightness and wavelength of light emitted from a plurality of LEDs provided on the LED wafer at once by controlling the plurality of LEDs to emit light, an analysis apparatus including the same, and a method of fabricating the wafer probe card.
US10761140B2
Method for producing a semiconductor device by means of computer-aided development of test scenarios
A method for producing a semiconductor device is described. In accordance with one example embodiment, the method comprises providing a virtual DUT in the form of a behavior model of the semiconductor device and developing at least one test in a test development environment for an automatic test equipment (ATE). In this case, commands are generated by means of the test development environment, which commands are converted into test signals by means of a software interface, which test signals are fed to the virtual DUT and are processable by the latter. The software interface processes response signals of the virtual DUT and reports information dependent on the response signals back to the test development environment.
US10761127B2
A system and method of electronic component authentication or component classification can reduce the vulnerability of systems (e.g., satellites, weapons, critical infrastructure, aerospace, automotive, medical systems) to counterfeits. Intrinsic deterministically random property data can be obtained from a set of authentic electronic components, processed, and clustered to create a classifier that can distinguish whether an unknown electronic component is authentic or counterfeit.
US10761124B2
An electronic device including a connector having a plurality of pins, and a detection circuit having at least one of a pull-up circuit and a pull-down circuit, and a connection circuit between a first pin and a second pin of the plurality of pins, the detection circuit is configured to select the first pin and the second pin, measure an impedance between the selected first pin and second pin by controlling a connection of the connection circuit and the at least one of the pull-up circuit and the pull-down circuit, and generate a detection signal indicating a presence or an absence of a foreign object on the connector based on the measured impedance.
US10761117B2
A voltage sensor comprises a conductor (102) having a first end (101) and a second end (103), the first end including a first connection interface (150) and the second end having no connection, and a sensor section (125) including at least one sensor disposed over the conductor, the sensor sensing the sensor sensing at least a voltage or a sample of the voltage of the conductor. The voltage sensor is coupleable to a power line or cable, such as an overhead power line or cable, or a cable accessory, and can also be used in underground applications.
US10761103B2
The present invention provides a method for diagnosing in a subject Acute Kidney Injury or a related or analogous disease state. The method comprises the steps of a) providing a sample taken from the subject: b) analysing the sample from the subject to determine the level of a biomarker selected from certain atomic species; and c) comparing the level of the biomarker in the sample to a reference level of the biomarker that is characteristic of a healthy subject, eg a subject having normal renal function. An elevated level of the biomarker in the sample relative to the reference level is indicative of Acute Kidney Injury or a related or analogous disease state. The invention also relates to the use of an atomic species selected from those in Table 1 as a biomarker for Acute Kidney Injury or a related or analogous disease state, and test kits comprising an analytical element sensitive to those biomarkers.
US10761102B2
Provided is a method for derivatizing an s-cis-diene compound with a Cookson-type derivatization reagent, the method including adding, in a reaction stopping step of stopping a derivatization reaction of the s-cis-diene compound, a decomposition inhibitor to inhibit decomposition of a derivative to be obtained.
US10761096B2
Peptide and/or protein quantitation methods, kits, and compositions, particularly useful for mass spectrometry, are provided herein based on a bathocuproine-based composition complex such as bathocuproinedisulfonic acid disodium salt hydrate complex. The methods are one-step rapid absorbance methods using small sample volumes. They produce a robust signal with high signal to background ratio and accurately quantitate even complex peptide mixtures with low variability and high sensitivity.
US10761090B2
The invention generally relates to performing sandwich assays in droplets. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods for detecting a target analyte that involve forming a compartmentalized portion of fluid including a portion of a sample suspected of containing a target analyte and a sample identifier, a first binding agent having a target identifier, and a second binding agent specific to the target analyte under conditions that produce a complex of the first and second binding agents with the target analyte, separating the complexes, and detecting the complexes, thereby detecting the target analyte.
US10761088B2
Although limited proteolysis of the histone H3 N-terminal tail (H3NT) is frequently observed during mammalian differentiation, the specific genomic sites targeted for H3NT proteolysis and the functional significance of H3NT cleavage remain largely unknown. Here Applicant reports the first method to identify and examine H3NT-cleaved regions in mammals, called ChIP of acetylated chromatin (ChIPac). By applying ChIPac-Seq to an established cell model of osteoclast differentiation, Applicant discovered that H3NT proteolysis is selectively targeted near transcription start sites of a small group of genes and that most H3NT-cleaved genes displayed significant expression changes during osteoclastogenesis. Applicant also discovered that the principal H3NT protease of osteoclastogenesis is matrix metalloproteinase 9 (MMP-9). In contrast to other known H3NT proteases, MMP-9 primarily cleaved H3K18-Q19 in vitro and in cells. Furthermore, Applicant's results support CBP/p300-mediated acetylation of H3K18 as a central regulator of MMP-9 H3NT protease activity both in vitro and at H3NT-cleavage sites during osteoclastogenesis. Importantly, Applicant found that abrogation of H3NT proteolysis impaired osteoclastogenic gene activation concomitant with defective osteoclast differentiation. Applicant's collective results support the necessity of MMP-9-dependent H3NT proteolysis in regulating gene pathways required for proficient osteoclastogenesis.
US10761076B2
Moisture content information in soil at a specified site, and moisture content information at a ground surface within a given range that includes the specified site, are acquired. A point where there is a risk of natural disaster within the given range is determined and highlighted, based on the moisture content information in soil at the specified site and the moisture content information at the ground surface within the given range.
US10761070B2
A flow controller including a flow channel resistance disposed in a carrier gas supply flow channel, a control valve, pressure detecting portion 22 and a pressure difference detecting portion, a storage part storing a first calibration curve indicating a correlation between a pressure difference Δp and a total flow volume ftemp1 at the first set supply pressure Pin, ref1 and a second calibration curve indicating a correlation between a pressure difference Δp and the total flow volume ftemp2 at a second set supply pressure Pin,ref2 larger than the first set supply pressure Pin,ref1 is provided. A total flow volume f of the carrier gas is calculated based on the supply pressure pin detected by the pressure detecting portion, pressure difference Δp information detected by the pressure difference detecting portion, the first calibration curve and the second calibration curve.
US10761062B2
A sensor apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an element substrate, an element electrode located on an upper surface of the element substrate, an insulating member covering at least a part of the element electrode, and a detection part that includes an immobilizing film located on the upper surface of the element substrate or an upper surface of the insulating member, and performs a detection of a detection object contained in a specimen. A surface roughness of the immobilizing film is smaller than a surface roughness of the element electrode. In a sensor apparatus of other embodiment of the present invention, an amount of oxygen in a surface layer part of the immobilizing film is smaller than an amount of oxygen in a surface layer part of the element electrode.
US10761046B2
Some embodiments include an electrochemical sensor. The electrochemical sensor has a lid element comprising a substrate, multiple electrodes, multiple interior contacts electrically coupled to the multiple electrodes, a base element configured to be coupled to the lid element, and an electrolyte element. The base element includes a sensor cavity, multiple exterior contacts located at an exterior surface of the base element, and multiple signal communication channels comprising multiple signal communication lines, and the electrolyte element is located in the sensor cavity. When the lid element is coupled to the base element, the multiple electrodes are located in the sensor cavity, the multiple electrodes are in electrolytic communication with the electrolyte element, the multiple interior contacts are located in the sensor cavity, and the multiple interior contacts are electrically coupled to the multiple exterior contacts by the multiple signal communication lines. Other embodiments of related sensors and methods are also disclosed.
US10761045B2
The present invention provides: a reagent composition having higher storage stability; a sensor involving the reagent composition; and others. According to the present invention, a specific heterocyclic compound is added to a reagent composition to improve the storage stability of the reagent composition and reduce the degree of fluctuation in current values in a sensor that utilizes reagent composition.
US10761031B1
Disclosed is a system that includes a light source for generating an illumination beam and an illumination lens system for directing the illumination beam towards a sample. The system further includes a collection lens system for directing towards a detector output light from the sample in response to the illumination beam and a detector for receiving the output light from the sample. The collection lens system includes a fixed-design compensator plate having individually selectable filters with different configurations for correcting system aberration of the system under different operating conditions. The system also includes a controller operable for: (i) generating and directing the illumination beam towards the sample, (ii) selecting operating conditions and a filter for correcting the system aberration under such selected operating conditions, (iii) generating an image based on the output light, and (iv) determining whether the sample passes inspection or characterizing such sample based on the image.
US10761026B2
A method of quantitating of ions in the extracellular polymer substances area of a dental biofilm is an effective way of assessing efficacy of oral care compositions.
US10761020B2
Spectroscopic apparatus and methods incorporating a gas sensor configured to detect low concentration gases, including gases that are hazardous volatiles are provided. Low concentration gases can comprise gases where detection of concentrations on the order of parts-per-million (ppm), and in many embodiments part-per-billion (ppb) is required. The gas may be a species, such as, for example hydrogen sulfide (H2S) that may be produced in drilling and/or volcanic eruptions. The spectroscopic apparatus and methods are configured to operate in particular atmospheres where gas detection can be challenging, such as in ambient air and/or in space where various contaminants may be present. The spectroscopic apparatus and methods may incorporate a long path length detector, such as, for example, a cavity-enhanced absorption spectrometer. The methods and apparatus further incorporate a wavelength modulation technique to improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
US10761011B2
Any one or both of an optical system with a structured lighting pattern and a structured detecting system having a plurality of regions with different optical characteristics are used. In addition, optical signals from an object to be observed through one or a small number of pixel detectors are detected while changing relative positions between the object to be observed and any one of the optical system and the detecting system, time series signal information of the optical signals are obtained, and an image associated with an object to be observed from the time series signal information is reconstructed.
US10761010B2
According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a first printed circuit board (PCB), the first PCB including a first interface, and a corrosion sensor assembly. The corrosion sensor assembly including a second interface arranged to be coupled to the first interface, the corrosion sensor assembly further including a signal trace field and a plurality of components, wherein the signal trace field and the plurality of components are arranged to provide an indication of whether the apparatus is in an environment that is corrosive.
US10761007B2
An imaging flow cytometry system and method which includes a flow chamber, light obscuration analysis and imaging optics, image capturing system, device to regulate fluid flow through the chamber, and backlighting generator. The flow cell is configured so that light obscuration signals can be detected from the same passing particles that are imaged.
US10761006B2
An air-conditioning system of a vehicle for air-conditioning a vehicle interior compartment may include a channel system which is flowed through by air and a sensor device for detecting at least one property of air. The sensor device may include at least one analysis channel through which air is flowable during operation, and a generating device configured to generate and emit electromagnetic waves. The sensor device may also include a diverting device configured to divert the electromagnetic waves emitted by the generating device at least partially into an interaction section of the at least one analysis channel, through which interaction section the diverted electromagnetic waves may pass and interact with air flowing through the at least one analysis channel. The sensor device may also include a detector which detects the diverted electromagnetic waves after the interaction with the air.
US10761005B2
An apparatus for analysing the particulate matter content of an aerosol includes an aerosol chamber configured to receive an aerosol, the particulate matter content of which should be analysed, at least one ultrasonic generator configured to produce ultrasonic waves in the aerosol received in the aerosol chamber, an ultrasonic detector configured to detect ultrasonic waves produced by the at least one ultrasonic generator in the aerosol, and an evaluator having a data exchange communication link with the ultrasonic detector and configured to ascertain the matter content on the basis of signals output by the ultrasonic detector. The ultrasonic generator and the ultrasonic detector are positioned relative to one another such that a path length to be traversed by ultrasonic waves between the ultrasonic generator and the ultrasonic detector is less than 1 cm.
US10761003B2
The disclosure relates to a method for analysing cuttings exiting a borehole. The method comprises taking at least an image of a sample of cuttings on a background surface, obtaining spectra representative of the image in the (hue, saturation, brightness) coordinate space, wherein each spectrum is associated to a coordinate and is representative of the distribution of the values of the pixels for the coordinate. Based on the spectrum and the values of each pixel for the associated coordinate, classifying the pixel in one of a plurality of groups, wherein each group is representative of a type of objects within the image, i.e. cuttings and background surface. The method also comprises determining at least a cuttings zone in the image based on the classification of the pixels.
US10761002B1
A shear loader subjects a shear load on a sample and includes: a first shearer including: a first shearing face that provides a shearing plane; a first mating face; and a first knife edge; a second shearer including: a second shearing face; a second mating face; and a second knife edge, the first shearer and the second shearer having relative motion to provide the shear load to the sample; a first load cell; and a second load cell, the first load cell and the second load cell having relative motion in a load direction that is orthogonal to the shearing plane and orthogonal to the shear direction, such that relative motion of the first load cell and the second load cell along the load direction subjects the sample to a side load along the load direction; and a sample region that receives sample bounded by the mating faces and load faces.
US10760990B2
Provided are a water engineering seepage behavior fusing and sensing system and method. The system comprises a seepage-hidden optical fiber locating device, a seepage flow velocity distributed optical fiber monitoring device, an online seepage line diagnosis device and a seepage behavior optical fiber self-adaptive identification device, the location of a water engineering seepage point is realized by using the seepage-hidden optical fiber locating device, then, the seepage flow velocity of a water engineering is monitored by virtue of the seepage flow velocity distributed optical fiber monitoring device, the online diagnosis of a seepage line on a section of a whole water engineering structure can be realized by using the online seepage line diagnosis device, and finally, the current seepage behavior is integrally monitored and evaluated by using the seepage behavior optical fiber self-adaptive identification device, so that the water engineering seepage behavior fusing and sensing is completed. The optical information change of the optical fiber is acquired from multiple aspects and angles by using the four water engineering seepage monitoring devices, depending on the material and mechanical properties of the water engineering and relying on a distributed optical fiber monitoring technology, and furthermore, the monitoring and sensing of a seepage behavior of a water engineering are indirectly completed.
US10760981B2
A Hall sensor having a ball portion on a magnetosensitive portion is provided. A Hall sensor is provided, including: a substrate; a magnetosensitive portion formed on the substrate; an insulating film formed on the magnetosensitive portion; an electrode portion formed on the insulating film; and a ball portion which is provided on the electrode portion and is electrically connected to the electrode portion, wherein in plan view, a projection area of the ball portion accounts for 10% or more of a projection area of the magnetosensitive portion. The projection area of the ball portion may account for 20% or more of the projection area of the magnetosensitive portion. A bonding wire which is electrically connected to the ball portion and is extended from the ball portion in a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of the electrode portion may be further included.
US10760976B2
Thermal imaging of heat sources in thermal processing systems for determination of workpiece temperature are provided. In one example, a thermal processing apparatus can include a processing chamber, a workpiece support, a plurality of heat sources configured to heat a workpiece, and at least one camera. The at least one camera can capture one or more images of thermal radiation of the plurality of heat sources during thermal treatment of the workpiece. In one example, a method for calibrating the camera can include obtaining the one or more images of thermal radiation of at least one heat source, obtaining one or more reference signals indicative of irradiation of the at least one heat source, and calibrating the camera based at least in part on a comparison between the one or more images of thermal radiation and the one or more reference signals indicative of irradiation of the heat source.
US10760970B2
A circular dichroism spectrometer which comprises a metasurface. The metasurface has a plurality of anisotropic antennas configured to simultaneously spatially separate LCP and RCP spectral components from an incoming light beam. An optical detector array is included which detects the LCP and RCP spectral components. A transparent medium is situated between the metasurface and the optical detector array.
US10760964B2
A spectrometer system may be used to determine one or more spectra of an object, and the one or more spectra may be associated with one or more attributes of the object that are relevant to the user. While the spectrometer system can take many forms, in many instances the system comprises a spectrometer and a processing device in communication with the spectrometer and with a remote server, wherein the spectrometer is physically integrated with an apparatus. The apparatus may have a function different than that of the spectrometer, such as a consumer appliance or device.
US10760963B2
A circuit arrangement comprises a photo detector (2) for detecting electromagnetic energy and a signal generating means (4, 6, 12, 16) being suitable for generating a sequence of events wherein an event interval of the sequence depends on the detected electromagnetic energy. The signal generating means (4, 6, 12, 16) is coupled downstream of the photo detector (2). A counting means (30, 32, 34, 36) for measuring a time period until a given number of events has been generated is coupled downstream of the signal generating means (4, 6, 12, 16).
US10760957B2
A multispectral sensor array can include a combination of ranging sensor channels (e.g., LIDAR sensor channels) and ambient-light sensor channels tuned to detect ambient light having a channel-specific property (e.g., color). The sensor channels can be arranged and spaced to provide multispectral images of a field of view in which the multispectral images from different sensors are inherently aligned with each other to define an array of multispectral image pixels. Various optical elements can be provided to facilitate imaging operations. Light ranging/imaging systems incorporating multispectral sensor arrays can operate in rotating and/or static modes.
US10760954B2
Quantum resolution imaging methods and devices are disclosed herein. The quantum resolution imaging device comprises an optical component provided to receive incoming radiation, a mode separating structure for separating the received incoming radiation into multiple modes, and an imaging array having multiple array elements for measuring an energy level of each mode to construct an image of the received incoming radiation as it comes in contact with a surface of one of the array elements.
US10760948B2
Methods of operating an audio device are provided. A method includes measuring sound pressure levels (SPLECM) for acoustic energy received by an ear canal microphone (ECM) during a time increment Δt and calculating a SPL_DoseΔt during the time increment Δt using SPLECM.
US10760946B2
A system of improved weighing utilizes accelerometers to compensate for measurement dynamics and non-level sensor orientation. Fill level of remote combines can be estimated by utilizing their historical harvesting performance and elapsed time or area harvested. Failure and degradation of weight sensors is detected by testing sensor half bridges. Loading and unloading weights can be tied to specific vehicles by utilizing RF beacons. Display location diversity is enhanced utilizing a mirror located as necessary while reversing the displayed image.
US10760944B2
A gas flow metrology system for a substrate processing system includes N primary valves selectively flowing gas from N gas sources, respectively, where N is an integer. N mass flow controllers are connected to the N primary valves, respectively, to flow N gases from the N gas sources, respectively. N secondary valves selectively flow gas from the N mass flow controllers, respectively. A gas flow path connects the N secondary valves to a flow metrology system located remote from the N secondary valves, wherein the gas flow path includes a plurality of gas lines. A controller is configured to perform a hybrid flow metrology by selectively using a first flow metrology and a second flow metrology that is different from the first flow metrology to determine an actual flow rate for a selected gas at a desired flow rate from one of the N mass flow controllers.
US10760937B2
A system includes a container having an inner chamber for storing fluid, at least one measuring probe arranged within the chamber and one ground probe arranged within or near a bottom of the chamber. There is at least one impedance electrically connected with a processor which is electrically connected with the at least one measuring probe. A signal generator has a first voltage terminal electrically connected with the at least one impedance and a second voltage terminal electrically connected with the ground probe. When a signal is sent from the signal generator to the measuring probe, an electrochemical reaction occurs at the measuring probe and ground probe and stores a charge if the measuring probe and/or ground probe are immersed in fluid. The processor measures the voltage, current and power of the signal to calculate the resistance and capacitance of the fluid within the container to determine the level of fluid in the container. A method for measuring the level of fluid in the container includes the steps of applying at least one time-varying voltage signal to the one or more measuring probes, creating an electrochemical reaction between the ground probe and each measuring probe, storing energy around each probe that is submerged in fluid, measuring the current and power of the signals, and determining the level of fluid in the container based on the calculated capacitance and resistance of the fluid within the container.
US10760933B2
Powder flow conveying from a powder feeder to a process (i.e. thermal spray gun) can have instabilities that can be detected and diagnosed using a hose back pressure. Incorporating a pressure transducer in a powder hose line at a connection of the powder hose line and the feeder allows the back pressure to be measured in real time at a high sample rate to detect instability and aid in diagnosing a cause of the instability. Diagnosis includes identifying periodic oscillations in the powder hose line such as acoustics as well as detecting hose clogging and hose rupture conditions. Once detected, proper corrective actions can be recommended to correct the cause of the instability.
US10760932B2
A calibration method for a hand-held surgical instrument is disclosed. The hand-held instrument includes a drive motor, a firing rod controlled by the drive motor and having at least one indicator, and a sensor configured to detect the at least one indicator. A microcontroller includes a pulse modulation algorithm stored therein to control the drive motor. The microcontroller executes a calibration algorithm to adjust at least one program coefficient in the pulse modulation algorithm.
US10760930B2
Disclosed are sensor packages, methods of manufacturing the same, and methods of manufacturing lid structures. The sensor package comprises a package substrate, a gas sensor on the package substrate, a lid on the package substrate and having a hole extending between a first inner surface and a first outer surface of the lid, the first inner surface of the lid facing toward the package substrate and the first outer surface of the lid facing away from the package substrate, and a waterproof film in the hole of the lid. The waterproof film is formed on the first inner surface and the first outer surface of the lid.
US10760914B2
A device can determine scenario information associated with a plurality of route planning scenarios. The scenario information can include information that describes, for each route planning scenario of the plurality of route planning scenarios, a condition or a configuration based on which a respective route plan is to be generated. The device can calculate, based on a plurality of route plans corresponding to the plurality of route planning scenarios, a set of metrics associated with the plurality of route planning scenarios. The set of metrics can be calculated based on a single user interaction with a user interface. The device can provide information associated with the set of metrics. The providing the information associated with the set of metrics can cause an action, associated with at least one route plan of the plurality of route plans, to be automatically performed.
US10760900B2
A shape measurement method of the present invention includes: a step of irradiating a measurement object with an optical pulse train in which a plurality of optical pulses that have predetermined frequency distributions on a time axis are disposed chronologically in numerical order; and a step of measuring an optical shape of the measurement object in accordance with a correspondent relation between numbers of the optical pulses of a plurality of detection target optical pulse trains after the emitted optical pulse train acts on the measurement object and a correspondent relation between the frequency distributions in the optical pulses.
US10760897B2
An optical sensor includes an optical fiber disposed in such a way that an end surface thereof is exposed in a distal end surface (10a) of a sensor head (10). The optical sensor includes: a first plate material (first metal plate) (20) in close parallel contact with the distal end surface of the sensor head, and in which a through-hole is formed in a position corresponding to the end surface of the optical fiber; and a second plate material (second metal plate) (30) disposed parallel to the first plate material (first metal plate) and toward the front thereof in a measuring direction, and in which a through-hole is formed at a point of intersection with a virtual straight line perpendicular to the end surface of the optical fiber. With this optical sensor, it is possible for clearance measurement to be performed even if the optical fiber becomes opaque or worn.
US10760893B2
The present invention related to an apparatus and method for master slave interferometry, referred to as Complex Master Slave (CMS). The method and apparatus can be used to provide complex-valued measurements of a signal reflected from an axial position inside an object or of signals reflected from points at several axial positions inside an object.
US10760891B2
Surface measuring apparatus for measuring a surface of a workpiece has a probe including a probe arm bearing a probe element for contacting workpiece surface to be measured. Surface measuring apparatus also has a feed apparatus for moving probe element relative to workpiece to be measured. Probe arm is detachably connectable or connected to a movable part of feed apparatus via a mechanical interface having a first part and a second part, which in installed position of probe arm are connected to one another with static determinacy on movable part of feed apparatus, and one of the parts is associated with probe arm and the other part is associated with feed apparatus. At least one alignment protrusion is on first part as an installation alignment aid, which in installed position of probe arm contactlessly or essentially contactlessly engages in an alignment recess formed on second part.
US10760885B2
The present invention is directed to composite projectiles and the manufacture thereof for a wide range of purposes and applications through variation of the composite makeup of such composite projectiles. Embodiments of the invention include composite projectiles configured for manufacture using melt-flow manufacturing methods use-cases and composite projectiles having specialized performance for more effective use in specific use-cases.
US10760876B2
An improved clarity sighting system; the improved clarity sighting system includes a collection of front and rear firearm sights, and a gauge tool having mock front and rear sights representing each of the genuine front and rear sights. The gauge tool simulates sight pictures formed by the alignment of the mock front and rear sights. Each of the mock-front-sights corresponds to and replicates the size and shape one of the genuine front-sights, and each of the mock-rear-sights corresponds to and replicates the size and shape of one of the genuine rear-sights. In this way, a user may visually determine which combination of each of the plurality of front-sights and each of plurality of rear-sights matches the user's vision. Each of the genuine front and rear sights are enlarged and are tapered on each face towards the muzzle of then firearm in order to enhance clarity.
US10760872B2
Provided herein are fluid jet enhancement adapters for use with a propellant driven disrupter. The adapter may comprise: a first end operably connected to a muzzle end of a propellant driven disrupter barrel and a second end, wherein a longitudinal region extends between the first end and the second end. The longitudinal region has: a longitudinal region inner surface that defines a longitudinal region lumen; a longitudinal region outer surface opposably facing the longitudinal region inner surface, with a longitudinal region wall having a wall thickness that separates the longitudinal region inner surface from the longitudinal region outer surface. The longitudinal region lumen has a first end inner diameter that is substantially equivalent to a muzzle inner diameter. The longitudinal region wall forms a continuous surface that radially isolates the longitudinal region lumen from a surrounding environment.
US10760869B2
In some embodiments, an archery bow comprises a riser, a first limb and a second limb. The first limb supports a first rotatable member, which comprises a cam. The second limb supports a second rotatable member, which comprises a pulley comprising a peripheral groove. A ring comprising an elastomeric material is positioned in the peripheral groove. A power cable is arranged to be taken up on the cam as the bow is drawn. A string segment is arranged to wrap around the pulley. The string segment contacts the ring.
US10760858B2
A heat exchanger is disclosed for transferring heat from a first material to a second material comprises a structural heat transfer member having a first surface in contact with the first material and a second surface in contact with the second material. The heat exchanger also has a coating on the first surface, the second surface, or on the first and second surfaces. The coating comprises filler particles dispersed in a polymer resin matrix.
US10760855B2
The present disclosure is to provide a heat sink capable of improving cooling efficiency of a heat radiation fin and exhibiting excellent cooling performance with respect to a cooling target regardless of an installation posture of the heat sink, and capable of being installed even in a narrow space.The heat sink includes: a heat transport member having a heat receiving portion thermally connected to a heat-generating element and including a first wick structure; a tube body connected to a heat insulating portion or a heat radiating portion of the heat transport member and including a second wick structure; and a heat radiation fin group which is thermally connected to the tube body and in which a plurality of heat radiation fins are arranged, in which, the heat transport member has an integral internal space that communicates from the heat receiving portion to a connection portion with the tube body and is sealed with a working fluid, the internal space of the heat transport member communicating with an internal space of the tube body, and the first wick structure includes a branch portion branched in a thickness direction of the heat transport member and multi-stage stem parts extending from the branch portion in a predetermined direction.
US10760845B2
A method of discharging artificial snow (S) from a snow making facility (20) including an evaporator vessel (1) and producing snow by means of the technique of freezing water under vacuum pressure by maintaining a vacuum pressure in the evaporator vessel and producing water vapor that absorbs the latent heat of vaporization from the water, whereby the water temperature drops until it freezes and reaches the super cooling temperature that corresponds to the existing vacuum pressure, wherein produced snow is withdrawn from a bottom portion (1A) of the evaporator vessel by means of a first pipe screw conveyor (4), the withdrawn snow is conveyed from the first screw conveyor through a controlled first valve (6) and into a second pipe screw conveyor (5) and snow is discharged to the atmosphere from the second screw conveyor through a controlled second valve (7). A facility for producing artificial snow as well as a method for controlling the quality of produced artificial snow are also provided.
US10760842B2
A method and system for improving energy efficiency of a refrigeration system include system components such as a condenser, one or more expansion valves, an evaporator, one or more compressors, and a system controller electrically coupled to the one or more of the system components, according to one embodiment. The system controller is configured to selectively actuate, directly or indirectly, the one or more expansion valves, the condenser, and/or the one or more compressors, at least partially based on temperatures and/or pressures of the system fluid at various points of the system, to control a temperature of a refrigerated area.
US10760839B2
In an indoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus, an air inlet for room air is provided at a position lower than a height position of a drain pan. A partition plate is provided to partition a space below a height position of the drain pan in a housing. A pipe connecting portion connected to a refrigerant pipe of an outdoor unit is provided in one part of the partitioned space and a heat exchanger and a fan are placed in the other part of the partitioned space. At least one communicating path is formed in the partition plate to communicate the two parts of the partitioned space with each other. The indoor unit can include a controller for activating a fan when leakage of refrigerant is detected or for closing the communicating path when leakage of refrigerant is detected.
US10760836B2
A spool assembly configured for use in a two-stage proportional control valve in a fluid system includes a substantially cylindrical sleeve having an axially extending sleeve bore extending from an open first end to an open second end. A spool includes a spool bore that extends from an open first axial end to a closed second axial end and is slidably mounted within the sleeve bore. The spool further includes a first circumferentially extending groove defining a fluid flow path, a second circumferentially extending groove formed near a first end thereof, a third circumferentially extending groove formed near the second axial end thereof, a circumferentially extending pressure groove formed therein between the second axial end and the third circumferentially extending groove, and first, second, and third transverse fluid passageways formed through a side wall of the spool.
US10760831B2
A method of operating a multiple-compressor refrigeration system is provided. This method includes the steps of supplying, via a common supply line, refrigerant gas and oil to a plurality of compressors coupled in series, and attaching an oil flow conduit between adjacent compressors of the plurality of compressors. The oil flow conduit is configured to move oil from a compressor with a relatively higher pressure to a compressor with a relatively lower pressure. The method further includes controlling the pressure for each of the plurality of compressors by regulating a speed at which each of the plurality of compressors operates in order to maintain a pressure differential between the adjacent compressors to facilitate the flow of oil from the compressor with the relatively higher pressure to the compressor with the relatively lower pressure.
US10760830B2
A desiccant air conditioning system for treating an air stream entering a building space, including a conditioner configured to expose the air stream to a liquid desiccant such that the liquid desiccant dehumidifies the air stream in the warm weather operation mode and humidifies the air stream in the cold weather operation mode. The conditioner includes multiple plate structures arranged in a vertical orientation and spaced apart to permit the air stream to flow between the plate structures. Each plate structure includes a passage through which a heat transfer fluid can flow. Each plate structure also has at least one surface across which the liquid desiccant can flow. The system includes a regenerator connected to the conditioner for causing the liquid desiccant to desorb water in the warm weather operation mode and to absorb water in the cold weather operation mode from a return air stream.
US10760829B2
A high capacity capacitor is used in an appliance to enable a power circuit of the appliance to power a heating element or other electrical load concurrently with powering one or more additional electrical loads in the appliance using power from both a powerline source and power from the high capacity capacitor such that a combined power consumption in the appliance may be at least temporarily at a level above the power rating of the powerline source.
US10760822B2
A PTC heating element includes a heating element casing that fits, as a structural unit, at least one PTC element and contact plates that energize the PTC element and that form contact strips for an electrical plug connection in order to electrically connect electrodes that are electrically connected to the PTC element. The PTC element is covered with an insulation layer at least on one of its two main side surfaces. In order to provide such a heating element casing that is inexpensive to produce and of a light-weight configuration, the PTC heating element comprises an injection-molded plastic frame which encloses the insulation layer only at the edge and which defines oppositely disposed frame openings, behind which the PTC element with its main side surfaces is located.
US10760819B2
Disclosed is a water supply system that conditionally fills with heated water. The water supply system has a water tank configured to store and supply heated water, a heater configured to heat water in the water tank, and a sensor configured to sense a temperature of the water in the water tank. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, the water supply system has a water supply unit configured to selectively supply heated water or unheated water to the water tank based on the temperature that has been sensed. In some implementations, this is performed to reduce use of the heated water, which may result in energy savings.
US10760818B2
Disclosed herein is an air conditioner including a suction panel which includes a suction port through which air is suctioned in inside a housing. The suction panel is formed to rotate with an axial direction of an air blowing fan or a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the air blowing fan as a rotation axis to be coupled with or separated from the housing. Accordingly, a user may easily and intuitively separate the suction panel and falling of the suction panel, which may occur when the suction panel is separated, may be effectively reduced using a supporting unit disposed at the suction panel. Also, the housing and cover members which cover an outer perimeter of a lower portion of the housing may be coupled with each other by pressurizing the cover members toward the housing, thereby allowing the user to easily coupled the cover members.
US10760814B2
A system includes a converter and a controller to control a compressor and operates without receiving power supply from a thermostat. The converter receives a demand signal from the thermostat that is used to power the controller and charge a capacitor. When the thermostat de-asserts the demand signal, the charged capacitor powers the controller, which saves system parameters in a nonvolatile memory and enters a power save mode. The life of the nonvolatile memory is extended by alternately storing the system parameters in different memory locations. The system normalizes outdoor ambient temperature (OAT) during a demand cycle. The system determines OAT slope, which is used to select durations to operate the compressor at different capacities, by performing time based calculations during a demand cycle, demand cycle based calculations at the start of a demand cycle, or time and demand cycle based calculations during a demand cycle.
US10760810B2
Equipment management system including two or more indoor environment control devices controlling the air environment in an indoor space; and control terminal connected to each of indoor environment control devices and configured to send and receive information to and from them. Control terminal includes external communication unit that communicates with mobile communication device connected through a public line; condition acquiring unit that acquires information related to an operating condition of indoor environment control devices from mobile communication device through external communication unit; operating condition determination unit that determines an operating condition of indoor environment control devices based on information acquired by condition acquiring unit; and control unit that operates indoor environment control devices under the operating condition determined by operating condition determination unit.
US10760807B2
An air conditioner according to the present invention has a structure driving a compressor and a pump, simultaneously, in a low-temperature cooling environment in which the outdoor temperature is lower than the indoor temperature.
US10760806B1
A failsafe assembly for use with a thermostat that includes a housing that defines a housing interior, and first and second thermoswitches disposed in the housing interior. The first thermoswitch includes an open and a closed state and is normally in the open state. The first thermoswitch is configured to switch to the closed state when an ambient temperature drops below a predetermined lower threshold temperature and the first thermoswitch is configured to switch back to the open state when the ambient temperature rises above a predetermined first safety temperature. The second thermoswitch includes an open and a closed state and is normally in the open state. The second thermoswitch is configured to switch to the closed state when the ambient temperature exceeds a predetermined upper threshold temperature. The second thermoswitch is configured to switch back to the open state when the ambient temperature drops below a predetermined second safety temperature.
US10760803B2
An indoor air quality (IAQ) system for a building includes a relative humidity (RH) sensor. The RH sensor is configured to measure a RH of the air within the building. At least one of a thermostat and an IAQ control module is configured to control humidification of the building based on the RH measured by the RH sensor.
US10760799B2
An air-conditioning apparatus that conditions introduced air includes an ultraviolet sterilizer that emits ultraviolet ray to the air. The ultraviolet sterilizer includes a sterilizing light screen forming unit that forms a screen-shaped sterilizing light screen based on the emitted ultraviolet ray.
US10760797B2
A system for purifying and pre-conditioning intake air in an air conditioning unit comprises an energy exchange unit having an air inlet, an air outlet, a primary air flow running from the air inlet to the air outlet, and an active energy exchanging element or elements, and at least one spray washer having at least one nozzle, the spray washer positioned between the air inlet and the next active element, wherein the at least one spray washer is configured to dispense droplets of a fluid into the intake air from the at least one nozzle. A method for purifying and pre-conditioning intake air in an air conditioning unit is also described.
US10760795B2
The present disclosure relates to air conditioning systems and methods. An aspect of the present disclosure is a device that includes a housing having an external surface and defining an interior volume, a heat exchanger positioned within the interior volume, a fluid line partially positioned within the interior volume, a sleeve extending from the external surface and terminating at a distal end of the sleeve, and a fluid connector. The sleeve has an outside wall spanning a length of the sleeve and defining an internal cavity, the fluid connector is positioned at or near the distal end, a portion of the fluid line is positioned within the internal cavity, and the fluid line provides a fluid connection between the heat exchanger and the fluid connector.
US10760786B2
A jet burner of the present disclosure basically includes a burner unit and an air blower disposed at a rear end of a burning chamber of the burner unit, wherein the burner unit is installed with a fuel bucket for storing fuel and the burning chamber having a tubular shape. Interior of the burning chamber is installed with a least one nozzle, at least one fuel pipe coupled to the fuel bucket is installed at each the nozzle, a front end of the burning chamber is installed with at least one jet pipe, and a pipe diameter of each the jet pipe is less than an inner diameter of the burning chamber. Under the reaction of the jet pipe, the burning stay time of the fuel in the interior of the burning chamber is increased, as to achieve the objective of increasing the fuel burning efficiency.
US10760783B2
A table that includes a planar upper surface having a recess, a lamp positioned in the recess, a first sensor, and an embedded touch control. The lamp can be in a closed position or an open position, and have a first section and a second section. The first section is attached to the planar upper surface at a proximal end thereof. The first sensor detects the position of the lamp and communicates with circuitry to activate and deactivate lamp based on the position of the lamp. The embedded touch control is located beneath the planar upper surface and controls the light level of the lamp.
US10760781B2
A light fixture and wireway assembly is provided in a low-profile configuration wherein at least a portion of a plurality of wireways are disposed in a stacked configuration with a low-profile, edge-lit LED light engine. In one configuration, at least portions of two to four individual wireways are disposed in a stacked configuration with a low-profile, edge-lit LED light engine powered by an LED power supply also disposed within the outer perimeter of the overall assembly. Each wireway can be accessed through a single wireway wall without requiring conduit outside of the outer perimeter of the assembly.
US10760780B2
A directional accent luminaire includes a housing having a front portion including a front compartment, a rear portion with a rear opening extending from the front portion, and a wall positioned between the front portion and the rear portion. A cover is removably connected over the rear portion to selectively enclose the rear opening. A light emitter is positioned in the front compartment for emitting light in a direction away from the rear portion. A control component is positioned in the front compartment for controlling the light emitter. An internal conductor is electrically connected to the control component and extends from the front portion into the rear portion. The rear portion includes a junction compartment for housing a connection between a power supply conductor and the internal conductor. The removal of the cover provides access to the junction compartment through the rear opening.
US10760772B2
The illumination device capable of illuminating plural regions via a light diffusion element includes a laser light source that emits a laser beam, an optical scan unit capable of changing an optical path of the laser beam from the laser light source, an optical path adjustment element and a light diffusion element. On the optical path adjustment element, the laser beam from the optical scan unit is incident, an incidence position of the laser beam varies depending on the optical path determined by the optical scan unit; and an emission angle of the laser beam varies depending on the incidence position. The light diffusion element diffuses the laser beam and emits diffused light. On the light diffusion element, the laser beam from the optical path adjustment element is incident and an emission angle of the diffused light varies depending on an incidence angle of the laser beam.
US10760770B2
A device for modifying light distribution includes a transparent body including a first surface, a second surface on an opposite side of the transparent body, and a third surface joining the first surface. The second surface defines a cavity opening away from the first surface. The second surface reflects, towards the third surface, at least a part of light received via the first surface. The third surface reflects, towards the second surface, the light reflected from the second surface. The second surface acts as a light egress surface for the light reflected from the third surface. The third surface includes a groove so that a part of the light reflected from the second surface propagates across the groove prior to being reflected from the third surface. The light distribution can be tuned by adjusting the shape, the size, and/or the location of the groove.
US10760767B2
An illuminating lens design method and an illuminating lens. The projections of the highest points of an outer surface and an inner cavity surface of the illuminating lens on the horizontal plane are overlapped, and a horizontal profile curve of the outer surface and the inner cavity surface of the illuminating lens obtained from an arbitrary height satisfies: ( | x i | a i ) n i + ( | y i | b i ) n i = 1 where ai is the projection length of a portion of an xz section basic profile curve, which is intercepted by an xiyi plane, on the xiyi plane; bi is the projection length of a portion of a yz basic profile curve, which is intercepted by the xiyi plane, on the xiyi plane; xi, yi are coordinates of certain point on the outer horizontal profile curve and the inner horizontal profile curve; ni is a real number greater than 1.
US10760765B2
A safety accessory for mounting on a vehicle comprises a housing having a front side and a back side, and a laterally extending mounting portion for connecting to the vehicle, a mirror mounted on the front side, and a bulb assembly within the housing facing the back side. The bulb assembly comprises a plurality of white, amber and red light sources, and a control circuit connected between light sources and a plurality of inputs. The control circuit causes the white light sources to be on when power is received at a first input, the amber light sources to flash in a standard flash pattern when power is received at a second input, the red light sources to flash in the standard pattern when power is received at a third input, and the amber light sources to flash in an emergency strobe pattern when power is received at a fourth input.
US10760748B2
A high environmental protective and energy-saving LED illumination lamp includes a base, a first lamp body assembly arranged on an upper portion of the base, and a second lamp body assembly arranged on an upper portion of the first lamp body assembly. A controller, a power supply, a data memory, a wireless communication transmission unit configured to communicate with an external mobile terminal, an alerter configured to generate an alarm sound in case of an emergency, a sound device, and a voltage stabilizer are arranged inside the base. A first rotary drive motor is arranged inside the base. A rotary disc configured to support the first lamp body assembly is arranged between the base and the first lamp body assembly. The first rotary drive motor drives the rotary disc to rotate to drive the first lamp body assembly to rotate synchronously.
US10760727B2
A display stand for supporting a plurality of displays. The display stand includes an upright rod, a first supporting arm, a second supporting arm and a hinge joint member. The upright rod extends along an axial direction. The first supporting arm is for supporting a first display. The second supporting arm is for supporting a second display. The hinge joint member includes a first knuckle, a second knuckle, a first stopping surface and a second stopping surface. The first knuckle is disposed on the upright rod and the first supporting arm, and has a first cylinder and a first pivoting seat. The second knuckle is disposed on the upright rod and the second supporting arm, and has a second cylinder and a second pivoting seat.
US10760713B2
A flexible protector including a protector housing, clearance space defined by the housing the clearance being dimensioned and positioned to preserve flexibility of the housing while isolating a placed device from bending therein upon flexing of the housing. Also disclosed is a resource recovery system including a spoolable conductor, a device disposed in line with the conductor, and a spoolable protector disposed about the device. A method for protecting a device inline in a spoolable conductor including contacting the device with a buttress of a first half protector, securing conductors in the half protector, and interconnecting a second half protector with the first half protector. A method for instrumenting a target environment.
US10760707B2
A fluid valve includes a valve member located between a first cavity and a second cavity, and an actuator that includes a pilot. The valve member is moved by the balance between the pressure prevailing in the first cavity and the pressure prevailing in the second cavity. The valve member includes a longitudinal hole that can be blocked by the pilot so as to modify the pressure prevailing in the first cavity and the force acting on the valve member so as to vary a fluid flow rate between an inlet and two outlets. The valve member is attached to a piston, one end of which is located in a third cavity. The force acting on the valve member is determined by the pressures prevailing in the various cavities.
US10760704B2
A servovalve includes a fluid transfer valve assembly comprising a supply port and a control port; a moveable valve spool arranged to regulate flow of fluid from the supply port to the control port in response to a control signal; and a drive assembly configured to axially move the valve spool relative to the fluid transfer assembly in response to the control signal to regulate the fluid flow. The drive assembly comprises a steerable jet pipe moveable by an amount determined by the control signal to cause corresponding movement of the valve spool. The jet pipe terminates at one end in a nozzle and at the other end being in fluid flow engagement with and fixedly connected to a fluid supply torsion tube arranged to receive fluid from a fluid source. Movement of the valve spool is caused by fluid flowing from the nozzle to engage with the valve spool.
US10760696B2
A slide for a fuel circuit valve of an aircraft engine extending along a longitudinal axis, and comprising a narrowed intermediate portion extending between two cylindrical end portions, a first end portion being separated from the narrowed intermediate portion by a shoulder having a surface arranged overall perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the narrowed intermediate portion including in turn, as an extension of the shoulder, at least one cylindrical portion, the shoulder comprising at least one groove which extends radially from the cylindrical surface of the first end portion, towards the longitudinal axis, and which forms a fuel recirculation area which provides the generation of a jet of fuel on the cylindrical portion of the narrowed intermediate portion, when fuel flows along the first end portion towards the narrowed intermediate portion and the second end portion.
US10760694B2
Fluid management systems for handling pressurized fluid connect various subsystems or subunits without the need to use reinforced tubing. The system utilizes one or more segments of unreinforced conduit that are encapsulated at various points along a length of the segment with one or more rigid encapsulating members. The unreinforced conduit may be made a disposable element while the rigid encapsulating members may be re-used. In one aspect, the encapsulating member may include a two-part valve body that surrounds and encapsulates a portion of the unreinforced conduit. In another aspect, the encapsulating member may include a two-part jacket that surrounds and encapsulates a portion of the unreinforced conduit. The two-part valve bodies and two-part jackets may be joined at various points within the system as part of the overall flow system.
US10760692B2
Mixture preventing valve includes first flow passage allowing a first fluid to flow; second flow passage allowing a second fluid to flow; communication passage allowing first flow passage and second flow passage to communicate with each other; valve body that opens/closes communication passage; and valve seat provided on an inner wall surface of the communication passage that contacts valve body. Valve body includes first valve body piece and second valve body piece arranged side by side in a state of being separated from each other in a movement direction of valve body. Valve seat contacts respective outer peripheral surfaces of first valve body piece and second valve body piece. In the inner wall surface, a portion where valve seat contacts outer peripheral surface of first valve body piece, and a portion where valve seat contacts outer peripheral surface of the second valve body piece exist on a same plane.
US10760690B2
A seal assembly is for a closure element of a valve assembly including a valve body with a flow passage and an annular seat extending about the passage, the closure element being linearly displaceable along a central axis and including a cylindrical body. The seal assembly includes an outer seal including an annular body formed of a polymeric material and having a centerline, an inner circumferential surface defining a seal bore, an outer circumferential surface, and opposing first and second axial ends, the first axial end having a generally radially-extending, annular sealing surface sealingly engageable with the valve seat. An inner connector includes a generally annular body formed of a substantially rigid material and disposed at least partially within the seal bore, the connector body having an inner circumferential surface frictionally engageable with the valve body outer surface to couple the seal with the closure element.
US10760680B2
In a hydraulic control device, a state determination unit of a control unit determines whether a second pump is in a boosting operation or in a transition state. If the state determination unit has determined that the second pump is in the boosting operation or in the transition state, a valve-opening detection unit determines whether a check valve is opened. If the valve-opening detection unit has determined that the check valve is opened, a controller stops the second pump or decreases the rotation number of the second pump.
US10760678B2
A mechanical transmission device having a planet carrier and at least two planets mounted on the planet carrier by means of respective rotation shafts. The device includes a stop for stopping movement of the various rotation shafts in axial translation.
US10760677B2
An epicyclic gear train including a central sun gear, an outer ring gear, and a number of planet gears which are mounted to a planet carrier. The planet carrier includes a centrally disposed torque transfer coupling with a torque transmission point at an axial end thereof. First and second carrier plates extend radially from the torque transfer coupling and are axially spaced apart to support the planet gears therebetween at aligned gear mounting points. The first carrier plate is closer to the torque transfer point than the second carrier plate. The second carrier plate has a stiffness that is greater than that of the first carrier plate.
US10760668B2
A transmission assembly structure includes an engine-side joining surface, a transmission-side joining surface, which is joined to the engine-side joining surface, an engine component which is provided on an outside of the engine-side joining surface in a radial direction in the flywheel housing and protrudes toward the transmission side, a guide member which is provided on the engine-side joining surface or in the vicinity of the engine-side joining surface of the flywheel housing and in a vicinity of the engine component and which protrudes toward the transmission side further than the engine component, and a guide hole, which is provided on the transmission-side joining surface of the transmission housing or in the vicinity of the transmission-side joining surface and into which the guide member is inserted.
US10760663B2
A method of making a strain wave includes the steps of a) providing a circular spline, a flexspline meshed with the circular spline, and an initial wave generator having an initial outer profile of a standard ellipse with a perimeter S0, and b) producing a modified wave generator rotatably fitted within the flexspline and having a modified outer profile with a perimeter S. A difference ES between the perimeter S of the modified outer profile and the perimeter S0 of the initial outer profile satisfies the equation ES=S−S0=0.1 m to 0.8 m, wherein m is the modulus of the flexspline. Through a special parameter design of the modified wave generator, the meshing ratio between the circular spline and the flexspline is increased, thereby improving the transmission accuracy and reducing the average load.
US10760658B2
A power transmission apparatus includes a first input shaft selectively receiving an input torque, a second input shaft coaxially disposed with the first input shaft and selectively receiving the input torque, first and second intermediate shafts selectively interconnected and disposed in parallel with the first input shaft, a torque mediating shaft coaxially disposed with the first input shaft, a preliminary shifting section receiving a torque through a first input shaft and selectively outputting a shifted torque to the second intermediate shaft, a compound shifting section including a planetary gear set having a sun gear fixedly connected with the torque mediating shaft, a planet carrier fixedly connected with the second input shaft, and a ring gear externally gear-meshed with the second intermediate shaft, and an output shaft receiving a torque received from the compound shifting section and transmitting the received torque to a differential.
US10760652B2
An automatic transmission realizes forward 10-speed and reverse 1-speed shift stages by including an input shaft; a first planetary gear set; a second planetary gear set connected through one part and selectively connected through another part with the first planetary gear set, and receiving power from the input shaft; a third planetary gear set connected with the first planetary gear set through one part and selectively connected with the first planetary gear set through another part, and selectively connected with the second planetary gear set; a fourth planetary gear set selectively connected to a transmission housing, selectively connected with the first planetary gear set, selectively connected with the second planetary gear set, and connected with the third planetary gear set through one part and selectively connected with the third planetary gear set through another part; and an output shaft connected with the third planetary gear set, and outputting speed-shifted power.
US10760651B2
Described is a device for synchronization of a reverse gear for a vehicle gearbox including: a support shaft fixed in rotation; an idle gear wheel for engagement with a first reverse gear wheel on a gearbox primary shaft and a second reverse gear wheel on a gearbox secondary shaft, said idle gear wheel mounted rotatable and axially slidable on said support shaft and having a hub including a first friction surface; and a synchronizer ring mounted mobile on said support shaft along an axial travel and countered axially by an elastic element along said axial travel, said synchronizer ring having a second friction surface for engagement with said first friction surface. Axial movement of the idle gear wheel towards an engagement position of the reverse gear causes drawing of the synchronizer ring implementing, prior to reverse gear engagement, braking of rotary movement of the idle gear wheel.
US10760649B2
A speed reducer includes an input shaft, an output shaft, and a gear assembly coupled to the input shaft. The gear assembly includes a housing, an external gear, and at least two internal gears. The external gear is located within the housing and inscribes the at least two internal gears. One side of the at least two internal gears is rotatably coupled to the input shaft, and another side of the at least two internal gears is coupled to a connecting column of the output shaft. The at least two internal gears are offset on the input shaft, and the input shaft drives the at least two internal gears to maintain engagement with the external gear. The connecting column maintains transmission of the output shaft and the at least two internal gears.
US10760646B2
A V-ribbed belt includes a compression rubber layer containing a vulcanizate of a rubber composition, a tension member, and a tension layer, and has a side part of the compression rubber layer being a ground surface coming into contact with pulleys, and a bottom part of the compression rubber layer being a non-ground surface not coming into contact with pulleys. The V-ribbed belt has, on a surface of the bottom part, a composite layer containing a fiber assembly and a vulcanizate. The fiber assembly contains a heat-resistant fiber which is not melted at a vulcanization temperature of the rubber composition and has a weight per unit area of 25 g/m2 or less. The vulcanizate of the rubber composition impregnated among fibers of the fiber assembly.
US10760645B2
A rotary viscous vibration damper or absorber has a hub part which can be fastened to a crankshaft of an engine, in particular of an internal combustion engine, and a vibration damper ring which is mounted such that it can be rotated relative to the hub part. A shear gap which is filled with a silicone oil is formed between the hub part and the vibration damper ring, in which shear gap flange bushings for guiding the vibration damper ring are mounted. The flange bushings are composed of a liquid crystal polymer.
US10760640B2
A high-voltage connection device for use with an electrorheological device having a high-voltage connector with an insulating upper part, an insulating lower part, a connector socket, and a central metallic contact pin, wherein the connector socket is fixed to a grounded portion of the electrorheological device and the upper part contains ground terminal elements and is axially connected to the lower part. Additionally, the upper part has a pot-like design and coaxially surrounds both the lower part and the connector socket in the connected state.
US10760611B2
A rotatable connection for a mounting device for arrangement in an operating room, the rotatable connection includes an adjustable stop mechanism, which can be disposed between a first connection component and a second connection component, and is configured to define at least two different relative rotational angles of the connection components relative to each other or at least two different ranges or rotation. The adjustable stop mechanism includes at least one stop device having a respective counterstop, which is axially disposed between a first part and a second part that are each mounted in a torsion-proof manner. The at least one stop device is configured to define the different relative rotational angles or ranges of rotation by way of the respective counterstop. The invention further relates a support system or a mounting device comprising such a rotatable connection, and to a method for setting the adjustable stop mechanism.
US10760607B2
A joining method is a method of joining a plate set composed by a plurality of stacked plate members including a first plate member and a second plate member by using a tapping screw. When the tapping screw is advanced into the plate set while the tapping screw is rotated in a state of applying a pressure onto the plate set so as to form through-holes in the first plate member and the second plate member, a first pressure applied onto the tapping screw is reduced down to a second pressure at the time when the tapping screw penetrates the first plate member.
US10760601B2
A clamping device, embodiments of which are well suited to securing the tail of a fish, is provided. The device includes one or more clamp arms with actuation bars fixed thereto for causing the clamp arms to pivot when the actuation bars are pushed against an object to be clamped. A locking mechanism locks the clamp arms into the clamped position.
US10760577B2
An electric water pump having a motor with an axially moveable rotor unit. A rotary pump member is fixed for axial movement with the rotor unit to vary its position within a pump chamber so as to vary the flow rate through the pump chamber.
US10760567B2
A fluid end assembly of a reciprocating pump has multiple fluid end bodies that are removably attached, independently of each other, to a power end assembly of the reciprocating pump, and to a manifold of the fluid end assembly. Each fluid end body defines a discharge outlet that is coaxial with a plunger bore for a reciprocating plunger, and a suction inlet that is disposed above the discharge outlet. A valve assembly is removably insertable into a valve port extending from an external surface of a manifold attached to the fluid end body, without having to remove the manifold from the fluid end body. The valve assembly includes a valve mechanism surrounded by a cylindrical valve body that lines the internal wall of the manifold defining the valve port, thereby forming a barrier between fluid flowing through the valve assembly and the internal wall.
US10760555B2
The present disclosure relates to a piston pump assembly comprising a piston with a variable stroke and to a hydraulic braking system comprising the same. The piston pump assembly comprises at least: a rotatable drive shaft defining an axis of rotation of the rotatable drive shaft; a cam disposed on the drive shaft; and the piston biased toward the cam and configured to reciprocate along a piston axis for displacing a hydraulic fluid. The cam is movable relative to the piston axis and is selectively placed in one of a first position at a first distance from the piston axis and a second position at a second distance from the piston axis; and wherein the cam comprises at least two portions each of which has, at a given position of the cam relative to the piston axis, a different non-circular cross section in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation and/or a different eccentricity with respect to the axis of rotation, the at least two portions of the cam comprising at least a first cam portion having a first non-circular cross section and/or a first eccentricity, and a second cam portion having a second non-circular cross section and/or a second eccentricity.
US10760554B2
A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a cylinder drum having a substantially hollow cylindrical base body, and liners. The body includes cylinder bores located around a central axis. The liners have an outer diameter press-fitted into the bores such that an outer end face of each liner is positioned in a region of an opening of a respective bore, and such that an inner end face of each liner is positioned deep within the respective bore. An outer half of each liner, starting from the outer end face, includes an axially delimited circumferential recess in an outer casing surface of the liner. The machine is configured to operate with great forces acting between the liners and displacement pistons. The recess in each liner is shaped such that, in an axial section through the liner enclosing an axis of the liner, a depth of the recess increases more than once and decreases more than once.
US10760552B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for establishing plasma and using plasma in a rotating magnetic field
Systems and methods establish plasma in a rotating magnetic field. An exemplary embodiment is a plasma thruster that establishes a first transverse magnetic field with respect to a system axis of a plasma propulsion system; establishes a second transverse magnetic field oriented orthogonally to the first transverse magnetic field, wherein the second transverse magnetic field is out of phase with the first transverse magnetic field; and establishes a magnetic field aligned with the system axis using a plurality of magnet elements oriented along the system axis. A plasma containment portion defines an interior region, wherein an interior region of a plasma containment portion accommodates a plasma that is established by a rotating magnetic field component that is cooperatively established by the first transverse magnetic field and the second transverse magnetic field, and wherein the plasma is accelerated out of the plasma containment portion by magnetic forces to generate a propulsion force.
US10760547B2
A method for controlling voltage of a DC link of a power converter of an electrical power system connected to a power grid includes operating the DC link to an optimum voltage set point that achieves steady state operation of the power converter. The method also includes monitoring the power grid for one or more transient events that may be an indicator of one or more sub-synchronous control interaction (SSCI) conditions occurring in the electrical power system. Upon detection of the transient event(s) occurring in the power grid, the method also includes immediately increasing the optimum voltage set point to a higher voltage set point of the DC link. Moreover, the method includes operating the DC link at the higher voltage set point until the sub-synchronous control interaction(s) is damped, thereby optimizing voltage control of the DC link.
US10760544B2
A jointed rotor blade assembly may include a first blade segment having a first outer shell terminating at a first joint end and a second blade segment coupled to the first blade segment at a blade joint. The second blade segment may include a second outer shell terminating at a second joint end. The outer shells may overlap one another at the blade joint such that an overlapping region is defined between the first and second joint ends. In addition, the first outer shell may be spaced apart from the second outer shell along at least a portion of the overlapping region such that a gap is defined between the outer shells within the overlapping region. Moreover, the rotor blade assembly may include a sealing member positioned between the outer shells within the overlapping region that is configured to allow relative movement between the outer shells at the blade joint.
US10760543B2
In one embodiment, a system includes an engine control system configured to control an engine. The engine control system comprises a processor configured to receive a vibration signal sensed by a knock sensor disposed in an engine. The processor is further configured to correlate the vibration signal with a fingerprint having at least an ADSR envelope indicative of the operating event of a valve train of the combustion engine, analyze the vibration signal with a statistical valve train model, or a combination thereof. The processor is also configured to detect if the operating event has occurred based on correlating of the noise signal with the fingerprint, based on analyzing the vibration signal with a statistical valve train model, or a combination thereof, and to control the valve train based on the operating event.
US10760541B2
A DC power plant generating DC power from a variety of engines including a Stirling cycle engine. The DC power plant includes a relatively small start-up power source that is discontinued after the engine is running. A method for producing DC power for a load including starting up an engine using power supplied by a relatively small power supply supplemented by a capacitor bank, providing output from the engine to a generator, producing alternating current (AC) power by the generator, converting the AC power to direct current (DC) power, disabling output of the DC power during a first set of pre-selected conditions, limiting a rate of change of current of the DC power during a second set of pre-selected conditions, reducing conducted and radiated emissions of the DC power, disconnecting the DC power from the load under a third set of pre-selected conditions, and providing the DC power to the load.
US10760532B1
Methods and systems are provided for conducting an ejector system diagnostic under conditions where an engine of a vehicle is not combusting air and fuel. In one example, a method comprises directing a positive pressure to the ejector system while the engine is off in order to communicate a negative pressure with respect to atmospheric pressure on a fuel system and an evaporative emissions system of the vehicle, and indicating that the ejector system is degraded responsive to the negative pressure not reaching a vacuum build threshold. In this way, the ejector system may be diagnosed under conditions where boosted engine operation is infrequent and/or of durations insufficient for conducting such an ejector system diagnostic.
US10760531B2
A rocket throat insert including an annular body having a radially inner annular wall portion and a radially outer annular portion. The inner wall portion has a contoured radially inner surface defining a nozzle throat. The outer portion includes an annular buttressing structure supporting the inner wall portion and defining one or more insulation gaps arranged annularly around the inner wall portion. The insulation gaps restrict the radial flow of heat through the annular body.
US10760521B2
A control device for a motor-driven fuel pump adapted for an internal combustion engine is provided. The fuel pump includes a cylinder, a mover in the cylinder, and an electric actuator configured to move the mover. The control device is configured to perform energization control on the electric actuator to reciprocate the mover so that the fuel pump draws in and discharges fuel. The control device is also configured to control a discharge count and a unit discharge amount based on an operating state of the internal combustion engine. The discharge count is a number of times of discharging fuel from the fuel pump to the fuel pipe during a period between a fuel injection from the fuel injection valve and the next fuel injection, and the unit discharge amount is an amount of fuel for one fuel discharge from the fuel pump.
US10760520B2
Methods and systems are described for controlling fuel injection in an engine equipped with a dual injector system including a port injector and a direct injector. A ratio of port injected fuel to direct injected fuel is adjusted based at least on intake valve temperature. The proportion of fuel port injected into a cylinder is increased as the intake valve temperature for the given cylinder increases to improve fuel vaporization in the intake port.
US10760519B2
A method of implementing control logic of a compression-ignition engine is provided. A control part of the engine performs a calculation according to the control logic corresponding to an engine operating state in response to a measurement of a measurement part, controls a fuel injection part, a variable valve operating mechanism, an ignition part and a supercharger so that a G/F becomes leaner than a stoichiometric air fuel ratio and a A/F becomes equal to or richer than the stoichiometric air fuel ratio, while causing the supercharger to boost, and controls the ignition part so that unburnt mixture gas combusts by self-ignition after the ignition. The method includes determining a supercharging pressure P, and determining control logic defining a close timing IVC of an intake valve. When determining the control logic, the close timing IVC (deg.aBDC) is determined so that the supercharging pressure P (kPa) satisfies the following expression: P≥8.0×10−11IVC6−1.0×10−8IVC5+3.0×10−7IVC4−4.0×10−6IVC3+0.0068IVC2−0.3209IVC+116.63.
US10760517B2
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing degradation of an exhaust valve coupled to an engine cylinder. In one example, a method may include, routing compressed air from an electric booster into a cylinder with the intake valve of the cylinder open and the exhaust valve closed, and indicating degradation of the exhaust valve based on an exhaust airflow relative to a baseline airflow.
US10760516B2
A leakage detection device detects leakage in a PCV passage that at least includes a scavenging line that communicates between a crank chamber of an engine and a portion of an intake passage of the engine that is on a downstream side of a throttle valve and a fresh air line that communicates between the crank chamber and a portion of the intake passage that is on an upstream side of the throttle valve. The leakage detection device includes a pressure measurement, a first valve and a leakage determination unit. The pressure measurement unit measures pressure in the PCV passage. The first valve opens/closes the fresh air line. The leakage determination unit determines presence or absence of leakage in the PCV passage on a basis of the pressure in the PCV passage at a time when the first valve is closed.
US10760510B2
A controller for an internal combustion engine is configured to execute a dither control process and an enlarging process. The enlarging process includes at least one of the following two processes: a process of causing an operation region of the internal combustion engine in which the dither control process is executed to be larger in a case in which an amount of particulate matter trapped by the filter is large than in a case in which the amount is small; and a process of causing a degree of richness of the rich combustion cylinder and a degree of leanness of the lean combustion cylinder to be greater in a case in which the amount of particulate matter trapped by the filter is large than in a case in which the amount of particulate matter trapped by the filter is small.
US10760508B2
An internal combustion engine has a control device, an EGR valve that adjusts an EGR rate, a PCV valve that adjusts an opening degree of a first PCV passage that communicates an inside of a crankcase and a downstream side of a throttle valve. The control device operates the throttle valve in a closing direction in response to a deceleration request. The control device adjusts an opening degree of the PCV valve based on an immediately preceding EGR rate immediately before reception of the deceleration request.
US10760503B2
A controller for an internal combustion engine includes a controlling section that controls a variable valve actuation device such that the phase of an intake valve becomes a target value. The controlling section executes a process of setting the target value to a steady or transient state phase, a process of calculating a load change rate, and a process of setting a change amount of the transient state phase. The change amount of the transient state phase is set to a change amount when the engine operating state is a transient state and the load change rate is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold. The change amount of the transient state phase is set to a second change amount that is less than the first change amount when the engine operating state is the transient state and the load change rate is less than the threshold.
US10760488B2
A gas turbine engine according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan section having a plurality of fan blades. The plurality of fan blades has a peak tip radius Rt and an inboard leading edge radius Rh at a first inboard boundary of a first flowpath. A core engine includes a first turbine configured to drive a first compressor, and a fan drive turbine configured to drive the fan section. A method of designing a gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US10760482B1
Systems and methods for operating a vehicle that includes an engine and an electric machine are described. In one example, operation of the engine may be adjusted to compensate for conditions when carbon deposits may build on one or more engine spark plugs. The engine adjustments may help to remove carbon deposits from the engine's spark plugs.
US10760481B1
An apparatus can include: a piston head configured to be disposed inside of a cylinder of an engine; a connecting rod device coupled to the piston head and extending therefrom, the connecting rod device including: a variable-length connecting rod including a female component with a hollow body and a male component disposed at least partially inside of the female component, the female component configured to be coupled to a crankshaft of the engine, one or more rollers rotatably disposed in or on the male component, and a connecting rod magnet movably coupled to the male component proximate to a position of the one or more rollers; and a piston coupling mechanism disposed at least partially inside of the piston head to couple the connecting rod device to the piston head. The connecting rod device can be configured to transition between a locked state and an unlocked state.
US10760476B2
An engine system may include an engine including a plurality of combustion chambers generating driving torque by combustion of fuel, an intake line through which outside air supplied to the combustion chamber flows, an exhaust line for exhausting the exhaust gas from the combustion chamber to the outside, a turbocharger including a compressor mounted in the intake line and a turbine mounted in the exhaust line, an air supply passage through which a portion of the outside air branched from the intake line and supplied to the combustion chamber, an air supply nozzle connected to the air supply passage and supplying the part of the outside air to the combustion chamber, an air supply pump provided in the air supply passage and providing an injection pressure to the part of the outside air injected into the combustion chamber, and a controller for controlling the air supply nozzle and the air supply pump.
US10760474B2
A control method for a cooling system is provided. The method includes determining whether the output signals of a first coolant temperature sensor and a second coolant temperature sensor satisfy a predetermined coolant overheating condition. A coolant control valve unit is operated to move the cam to a maximum position when the predetermined coolant overheating condition is satisfied. Additionally, a control temperature is determined according to an output signal of the first coolant temperature sensor and the second coolant temperature sensor and an operation of the injector is limited according to the determined control temperature.
US10760472B2
An electronic thermostat may include an internal housing including a partition defining a head chamber communicating with a cylinder head and a block chamber communicating with an engine block and the internal housing of which a head chamber hole and a block chamber hole are formed thereto, an external housing of which an outlet is formed thereto and the external housing covering the internal housing, a thermostat heater disposed to the partition, a first opening/closing portion including a first wax receiving heat from the thermostat heater and selectively closing or opening the head chamber hole and a second opening/closing portion including a second wax receiving heat from the thermostat heater and selectively closing or opening the block chamber hole.
US10760470B2
A closed-loop cooling ship propulsion apparatus includes a power device, a pump, and a coolant supply. A fluid circuit is formed in the ship propulsion apparatus and a coolant in the loop can be arranged to circulate through all heat-generating components in addition to the pump and motive power unit. A closed-loop circuit avoids the blockages and contamination which might occur if the water of a sea or lake was used directly.
US10760469B2
An aftertreatment system can include a radiation shield for reducing and/or redirecting radiative thermal energy. The aftertreatment system can include a first housing, a second housing, a first aftertreatment component, and the radiation shield. The first aftertreatment component is positioned within one of a first interior volume of the first housing or a second interior volume of the second housing. The radiation shield includes an attachment portion and a thermal barrier portion. The attachment portion is coupled to an exterior of the first housing or the second housing. The thermal barrier portion is structured to divert radiative thermal energy in a second direction different than a source direction of the radiative thermal energy.
US10760464B2
Methods for monitoring and/or regenerating a selective catalytic reduction particulate filter (SCRF) are provided. The SCRF comprises a porous filter substrate and a catalytic composition capable of reducing NOx applied thereto. Methods include determining a SCRF pressure differential (dP) and determining the SCRF soot loading using a 1st SCRF dP map if the SCRF has not been degreened, or a 2nd SCRF dP map if the SCRF has been degreened. The SCRF has been degreened if one or more of a degreening cumulative time and temperature threshold has been achieved and a filter regeneration count threshold has been achieved. The 1st and 2nd SCRF dP maps correlate SCRF dP and one or more of SCRF temperature, exhaust mass flow, and exhaust volumetric flow to a SCRF soot loading. The method can optionally further include initiating a filter regeneration if the determined SCRF soot loading is above a soot loading threshold.
US10760454B2
An oil control valve for a cam phaser of an internal combustion engine where the spool is positioned by an external actuator. The valve includes a spool assembly including a spool that is axially movable in a central opening, and there is at least one groove in the spool. The groove substantially increases fluid flow through the hydraulic valve when opened. By controlling the size and position of the groove, the amount of the fluid flow may be controlled. Further fluid flow control may be had by controlling the size of holes in the spool. The increase of fluid flow attributable to the groove may be at least 50%, 100% or even 200% compared with the at least one groove being absent.
US10760452B2
A condenser includes heat transfer pipe groups, a main body and an intermediate body. The intermediate body has an inlet that opens in a horizontal direction, and an outlet that opens downward. The main body has an inlet that opens upward and is connected to the intermediate body outlet. The heat transfer pipe groups are arranged in the horizontal direction and disposed in the main body. A near-side outlet edge is an edge of the intermediate body outlet on a side near the intermediate body inlet in the horizontal direction and a far-side outlet edge is an edge of the intermediate body outlet on a side far from the intermediate body inlet. At least one part of the main body is located below an imaginary line that connects the near-side and far-side outlet edges and at least one part of the main body is located above the imaginary line.
US10760450B2
A gas turbine and a method for replacing a bearing thereof to easily adjust a clearance of a bearing housing and a bearing covering a tie rod, such that the bearing can be easily replaced is disclosed.
US10760449B2
A fixing device fixes a relative position in a rotational direction of an outer member and an inner member of a stationary body of the rotary machine, and includes: a radial pin that is inserted into a through hole passing through the outer member in a radial direction of a rotary machine and having a stepped portion formed therein to have a larger diameter at a portion on an outer side in the radial direction of the rotary machine than at a portion on an inner side in the radial direction, that has a part on the inner side in the radial direction of the rotary machine to be inserted into a concave portion of the inner member, and that has a flange portion on the outer side in the radial direction of the rotary machine.
US10760446B2
An airflow mask tool incudes a pressure side mask portion to seal at least a portion of a pressure side of a component having an array of internal passageways and a suction side mask portion to seal at least a portion of a suction side of the component, at least one of the suction side mask portion and the pressure side mask portion comprising at least one opening to expose at least one exit from the array of internal passageways.
US10760440B2
An assembly for gas turbine, includes a first part and a second part installed circumferentially around a longitudinal axis of the turbine, where the first part has a first side face adjacent to a second side face of the second part, and where a first aperture made in first side face is facing a second aperture made in second side face, a sealing plate fitted inside the first aperture and the second aperture, at least one longitudinal face of the sealing plate includes at least two projections made either side of a longitudinal central area of the sealing plate, wherein each projection is of a height chosen so as to reduce a clearance between the sealing plate and the first and second apertures.
US10760425B2
A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.
US10760415B2
An echo communication system has a plurality of triggers disposed within a first distance of each other and a hub separated from the plurality of triggers by at least a second distance that is greater than the first distance. The hub is configured to wirelessly transmit a signal intended for one of the triggers and each of the triggers will re-broadcast the same signal if they are not the intended recipient.
US10760401B2
A method of determining a rate of penetration of a downhole tool. The method comprises introducing a downhole tool including a drill bit configured to drill through a subterranean formation in a wellbore, the downhole tool comprising at least one reader configured to communicate with identification tags using electromagnetic radiation. The method includes advancing the wellbore with the drill bit and placing, with a component of a bottomhole assembly of the downhole tool, a first identification tag at a first location proximate the wellbore and at least a second identification tag at a second location proximate the wellbore and separated from the first location by a distance. An interrogation signal is transmitting from the at least one reader toward a wall of the wellbore and response signals from the identification tags are received by the at least one reader to determine proximity of the identification tags to the reader. A rate of penetration of the downhole tool is determined, using a processor and associated memory, based at least in part on a distance between identification tags and an amount of time between receiving response signals from a first identification tag and at least a second identification tag. Downhole systems for determining a rate of penetration and other methods are also disclosed.
US10760398B2
A sand and gas separation system for use with a rod pump. The system comprises an upper separator configured to separate out gas from wellbore fluids prior to flowing into the rod pump. The system further comprises a lower separator configured to separate out sand from wellbore fluids prior to flowing into the upper separator. The upper and lower separators are coupled together by a mechanical coupling.
US10760397B2
Proppant-free channels may be formed in a proppant pack in subterranean formations by using the miscibility and immiscibility of proppant-laden and proppant-free fluids. For example, a method of forming a proppant pack may include: introducing, in alternating order, a proppant-laden fluid and a proppant-free fluid into a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation, wherein the proppant-laden fluid comprises an oil-external emulsion and a proppant, and wherein the proppant-free fluid is immiscible with the proppant-laden fluid; and forming a proppant pack in a fracture in the subterranean formation, wherein the proppant pack comprises proppant-laden clusters and proppant-free channels.
US10760393B2
Steam assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) equipment including steam generating equipment may be cleaned using supercritical carbon dioxide. Supercritical carbon dioxide is a fluid state of carbon dioxide where it is held at or above its critical temperature and critical pressure. Supercritical carbon dioxide has exceptional solvent qualities that can dissolve, soften, or dislodge the refractory fouling deposits in the SAGD equipment.
US10760390B2
Methods for servicing a hydrocarbon well using natural gas are provided. The method can include preparing a working fluid comprising about 5 vol % to about 100 vol % of natural gas. A quantity of the natural gas in the working fluid can be sufficient to form a heterogeneous phase well servicing mixture of a gaseous phase natural gas and a solid or liquid phase recovery target material under specified well intervention conditions. During the well servicing operation and under the specified well intervention conditions, the working fluid can be injected into the well and mixing the working fluid with the recovery target material in the well to form the heterogeneous phase well servicing mixture. The natural gas can be in a gas phase and can serve as a carrier fluid for the recovery target material. At least a portion of the heterogeneous phase well servicing mixture can be recovered at surface.
US10760388B2
A hydraulic pumping method for use with a subterranean well can include mounting a hydraulic actuator above a wellhead, the hydraulic actuator and the wellhead being axially aligned with each other and inclined relative to vertical The hydraulic actuator can be unsupported by any substructure or guy wires after the mounting. A hydraulic pumping system for use with a subterranean well can include a hydraulic actuator including a piston that displaces in response to pressure in the actuator, a magnet that displaces with the piston, and a magnetic field sensor that detects a presence of the magnet. The hydraulic actuator may be mounted above a wellhead, with the hydraulic actuator and the wellhead being axially aligned with each other and inclined relative to vertical.
US10760384B2
A method of creating and finishing perforations in a hydrocarbon well having a well wall that includes causing a high velocity jet of a material to shoot into the well wall, thereby creating a perforation in the well wall. The method further includes introducing a gas blast into the perforation, for a blast time duration, the gas blast creating an increasing pressure at the perforation until a maximum pressure is reached; and allowing the pressure of the gas blast to undergo a period of rapid decline to a level of less than 50% of the maximum pressure.
US10760379B2
Described herein are various embodiments of computer-implemented methods, computing systems, and program products for analyzing a flood operation on a hydrocarbon reservoir. For example, an embodiment includes establishing a dataset of allowed well connections for at least one production well and at least one injection well of the hydrocarbon reservoir. The embodiment includes iteratively modifying the dataset of allowed well connections based on a distance category, a static features category, a dynamic features category, or any combination thereof, where the static features category uses static data of the hydrocarbon reservoir and the dynamic features category uses dynamic data of the hydrocarbon reservoir. The embodiment includes, after iteratively modifying the dataset of allowed well connections, running capacitance resistance modeling using the modified dataset of allowed well connections as an input.
US10760378B2
An apparatus for generating pressure pulses in a fluid flowing in a downhole tool includes a stator, a rotor, a motor, and an electronics module. The stator and the rotor each have one or more flow passages. The motor oscillates the rotor relative to the stator to align and misalign the flow passage(s) of the stator and the rotor to thereby generate the pressure pulses. The electronics module drives the motor using at least a first signal and a second signal. The motor causes the rotor to have an information-transmitting oscillation in response to the first signal and a cleaning oscillation in response to the second signal.
US10760375B2
A method of plugging a hydrocarbon well includes deploying a downhole tool to remove at least a portion of a casing at a section of well to be plugged. Deploying a blocking device downhole to block a bottom of the section of well to be plugged. Deploying a plugging material downhole onto the blocking device to fill an area to be plugged. Deploying an exothermic fluid downhole, wherein activation of the exothermic material liquefies the plugging material. Allowing the plugging material and the exothermic fluid to solidify form a cast-in-place plug that fills the section of well to be plugged.
US10760360B2
A device for determining the connection quality of threaded tubular components includes a case configured for mounting on an external surface portion of a threaded tubular component, at least one measuring device including a contact layer including a plurality of temperature sensors arranged to measure variables representative of temperatures at a plurality of locations E(i,j) of the external surface of the end of the tubular component.
US10760356B2
A drill pipe guide system having a support structure configured to be positioned on a rig floor or drillship floor, an articulating arm coupled to the support structure, wherein the articulating arm is coupled to the support structure, wherein the articulating arm is configured to pivot relative to the support structure, and a clamp coupled to the articulating arm, wherein the clamp is configured to encircle a drill string and limit radial movement of the drill string as the drill string is lowered beneath the rig floor or drillship floor.
US10760354B2
An assembly for a torque-transmitting connection in an inner pipe string of a dual-member drill string is formed from a collar, a retaining ring, and an inner pipe member. An endless internal groove having adjacent shallow and deep sections is formed in the collar. Formed in the inner pipe member, an external grooved region is situated in adjacent relationship with the internal groove. The retaining ring, situated within the grooves, resists disconnection of the collar from the inner pipe member. When the assembly is subjected to an axial force that might otherwise tend to pull it apart, the retaining ring resists the tendency by wedging between the bottom of the shallow section of the internal groove and the crest of the external groove.
US10760352B2
A catch assembly is provided for a downhole motor assembly of a drilling system. The catch assembly may include a catch basket that may be coupled to a saver sub. The saver sub may be coupled to a stator tube housing a rotor of a downhole motor. The rotor knob may be coupled to the rotor and include a flange that may be positioned in the catch basket. The flange may be positioned uphole of an internal shoulder of the catch basket. Subsequent to a connection failure in or near the stator tube, the flange may engage the internal shoulder of the catch basket to prevent the rotor from falling downhole.
US10760349B2
A wired pipe system includes a wired pipe segment having a first end and a second end, a first coupler in the first end and a second coupler in the second end and a transmission line disposed in the wired pipe segment between the first and second ends. The transmission line includes a transmission cable that includes an inner conductor and an insulating material disposed about the inner conductor as well as a a wire channel surrounding the insulating material and the inner conductor for at least a portion of a length of the transmission cable. The wire channel and the insulating material are mated together by at least one mating feature.
US10760344B1
Embodiments of the invention relate to methods of fabricating leached polycrystalline diamond compacts (“PDCs”) in which a polycrystalline diamond table thereof is leached and resized to provide a leached region having a selected geometry. Creating a leached region having such a selected geometry may improve the performance of the PDC in various conditions, such as impact strength and/or thermal stability.
US10760336B2
The present invention relates broadly to a fall arrester (10) attached to a user's harness via a coupling arrangement (6). The fall arrester (10) is designed to be attached to a backup rope or safety line (12). The fall arrester 10 ( )comprises a body (14), and a lever (16) pivotally coupled to the body (14). The lever (16) includes a primary cam (18) which is arranged to co-operate with the coupling arrangement (6). In operation, descent of the user urges the coupling arrangement (6) into contact with the lever 16 which pivots to effect braking of the safety line (12) between the body (14) and the primary cam (18). Some preferred embodiments include an inertial cam to initiate pivotal movement of the lever for braking of the rope with the primary cam; a tow cam connected to a tow line which includes a mechanical fuse; a secondary cam connected to the lever whereby panic gripping the rope and the coupling toward one another promotes braking of the rope between the primary cam and the body; an accelerator element to accelerate contact of the coupling with the lever; and an inverted cam to ensure correct orientation of the fall arrester.
US10760333B2
The invention relates a double-canvas door; comprising a frame (1) provided with guides (2a, 2b) for moving the canvases (3a, 3b) between door open and closed positions, said canvases defining an intermediate chamber (8) therebetween. The door comprises a single motor-driven roller (6) for the simultaneous winding of both canvases, and a single motor (61) for actuating the roller, the upper ends of the canvases (3a, 3b) being connected to one another and to a band (5) coupled to the winding roller (6), said connection closing the upper end of the intermediate chamber (8) when the door is closed.
US10760332B2
A position sensing system and method for detecting the displacement of a door from a reference position, such as, for example, from a closed position. The system includes a magnetometer that may be operably connected to the door, and which measures positional location relative to a reference magnetic field, such as, for example, a magnetic field provided by a magnet of a lock device. The system may also include an accelerometer that detects acceleration of the door, and thereby provides an indication of when location is to be measured by the magnetometer. Measurement information from the magnetometer is used to derive a position indicator that is compared to a reference indicator, the reference indicator being associated with the reference position. Differences between the position and reference indicators may provide an indication that the door has been moved from the reference position.
US10760330B2
A fire-blast resistant door assembly comprises a door frame and a door leaf. The front part of the door leaf comprises a front panel and a front stiffener that delimits a cavity from the inside of the front panel, wherein a sheet refractory material is installed in said cavity. The rear part of the door leaf comprises a rear panel and a rear stiffener that delimits a cavity from the inside of the rear panel. A support structure made of metal is installed in said cavity. The front and the rear parts of the door leaf are mutually connected through the layer of the refractory material, forming the thermal break therebetween, so that said support structure abuts against said sheet refractory material. The door frame, in its turn, comprises a front part and a rear part mutually connected through a layer of the refractory material forming a thermal break.
US10760327B2
An insulating glazing includes at least two substantially parallel glass sheets, which are spaced apart by at least one air- or gas-filled cavity forming a cavity internal to the glazing, a spacer, which is arranged at a periphery of the glass sheets and which keeps the two glass sheets spaced apart, and an adhesive bonding system arranged to fasten the spacer to each glass sheet via two of opposite fastening faces of the spacer, wherein the spacer includes, at least for one side of the glazing, a mirror-function reflective surface on an internal face of the spacer facing the internal cavity of the glazing.
US10760315B2
A stowage bin assembly includes a bin bucket assembly having a bin bucket which includes at least one sidewall, the at least one sidewall including a notch and the at least one sidewall having an interior surface. The stowage bin assembly also includes at least one hinge assembly. The at least one hinge assembly includes a housing which is received in the notch, the housing having an interior surface, wherein the interior surface of the housing is substantially flush with the interior surface of the at least one sidewall when the housing of the at least one hinge assembly is received in the notch. The stowage bin assembly also includes a stowage bin door pivotably coupled to the bin bucket assembly via the at least one hinge assembly, the stowage bin door moveable between an open position and a closed position. Related components, assemblies, and devices are also provided.
US10760313B2
A stowage compartment for a vehicle comprises a bin, a lid, and a first hinge assembly. The bin includes a bottom surface and a first hinge mount. The lid includes a second hinge mount and a latch mechanism. The second hinge mount is disposed proximate the first hinge mount of the bin. The first hinge assembly includes a lock barrel and a free barrel. The lock barrel is rotatably supported in the first hinge mount of the bin, the free barrel is fixed to the second hinge mount of the lid. The free barrel is disposed in and rotatably supported by an interior of the lock barrel.
US10760310B2
A kit for use in realigning a door connected to a jamb includes a plurality of replacement hinges having different sized gaps formed between the leaves thereof when pivoted to extend in parallel, juxtaposed alignment, including gaps that are narrower and wider than a standard gap of the conventional hinges currently used to hang the door, prior to installation. A zero gap replacement hinge may have no gap between the leaves when in the closed position. The kit may include multiple reduced gap replacement hinges with varying sized gaps and multiple enlarged gap replacement hinges with varying sized gaps. To rehang a sagging door, the top conventional hinge may be replaced with a reduced gap replacement hinge and the bottom conventional hinge may be replaced with an enlarged gap replacement hinge. The reduced gaps and the enlarged gaps of the replacement hinges may be formed using a swaging technique.
US10760285B2
A floor element for forming a floor covering, wherein the floor element comprises: a decorative layer made of a ceramic material; a support layer arranged below the decorative layer; and an intermediate layer comprising a rigid resin material that permeates a lower surface of the decorative layer, wherein the decorative layer is between 8 and 10 mm thick, wherein the support layer is made of rigid PVC, comprises more than 30 wt % of filler material and is less than 6 mm thick, and wherein the floor element comprises an intermediate reinforcing layer having a resin material that permeates a lower surface of the decorative layer, wherein the intermediate reinforcing layer is an adhesive layer that bonds together the decorative layer and the support layer.
US10760283B2
A decking system is made up of a variety of decking boards and other components are disclosed. In some aspects, the decking boards are connectable to each other so that adjacent boards will provide a water barrier and a drainage channel. Some versions of the boards may have a hollow region to accept the provision of heating elements or other accessory structures. A connector piece is disclosed in various embodiments span the gap between the butt ends of the boards to provide a water barrier at the butt ends of the boards. A gutter and downspout system is disclosed, as well as structures for protecting the ends or sides of the deck structure.
US10760282B2
A building siding panel is provided with an internal channel for weeping away water and the ability to hide the securing flange when the siding panel is installed on a building wall. The siding panel can be customized to have the look of a wooden panel, while retaining the benefits and durability of a non-wooden material, such as metal.
US10760274B2
A system to produce a bitumen-based membrane provided with a bituminous surface covered by grains. The system comprises a movement device designed to more a preformed membrane in a predefined feed direction, a grain application machine comprising a rotating application drum provided with a plurality of cavities which are designed to receive grains in a loading region of said drum, a grain loading device designed to load the grains in the cavities in the loading region of the drum, and a grain retention device made of sintered polymer material, which is arranged in contact with a retention region for retaining the outer surface of the application drum so as to maintain the grains in the cavities until the latter reach an angular discharge position.
US10760272B2
A disclosed rebar coupler includes a first coupling member, a second coupling member, and a coupling means. Accordingly, the connection angle between the first coupling member and the second coupling member is variable to a desired angle. The connection angle between rebars to be connected may be rapidly and conveniently varied at an industrial site to which the rebars are applied.
US10760261B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a beam-to-column connection systems for a moment-resisting frame as well as moment-resisting frames that include such connection systems.
US10760252B2
An automatic air release plunger is provided for unclogging an obstructed drain in a plumbing fixture having undrained wastewater. The plunger includes a handle and a hollow, compressible plunger head. The plunger head is coupled to the handle at the plunger head's proximal end. The plunger head also includes a seal extending from its distal end that is capable of sealing the plunger head to a drain opening of the plumbing fixture. Additionally, the handle and plunger head include automatic air release features that allow air to flow along an air-escape path from inside of the hollow plunger head into a void formed in the interior of the handle, and thereafter into a channel which extends from the proximal end of the plunger head to a gap at a proximal end of the handle where the air is released whenever the plunger head is compressed.
US10760251B2
A power plunger including a barrel member as a housing for a piston, a connecting rod, a crank having a pushing mechanism, a power supply, and an actuating switch. The power plunger provides splash-back free unclogging of drains.
US10760242B2
A block, block system and method of making a wall block. Multiple block embodiments with multiple embodiments of a visually exposed surface having three dimensional shaped areas and three dimensional angular valleys or joints that can be used to construct a patio, wall, fence or the like; the multiple embodiments creating a more random and natural appearance.
US10760229B2
A tilt sensing and signaling device for a containment plow.
US10760219B2
Packaging paper for food, with a basis weight from 20 g/m2 to 50 g/m2, comprising cellulose fibers and one or more filler materials, wherein the total amount of filler materials is between 5% by weight and 20% by weight with respect to the weight of the packaging paper, wherein the packaging paper comprises a sizing agent that is contained in such an amount that a relative water absorption of 0.4 to 0.7 is obtained on both sides, wherein the relative water absorption is defined as the quotient of the Cobb60 value, determined in accordance with ISO 535:2014, and the basis weight, has a coating on at least one side that comprises nanoparticles of a starch, wherein the coating contains between 1 g/m2 and 6 g/m2 of said nanoparticles, does not contain any compounds with the structure CF3(CF2)n(CH2)mX, wherein n=5 or n=7 and m=0, 1 or 2 and X is a hydroxyl group (X═OH) or a carboxyl group (X═COOH), or the proportion of such compounds in the total mass of the packaging paper is less than 0.1‰, and has a resistance against greases and oils of 6 to 12, described by the KIT level in accordance with TAPPI T559 cm-12, wherein in the test in accordance with TAPPI T559 cm-12, the at least one side coated with said nanoparticles is exposed to the test liquids.
US10760218B2
A coating for paperboard includes polyethylene outer layers and a polyethylene inner layer with calcium carbonate filler. In addition to the lower cost, benefits include a surprising better heat sealing behavior compared with a coating of polyethylene alone.
US10760216B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing self-binding pigment particle suspensions, to a self-binding pigment particle suspension as well as to a paper product comprising self-binding pigment particles and to the use of the self-binding pigment particle suspension in paper applications, such as in paper coating or as filler material.
US10760214B2
A method of producing a paper product by forming a paper web on a paper machine, the web including a plurality of sections, analyzing the web, marking the web, winding the web to form a parent roll after the web has been inspected and marked, assigning an action score to each section of the web, at least one action score having an action value, unwinding a web from a parent roll, reading at least one of a plurality of marks with a mark reading unit, obtaining the action score associated with a second one of the marks, calculating a distance between a mark read by the reading unit and the second one of the marks, changing at least one operational parameter of a converting line based upon the action score of the second of the marks when the distance is less than a threshold, and converting the paper web.
US10760210B2
This invention provides a silicone-coated fabric for airbags in which creases can be easily formed by applying heat and pressure, that can be stored compactly, and that exhibits minimal damage on the coated layer when deployed. More specifically, the invention provides a silicone-coated fabric comprising a silicone-based resin coated on one surface of a synthetic fiber woven fabric, and a thermoplastic resin adhering to the silicone-based resin-coated surface, wherein the adhesive strength between the silicone-based resin-coated surfaces is 0.01 to 10 N/cm.
US10760209B1
A method for preparing a high fluffiness down by multiple treatments with metal salts includes: degreasing a down sample with a degreasing agent; washing the down sample with water; oxidizing the down sample with an oxidizing agent; washing the down sample with water; conducting a first crosslinking treatment with basic zirconium sulfate; washing the down sample with water; conducting a second crosslinking treatment with basic aluminum sulfate; washing the down sample with water; and drying the down sample to obtain the high fluffiness down.
US10760206B1
A device incorporating visible alignment features which allow the precision trimming of fabric into geometric shapes of a fixed size is disclosed. The device also allows trimming of fabric figures composed of simpler geometric shapes, including guides for rotary trimmers or other cutting implements to remove excess fabric at the seam created by the most common method of creating such figures, to produce figures of specified size and shape with no measuring required. The device incorporates a plurality of trimming slots and indexing indicators allowing it to be used to produce such figures. A method of using the device to produce multiple final fabric pieces from a single section of base fabric is also disclosed.
US10760204B2
The flatwork ironer comprises a heating cylinder (1), a plurality of conveying bands (2), defining said conveying bands (2) a plurality of zones in an introduction area of articles to be ironed, and a plurality of temperature sensors (3) of said heating cylinder (1), indication means for indicating at least one zone (5) of the conveying bands where the articles to be ironed must be placed according to the temperature detected by said plurality of sensors (3), wherein said indicating means are placed in said are for introducing the articles to be ironed.It permits to place correctly the articles to be ironed in the correct position not looking away from the introduction area.
US10760202B2
A marine clothes dryer includes a system for recovering waste heat from cooling water in a cylinder liner, a clothes drying system, and a regenerator system. The system for recovering waste heat from cooling water includes an engine cylinder liner, a water collector, and an air-water heat exchanger. The clothes drying system includes a drying chamber, a circulating fan, a supply duct, and an exhaust duct. The regenerator system includes a gravity heat pipe exchanger with a condensing section and an evaporating section. A fresh air inlet is arranged at one side of the condensing section, and the other side thereof is in communication with one side of the air-water heat exchanger. The other side of the air-water heat exchanger is in communication with the drying chamber (15). One side of the evaporating section is provided with an exhaust port, and the other side thereof is in communication with the drying chamber.
US10760201B2
A washing machine appliance includes a cabinet and a wash tub mounted within the cabinet. The washing machine appliance also includes a spray hose assembly fluidly connected to a wash fluid source and configured for selectively providing a flow of wash fluid in a desired direction and location. The spray hose assembly includes a retractable hose mounted within the cabinet and a spray head attached to the retractable hose. The retractable hose of the spray hose assembly may be retractable by one or both of a coiled section of the retractable hose or a torsion spring configured to provide a return force to the retractable hose.
US10760199B2
A household appliance includes a cabinet defining an interior, a tub located within the interior, and a basket located within the tub and having a loading opening confronting the tub opening. The appliance also includes a bulk dispenser with a dispensing opening, a first chamber in fluid communication with the dispensing opening, and a second chamber fluidly coupled to the first chamber.
US10760190B2
The present disclosure relates to a knitting needle for a knitting set for producing cross-sectionally round knitted products, having a first leg extending in a variable manner from a bendable shaft portion in a first extension direction to a first free end suitable for holding stitches, and a second leg extending in a variable manner from the bendable shaft portion in a second extension direction to a second free end suitable for holding stitches, wherein the free ends are in the form of rounded tips, and wherein the center of gravity of the knitting needle is arranged within the shaft portion, wherein the first extension direction and the second extension direction are at a variable angle to one another.
US10760177B2
A plating method for plating a substrate by increasing a current value from a predetermined current value to a first current value is provided. The plating method plates the substrate for a first predetermined period with the first current value when a first current density corresponding to the first current value is lower than a limiting current density. This plating method includes measuring a voltage value applied to the substrate, and when the current value is increased from the predetermined current value to the first current value, determining whether the first current density is equal to or more than the limiting current density or not based on an amount of change in the voltage value.
US10760175B2
Anodic films that have a white color, and methods for forming the same, are described. According to some embodiments, the anodic films have multiple metal oxide layers. A first layer can provide scratch and chemical resistance and a second layer can provide a light diffusing pore structure that diffusely reflects incoming light and provides a white appearance to the anodic film. According to some embodiments, the anodic films also include a smoothed barrier layer that specularly reflects incoming light so as to brighten the appearance and enhance the white color of the anodic film. The resulting anodic films have an opaque white appearance not achievable using conventional techniques. The anodic films are well suited for providing cosmetically appealing coatings for consumer products, such as housings for electronic products.
US10760170B2
The present disclosure relates to electrolysis. For example, an electrolysis system for carbon dioxide utilization may include: an electrolysis cell having an anode and a cathode, where carbon dioxide reduces at the cathode to at least one hydrocarbon compound or to carbon monoxide; first and second electrolyte reservoirs; a first product gas line from the first electrolyte reservoir; a second product gas line from the second electrolyte reservoir; a first connecting line supplying electrolyte from the first electrolyte reservoir to the anode; a second connecting line taking electrolyte from the anode to the second electrolyte reservoir; a third connecting line supplying electrolyte from the second electrolyte reservoir to the cathode; a fourth connecting line taking electrolyte from the cathode off to the first electrolyte reservoir; and a pressure-equalizing connection directly connecting the first and second electrolyte reservoirs.
US10760163B2
Disclosed is a method of fabricating an aluminum alloy member for bonding different materials. The method may include etching the aluminum alloy member with one or more etching solutions, and forming one or more undercuts on a surface of the aluminum alloy member.
US10760161B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a liner assembly including an inject insert. The inject insert enables tenability of flow parameters, such as velocity, density, direction and spatial location, across a substrate being processed. The processing gas across the substrate being processed may be specially tailored for individual processes with a liner assembly according to embodiment of the present invention.
US10760158B2
Forming a protective coating ex situ in an atomic layer deposition process to coat one or more chamber components subsequently installed in a reaction chamber provides a number of benefits over more conventional coating methods such as in situ deposition of an undercoat. In certain cases the protective coating may have a particular composition such as aluminum oxide, aluminum fluoride, aluminum nitride, yttrium oxide, and/or yttrium fluoride. The protective coating may help reduce contamination on wafers processed using the coated chamber component. Further, the protective coating may act to stabilize the processing conditions within the reaction chamber, thereby achieving very stable/uniform processing results over the course of processing many batches of wafers, and minimizing radical loss. Also described are a number of techniques that may be used to restore the protective coating after the coated chamber component is used to process semiconductor wafers.
US10760156B2
A method of forming a high strength copper alloy. The method comprises heating a copper material including from about 2 wt. % to about 20 wt. % manganese by weight of the copper material to a temperature above 400° C., allowing the copper material to cool to a temperature from about 325° C. to about 350° C. to form a cooled copper material, and extruding the cooled copper material with equal channel angular extrusion to form a cooled copper manganese alloy.
US10760155B2
To provide a vapor deposition source of which material usage efficiency is higher as compared with the related art. A vapor deposition source (10) includes a vapor deposition particles ejecting unit (30) configured to include multistage of nozzle units layered apart from each other in a vertical direction, each of the nozzle units including at least one vapor deposition nozzle (32, 52), and at least one space part (43) provided between the multistage of vapor deposition nozzles, and a vacuum exhaust unit (14) connected with the at least one space part (43).
US10760151B2
A castable, moldable, and/or extrudable structure using a metallic primary alloy. One or more additives are added to the metallic primary alloy so that in situ galvanically-active reinforcement particles are formed in the melt or on cooling from the melt. The composite contain an optimal composition and morphology to achieve a specific galvanic corrosion rate in the entire composite. The in situ formed galvanically-active particles can be used to enhance mechanical properties of the composite, such as ductility and/or tensile strength. The final casting can also be enhanced by heat treatment, as well as deformation processing such as extrusion, forging, or rolling, to further improve the strength of the final composite over the as-cast material.
US10760146B2
A copper alloy for fastening wherein the alloy has a structure of a mixture of α-phase and a β-phase; and wherein the alloy has a composition represented by the general formula: Cubal.ZnaMnb, where bal., a, and b are expressed in % by mass, bal. represents the balance, 34≤a≤40.5, 0.1≤b≤6, and inevitable impurities may be contained; and the composition satisfying the equation (1): b≥(−8a+300)/7, where 34≤a<37.5 and equation (2): b≤(−5.5a+225.25)/5, where 35.5≤a≤40.5.
US10760145B1
An apparatus and method for treatment of articles, using glass failure generated pulses. The apparatus and method is directed towards the hardening and compaction of a glass-covered elongated object that is impacted by a flyer plate having a shape that is complimentary to that of the elongated object. The flyer plate is propelled by, an explosive reaction to create the impact on the glass-covered elongated object. This results in an explosive reaction that pressure-treats the elongated object, thereby causing the hardening and compaction.
US10760143B2
A high-silicon steel sheet is excellent in terms of punching workability and magnetic property. The high-silicon steel sheet has a chemical composition containing, by mass %, C: 0.02% or less, P: 0.02% or less, Si: 4.5% or more and 7.0% or less, Mn: 0.01% or more and 1.0% or less, Al: 1.0% or less, O: 0.01% or less, N: 0.01% or less, and the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, a grain-boundary oxygen concentration (oxygen concentration with respect to chemical elements segregated at grain boundaries) of 30 at % or less, and a microstructure in which a degree of integration P(211) of a {211}-plane of α-Fe on a surface of the steel sheet is 15% or more P(211)=p(211)/S×100(%), wherein S=p(110)/100+p(200)/14.93+p(211)/25.88+p(310)/7.68+p(222)/1.59+p(321)/6.27+p(411)/1.55, and p(hkl): integrated intensity of a peak of X-ray diffraction of an {hkl}-plane.
US10760138B2
A method comprising: (a) providing a partially processed sucrose crop product containing at least 2% optionally at least 5% of the sucrose content of said crop at harvest on a dry solids basis, cellulose and lignin; (b) hydrolyzing said partially processed crop product with HCl to produce an acid hydrolyzate stream and a lignin stream; and (c) de-acidifying said hydrolyzate stream to produce a de-acidified sugar solution and an HCl recovery stream. Additional, methods, systems and sugar mixtures are also disclosed.
US10760137B2
Methods for the rapid detection of the presence or absence of Babesia in a biological or non-biological sample are described. The methods can include performing an amplifying step, a hybridizing step, and a detecting step. Furthermore, primers and probes targeting Babesia and kits are provided that are designed for the detection of Babesia, including, but not limited to, the Babesia species of B. microti, B. divergens, B. duncani, and B. venatorum. Also described are kits, reaction mixtures, and oligonucleotides (e.g., primer and probe) for the amplification and detection of Babesia.
US10760132B2
The present invention relates to methods and compositions for diagnosing prostate cancer and/or determining whether a prostate cancer patient is at increased risk of suffering a relapse, or a rapid relapse, of his cancer. It is based, at least in part, on the results of a comprehensive genome analysis on 241 prostate cancer samples (104 prostate cancer, 85 matched bloods, 49 matched benign prostate tissues adjacent to cancer, and 3 cell lines) which indicate that (i) genome copy number variation (CNV) occurred in both cancer and non-cancer tissues, and (ii) CNV predicts prostate cancer progression.
US10760126B2
The present invention provides methods and kits for detecting RNA-interacting regions in genomic DNA.
US10760119B2
Disclosed are devices, systems and methods of use utilizing interfacial effects enabling droplet actuation, inhibition and early sensing of molecular reactions, such as of polymerase chain reaction.
US10760117B2
Disclosed are methods for polynucleotide sequencing that detect the location of selected nucleobases with greater precision. The methods can be used to determine the location and nature of modified bases in a polynucleotide, that is, non-canonical bases, or to improve accuracy of sequencing of “problem” regions of DNA sequencing such as homopolymers, GC rich areas, etc. The sequencing method exemplified is nanopore sequencing. Nanopore sequencing is used to generate a unique signal at a point in a polynucleotide sequence where an abasic site (AP site, or apurinic or apyrimidinic site) exists. As part of the method, an abasic site is specifically created enzymatically using a DNA glycosylase that recognizes a pre-determined nucleobase species and cleaves the N-glycosidic bond to release only that base, leaving an AP site in its place.
US10760109B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for characterizing and diagnosing dental diseases. In particular, the present disclosure relates to methods for characterizing and diagnosing dental disease (e.g., gingivitis and periodontal disease) based on levels of AI-2 in oral fluids and plaque.
US10760104B2
The invention relates to a method of producing D-xylonate from D-xylose, which includes converting D-xylose to D-xylonate from a coryneform bacterium in which the activity of the iolR gene is reduced or completely switched off compared with the wild type or a mutation of the wild type, or the iolR gene is completed or partially deleted, as well as to a bacterium for carrying out the method.
US10760094B2
The present invention concerns a transgenic plant of the species Solanum tuberosum with a resistance to an oomycete of the genus Phytophthora, transgenic parts of such a plant, a method for its manufacture and to a composition for external application to plants. On the one hand, nucleotide sequences in accordance with SEQ ID NOS: 1-43 are provided from Phytophthora in a host plant-induced gene silencing strategy in potato plants; on the other hand, a fungicide for plant treatment is provided.
US10760093B2
The present invention provides wheat cultivars that are resistant to leaf rust and/or stripe rust disease caused by strains of the fungus Puccinia and to means and methods for producing same. Particularly, the present invention provides wheat cultivars comprising a chromosome segment of Ae. sharonensis, the chromosome segment confers, enhances, or otherwise facilitates resistance of the wheat plants to leaf rust and/or stripe rust disease.
US10760092B2
This disclosure provides a stress-responsive polypeptide sequence for fusion with a polypeptide to specifically induce stability of the fusion polypeptide under stress conditions, such as drought, high salt and high temperature, in plants. Also disclosed includes an expression vector for expressing a fusion polypeptide comprising the stress-responsive peptide in plants transformed therewith, and a method for generating a transgenic plant with enhanced tolerance to environmental stresses, comprising introducing into the transgenic plant a polynucleotide encoding a fusion polypeptide which comprises the stress-responsive peptide as disclosed and a plant anti-stress gene, such as the plant senescence-associated gene SSPP. A plant expressing the expression vector that have an enhanced stress tolerance, including Arabidopsis and soybean, is also provided.
US10760086B2
Novel compositions for use to enhance weed control. Specifically, the present invention provides for methods and compositions that modulate protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase in weed species. The present invention also provides for combinations of compositions and methods that enhance weed control.
US10760082B2
A substance inhibiting the expression of CCND3 gene or PAK2 gene, the substance containing a nucleotide such as miR-4779, may be efficiently used for preventing or treating cancer. In addition, by screening the substance that inhibits the expression of CCND3 gene or PAK2 gene, a candidate substance for preventing or treating cancer may be selected.
US10760081B2
Provided are approaches to improving CRISPR-based DNA editing by performing the editing in cells in which pol Θ (“POLQ”) enzyme and/or its function is reduced. Approaches are provided that are applicable to Cas9 nuclease and Cas9 nickase CRISPR editing. Also provided are kits that can contain a polynucleotide encoding a Cas9 and an agent for use in inhibiting POLQ, and/or or an expression vector configured for expressing a mutation template for use in CRISPR chromosome editing and an agent for use in inhibiting POLQ.
US10760080B2
TNFα antisense oligonucleotides are provided herein. Methods of treating TNFα diseases or Initial Screen of Phosphodiester disorders using the TNFα antisense oligonucleotides and related products are provided.
US10760075B2
The invention provides methods for treating or preventing microbial (eg, bacterial) infections and means for performing these methods. In particular, treatment of infections requiring rapid and durable therapy is made possible, such as for treating acute conditions such as septicemia, sepsis, SIRS or septic shock. The invention is particularly useful, for example, for treatment of microbes such as for environmental, food and beverage use. The invention relates inter alia to methods of controlling microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) or biofouling of a substrate or fluid in an industrial or domestic system. The invention also useful for the treatment of pathogenic bacterial infections in subjects receiving a treatment for a disease or condition, such as a transplant or a treatment for cancer, a viral infection or an autoimmune disease.
US10760069B2
The present invention provides for a polyketide synthase (PKS) capable of synthesizing a carboxylic acid, said PKS comprising a synthetic or hybrid module. The present invention also provides for a host cell comprising the PKS and when cultured produces the carboxylic acid. In some embodiments, the carboxylic acid is adipic acid.
US10760065B2
Various aspects and embodiments of the invention are directed to methods and compositions for reversing antibiotic resistance or virulence in and/or destroying pathogenic microbial cells such as, for example, pathogenic bacterial cells. The methods include exposing microbial cells to a delivery vehicle with at least one nucleic acid encoding an engineered autonomously distributed circuit that contains a programmable nuclease targeted to one or multiple genes of interest.
US10760062B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for producing phenylpropanoid derivatives, such as chalcones and stilbenes, and dihydrophenylpropanoid derivatives, such as dihydrochalcones and dihydrostilbenes, in microorganisms. In particular, the disclosure provides recombinant microorganisms and methods of use thereof for producing phenylpropanoid derivative compounds and dihydrophenylpropanoid derivative compounds.
US10760061B2
The nuclear reprogramming of somatic cells with mRNA encoding reprogramming factors is shown to be greatly accelerated by activation of innate immune responses in the somatic cell. Methods of activating innate immunity include activation of PKR, of toll-like receptors, e.g. TLR3, etc. In some embodiments the mRNA provides the activator of innate immunity.
US10760060B2
The present invention provides a method to rapidly screen tumor cells for invasive and metastatic characteristics, heterogeneity and their response to therapeutic agents, and provides a multi-well microinjection system for the automated imaging and microinjection of zebrafish embryos.
US10760059B1
Methods of differentiating unmodified adult stem cells into functional beta-like cells are provided, as well as compositions, tissues and devices containing such cells. The method requires inducing sequential expression of PDX1, NGN3, and MAFA in these stem cells to form reprogrammed beta cells. Methods of treating diabetes are also provided, comprising obtaining stem cells, preferably from a patient with diabetes, inducing sequential expression of PDX1, NGN3, and MAFA, in said stem cells to form reprogrammed beta cells, and introducing said reprogrammed beta cells into a pancreas of said patient. Alternatively, it may be possible to inject such cells systemically, if the cells are targeted for the pancreas. In yet another embodiment, the reprogrammed beta cells are placed into an artificial pancreas that is surgically placed or injected into the patient.
