US10792730B2
Production plant of metal rods, casting machine, casting process and control method of at least three electromagnetic stirrer devices, wherein one provides at least one phase of switching between two operating configurations of the electromagnetic stirrer devices of which a first operating configuration with the generation of a rotating electromagnetic field inducing in the metallic material in the molten state a rotational motion and a second operating configuration with the generation of a linear electromagnetic field inducing in the metallic material in the molten state a linear motion.
US10792722B2
A tool includes first and second tool parts that move toward one another, at least one processing device provided on the first tool part, and at least two counter devices provided on the second tool part. The processing device and the counter devices are rotatable relative to one another about at least one positioning axis, and the counter devices are aligned relative to one another along a direction of relative rotational movement of the processing device and the counter devices. The processing device and a first counter device are allocated to one another by at least a first defined processing parameter, and the processing device and a second counter device are allocated to one another by at least a second defined processing parameter. The first processing parameter is different than the second processing parameter.
US10792721B1
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a work piece, such as fasteners or flange nuts. The method produces a work piece with a thickened wall. This can be accomplished using a plurality of successive stamping dies to reduce the diameter of a cup-shaped feature drawn from a blank, and reforming the cup-shaped feature to a formed shape having a thickened wall. A fastener or flange nut with a thickened wall manufactured by stamping and forming is also disclosed.
US10792716B2
A machine tool apparatus for a press brake, folding press or punch press system includes a tool holder body having a receiving portion configured for selective engagement with a coupling end of a machine tool. The apparatus also includes a magnetic coupling assembly comprising one or more magnetic elements configured to generate a magnetic coupling adapted for the selective engagement of the tool holder body with the coupling end of the machine tool. In some embodiments, the apparatus may further include an actuator configured to manipulate at least one of the magnetic elements to modulate the strength of the magnetic coupling for selective engagement and disengagement of the tool holder body with the coupling end of the machine tool.
US10792710B2
Disclosed is a method for washing a smearing member, the method including: dropping a washing agent on a glass slide; and causing the smearing member to be in contact with the washing agent on the glass slide, to wash the smearing member.
US10792709B2
A mask cleaning apparatus and method of using the same includes a preheating zone preheating a mask, a first ultraviolet cleaning zone irradiating the mask with a first ultraviolet laser beam at a first irradiation angle, a first cooling zone cooling the mask irradiated with the first ultraviolet laser beam, a second ultraviolet cleaning zone irradiating the mask with a second ultraviolet laser beam at a second irradiation angle, a second cooling zone cooling the mask irradiated with the second ultraviolet laser beam, an infrared cleaning zone irradiating the mask with an infrared laser beam at a third irradiation angle, and a peeling zone spraying air onto the mask irradiated with the infrared laser beam.
US10792705B2
A novel ballistic separator for separating material is disclosed that includes a separator bed adapted to contact the material. The bed has a first agitator with a top surface, with the top surface comprising a conveyor connected to the first agitator. A crankshaft imparts an oscillating motion to the first agitator and conveyor, which move fixed together relative to the oscillating motion. The conveyor is constructed to move laterally across to the top surface.
US10792703B2
The present disclosure describes a system and method of depositing ceramic or ceramic composite coatings on the inside surface area of a tubular shape. The system and method described herein can provide an interior coating for tubes and pipes to provide wear resistance, abrasion resistance, and anti-scaling effects.
US10792701B2
Systems and methods for treating metal pipe couplings, including a frame and insulated panels attached to the frame forming an oven. A pre-heat zone and a bake zone inside the oven, the pre-heat zone separated from the bake zone by a shared oven wall. A combustion burner and recirculation blower are positioned in opposite ends of the oven in a pre-heat zone combustion/recirculation chamber. Another burner and recirculation blower pair are positioned in opposite ends of the oven in a bake zone combustion/recirculation chamber. Heated air supply plenums are fluidly connected to respective recirculation blowers, and include direction-adjustable nozzles to direct heated air generally downward onto pipe couplings moving through the preheat and bake zones. Return air plenums positioned in each of the pre-heat and bake zones each have an air inlet, and an outlet fluidly connected to respective combustion/recirculation chambers. Coating-cured metal pipe couplings made by the methods.
US10792698B2
An improved cartridge structure that both heats the materials contained therein and provides for enhanced structure such that the bypass leaking of the low viscosity heated components is avoided. The cartridge is preferably formed from a rigid material such as reinforced fiberglass tubing. The wall of the cartridge is then wrapped in a flexible heating element or has a heating element cast directly in the wall thereof. The heating elements preferably heat the interior contents and epoxy cartridges to between 150 degrees and 180 degrees Fahrenheit. The wall structure may be of single wall construction with the heaters embedded therein or of a double wall construction such that the heaters are contained between an inner and outer wall. Further the wall construction is preferably formed to withstand the pressures applied when spray applying the epoxy contained therein to prevent the tube wall deformation and resulting blow by leakage.
US10792692B2
An ultrasonic humidifier according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a water bottle accommodating water capable of generating humidification; a water bottle lid covering an upper opening surface of the water bottle and including a humidification outlet for discharging the humidification; and an ultrasonic humidification generating module which floats submersibly in the water accommodated in the water bottle and generates humidifying particles by using ultrasonic waves.
US10792689B2
A combined spray and vacuum nozzle includes a nozzle housing containing a powder supply passage and a vacuum withdrawal passage, where the powder supply passage and the vacuum withdrawal passage are arranged in a side-by-side relationship. The nozzle housing has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The distal end portion features a spray port in communication with the powder supply passage and a vacuum port in communication with the vacuum withdrawal passage. The spray port is positioned adjacent to the vacuum port. The proximal end portion of the nozzle housing adapted to communicate with a source of aspirated powder and a vacuum source so that the powder supply passage communicates with the source of aspirated powder and the vacuum withdrawal passage communicates with the vacuum source.
US10792688B2
A vacuum evaporation device and system comprises a material container and a recycling structure, wherein a nozzle is arranged on the upper end surface of the material container; the recycling structure is arranged around the nozzle; and the recycling structure is configured to receive material when the material sprayed from the nozzle is fallen down. By arranging the recycling structure, the deposited material is received when it is fallen down, so that the nozzle is prevented from being clogged by the fallen material.
US10792687B2
With the use of a low cost microphone mounted at each nozzle, a sound signature of the nozzles may be captured and stored to be used as a continuous indicator of any changes in the flow rate of the nozzles. By measuring changes in sound at each nozzle, it is possible to determine the change in flow before a change in pressure manifests into a problem in the system. The change in sound will oftentimes be significant for plugged nozzles, or nozzles that have excessive wear and flow at too high of a rate. The invention has the advantage of being relatively low cost with ceramic microphones, for example, and with little or no moving parts required. A closed loop control system may be included to compensate for nozzle degradation.
US10792683B2
A paint spraying apparatus includes a supporting structure, a lower nozzle unit, and an upper nozzle unit. The lower nozzle unit includes lower flexible tubes and nozzles, and ejects powder paint toward an eye portion on a lower side of a stabilizer. The upper nozzle unit includes a first frame and a second frame. First flexible tubes are arranged on the first frame. Second flexible tubes are arranged on the second frame. The upper nozzles eject the powder paint toward an eye portion on an upper side of the stabilizer.
US10792680B2
The invention relates to a modified spray head suitable for use with an aerosol composition.
US10792673B2
An electrostatic air cleaner may include a corona charging stage, a precipitation stage, and an air mover (fan). The corona charging stage may include a first and second array placed under electrical potential difference capable of generating a corona discharge. The first array may be substantially parallel corona wires and may be located downstream of an air penetrable second array. The precipitation stage may be downstream from the corona charging stage. The spacing between the first array and the second array may be less than the distance of the precipitation stage to the second array. The air mover may be upstream of the corona charging stage or downstream of the precipitation stage or between these stages. The arrangement allows for higher ion output downstream of the first array with the same voltage and power consumption resulting in greater particle charging and better air cleaning efficiency.
US10792672B2
Device and method for processing thermoplastic plastic having a blowing device for a conveying screw
A device for processing thermoplastic plastic includes a storage container for receiving pieces of plastic particles or a conveying line for conveying the pieces of plastic particles, and a conveying screw following the storage container/the conveying line at a transfer opening. The device also includes an extruder following the conveying screw and an air outlet arranged opposite the transfer opening and directed at this opening. In a method for operating the device, an air stream is aligned with the transfer opening. The strength and/or the direction of the air stream is adjusted or controlled as a function of a load on the extruder.
US10792668B1
A method for processing strands of optic fiber in which a box containing one or more pairs of wheels either crush, cut or bend and break the strands of optic fiber before being transported to a separator. The separator can be positioned to deposit material onto a conveyor belt, into a storage container or into a separate structure known as a step-cleaner. The box can contain a pair of cutting and anvil wheels, a pair of drive wheels or a pair of wheels featuring teeth that cut, crush or bend the strands of optic fiber prior to a suction force removing them from the box and transporting them to the separator. A step cleaner contains one or more rotating wheels with tines that agitate and move the cut, broken or crushed fibers. The suction force is created by a blower operably connected to a passage that communicates with the separator.
US10792667B2
The present invention involves a collapsible and disposable container that is inserted into a paper shredder to catch the shredded paper fragments. The disposable container has a relatively narrow slot-shaped opening having a length less than the longest dimension of the top of the container. A pair of counter-rotating rollers is supplied to compact the paper fragments and feed them through the slot and into the waste container. Various sensor systems, some constructed from conductive ink are used with and within the disposable container.
US10792666B2
A mulching and chipping attachment includes a deck having a top plate. A cutting disk is attached to the deck. The top plate includes an opening that exposes a portion of the cutting disk. A guide chute is attached to the deck, and is disposed over the opening. The guide chute includes a feed system. The feed system includes a first roller, and a reactionary member operable to react against the first roller to secure a log therebetween. The first roller and the reactionary member cooperate together to grasp and controllably feed the log through the opening. The first roller or the reactionary member may be moveable relative to the other, to adjust a throat distance therebetween. An anvil may be disposed at a rearward edge of the opening, and extend downward to define a chip cutting height between the anvil and the cutting disk.
US10792664B2
An impact bar for installation in an axis-parallel impact bar mount of a rotor of an impact crusher includes front-side and backside holding regions between end faces, and longitudinal ribs projecting beyond the end faces. Each holding region is bordered by two longitudinal ribs which have a trapezoidal cross section to define a base and a topside at a distance to the base, with the base being wider than the topside. The longitudinal ribs have each an inner inclined flank and an outer flank, with the inner and outer flanks extending between the base and the topside and with the inner flank extending at a flank angle of 20° to 27° in relation to the x direction and configured such that only the inner flank is supportable in the installation position for transmission of a force into the impact bar mount at the rotor.
US10792656B2
A non-displasive pipette is provided. The non-displasive pipette is configured for connection to a tip having a fluid therein. The tip includes an orifice to allow for the discharge of the fluid therefrom. The non-displasive pipette includes a body defining a chamber therethrough and having first and second opposite ends. The second end of the body is configured for connection to the tip. A plunger is slidably received in the chamber at the first end of the body. The plunger is moveable in the chamber between an extended position and a discharge position wherein the fluid is urged from tip through the orifice. An air discharge arrangement is configured to allow air from the chamber to escape therefrom and to maintain the fluid in the tip in response to connection of the second end of the body to the tip.
US10792651B2
This invention relates generally to olefin metathesis catalyst compounds, to the preparation of such compounds, compositions comprising such compounds, methods of using such compounds, articles of manufacture comprising such compounds, and the use of such compounds in the metathesis of olefins and olefin compounds. The invention has utility in the fields of catalysts, organic synthesis, polymer chemistry, and industrial and fine chemicals industry.
US10792650B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing an ultra-light metal oxide-silica composite aerogel having high specific surface area and high pore volume and a metal oxide-silica composite aerogel prepared thereby. The preparation method according to the present invention may not only have good economic efficiency because production costs are relatively reduced in comparison to the related art, but may also effectively prevent the collapse of a pore structure by suppressing a shrinkage phenomenon during drying, and thus, a metal oxide-silica composite aerogel having ultra-light properties as well as high porosity characteristics, such as high specific surface area and high pore volume, may be prepared.
US10792647B2
A method for oxidizing carbon monoxide (CO) and volatile organic compounds (VOCS) comprises contacting a gas containing water vapor and said CO and VOCs with a catalyst composition comprising at least one base metal promoter and at least one base metal catalyst supported on an oxide support material comprising one or more of alumina, silica, zirconia, ceria, and titania, wherein the VOCs comprise one or more of methyl acetate, methane, methyl bromide, benzene, methanol, methyl ethyl ketone, butane, and butene.
US10792646B2
This disclosure relates to catalyst compositions including gallium and a zirconium-based mixed oxide support, to methods for making such catalysts, and to methods for dehydrogenating hydrocarbons with such catalysts. For example, in one embodiment, a catalyst composition includes a mixed oxide support comprising at least about 50 wt. % of zirconium oxide, the mixed oxide support being present in the composition in an amount within the range of about 40 wt. % to about 99.9 wt. %; and disposed on the support, gallium, present in the composition in an amount within the range of about 0.1 wt. % to about 30 wt. %, calculated as Ga2O3 on a calcined basis.
US10792644B2
The invention relates to a catalyst that comprises a mesoporous oxide matrix, with said matrix comprising at least one oxide of an element X that is selected from among silicon and titanium, taken by itself or in a mixture, with said catalyst comprising at least the tantalum element and the niobium element, with the tantalum mass representing between 0.1 to 30% by weight of the mass of the mesoporous oxide matrix, the niobium mass representing between 0.02 to 6% by weight of the mass of the mesoporous oxide matrix, the content by mass of the tantalum element being greater than or equal to the content by mass of the niobium element. The invention also relates to the use of this catalyst in a method for the production of 1,3-butadiene from a feedstock that comprises at least ethanol.
US10792643B2
A method for producing an oxide catalyst containing Mo, V, Sb, and Nb, the method including: a raw material preparation step including sub-step (I) of preparing an aqueous mixed liquid (A) containing Mo, V, and Sb, sub-step (II) of adding hydrogen peroxide to the aqueous mixed liquid (A), thereby facilitating oxidation of the aqueous mixed liquid (A) and obtaining an aqueous mixed liquid (A′), and sub-step (III) of mixing the aqueous mixed liquid (A′) and a Nb raw material liquid (B), thereby obtaining an aqueous mixed liquid (C); a drying step of drying the aqueous mixed liquid (C), thereby obtaining a dried powder; and a calcination step of calcining the dried powder under an inert gas atmosphere, wherein a time elapsed from addition of the hydrogen peroxide to the aqueous mixed liquid (A) to mixing the Nb raw material liquid (B) therewith is less than 5 minutes and the aqueous mixed liquid (A′) before being subjected to the sub-step (III) has an oxidation-reduction potential of 150 to 350 mV.
US10792642B2
The present invention relates to the field of isobutylene preparation. Disclosed are a catalyst and preparation method thereof, and method for preparing isobutylene by applying the same; the catalyst has a core-shell structure, the core an amorphous silica-alumina particle and/or an aggregate molding thereof, and the shell aluminum oxide comprising silicon and tin; the weight ratio of aluminum oxide comprising silicon and tin to amorphous silica-alumina is 1:60-1:3; in the aluminum oxide comprising silicon and tin, on basis of the weight of aluminum oxide comprising silicon and tin, the content of silicon is 0.5-2 wt %, and of tin is 0.2-1 wt %. The catalyst of the present invention is used to catalyze a mixture of MTBE and TBA to prepare isobutylene, enabling the MTBE cleavage and TBA dehydration reactions to be conducted simultaneously to generate isobutylene, achieving higher conversion rates of TBA and MTBE, and higher selectivity for generating isobutylene.
US10792638B2
Droplet generation devices and systems that parallelize droplet generation devices are provided. The droplet generation devices can include a symmetric block-and-break system and a tapered droplet generation zone. The symmetric block-and-break system can include a pair of break channels and a pair of bypass channels symmetrically arranged with respect to the dispersed-phase input channel and the output channel. The droplet generation devices can generate monodisperse droplets with a predefined volume over a range of flow rates, pressures, and fluid properties. The droplet generation devices are therefore capable of parallelization to achieve large-capacity droplet generation, e.g. greater than 1 L/hr, with small overall coefficients of variation.
US10792634B2
A process for preparing granules is disclosed. The process comprises the steps of feeding the input material for granulation in a processor using one or more powder feeders, introducing steam as a granulation activating agent in the processor, granulating the input material in presence of the steam to form granules, and collecting the granules from a discharge zone of the processor. A co-rotating twin-screw processor for preparing granules is also disclosed.
US10792633B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising a fluorine-containing surfactant having a cationic group, a divalent sulfur-containing group and a fluorinated group, further comprising an anion that corresponds to the cationic group of the fluorine-containing surfactant, the cationic group being an N-alkylated heterocyclic group.
US10792630B1
A rechargeable blender with offset blades is disclosed. Exemplary implementations may include a base assembly, a container assembly, control circuitry, and/or other components. The blender includes a set of blades that is offset from the center.
US10792621B2
A preparation method of separation membrane is provided. First, a polyimide composition including a dissolvable polyimide, a crosslinking agent, and a solvent is provided. The dissolvable polyimide is represented by formula 1: wherein B is a tetravalent organic group derived from a tetracarboxylic dianhydride containing aromatic group, A is a divalent organic group derived from a diamine containing aromatic group, A′ is a divalent organic group derived from a diamine containing aromatic group and carboxylic acid group, and 0.1≤X≤0.9. The crosslinking agent is an aziridine crosslinking agent, an isocyanate crosslinking agent, an epoxy crosslinking agent, a diamine crosslinking agent, or a triamine crosslinking agent. A crosslinking process is performed on the polyimide composition. The polyimide composition which has been subjected to the crosslinking process is coated on a substrate to form a polyimide membrane. A dry phase inversion process is performed on the polyimide membrane.
US10792615B2
Provided are catalyst articles, methods of manufacturing catalyst articles, and methods for controlling emissions in diesel engine exhaust streams with catalyst articles, where the emission treatment system of various embodiments effectively treats diesel engine exhaust with a catalyst article. In one or more embodiments, the catalyst articles have a platinum group metal end coating covering an outlet end surface of the catalytic article. In one or more embodiments, a method is provided where an applicator transfers a platinum group metal coating to an outlet end face of a catalytic article.
US10792598B2
A breather that allows airflow between an inside and an outside of a casing of an on-vehicle power unit or a transmission mechanism related to the power unit to be performed through a breather chamber structure includes a connecting portion and a cylindrical wall. An ATF-air mixture from the inside of the casing flows into the breather chamber structure through the connecting portion having a tubular shape. The cylindrical wall is provided in the breather chamber structure and has a cylindrical shape having one end portion that is closed and another end portion that is open. The ATF-air mixture from the connecting portion flows from an opening at the other end portion toward the one end portion through the cylindrical wall.
US10792591B2
A gas removal unit has a tube bundle formed of a plurality of tubes with a hollow center. The tubes are formed of a material that allows passage of a gas from an exterior of the tube into an interior of the tube and resists flow of at least some liquids through the tube into the interior of the tube. There is a plurality of inner chambers within the bundle and a plurality of outer chambers outward of the bundle. A fluid inlet connects to a first of the inner or outer chambers and a fluid outlet connects to a second of the inner and outer chambers. An axial direction is defined between the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. A tortuous path is defined by the inner and outer chambers such that a fluid will pass repeatedly from the inner chambers to the outer chambers, and from the outer chambers to the inner chambers, as it moves along the axial direction from the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. A fuel supply system is also disclosed.
US10792589B2
Examples of gas liquid separators include a chamber, a fluid mixture inlet, a gas outlet and a liquid outlet. The fluid mixture inlet and the gas and liquid outlets are in fluid communication with the chamber. A fluid mixture received at the fluid mixture inlet diffuses inside the chamber and is separated into a liquid and a gas. The separated liquid is gravity-fed to the liquid outlet. The gas liquid separators have reduced dispersion and increased liquid recovery in comparison to conventional gas liquid separators used for chromatographic separations. The reduced dispersion yields an improvement in the shape of chromatographic peaks.
US10792586B2
An apparatus and process doubles the number of trays in a single fractionation column. A dividing wall is used to isolate a first side from a second side and fractionation on trays on each side is independent of the other. A transition vapor stream is ducted from a top of a first side to the bottom of the second side, and a transition liquid stream is ducted from a bottom of the second side to the top of the first side.
US10792584B1
A process for producing THC-O-acetate using a succession of distillation, salting-out assisted liquid-liquid extractions (SALLEs), and solvent recovery techniques. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in cannabis oil reacts with acetic anhydride under reflux to produce THC-O-acetate and acetic acid. The resulting crude product is distilled and subjected to a SALLE with hexane followed by a SALLE with petroleum ether, before being distilled again in order to obtain a refined, THC-O-acetate product.
US10792576B2
A video game has at least one player client with control over an aspect of a shared virtual environment. The video game also has at least one spectator client with limited to no control over the shared virtual environment. For example, the spectator client's control may be limited to the game server generating audience cheers or boos in response to spectator input during gameplay. In response to detection of a trigger event by a game server, the player and spectator may switch roles. The client switching from spectator to player experiences an increase in network transfer quality from the game server to help provide smooth gameplay. The client switching from player to spectator faces a decrease in network transfer properties to compensate.
US10792572B2
The present disclosure generally relates to virtual reality simulation, and more specifically, in some implementations, to devices, systems, and methods for use in a virtual reality sports simulation. A system for virtual reality simulation may include an accessory (e.g., one or more of a bat, a glove, or a helmet) for interacting with a virtual reality environment. The accessory may provide the user with haptic feedback that emulates sensations that the user would experience when playing a live-action sport to provide the user with a more meaningful and realistic experience when playing a virtual reality game. Further, virtual reality simulations disclosed herein may include incorporating data from a live-action event (e.g., a live-action sporting event) into a virtual reality environment to provide a user with a realistic experience.
US10792568B1
Navigation paths through complex physical or virtual spaces can be determined without the need to transmit complex map data for the spaces, avoiding issues with additional latency or bandwidth. In a video game environment, a path can be determined for a non-player character through a level of the game. A pathfinding algorithm can be used to determine a path from a start point to an end point in the level. A virtual element can be swept along the path to determine significant spatial variations. Spatial information, such as may include different radius values for a virtual sphere able to pass through these variations, can be provided along with the coordinates of the points used to approximate the path. A path following service can utilize the spatial information to direct the character along the path in a more natural way for that character based upon factors such kinematic limitations.
US10792555B2
In one embodiment, a secure substrate provides a print-ready surface for printing scratch-off products and eliminates the need to print lower security layers for protecting against attempts to view hidden indicia information. In one embodiment, a secure substrate comprises applying microperforations to a dyed substrate that meets a predefined transmission optical density to resist an attempt to reduce the opacity of the dyed substrate by delamination. In another embodiment, a secure substrate comprises applying a lower opacity layer and a lower background layer on a substrate to provide a secure substrate that meets a predefined transmission optical density. In another embodiment, a secure substrate comprises applying a lower opacity layer on a substrate, applying a reflective coating, and applying a lower background layer over the reflective coating to provide a secure substrate that meets a predefined transmission optical density.
US10792553B1
A shuffling machine has a central accommodating compartment, a left accommodating compartment, a right accommodating compartment, and a card dispensing space. A translation plate is disposed in the card dispensing space. A driving mechanism is connected to the translation plate. The translation plate is coupled with a card dispensing device for dispensing playing cards. The card dispensing device includes a fixed seat plate and a dispensing block. The fixed seat limits a vertical displacement of the dispensing block within a predetermined distance. Left and right sides of an underside of the dispensing to block have beveled edges. An underside of the fixed seat has an upper magnetic member. A top of the dispensing block has a lower magnetic member. The upper magnetic member and the lower magnetic member are arranged with their like poles to repel each other so that the fixed seat can repel the dispensing block downward.
US10792548B2
A measuring device includes a base station, a weight station unit and a controller. A mount station unit is connected to the weight station unit and has first and second mounting bases connected by a swing arm. The first mounting base is moveably supported on the first weight scale, and the second mounted base is moveably supported on the second weight scale. An adjustable holding part is disposed at one end of the first mounting base and a support is disposed at another end of the first mounting base adjacent the swing arm. A sports article is mountable on the first mounting base between the adjustable holding part and the support.
US10792545B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf club grip having excellent abrasion resistance and a high coefficient of friction. The present invention provides a golf club grip comprising an outermost layer, wherein at least a part of the outermost layer is formed from a rubber composition containing (A) a base rubber and (B) carbon black, (B) the carbon black has a DBP absorption amount in a range from 50 cm3/100 g to 140 cm3/100 g and a CTAB specific surface area in a range from 30 m2/g to 160 m2/g, a product (amount×DBP absorption amount) obtained by multiplying an amount (g) of (B) the carbon black in the rubber composition with respect to 100 g of (A) the base rubber by the DBP absorption amount (cm3/100 g) ranges from 380 to 2600, a product (amount×CTAB specific surface area) obtained by multiplying the amount (g) of (B) the carbon black in the rubber composition with respect to 100 g of (A) the base rubber by the CTAB specific surface area (m2/g) ranges from 425 to 3000, and the part formed from the rubber composition has tan δ(30° C., 10 Hz) in a range from 0.100 to 0.280.
US10792522B2
An interlocking abrasion-protection tool for linemen fall-prevention systems has multiple belay-assistance links which are formed into a chain. The belay-assistance links act as an abrasion-protection sheath for a section of rope that runs over a sharp edge. The belay-assistance links enable a user to lower a lineman who is incapacitated or stuck without endangering other linemen or damaging the linemen-support ropes. To accomplish this, each belay-assistance link has a pair of interlocking mechanisms and multiple rigging channels. The interlocking mechanisms are positioned on opposite sides of the belay-assistance link so that multiple links can be connected in series. The rigging channels traverse through the belay-assistance device to form a raceway for the linemen-protection ropes. The rigging channels prevent the linemen-protection rope from becoming tangled while supporting a lineman.
US10792518B2
A passive cavitation mapping method is provided that includes capturing a channel signal from at least one ultrasound transducer in an array of ultrasound transducers, isolating a cavitation signal in the channel signal, time-gating the channel signal about the cavitation signal, computing a time-delay between neighboring the cavitation signals in adjacent the channel signals, computing a modified parabolic fit to the square of the arrival times, where the modified parabolic fit includes a coordinate transformation using an x location of a leading edge of wavefronts of the cavitation signal and a maximum arrival time of the cavitation signal, extracting a location of a cavitation signal source at point (x, z) in the coordinate transformation, computing a cavitation magnitude for each non-eliminated cavitation signal, creating a passive cavitation map by convolving the cavitation magnitude and the source location with an uncertainty function, and using the cavitation map for therapeutic ultrasound applications.
US10792515B2
It is an object of the invention to provide for an improved radiation treatment. According to a first aspect of the invention, this object is achieved by a method for determining a patient specific locally varying margin on a treatment target and/or an organ at risk in order to compensate for local intrafraction motion expected during a radiotherapy fraction to be delivered over a radiotherapy fraction time interval. The patient specific locally varying margin is determined based on a displacement and/or an estimate of the displacement of at least a first location and a second location on the treatment target and/or organ at risk. The method comprises steps of: acquiring a first medical image of the treatment target and/or the organ at risk and acquiring a second medical image of the treatment target and/or the organ at risk, wherein the time between the acquisition of the first medical image and the second medical image is similar to the radiotherapy fraction time interval and determining of positions of the first location and the second location in the first medical image and in the second medical image and using the determined positions for determining the patient specific locally varying margin around the treatment target and/or organ at risk.
US10792514B2
Generally speaking, pursuant to these various embodiments a memory stores prescribed treatment instructions for a particular patient radiation therapy. Those treatment instructions specify clinical metrics for goals pertaining to at least one treatment volume for the particular patient. Either directly or inferentially those clinical metrics are prioritized. A control circuit automatically converts those treatment instructions into resultant radiation treatment plan optimization objectives where the automatic conversion can compatibly comprise a non-convex optimization objective. The control circuit then automatically iteratively optimizes the radiation treatment plan for the particular patient radiation therapy as a function, at least in part, of the aforementioned resultant optimization objectives to thereby produce an optimized radiation treatment plan for the particular patient that a radiation treatment platform then utilizes to administer therapeutic radiation to the particular patient.
US10792513B2
A radiation therapy treatment method includes providing a patient model, dosimetric constraints, delivery motion constraints, and delivery coordinate space of a radiation delivery device, where the delivery coordinate space is represented as a mesh with vertices connected by edges, where the vertices correspond to directions of a beam eye view (BEV) of the radiation delivery device. BEV region connectivity manifolds are constructed from the patient model, the dosimetric constraints, the delivery coordinate space, and existing beam trajectories, wherein each of the BEV region connectivity manifolds represents connections between contiguous 2D target regions. Beam trajectories are selected based on region connectedness information in the BEV region connectivity manifolds, the dosimetric constraints, the delivery motion constraints, and the existing beam trajectories. Radiation is delivered using the radiation delivery device in accordance with the selected beam trajectories.
US10792512B1
A modular structure is disclosed that shields people from radiation typically encountered in radiotherapy rooms. The structure can be easily assembled without cracks. Moreover, the structure can be assembled and repaired quickly, without interrupting treatments for long periods of time. The structure is made of two general types of modules. A base module is made up of two cuboids fused along facing long edges and offset, one from the other, both vertically and horizontally. A complementary module is made of a single flatter shaped cuboid. It is designed to fill gaps that appear at the top and bottom of the assembled array of base modules. These modules, as configured, allows several structures to be assembled by quick and simple fitting and horizontal and vertical stacking of the modules. The modules can be manufactured from low cost materials such as metal casing filled with metal powder.
US10792509B2
A display apparatus includes a display; an image processor which generates a first image including sequential first frame data and a second image including sequential second frame data; an image data generator which generates image data comprising the first frame data and the second frame data alternately; and a control signal generator which generates a shutter glasses control signal that opens shutters for both eyes of a first pair of shutter glasses when the first frame data is displayed on the display, and that closes the shutters for both eyes of the first pair of shutter glasses when the image data including the second frame data is displayed on the display.
US10792501B2
Methods and systems for generating an MRI-compatible stimulation program based at least in part on a first set of stimulation parameters of a first stimulation program are presented. For example, a method or system (via a processor) can include receiving the first set of stimulation parameters, wherein the first set of stimulation parameters indicates a first set of stimulation electrodes; modifying the first set of stimulation parameters to generate a second set of stimulation parameters of the MRI-compatible stimulation program by at least one of 1) reducing a value of at least one stimulation parameter of the first set of stimulation parameters or 2) replacing, in the first set of electrodes, a case electrode with at least one electrode of the lead; and initiating a signal that provides the IPG with the MRI-compatible stimulation program.
US10792497B2
A frequency therapy device 10 is characterized by comprising a main device unit 20 that passes, between a pair of electrode pads 12, 12, a current corresponding to a predetermined voltage waveform, and a waveform memory 22 that is provided therein and stores a plurality of voltage waveforms at different frequencies, and in that: the waveform memory 22 stores the voltage waveforms in any of N waveform storage regions 22-1 to 22-N for each of N frequencies as waveform data comprising a square wave with a sampling frequency of 192 kHz or more and a number of quantization bits of 24 or more; the waveform data is read from the waveform memory 22 for each frequency, the waveform data is converted to an analog waveform by a D/A converter 24 during a preset time, and a current corresponding to the voltage waveform is passed between the electrode pads 12, 12; and the waveform memory 22 repeatedly and successively stores the waveform data for every set time for each frequency.
US10792495B2
Neuromodulation devices and methods of their use are described in which a therapeutic device is configured to generate a treatment for treating pain such as the reduction of the symptoms of chronic and acute pain as well as for treating other conditions. The neuromodulation device generates an output electrical signal in the form of pulses with a fast rise-time spike waveform followed by a longer-duration, lower amplitude primary phase waveform. The output signal includes a broad range of frequency components, with time constants tuned so as to interact with specific cell membrane or cellular components. The output signal may be conducted to the patient via electrodes. The pulses are triggered at variable intervals which prevent habituation.
US10792490B2
Implant tools and techniques for implantation of a medical lead, catheter or other component are provided. The implant tools and techniques are particularly useful in implanting medical electrical leads in extravascular locations, including subcutaneous locations. An implant tool for implanting a medical lead may include a handle and a shaft adjacent the handle. The shaft has a proximal end, a distal end, and an open channel that extends from near the proximal end to the distal end, the open channel having a width that is greater than or equal to an outer diameter of the implantable medical lead.
US10792480B2
Systems and methods for flushing shunt systems are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a flusher includes a pinch tube that extends over a flush dome such that a user can simultaneously close the pinch tube and actuate the flush dome with a single motion. Flushing and refill valves of the system can be disposed in a cartridge that is laterally-offset from the flush dome, advantageously reducing the height profile of the flusher. Flushers with integrated shunt valves are also disclosed, as are shunt systems with restricted and unrestricted modes for selectively limiting the instances in which a user can open an auxiliary flow path through the system.
US10792478B2
A method may include accessing an artery in communication with an ophthalmic artery of a subject, and advancing a microcatheter along the accessed artery so as to align a distal end of the microcatheter with an ostium of the ophthalmic artery, wherein the microcatheter includes a lumen having a guidewire positioned therein. In addition, the method includes proximally withdrawing the guidewire relative to the microcatheter so as to enable a distal portion of the microcatheter to assume a curved relaxed configuration, and cannulating the ostium with the distal portion of the microcatheter when the distal portion is in the curved relaxed configuration.
US10792477B2
The present invention is an inflatable balloon which is enclosed by an expandable cover which becomes increasingly porous/permeable during expansion. The balloon is coated or enclosed with a matrix which contains a pharmaceutically active agent. During expansion of the balloon, the pharmaceutically active agent is released or extruded through the expandable cover into a body cavity such as an artery or vein. The present invention also provides for a method of treating a disease or condition by delivering the inflatable balloon to a particular body cavity.
US10792475B2
A medical tube includes a connection portion that is removably attached to an end of a catheter including a guide wire lumen through which a guide wire is inserted and a tube main body that includes a lumen through which the guide wire is inserted. The lumen communicates with the guide wire lumen while being attached to the end of the catheter through the connection portion.
US10792473B2
A guide wire configured for intravascular insertion includes a core wire having a flattened portion configured to allow the core wire to preferentially bend in at least one plane that passes through a longitudinal axis of the core wire. A distal most end of the flattened portion is spaced from a distal most end of the core wire. The guide wire may further include a sensor element configured to measure a physiological variable in a living body and a coil surrounding a portion of the core wire.
US10792469B1
Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed that help deliver catheters or other medical devices to locations within a patient's body. The device comprises a transporter catheter having a proximal end and a distal end, at least a first balloon located at the distal end, substantially at a tip of the transporter catheter, and at least a second balloon located between the distal end and the proximal end of the transporter catheter. The first balloon is an orienting balloon and the second balloon is an anchor balloon. The transporter catheter may include a single lumen or more than one lumen. The transporter catheter may include a shaft comprising an inner layer and an outer layer, the inner layer may be made of a material more flexible than the material of the outer layer. The outer layer may also comprise a braided wire assembly, said braided wire assembly being formed by braiding a plurality of flat wires or circular wires. The braided wire assembly may wrap around the inner layer. The transporter catheter may comprise a shaft that may include a plurality of segments of varying degrees of hardness. The degree of hardness of the segment of the shaft of the transporter catheter located between the first balloon and the second balloon may be less than the degree of hardness of the segment of the shaft between the second balloon and the proximal end of the catheter.
US10792461B2
Introduced are methods and systems for an adjustable bed device configured to: gather biological signals associated with multiple users, such as heart rate, breathing rate, or temperature; analyze the gathered human biological signals; and heat or cool a bed based on the analysis.
US10792448B2
A respiratory apparatus includes components to protect operations of the apparatus. For example, in some versions, the apparatus may include a power supply, a motor powered by the power supply, and a transient absorption diode circuit between the motor and the power supply. The transient absorption diode circuit may be configured to absorb energy generated by the motor from rotational kinetic energy. Such absorption may serve to protect the components of the apparatus. In some examples, the apparatus may include a fault mitigation integrated circuit (IC). The IC circuit may be included in the respiratory apparatus to detect one or more faults based on physical and system parameters of the apparatus. The fault mitigation integrated circuit may generate a signal to stop the motor based on the detected fault, and may digitally communicate with a processor information about the detected fault.
US10792439B2
A safety needle device is disclosed having a hub, needle cannula, housing, tether, retractable sleeve, locking member and spring element. The tether is movably disposed in the housing, the tether having a slot with an enlarged first guide path and a narrowed second guide path extending distally from the enlarged first guide path. The retractable sleeve is configured to move from an initial position to partially expose a distal tip of the needle cannula, a retracted position to fully exposes the needle cannula, and an extended position to fully cover the distal tip of the needle cannula. The proximal movement of one or more protrusions on the retractable sleeve, rotates the tether to move the at least one or more protrusions from the enlarged first guide path of the tether to the narrowed second guide path of the tether, this rotation activating the device.
US10792436B2
A spring assisted drug delivery device comprising: a housing; a piston rod having a longitudinal axis, a distal end and a proximal end that is axially movable in a distal direction relative to the housing, a mid-body fixed inside of the housing and coupled to the piston rod in such a manner that the piston rod is axially movable in a distal direction relative to the mid-body, and wherein a preloaded spring is operatively coupled to the piston rod in such a manner that the spring is released and the stored force in the spring supports driving the piston rod in the distal direction during a dose administration step.
US10792432B2
A drug delivery system for injecting a medicament includes a housing, a container configured to receive a medicament including a stopper configured to move within the container and a closure, a needle in fluid communication with the container, a spacer configured to be engaged with the stopper, a first plunger, a first spring configured to bias the first plunger in an axial direction, second plunger disposed about the first plunger, a second spring configured to bias the second plunger in an axial direction. The first plunger is configured to move the spacer and the container relative to the housing via the first spring to establish fluid communication between the container and the patient needle, and the second plunger is configured to move the spacer and the stopper relative to the container via the second spring.
US10792431B2
A syringe packaging system that includes a tube and a cap for enclosing a pre-filled syringe is disclosed. The tube includes a tube cut flange and the cap includes a cut skirt. With a syringe barrel contained within the tube, a syringe barrel cut flange is aligned with the tube cut flange. With the pre-filled syringe enclosed within the tube and the cap, the cut skirt of the cap surrounds the syringe barrel cut flange. In one embodiment, a film is securable to a portion of the tube and a portion of the cap to connect the tube and the cap with the pre-filled syringe enclosed within the cap and the tube.
US10792421B2
This invention relates to automatic insulin delivery systems and methods of administering insulin. Preferably the systems and methods comprise a predictive feedforward control.
US10792419B2
A two-stage infusion set inserter system is disclosed. The inserter system includes an inserter assembly including a housing including a rotatable button assembly comprising ramps and and tab indents and a non-rotatable portion of housing, a sliding component comprising sliding component tabs, a needle carrier connected to an introduction needle, the needle carrier slidably movable from a starting position to an injection position and then to a second ending position, a sliding component spring, and a needle spring, wherein the rotatable button assembly rotates from a locked to an unlocked position, wherein when force is applied onto the rotatable button assembly, the sliding component and needle carrier are forced downward by the sliding component spring, and wherein when the needle carrier reaches the injection position, the needle spring forces the needle carrier upward towards the second ending position.
US10792416B2
A method for collecting plasma includes determining the weight, height, and hematocrit of a donor, and calculating a donor plasma volume and a target plasma collection volume. The target plasma collection volume is based on the donor plasma volume and a target percentage of plasma. The method then withdraws blood from the donor through a line connected to a blood component separation device, and introduces anticoagulant into the withdrawn blood. The blood component separation device separates the blood into a plasma component and a second blood component, and the plasma component is collected from the blood component separation device and into a plasma collection container. The method may then calculate the volume of pure plasma collected within the plasma collection container, and continue processing/collecting until the calculated volume of pure plasma equals the target plasma collection volume.
US10792410B2
This document provides bioartificial liver (BAL) devices. Methods for making and using BAL devices also are provided.
US10792407B2
Systems, methods, and devices for securing a driveline to a portion of skin are disclosed herein. The driveline can connect an external controller to an implantable blood pump. The skin anchor can include a driveline capture portion. The driveline capture portion can receive the driveline and fix a position of the driveline with respect to the driveline capture portion. The driveline capture portion includes: a driveline receiver that can receive the driveline; and a driveline anchor that can engage the driveline to fix the position of the driveline with respect to the driveline receiver. The skin anchor can include a force distribution portion. The force distribution portion can engage a portion of skin and fix a position of the portion of skin with respect to the force distribution portion.
US10792402B2
The illustrative embodiments described herein are directed to a manually-actuated pump and method for applying reduced pressure at a tissue site. The manually-actuated pump includes at least one variable volume chamber that is manually compressible into a plurality of positions. The manually-actuated pump includes a fixed volume chamber in communication with the at least one variable volume chamber. The manually-actuated pump also includes a filter housing having a hydrophobic filter that prevents liquid from entering the at least one variable volume chamber. The fixed volume chamber is coupled to the at least one variable volume chamber via the filter housing. The filter housing is located in between the at least one variable volume chamber and the fixed volume chamber. The fixed volume chamber has reduced pressure that is applied to the tissue site in response to a movement of the at least one variable volume chamber from a compressed position in the plurality of positions to an uncompressed position in the plurality of positions.
US10792387B2
The invention relates to a disinfectant dispenser configured to store and dispense a surface and/or skin disinfectant, the disinfectant dispenser including a first storage container including a disinfectant; a second storage container (4) a including marking agent, wherein the marking agent is inactive in the second storage container; and a mixing section in which the marking agent is mixed with the disinfectant when the disinfectant dispenser is actuated, wherein the marking agent is provided in an inactive state after it is dispensed from the disinfectant dispenser. The disinfectant includes a disinfecting base component and a marking agent that is mixable with the base component, wherein the marking agent is inactive before it is mixed with the disinfecting base component and after mixing and applying the disinfectant to a surface the marking agent marks the disinfected surface through a coloration in a manner that is detectable by the human eye and also technically detectable, wherein the marking effect subsides with a subsiding disinfection state. The method for public signaling of a disinfection state of persons includes the steps: applying a disinfecting mix including a disinfecting component and a marking component to a skin area to be disinfected at a disinfection station and/or from a portable disinfectant dispenser; coloring the skin area to be disinfected by the marking component during the disinfection process; visible persistence of the coloration on the disinfected skin area, wherein the disinfected state of the skin area is signaled in a generally perceivable and detectable manner; and subsiding of the persistence of the coloration at the latest with subsiding sterility of the skin area, wherein a discoloration or change in color caused thereby is also signaled in a generally perceivable and detectable manner.
US10792383B2
A method of disinfecting a medical device comprises three steps. First, a disinfectant is contacted with a process indicator and the medical device. The disinfectant comprises at least one aldehyde. The process indicator contains a synthetic amine-containing compound disposed on a substrate. The synthetic amine-containing compound comprises at least one of primary amino groups or secondary amino groups, and is reactive with the disinfectant to form at least one adduct. The synthetic amine-containing compound and the medical device are in fluid communication through the disinfectant. A predetermined disinfectant exposure criterion exists for contacting the disinfectant with the medical device. Second, the process indicator is spectrally observed and at least one parameter is obtained therefrom that is predictive of the predetermined disinfectant exposure criterion. The third step is determining that the predetermined disinfectant exposure criterion has been achieved.
US10792374B2
A compound comprising formula (I): wherein R1 is an alkylamino group or a group containing at least one aromatic group; R2 and R3 are independently an aliphatic group or hydrophobic group; R4 and R5 are independently H, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an acyl group, or an aromatic group, or includes a polymer, a targeting group, or a detectable moiety, and at least one of R4 and R5 includes a targeting group that targets and/or binds to a retinal or visual protein; a, b, c, and d are independently an integer from 1 to 10; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US10792369B2
The present invention relates to a compound comprising an alpha-end and an omega-end, the compound comprising on the alpha-end a reactive group Q1 capable of reacting with a functional group F1 present on a biomolecule and on the omega-end a target molecule, the compound further comprising a group according to formula (1) or a salt thereof: Said compound may also be referred to as a linker-conjugate. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of a bioconjugate, the process comprising the step of reacting a reactive group Q1 of a linker-conjugate according to the invention with a functional group F1 of a biomolecule. The invention further relates to a bioconjugate obtainable by the process according to the invention.
US10792367B2
The present invention relates to a conjugate or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof comprising an GLP-1/Glucagon receptor agonist, a linker and a hyaluronic acid hydrogel bearing -L1-L2-L-Y—R20 groups, wherein Y represents an GLP-1/Glucagon receptor agonist moiety; and -L is a linker moiety—by formula (Ia), wherein the dashed line indicates the attachment to one of the amino groups of the GLP-1/Glucagon receptor agonist moiety by forming an amide bond. The invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the conjugates as well as their use as a medicament for treating or preventing diseases or disorders which can be treated by GLP-1/Glucagon receptor agonist.
US10792366B2
Provided herein are methods for reducing clearance of nanotherapeutic agents from a subject, wherein the methods comprise administering a nutrition supplement to the subject prior to administration of the nanotherapeutic agent in the treatment of a disease. Methods for improving the bioavailability of the nanotherapeutic agent, methods of reducing the toxicity of the nanotherapeutic agent, and kits comprising the nutrition supplement and nanotherapeutic agent are also provided.
US10792359B2
Compositions and methods, including vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions for inducing or enhancing an immune response are disclosed based on the discovery of useful immunological adjuvant properties in a synthetic, glycopyranosyl lipid adjuvant (GLA) that is provided in substantially homogeneous form. Chemically defined, synthetic GLA offers a consistent vaccine component from lot to lot without the fluctuations in contaminants or activity that compromise natural-product adjuvants. Also provided are vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions that include GLA and one or more of an antigen, a Toll-like receptor (TLR) agonist, a co-adjuvant and a carrier such as a pharmaceutical carrier.
US10792357B2
The present invention relates to a vector(s) containing and expressing an optimized HIV EnvF gene, methods for making the same and cell substrates qualified for vaccine production which may comprise vector(s) containing optimized HIV genes.
US10792354B2
An oral vaccine composition for fish, and related oral vaccine delivery system and methods for making and using such oral vaccine composition and delivery system are described. The oral vaccine composition includes virus-like particles effective to mediate an immunoprotective response in a target fish species, wherein the virus-like particles are contained in biomass of an organism or cell culture in which the virus-like particles have been expressed, optionally further including (i) adjuvant effective to enhance the immunoprotective response of the virus-like particles in the target fish species; (ii) encapsulant protectively associated with the virus-like particles for selective locus bioavailability in the target fish species; and/or (iii) binding agent aggregating the ingredients of the composition with one another.
US10792335B2
A composition, in the form of an aqueous solution, including an insulin in hexameric form and at least one substituted citrate of formula I: in which: R1, R2, R3, identical or different, represent OH or AA, at least one of the R1, R2, R3 is an AA radical, AA is a radical resulting from a natural or synthetic aromatic amino acid comprising at least one phenyl group or indole group, substituted or not substituted, said AA radical having at least one free carboxylic acid function, and the carboxylic acid functions are in the form of a salt of an alkali metal selected from Na+ and K+.
US10792326B2
Methods and compositions for treating bedwetting are disclosed. One method comprises administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising one or more analgesic agents.
US10792320B2
A nutritional supplement and method of treating or preventing urogenital system disorders including urinary incontinence, overactive bladder, enuresis, benign prostatic hyperplasia, nocturia, cystitis, and urinary calculi, without unwanted side effects. The supplement comprises vitamin D3, nitric oxide precursor, pumpkin seed extract and prebiotic fiber in a particular composition.
US10792318B2
The present invention relates to concentrates obtained from extraction from Cannabis, preferably cannabinoid and/or terpene concentrates, and formulation of the concentrates, particularly for use for direct vaporization, infusion into edible matrices, in electronic inhalation devices, and as nutraceuticals.
US10792308B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10792306B2
The invention provides a colon cleansing solution comprising: a) 300 to 2000 mmol per litre ascorbate anion provided by ascorbic acid, one or more salts of ascorbic acid, or a mixture thereof; and b) 10 to 200 g per litre polyethylene glycol. The invention also provides methods and kits associated with, or making use of the solutions. The invention also provides a method of cleansing the colon of a subject comprising: —administering to the subject an effect amount of a first cleansing solution; and then after a time interval—administering to the subject an effective amount of a second cleansing solution, wherein the two cleansing solutions are as described in the specification.
US10792303B2
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition, comprising (i) a compound comprising at least one carbohydrate and containing at least one sulphate, in combination with (ii) at least one non-protein or non-NA-strand compound, different from (i), that can activate PPAR, preferably PPARγ, and (iii) optionally, at least one pharmaceutically acceptable carrier. Preferably, the sulphated compounds include single sulphur containing agents like MSM or multiple sulphur containing agents like pentosan, Adequan®. The second part of the composition, is a PPARγ agonists chosen from the group of thiazolidinediones, NSAIDs, sulphonylureas and indoles, like for example indomethacin or pioglitazone.
US10792301B2
Described herein are materials and methods useful for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders as well as bone disorders in a subject. Materials described herein include polysaccharide digestive products resulting from the enzymatic hydrolysis of low acyl gellan gum. Also describe herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more of such materials, and methods for their preparation and use.
US10792299B2
This invention provides methods and compositions for preventing, treating or ameliorating one or more symptoms of a malignant tumor associated with KRAS mutation in a mammal in need thereof, by identifying a tumor cell in the mammal, the tumor cell comprising at least one of: (i) a mutation of the KRAS gene, and (ii) an aberrant expression level of KRAS protein; and administering to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising one or more RNAi molecules that are active in reducing expression of GST-π.
US10792289B2
Methods for treating cystic fibrosis. The method includes administering to a human in need thereof an aerosol solution comprising levofloxacin or ofloxacin and a divalent or trivalent cation. More particularly, the method includes administering the aerosol solution to a human having a pulmonary infection comprising P. aeruginosa.
US10792285B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition with enhanced stability, containing pemetrexed or a salt thereof, and a preparation method therefor. The present invention provides an injection preparation in liquid form containing pemetrexed, capable of ensuring sufficient stability during circulation and storage by selection of an optimum material and setting of an optimum concentration range in order to secure the stability of pemetrexed. The present invention can provide a pemetrexed preparation which is readily commercially prepared, can prevent microbial contamination occurring during lyophilization or reconstitution, and has enhanced convenience of administration and stability.
US10792278B2
Provided are methods for treatment of Fabry disease in patients having HEK assay amenable mutations in α-galactosidase A. Certain methods comprise administering migalastat or a salt thereof every other day, such as administering about 150 mg of migalastat hydrochloride every other day.
US10792276B2
Disclosed are compounds for use in raising an immune response to an antigen and/or enhancing, modulating or augmenting an immune response to an antigen. Particularly the use of urolithins. The invention also relates to immune enhancers comprising urolithins, methods of using such immune enhancers and processes for the preparation of such immune enhancers. The invention also relates to the use of urolithins in methods for modulating stem cell function, for example, enhancing stem cell numbers, promoting stem cell regeneration and promoting stem cell differentiation.
US10792250B2
The present invention relates to methods of forming miniemulsions and use of the miniemulsions as a delivery system for bioactive agents. In particular, the present invention relates to methods for forming a miniemulsion comprising providing a first phase comprising a hydrophilic surfactant, lipophillic surfactant and water and a second phase comprising a lipid, wherein said miniemulsion comprises emulsified particles having a mean diameter of 1 μm or less.
US10792228B2
The invention relates to a kit of parts for preparing a glass ionomer composition for dental use, the kit of parts comprising a Powder Part P and a Liquid Part L, Powder Part P comprising: acid-reactive inorganic filler, Liquid Part L comprising: water, complexing agent, polyacid, either the Powder Part P or the Liquid Part L or the Powder Part P and the Liquid Part L comprising non-aggregated nano-sized particles based on silica or alumina, the composition obtained by combining the components of Powder Part P and Liquid Part L before hardening comprising the components in the following amounts: non-aggregated nano-sized particles: from 0.1 to 15 wt.-%, acid-reactive filler in an amount from 50 to 75 wt.-%, polyacid: 7 to 20 wt.-%, complexing agent: 0.5 to 3 wt.-%, water: 5 to 18 wt.-%, wt.-% with respect to the weight of the whole composition.
US10792226B2
Refill and dosage management devices and associated systems and methods for use with computerized oral prescription administration (COPA) devices are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a housing having a structure sized and shaped to receive at least a portion of a mouthpiece of an intended user; and a dispensing unit coupled to the housing, the dispensing unit configured to dispense a substance into a reservoir of the mouthpiece. In another embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a docking station, at least a portion of a mouthpiece of an intended user; and dispensing, by a dispensing unit coupled to the docking station, a substance into a reservoir of the mouthpiece.
US10792224B2
A portable pill dispenser is disclosed herein. The portable pill dispenser includes a container configured to house at least one pill therein. The container is attachable to a housing, which comprises a dispensing opening. A dispensing mechanism, a ramp, and a control panel are disposed within the housing. The dispensing mechanism is configured to dispense the at least one pill from the container to the dispensing opening. The ramp is configured to direct the at least one pill to the dispensing mechanism. A verification mechanism is disposed about the housing. The verification mechanism is configured to activate the dispensing mechanism. The control panel is in electrical communication with the dispensing mechanism and the verification mechanism.
US10792216B2
A chest compression device for cardiopulmonary resuscitation comprises a support structure 2 for placement about a patient's chest and for holding a chest compressor 6 above a patient's sternum; a chest compressor 6 mounted on the support structure 2; and lateral chest supports 14 attached to the support structure 2 at points laterally either side of the chest when the device is in use, such that the lateral chest supports 14 will apply lateral pressure to the sides of the chest synchronized with a chest compression by the chest compressor 6.
US10792210B2
A apparatus includes an a exoskeleton system with a plurality of sensors for generating signals indicating a current motion and a current arrangement of at least the exoskeleton system, a hip segment, and at least one lower limb. The lower limb includes thigh and shank segments for coupling to a lateral surface of a user's leg. The thigh segment includes a first powered joint coupling the thigh segment to the hip segment, a second powered joint coupling the thigh segment to the shank segment, and a controller coupled to the sensors, the first powered joint, and the second powered joint. The controller is configured for determining a current state of the exoskeleton system and a current intent of the user based on the signals and generating control signals for the first and second powered joints based on the current state and the current intent.
US10792209B2
A wearable assistive device such as an exoskeleton may include a main frame that support a hip joint of a user. The main frame may have a predetermined curvature and structure that closely conforms to and remains in contact with a hip of the user at or near the hip joint so that the main frame may stably support both hip joints. While the user wears the exoskeleton and walks, bends, or lifts, the exoskeleton may stably and efficiently provide a force to assist a movement originating at the hip joint of the user, thereby aiding the user in stably walking, bending, or lifting.
US10792203B2
A manipulator arm for moving a load from a first position at a first elevation, to a second position at a second elevation, provides a base and defines plural spaced apart axle holes. A fulcrum lever link formed of a channel beam defines plural spaced apart axle holes. A first load member, and two support members extend between, and pivotally interconnect, the base plate and the fulcrum lever link and define a quadrilateral lift frame about the pivotal interconnections. An actuator operatively communicates between the first load member and the fulcrum lever link and the fulcrum lever link provides mechanical advantage to the actuator to cause the quadrilateral lift frame to change from a first configuration at the first position to a second configuration at the second position.
US10792201B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to docking systems for poles or other devices that can hold medical and/or accessory equipment, typically in a clinical or hospital environment, and can include associated docking systems for various devices such as beds, wheelchairs, walkers, wagons, and the like.
US10792197B2
The invention relates to a surgical sponge which includes multiple plies of gauze and stitches. The multiple plies of gauze has one or more open sides. The stitches are adapted to fasten or close the open sides. The stitches are made with one or more contrasting threads.
US10792196B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for folding discrete items such as diapers at high speeds. Discrete items are conveyed in a machine direction toward a pair of vacuum drums rotating in the machine direction and first carrying a top side of a leading edge of the discrete item away from the conveyor, and then carrying a bottom side of the leading edge with a second rotational vacuum drum back towards the conveyor. The diaper fold is created at a contact point with a folding finger which travels rotationally and straight in a fixed orientation about a pair of belts, into and out of contact with the diaper.
US10792188B2
Systems and methods for high speed modulation of a resonant scanner in ophthalmic laser applications
An ophthalmic surgical laser system includes: a laser that produces a pulsed laser beam having a pulse energy and pulse repetition rate; a high frequency fast scanner; an XY-scan device; a Z-scan device; and a controller. The controller controls the high frequency scanner to produce a scan line having a scan width; controls the XY-scan device and the Z-scan device to carry out of first sweep of the scan line in a first sweep direction and to carry out a second sweep of the scan line in a second sweep direction that is not parallel to the first sweep direction thereby defining an overlap region. At least one of the pulse energy, repetition rate, XY-scan speed, and the scan width is varied so as to accelerate the cutting speed and reduce the exposure of ophthalmic tissue in the overlap region to multiple exposures of laser pulses configured to modify ophthalmic tissue.
US10792185B2
A working fluid cassette for an intravascular heat exchange catheter includes a frame holding two closely spaced, square polymeric membranes along the sides of which are disposed inlet and outlet tubes. Working fluid from the catheter is directed from the inlet tube between the membranes to the outlet tube. The cassette is closely received between two refrigerant cold plates to exchange heat with the working fluid, which is circulated back to the catheter.
US10792174B2
A bariatric device and method of causing at least partial satiety in a recipient includes positioning a body in a recipient, the body having a wall defining a lumen, the wall configured to generally conform to the shape and size of the proximal cardiac portion of the stomach. Force is exerted with the wall on the proximal cardiac portion of the stomach in the absence of food thereby activating receptors located in the proximal cardiac portion of the stomach, thereby influencing a neurohormonal feedback mechanism of the recipient to cause at least partial satiety by augmenting fullness caused by food and simulating fullness in the absence of food.
US10792161B2
A knee spacer device configured to be implanted temporarily at the joint area between the tibia and femur of a patient to replace an infected joint prosthesis and to maintain the size or spaces of the patient's joint area before implanting a new prosthesis includes a tibial unit and a femoral unit.
US10792156B2
Devices and methods for use in a hip replacement surgical procedure. One aspect includes methods and devices for reaming selective regions of the femoral canal. This may include reaming distal and proximal sections of the femoral canal prior to reaming a middle region of the canal. Another aspect includes a dummy implant and methods of use. The dummy implant is inserted into the femoral canal and may be used for one or more of retraction of the femur, gauging a space with the acetabulum, and further revising the femoral cut. The aspects may be used together in a single surgical procedure or separately in different surgical procedures.
US10792154B2
A limb sparring system for replacing a portion of a radius, the radius being adjacent to an ulna, the system comprising a cutting guide including a cut guiding portion for guiding a saw when making a predetermined cut in the radius to excise the portion of the radius, an opposed ulnar mounting portion mountable to the ulna, and a linking portion extending therebetween; and an endoprosthesis configured for replacing the portion of the radius after the portion of the radius has been excised. When the cutting guide is operatively mounted to the radius and ulna, the cut guiding portion and the ulnar mounting portion engage respectively the radius and the ulna in a predetermined spatial relationship relative thereto.
US10792153B2
An implantable medical device is disclosed including an anchor unit configured to be permanently anchored at a cardiac valve of a patient, at least one locking unit, such as for fixation of tissue of the cardiac valve and/or fixation of at least a part of a shape of the anchor unit, and at least one coupling unit for connecting the anchor unit to at least one of the locking unit. The coupling unit has a first end portion and a second end portion, wherein the first end portion is connectable to the anchor unit, and the second end portion includes the locking unit.
US10792146B2
The present invention includes a device for engaging surgical tethers used in surgical repair, allowing for near full load application to the tether without failure at the site of restraint in the holding mechanism, with economical construction, compact size, and manageable complexity, without sharp edges that will cut the polymer fibers, and without requiring expensive polishing. The holding mechanisms comprise a tether, an orifice sheath, and a restraint element. The tether forms a bight projecting from the orifice sheath, the direction of projection being opposite to the direction of functional pull on the tether, where the bight is formed from a continuous tether or from coupled tether ends, and the restraint element is a fusiform structure positioned under the bight of the tether and over an orifice in the orifice sheath.
US10792143B2
The present invention relates to packages and methods of using packages that provide a sterile enclosure for an implant so that the implant can be transported and retrieved without being contaminated. In one embodiment, the package includes an insert with an implant disposed therein and a tray. The insert includes a first engagement feature and the tray includes a second engagement feature corresponding to the first engagement feature. The insert is sized to fit within and engage with the tray through engagement of the first and second engagement features, where in a first position the implant is secured within the package and in a second position, the implant is retrievable from the insert. The insert moves relative to the tray between the first and positions, but remains secured to it in both positions.
US10792142B2
An implantable areal device for supporting defective musculofascial tissue mechanically and by regeneration of muscle and fascial tissue. The device is formed by a plurality of thread sections that define a plurality of void spaces. At least one of the void spaces is more than one-hundred square millimeters in area. A method for supporting defective musculofacial tissue mechanically and by in-situ tissue engineering that includes the fixation of the device by open surgical techniques to defective musculofascial tissue. As a result, this fixation immediately provides mechanical support of the tissue, and subsequently provides physiological repair by allowing regenerative precursor cells to infiltrate freely into the void spaces and to proliferate therein, leading to regeneration of volumetric amounts of functionalized musculofascial tissue.
US10792138B2
Provided is a cleaning device for personal cleaning and care, comprising a cleaning device housing detachably connected to a handle housing, a bracket for supporting the cleaning device, a cleaning element carrier and cleaning elements distributed on the cleaning element carrier, a passive assembly, and a cleaning device transducer. The cleaning device transducer comprises at least two transducer elastic elements; one end of each transducer elastic element is fixedly connected to a corresponding transducer elastic element retainer, and the other end of each transducer elastic element is fixedly connected to an transmission arm of the transducer bracket coupling elastic element; wherein a cleaning device having a natural vibration frequency fnatural is constituted utilizing the bending strain of an elastic material, such that the natural frequency fnatural of the cleaning device is in the range of 100 Hz to 400 Hz, and the relationship between the natural frequency fnatural and the frequency f0 of the electromagnetic force produced by the drive coil in the handle satisfies: 0.85f0
US10792134B2
A device for tooth shade measurement comprising a housing, a handle and a measuring head, characterized in that said measuring head includes a hollow body extending along a longitudinal axis, said hollow body comprising a proximal end, a bent distal end relative to the longitudinal axis, said distal end being provided with a removable tip designed to come into contact with a tooth surface to be analyzed, at least one light source and image acquisition means, integral with the hollow body, said hollow body being adapted to transmit the light from said light source from the proximal end up to the distal end, and in that said device comprises an orientation assembly for mounting the proximal end of the hollow body in the housing so that the measuring head occupies different angular positions relative to the housing.
US10792133B2
A 3D scanner according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a pattern generating device irradiating a light pattern to a subject and an imaging device receiving an omni-directional image of the subject to which the light pattern is irradiated.
US10792132B2
A guide-sleeve is couplable to an oral surgical guide at a fixed rotational orientation, height, and angle with respect to oral anatomy. An implant delivery device, couplable to a dental implant, drives the implant into tissue of the subject by rotation of the delivery device about its longitudinal axis until the delivery device lockingly engages the guide-sleeve. When the implant lockingly engages the guide-sleeve, the implant is disposed in the tissue at a fixed rotational orientation, depth, and angle with respect to the oral anatomy, and any further advancement and rotation of the dental implant with respect to the tissue is prevented. Other embodiments are also described.
US10792123B2
A massage guiding device and a massage guiding method are provided. The massage guiding device includes: a main body (1); and an image recognition unit (2) and a projection unit (3) which are disposed on the main body (1). The image recognition unit (2) is configured to obtain an image of a person being massaged and determine massage information based on the image of the person being massaged. The projection unit (3) is configured to emit visible light according to the massage information as determined by the image recognition unit (2) so as to display the massage information on a body of the person being massaged. The massage guiding device is applicable in a massage process to solve the problems that unprofessional massagers cannot achieve desired massage effect due to lacking of massage information or due to incorrect massage information.
US10792120B2
A collapsible quiver (2) has an outer tube (4) and an inner tube (6). When extended the inner end (24) of the inner tube (4) engages the inner surface of the outer tube (6) so there is substantially no discontinuity of the inner surface defined by the first and second tubular members.
US10792112B2
Various exemplary drive apparatuses and associated methods are disclosed for driving an elongated member, e.g., a catheter, sheath, or guidewire. An exemplary drive apparatus may include a first component and a moveable component, each configured to selectively grip the elongated member. In some examples, the first and moveable components may each include a gripping device. The moveable component may be configured to selectively move axially and rotationally with respect to a support surface to effect axial movement and rotation movement, respectively, of the elongated member with respect to the support surface within a range of motion of the moveable component. The moveable component may be configured to move the elongated member across a predetermined movement having a magnitude greater than the range of motion.
US10792107B2
Methods and system perform tool tracking during minimally invasive robotic surgery. Tool states are determined using triangulation techniques or a Bayesian filter from either or both non-endoscopically derived and endoscopically derived tool state information, or from either or both non-visually derived and visually derived tool state information. The non-endoscopically derived tool state information is derived from sensor data provided either by sensors associated with a mechanism for manipulating the tool, or sensors capable of detecting identifiable signals emanating or reflecting from the tool and indicative of its position, or external cameras viewing an end of the tool extending out of the body. The endoscopically derived tool state information is derived from image data provided by an endoscope inserted in the body so as to view the tool.
US10792106B2
A system for calibrating an electromagnetic navigation system is provided. The system includes an antenna assembly having a substrate, multiple pairs of transmit coils, multiple receive coils, multiple input terminals, and multiple output terminals. The substrate includes multiple layers, and each of the transmit coils is deposited on a respective one of the layers and each of the receive coils is deposited on another respective one of the layers. Each of the pairs of transmit coils corresponds to a respective one of the receive coils. Each of the transmit coils is coupled to a respective one of the input terminals, and each of the receive coils is coupled to a respective one of the output terminals.
US10792099B2
The invention relates to an energy application apparatus for applying energy to an object. A plurality of energy application elements (4) applies energy to the object at different locations and at least one ultrasound element (18) generates an ultrasound signal being indicative of a property of the object at the different locations, wherein at least one energy application element is individually controlled depending on an energy application influence, in particular, an ablation depth, determined for the location at which the at least one energy application element applies energy from the ultrasound signal. Thus, at least one local control point for applying energy to the object is provided, thereby improving the control of applying energy to the object.
US10792095B2
A monopolar telescopic electrosurgery pencil with argon beam capabilities which includes telescoping members contained within the pencil and a monopolar electrosurgery blade assembly with a non-conductive tube member for an inert gas.
US10792086B2
A cautery device includes an elongated handpiece extending axially from a proximal end to a distal end and a cautery tip extending coaxially with the handpiece from the distal end of the handpiece. The tip defines a channel extending coaxially with the handpiece along at least a portion of the length of the cautery tip from a proximal open end to a distal end. The device includes a gas supply connection extending from the proximal end of the handpiece for supplying gas to the cautery tip. The gas supply connection is fluidly coupled to the cautery tip. The device includes an electric supply connection extending from the proximal end of the handpiece for supplying electricity to the cautery tip. The electric supply connection is electrically coupled to the cautery tip. The gas supplied to the cautery tip is introduced to the channel at the proximal open end and exits to envelop the distal tip.
US10792083B2
A method and system for performing bone fusion and/or securing one or more bones, such as adjacent vertebra, are disclosed. The screws include a threaded tip connected to a main shaft and a threaded outer sleeve that rotates relative to the outer shaft until locked down. Independent rotation of the threaded outer sleeve relative to the threaded distal tip allows compression or distraction to modify the gap between the vertebral bodies. The screws are passed from the inferior to superior vertebra or superior to inferior, for example, through a transpedicular route to avoid neurological compromise. At the same time, the path of screw insertion is oriented to reach superior or inferior vertebra. An intervertebral cage of the system is configured for lateral expansion from a nearly straight configuration to form a large footprint in the disc space. The screws and cage may be combined for improved fixation with minimal invasiveness.
US10792082B2
A condylar fracture fixation system for use with an intramedullary nail includes a longitudinally extending rod having first and second ends, each end having outwardly extending threads or ridges. The rod extends along a first longitudinal axis which extends in a medial-lateral direction in use. A first and second nut is provided each nut having first and second ends. The second end of each nut having an opening formed by a plurality of resilient legs for respectively receiving the first and second ends of the rod. The second end of the first and second nuts include ridges or threads extending into the opening in each nut. The inwardly extending ridges of nuts respectively engaging the outwardly extending threads or ridges of the rod. A flexible washer is connected to the first end of each nut.
US10792081B2
The present disclosure provides devices, systems and methods of bone fixation. The disclosed devices, systems and methods facilitate secure fixation of first and second bone segments, such as to promote fusion thereof. The devices may include at least one bone engagement projection extending from an engagement surface of a plate portion for implantation into the first bone segment. A portion of the plate portion spaced from the at least one bone engagement projection may include at least one bone fixation aperture. The least one bone fixation aperture may allow for a one bone engagement projection to be inserted therethrough and into the second bone segment to affix the plate portion to the second bone segment. In some embodiments, the at least one bone fixation aperture may be a compression slot.
US10792072B2
A medical instrument configured to be inserted into a body cavity comprises a body comprises a first probe at a first end, the first probe comprising a first cylindrical portion with a first outer circumferential surface of a first diameter; a first circumferential edge at a distal end of the first probe; a first distal lip projecting outwardly from the first outer circumferential surface beyond the first circumferential edge and extending for at least a part of a circumference of the first circumferential edge; and a first marker lip projecting outwardly from the first outer circumferential surface and extending for at least a part of a circumference of the first outer circumferential surface; wherein the first distal lip is positioned distal to the first marker lip; and wherein the body comprises a hollow cavity to enable a second medical instrument to pass therethrough.
US10792071B2
Access assemblies includes an instrument valve housing and a valve assembly disposed within the cavity of the instrument valve housing. The valve assembly includes a guard assembly, a seal assembly disposed adjacent to the guard assembly, and a centering mechanism for maintaining the seal assembly and guard assembly centered within a cavity of the instrument valve. In embodiments, the seal assembly includes a plurality of seal sections that are movable from an unfolded configuration to folded configuration in which the seal assembly forms a hexagonal member defining an opening to facilitate sealed passage of a surgical instrument. The seal sections may include a tapered inner edge for engaging a surgical instrument inserted through the instrument valve housing.
US10792057B2
A tissue specimen retrieval device includes a housing, an outer shaft extending from the housing, an end effector assembly extending from the outer shaft, an actuator associated with the housing, and an articulation mechanism operably coupled between the actuator and the end effector assembly. The articulation mechanism includes an articulation block supporting the end effector assembly thereon and is rotatable between first and second orientations to articulate the end effector assembly. A spring biases the articulation block towards the second orientation. An actuation sleeve is slidable relative to the articulation block, in response to actuation of the actuator, from an engaged position, wherein the actuation sleeve is disposed about and retains the articulation block in the first orientation, to a disengaged position, wherein the actuation sleeve is spaced from the articulation block such that the articulation block rotates to the second orientation to articulate the end effector assembly.
US10792046B2
Medical systems, devices and methods are provided for engaging tissue, e.g. for clipping tissue, closing a perforation or performing hemostasis. Generally, the medical system including a housing, first and second jaws rotatable relative to the housing, a driver, and an elongate drive wire. The elongate drive wire may be disconnected from the driver, first and second jaws, and the housing, which are left in vivo engaged with the tissue.
US10792042B2
The present invention is directed to circular surgical staplers for anastomotic joining of tissue comprising a stapling head connected to an opposing anvil, said stapling head containing a plurality of deployable staples in concentric arrays; a plurality of resorbable medicant-releasing microneedles, the microneedles comprising elongated rods having a sharp tissue-penetrating distal end and a proximal end; with the microneedles releasably disposed on or within the stapling head or the anvil. The present invention is also directed to methods of use of such stapler devices.
US10792041B2
An actuator is movable between a first position and a second position to move a drive mechanism between a first configuration and a second configuration relative to a housing. A cartridge assembly configured to be removably coupled to the housing to couple such that the cartridge assembly is coupled to the drive mechanism. A first member of the drive mechanism moves a first member of the cartridge assembly to advance a surgical clip of the cartridge assembly in a distal direction when the drive mechanism is placed in the first configuration. A second member of the drive mechanism moves a second member of the cartridge assembly relative to the clamp mechanism when the drive mechanism is placed in the second configuration to transition the clamp mechanism from a first configuration to a second configuration. The clamp mechanism is configured to clamp the surgical clip when in the second configuration.
US10792039B2
The invention provides devices, systems and methods for tissue approximation and repair at treatment sites. The devices, systems and methods of the invention will find use in a variety of therapeutic procedures, including endovascular, minimally-invasive, and open surgical procedures, and can be used in various anatomical regions, including the abdomen, thorax, cardiovascular system, heart, intestinal tract, stomach, urinary tract, bladder, lung, and other organs, vessels, and tissues. The invention is particularly useful in those procedures requiring minimally-invasive or endovascular access to remote tissue locations, where the instruments utilized must negotiate long, narrow, and tortuous pathways to the treatment site. In addition, many of the devices and systems of the invention are adapted to be reversible and removable from the patient at any point without interference with or trauma to internal tissues.
US10792035B2
A combined tissue grasper and suture retriever instrument and methods for surgical repairs are disclosed. An instrument allows grasping of tissue with simultaneous passage of a flexible strand from a suture passer.
US10792030B2
A device suturing device includes a flexbile tubular insertion portion; a suturing portion disposed at a distal end portion thereof holding a tubular anchor through which a suture thread is insertable; an operation portion disposed at a proximal end portion of the insertion portion; and a suture thread grasping portion inserted through the insertion portion and insertable through the anchor, wherein the suturing portion includes an installation surface on which the anchor is held; a pressing member including a convex portion being arranged to face the installation surface for pressing the anchor; and a driver operating the pressing member via the operation portion, wherein a concave portion is formed on the installation surface into which the convex portion is enterable, and the anchor is sandwiched between the concave portion and the convex portion to be swaged and deformed such that the suture thread is fixed to the anchor.
US10792027B2
A spinal surgery retractor and method of use. The retractor includes a slotted keyway for integrating a keyed spinal distractor. The retractor and distractor combination slide together to displace a portion of the intervertebral disk space to restore or maintain intervertebral spacing and facilitate retraction of surrounding soft tissues while disk space surgery is performed. The distractor head and mating portion of the retractors have matching profiles that enable the retractor to maintain distraction of the vertebra after removal of the distractor portion of the tool, permitting access to increase at the operating site.
US10792026B2
The present disclosure is directed to a surgical device and method of using the same. The surgical device includes a proximal ring, a distal ring, wherein the distal ring is operably connected to the proximal ring with a sleeve, the sleeve extending about a circumference of the proximal ring and a circumference of the distal ring, a film, a distal end of the film attached to a portion of the distal ring, wherein the film is configured to extend past the sleeve and past the distal ring, and wherein a proximal portion of the film comprises an opening and a channel and a draw string extending through the channel and exposed to an exterior of the device through the opening.
US10792015B2
Vector Doppler Imaging (VDI) improves on conventional Color Doppler Imaging (CDI) by giving speed and direction of blood flow at each pixel of a display generated by a computing system. Multiple angles of Plane wave transmissions (PWT) via an ultrasound transducer conveniently give projected Doppler measurements over a wide field of view, providing enough angular diversity to identify velocity vectors in a short time window while capturing transitory flow dynamics. A fast, aliasing-resistant velocity vector estimator for PWT is presented, and VDI imaging of a carotid artery with a 5 MHz linear array is shown using a novel synthetic particle flow visualization method.
US10792010B2
A tracking, and point-of-view-based imaging, device is configured for deriving a position of and a direction from, a location at a distal tip of an elongated instrument, for performing coordinate system transformation in accordance with the position and direction, and for forming, from the location and based on a result of the transformation, a local view that moves with the tip. The device can keep, with the movement, a field of view of the local view fixed but the local view otherwise in synchrony with the position and the direction. From real-time ultrasound imaging, the local view and a more overall view that includes the tip but which does not move with said tip can be displayed. The distal tip can be that of a catheter and can be outfitted with a micromanipulator for surgery aided interactively by the combination of dynamic local and overall imaging.
US10792003B2
Systems and methods for breast x-ray tomosynthesis that enhance spatial resolution in the direction in which the breast is flattened for examination. In addition to x-ray data acquisition of 2D projection tomosynthesis images ETp1 over a shorter source trajectory similar to known breast tomosynthesis, supplemental 2D images ETp2 are taken over a longer source trajectory and the two sets of projection images are processed into breast slice images ETr that exhibit enhanced spatial resolution, including in the thickness direction of the breast. Additional features include breast CT of an upright patient's flattened breast, multi-mode tomosynthesis, and shielding the patient from moving equipment.
US10791975B2
A biological fluid sampling transfer device adapted to receive a multi-component blood sample is disclosed. After collecting the blood sample, the biological fluid sampling transfer device is able to separate a plasma portion from a cellular portion. After separation, the biological fluid sampling transfer device is able to transfer the plasma portion of the blood sample to a point-of-care testing device. The biological fluid sampling transfer device also provides a closed sampling and transfer system that reduces the exposure of a blood sample and provides fast mixing of a blood sample with a sample stabilizer. The biological fluid sampling transfer device is engageable with a blood testing device for closed transfer of a portion of the plasma portion from the biological fluid sampling transfer device to the blood testing device. The blood testing device is adapted to receive the plasma portion to analyze the blood sample and obtain test results.
US10791973B2
An analysis device includes a wavelength selection unit that alternatively extracts first special light and second special light from light emitted from the light source device, an image sensor that includes a RGB color filter, and a signal processing unit. In this configuration, the first special light includes light in a first wavelength region and the second special light includes light in a second wavelength region that is different from the first wavelength region. The signal processing unit calculates an indicator that indicates a feature amount of biological tissue based on a pixel signal that corresponds to the light in the first wavelength region and a pixel signal that corresponds to the light in the second wavelength region, and generates a color captured image based on a pixel signal that corresponds to light that passes through the RGB color filter.
US10791965B2
A method for determining a rate of repetitive bodily motion of an individual with negligible contact with the individual begins by one or more computing devices transmitting a signal for reflection off of the individual and receiving a reflected signal. The method continues with one or more computing device applying a frequency estimation algorithm to the baseband signal to produce an estimated spectral density, where the estimated spectral density is in frequency domain and includes at least one frequency component corresponding to the repetitive bodily motion. The method further includes applying a repetitive bodily motion pattern search function to the estimated spectral density to estimate the rate of the repetitive bodily motion of the individual based on the at least one frequency component.
US10791958B2
Apparatus and techniques are described herein for nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) projection imaging. Such projection imaging may be used to control radiation therapy delivery to a subject, such as including receiving reference imaging information, generating a two-dimensional (2D) projection image using imaging information obtained via nuclear magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, the 2D projection image corresponding to a specified projection direction, the specified projection direction including a path traversing at least a portion of an imaging subject, determining a change between the generated 2D projection image and the reference imaging information, and controlling delivery of the radiation therapy at least in part using the determined change between the obtained 2D projection image and the reference imaging information.
US10791954B2
A portable apparatus and a method of changing a content screen of the portable apparatus are provided. The portable apparatus includes changing a displayed content in response to an increase in a visual fatigue and a method of changing a content screen of the portable apparatus. Some of disclosed various embodiments provide a portable apparatus that calculates a visual fatigue by using user electroencephalogram (EEG) information received from a wearable apparatus and changing a displayed content into another content in response to an increase in the calculated visual fatigue, and a method of changing a content screen of the portable apparatus.
US10791948B2
A system and method for cardiac activation imaging includes non-invasively or minimally invasively acquiring data about an electrical activation of a heart of a subject using at least one sensor. An activation image of the heart of the subject is reconstructed using a weighted sparse constrained reconstruction.
US10791940B2
A diagnosis assistance apparatus acquires a predetermined period's worth of biological information measured from a living body every heartbeat, from a storage unit storing the biological information, divides the biological information into multiple segments, generates fluctuating state information indicating the fluctuating state of the biological information in each segment, and displays a graph indicating the fluctuating state information of each segment on a display unit. Furthermore, if a certain piece of fluctuating state information is selected in the graph displayed on the display unit, the diagnosis assistance apparatus displays a graph indicating the biological information belonging to the segment corresponding to the selected piece of fluctuating state information on the display unit.
US10791938B2
Systems for calculating extent of congestive heart failure (CHF) and/or identifying exacerbation of CHF. In one embodiment, a system includes smartglasses configured to be worn on a user's head, and an inward-facing camera and a sensor, both physically coupled to the smartglasses. The inward-facing camera is mounted more than 5 mm away from the head and captures images of an area comprising skin on the user's head, which is larger than 4 cm{circumflex over ( )}2. The sensor measures a signal indicative of a respiration rate of the user (respiration signal). The system also includes a computer that calculates the extent of CHF based on: a facial blood flow pattern recognizable in the images, and respiration rate recognizable in the respiration signal.
US10791935B2
A method for dynamically adjusting fluorescent imaging is provided. The method is used in a device and includes the following steps: emitting, by a light emitting diode, light to illuminate teeth in an oral cavity, wherein the light is used to generate fluorescence from the teeth; filtering, by an optical filter, the fluorescence; receiving, by an image sensor, a signal and adjusting a gain value of an analog-to-digital converter according to the signal; converting, by the analog-to-digital converter, the filtered fluorescence into a digital signal and adjusting the digital signal according to the gain value; and generating, by a processor, an output image signal that corresponds to the gain value from the digital signal.
US10791934B2
Systems and methods are provided for modifying a virtual model of a physical structure with additional 3D data obtained from the physical structure to provide a modified virtual model.
US10791929B2
Systems and methods are described for monitoring compression applied by a compression bandage to a body portion of an individual. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a deformable substrate integrated with a textile configured to conform to a body portion; a sensor assembly coupled to the deformable substrate, the sensor assembly including one or more strain gauges configured to generate one or more sense signals associated with a strain of the textile; circuitry operably coupled to the sensor assembly and configured to receive the one or more sense signals associated with the strain of the textile; and a reporter operably coupled to the circuitry and configured to generate one or more communication signals responsive to instruction by the circuitry, the one or more communication signals associated with the strain of the textile.
US10791922B2
An ophthalmological device according to the embodiments comprises an objective lens, a subjective inspection optical system, and an interference optical system. The subjective inspection optical system includes an optical element capable of correcting aberration of a subject's eye and projects a visual target onto the subject's eye via the objective lens and the optical element. The interference optical system splits light from a light source into reference light and measurement light, projects the measurement light onto the subject's eye via the objective lens and the optical element, generates interference light between returning light of the measurement light and the reference light, and detects the generated interference light.
US10791904B2
A rotary dewatering mop device comprises an outer casing, a barrel, a cleaning assembly and a holding assembly. The cleaning assembly is pulled upward through the holding assembly to be placed in the barrel and is moved upward and downward reciprocatically through a handheld rod to drive the barrel and the cleaning assembly to generate a centrifugal force of rotation, thereby achieving rapid dewatering.
US10791903B2
A steam cleaning apparatus for delivering steam of a surface to be cleaned is provided with a steam unit, a handle tube and an indexable base. The base can be indexed between a wide orientation where a long edge of the base is orthogonal to the direction of travel and a narrow orientation where a short edge of the base is orthogonal to the direction of travel.
US10791901B2
A cleaner according to one aspect of the present invention comprises: a power input unit; a controller; a power consumption unit controlled by the controller; an operation unit for inputting a command for controlling an operating state of the power consumption unit; and a power supply control unit connected to the power input unit, the controller, and the operation unit, wherein the power supply control unit enables the power inputted from the power input unit to be supplied to the controller and transmits a signal for the intensity of a suction force to the controller when the intensity of the suction force is selected by the operation unit, and prevents the power inputted from the power input unit from being supplied to the controller when an off command is inputted by the operation unit.
US10791894B2
A dust collecting apparatus includes a dust separation unit to separate dust from suctioned air; a dust storage unit to store the dust separated in the dust separation unit; a pressing member to compress the dust stored in the dust storage unit, and having a pressing plate support part, and a pressing plate supported by the pressing plate support part; a fixing member disposed between an inner circumferential surface of the dust storage unit and the pressing plate support part; and a path formed by a part of the fixing member, located between the pressing plate support part and the inner circumferential surface of the dust storage unit, and through which the air between the pressing plate and the fixing member passes, wherein one or more holes through which the air between the pressing plate and the fixing member passes are formed at the pressing plate.
US10791882B1
A toilet paper guide system having two hooks that hang on a toilet paper dispenser and a slot opening located at the bottom where the toilet paper enters the device. The device may provide for easy access to the toilet paper end and save the user from spending time trying to find the end of the toilet paper roll.
US10791879B2
A shower door track for mounting in a bathtub or shower. The shower door track is supported on the bathtub or shower and has a top surface to direct water into the tub. A channel extends the length of the track. A flexible elastomeric strip is mounted in the channel and bends when the user applies a horizontal force to the elastomeric strip to prevent injury or discomfort to the user.
US10791875B2
A coffee bean grinding system for coffee machine comprising a coffee bean grinding box, a lower grinding blade assembly disposed within the coffee bean grinding box and a gear box, wherein the coffee bean grinding box further comprises a bottom wall, the lower grinding blade assembly further comprises a transmission joint disposed on the bottom wall, and the gear box further comprises an output shaft that is drivingly connected to the transmission joint; the transmission joint is movably connected to the output shaft.
US10791867B2
The invention relates to a brewing device having two separate brewing chambers, comprising two capsule receptacles and two closure elements for the two brewing chambers, and a gearing for the actuation of the two closure elements, the gearing comprising a common drive element, and two output elements for the two brewing chambers.
US10791865B2
An ice-water dripping-rate adjuster for a drip-type ice coffee maker includes: a dripping valve having an upper valve member and a lower valve member, an upper coupling member secured with the upper valve member and having an ice-water container fixed on the upper coupling member for storing ice and ice water in the ice-water container, a lower coupling member rotatably engageable with the upper coupling member and secured with the lower valve member, with the lower coupling member having a coffee jug secured to the lower coupling member, whereby the ice water is downwardly dripped for adjusting its dripping rate by the dripping valve and is brewed through a ground coffee canister, which is mounted in an upper portion of the coffee jug, to make a drip ice coffee to be received in the jug.
US10791863B2
Disclosed herein is a cordless covering for a sliding glass door or other large opening or window that can be arranged in at least three different configurations. In one configuration, one or more slats may be inserted into various pockets on the covering to enable an individual to gather the slats together and change a length of the covering. In a second configuration, a portion of the covering may be draped over one of the pockets of the covering to change the length of the covering. In a third configuration, the covering can be pulled to one side of the sliding glass door such that the width of the covering is changed.
US10791857B2
The utilitarian function of the engagement features on a lidded vessel is at least partially camouflaged so that the engagement features' utilitarian function is less apparent to the consumer after the lid is removed. The lidded vessel may be, for example, a lidded drinking glass—such as a lidded wine glass, beer glass, whiskey tumbler or soda glass—that is sold pre-filled and sealed with the wine, beer, whiskey or soda already inside. The camouflaging may be accomplished using one or more camouflaging techniques, some or all of them involving the presence of non-engagement elements.
US10791854B2
The present disclosure provides a bracket and a display device. The bracket includes: a support arm; a limiting part disposed at a side of the support arm and connected to the support arm; and a connecting part disposed at a side of the support arm opposite to the limiting part and connected to the support arm, wherein the connecting part is provided with at least one support fixing hole.
US10791853B2
A system and method for providing reusable bags is disclosed. The system may include a reusable bag deployment station that allows users to receive the reusable bags and to return the reusable bags. The system may track the usage of the reusable bags.
US10791851B2
An accessory shelf rail system includes a generally planar top portion, a generally planar front portion, a lower portion of the front portion angled inwardly, a rear portion of the top portion including a top channel and a lip forming a lip channel, the top channel and the lip channel are contained in an entire length of the top portion, and a step-shaped securing bracket slidably positioned in the lip channel, the step-shaped securing bracket configured to removably attach the top portion to a horizontal retail shelf.
US10791850B1
A retail display unit includes a base having a frame member and a bracket coupled to the frame member and a holder. The bracket is configured to mount to a retail display fixture. The holder is coupled to the frame member and includes a front, a back, opposing sides, a bottom and is configured to hold and display products of different shapes. The bottom of the holder includes a first curved surface, a second curved surface and a channel located between the first and second curved surfaces and extends from the front to the back of the holder.
US10791849B2
An insulating glazing includes two glass sheets that are spaced apart by an air- or gas-filled cavity, a spacer arranged at periphery of the glass sheets and that keeps the glass sheets spaced apart, the spacer being transparent and placed on one of the sides of the glazing, and a first barrier that is leaktight to water, formed by a structural seal, the material of which is watertight, and a second barrier that is leaktight to gases and to water vapor, the first and second barriers associated to the transparent spacer being made of transparent material, wherein the second barrier that is leaktight to gases and to water vapor and made of transparent material is arranged at an interface between the glass sheets and the transparent spacer on an internal side of the glazing, the structural seal also at the interface being positioned abutted and aligned with the second barrier.
US10791847B2
A baby walker comprises sensors and control mechanisms to detect dangerous situations and to stop or substantially slow the baby walker. The baby walker uses proximity sensors, position sensors, presence sensors, and/or communication modules in order to assess the environment for the safety of the child. It also includes a controller that can apply a brake to the wheel assembly to stop or substantially slow the baby walker so as to protect the baby from entering dangerous regions or come in close proximity to objects. The baby walker may further receive and/or transmit information from an external device which may be operated by the child's guardian to define the borders of dangerous regions or a predefined travel distance.
US10791844B2
A collapsible flotation device is provided that uses a coilable spring coupled to a panel to collapse the device when the spring is coiled, and to expand the device when the spring is uncoiled configuration. The spring can be contained within a sleeve along the outer portion of the panel. A support member that traverses the panel is provided. An inflatable bladder disposed about a part of the outer portion of the panel and coupled to the support member buoyantly supports a body weight of a user. The combination of the inflatable bladder and the support member provide support for a user in a seated position on the panel. Many configurations are disclosed, including a multi-user collapsible flotation device, multiple connected single-user flotation devices, and so forth. A back support member and a headrest, both of which can be inflatable, provide additional support for a user to maintain a seated position on the panel. A foot support member is provided for the comfort of the user.
US10791833B2
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, a mounting member, a third rail, a fourth rail and a synchronizing member. The first rail includes a disengaging feature. The third rail and the fourth rail are arranged on two side of the mounting member, and the synchronizing member is arranged on the mounting member. The third rail is movable relative to the first rail and the second rail is movable relative to the fourth rail. When the second rail is moved from a retracted position along a direction, the second rail and the mounting member are synchronously moved through the synchronizing member. When the second rail and the mounting member are moved to a predetermined position, the synchronizing member is driven by the disengaging member of the first rail to be no longer synchronously moved.
US10791809B2
A piece of luggage (100, 298) may include front, rear, top, bottom, right, and left sides or faces (102, 104, 106, 108, 110, 112) that define an enclosed space. The enclosed space may be divided into one or more compartments. The luggage piece may further include at least one zipper (124) to access the enclosed space. The at least one zipper may include a zipper track (132), at least one zipper slider (134), and at least one zipper tab (136). The luggage piece may further include a frame (138, 300) that generally defines the shape of the luggage piece. The frame may include upper and lower bodies (140, 142, 144, 146, 302, 304) that are joined together by elongated structural members (148, 150, 306), such as pultrusions or closed wire loops. The upper bodies may substantially define the top side of the luggage piece, and the lower bodies may substantially define the bottom side of the luggage piece. The upper and lower bodies may be molded, hard bodies.
US10791807B2
A Brunnian link is a link formed from a closed loop doubled over itself to capture another closed loop to form a chain. The example kit provides for the successful creation of unique wearable articles using Brunnian link assembly techniques and includes several pin bars that are supported in a desired special orientation by at least one base. The desired special orientation is dependent on the desired linked configuration of the completed article. The pins may be assembled in various combination and orientations to provide endless variation of completed link orientations.
US10791796B1
A shoe comprises a sole having an upper surface and a lower surface, and a top member having an outer surface and an inner surface and mounted on the sole. The top member and sole to together define a space for receiving a foot, and the top member further comprises an opening. A fastener is provided in the top member and extends from the opening and continues over the top member such that a portion of the top member is movable between a first position in which the space is substantially closed and a second position in which a portion of the top member is folded back from the sole to provide access to the space.
US10791794B2
Described are soles for a shoe having a region with a plurality of pellets, each pellet having a hollow core structure. The plurality of pellets are formed of a composite material comprising a base layer and an outer layer. The base layer is formed of a material having a first melting temperature, and the outer layer is formed of a material having a second melting temperature. The first melting temperature is greater than the second melting temperature, and the plurality of pellets are bonded through melting of the outer layers while the inner layers retain the hollow core structure without melting.
US10791792B2
Aspects hereof relate to a method for coupling a cemented upper to a sole of an article of footwear. Pairs of clamps secure a sole at a forefoot region and a heel region to prevent movement of a location of the sole upon application of a perimeter deforming force. Perimeter deforming implements apply such force to a bottom surface of the secured sole causing the perimeter of the top surface of the sole to splay open outwardly from the longitudinal axis of the sole. While the top surface of the perimeter is splayed, a cemented upper is caused to contact the top surface of the sole in a longitudinal direction from the heel end to the toe end. Once in place, the force on the bottom surface of the secured sole and the clamps is released leaving the top surface of the sole properly adhered to the upper.
US10791791B2
Articles of footwear may include a knitted component defining at least part of a void and joined with a sole structure. The knitted component may include an interior knit layer, an exterior knit layer, and a plurality of inlaid courses of a high tenacity yarn between the interior and exterior knit layers. The plurality of inlaid courses of high tenacity yarn may include at least three courses of the high tenacity yarn, each of which may be separated from an adjacent course of the plurality by no more than five courses.
US10791780B2
A surgical glove mold set, comprising a plurality of surgical glove mold-forms, wherein each surgical glove mold-form of the plurality of surgical glove mold-forms includes a common palm width (PW) and different finger lengths.
US10791778B2
Polymeric gloves having stress-reducing ridges, and methods and formers for manufacturing polymeric gloves having stress-reducing ridges, are disclosed.
US10791777B2
Provided in one embodiment is a cured absorbent composite comprising: liquid resistant layer of elastomer; and a layer affixed to the liquid resistant layer comprising an open foam of elastomer, wherein the moisture absorption capacity of the foam layer, normalized by the thickness of the absorptive layer, is 1.5 times that of Ansell's foam lined Household glove.
US10791773B2
The present invention provides a brassiere that can create not only a cleavage of breasts but also a beautiful decollete in a neckline area by naturally pushing up the breasts, even when the user is a person whose breasts including flab have little volume, or an elderly person whose breasts have no volume particularly in an area near the stomach and moreover are droopy. This brassiere includes: a pair of cups (20) covering breasts (B); a front panel (31) to which the cups (20) are attached; side panels (40) extending from underarm portions of the front panel (31); and straps (50) provided from upper edges of the respective cups (20) to the side panels (40). A substantially triangular pad (70) is disposed to be overlapped with a substantially triangular part (S) that is surrounded by a rising portion (28) from a stomach part (20a) of each cup (20) and a horizontal edge portion (29) from the stomach part (20a). Two sides (70b) and (70c) of the triangular pad (70) are sewed to the rising portion (28) and the horizontal edge portion (29), respectively.
US10791760B2
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system may include a first chamber housing defining a first chamber and a second chamber housing defining a second chamber that is separate from the first chamber. The first chamber may contain an aerosol-forming substrate in the form of a gel, and the second chamber may contain a source of a desired compound. The first and second chamber housings may be separate or separable structures.
US10791758B2
A carton for displaying articles attachable to a flip sign is disclosed, which includes a box structure having a back panel, a bottom panel, a top panel, a pair of side panels, a top front panel, a bottom front panel, a first inner panel and a second inner panel, the first inner panel having a pair of slots configured to receive a pair of tabs on an outer free edge of the second inner panel. The first and second inner panels rest adjacent to the back panel upon placing a plurality of articles within a recess, which is formed between the top front panel, the bottom front panel, the back panel, and the pair of side panels.
US10791753B2
A feedback and feedforward as well as a statistical predictive control system and method for continuously controlling texture of a food snack in a manufacturing process. The feedback system includes a quantitative texture measuring tool that is positioned downstream of a food processing unit. The texture measuring tool continuously measures a texture attribute of food snack from the food processing unit and feeds back texture attribute information to a controller that controls input parameters to food processing unit such that the texture attribute of a resultant food snack falls within an acceptable limit. The texture measuring tool comprises an excitation tool that strikes the food snack and produces an acoustic signal that is processed by a data processing unit. The data processing unit identifies relevant frequencies in the acoustic signal and quantitatively measures a texture attribute based on a correlated model that includes the relevant frequencies.
US10791747B2
One or more embodiments of the disclosure relates a food processing machine utilizing components using a variety of servo motors. The combination of the servo motors provides for a food processing machine without the need for complex hydraulics or gearboxes such that durability and compactness can be realized.
US10791746B2
The present disclosure relates to apparatus and methods for processing food materials such as dough. The apparatus includes (1) a frame formed with a trough hole and a slot; (2) a motor obliquely attached to a side wall of the frame; (3) a rear roller positioned in the slot and operably coupled to the motor by a driving gear; (4) a front roller positioned in the slot and operably coupled to the rear roller via a transmission gear set; and (5) a cam component operably attached to the frame and positioned adjacent to the front roller. When the cam portion is rotated, the front roller is moved toward or far away from the rear roller.
US10791735B2
Polymeric materials are described which have a bioflavonoid coating, the bioflavonoid content of the coating comprising at least naringin and neohesperidin. The use of such coated polymeric materials is also described as well as the process for making the coated polymeric materials.
US10791712B2
A pet nail clipper is provided. The pet nail clipper includes an upper arm and a lower arm. The upper arm includes a handle portion and a cutting portion having a blade. The lower arm also includes a handle portion and a cutting portion having a blade. A pivot bolt pivotally connects the upper arm and the lower arm together in between the handle portions and the cutting portions. A spring is attached to the upper arm and the lower arm. The spring biases the handle portions away from one another and biases the cutting portions away from one another. A deburring plate and a styptic receptacle are secured to the handle portions of the arms.
US10791711B2
Various embodiments provide an apparatuses and methods for protecting surfaces (e.g., furniture) from animal contact. The surface protection apparatus may comprise a plurality of rigid or semi-rigid members extending from a base portion. The protrusions may comprise a plurality of conical members extending from the base portion or may comprise a plurality of panels extending from the base portion. A plurality of apparatuses may be secured relative to one another to provide an enlarged surface area such that large surfaces (e.g., counters) may be covered by the surface protector to prevent pets from lying on the large surfaces.
US10791710B1
An assembly for scent training an animal, such as a detection or sniffer dog, is presented herein. The assembly includes a scent pod defining a pocket with an at least partially open top. The assembly also includes a food bowl defining a bowl body and a raised scent distribution column surrounded by a food receiving trough region. The raised scent distribution column includes an at least partially hollow interior portion defined by at least one wall and a scent permeable top surface. The scent pod is selectively movable between an independent use with the lid, and a removable attachment with the food bowl.
US10791706B2
A double tank milk supply system for providing a continuous supply of cool clean milk or milk products. While one tank provides milk products, the other tank is cleaned. The two tanks are individually cooled, and the washing and cooling cycles are automatically controlled via a data input and display device. Included is an automatic valve system configured to dispense milk product from the second tank when the first tank is empty, and to dispense milk product from the first tank when the second tank is empty. An automatic washing system automatically washes the first tank when the first tank is empty, and washes the second tank when the second tank is empty. Also included is an agitation system, which alternatingly agitates the milk product in the first or second tank. The double tank milk supply system provides uninterrupted cool, clean milk products 24/7/365, saving the farmer time and labor.
US10791704B2
Present invention provides a pet carrying bag utilizing first tie bands and second tie band to provide means for securing the bag to a bicycle handle bar when looping the bands around the handle bar and clicking the insertion prongs to the receiving insertion shells. Such installation mechanism allows for tight and secure fit to bicycle handle bars of different configurations. The bag body is made of flexible materials with rigid back board and bottom board embedded inside the flexible material, for easy fold-down and storage. During regular usage, two movable boards can be set, by using common Velcro pieces, to prop the bag open, creating a maximum space for the pets.
US10791703B2
The invention relates to a wall element (6) for an animal cage (1), particularly for a dog cage, particularly for housing an animal in the luggage compartment of a passenger-carrying motor vehicle. According to the invention, the wall element (6) comprises at least one elastically compressible cavity in order to increase the level of safety of said animal cage (1) in the event of a crash.
US10791699B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH273029. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH273029, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH273029 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH273029.
US10791698B1
A novel maize variety designated PH47Y3 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH47Y3 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH47Y3 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety PH47Y3 or a locus conversion of PH47Y3 with another maize variety.
US10791695B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH101636. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH101636, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH101636 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH101636.
US10791687B2
A hydroponic plant cultivation apparatus including a reservoir having a base defining a first portion of the reservoir and a cover defining a second portion of the reservoir. An upper opening is defined in the cover. A planting column with a hollow interior is positioned above the upper opening. At least one planting port is defined in the planting column. A conduit can pass through the hollow interior of the planting column, the conduit fluidly communicated with the reservoir. A fluid distributor is positioned atop the planting column, the fluid distributor in fluid communication with the conduit. Fluid is selectively circulated from the reservoir through the conduit in the planting column to the fluid distributor, where the fluid is redirected down the hollow interior of the planting column and back to the reservoir. A hydroponic plant cultivation apparatus including a reservoir positioned on a plurality of rollers.
US10791686B2
A hydroponic cultivation system includes a plurality of hydroponic cultivation units vertically stacked one over another. Each unit is configured to provide a cultivation bed for the plants, and every two neighboring hydroponic cultivation units are hydrologically coupled to one another such that the culture solution flows top-to-bottom through each hydroponic cultivation unit on each level. The system further includes a plurality of support members, which are disposed between, and can provide mechanical support for, two hydroponic cultivation units on every two neighboring levels. The plurality of support members include at least one pipe, and each pipe is configured to arrange at least one of a hydrological connection or an electrical coupling between the two hydroponic cultivation units on the every two neighboring levels therein. The hydroponic cultivation system can achieve a vertical recycling of the culture solution.
US10791680B2
The invention relates to crop netting materials, crop cover materials, and ground cover materials for agricultural applications, which is knitted, woven or non-woven, from a synthetic monofilament, multifilament yarn, or tape or combination thereof, formed from a resin comprising at least one pigment such that the monofilament, multifilament yarn, or tape, transmit solar radiation in the visible wavelength range of about 420 to 720 nm at a level similar to the level that the materials transmit solar radiation in the infra-red wavelength ranges of about 700 to about 1000 nm and 1500 to about 1600 nm. The materials also absorb solar radiation in the UV wavelength range of about 300 to about 380 nm.
US10791671B2
A crop harvesting header having a frame mounted on a propulsion vehicle has a cutter bar carrying a sickle knife and a draper transport. The draper is guided at its front edge by a longitudinally extending rail mounted on the frame for movement therewith. The cutter bar is mounted on the frame at spaced positions by spring blades attached to a fixed beam at the rear which allow up and down flexing movement of the cutter bar relative to the draper engagement member. At the center discharge the cutter bar is carried on shorter blades which are carried on a beam in front of the front draper roller. The small amount of flexing of the cutter bar combines with a balanced three piece header frame to provide effective ground following.
US10791663B2
A ground treatment apparatus comprises a support device, injection elements, a fluid providing device that is fluidically connected to the injection elements, a drive device by which the injection elements are on the one hand lowerable and raisable in relation to the support device and on the other movable along a working direction of the ground treatment apparatus. The injection elements are insertable into the ground by being lowered in order to inject fluid into the ground in a treatment region, wherein the injection elements remain stationary during engagement in the ground in the treatment region, with relative movement in relation to the support device that is moved in the working direction, wherein the injection elements are raisable after the injection of fluid and are movable in the working direction in relation to the support device, wherein, on being lowered again, the injection elements are insertable into the ground in a further treatment region that is downstream of the first-mentioned treatment region, as seen in the working direction.
US10798861B2
A mounter capable of curtailing interference between a mounting head that has a component holding section, and an exchange-use component holding section and a storage section that holds the exchange-use component holding section. A controller of the mounter reads head identification information for identifying the mounting head from the mounting head. Also, different quantities of protruding sections are formed on nozzle tray in accordance with the height in the Z-axis direction. Also, pressure switches that are pressed by protruding sections so as to turn on and off are provided on loading plate on which nozzle tray is loaded. By this, the controller is able to determine whether interference will occur between the mounting head and nozzle tray based on the detection signal of the pressure switches before the mounting head is moved.
US10798860B2
A component mounting system includes an automatic loading-type tape feeder (a component supply unit) being capable of supplying up to N (N is a natural number equal to or larger than 1) carrier tapes for storing a component, and automatically transporting an inserted carrier tape, and a component mounting apparatus which mounts the component supplied from the tape feeder on a substrate, in which a replenishing operation of carrier tape with respect to the tape feeder is detected, and a case where a carrier tape with which the tape feeder is to be replenished is an (N+1)-th is notified to an operator.
US10798855B2
A refrigerant flow channel includes a first flow channel extending in a first direction and a plurality of first branching flow channels extending in a second direction by branching from the first flow channel. Three element arrays corresponding to a first motor for driving and three element arrays corresponding to a second motor for power generation are respectively disposed side by side in the first direction on a mounting surface. The element array of the first motor in each phase and the element array of the second motor in each phase face each other in the second direction, and are disposed at positions overlapping the first branching flow channel in a plan view. The element array of the first motor is located on an upstream side of the first branching flow channel with respect to the element array of the second motor.
US10798841B2
An electronic apparatus includes a housing, a first substrate, and at least one substrate module. The housing includes side plates and a bottom plate. The side plates define the inside space having a bottom opening. The side plates include a first side plate and a second side plate connected to the first side plate. The first side plate has a protrusion protruding toward the inside space of the housing. The bottom plate is connected to the side plates to close the bottom opening. The first substrate is provided in the inside space to face the bottom plate. The at least one substrate module is provided on the first substrate in the inside space. The substrate connecting member is provided on the first substrate to face the second side plate and has a hole into which the protrusion of the first side plate is inserted.
US10798836B2
A device can include a hinge mechanism rotatably coupling a first portion of the device to a second portion of the device. The hinge mechanism is configured to automatically open the device. The device can also include a damper configured to control a rate at which the hinge mechanism automatically opens the device. The hinge mechanism can include a spine hinge, a rolling contact hinge, a film hinge, or a geared link hinge.
US10798830B2
Disclosed herein is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display module configured to display a screen, a frame configured to support the display module, a magnetic coupling device configured to couple the frame to the display module by pulling the display module toward the frame by using the magnetic attraction force, and a separation prevention device configured to mechanically prevent the display module from being separated from the frame and configured to be operated by the magnetic force.
US10798828B2
A method of fabricating a circuit board structure is provided. The method includes providing a core substrate; forming an insulation layer on the core substrate; forming a patterned metal layer on the insulation layer, wherein the patterned metal layer includes a wiring layer and a pad; forming a first metal pillar on the pad, wherein the first metal pillar has a top surface; and forming a first solder resist layer on the patterned metal layer and the first metal pillar, wherein the first solder resist layer has a first opening exposing the first metal pillar, and the first opening has a bottom surface, wherein the top surface of the metal pillar is higher than or equal to the bottom surface of the first opening.
US10798820B2
A connector-equipped circuit body includes a circuit body configured by a flexible board where a wiring pattern formed of a conductor for electric connection is provided, and a connector connected to the circuit body. At a connection portion of connection between the circuit body and the connector, an auxiliary conductive layer independent of the wiring pattern is provided so as to be multilayered for the wiring pattern.
US10798818B2
A power supply includes a main circuit board and a multilayer power transmission board for transmitting power from one area of the main circuit board to another area of the main circuit board. The main circuit board includes a power input connector having power connections. The multilayer power transmission board includes conductive layers electrically coupled to the power connections of the power input connector, and a dielectric medium positioned between each of the conductive layers. The conductive layers of the multilayer board may include at least two conductive neutral layers and at least two conductive line layers positioned in an alternating configuration. Other example power supplies, multilayer boards and methods of manufacturing power supplies are also disclosed.
US10798814B2
A method of manufacturing a System in Package (SiP) module includes: welding required electronic units by the SiP module onto a top surface of a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), with welding spots being reserved on a bottom surface of the PCB for obtaining a PCB assembly (PCBA) of the SiP module; pasting tightly a functional film on a surface of the electronic units of the PCBA; filling on plastic materials on the top surface of the PCBA, ensuring that the plastic materials covers the electronic units and the functional film on the top surface of the PCBA, and obtaining solidified PCBA after the plastic materials are solidified; and cutting the solidified PCBA for obtaining a plurality of the SiP modules.
US10798809B2
A conductive rod body is embedded in an insulative torch adapter into which a plasma torch is fitted so that a leading end protrudes from its outer circumferential surface. Further, a metal plate member electrically connected to a cable line to which a voltage for plasma ignition is applied is attached to a lower holder, and a conductive leaf spring member having a V-shaped cross section is attached to an upper holder. When the torch adapter is placed on the lower holder so that the protruding part of the rod body faces upward and the upper holder is closed to tighten a draw latch, the rod body and the metal plate member are electrically connected via the leaf spring member, and a high voltage for ignition can be applied to the plasma torch.
US10798807B2
There is provided a static electricity removal structure in a low-humidity space, in which static electricity can be removed with high efficiency in the low-humidity space by using a static electricity removal device. A low-humidity space is configured such that dehumidified air is supplied from one side of the low-humidity space into the low-humidity space through a blowout surface material in which ventilation pore is formed, and exhausting is performed from the other side of the low-humidity space, which opposes the blowout surface material. A static electricity removal device is disposed on a downstream side of the blowout surface material.
US10798806B2
The individual configuration of beacons in lighting systems is to be simplified. Therefore, a lighting system with a lighting device and a beacon arranged in or at the lighting device is provided. The lighting system comprises a sensor device for acquiring an environmental parameter relating to an environment of the lighting system. Moreover, the beacon is formed to automatically configure itself based on the environmental parameter.
US10798799B2
The invention provides a lighting system (30) comprising an array (32) of lighting elements (34) being controllable to create a configurable light effect having a configurable luminance distribution. A controller (38) is configured to effect migration of a light effect from a first position (21) to a second position (22) wherein an edge of the light effect is transformed for the duration of the migration so as to improve apparent smoothness of the movement.
US10798792B2
A control device for controlling power delivered to an electrical load may illuminate an area around a button of the control device, such as a gap formed between the button and an opening of a faceplate of the control device. The control device may illuminate the gap to provide a nightlight feature, to provide feedback (e.g., a status of the electrical load), and/or to indicate a selected preset. The button may have a cap portion that may be actuated by a user and a diffuser portion that may contact a rear surface of the cap portion and may conduct light emitted by an internal light source to illuminate the gap around the button.
US10798789B2
A steam cleaning system for cleaning a microwave oven without chemical cleaners includes an oven. A bowl is provided that contains a liquid and the bowl is selectively positioned within the oven. The oven boils the liquid thereby producing steam. The steam penetrates debris stuck to the oven thereby facilitating the debris to be cleaned from the oven. A cloth is provided and the cloth is selectively positioned in the bowl. The cloth is made of a liquid permeable material such that the cloth absorbs the liquid. Moreover, the steam is released from the cloth when the oven is turned on to heat the liquid.
US10798783B2
A composite heater may include a base additively manufactured from a first matrix material, and a heating element additively manufactured adjacent the base from a second matrix material and an electrically and thermally conductive fiber that is at least partially encased in the second matrix material. The composite heater may also include a control mechanism configured to selectively complete a circuit between a power supply and the electrically and thermally conductive fiber.
US10798780B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring and controlling the controller based remote solution comprises receiving either a selection of a blank template in which a controller device is selected, and a solution corresponding to a conventional system is built, or a selection of a pre-defined solution comprising a controller device installed in a conventional system. Input for at least one parameter of the solution is received. The parameter comprises a monitored parameter of the conventional system, a condition for the monitored parameter, or a remote program parameter for executing a remote program. Based on the received inputs, a controller program (AGCP) is generated automatically, the AGCP for execution by the controller device. The AGCP comprises a call for executing the remote program based on the condition being met, and is sent for installation on the controller device.
US10798777B2
Disclosed are a multi-dimensional segmentation method and apparatus for a 5G-oriented protocol stack, and a terminal. The method comprises: segmenting an MAC layer in a protocol stack, and putting HARQ entities of a physical layer and the MAC layer together in a pre-set physical resource for processing; and moving a relevant partial module of the physical layer to an FPGA for processing according to a calculation amount and functional requirements. The hardware configuration requirements are reduced on the basis of guaranteeing the performance.
US10798776B2
A vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication method and an apparatus using the same, for changing a communication method with a surrounding vehicle in consideration of an event type, may include: when an event occurs, determining whether the event is an important event, when the event is the important event, broadcasting data of the event, when the event is not the important event, determining a transmission method depending a communication situation with a surrounding vehicle, and multicasting or broadcasting the data of the event depending on the determined transmission method.
US10798775B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a device may determine a deactivation of a duplication bearer for a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) connection, wherein a first link and a second link are configured for the duplication bearer. The device may schedule data communication for the first link and not for the second link based at least in part on the deactivation of the duplication bearer. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10798772B2
A method, device and medium for establishing service connection are provided. The method includes: when a first-type service connection has been established, receiving a connection request message sent from a network device, the connection request message at least carrying the second-type service connection; and determining whether to establish the second-type service connection with the network device according to the first-type service connection and the second-type service connection, and responding according to the determination result.
US10798759B2
The present invention is an information processing apparatus which obtains identification information of an electronic device and makes communication with the electronic device via a network based on the identification information. When a portable telephone (11) is placed on an input display section (2) of a personal computer (1), a reader/writer built in the personal computer (1) reads a telephone number of the portable telephone (11) stored in an RF tag built in the portable telephone (11). Based on the telephone number, a telephone line is connected between the portable telephone (11) and the personal computer (1). Data is interchanged between the portable telephone (11) and the personal computer (1) via the telephone line.
US10798746B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a communication method used for random access, including: receiving, by a terminal, random access preamble information sent by a base station; and before sending random access to the base station based on the random access preamble information, receiving, by the terminal, a random access response sent by the base station, where the random access response includes an uplink asynchronous hybrid automatic repeat request HARQ process identifier, and the uplink asynchronous HARQ process identifier is used by the terminal to send uplink data to the base station. Compared with the prior art, the communication method provided in the embodiments of the present invention can ensure to some extent that uplink data is transmitted timely and can effectively improve uplink data transmission reliability.
US10798744B2
The present invention relates to a communication between MAC layer entity and PHY layer entity for parallel random access procedures of dual connectivity. In this scheme, a first PHY entity of a user equipment informs a failure of a random access preamble transmission to a first MAC entity of the UE. Then, the first MAC entity continues or stops a random access procedure without performing procedures for a random access failure.
US10798733B2
Techniques for dynamically controlling long physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) transmission are described. In an aspect, the disclosure describes a method for receiving a grant to transmit a long PUCCH, determining a grant type of the grant, wherein the grant type is one of a periodic grant or an aperiodic grant, determining a slot type of the slot to transmit the long PUCCH, and transmitting the long PUCCH over one or more slots based on the grant, the determined slot type, and the determined grant type. In another aspect, the disclosure describes a method for generating a triggering signal to transmit to a user equipment (UE), the triggering signal indicating to the UE to transmit a PUCCH, transmitting the triggering signal to the UE, and receiving the long PUCCH in response to the triggering signal.
US10798731B2
A method of transmitting an uplink (UL) signal by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, where the method includes: receiving, through a physical downlink control (PDCCH) signal, downlink control information (DCI) regarding a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and periodically transmitting an SPS PUSCH signal based on the DCI. Periodically transmitting the SPS PUSCH signal based on the DCI includes: in a state in which (i) the SPS PUSCH signal is subslot-based, (ii) a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) pattern field included in the DCI is set to a first value, and (iii) simultaneous transmission of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and the PUSCH is configured for the UE: transmitting uplink control information (UCI) through the SPS PUSCH signal, without simultaneously transmitting a PUCCH signal.
US10798724B2
A wireless access network node transmits scheduling information assigning an uplink resource for a user equipment (UE), detects whether the UE has not transmitted using the assigned uplink resource, determines, based on the detecting, that the UE has failed a Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) check at the UE, and further schedules and assigns an uplink resource for the UE.
US10798720B2
Provided is a terminal apparatus for communicating with a base station apparatus by using a primary cell (PCell) and an LAA secondary cell (LAA SCell). A first uplink transmission corresponding to a first uplink grant configured for the PCell is skipped, based on at least a state that a first parameter is configured. A second uplink transmission corresponding to a second uplink grant configured for the LAA SCell is skipped, based on at least a state that a second parameter is configured. A third uplink transmission in the PCell and a fourth uplink transmission in the LAA SCell are skipped, based on at least a state that a third parameter is configured. The third uplink transmission corresponds to a third uplink grant corresponding to a C-RNTI. The fourth uplink transmission corresponds to a fourth uplink grant corresponding to the C-RNTI.
US10798719B2
A communications device configured to transmit/receive signals to/from an infrastructure equipment of a mobile communications network includes a receiver, a transmitter, and a controller. The communications device is configured to: receive from a mobile communications network an indication listing narrowband carriers provided by one or more infrastructure equipment forming one or more cells of the mobile communications network, and an indication of type of the narrowband carriers; to measure a strength of signals received from each of the narrowband carriers, to select one of the narrowband carriers based on the type and a value of the measured strength of the signals received from the narrowband carriers, and to transmit signals to the infrastructure equipment providing the selected narrowband carrier to inform the mobile communications network that the communications device can receive data from the mobile communications network via the selected narrowband carrier to reduce an uplink transmission power.
US10798718B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, a method for receiving interference information from each of the plurality of communication devices detecting interference information in a plurality of segments of a radio frequency spectrum, correlating the interference information of the plurality of communication devices to generate correlated information, and identifying a plurality of interferers according to the correlated information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10798711B2
A mobile communications network includes one or more network elements providing a wireless access interface for communications devices. The wireless access interface provides plural communications resource elements across a host frequency range of a host carrier. First and second sections of communications resources within respective first and second frequency ranges for preferable allocation to reduced capability devices form respective first and second virtual carriers. Each of the first and second frequency ranges is within the host frequency range, wherein the communications device is configured with a reduced capability to receive the signals only within a frequency bandwidth less than the host frequency range and equal to at least one of the first or second frequency range. The communications device is configured to receive the first signalling data from the control channel and the common system information from the one or more communications resources identified by the first signalling data.
US10798710B1
Systems, methods, and processing nodes for performing carrier aggregation in a wireless network include associating a primary usage type of an application running on a wireless device with a characteristic of a first carrier based on at least a first frequency band utilized by the first carrier, associating a secondary usage type of the application with a characteristic of a second carrier based on at least a second frequency band utilized by the second carrier, assigning the first carrier as a primary carrier for the wireless device when operating in a carrier aggregation mode, and assigning the second carrier as a secondary carrier for the wireless device when operating in the carrier aggregation mode.
US10798708B2
A data transmission in a wireless network is described. The data transmission includes: determining, by a terminal device, a first configuration information. If the terminal device determines that a type-1 data and a type-2 data need to be transmitted at a same time, the terminal device allocates a first transmit power for first data based on the first configuration information. In this case, a transmission performance of a system in a high-density service scenario is improved, while a transmission quality of important data is ensured.
US10798706B1
In a wireless communication system including a group of base stations, the base stations are all configured to operate on a common wideband carrier, and each base station is further configured to operate on a narrowband carrier defined as a guest carrier within the frequency range of the wideband carrier, with each base station's narrowband carrier being non-overlapping in frequency with each other base station's narrowband carrier. Further, each base station could be configured to avoid allocation of air-interface resources on the common wideband carrier that would overlap in frequency with the narrowband carrier on which any other base station of the group is configured to operate within the wideband carrier.
US10798698B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device therefor, wherein the method comprises the steps of: receiving a PDCCH signal that contains scheduling information from a base station on a first subframe; receiving a PDSCH signal corresponding to said PDCCH signal from said base station on a second subframe; and decoding said PDSCH signal, wherein an interval between said first subframe and said second subframe is varied.
US10798697B2
A terminal apparatus receives a PDCCH including downlink control information; transmits a PUSCH including a transport block, based on detection of the PDCCH; and triggers non-adaptive retransmission without waiting for a feedback for preceding transmission in a bundle, when a parameter of an RRC layer is configured to be TRUE. A size of the transport block is given at least based on whether the parameter of the RRC layer is configured to be TRUE.
US10798683B2
Provided is a terminal apparatus including a receiver that can receive a PSDCH and a transmitter that can transmit an HARQ-ACK for the PDSCH by use of a PUCCH. In the terminal apparatus, the transmitter shortens a timing for transmitting the HARQ-ACK for the PDSCH based on a prescribed TTI length configured for the PDSCH, and a PUCCH format to transmit the HARQ-ACK is determined based on the TTI length of the PDSCH and the TTI length of the PUCCH.
US10798682B2
Certain aspects provide methods and apparatus for wireless communications. One example method generally includes receiving a shared channel within a subframe, determining the same precoding may be used across resource blocks belonging to the same precoding resource block group (PRG) of the shared channel, and processing the shared channel based on the determination.
US10798680B2
Service data is transferred in a wireless communication system. A first service identification is transmitted for reception by a group of users of a cell in the system. The group of users does not include all of the users of the cell. Each of the group of users receives the service identification. Each of the group of users monitors for a second service identification being transmitted over a high speed downlink shared channel (HS-DSCH). The service data is transmitted over the HS-DSCH with the second service identification. Each of the group of users detects the second service identification and receives the service data of the HS-DSCH.
US10798677B2
In case of an UE in an inactive state (RRC disconnected but Core Network connected), the Core Network cannot page the UE because this one is formally connected. The UE is therefore paged at RAN-level. In detail, the first Base Station that receives downlink data or control signalling for the UE, pages the UE. If the UE does not reply, the first Base Station requests second Base Stations to page the UE. If not found the request is enlarged from the second BS to further Base stations and so on until either the UE is found or a maximum number of hops is reached. The Base Stations trace then backwards the information that the UE has been paged until the first BS.
US10798674B2
Methods and device for use in a wireless device of reporting positioning measurements comprises receiving network assistance information from a network node. The network assistance information is for assisting the wireless device in performing Observed Time Difference Of Arrival (OTDOA), and comprises: a list of reference cells; a list of neighbor cells; and a rule for terminating Reference Signal Time Difference (RSTD) measurements. The method further comprises performing RSTD measurement between a cell in the reference cell list and a cell in the neighbor cell list. Upon determining the RSTD measurement satisfies the rule for terminating RSTD measurements, the method includes reporting the RSTD measurements to the network node. Upon determining the RSTD measurement does not satisfy the rule for terminating RSTD measurements, performing another RSTD measurement between the cell in the reference cell list and a cell in the neighbor cell list.
US10798673B2
Methods, systems, and storage media for reporting geo-information in wireless communications networks are described. In embodiments, a roadside unit (RSU) may instruct or configure a user equipment (UE) to report its geo-information to other UEs and/or receive other geo-information from the other UEs over vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) sidelinks. In embodiments, the RSU or a core network element may allocate radio resources for V2V communications to geographic areas and/or based on reported geo-information. In embodiments, the UE may use its geo-information and/or the obtained geo-information to select resources from the allocation for transmission or receipt of V2V messages. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10798672B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe signaling of positioning measurement indications or measurement gap requests. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10798669B2
A method of enabling a first wireless information device to access absolute location data in which the first wireless information device does not possess its own absolute location finding system but is instead able to receive, over a wireless network, absolute location data from a second wireless information device that does have its own absolute location finding system. The present invention hence enables wireless information devices to share absolute location data: for example, a mobile telephone with GPS capability can be used as a local “beacon” to broadcast its absolute location to any nearby devices over a personal area wireless network (e.g. a Bluetooth network) so that those nearby devices can use that location data. Hence, a camera with no location finding system of its own could obtain location data from a nearby GPS equipped mobile telephone over a Bluetooth PAN and watermark its images with location data.
US10798666B2
A vehicle may determine a predefined communication scheme for localizing a user via time of flight (ToF), responsive to a request designated for fulfilment upon condition that a user is within a certain distance of a vehicle. The vehicle may identify a first user location via a first ToF localization using the predefined communication scheme and a second user location via time of flight using a lower power communication scheme, the lower power communication scene configured to use less power for user localization from a power source as compared to the predefined communication scheme. The vehicle may then, responsive to a difference between the first user location and the second user location being within a predefined threshold difference, save coordinate information indicative of a location of the request as being as suitable for use of the lower power communication.
US10798660B1
Device-to-device (D2D) transmissions by a wireless device may interfere with base station reception of other signals. To mitigate this interference, the wireless device estimates the path loss between itself and the base station. The path loss and the current D2D transmission power level are used to estimate the amount of interference the base station is experiencing as a result of the D2D transmissions from the wireless device. Based on the estimated interference experienced by the base station, the wireless device increases the robustness of the MCS being used and decreases the transmission power level by a corresponding amount. By decreasing the D2D transmission power level, less interference will be experienced by the base station. By increasing the robustness of the MCS, the impact of the reduced D2D transmission power level is mitigated.
US10798658B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication scheme for convergence of an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart phone, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and security related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. The present invention proposes a method and an apparatus for minimizing an uplink interference and avoiding unnecessary transmission power consumption of a terminal, by defining a method for setting uplink transmission power of the terminal in a mobile communication system. According to the present invention, a method for a terminal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: transmitting a random access preamble; receiving a random access response including a power control command; determining transmission power of uplink data on the basis of whether a beam through which the random access preamble has been transmitted is changed; and transmitting the uplink data on the basis of the transmission power.
US10798655B2
A method for power consumption management of a user equipment using a mobile communication network includes: in a first step, a set of first radio resources is assigned, by a radio resource management entity, to the user equipment for transmitting uplink data and/or receiving downlink data; in a second step, subsequent to the first step, power consumption information is obtained by the radio resource management entity, the power consumption information indicating that a current power consumption of the user equipment using the assigned set of first radio resources is above a predefined upper power consumption threshold or below a predefined lower power consumption threshold; and in a third step, subsequent to the second step, a set of second radio resources is assigned, by the radio resource management entity, to the user equipment for transmitting uplink data and/or receiving downlink data.
US10798647B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for network slice selection. A network slice selection function of a cellular network may receive a network slice selection request from a radio access network node of the cellular network. The network slice selection request may be received by the radio access network node from a wireless device. A core network slice (and possibly a radio access network slice) of the cellular network may be selected for the service request. A network slice selection response may be provided to the radio access network node, indicating a control plane entry point address for the selected core network slice. The selected radio network slice may also be indicated in the network slice selection response.
US10798644B2
A system and method for IP POP change for a user equipment are described. The approach is taken of assigning a new IP POP to the user equipment in an ongoing packet data unit session, while maintaining packet data transmission in that session. The new IP POP is brought into commission in stages within the session, with the uplink path being moved and then the downlink path.
US10798642B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for on-demand system information (SI) delivery. In one novel aspect, an indicator in the minimum system information (MSI) indicates whether an SI or an SI group is delivered with broadcast or unicast. In one embodiment, the UE receives a MSI, obtains from the MSI the other SI (OSI) delivery mode indicator, and sends an on-demand SI request if the OSI delivery mode indicates the unicast delivery mode, otherwise acquires OSI information in a predefined or scheduled period if the OSI delivery mode indicates the broadcast delivery mode. In one embodiment, the delivery mode is unicast and the SI request is sent at a timing or resource explicitly configured in a SI change notification message. In another embodiment, the delivery mode is broadcast and updated SI is obtained based on the scheduling information included in the SI change notification message.
US10798641B2
A system information transmission method and apparatus are disclosed. A second terminal device sends identifier information, and a first terminal device obtains the identifier information sent by the second terminal device, where the identifier information includes a first cell identifier, and the first cell identifier is a cell identifier of a camped-on cell or a serving cell that is accessed before a direct link between the second terminal device and the first terminal device is established.
US10798640B2
A generic access control procedure is proposed. Every action that is subject to access control is associated with an access category, and each access category is in turn associated with a set of access control parameters. From the APP layer, a UE detects an action that is subject to access control. The UE obtains and stores access categorization rules. In NAS layer, the UE determines the access category for the action. The UE then determines the set of access control parameters for the action. In AS layer, the UE finally applies the set of access control parameters to the action and makes a barring decision for the action. By defining a generic access control procedure and separating access control functions into NAS layer and AS layer, the generic access control is simplified and extendible.
US10798638B2
Disclosed within are a system and method for efficient slicing of an SDN-based 5G core network by using service-specific aggregate tunnels along key tunnel interfaces between network functions.
US10798631B2
A system for an enhanced X2 interface in a mobile operator core network is disclosed, comprising: a Long Term Evolution (LTE) core network packet data network gateway (PGW); an evolved NodeB (eNodeB) connected to the LTE PGW; a Wi-Fi access point (AP) connected to the LTE PGW via a wireless local area network (WLAN) gateway; and a coordinating node positioned as a gateway between the LTE PGW and the eNodeB, and positioned as a gateway between the LTE PGW and the Wi-Fi AP, the coordinating node further comprising: a network address translation (NAT) module; and a protocol module for communicating to the eNodeB and the Wi-Fi AP to request inter-radio technology (inter-RAT) handovers of a user equipment (UE) from the eNodeB to the Wi-Fi AP and to forward packets intended for the UE from the eNodeB to the Wi-Fi AP.
US10798622B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may send, to a wireless device, one or more configuration parameters of a primary cell and a secondary cell. The one or more configuration parameters may comprise: a first preamble for a first beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure of the primary cell, and a second preamble for a second BFR procedure of the secondary cell. The wireless device may send the first preamble via a time-frequency resource associated with the primary cell to perform the first BFR procedure. The wireless device may send the second preamble via a time-frequency resource associated with the primary cell to perform the second BFR.
US10798619B2
A method of supporting a Handover (HO) by a master evolved Node B (eNB) in a wireless communication system supporting dual connectivity of a User Equipment (UE) for the master eNB and a slave eNB is provided. The method includes when an HO of the UE to the slave eNB is determined, transmitting an HO request message to a target slave eNB, when a HO Ack message is received from the target slave eNB, transmitting an HO trigger request message including identification information of the target slave eNB to a source slave eNB, and when a resource release message is received from the target slave eNB, transmitting an HO success indicator to the source slave eNB.
US10798615B2
A broadcast signal receiving apparatus comprises a tuner configured to be tuned to a locking frequency selected corresponding to a broadcast signal and receive the broadcast signal at the selected locking frequency; a communicator configured to perform wireless communication with an external apparatus through a plurality of channels different in a frequency band from each other; and a processor configured to control the communicator to perform the wireless communication through a channel having less interference between the selected locking frequency and the frequency band among the plurality of channels. According to an exemplary embodiment, the frequency interference with the wireless communication can be avoided in advance in terms of receiving the broadcast signal. Further, image quality can be guaranteed even when the wireless communication is used, in terms of receiving the broadcast signal.
US10798611B2
Load balancing is facilitated utilizing geographical location and mobility speed. An example method includes receiving, by a first cell device including a processor and associated with a first cell, from a device of devices, information indicative of whether the device has detected cell type information from a second cell device associated with a second cell, wherein at least a portion of the second cell is located within a first boundary of the first cell. The method also includes: determining, by the first cell device, a mobility characteristic of the device, wherein the devices comprise respective mobility characteristics; and selecting, by the first cell device, the device of the devices to associate with the second cell based on the mobility characteristic of the device.
US10798607B2
There is provided a method of operating a wireless communication device adapted for multi-connectivity to enable individual connections to at least two different network units. The method comprises receiving (S1) information indicating packets received by one of the network units from the wireless communication device over one of the connections, and removing (S2) redundant packets for another one of the connections corresponding to the indicated packets.
US10798592B2
A data parking in an offline community system comprising a discovery module configured to identify at least one device that has gone offline due to an event, a community, the community including at least one data source, the data source including the identity of the at least one device; and a mobile aggregation device movable between a first position where the mobile aggregation device is in communication with a network to a second position to establish communication with the at least one device; wherein the mobile aggregation device is configured to aggregate data from the at least one device and store it until returning to the first position.
US10798591B2
In one embodiment, a diagnostic device determines signal strengths of two antennas of a multi-antenna device. When the signal strength of each of the two antennas is unacceptable, the diagnostic device provides a recommendation to adjust each of the two antennas. Alternatively, when the signal strength of a first antenna of the two antennas is unacceptable while the signal strength of a second antenna of the two antennas is acceptable, the diagnostic device provides a recommendation to adjust the first antenna. However, when the signal strength of each of the two antennas is acceptable, but a difference between the signal strength of a first antenna and a second antenna of the two antennas is greater than a threshold, then the diagnostic device determines a weaker antenna with weaker signal strength between the first antenna and the second antenna, and provides a recommendation to adjust the weaker antenna.
US10798590B2
A mobile telecommunications system anchor base station for a mobile telecommunications system is provided. The mobile telecommunications system has at least one anchor cell and at least one slave cell which is associated with the anchor cell. The anchor base station has circuitry which is configured to broadcast slave cell system information being specific for the at least one slave cell.
US10798583B1
According to the present disclosure, operations may include receiving an action request from a mobile device having a microphone and a speaker. The operations may further include determining whether the mobile device is being physically held by a user. The determining may include transmitting electronic instructions to the mobile device, the electronic instructions executable by the mobile device to cause the mobile device to generate an audio detection waveform via the speaker and measure an audio response waveform via the microphone. The audio response waveform may be based on the audio detection waveform. The determining may also include analyzing the audio response waveform to determine whether the mobile device is being physically held by the user. In addition the operations may include performing a particular operation with respect to the action request based on the determination as to whether the mobile device is being held by the user.
US10798580B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes one or more processors configured to: receive first connected information including first information and first authentication information to authenticate the first information; add, to the first connected information, guarantee information to guarantee an anteroposterior relation of reception of the first connected information; and generate second authentication information to authenticate the first information, the guarantee information, and the first authentication information, the second authentication information being generated using the first information or the first authentication information and using the guarantee information.
US10798578B2
A communication method and a related apparatus are provided. A base station obtains a security policy, where the security policy includes integrity protection indication information, and the integrity protection indication information is used to indicate the base station whether to enable integrity protection for a terminal device; and when the integrity protection indication information indicates the base station to enable integrity protection for the terminal device, the base station sends a target user plane integrity protection algorithm to the terminal device.
US10798572B2
Secure control of network appliances uses a 5G compatible central hub connected to a plurality of network appliances or multiple hubs in a local area network (LAN) or wireless LAN. A master hub controls communication with the appliances and also includes a 5G cellular link for communication with a cellular network. Only the master hub can communicate with the Internet via the cellular link. User equipment (UE) contains an application program that works in conjunction with the central hub to control the appliances. Upon receipt of an authenticated command, the central hub propagates commands to the intended network appliance. The central hub includes a voice command module to permit a user to control operation of the network appliances using voice commands.
US10798571B2
A method and system for provisioning access data in a second application on a mobile device using a first application on the mobile device. Authentication data may be input into the first application, and an authentication code may be requested from a remote server. After the authentication code is received by the first application in the mobile device, it can pass the authentication code to a second application that initiates an access data provisioning process.
US10798565B2
A method implemented by a control server for configuring a security module connected to a telecommunication terminal. In particular, the control server allocates a unique activation code corresponding to a subscription including a plurality of N profiles to allocate to a fleet of N respective terminals. Thus the control server: a) after activation of the code with a first terminal, allocates a profile to the first terminal and records the profile allocation to the first terminal, and b) for a new profile allocation request corresponding to the activation code, repeats step a) if the N profiles have not already been allocated.
US10798554B2
A system, method and apparatus for integrated building operations management. Nodes in the sensor network can be configured to interface with a building control system to exchange sensor-related information.
US10798539B2
The various implementations described herein include methods, devices, and systems for determining locations of a plurality of electronic devices within a home. In one aspect, a method is performed at a computing system having one or more processors and memory. The method includes: (1) obtaining device identification information for a plurality of electronic devices; (2) broadcasting, via a standard wireless communication protocol, a request based on the device identification information that a particular electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices be enabled to transmit or reflect location information using a radar technique; (3) receiving a signal from the particular electronic device, the signal indicating a location of the particular electronic device using a radar technique; and (4) determining the location of the particular electronic device based on the received signal.
US10798526B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable medium can receive a plurality of localization requests from a plurality of devices, each of the plurality of localization requests comprising sensor data captured by one or more sensors of the plurality of devices. Localization data can be sent to each device of the plurality of devices in response to receiving the plurality of localization requests. A plurality of pose data can be received from a first device and a second device of the plurality of devices. The plurality of pose data can include a position and orientation for each of the first and second devices based on the sensor data and the received localization data. At least one received pose data of the plurality of received pose data can be sent to at least the first device of the plurality of devices. The first device of the plurality of devices can be operable to determine a relative location of the second device in relation to the first device based on the received pose data of the second device.
US10798524B2
Techniques are described for providing location-based information and functionality to people and computing devices in various ways. In at least some situations, the techniques include enabling multiple people in a common geographic area to interact in various ways, such as via devices capable of communications (e.g., cellular telephones, computing devices with wired and/or wireless communications capabilities, etc.), while in other situations at least some users who are remote from a particular geographic area may be allowed to intercommunicate with one or more other users or other entities in or related to that geographic area. In addition, the techniques include enabling the creation and maintenance of location-based virtual groups of users (also referred to as “clouds”), such as for users of mobile and/or fixed-location devices. Such clouds may enable various types of interactions between group members, and may be temporary and/or mobile.
US10798500B1
A behind-the-ear hearing aid includes a case having an accommodating chamber, an apparatus for processing sounds, an ear hook, and a battery assembly. The apparatus is mounted in the case. The battery assembly is detachably mounted in the accommodating chamber and electrically connected to the apparatus. When the power of the battery assembly is used up, the hearing aid can be continuously used by disassembling and replacing a new battery assembly, thereby solving the problem that the battery assembly in the existing hearing aid cannot be dissembled and replaced. It is environmentally friendly and convenient for use.
US10798496B2
A hearing assistance device to provide sound to the ear of a user, the device comprising a housing, hearing assistance electronics enclosed in the housing, an acoustic transducer adapted to be worn in the ear, a cable assembly adapted to connect the acoustic transducer to the hearing assistance electronics, a wireless communications receiver connected to the hearing assistance electronics, and an antenna comprising one or more conductors forming at least a portion of the cable assembly.
US10798494B2
A method of operating a hearing apparatus and hearing apparatus having at least one of a first microphone or a second microphone which generate a first microphone signal and a second microphone signal respectively, the first microphone and the second microphone being arranged in at least one of a first hearing device and a second hearing device, a third microphone which generates a third microphone signal, the third microphone being arranged in an external device, and a signal processing unit, wherein in the signal processing unit the third microphone signal and at least one of the first microphone signal or the second microphone signal are processed together thereby producing an output signal with an enhanced signal to noise ratio compared to the first microphone signal and/or the second microphone signal.
US10798491B2
An electro-acoustic transducer with a diaphragm with a front side and a rear side, the diaphragm configured to radiate front side acoustic radiation from its front side and rear side acoustic radiation from its rear side. There is a magnet, and a magnetic circuit that defines a path for magnetic flux of the magnet and comprises a gap, wherein the magnetic circuit comprises a pole piece. A voice coil is located in the magnetic circuit gap and configured to move the diaphragm. A basket is supported by the magnetic circuit. The basket supports the diaphragm. There are first and second openings in the basket. The first and second basket openings are both configured to receive one of the front side acoustic radiation and rear side acoustic radiation. The first opening is spaced from the second opening. The first opening has a greater acoustic resistance than the second opening.
US10798490B2
The present disclosure provides a sounding device including a holder, a vibration system fixed to the holder, and a magnetic circuit system configured to drive the vibration system to vibrate and sound. The vibration system includes a diaphragm fixed to the holder and a voice coil that drives the diaphragm to vibrate. The magnetic circuit system has a magnetic gap in which the voice coil is inserted. The voice coil includes voice coil wire layers that are formed by winding a voice coil wire and include an intermediate layer, an outer layer, and an inner layer. Ends of the voice coil wire layers away from the diaphragm are aligned. A height of the outer layer and a height of the inner layer are smaller than a height of the intermediate layer. The intermediate layer is glued and fixed to the diaphragm.
US10798480B2
The present application discloses a speaker assembly. The speaker assembly includes a sound generator having a sound radiation surface and a back surface opposite to the sound radiation surface; at least one leakage area formed on the back surface; at least one leakage controller corresponding to the leakage area and covering the leakage area; a damping element disposed on a plane on which the leakage controller is disposed. The damping element is arranged between adjacent two leakage areas. By the configuration, the height of the speaker assembly is reduced.
US10798479B2
An improved system and method for recognizing an audio signal due to physical activity and taking a predetermined action in response is disclosed. A “reverse noise signal” created by the sound pressure wave of the physical activity acting on the earpiece transducer is obtained. In some embodiments, an ambient noise signal is inverted and fed back, and the inverted signal is added to the intended audio signal being sent to the earpiece so that the ambient noise is cancelled. In other embodiments, a processor receives the ambient noise signal and predicts the modification to the intended audio signal needed to counteract the ambient noise. In other embodiments, the reverse noise signal may represent a motor or biological activity of a user; the system may take different actions in response to different physical activities, such as a heart beat of the user, or a tap, footfall, or swallowing by the user.
US10798478B2
A system and method for a hybrid ring-radiator headphone driver, substantially as shown in and/or described in connection with at least one of the figures, as set forth more completely in the claims.
US10798477B2
Embodiments of wireless audio systems and methods for wirelessly communicating audio information are disclosed herein. In one example, a wireless audio system includes a first wireless headphone and a second wireless headphone. The first wireless headphone is configured to receive, from an audio source, audio information using a first type of short-range wireless communication; in response to successfully receiving the audio information from the audio source, generate an error correcting code based on the audio information; and transmit an error correcting message including the error correcting code without transmitting the audio information. The second wireless headphone is configured to receive, from the audio source, the audio information using the first type of short-range wireless communication; receive, from the first wireless headphone, the error correcting message including the error correcting code; and in response to successfully receiving the audio information directly from the audio source or based on the error correcting code, transmit a first status message (STAT) to the first wireless headphone. The first wireless headphone is further configured to receive, from the second wireless headphone, the first STAT. One of the first and second wireless headphones works in a snoop mode to communicate with the audio source based on communication parameters of another one of the first and second wireless headphones.
US10798475B2
A display device including a display surface for displaying an image; and a speaker unit located on the display surface, the speaker unit generating a sound and emitting the generated sound to the outside. The speaker unit may detect a fingerprint of a user.
US10798474B2
The waterproof sound-transmissive cover is characterized by providing a frequency response curve with a difference between a maximum sound pressure level and a minimum sound pressure level of 13.0 dB or less in the range of frequencies from 3 kHz to 8 kHz, and an insertion loss at 1 kHz of less than 14.0 dB, and said cover comprising: a porous film having (1) a water pressure resistance measured according to JIS L1092 water penetration test method B (high pressure method) of 20 kPa or more, and air permeability measured according to JIS L1096 method A (Frazier type method) of 3.0 cc/cm2·sec or more, and (2) a tensile strength measured according to ASTM standards D412 of 5.5N or more.
US10798473B2
The invention discloses a passive optical network (PON) system and an implementation method thereof. A first transmission channel and a second transmission channel are provided between an optical line terminal (OLT) and an optical network unit (ONU) in the PON system. The method comprises: the ONU transmits data over the first transmission channel; the ONU transmits, over an uplink channel of the second transmission channel, all of uplink management information; or the ONU transmits, over the uplink channel of the second transmission channel, a part of the uplink management information, and transmits, over an uplink channel of the first transmission channel, the remaining uplink management information other than the part of the uplink management information transmitted over the uplink channel of the second transmission channel.
US10798468B2
The present application is a method and system for presenting game-related information. A system for presenting game-related information may include an initiator device, the initiator device including a computing device which includes an application executed by a processor of the computing devices to generate game-related information, a display device operably connected to the initiator device to display game-related information from the initiator device, and a cloud-based server device operably connected to the initiator device for receipt of the game-related information. The system for presenting game related information may include a receiver device, the receiver device including a computing device which includes an application executed by a processor of the computing device to receive the game-related information from the cloud-based server device.
US10798462B1
A system, apparatus and method for automatically controlling the volume of a home entertainment device by an HVAC component. An HVAC component determines when it, or another HVAC, is active or not, and causes a home entertainment device to adjust its volume accordingly.
US10798457B2
A gaming system includes a network server and a gaming manager communicatively coupled to the network server. The gaming manager having a video control unit that starts a video game running remotely with a static video portion and a user interactive video portion and a video receiving unit, coupled to the video control unit, that receives the static video portion for local display while the user interactive video portion is being initialized remotely for subsequent local game play. The gaming system further includes a local user device, coupled to the gaming manager, that initially displays the static video portion and provides a user interface for the subsequent local game play following completion of remote initialization of the user interactive video portion. A method of managing a remote game is also provided.
US10798453B2
Presentation of content by a device can be uniquely scheduled by a user in advance with no further interaction with the device by the user. A schedule manager component associated with the device can receive input from a user selecting various items of content for presentation at various times, and, based on the input, can schedule presentation of the various items of content at the various times. The items of content can be content obtained by the device from various sources, including television channels, radio channels, Internet sources, applications, or other devices. To facilitate scheduling of content, the schedule manager component can facilitate presenting a content scheduler interface to the user on the device or another device associated with the device. The schedule manager component can execute the various items of content at the various times for presentation by a display device associated with the device.
US10798437B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for automatically scheduling and carrying-out the transfer of media content to user-carried storage components in anticipation of predicted user needs. In various embodiments, the method includes the step or function of determining when an offline viewing event is forecast to occur due to an anticipated desire on behalf of the end user to view media content in a future timeframe without reliance on a network connection. When determining that an offline viewing event is forecast to occur, media transfer start conditions are established for initiating transfer of selected media content to a user-carried memory component prior to the forecast occurrence of the offline viewing event. When the media transfer start conditions are subsequently satisfied, transfer of the selected media content is initiated from a media content server, over a network, and to the user-carried memory component.
US10798436B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying video content having a scheduled broadcast time during a first viewing period that satisfies a viewership threshold and facilitating a transfer of the video content to a multimedia storage device. The video content is transferred to the multimedia storage device during a second viewing period prior to the first viewing period. The video content includes the data to prevent the multimedia storage device from sending the video content to another device prior to the time when the program is scheduled to be broadcast. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10798435B2
Disclosed is a dynamic visual effect enhancing system for a digital cinema which may comprise: a sound effect control module for controlling a speaker for producing sound effects according to a digital movie, an illumination light control module for performing illumination of an auditorium before and after the digital movie is played, a light source control module for dynamically controlling a light group according to the digital movie, and a server for storing the digital movie and for controlling the light source control module and the sound effect control module according to the digital movie, wherein the server is configured for controlling the light source control module, the sound effect control module, and the illumination light control module via a communication network. A corresponding control method can cooperate with a surround sound effect and can precisely exhibit corresponding visual effects in a particular scene of a movie.
US10798430B2
The present technology relates to a reception device, a reception method, a transmission device, and a transmission method that make it possible to provide content according to a preference of a user. Provided is a reception device including: a tuning control unit configured to perform tuning control for tuning digital broadcasting using an Internet Protocol (IP) transmission scheme; and an acquisition control unit configured to perform acquisition control for acquiring content transmitted in the digital broadcasting according to a result of a matching process on a provider-side PDI-A indicating an answer set by a provider that provides content to a question on preference of a user included in transmission information transmitted in an upper layer of an IP layer of protocol layers of the IP transmission scheme and client-side PDI-A indicating an answer set by the user to the question in the digital broadcasting. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a television receiver set.
US10798428B2
A method to improve convenience for providing a coupon with the use of a spatial or temporal modulation component added to light that can be captured while a service is being used. Provided is a method for providing a coupon by using a terminal device and at least one server configured to provide a service to the terminal device, the method includes capturing light while the service is being used, transmitting key information based on a spatial or temporal modulation component of the light to the server, and receiving coupon information related to the service transmitted from the server by using the terminal device; and receiving the key information from the terminal device and issuing the coupon information in accordance with the key information by using the server.
US10798426B2
Disclosed are efficient and user-friendly systems or methods configured to capture and share video data in real time, at a later date, or a combination thereof in an authorized manner via social media. In certain aspects, these systems and methods include capturing video, for example, from a “Jumbotron” during a sporting event or other live venue event in an authorized manner (e.g., abiding by applicable copyright laws) and sharing this captured footage with other via social media.
US10798422B2
Methods, systems, and articles are described herein related to video coding with post-processing indication.
US10798418B2
A method and an encoder for encoding a video stream in a video coding format supporting auxiliary frames which includes receiving first image data captured by a video capturing device, using the first image data as image data of a first auxiliary frame, encoding the first auxiliary frame as an intra frame, and encoding a first frame as an inter frame referencing the first auxiliary frame, wherein motion vectors of the first frame are representing a first image transformation to be applied to the first image data.
US10798416B2
Disclosed is a 3D video motion estimating apparatus and method. The 3D video motion estimating apparatus may enable a motion vector of a color image and a motion vector of a depth image refer to each other, thereby increasing a compression rate.
US10798412B2
Encoding and decoding architectures for 3D video delivery are described, such as 2D compatible 3D video delivery and frame compatible 3D video delivery. The architectures include pre-processing stages to pre-process the output of a base layer video encoder and/or decoder and input the pre-processed output into an enhancement layer video encoder and/or decoder of one or more enhancement layers. Multiplexing methods of how to combine the base and enhancement layer videos are also described.
US10798411B2
Obtaining one or more motion vector predictor candidates includes: (a1) generating a motion vector predictor candidate, based on motion vectors of first adjacent blocks adjacent to a block to be processed in a first direction; and (a2) generating a motion vector predictor candidate, based on motion vectors of second adjacent blocks adjacent to the block to be processed in a second direction, and step (a2) includes: determining whether the first adjacent blocks include an inter-predicted block; and searching for a motion vector on which scaling processing can be performed from among the motion vectors of the second adjacent blocks when it is determined that the first adjacent blocks do not include an inter-predicted block, and executing, when the motion vector on which scaling processing can be performed is obtained in the search, scaling processing on the motion vector obtained in the search.
US10798404B2
Techniques and systems are provided for processing video data. For example, video data can be obtained for processing by an encoding device or a decoding device. Bi-predictive motion compensation can then be performed for a current block of a picture of the video data. Performing the bi-predictive motion compensation includes deriving one or more local illumination compensation parameters for the current block using a template of the current block, a first template of a first reference picture, and a second template of a second reference picture. The templates can include neighboring samples of the current block, the first reference picture, and the second reference picture. The first template of the first reference picture and the second template of the second reference picture can be used simultaneously to derive the one or more local illumination compensation parameters.
US10798403B2
At least one of a vector candidate derivation unit and a merge candidate derivation unit derives a motion vector of each of multiple sub-blocks contained in a decoding target block by referring to motion vectors at multiple control points including two points at an interval which is longer than one side of the target block, and a prediction image generation unit refers to the motion vector of each sub-block to generate a prediction image.
US10798402B2
Motion estimation or compensation functionality of a hardware component is used to encode or decode key frames and other video frames. The hardware component includes a memory, which may, for example, be a local static random access memory or an external dynamic random access memory. Upon a block of a frame being encoded or decoded, data associated with that block is stored in the memory. That data can then be processed by motion estimation or motion compensation for use in encoding or decoding one or more later blocks within the same frame. The data may, for example, be stored in the memory after operations for reconstruction and loop filtering have been performed. The data stored in the memory may effectively be processed using traditional inter-prediction operations, such as to identify similar video objects within blocks of the same frame.
US10798400B2
Disclosed are an inter prediction mode-based image processing method and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for processing an image on the basis of inter prediction may comprise the steps of: determining whether a motion vector scale adaptation is applied to a block; up-scaling a down-scaled MVD (Motion Vector Difference) when the motion vector scale adaptation is applied to the block; deriving a MV (Motion Vector) for the block, using the up-scaled MVD and a MVP (Motion Vector Predictor); and generating a predictive block of the block, using the derived MV.
US10798395B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for video encoding are provided. For example, a video file may be segmented into at least a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may be analyzed to determine that the first portion is associated with a first level of complexity, and the second portion may be analyzed to determine that the second portion is associated with a second level of complexity. A first bitrate associated with the first level of complexity may be determined, and a second bitrate associated with the second level of complexity may be determined. The first portion may be encoded at the first bitrate to generate a first encoded portion, and the second portion may be encoded at the second bitrate to generate a second encoded portion. The first encoded portion and the second encoded portion may be assembled to generate an optimized video file.
US10798394B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for reducing memory utilization and increasing efficiency during affine merge mode for versatile video coding by utilizing motion vectors stored in a motion data line buffer for a prediction unit of a second coding tree unit neighboring a first coding tree unit to derive control point motion vectors for the first coding tree unit.
US10798372B2
A 3D display driving method, a 3D display driving device and a display device are provided. The 3D display driving method includes, during each display period: within a display duration (2n−1)th for a left-eye image of a left-eye image frame, scanning a first gate line in an nth group of gate lines, and within a part of the display duration (2n−1)th for the left-eye image, scanning a second gate line in the nth group of gate lines; and within a display duration (2n)th for a right-eye image of a right-eye image frame, scanning the second gate line in the nth group of gate lines, n being a positive integer smaller than or equal to M, and M being an integer greater than 1.
US10798368B2
In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a first target region within a first field of view of a first camera and a second target region within a second field of view of a second camera. The first field of view and the second field of view may be partially overlapping. The system may determine first lighting conditions of the first target region. The system may determine a first exposure time for at least the first camera and the second camera based at least in part on the determined first lighting conditions. The system may instruct the first camera and the second camera to take pictures using the determined first exposure time.
US10798367B2
A third imaging unit including a pixel not having a polarization characteristic is interposed between a first imaging unit and a second imaging unit including a pixel having a polarization characteristic for each of a plurality of polarization directions. A depth map is generated from a viewpoint of the first imaging unit by matching processing using a first image generated by the first imaging unit and a second image generated by the second imaging unit A normal map is generated on the basis of a polarization state of the first image. Integration processing of the depth map and the normal map is performed and a depth map with a high accuracy is generated. The depth map generated by the map integrating unit is converted into a map from a viewpoint of the third imaging unit, and an image free from deterioration can be generated.
US10798354B2
A projection display apparatus includes a first operating mode, a second operating mode, a processing circuit, a control circuit, an imaging device and a shifting device. The processing circuit receives an input video signal, the input video signal includes an input video feature, the control circuit selectively switches the projection display apparatus to the first operating mode or the second operating mode according to the input video feature or the operating condition, the imaging device receives the first output video signal and outputs a plurality of first output video images corresponding to the first output video signal, and the imaging device is further configured to receive the second output video signal and output a plurality of second output video images corresponding to the second output video signal.
US10798343B2
A facility, comprising systems and methods, for providing enhanced situational awareness to captured image data is disclosed. The disclosed techniques are used in conjunction with image data, such as a real-time or near real-time image stream captured by a camera attached to an unmanned system, previously captured image data, rendered image data, etc. The facility enhances situational awareness by projecting overlays onto captured video data or “wrapping” captured image data with previously-captured and/or “synthetic world” information, such as satellite images, computer-generated images, wire models, textured surfaces, and so on. The facility also provides enhanced zoom techniques that allow a user to quickly zoom in on an object or area of interest using a combined optical and digital zoom technique. Additionally, the facility provides a digital lead indicator designed to reduce operator-induced oscillations in commanding an image capturing device.
US10798338B1
Single point devices that connect to a display device include a port for establishing a connection to a port on the display device and for switching the display device from a first mode to a second mode; an audio video device configured to capture image data representing one or more images of physical entities in a field of view of the audio video device and further configured to capture acoustic data; a receiver device and a transmitter device configured for dedicated communication with a data processing system.
US10798323B1
In an active pixel sensor comprising a photodiode Dp, a memory node MN and a readout node SN, the memory node being provided to contain the charge generated by the photodiode at the end of an integration period allowing an integration in global shutter mode and a correlated double sampling, it is envisaged to carry out, in each integration period, at least one transfer {circle around (2)} of charge from the photodiode to the memory node followed by clipping {circle around (3)} of the amount of charge contained in the memory node at an intermediate voltage t1 after the start of the integration period but before a last transfer of charge {circle around (4)} to the memory node at the end of the integration period. The pixels are subsequently read out, row by row, by correlated double sampling CDS. The one or more intermediate transfers, with clipping, to the memory node during the integration period allow the dynamic range of the sensor to be extended to high levels of ambient light while retaining good sensitivity to low levels of ambient light.
US10798322B2
A pixel array within an integrated-circuit image sensor is exposed to light representative of a scene during a first frame interval and then oversampled a first number of times within the first frame interval to generate a corresponding first number of frames of image data from which a first output image may be constructed. One or more of the first number of frames of image data are evaluated to determine whether a range of luminances in the scene warrants adjustment of an oversampling factor from the first number to a second number, if so, the oversampling factor is adjusted such that the pixel array is oversampled the second number of times within a second frame interval to generate a corresponding second number of frames of image data from which a second output image may be constructed.
US10798316B2
Systems and methods for imaging a target object are provided. In one example, a multispectral imager includes an objective lens configured to disperse light from a target object with a high degree of longitudinal chromatic aberrations along an optical axis of the objective lens. The multispectral imager also includes a sensor configured to capture a whole image of the target object at each of a plurality of wavelengths when at least one of the objective lens and the sensor is moved along the optical axis. Furthermore, the multispectral imager includes a processor configured to analyze intensities of different additive primary colors of each pixel of each whole image to determine which pixels have a correct wavelength.
US10798312B2
An image processing device including a first lens, a second lens disposed on one side of the first lens, a third lens disposed on the other side of the first lens, a first image sensor which receives an input of a first image obtained from the first lens to generate a first image signal, a second image sensor which receives an input of a second image obtained from the second lens to generate a second image signal, a third image sensor which receives an input of a third image obtained from the third lens to generate a third image signal, a selector which receives the input of the second image signal and the third image signal, outputs the second image signal under a first condition, and outputs the third image signal, under a second condition different from the first condition and an image processor which performs image processing, using the first image signal and an output signal of the selector.
US10798305B2
A control apparatus includes: a display control unit configured to control a display unit to display part or all of an image in a first region on a display screen displayed by the display unit, the image indicating an imaging range which an imaging apparatus can image by changing the imaging range; a change control unit configured to change a position or size of an image to be displayed in the first region by the display control unit, on the image indicating the range which an imaging apparatus can image; and an output unit configured to output an instruction to cause the imaging apparatus to image an imaging range corresponding to a range indicating an image displayed in a second region which is a part of the first region.
US10798293B2
An image pickup apparatus of the present invention includes: an image pickup unit that picks up an image of a specific range and acquires an image signal; a storage unit that stores multiple target image dictionaries respectively corresponding to multiple types of targets; an inference engine that determines a type of the specific target on the basis of an image signal acquired by the image pickup unit and the multiple target image dictionaries stored in the storage unit, and selects one of the target image dictionaries corresponding to the determined type of the specific target from the multiple target image dictionaries; and an image pickup control unit that performs image pickup control on the basis of the image signal acquired by the image pickup unit and the target image dictionary selected by the inference engine.
US10798279B2
A mobile device case for coupling around a mobile device that includes a miniature camera module has defined therein a lens attachment aperture shaped both to permit light from an object to be captured as a digital image to travel along the optical path of the miniature camera module to a built-in image sensor of the miniature camera module of the mobile device, and to facilitate stable coupling of an auxiliary lens in optical alignment with the miniature camera module. The case comprises electric circuit components positioned to balance an attached auxiliary lens approximately at a grip location.
US10798278B2
Disclosed are an ultraviolet mirror device and a method therefor. The ultraviolet mirror device of the present invention relates to a device that can generate an image obtained by capturing an image of skin in the ultraviolet region. The device can be connected to a portable terminal having a display unit, so as to be used as an ultraviolet mirror. To this end, the ultraviolet mirror device includes an ultraviolet filtering unit provided in a front portion or a rear portion of the lens unit to allow ultraviolet light to pass therethrough and thus enter the image sensor; and an image processing unit providing the portable terminal with multiple digital images generated at a predetermined frame rate per second by the image sensor and thus allowing a moving image to be regenerated in the display unit.
US10798275B2
A holding apparatus (50) for a vehicle has a first element (51) attachable to the vehicle (1), a second element (52) movably connected with the first element (51) via a bearing mechanism, an image capture unit (10, 10A, 10B) attached to the second element (52) and configured to capture a capture area around the vehicle (1), and a signal unit (20) configured to detect the position of the first element (51) relative to the second element (52). The signal unit (20) has a signal device (22) adapted to output a signal (S) and a signal transmitter (21) configured to operate the signal device (22) dependent on a position of the first element (51) to the second element (52) such that it outputs a signal (S).
US10798272B2
Provided is a shell-type monitoring apparatus. The shell-type monitoring apparatus includes a body, a gas storage provided in the body and configured to store a gas, a variable volume portion provided on the gas storage in the body and having a volume that varies depending on an amount of gas supplied from the gas storage, a photographing unit provided on the body and configured to move in the body, and a moving flow path provided in the body and configured to supply the gas in the variable volume portion to the photographing unit and thereby move the photographing unit.
US10798271B2
In various embodiments, a subtitle timing application detects timing errors between subtitles and shot changes. In operation, the subtitle timing application determines that a temporal edge associated with a subtitle does not satisfy a timing guideline based on a shot change. The shot change occurs within a sequence of frames of an audiovisual program. The subtitle timing application then determines a new temporal edge that satisfies the timing guideline relative to the shot change. Subsequently, the subtitle timing application causes a modification to a temporal location of the subtitle within the sequence of frames based on the new temporal edge. Advantageously, the modification to the subtitle improves a quality of a viewing experience for a viewer. Notably, by automatically detecting timing errors, the subtitle timing application facilitates proper and efficient re-scheduling of subtitles that are not optimally timed with shot changes.
US10798265B1
An image reading device includes an image reading unit that reads an image while moving in a sub-scanning direction, a casing that houses the image reading unit, a guiding member that is movable relative to the casing in the sub-scanning direction and guides the casing in the sub-scanning direction, and an endless member to which the casing is fixed and that endlessly travels between a starting position and a terminal position in the sub-scanning direction.
US10798259B2
An input device includes: an operation panel that receives an operation input; a vibration element that is mounted to the operation panel and that vibrates the operation panel in at least one vibration direction; a vibration absorber that connects the operation panel to an apparatus main body and that absorbs a vibration of the operation panel; and a CPU that causes the vibration element to vibrate based on the operation input, wherein the vibration element is mounted on a gravity center axis of the operation panel in the vibration direction.
US10798258B2
An information processing method, apparatus, and non-transitory recording medium storing instructions for executing an information processing method. The information processing method, performed by a computer connectable to a terminal via a network, includes determining a status of a device based on a first image of the device transmitted from the terminal, specifying a solution for a problem occurring in the device based on the status of the device, displaying a first message on the terminal to indicate the specified solution, displaying a second message on the terminal to request a second image obtained by photographing a specified part of the device or the device in a specified state, updating the status of the device based on the second image, specifying the solution for the problem in accordance with the updated status of the device, and displaying a third message on the terminal to indicate the specified solution for the problem.
US10798256B2
Systems and methods for the virtualization, aggregation, enhancement, and distributed processing of facsimile communications. The Remote FAX Interconnect known as etherFAX® is a system and method that allows for the reception and delivery of information to or from one or more facsimile systems using Internet/web based communication protocols such as HTTP(S) as the transport between a cooperating facsimile capable application or hardware and the remotely accessible etherFAX® services.
US10798252B2
A method performed by an end user device associated with a service plan having a limit on usage of a network service, the method comprising storing one or more notification actions corresponding to one or more notification requests; performing a device action that reflects a past or intended use of the network service; receiving one of the one or more notification requests from a network element in response to the device action; performing one of the one or more notification actions in response to the notification request, the notification action causing the end user device to retrieve at least a portion of a notification message associated with a status of the use, the at least a portion of the notification message being separate from the one of the one or more notification requests; and presenting the notification message on a user interface of the end user device.
US10798247B2
A microphone picks-up voice of a driver. A first echo suppression unit outputs a voice signal after first echo suppression based on a voice signal of the driver and a voice signal after echo suppression in the past (first reference signal) stored in a buffer memory. A second echo suppression unit outputs a voice signal after second echo suppression based on a voice signal of the driver and a voice signal after the echo suppression in the past (second reference signal) stored in a buffer memory. An output signal selector selects one of the voice signals after the first echo suppression or the voice signal after the second echo suppression according to a detection result of the presence or absence of a system variation by a system variation detector, and causes a speaker to output the selected voice signal.
US10798245B2
In a method and apparatus for facilitating agent interactions with customers of an enterprise, one or more intents corresponding to an input provided by a customer during a conversation with a Virtual Agent (VA) are predicted. A confidence score corresponding to each intent is computed that is indicative of an ability of the VA to provide an effective response to the input. The confidence score corresponding to each intent is compared with a predefined threshold score. If the confidence score is less than the predefined threshold score, the conversation is deflected from the VA to a human agent to respond to the input of the customer. The conversation is deflected from the human agent to the VA for a subsequent input if a respective confidence score of at least one intent predicted for the subsequent input is greater than or equal to the predefined threshold score.
US10798237B2
A controller monitors for an activation condition through a monitoring interface of a wearable aerial device. In response to detecting the activation condition through the monitoring interface, the controller triggers the wearable aerial device to release from an aesthetic attachment proximate to a user and hover a distance above the user of a height above a selected height threshold. The controller analyzes a recording of content by the wearable aerial device to assess a particular threat level associated with the content from among multiple threat levels. The controller, in response to the particular threat level exceeding a threat threshold, automatically sends a communication to one or more emergency contacts.
US10798235B2
A mobile device having an internal frame and a sidebar configured to be coupled to the internal frame. The sidebar can include at least one button positioned in a button configuration on an exterior face of the sidebar and a sidebar contact positioned on an interior face of the sidebar. The sidebar can be positioned to interface with a frame contact when the sidebar is coupled to the internal frame. The frame can be operably coupled to a controller for a mobile device such that coupling the sidebar contact to the frame contact operably connects the at least one button of the sidebar to the controller. The sidebar can be exchanged with or decoupled from the frame and replaced with a second sidebar having a different button configuration from the original sidebar.
US10798234B1
A stationery storage capable of sound amplification of a mobile phone, including: a container, having an accommodation space in communication with the outside, one side of the container having an inclined surface, a bottom of the inclined surface extended outward with a groove, one side of the groove protruded with a plurality of spaced cover bodies, and a passage in communication with the groove formed between each cover body and the groove, where the accommodation space provides the accommodation of articles, the groove provides the placement of a smart mobile device, and the sound amplification of the smart phone is carried out through each passage.
US10798233B2
A mobile phone stations is disclosed. In general, in one aspect, the mobile phone station connects to a smartphone for sending and receiving data therebetween. Further, the mobile phone station includes a dial pad for placing outgoing calls via the smartphone and answering incoming calls received at the smartphone. Also, the mobile phone station includes a charging mechanism for charging the smartphone. In use during an active call at the smartphone, the mobile phone station allows a user to seamlessly switch between two or more of a handset, a speakerphone, and a headset without requiring any user interaction with the smartphone.
US10798229B2
The message transmission method for transmitting a data message to at least one electronic receiving device, is implemented by a transmitting device. The transmitting device and the one or more receiving device(s) are connected via an avionics network, with the transmitting device and/or the receiving device being an avionics device. The transmission method includes the generation of a message, the message comprising a message header and one or more data packet(s); and the transmission of the message to the one or more receiving device(s). Each packet comprises one or more data cluster(s), each duster containing an identifier field, a size field and a payload data field, and each cluster is adapted to include one or more other data cluster(s), the one or more other data cluster(s) thus then forming the payload data field of said cluster.
US10798227B2
Assigning chromatic numbers based on a pre-assigned scheme to a stream of sensor data from sensors of Internet connected devices to “color” the message which can then be processed by chromatic number to obtain a pluralized stream of data.
US10798224B2
Methods and apparatus for efficient data transfer within a user space network stack. Unlike prior art monolithic networking stacks, the exemplary networking stack architecture described hereinafter includes various components that span multiple domains (both in-kernel, and non-kernel). For example, unlike traditional “socket” based communication, disclosed embodiments can transfer data directly between the kernel and user space domains. Direct transfer reduces the per-byte and per-packet costs relative to socket based communication. A user space networking stack is disclosed that enables extensible, cross-platform-capable, user space control of the networking protocol stack functionality. The user space networking stack facilitates tighter integration between the protocol layers (including TLS) and the application or daemon. Exemplary systems can support multiple networking protocol stack instances (including an in-kernel traditional network stack).
US10798223B2
This disclosure describes techniques for performing communications between devices using various aspects of Ethernet standards. As further described herein, a protocol is disclosed that may be used for communications between devices, where the communications take place over a physical connection complying with Ethernet standards. Such a protocol may enable reliable and in-order delivery of frames between devices, while following Ethernet physical layer rules, Ethernet symbol encoding, Ethernet lane alignment, and/or Ethernet frame formats.
US10798218B2
The present application discloses an environment isolation method. First, a pre-configured full address in a routing address pool in a Remote Procedure Call (RPC) client terminal is automatically refreshed according to a preset cycle. The RPC client terminal stops automatic refresh in the routing address pool after receiving an environment isolation instruction sent by an environment isolation device, and replaces a current address in the routing address pool with a combined address. When subsequently receiving a service call request sent by a user, the RPC client terminal generates a valid target address based on the combined address in the routing address pool, sends the service call request to an RPC server terminal corresponding to the target address, and returns to the user a service processing result returned by the RPC server terminal.
US10798215B2
A first network access point (NAP) of an Information Centric Networking (ICN) network may receive a request for a HTTP resource from a requestor. The first NAP may request the HTTP resource from a first server associated with a fully qualified domain name (FQDN). The first NAP may receive an error message that the HTTP resource is not available. The first NAP may publish a message to a rendezvous point (RVZ) including a list of excluded node identifiers (NIDs) of one or more NAPs that have not provided the HTTP resource. The first NAP may receive a forwarding identifier (FID) of a second NAP associated with the FQDN with a NID not on the list of excluded NIDs from a topology manager (TM). The first NAP may request the HTTP resource from the second NAP. The first NAP may receive the HTTP resource is and send it to the requestor.
US10798199B2
A system for improving network data communications performance between end-user devices and content origin servers. A plurality of accelerators are distributed across a network and communicate with end-user devices and content origin servers. Software development kits installed on end-user devices monitor control channel data traffic between the end-user devices and accelerators. Various data traffic efficiency approaches are implemented by the software development kits on the end-user devices and the plurality of accelerators resulting in improved data communications links between the end-user devices and the content origin servers.
US10798194B2
A webpage pushing method includes sending, by a client, a page loading request to a server, where the page loading request carries an identifier of the client and cache change information of the client. The method includes the server, a home page according to the page loading request, and parsing the home page to acquire a key sub-resource for loading the home page. The method includes returning, by the server, the home page to the client, acquiring, through calculation according to the cache change information of the client, a key sub-resource that does not exist in the client from the key sub-resource for loading the home page, and pushing the key sub-resource that does not exist in the client to the client.
US10798182B2
In accordance with various embodiments, a method is performed including establishing a first communication session between an application function and a user equipment assigned a first IP address. The method includes determining, by the application function, that the user equipment has changed location. The method includes, in response to determining that the user equipment has changed location, sending, by the application function, a request that the user equipment be assigned a second IP address. The method includes establishing a second communication session between the application function and the user equipment assigned the second IP address.
US10798178B2
A network function (NF) entity in a communication network receives User Plane Function (UPF) registration information for a plurality of UPFs, the registration information including a respective network attribute for each UPF. The NF entity associates each UPF with a corresponding network based on the respective network attribute, and map one or more User Equipment (UE) to the corresponding network based on a security policy to create a UE-to-network table. The NF further receives a request to establish a session for a subsequent UE, the request including a subsequent UE identifier, and determine an access permission for the subsequent UE to access the corresponding network based on the subsequent UE identifier and the UE-to-network table. The NF selects one UPF from the plurality of UPF to service the session for the subsequent UE based on the access permission, and an association between the one UPF and the corresponding network.
US10798177B2
A controller in a building management system (BMS) includes an integrated wireless network processor chip. The integrated wireless network processor chip includes a wireless radio, a processor, and memory. The wireless radio is configured to exchange data communications with one or more BMS devices controlled by the controller. Both the processor and memory are in communication with the wireless radio and located on the same chip as the wireless radio. The memory includes communication stacks configured to facilitate communications using a building automation and control network communications protocol and a Wi-Fi communications protocol. The integrated wireless network processor chip receives data from the BMS devices via the wireless radio, formats the data using the processor, stores the data in the memory, and sends the data via the wireless radio without requiring any additional processing or communications components outside the integrated wireless network processor chip.
US10798176B2
A method for Internet of Things (IoT) traffic management in a communication network supporting a plurality of network slices, in particular a 5th generation wireless communication network, includes dynamically assigning, by a network slice management component, network resources to a number of network slices. One or more of the network slices are dedicated IoT network slices being adapted to enable IoT-related communications between an IoT platform and IoT devices or IoT gateways. The method also includes the network slice management component, interacting with an IoT broker associated with the IoT platform and, based on the interaction, performing actions with respect to an allocation of network resources to the number of network slices and/or triggering actions on the IoT broker with respect to a configuration of IoT data traffic.
US10798171B2
Systems and methods for communicating with a plurality of networked sensors include identifying at least one class of networked sensors of the plurality of networked sensors, broadcasting a virtual network identifier to advertise the availability of the at least one class of networked sensors, directing a device attempting to access a network identified by the virtual network identifier to a splash page where a user can subscribe to information from the one or more classes of network sensors, and providing sensor data from the network sensors to a subscribed user.
US10798163B2
An initiation request is received for initiating a service, where the initiation request is generated by a user of a first communication group participating in a communication session. A participation response is received from a plurality of users of the first communication group that defines a second communication group participating in the communication session. A participation result is determined that includes service conditions associated with the user of the first communication group and the plurality of users of the second communication group. In response to determining the participation result, a third communication group is generated that includes target users for completing the service.
US10798162B2
A fail-safe system for a cluster application is disclosed. The system includes a first subsystem comprising a graphic processing unit (GPU) that executes a high-level operating system renders a first set of parameter data, and a second subsystem that executes a real-time operating system and renders a second set of parameter data. The system also includes a controller area network connected to a parameter data source input and to the first subsystem and the second subsystem. The system further includes a quality of service (QoS) switch executing a QoS monitor module that decides to display the first set of parameter data being rendered by the first subsystem or the second set of parameter data being rendered by the second subsystem depending on an availability and load of the first subsystem as determined by a lag and a stability threshold. The system further includes a display connected to the QoS switch.
US10798159B2
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and computing devices that managing network traffic in a storage system include parse one or more packets received from a client to identify header data, and wherein the parsing comprises identifying when the one or more packets is a read request or a write request. A server is identified based on the parsed one or more packets. One or more rules are modified in the parsed one or more packets to allow data exchange between the client and the identified server. The parsed one or more packets are transmitted with the modified one or more rules to the identified server, wherein data exchange is initiated between the client and the identified server based on the parsed one or more packets with the modified one or more rules.
US10798155B2
It is described a location based interactive method, user terminal, server, system and computer storage medium, which relate to the field of computers. The method includes: it is send a geographic coordinate of a user's location to a location server; it is received from the location server and displayed a POI list containing at least one POI corresponding to the geographic coordinate; it is acquired a group creating instruction, and a group creating request is sent to a login server based on the group creating instruction; and interaction is performed with the login server based on a group to provide the user with an intra-group interactive service, where the group is created by the login server based on the POI carried in the group creating request. According to the method, the group is created based on the POI corresponding to the geographic coordinate, and the interactive service is provided to the user based on the group, and thereby extending the interactive mode and range of the location based service, and achieving better sharing of information between users.
US10798150B2
An approach is provided for efficiently coordinating one or more tasks among a plurality of users. A service provider may determine one or more contextual criteria for at least one task associated with at least one user. The service provider may further cause a selection of one or more contacts associated with the at least one user based on the one or more contextual criteria. Additionally, the service provider may cause a presentation of the at least one task to the one or more contacts.
US10798148B2
In a computer-implemented method for configuring a distributed computer system comprising a plurality of nodes of a plurality of node classes, configuration files for a plurality of nodes of each of the plurality of node classes are stored in a central repository. The configuration files include information representing a desired system state of the distributed computer system, and the distributed computer system operates to keep an actual system state of the distributed computer system consistent with the desired system state. The plurality of node classes includes forwarder nodes for receiving data from an input source, indexer nodes for indexing the data, and search head nodes for searching the data. Responsive to receiving changes to the configuration files, the changes are propagated to nodes of the plurality of nodes impacted by the changes based on a node class of the nodes impacted by the changes.
US10798146B2
A system and method for supporting universal timeout in a distributed computing environment. The universal timeout feature can enforce a defined timeout for a block (or group of blocks) or code executing on a thread regardless of the number of network hops required to effectuate the code. The universal timeout feature allows a thread to express a timeout which is respected across the platform thereby improving timeout functionality compared to prior timeout implementations which pass a timeout between functions. Universal timeout may be implemented using a try-with-resources paradigm where the timeout period is treated as a resource.
US10798144B2
A system and method for facilitating directory limit based storage scheme for uploading media segments in multiple directories at one or more media servers. Directory limit parametric information may be provided or otherwise configured in an upload profile of a packager node to construct URLs based on the directory parametric information for identifying locations in a directory tree structure that may be configured to map to a variety of physical and/or virtual storage schemes.
US10798140B1
From a stream management service, indications of transmissions of data records of a first data stream via a persistent network connection associated with a subscription are provided to a stream processing application. In response to detecting that a transfer throttling condition associated with the subscription has been met, a delay is introduced before additional data records are transmitted via the same persistent network connection. After a subscription expiration period has elapsed, an indication of the expiration is provided to the application via the persistent connection.
US10798125B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a network entity assisted system and method for detection of Honeypot access point. More particularly, the embodiments may disclose a method for authenticating the access point based on a request from a user equipment; the method comprising: comparing an AP identifier with a pre-configured list of AP identifiers to generate one of a positive response and a negative response; transmitting one of a denial response and a verification request; receiving one of a positive verification response and a negative verification response from the authorized AP; transmitting one of a positive authentication response and negative authentication response to maintain the connection with the authorized AP and release the connection with Honeypot AP, respectively.
US10798122B2
Systems and methods are presented which generate modified email messages, which are largely devoid of embedded functions, from original email messages, which have embedded functions. The embedded functions are amenable to self-executing codes such as viruses, worms, and Trojan programs. Thus, the modified email message without these embedded functions, and any argument associated with these functions, provides a more secure email environment.
US10798121B1
According to one embodiment, a malware detection system is integrated with at least a static analysis engine and a dynamic analysis engine. The static analysis engine is configured to automatically determine an object type of a received object. The dynamic analysis engine is configured to automatically launch the object after selecting an action profile based on the object type. The dynamic analysis engine is further configured to, provide simulated user interaction to the object based on the selected action profile either in response to detecting a request for human interaction or as a result of a lapse of time since a previous simulated human interaction was provided.
US10798117B2
An anomaly detection server is provided. The anomaly detection server is a server for counteracting an anomalous frame transmitted on an on-board network of a single vehicle. The anomaly detection server acquires information about multiple frames received on one or multiple on-board networks of one or multiple vehicles, including the single vehicle. The anomaly detection server, acting as an assessment unit that, based on the information about the multiple frames and information about a frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle after the acquisition of the information about the multiple frames, assesses an anomaly level of the frame received on the on-board network of the single vehicle.
US10798104B2
A vehicle includes a lower security network (LSN) and higher security network (HSN) having therebetween a read only filter and path in parallel to respectively exclusively pass data from the LSN to the HSN, and from the HSN to the LSN. The vehicle includes a gateway controller configured to alter a duty cycle associated with the filter according to utilization of the HSN to alter a data rate through the filter but not through the path.
US10798102B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying an object within a system, determining metadata associated with the object, calculating a logical protection level for the object, utilizing the metadata, and implementing a physical protection level for the object within the system, utilizing the logical protection level for the object.
US10798098B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for access control for enterprise information. In one aspect, a method includes receiving resources of an enterprise, each resource having a respective access control list specifying access privileges to the resource for one or more members, and the resources including entities related to the enterprise and relationships; identifying entity facts of the entities from the resources; determining, for each entity fact, an entity fact access control list; storing data describing the entities, entity facts and the respective entity fact access control lists, wherein each entity fact is associated with its corresponding entity fact access control list; and providing, to each of the members of the enterprise, access privileges to the data describing the entities and the entity facts according to the respective entity fact access control lists.
US10798087B2
A system, apparatus, method, and machine readable medium are described for implementing a composite authenticator. For example, an apparatus in accordance with one embodiment comprises: an authenticator for authenticating a user of the apparatus with a relying party, the authenticator comprising a plurality of authentication components; and component authentication logic to attest to the model and/or integrity of at least one authentication component to one or more of the other authentication components prior to allowing the authentication components to form the authenticator.
US10798084B1
Systems and methods for embodiments of artificial intelligence systems for identity management are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of an identity management system may provide identity management in association with cloud services used by an enterprise and, in particular, may provide identity management in association with cloud based services that may be accessed through federated access providers.
US10798083B2
A method includes receiving an authentication request from a web application of a user device, the web application running in a browser. The method also includes establishing a local single sign-on session between the local identity provider and the browser and determining that a master identity provider associated with a plurality of local identity providers is unavailable. The method also includes in response to determining that the master identity provider is unavailable, marking the local single sign-on session as unsynchronized with the master identity provider. The method further includes after determining that the master identity provider is available, synchronizing the local single sign-on session with a master single sign-on session that is available to the plurality of local identity providers and marking the local single sign-on session as synchronized with the master identity provider.
US10798079B2
A vehicle that includes one or more controllers coupled to at least one and/or one or more wireless transceivers and antennas. The controllers are configured to enable enhanced, automated provisioning of network hardware of the vehicle with the settings and parameters of required wireless network credentials, by requesting, retrieving, receiving, and utilizing such credentials received from a mobile device. The mobile device includes one or more sets of credentials that are compatible for use with the network hardware configuration or configurations of the controllers, and communications, and network hardware of vehicle. The controller(s) are further configured to store such credentials locally in the vehicle, to request updates, to detect and identify wireless networks identified by such credentials when the wireless networks are in-range of the vehicle network hardware, and to automatically provision and connect the network hardware of vehicle to the detected and identified wireless networks.
US10798075B2
A system, an apparatus, a computer program product and a method for obfuscation-based security and authentication. The method comprises: obtaining a different key for each different device; obfuscating an interface layer utilized by components of the device to interact, using the key, to produce an obfuscated interface layer; and providing, directly or indirectly, the two components with the key to allow the two components to utilize the obfuscated interface layer to interact with each other. The system comprises a plurality of devices that are instances of a same device and a server coupled to a memory retaining a plurality of keys, each of which is used to obfuscate interface layers of a different device to produce heterogeneous set of devices instead of a homogenous set of devices. Communications and operations with the plurality of devices are performed in an obfuscated manner through the server.
US10798074B2
Methods and systems for account authentication in a distributed computing node group may involve sending a message to a member, the message having a first timestamp, increasing an authentication failure count, receiving a first key-exchange message from the member, the first key-exchange message having a second timestamp, evaluating the second timestamp, and determining whether to ignore the first key-exchange message based on an evaluation of the second timestamp. The first timestamp may be associated with a message received from the member prior to sending the message with the first timestamp to the member. The first key-exchange message may include a value computed by the member based on a group passcode shared with the member. The evaluation of the second timestamp may be based on at least one of a default value, the authentication failure count, or a timestamp associated with the group passcode.
US10798073B2
For an encryption management module of a host that executes one or more data compute nodes (DCNs), some embodiments of the invention provide a method of providing key management and encryption services. The method initially receives an encryption key ticket at an encryption management module to be used to retrieve an encryption key identified by the ticket from a key manager. When the encryption key has been retrieved, the method uses the encryption key to encrypt a message sent by a data compute node executing on the host requiring encryption according to an encryption rule. The encryption key ticket, in some embodiments, is generated for an encryption management module to implement the principle of least privilege. The ticket acts as a security token in retrieving encryption keys from a key manager. Ticket distribution and encryption rule distribution are independent of each other in some embodiments.
US10798072B2
The present disclosure provides a password management process and system. The updating of the password data in the process and system is performed based, at least in part, on the functional account data and corresponding scheduling data, said scheduling data representing criteria for updating the password of, at least, the particular functional account.
US10798071B2
In some examples, an example method to provide an IPsec anti-replay window with quality of service (QoS) at a first network endpoint may include configuring a multiple number of anti-replay windows, generating a first security association (SA), and establishing the first SA with a second network endpoint. The first SA may include a first multiple number of security parameter indexes (SPIs), where each of the first multiple number of SPIs may be assigned to a specific QoS level, and each of the first multiple number of SPIs may be assigned to one of the multiple number of anti-replay windows. Establishing the first SA with the second network endpoint may include assigning the first SA to a first encryption key, and providing the first encryption key to the second network endpoint.
US10798069B2
A computer provides a secure, virtual personalized network (SVPN) for a first user with master privileges and at least a second user with guest privileges in the SVPN. Notably, the computer may execute a virtual machine that provides a container for the SVPN of the first user, and the first electronic device associated with the first user and a second electronic device associated with the second user may execute instances of an application that facilitates secure communication in the SVPN. Moreover, the first electronic device may store a set of first encryption keys and the second electronic device may store a set of second encryption keys, which allow the first electronic device and the second electronic device to securely communicate with each other via the SVPN. Note that the computer may not be able to access the set of first encryption keys or the set of second encryption keys.
US10798068B2
A secure server detects a login from a user originating from a first device. A second user-registered device is sent a message. The second device: translates the message into light-based communication that is captured by a camera of the first device, translates the message back into the original message, and sends the translated message to the secure server. The secure server authenticates the message and sends an indication to the first device that the second device is permitted to access the first device. In an embodiment, information passed between the first and second devices continue using light-based communications.
US10798065B2
This invention amounts to tools and procedures designed to use randomness sources to establish a secure communication between two nodes in cyber space, and then building on these bilateral trust elements to spread trust throughout the network. Applications include online identity management, and secure payment platforms. This trust build-up from bilateral connections may serve as a blockchain alternative. The bilateral trust solution is not based on mathematical complexity, as the prevailing solutions, but rather on the perfect unpredictability of quantum grade randomness, and as such it is well positioned to withstand cryptanalytic attacks based on quantum computing capability now secretly developed by powerful adversaries.
US10798063B2
Enterprise grade security for integrating multiple computing domains with a public cloud is provided herein. An example system a forwarder that provides one-way data publishing to a public cloud and a data bus that provides domain-to-domain messaging between a plurality of domains. At least one of the plurality of domains includes operational technology infrastructure devices and operational technology virtual machines. The operational technology virtual machines are communicatively coupled to the operational technology infrastructure devices using one or more operational technology switches. The operational technology switches isolates the operational technology infrastructure devices and facilitates one-way communication and prevents bidirectional communication to the operational technology infrastructure devices from the public cloud.
US10798059B1
A disclosed method may include (1) receiving a packet at a tunnel driver in kernel space on a routing engine of a network device, (2) identifying, at the tunnel driver, metadata of the packet that indicates whether at least one firewall filter had already been correctly applied to the packet before the packet arrived at the tunnel driver, (3) determining, based at least in part on the metadata of the packet, that the firewall filter had not been correctly applied to the packet before the packet arrived at the tunnel driver, and then in response to determining that the firewall filter had not been correctly applied to the packet, (4) invoking at least one firewall filter hook that applies at least one firewall rule on the packet before the packet is allowed to exit kernel space on the routing engine. Various other apparatuses systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10798058B2
Systems and techniques are described for monitoring network communications using a distributed firewall. One of the techniques includes receiving, at a driver executing in a guest operating system of a virtual machine, a request to open a network connection from a process associated with a user, wherein the driver performs operations comprising: obtaining identity information for the user; providing the identity information and data identifying the network connection to an identity module external to the driver; and receiving, by a distributed firewall, data associating the identity information with the data identifying the network connection from the identity module, wherein the distributed firewall performs operations comprising: receiving an outgoing packet from the virtual machine; determining that the identity information corresponds to the outgoing packet; and evaluating one or more routing rules based at least in part on the identity information.
US10798053B2
An apparatus for addressing a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices includes storage to store instructions and a processor. The processor is to execute the stored instructions to initialize an IoT device alias addressing space, to assign an alias address to each of a plurality of the IoT devices, where the alias addresses are time-limited, and to handle packet transactions using the assigned alias addresses.
US10798042B2
Data is identified for network transmission. A waiting period is determined for the particular data based on a content of the information. The particular data is transmitted to a device using a first transmission method. The first transmission method includes a mechanism to determine whether the particular data was received by the device. Determining whether the particular data transmitted using the first transmission method was received by the device. The particular data and a predetermined answer response identifier are transmitted to the device using a second transmission method. The second transmission method does not include a mechanism to determine whether the particular data was received by the device. Determining whether the particular data transmitted using the second transmission method was received by the device based on whether a response including the predetermined answer response identifier has been received. Transmitting additional data to the device using a non-mobile communication method.
US10798041B2
A device may receive a message from a source. The device may send, to a server device, a request for classification information that identifies a classification of the message after receiving the message. The device may receive a response message to the request for the classification information after sending the request. The response message may include the classification information identifying the classification. The device may dynamically provide the message to a channel based on the classification identified by the classification information after receiving the response message.
US10798033B2
A method for processing Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) messages at a Communications Management Unit (CMU) on an aircraft is provided. The method includes, for an ACARS downlink message, receiving a message at the CMU from an application on a computer external to the CMU onboard the aircraft, reading a field in the message that indicates a message type for that application, determining an ACARS label associated with the message type, using the determined ACARS label instead of the industry standard ACARS label/sublabel associated with the onboard application external to the CMU, and sending the ACARS downlink message encoded with the determined ACARS label to a ground system to be delivered to a peer ground application.
US10798031B1
A disambiguation dialog may be generated by determining candidate responses based on an intent of a user's message. A utility value and a relevance probability may be determined for each of the candidate responses. An intermediate ranking may be computed for each of the candidate responses based on the utility value and the relevance probability. Candidate dialogs may be formed with the top candidate response, the top two candidate responses, and so on. Additional candidate dialogs may be generated by varying a presentation format of the candidate responses. Discoverability probabilities may be associated with each of the candidate responses within a candidate dialog. A joint metric for each candidate dialog may be computed as a function of the utility value, relevance probability and discoverability probability associated with each of the candidate responses included in the candidate dialog. The highest ranked candidate dialog may be selected as the disambiguation dialog.
US10798015B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for flow stitching network traffic flow segments across middleboxes. A method can include collecting flow records of traffic flow segments at a first middlebox and a second middlebox in a network environment including one or more transaction identifiers assigned to the traffic flow segments. Sources and destinations of the traffic flow segments can be identified with respect to the first middlebox and the second middlebox. Corresponding subsets of the traffic flow segments can be stitched together to from a first stitched traffic flow at the first middlebox and a second stitched traffic flow at the second middlebox. The first and second stitched traffic flows can be stitched together to form a cross-middlebox stitched traffic flow across the first middlebox and the second middlebox. The cross-middlebox stitched traffic flow can be incorporated as part of network traffic data for the network environment.
US10797991B2
In an extended bridge comprising a controlling bridge and a port extender, the controlling bridge associates an aggregation port of a link aggregation group with a plurality of extended ports connecting to a same terminal on the port extender, and assigns an aggregation port identifier to the aggregation port. The controlling bridge associates an extended port identifier of each of the plurality extended ports and a cascaded port connecting to the port extender with the aggregation port. The controlling bridge associates the aggregation port with the aggregation port identifier and the cascaded port to determine to add the aggregation port identifier into a downstream unicast packet of which an egress port exiting the extended bridge is the aggregation port and to via determine to send the downstream unicast packet with the aggregation port identifier via the cascaded port.
US10797988B2
The application relates to a method and apparatus for controlling and managing a field device using an industry Internet operating system, in this method, an industry cloud server sends a device identifier configuration strategy to an industry field device, so that the industry field device establishes a communication connection with the industry cloud server, generates the identifier of the industry field device, and further generates a list of device information; and the industry cloud server monitors and manages the industry field device over a cloud according to the list of device information sent by the industry field device on its own initiative. In this way, the industry field device can obtain the device identifier automatically without relying upon any specialized hardware device, and report the device information to the industry cloud server on its own initiative.
US10797987B1
Systems, methods, and machine-readable storage media to facilitate adaptive switch stack interaction are disclosed. Discovery may be performed via a network with respect to switches, each switch corresponding to a switch stack and including ports communicatively coupled to endpoint devices or access points. Switch data transmitted from the plurality of switches may be processed and used to develop models of the switches. Each model may include switch specifications, and a particular model may be used to emulate a particular switch. Emulation data may be created to facilitate a graphical representation formatted to represent the particular switch. The emulation data may be transmitted to an endpoint device to facilitate an emulation interface that may correspond to a graphical layout of the particular switch that allows access, via user-selectable interface elements, to a subset of the switch data that is mapped to the particular switch.
US10797980B2
The present invention is to analyze information collected from each device via a network to a server, thereby not only detecting an abnormal state of the device itself, but also proposing replacement with another device being the most beneficial in a user's life or presenting an beneficial usage. An information notifying apparatus according to the present invention is further comprising: an information receiving unit configured to receive usage information transmitted from an electric device on a client side; an external condition information acquiring unit configured to acquire external condition information relating to performance or an operation state of the electric device; a presented information determining unit configured to determine information to be notified to a user based on the usage information and the external condition information; and an information transmitting unit configured to transmit the information determined by the presented information determining unit to a display device.
US10797979B2
Embodiments are directed to managing communication networks. One or more links associated with a gateway computer may be monitored. Each link may be associated with a network addresses, and the gateway computer is associated with a gateway identifier (GID). Metrics associated with the monitored links may be provided. Scores may be associated with the links based on the metrics. The scores may be modified based on policy information. The links may be compared based on the scores and the policy information. A comparison may be employed to activate a portion of the links such that the activated links may be employed to communicate over the networks with other gateway computers. The links may be compared based on updated metrics. The comparison of the updated metrics may be used to activate another portion of the links that are associated with the GID.
US10797978B2
Each hot water supply apparatus of a hot water supply system exchanges information with a management center via a communication adapter, thereby being remotely monitored. In a connection test run for the communication adapter in a remote monitoring system, when a part of transmission information about the hot water supply apparatus is transmitted to the communication adapter via a communication line, establishment of a communication connection to the hot water supply system is indicated, and a heartbeat notification is transmitted from the communication adapter to the management center. When the communication adapter receives a response to the heartbeat notification from the management center, establishment of a communication connection to the management center is indicated.
US10797977B2
A method for suspending and resuming a connection for desktop virtualization between two computing devices. In response to a client computing device shutting down, suspending, hibernating, or losing network connectivity during virtualization, the server computing device may itself shut down, suspend, or hibernate, or may pause or suspend the operation of one or more applications currently hosted by the server computing device. The server may detect that connectivity has been restored and resume operation of hosted applications. Alternatively, the client may transmit a command to the server indicating that the client is ready to resume virtualization. The client may also be configured to transmit a command that may cause the server to resume a powered-on state after the server was shut down or in a state of hibernation.
US10797971B2
Various techniques for diagnostics, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving operational data from a computing system and identifying an operational pattern based on the operational data. The operational pattern includes a temporal sequence of operations, events, or system states related to the computing system. The method also includes receiving an annotation and associating the received annotation with the identified operational pattern. The annotation identifies a reason, a cause, or a corrective suggestion corresponding to a violation of the temporal sequence.
US10797969B1
Systems, methods, and software described herein manage the initiation of applications in a system of physical nodes. In one example, a control system may identify a triggering event to initiate an application in the system based on sensor data obtained from at least a subset of the physical nodes. In response to the triggering event, the control system may identify a physical node with an image to support the execution of the application, initiate execution of the application associated with the image, and allocate or provide state information to the executing application.
US10797965B2
In some examples, a server may receive a set of events from individual computing devices of a plurality of computing devices. For example, the server may receive first data identifying a first set of events that occurred on a first computing device and receive second data identifying a second set of events that occurred on a second computing device. The server may determine an event rate at which events are being received based at least in part on: the first set of events, the second set of events, and a time interval. The server may perform an analysis of at least the first set of events and the second set of events, and create, based on the analysis, a policy to reduce the event rate. The server may provide the policy to at least the first computing device and the second computing device.
US10797964B2
A system event notification service detects that an event has occurred that impacts infrastructure of a computing resource service. In response to the event, the service identifies a customer account that is impacted by the event. The service generates, for the customer account, event data corresponding to a plurality of computing resources impacted by the event. The service provides the event data in accordance with one or more preferences specified in the customer account.
US10797959B2
What is disclosed is a system and method to use discovery packets, such as in an LLDP message, for determining operational status of a rack system. A network device is connected to the port of a switch. Operational data may be sent or received via a discovery packet to the network device. The operational data may be determined by a management agent on the network device and sent to a management controller via the discovery packet. The operational data may be determined by the management controller and sent to the network device.
US10797958B2
An enterprise model associated with an operational environment within an operational dashboard can be identified. The model can include an entity which can be an operational node, an architecture component node, a resource, a goal, or a constraint of an enterprise organization. The environment can include element which can be a computing resource and a computing resource state associated with the organization. An operational state change within the operational environment can be performed. A result of the change can be presented within an architectural view of the model within the dashboard. The result can include a context, a policy, a function, or a relationship affecting the model.
US10797952B1
Systems and methods to identify a plurality of different snapshot versions for a rollback to a previous configuration for subsets of network infrastructure devices is disclosed. A plurality of different network device configuration snapshots is identified and a set of snapshot checkpoints that each include a set of related parameter settings for each different network device are selected as a rollback configuration snapshot for that device. Each device may be associated with automated validation capabilities to validate a proposed rollback version. The computer system may iterate through a set of versions of snapshots and automatically initiate validation capabilities to validate a proposed rollback for the first logical grouping. Determination of a set of configurations may be based on a version control tag to restore a network to an operational state, never before seen in operation, that has a high degree of confidence, in part, because validation tests were successful.
US10797950B2
Systems and methods for dynamically configuring a network switch for monitoring are disclosed. Embodiments may include receiving an IP address associated with a network switch. Embodiments may also include probing the network switch based, at least in part, on the received IP address to obtain first information regarding the network switch, wherein the first information includes at least one of a vendor of the network switch, a model of the network switch, and a firmware version of the network switch. Embodiments may further include configuring the processor to monitor the network switch based on processing of the first information.
US10797941B2
A network element includes one or more hardware memory resources of fixed storage capacity for storing data used to configure a plurality of networking features of the network element. A utilization management process runs on the network element to perform operations including obtaining utilization data representing utilization of the one or more hardware memory resources, and analyzing the utilization data of the one or more hardware memory resources to produce summarized utilization data.
US10797935B2
Enhancements to the device management functionality within service layer architecture of a Gateway node are described. The SL application registration procedure can be enhanced for devices in support of device management. Functionality can be added to the service layer to initiate automated request notification for DM purposes. Lightweight SL Transport Protocol bindings can support sending multiple DM commands called DM Action Scripts with a specific focus on the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) Protocol.
US10797931B2
In one aspect, a first client device receives, from a second client device, a request to stream a media item from a first position within the media item. The first client device obtains, from a server, a seektable that identifies a plurality of segments into which content corresponding to the media item is divided, wherein each segment of the plurality of segments corresponds to multiple samples of the media item. The first client device consults the seektable to determine a segment of the media item to retrieve in response to the request, the segment including content at the first position. After consulting the seektable, the device retrieves, from the server, the segment of the media item. The first client device plays the content corresponding to the first position using the retrieved segment.
US10797930B1
The proposed solution includes storing for a given number of modulation methods, for each modulation symbol, information on neighboring symbols in the symbol constellation of the modulation method, receiving as an input a Multiple Input Multiple Output signal including modulation symbols in two or more layers; providing hard decisions of the modulation symbols for each layer; determining neighbors for each hard decision; for each hard decision of a layer, going through at least some of the neighbors and evaluating a cost function, selecting a symbol based on the evaluation and repeating this for each layer.
US10797927B2
Methods and apparatus for facilitating the use of a plurality of antenna beams for communications purposes are described. In at least some embodiments beam priority information is periodically exchanged. Multiple timers are used to ensure beam information is exchanged at intervals intended to facilitate reliable beam synchronization and to control switching to one or more alternative beams in a predictable manner in the event beam change information or beam synchronization information is lost. In some but not all embodiments a wideband beam is used to communicate beam synchronization information when synchronization using narrower beams used for normal data communication is lost.
US10797900B2
A method and apparatus of a network element that converts an indication from a multicast routing protocol is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the network element receives a multicast routing protocol indication for a multicast group, wherein the multicast group is configured for a set of one or more sources. The network element additionally converts the indication to a set of one or more source specific routing protocol messages. Furthermore, the network element determines a set of one or more network elements for the set of one or more source specific routing protocol messages and sends the set of one or more source specific routing protocol messages to the set of one or more network elements.
US10797898B2
A method, system, and data structure for sending data in a network which includes a plurality of nodes is provided. The method includes sending the data from a source node to an intermediate node. The method also includes sending the data from the intermediate node to plural destination nodes within a portion of the network. The portion is defined based on at least one physical distance from the intermediate node.
US10797892B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology relate to ways to determine the optimal storage of data structures across different memory device is associated with physically disparate network nodes. In some aspects, a process of the technology can include steps for receiving a first retrieval request for a first object, searching a local PMEM device for the first object based on the first retrieval request, in response to a failure to find the first object on the local PMEM device, transmitting a second retrieval request to a remote node, wherein the second retrieval request is configured to cause the remote node to retrieve the first object from a remote PMEM device. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US10797879B2
Disclosed is a method of facilitating authentication of a user. The method may include performing at least one of generating and receiving, using a processor, a primary cryptographic identifier consisted of a primary public key and a primary private key. Further, the method may include generating, using the processor, a global static user identifier corresponding to the user based on the primary public key. Further, the method may include generating, using the processor, a digital signature corresponding to a service based on a unique identifier associated with the service and the primary cryptographic identifier. Further, the method may include generating, using the processor, a key generation seed based on the digital signature and the global static user identifier. Further, the method may include generating, using the processor, a secondary cryptographic identifier including a secondary public key based on the key generation seed.
US10797873B2
A method that occurs at a distributed ledger system includes receiving a request for calibration information associated with a first unit identifier (UID) and determining one or more UIDs associated with the first UID. The method also includes, for each of the first UID and the one or more UIDs: determining, using one or more access control rules, that a requester is permitted access to the calibration information associated with a respective UID; obtaining at least one access security key for accessing the calibration information; obtaining, from at least one block of a first distributed ledger, a digital signature associated with the calibration information associated with the respective UID; using the at least one access security key to decrypt and access the calibration information associated with the respective UID; and verifying, using the digital signature, the calibration information associated with the respective UID.
US10797872B2
A lock system having a true random number generator (TRNG) configured to generate true random numbers that are based on physical phenomena, including one designated as a public key. A computer with a memory receives and stores a copy of the public key. The computer also receives a copy of a public key from a user device. A lock assembly is in electrical communication with the computer and is configured to switch from a locked mode to an unlocked mode in response to receiving an unlock command from the computer. The computer is configured to compare the stored copy of the public key generated by the TRNG to the copy of the public key received from the user device and to determine if they match. If the two public keys match, the computer sends the unlock command to the lock assembly.
US10797871B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for generating a cryptographic authentication key. A computing device receives a request to generate a cryptographic key. The device generates a defined sequence of security questions, each question associated with a difficulty value. The device generates the key using the defined sequence of questions, comprising: a) presenting a first question and receiving an answer to the first question, b) generating a hash string corresponding to the received answer, c) determining a next question based upon the hash string, d) presenting the next question and receiving an answer to the next question, e) concatenating the answer to the next question with the hash string, f) applying a hash function to the hash string with the concatenated answer to update the hash string, g) repeating steps c-f until the difficulty values of the questions reaches a threshold, and h) generating the key from the updated hash string.
US10797867B2
In an electronic bidding system and method, it is unnecessary to disclose to bidders a list of public keys matched to bid prices, and in which price secrecy may be proved. In a function of encryption of a bidding device 300, a public key is generated using a bid price and an IBE public key, based on an ID-Based Encryption (IBE) system having a bid value as an ID. IBE public key is obtained on combining a plurality of partial public keys matched to partial secret keys generated by a plural number of partial bid opening devices based on a combination condition enabling group decryption. A preset message for bidding is then encrypted. In a function of decryption of a bid opening device 400, a number of partial bid opening devices, which is in keeping with a satisfying number of the group decryption, perform calculations for decryption for winning bid value candidates, beginning from such candidate, the allowable bid value closest to the bid closing condition. Decrypted data obtained on combining the resulting output partial bid opening data are collated to the message for bidding to decide on winning bid value.
US10797847B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting, by a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) terminal, acknowledgement/negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method of the present invention comprises the steps of: changing a resource pool configuration for a V2X communication from a first resource pool to a second resource pool; and transmitting the ACK/NACK on the basis of at least one of the first resource pool and the second resource pool, on the basis of a time interval established to select an ACK/NACK resource pool, with respect to a message received on the basis of the first resource pool.
US10797830B2
An apparatus and method for multiplexing signals using layered division multiplexing are disclosed. A signal multiplexing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to combine a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels to generate a multiplexed signal, a power normalizer configured to reduce power of the multiplexed signal to power corresponding to the core layer signal, and a time interleaver configured to perform interleaving applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal.
US10797822B2
A modulator and a modulation method using a non-uniform 16-symbol signal constellation are disclosed. The modulator includes a memory and a processor. The memory receives a codeword corresponding to a low-density parity check (LDPC) code having a code rate of 2/15. The processor maps the codeword to 16 symbols of the non-uniform 16-symbol signal constellation on a 4-bit basis.
US10797816B1
A method for extracting POH data blocks and a MOS control block from a data stream in a 64B/66B-block communication link including receiving a data stream, finding a first combination of a MOS control block and K POH data blocks including CRC data in the data stream, extracting the MOS control block and the K POH data blocks from the data stream, searching in a window for a subsequent combination of a MOS control block and K POH data blocks and removing them if at least one of them are found, if neither the subsequent MOS control block nor the K POH data blocks are found within the predetermined window, extracting from the data stream K+1 64B/66B-blocks in the predetermined window.
US10797810B2
A method for operating a user equipment with multi-beam communication capability includes performing measurements in accordance with received reference signals, and determining that at least one antenna panel is unused, wherein the determining is in accordance with the measurements, and based thereon, reporting an availability of the at least one antenna panel.
US10797806B2
An antenna monitoring module electrically coupled to an antenna, the antenna monitoring module including an embedded element in the antenna, test antenna configured to send and receive radio frequency (RF) test signals to and from the antenna, an input blocking module disposed at an input of the antenna monitoring module to facilitate receipt of a master test signal by the antenna monitoring module, an addressable mixed signal processor that determines an integrity of a connection to the antenna and a performance of the antenna based on measurements associated with the RF test signals and the master test signal.
US10797798B2
An optical power and gain detection apparatus including multiple optical power detection circuits, an FPGA device, and a temperature detection circuit. Various optical power detection circuits include a respective independent photoelectric converter, a trans-impedance amplifier, an analog signal conditioning circuit, a filter and an analog-digital conversion chip. By improving an analog circuit, digital detection and control in an optical amplifier, the property of the FPGA device may be used to realize the detection of optical signal and gain in a burst mode, avoid increasing complicated analogue circuits, and avoid the influence caused by element inconsistency in an analogue control solution. Whether the optical signal is in a stable mode or in a burst mode, the algorithm can detect the optical power accurately and stably, with a wide application range. By strictly controlling the synchronism of ADC sampling and the delay of calculation, the amplifier gain may be calculated more accurately.
US10797796B2
A full duplex communication network includes a first coherent optics transceiver having (i) a first receiver, and (ii) a first transmitter configured to transmit a first dual polarized signal. The network further includes a second coherent optics transceiver having (i) a second receiver configured to receive the first dual polarized signal, and (ii) a second transmitter configured to transmit a second dual polarized signal. The network further includes an optical transport medium operably coupling the first coherent optics transceiver to the second coherent optics transceiver, and a first compensation module configured to filter (i) crosstalk between orthogonal components of the first dual polarized signal, and (ii) reflections between the first dual polarized signal and the second dual polarized signal.
US10797793B2
An electronic device is provided, which may include a biometric module, a processing module and a light transmission module. The biometric module may recognize a biological feature, and convert the biological feature into a biological feature signal via an analysis algorithm. The processing module may encrypt an international mobile equipment identity number of the electronic device and the biological feature signal to generate an encrypted signal, and convert the encrypted signal into a visible light signal. The light transmission module may transmit the visible light signal to a controlled device.
US10797791B2
A method may include causing a signal to be transmitted that includes a plurality of wavelengths. The signal may be transmitted via an optical fiber that is associated with a particular wavelength. The particular wavelength may be included in the plurality of wavelengths. The method may include filtering the signal, based on the particular wavelength, to generate a filtered signal. The filtered signal may include the particular wavelength. The method may include detecting the filtered signal in association with the optical fiber. The method may include determining the particular wavelength based on the filtered signal. The method may include storing or providing information identifying at least one of the particular wavelength, the optical fiber, or a transmitter that transmitted the signal.
US10797787B2
A network node is described which is configured for use in space, comprising a transmission interface for transmitting radio frequency signals, a reception interface for receiving radio frequency signals, a network management module for determining communication session information, a controller arranged to control the transmission interface and the reception interface in accordance with session information provided by the network management interface, wherein the transmission and reception interfaces are for receiving data from terrestrial nodes and space-borne nodes. Also described are a network entity comprising the network note and a plurality of adaptive antennas, a satellite containing the network entity and a user equipment device configured for communication with the network node.
US10797783B2
An ultrawideband radio transceiver/repeater provides a low cost infrastructure solution that merges wireless and wired network devices while providing connection to the plant, flexible repeater capabilities, network security, traffic monitoring and provisioning, and traffic flow control for wired and wireless connectivity of devices or networks. The ultrawideband radio transceiver/repeater can be implemented in discrete, integrated, distributed or embedded forms.
US10797776B2
This invention presents methods for MU-MIMO wireless communication systems comprising a BS with plural of antennas, either closely located or distributed; A plural of AFRs deployed over a coverage area, each AFR has N_BF≥1 BF antennas with a beam pattern facing the MU-BFer and N_UF≥1 UF antennas with a beam pattern facing UEs or downstream AFR(s); A channel estimation module for estimating the Total Channels between a plural of UEs and the BS with the AFRs in place; and, A MU-BFer that uses the estimates of the Total Channels to perform beamforming computations for transmitting and/or receiving multiple spatially multiplexed streams of signals to or from a plural of UEs using the same frequency resource.
US10797775B2
Discloses is a backhaul transmission method for wireless communication, a controller, a base station, and a gateway. The method includes: sending, by a first base station, information about a backhaul requirement of the first base station to a controller; obtaining, by the first base station, information about a codebook from the controller, where the information about the codebook is determined based on the backhaul requirement of the first base station; and performing, by the first base station, backhaul transmission with a gateway by using the codebook. Information about a codebook used in backhaul transmission is determined based on a backhaul requirement of a base station, so that backhaul requirements of different base stations can be met, and a backhaul capacity of a system is increased.
US10797759B2
Embodiments described herein provide for a distributed antenna system including a host unit and an active antenna unit (AAU). The AAU is configured to wirelessly communicate with, and to receive uplink radio frequency (RF) signals from, one or more wireless devices. The AAU is further configured to sample the uplink RF signals to generate digitized RF data. The AAU includes an Ethernet interface for receiving Internet Protocol (IP) formatted data from an IP device coupled to the Ethernet interface. The AAU is configured to transport the digitized RF data and the IP formatted data over a transport signal to the host unit, the transport signal including a plurality of bits. The AAU is configured to adaptively adjust the number of bits that are allocated to the digitized RF data and the number of bits that are allocated to the IP formatted data.
US10797752B2
Communication in a first spectrum and via a first transmission line of first data is according to a time-division duplexing scheme such as G.fast. Communication in a second spectrum and via a second transmission line of second data is according to a frequency-division duplexing scheme such as VDSL2. The first and second spectra both comprise an overlap spectrum. The first transmission line experiences first crosstalk from the second transmission line and the second transmission line experiences second crosstalk from the first transmission line.
US10797751B2
Communication in a first spectrum and via a first transmission line of first data is according to a time-division duplexing scheme such as G.fast. Communication in a second spectrum and via a second transmission line of second data is according to a frequency-division duplexing scheme such as VDSL2. The first and second spectra both comprise an overlap spectrum. The first transmission line experiences first crosstalk from the second transmission line and the second transmission line experiences second crosstalk from the first transmission line.
US10797750B2
An example apparatus for supporting digital pre-distortion (DPD) and full duplex (FDX) in cable network environments is provided and includes a first path for signals being transmitted out of the apparatus, a second path for signals being received into the apparatus, a DPD actuator located on the first path, an amplifier located on the first path, an echo cancellation (EC) actuator located on the second path, and a data interface including a plurality of channels connecting the apparatus to a signal processor. DPD coefficients, EC coefficients and delay parameters are provided over the data interface from the signal processor to the apparatus. The DPD actuator predistorts signals on the first path using the DPD coefficients compensating for distortions introduced by the amplifier, and the EC actuator reduces interferences in signals on the second path using the EC coefficients and the delay parameters, facilitating FDX communication by the apparatus.
US10797749B1
Techniques and apparatuses are described for enabling base stations (121, 122) to coordinate for canceling cross-link interference (380). The techniques and apparatuses described herein overcome challenges that a single base station (121) might otherwise face in trying to compensate a reception (131) by the base station (121) for cross-link interference (382) from a transmission (132) by another base station (122). The techniques and apparatuses described herein enable the base stations (121, 122) to form coordination sets to exchange information to enable the base stations (121, 122) to accurately reconstruct cross-link interference (380) and ultimately cancel the cross-link interference (380) to improve link quality.
US10797748B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support pairwise cross correlation sequences for non-orthogonal multiple access wireless communications. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of a spreading factor and a number of transmitters in a group of non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmitters configured for concurrent transmissions. The UE may determine, based on the spreading factor and the number of transmitters, a first spreading sequence of a set of spreading sequences from a first codebook, the first spreading sequence having a defined value for pairwise cross correlation with each spreading sequence of the plurality of spreading sequences. The first UE may identify data to be transmitted in an uplink transmission, apply the first spreading sequence to the data to be transmitted in the uplink transmission, and transmit the uplink transmission to the base station.
US10797744B2
An example system and method operate a wireless device in a first mode with power to operate a communication resource of the wireless device turned off. While operating the wireless device in the first mode, the system and method evaluates an attribute in a first portion of sensor data. Responsive to the evaluation of the attribute, the system and method transitions to the wireless device to operate in a second mode with power to operate the communication resource turned on. The system and method use the communication resource to establish a wireless connection and communicate packets via the wireless connection.
US10797743B1
A protective and supportive enclosure includes a first panel, second panel, zipper, plurality of fasteners, and plurality of bands. The first and second panels are affixed together and form a sleeve that includes an opening. The second panel includes a polymer that is clear and electrically conductive. The first and second panels each include a polygonal overall shape. The zipper is affixed to the opening. Each band is affixed to the primary panel proximate to the opening. Each fastener is pivotably coupled to a band. The protective and supportive enclosure include standing and affixed states. In the standing state, each fastener is further demountably coupled to the band and therewith forms a triangular support. and the protective and supportive enclosure is oriented substantially vertical when resting on the triangular support. In the affixed state, the protective and supportive enclosure is demountably coupled to an object via each fastener.
US10797741B2
A radio frequency module includes a first receive circuit that processes a receive signal in the first frequency band. The first receive circuit includes a first substrate, a first low noise amplifier, and a first filter circuit. The first low noise amplifier is mounted on a principal surface of the first substrate. The first filter circuit is connected to an output end of the first low noise amplifier. At least a portion of the first filter circuit is provided on the principal surface of the first substrate. The first filter circuit attenuates spurious components occurring due to a transmit signal in the first frequency band received by the first low noise amplifier. The spurious components are included in the transmit signal in the first frequency band and have a frequency bandwidth that overlaps, includes, or is included in the frequency bandwidth of the receive signal in the second frequency band.
US10797728B1
Methods and systems are provided for decoding LDPC codewords or blocks of codewords using a second set of parameters if decoding the codewords or blocks of codewords fails using a first set of parameters. An LDPC codeword may be decoded using a first decoding technique to produce a first decoding output using a first parameter. The first parameter may be altered to generate a second parameter to be used in a second decoding technique. The LDPC codeword may be decoded using the second decoding technique to produce a second decoding output. A syndrome weight of the first decoding output may be compared to a syndrome weight of the second decoding output and one of the first decoding output or the second decoding output may be selected based on which of the first decoding output or the second decoding output has a lower error.
US10797724B2
Method and apparatus for processing data are disclosed. The method may include: sorting to-be-compressed at least one piece of data in a predetermined order; for a sorted piece of data, in response to the data having a common prefix with a previous piece of data of the piece of data, adding the common prefix to a common prefix set; dividing the sorted at least one piece of data into at least one group based on the common prefix set and determining a common prefix of each group; and storing, for a group in the at least one group, a common prefix of the group and a non-common prefix portion of each piece of data in the group, and recording a common prefix corresponding to each piece of data in the each group and a shared length between the each piece of data and the common prefix.
US10797714B2
A circuit includes a voltage-to-time conversion element configured to receive an input voltage at an input and to generate a time domain representation of the input voltage. The voltage-to-time conversion element includes an amplifier having an amplifier input coupled to the input, a zero crossing detector coupled to an output of the amplifier, and a current source selectively coupled to the amplifier input by way of a switching element.
US10797703B2
A driving apparatus is provided. A first stage inverter circuit and a second stage inverter circuit respectively generate a first output signal and a second output signal according to a first voltage dividing control signal and a second voltage dividing control signal, wherein the first output signal and the second output signal are respectively output to the second-stage inverter circuit and the first-stage inverter circuit to appropriately control the gate voltages of transistors of pull-up circuit and the pull-down circuit in the first-stage inverter circuit and the second-stage inverter circuit, so that source-drain voltages differences of the transistors can be more evenly distributed.
US10797698B1
An example circuit includes a plurality of light emitters connected in parallel between a first node and a second node. The circuit also includes a plurality of capacitors, with each capacitor corresponding to one of the light emitters, and a plurality of discharge-control switches, with each discharge-control switches corresponding to one of the capacitors. The circuit further includes a pulse-control switch connected to the plurality of light emitters. During a first period, the pulse-control switch restricts current flow, and each of the plurality of capacitors is charged via the first node. During a second period, one or more of the plurality of discharge-control switches allows current flow that discharges one or more corresponding capacitors. During a third period, the pulse-control switch allows current flow that discharges one or more undischarged capacitors of the plurality of capacitors through one or more corresponding light emitters.
US10797696B2
Disclosed is a “factor 1” and inductive sensor device including an LC resonant circuit powered by a suitable generator, an operational chain of units for acquisition by sampling and processing of the response signal, and a functional set of units for evaluating at least one temporarily set value of the processed signal and supplying detection or non-detection information. The acquisition and processing unit includes analog a unit for filtering and/or amplifying the sampled response signal, and a unit for compensating the temperature drift of the response signal by correcting the sampled signal following the digital conversion thereof, associated with or including a temperature sensor.
US10797693B2
A drive circuit includes: a control circuit providing control voltage to a control terminal of a switching device in accordance with input signal; and a capacitor having one end connected to a high side main terminal of the switching device, wherein the control circuit increases an output current capacity of the control circuit when the input signal becomes ON signal and voltage at the other end of the capacitor drops.
US10797685B2
Methods, systems, and devices for jitter cancellation with automatic performance adjustment are described. Within a clock distribution system in an electronic device (e.g., a memory device), a jitter cancellation system may be configured to introduce delay between an input clock signal and output clock signal that is directly proportional to the supply voltage for the clock distribution system. In response to supply noise, the delay introduced by the jitter cancellation system may vary directly with respect to the supply voltage fluctuations and thus may offset fluctuations in the delay introduced by other components of the clock distribution system, which may vary inversely with respect to the supply voltage fluctuations. A control component within the jitter cancellation system may execute an algorithm to adjust or regulate the delay introduced by the jitter cancellation system, including its responsiveness to fluctuations in the supply voltage.
US10797675B2
Acoustic resonator devices, filters, and methods are disclosed. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate and a lithium niobate (LN) plate having parallel front and back surfaces, the back surface attached to a surface of the substrate except for a portion of the LN plate forming a diaphragm that spans a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the LN plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm. The IDT is configured to excite a primary acoustic mode in the diaphragm in response to a radio frequency signal applied to the IDT. A direction of acoustic energy flow of the primary acoustic mode is substantially orthogonal to the surfaces of the diaphragm. The Euler angles of the LN plate are 0°, β, 90°, where β is greater than or equal to −15° and less than 0°.
US10797672B2
A signal channel expanding system based on PAD is provided, including a motherboard disposed on an array tester and a plurality of array test pads disposed on a periphery of the motherboard and configured to control the motherboard; each of the array test pads includes a plurality of pins, each of the pins corresponds to a signal channel, the array test pads include at least two left driving array test pads and at least two right driving array test pads. Compared with the related art, in the signal channel expanding system based on PAD in the disclosure, by using at least two left driving array test pads and at least two right driving array test pads on the periphery of the motherboard, the number of the pins on the periphery of the motherboard can be multiplied and the pin size can remain unchanged without lengthening the test jig.
US10797663B2
An impedance measurement circuit for determining a sense current of a guard-sense capacitive sensor operated in loading mode. The circuit includes a periodic signal voltage source for providing a periodic measurement voltage, a sense current measurement circuit, a differential amplifier that is configured to sense a complex voltage difference between the sense electrode and the guard electrode, a demodulator for obtaining, with reference to the periodic measurement voltage, an in-phase component and a quadrature component of the sensed complex voltage difference, and control loops for receiving the in-phase component and the quadrature component, respectively. An output signal of the first control loop and an output signal of the second control loop are usable to form a complex voltage that serves as a complex reference voltage for the sense current measurement circuit.
US10797646B2
A variable-gain power amplifying technique includes generating, with a network of one or more reactive components included in an oscillator, a first oscillating signal, and outputting, via one or more taps included in the network of the reactive components, a second oscillating signal. The second oscillating signal has a magnitude that is proportional to and less than the first oscillating signal. The power amplifying technique further includes selecting one of the first and second oscillating signals to use for generating a power-amplified output signal, and amplifying the selected one of the first and second oscillating signals to generate the power-amplified output signal.
US10797639B1
A system and method to analyze building performance without requiring an on-site energy audit or customer input is described. The analysis combines total customer energy load from a power utility with externally-supplied meteorological data to analyze each customer's building performance. Building thermal performance is characterized to produce a rich dataset that the power utility can use in planning and operation, including assessing on-going and forecasted power consumption, and for other purposes, such as providing customers with customized information to inform their energy investment decisions and identifying homes for targeted efficiency funding.
US10797620B2
A control unit includes: control command generation means for generating a first control command and a second control command that specifies currents to flow through a first winding set and second winding set respectively; voltage calculation means for calculating a first voltage command from the first control command and calculating a second voltage command from the second control command; and first voltage application means and second voltage application means for applying voltages to the first winding set and the second winding set of a rotating machine on the basis of the first voltage command and the second voltage command, wherein discharge control for electric charge of a smoothing capacitor is performed while torque generated by current flowing from the smoothing capacitor to the first winding set and torque generated by current flowing from the capacitor to the second winding set are cancelled out with each other.
US10797614B2
A system that may include, plural inverters connected to a common bus and at least one capacitor, the inverters configured to convert a direct current (DC) through the common bus to an alternating current (AC) by alternating different switches of the inverters between open and closed states in a respective switching cycle for each of the inverters, and a controller circuit configured to reduce a ripple current conducted onto the common bus to the inverters, by controlling the inverters to apply a frequency shift to the respective switching cycle of one or more of the inverters to spread a harmonic current spectrum along the common bus. The controller circuit is configured to apply the frequency shift to at least a first inverter and a second inverter of the plural inverters.
US10797612B2
A power distribution system includes a first set of power converters arranged with a respective set of power inputs, and having a respective set of power outputs, and at least one controller module communicatively connected with the first set of power converters and configured to controllably adjust the power conversion of the first set of power converters, and method of operating the power distribution system.
US10797595B2
A current detection circuit included in a power supply detects a current flowing to an inductance element from a detection tap of an inductance element connected between an output terminal and an output of a first switching element. A control circuit included in the power supply controls a first control terminal of the first switching element and a second control terminal of a second switching element and calculates an output current flowing to a load based on the current detected by the current detection circuit.
US10797592B2
A regulated current-fed power system employs power branching units connected in series. Each power branching unit includes a plurality of parallel-redundant converter groups connected in series with each other within a current path for the regulated current. Each parallel-redundant converter group includes at least two direct current (DC)/DC converters connected in parallel with each other, each sharing the power load. A protection device connected in series with each DC/DC converter disconnects the respective DC/DC converter from the regulated current when the respective DC/DC converter short circuits, with the remaining DC/DC converter(s) then receiving more of the power load. An active clamp connected in parallel with all of the DC/DC converters within a parallel-redundant converter group temporarily sinks a portion of the regulated current when one of the DC/DC converters fails in a short-circuit condition. The active clamp shunts the regulated current around all DC/DC converters within the parallel-redundant converter group converters fail in a short-circuit condition.
US10797591B2
A power controller disclosed is for the use of a power converter with an inductive to regulate an output power source. The power controller has a PWM signal generator and a jitter inducer. The PWM signal generator controls a power switch to generate consecutive switching cycles. In each switching cycle the PWM signal generator controls a peak to regulate the output power source, and the peak is capable of representing a current flowing through the inductive device. The jitter inducer, connected to the PWM signal generator, is for altering the peak, so as to make a difference between two consecutive peaks. The difference has a sign and a magnitude. The jitter inducer makes the sign changed switching cycle by switching cycle.
US10797585B2
A controller controls Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) signals of one or more phases. The controller includes a phase sequencer to select a phase, a common ramp generator generating a common ramp signal, a phase activation circuit to turn on the PWM signal of the selected phase based on the common ramp signal, and for each phase a Current Sense plus Ramp (CSR) signal generator to generate a phase CSR signal according to a current of the phase and a phase deactivation circuit to turn off the PWM signal of the phase based on the phase CSR signal. A method of controlling PWM phases comprises selecting a phase, generating a common ramp signal, turning on the PWM signal of the selected phase based on the common ramp signal, generating CSR signals according to currents of the phases, and turning off the PWM signals based on the respective CSR signals.
US10797576B2
A vibration motor is disclosed. The vibration motor includes a housing; an elastic connecting piece; a fixed component; a vibrating component comprising a counterweight suspended in the housing by the elastic connecting piece; and a damping piece accommodated in the housing and fixed on the counterweight. One of the fixed component and the vibrating component includes coils, and the other includes a magnet. The counterweight includes a restricting protrusion extending from a side facing the elastic connecting piece for abutting against and restricting the damping piece.
US10797569B2
A semiconductor device includes: a plurality of control modules to control a rotating electric machine. The plurality of control modules are circularly arranged around a rotary shaft of the rotating electric machine. Each control module includes at least one switching element supplied with a current from a bus bar coupled to a power source. The at least one switching element in one of the control modules under a structural condition of arrangement has a lower resistance than another switching element.
US10797563B2
Provided is a power generating device which, while having a basic structure of using a rack and a pinion, increases power generating efficiency and has fewer components, has improved durability due to a simplified structure, and can easily be made in smaller sizes. Configuring a guide mechanism using outer walls of a case of a power generating unit as guides and combining the same with rails provided on inner walls of a case of the power generating device distributes unnecessary stress on the power generating unit over the inner walls of the case to obtain effects of achieving an overall small size, reduction in the number of components, and improved durability.
US10797553B2
The rotor includes an annular permanent magnet, an annular first iron core situated on the inner diameter side of the magnet, an annular second iron core situated on the inner diameter side of the first iron core, an insulating member situated between the first iron core and the second iron core, and a shaft provided along a central axis of the second iron core, the first iron core is provided with a plurality of outer periphery side convex portions protruding from an inner periphery toward the inner diameter side, the second iron core is provided with a plurality of inner periphery side convex portions protruding from an outer periphery toward the outer diameter side, and the outer periphery side convex portions and the inner periphery side convex portions are disposed in positions not overlapping each other when viewed in the radial direction from the axis of the second iron core.
US10797552B2
A tool system for tightening a retrightenable wedge system in a slot of a generator stator core is presented. The tool system includes a carriage assembly and a wedge tool assembly that is pivotally coupled to the carriage assembly. The carriage assembly includes motorized drives that axially moves the tool system along the slot and holds the tool system on the slot at an axial position. The wedge tool assembly includes a torqueing socket to tighten the retightenable wedge assembly in the slot. The torqueing socket is driven by a worm gear arrangement.
US10797550B2
Provided is a high-torque low-noise rotary electric machine. In a rotary electric machine, a jumper conductor having a normal slot pitch connects slot conductors by striding slots with a slot pitch “Np=N(=6)” in one of coil ends and striding slots with a slot pitch “Np=N(=6)” in the other coil end, assuming that the number of slots per pole is set to “N(=6).” The jumper conductor having an irregular slot pitch connects the slot conductors by striding slots with a slot pitch “Np=N+1(=7)” in one of the coil ends and striding slots with a slot pitch “Np=N−1(=5)” in the other coil end, assuming that the number of slots per pole is set to “N(=6).” The stator winding has a plurality of slot conductor groups consisting of a plurality of slot conductors having the same phase.
US10797539B2
A fan rotor includes a rotating shaft, a metal body, at least one rotor magnet and a vane wheel. The metal body has at least one top surface, at least one cylindrical portion and at least one connecting portion. The top surface is disposed at an end of the cylindrical portion, and the rotating shaft is disposed in the cylindrical portion and connected to the top surface of the cylindrical portion. The connecting portion is formed at the other end of the cylindrical portion and extended from an outer wall of the opening in a direction away from the rotating shaft. The rotor magnet is disposed around an inner wall surface of the cylindrical portion. The vane wheel is detachably connected to the metal body through the connecting portion.
US10797537B2
A distributed wireless radio frequency-based charging system includes hardware and software platforms. The hardware platform includes adaptive energy harvesters and programmable energy transmitters. The software platform manages the hardware profiles, resources (e.g., energy waveforms and transmission powers), schedules the beams of the energy transmitters, and switches between modes of wireless charging and data access point. This allows the energy transmitters to be configured adaptively based on the ambient energy availability, energy needs and number of energy-requesting devices in the network. Under the software control, the energy transmitters can cooperatively form focused beams of energy and power for transmission to energy harvesters in the energy-receiving devices, such as sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) enabled appliances, and mobile/wearable equipment. The energy harvesters can utilize the energy contained within the transmitted beams, as well as ambient RF sources, for directly powering their operation or charging a battery/capacitor for subsequent use.
US10797532B2
The present disclosure relates to an intelligent wireless power transmitter. The intelligent wireless power transmitter includes an array antenna module configured to transmit microwaves, and a local controller configured to control a phase of the array antenna module so that the microwaves radiated through the array antenna module is transmitted to a target wireless power receiver.
US10797524B2
A power transfer system comprises a patient support apparatus and a separate power transfer device. The patient support apparatus comprises a support structure having a base and a patient support surface for a patient and wheels coupled to the support structure to facilitate movement of the patient support apparatus over a floor surface. One or more of the wheels includes a power receiver integrated therewith. The power transfer device is energizeable to interact with the wheel to facilitate power transfer between the power transfer device and the power receiver through the wheel.
US10797522B2
A wireless power transfer system is disclosed. The system includes a first resonator having a first resonant frequency ωo1, a half power bandwidth Δω1, and an unloaded quality factor Qo1=ωo1/Δω1 coupled through a first coupling circuit to a power source, a second resonator having a second resonant frequency ωo2, a half power bandwidth Δω2, and an unloaded quality factor Qo2=ωo2/Δω2 coupled through a second coupling circuit to a load, the first resonator disposed a distance away from the second resonator, wherein the distance is smaller than the first and second resonant wavelengths, the first and second coupling circuits are configured so that up to a maximum achievable power transfer efficiency between the first and second resonators can be achieved, wherein Qo1 and Qo2 can be less than 100.
US10797521B2
A control circuit for a wireless power transmission device is provided. The wireless power transmission device includes a transmitter unit and a receiver unit. The control circuit includes a transmitter detecting unit, a first control unit and a driver unit. The transmitter detecting unit obtains an input power of the transmitter unit and generates an input power signal. The first control unit generates a control signal according to a result of comparing the input power signal with a reference input power signal. The driver unit drives switching devices of the transmitter unit according to the control signal. Consequently, the input power of the transmitter unit is adjusted, and an output ripple or a magnitude of the output of the receiver unit is adjusted.
US10797516B2
A system may include a light source. A converter may be configured to convert an AC voltage to a DC operating voltage during normal operation. A power backup device may be coupled to the converter. A current source may have a first terminal configured to receive the DC operating voltage during regular operation and a second terminal configured to provide a pulse-width modulated (PWM) signal to an anode end of the light source. A switching device may have a first connecting terminal coupled to the anode end of the light source, a second connecting terminal coupled to the power backup device, and a control terminal coupled to the converter. The switching device may be configured to open a switch between the first connecting terminal and the second connecting terminal during normal operation and close the switch upon detecting an interruption of the DC operating voltage at the control terminal.
US10797515B2
A method controls an UPS with a system having: first and second terminals, a switch having: first and second switch terminals respectively connected to the first and second terminals; first and second thyristors connected between the first and second switch terminals in anti-parallel; and an inverter connected to the second terminal and the energy store. Switch current and a first potential at the first terminal are detected. In a first fault, where the first potential drops past a first rule and the switch current rises above a second rule: a second potential at the second switch terminal is set using the inverter so the switch current becomes zero. Then the switch current is compared with a second threshold, and if it is exceeded, a first check result is positive, otherwise it's negative. When positive, the second potential is reversed.
US10797508B2
An induction charging system (100) includes: (i) an induction charging station (10) having: an emitting primary induction coil (14); a receiving secondary induction coil (18); and a primary dock (20) for a primary chargeable device; (ii) a primary chargeable device (24) configured to reversibly engage the primary dock and comprising a receiving induction coil (26); and (iii) a secondary device in communication with the secondary induction coil and configured to receive energy from the secondary induction coil, wherein the secondary induction coil is configured to receive excess energy from the primary induction coil without interfering with the receiving induction coil.
US10797507B2
The present invention relates to a wireless charging method, and an apparatus and a system therefor. A wireless charging method in a wireless power transmitter, according to an embodiment of the present invention, may comprise the steps of: controlling transmission power on the basis feedback signal periodically received from wireless power receiver during power transmission; determining whether or not the wireless power receiver is present in a charging area during the power transmission; and maintaining the intensity of the transmission power constant if the result of the determination shows that the wireless power receiver is not present in the charging area. Therefore, the present invention is advantageous that it is possible to prevent, in advance, the power transmission from being unnecessarily stopped against a user's intention.
US10797506B2
In certain aspects, methods and systems for converting DC power to AC power by a wireless power receiver are disclosed. Certain aspects provide a wireless power receiver including a resonant circuit. The wireless power receiver includes a first switching circuit coupled to the resonant circuit, the first switching circuit configured to act as an inverter and generate a first signal, based on an output from a battery, at a resonant frequency of the resonant circuit, the first signal having an envelope at a first frequency. The wireless power receiver includes a second switching circuit coupled to the resonant circuit that is configured to bias the second switching circuit at the resonant frequency in response to the first signal, wherein the second switching circuit is configured to act as a rectifier and is configured to extract the envelope to generate a second signal at half of the first frequency.
US10797505B2
A wireless charging guide system includes a wireless charging cradle, an electronic device and a visual guide medium. The electronic device includes a power storage unit and a charging unit. When the visual guide medium guides the electronic device to be placed at a first position on the top surface of the wireless charging cradle, the charging unit, with respect to the wireless charging cradle, has a charging rate larger than a first default value and starts to charge the power storage unit, wherein the visual guide medium is accessed from a remote server according to the model of the electronic device.
US10797500B2
A charger circuit for providing a charging current and voltage to a battery includes a power delivery unit and a capacitive power conversion circuit. The power delivery unit converts an input power to a DC voltage and current. The capacitive power conversion circuit includes a conversion switch circuit including plural conversion switches and being coupled with one or plural conversion capacitors, a regulation switch, and a conversion control circuit. In a current scaled-up charging mode, the DC current is regulated, and the conversion control circuit controls the connection of the plural conversion capacitors such that the charging current is scaled-up of the DC current substantially by a predetermined current scale-up factor. In a constant voltage linear charging mode, the conversion control circuit linearly controls the regulation switch to regulate the level of the charging voltage to a predetermined constant voltage level.
US10797495B2
A power bank has a station and a plurality of battery modules. Each of the battery modules can be positioned in a corresponding slot of the station in a pluggable way and is electrically connected to a charging-discharging control circuit of the station. When a main charging port of the station is electrically connected to a power supply, the charging-discharging control circuit receives electric power from the power supply via the main charging port and uses the received electric power to charge rechargeable batteries of the battery modules. When a main discharging port of the station is electrically connected to an electronic apparatus, the charging-discharging control circuit receives electric power from the rechargeable batteries of the battery modules so as to provide electric power to the electronic apparatus.
US10797494B2
A power supply adapter according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a power cord, a power-source attachment portion, a working-machine attachment portion, a temperature detector, and an overheat determiner. The temperature detector is configured to detect temperature of the power cord and to output a detection signal indicating the temperature detected. The overheat determiner is configured to determine that the power cord is in an overheated state based on the detection signal from the temperature detector and to output an overheat determination result indicating that the power cord is in the overheated state.
US10797492B2
In one embodiment, a vehicle pre-charge limiting system is disclosed. The system includes an inverter, a comparator, a latch circuit, and a microprocessor. The inverter inverts a first power signal into a second power signal. The comparator receives a first measured current of the second power signal and compares the first measured current to a predetermined current value. The comparator transmits a first control signal indicative of the first measured current exceeding the predetermined current value. The latch circuit transmits a second control signal to the inverter to discontinue inverting the first power signal and transmits a first latch signal. The microprocessor receives a first sense signal indicative of current of the first power signal and transmits a third control signal to the latch circuit. The microprocessor inverts the first power signal into the second power signal for a predetermined number of output periods.
US10797489B2
According to one disclosed embodiment, a smart powering and pairing system includes a power conversion unit (PCU) having a communication module, a power management module and a pairing module. The PCU can convert mains power into a form that can be used to power a plurality of electronic devices. In one embodiment, the PCU can transparently pair a connected electronic device to a group of subsequently connected electronic devices by accepting pairing information from the connected electronic device and using it to pair the subsequently connected devices. In another embodiment, the PCU can transparently pair a group of connected electronic devices by applying generated security data to all the connected devices. In another embodiment, a power conversion unit can use security data to un-pair connected electronic devices.
US10797487B2
Provided is an on-line input and quit control method for a voltage-source converter unit. The method achieves the on-line input of a voltage-source converter unit by means of performing steps, such as charging control, deblocking transfer control and operation adjustment control, on a voltage-source converter to be input, and achieves the on-line quitting of the voltage-source converter unit by means of performing steps, such as direct-current voltage reduction control, bypass transfer control and converter blocking control, on a voltage-source converter to be quit. Correspondingly, provided is an on-line input and quit control device for a voltage-source converter unit, which can achieve the on-line steady input and quitting of a voltage-source converter in a series-type hybrid direct-current power transmission system or a series-type flexible direct-current power transmission system, without affecting the normal and stable operation of other already running converters.
US10797485B2
In a conventional power supply system, it was difficult to quickly activate a motor load or the like after performing switching to an isolated operation. A power conditioner of the present invention comprises: a DC-DC converter part for converting a direct-current power from a direct-current power source into a given voltage; an inverter part for converting a direct-current power from the DC-DC converter part into an alternating-current power; a switch disposed between an alternating-current power output end of the inverter part and a utility power source; and a control part for controlling an output current of the alternating-current power from the inverter part, wherein, in response to opening the switch to cause switching to the isolated operation, the control part is operable, when a given condition is not satisfied, to control the output current such that the output current does not exceed a first upper limit preliminarily determined based on a rated output current value of the power conditioner, and, when the given condition is satisfied, to control the output current such that the output current does not exceed a second upper limit greater than the first upper limit.
US10797481B2
In a reverse connection protection circuit, a protection element enters a conductive state when the power source is electrically connected in a forward direction to a load-side circuit and enters a non-conductive state when the power source is electrically connected in a reverse direction to the load-side circuit. The protection element has a first terminal electrically connected to a power source-side terminal of, and a second terminal electrically connected to a load-side terminal of the switching element. A booster circuit is electrically connected to the load-side terminal to supply a boosted voltage of more than a power source voltage to the load-side terminal. A voltage detection part is connected to the load-side terminal to detect an output voltage of the switching element. A judgment part is connected to the voltage detection part to detect a switching element failure based of the voltage detected by the voltage detection part.
US10797479B2
A method of operating an electrical power distribution system including a plurality of circuit protection devices and an additional circuit protection device communicatively coupled by a communications network is described. The method includes transmitting, by each circuit protection device of the plurality of circuit protection devices, an electrical current communication to the communication network, the electrical current communication including an indication of an electrical current detected by the transmitting circuit protection device formatted according to a network communication protocol of the communication network. The additional circuit protection device receives the electrical current communications from the plurality of circuit protection devices and determines, based on the received electrical current communications, whether a ground fault condition exists in the electrical power distribution system.
US10797476B2
A plurality of bidirectional optoports forming plurality of junctions for propagating optical signals two way through a plurality of optically cascaded chains linked to an electrical grid of building unit via intelligent support boxes and four way exchanges to include optical links to the electrical grid via plug-in electrical devices including IoTs and Ai devices and for providing traffic control to optical signals and the many well known other communication signals.
US10797458B2
A method is provided for producing a plug, having a plastic injection-molded encapsulation, for a fuel pump which arranged in a fuel tank of a motor vehicle. The plug has cables, stranded wires and a ground contact each protruding out of the encapsulation and each connected to encapsulated components. The plug elements and coils are inserted into a base plate. One core of a cable is soldered, welded or crimped to flat plug elements. The coils and stranded wires are each soldered, welded or crimped to a flat plug element. The base plate is inserted into a cavity of an injection mold, such that the cables and the stranded wires protrude out of the cavity through first passage openings and second passage openings, respectively, and cores are arranged in continuous openings of identical cross section in the wall of the injection mold. The cavity is then filled with a plastic.
US10797454B1
A loss prevention structure for an adapter, that includes: a plurality of adapters, and a latch fastening seat. Wherein, each adapter has a flexible latch lock piece connected to a side of the adapter, the latch lock piece has a movable end and a latch buckle at a tail portion of the latch lock piece. The latch fastening seat is formed by two opposite indent plates, and a plurality of connection elements. A jacket hole is formed by an indent portion between the two indent plates, to hold on to a connection cable or a fixing rod. In the latch fastening seat is disposed at least a fastening portion, and the fastening portion is provided with at least a penetrating portion leading to outside.
US10797450B2
An electrical connector with an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the housing, and a metallic shell secured to the housing. The housing includes opposite first wall and second wall and a pair of side walls to generally commonly a mating slot communicating with an exterior via a mating opening. The shell includes opposite first plate and second plate and opposite side plates to commonly form a receiving cavity above the mating opening. The opposite side plates further include a pair of downwardly extending securing sections retained inside of the housing. The opposite side plates further include a pair of oblique transitional sections respectively located at roots of the pair of securing sections and in the receiving cavity and proximate to the mating opening for guiding consideration.
US10797448B2
A connecting system for charging an electric vehicle may include a connector comprising a male connector connected to a battery side for supplying electric energy to a vehicle and a female connector connected to the male connector; an interlock circuit for constituting a closed circuit by connecting an interlock terminal of the male connector and an interlock terminal of the female connector to each other; a control unit having a built-in battery, and for measuring the voltages at both ends of the interlock circuit; a light-emitting load provided on the interlock circuit inside the male connector; and a ground switch provided on the interlock circuit inside the male connector.
US10797446B2
An electrical assembly is composed of a receptacle connector and a plug connector adapted to be mated with each other. The plug connector includes an elongated insulative housing forming a receiving space rearwardly recessed from a front mating face thereof with a pair of forwardly extending guiding posts respectively located at two opposite longitudinal ends of said receiving space in the longitudinal direction. A plurality of contacts are disposed in the housing with corresponding contacting sections exposed in the receiving space. A metallic shield is rearwardly assembled upon the housing from a front side of the housing with a pair of bending sections each inserted into the corresponding retaining recess which is terminated behind the front mating face in the front-to-back direction.
US10797440B1
A connector assembly has a slidable locking frame used for unlocking latches on a plug connector and a socket connector. When the plug connector and the socket connector are connected and the slidable locking frame is mounted around the plug connector and by use of a lifting force moves toward a top side of the plug connector, the two first locking units of the plug connector are pushed outward by the two pushing units of the slidable locking frame respectively, and disengaged, or unlocked, from the two fastening portions of the socket connector respectively, and the slidable locking frame unlocks the two first locking units simultaneously to prevent a user from pulling the plug connector forcibly away from the socket connector before full unlocking of the two locking units.
