US10857743B2
Disclosed is a method for producing components from fiber-reinforced thermoplastic. The method involves manufacturing a multitude of semifinished products, each of which includes a plurality of impregnated fabric layers that are joined to one another only locally, as well as a frame structure having at least one cutout. The semifinished products are consolidated using a consolidation device, an inlay element being placed in each cutout before the semifinished products are consolidated.
US10857739B2
A maple sap line system and method for spin welding provides secure, unobstructed lines for collecting sap by creating a hermetically sealed connection between a lateral line and a mainline. A fitting connects the mainline to the lateral line. The fitting is spin welded to the mainline at a contact interface. The fitting comprises a protruding member that easily melts to create the frictional weld. The fitting has an elongated body comprising barbs that receive the lateral line. The fitting has a channel that enables fluid communication between the mainline and the lateral line. The flanges in the fitting register with a chuck to rotate the fitting against the main line at a high rpm. Molten debris formed in the channel is dislodged by drilling with a collared drill. The drilling provides fluid communication and creates a smooth inner surface in the mainline, and cuts off flanges from the fitting.
US10857722B2
A laser diode based system for direct injection of selected thermal-infrared (IR) wavelength radiation or energy into articles for a wide range of processing purposes is provided. These purposes may include heating, raising or maintaining the temperature of articles, or stimulating a target item in a wide range of different industrial, medical, consumer, or commercial applications. The system is especially applicable to operations that require or benefit from the ability to irradiate at specifically selected wavelengths or to pulse or inject the radiation. The system is particularly advantageous when functioning at higher speeds and in a non-contact environment with the target.
US10857720B2
A liquid blow molding method comprises: a preliminary pressurization step of operating a pressurization supply source (30) in a state in which a blow nozzle (23) is closed by a seal body (27), to preliminarily pressurize a liquid (L) between the pressurization supply source (30) and the blow nozzle (23); an operating condition setting step of setting an operating condition of the pressurization supply source (30) based on data obtained as a result of the preliminary pressurization step; and a blow molding step of operating the pressurization supply source (30) under the operating condition set in the operating condition setting step in a state in which the blow nozzle (23) is opened, to liquid blow mold a preform (2) into a container of a predetermined shape.
US10857718B2
A piston device having an inlet through which the piston device can receive liquid and an outlet through which the piston device can inject pressurize liquid. A main body (28) of the piston device defines an inner chamber and an upstream duct placing the inner chamber in fluidic communication with the inlet. A valve having a valve plate, which is movable along a plate actuation path, between at least an opened position of the plate and a closed position of the plate.The plate actuation path extending at least in part inside the upstream duct.
US10857715B2
A mixer structure for a film die for a polymer melt includes multiple web elements. The web elements include a first web element and a second web element. The first web element and the second web element include at least an end, which is connected to a base. A film die includes a first tool element, a second tool element, and a flow channel for the polymer melt extending between the first tool element and the second tool element. The mixer structure is arranged in the flow channel. The mixer structure is held in at least one of the tool elements by a holding element.
US10857711B2
This invention relates to a handling device for the removal of plastic injection-molded parts, designed as pipette tips, medical reaction vessels or contact-lens molds, from an injection mold tool (11), having a removal gripper having a plurality of receiving positions (1-32; 104, 105) for receiving one injection-molded part from each of the cavities in each instance.
US10857708B2
An exemplary process includes determining a desired pore size, selecting an initial pore size greater than the target pore size, manufacturing a porous structure with the initial pore size, forging the porous structure to form a forged part having the desired pore size, and forming an orthopedic device from the forged part.
US10857700B2
Disclosed herein are a tire comprising at least one component having a surface coated with a liquid release layer, a process for preparing a tire having at least one component with a surface coated with a release layer, and a cured tire comprising a tire body at least one component with a surface coated with a release layer. The release layer comprises at least one silicone rubber and at least one adhesive polymer which may be present in latex form in the liquid release layer.
US10857697B2
An extrusion equipment adapted for supercritical foaming and mixing of a raw material includes a mixing unit, an injection unit for injection of supercritical fluid into the mixing unit, and an extrusion unit for extrusion of the raw material. The mixing unit includes a tube for input of the raw material, and a propelling screw rod and an auxiliary screw rod that are disposed side by side in the tube and that cooperatively compress and propel the raw material. The auxiliary screw rod rotates at a speed at least twice that of the propelling screw rod and in a direction opposite to that of the propelling screw rod.
US10857686B2
A reciprocating electric razor head includes a fixed blade and a fixed blade support for supporting and fixing the fixed blade. The fixed blade is provided with hair entrance holes for body hair to enter, and an inner side of the fixed blade is provided with a movable blade capable of moving backward and forward in a reciprocating manner relative to the fixed blade to cut off the body hair inside the hair entrance holes, such that the fixed blade obtains a very flat cutting working face contacting the movable blade without the need for additional precision machining.
US10857673B2
A simulation device for a robot rearranging articles in a random arrangement on a conveyor to a regular arrangement while tracking the conveyor. The simulation device includes a model locating section for locating a conveyor model, a plurality of article models, a sensor model and an arraying robot model in a virtual space; a conveying motion simulating section for making the conveyor model convey the article models in the random arrangement; a detecting motion simulating section for making the sensor model obtain position information of the article models; an arrangement pattern generating section for generating an arrangement pattern on the conveyor model; and an arraying motion simulating section for making the arraying robot model pick up the article models in the random arrangement and place the picked-up article models in accordance with the arrangement pattern, while tracking an article conveying motion.
US10857660B2
A power tool includes a motor having an output shaft rotatable around a first axis, a spindle rotatably supported around a second axis, a transmitting mechanism configured to reciprocally rotate the spindle within a specified angle range around the second axis, an elongate support body supporting the motor, the spindle and the transmitting mechanism, an elongate housing that houses the support body, and a first elastic member interposed between the housing and a first end part of the support body and connecting the housing and the support body so as to be movable relative to each other. The spindle is supported in the first end part such that the second axis crosses the direction of a longitudinal axis of the support body. The support body has a weight provided to increase an inertia moment of the support body around the second axis.
US10857656B2
The present invention discloses a leveling device for adjusting an installation gap between a first component and a second component. The first component and the second component respectively have a cooperative installation surface, the cooperative installation surface of the first component is provided with at least one leveling device; the leveling device comprises a driving device installed in the cooperative installation surface of the first component and an adjustment head rotatably connected to the driving device, the adjustment head moves upwardly or retracts downwardly relative to the cooperative installation surface of the first component; the driving device drives the adjustment head to protrude outside an installation position thereof and abut with the second component located on an opposite side of the installation position of the adjustment head to adjust the gap between the first and second component. The present invention relates to an easy-to-level display screen using the leveling device.
US10857647B2
The invention provides a method for polishing or planarizing a wafer of at least one of semiconductor, optical and magnetic substrates. The method includes rotating a polishing pad having radial feeder grooves in the polishing layer separating the polishing layer into polishing regions. The radial feeder grooves include a series of biased grooves connecting a pair of adjacent radial feeder grooves. A majority of the biased grooves have either an inward bias toward the center or an outward bias toward the outer edge of the polishing pad. Pressing and rotating the wafer against the rotating polishing pad for multiple rotations of the polishing pad at a fixed distance from the center of the polishing pad increases polishing or planarizing removal rate of the wafer.
US10857642B2
The invention relates to a chip extraction system for the continuous disposal of chips, comprising a chip extracting tube (9), which opens out into a vacuum chamber (2) with a base on which chips (12) that are sucked in collect, a chip discharging tube (17), which has an inlet (16) arranged on the base and an outlet (18) arranged outside the vacuum chamber (2), wherein an inner cross-sectional area of the chip discharging tube (17) increases between the inlet (16) and the outlet (18), and at least one chip forcing device (14, 19), which is arranged at the inlet (16) and forces the chips (12) that have collected on the base into the inlet (16).
US10857641B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a tool that facilitates machining of inserts mounted in a primary component. More specifically, tools according to the present disclosure may be designed to support removal of recessed inserts in primary components without damaging the underlying primary components.
US10857640B1
A lift assist and transfer assembly for lifting and moving a component through a travel distance is described. The assembly includes an overhead rail mounted to a ceiling of a work environment. The rail has a first end and a second end, corresponding to a loading area and a work area defining the travel distance. A carriage is slidably attached to the rail for supporting the component and a pneumatic cylinder element at the second end of the rail is attached an overhead fixture of the ceiling. The pneumatic cylinder element is biased into a retracted position and extends to an extended position upon actuation to move the second end of the rail downward. The carriage slides along the rail from the first end to the second end upon actuation of the cylinder to displace the second end of the rail such that the rail has a downward slope.
US10857626B2
A pump fluid end includes a body that defines a plunger bore and a working fluid bore that intersects the plunger bore to form a cross bore. A packing bore is defined in the plunger bore and includes a packing sleeve bore, a taper relief bore, and a transition bore. The packing sleeve bore transitions to the taper relief bore at a radial shoulder and the taper relief bore transitions to the plunger bore across the transition bore. The transition bore extends between an external corner contiguous with the plunger bore and an internal corner contiguous with the taper relief bore and at least one of the external and internal corners is rounded and exhibits a radius. The packing bore is treated with a surface pre-stressing treatment.
US10857625B2
A system to provide a texture to a surface of a component for use in a semiconductor processing chamber is provided. The system includes an enclosure comprising a processing region, a support disposed in the processing region, a photon light source to generate a stream of photons, an optical module operably coupled to the photon light source, and a lens. The optical module includes a beam modulator to create a beam of photons from the stream of photons generated from the photon light source, and a beam scanner to scan the beam of photons across the surface of the component. The lens is used to receive the beam of photons from the beam scanner and distribute the beam of photons at a wavelength in a range between about 345 nm and about 1100 nm across the surface of the component to form a plurality of features on the component.
US10857624B2
While a laser-beam application position is moved along a locus which circularly or elliptically circles around a locus center so as to cross a weld line that is a boundary between a first metal plate and a second metal plate overlapped with each other, the locus center is moved in a direction parallel to a weld line. A moving direction of the laser-beam application position is set such that the laser beam is first applied to the first metal plate and then to the second metal plate when the laser beam passes through an unmelted zone of the first metal plate and the second metal plate. The unmelted zone is located downstream of a range through which the laser beam has already passed in the direction parallel to the weld line.
US10857615B2
A contact device for a welding apparatus is disclosed. The contact device for feeding current to at least a first welding wire and a second welding wire. The contact device including first and second contact jaws. The first and second contact jaws including a slot formed therein to provide the first and second contact jaws with improved flexibility to individually and independently flex about the first and second welding wires to ensure proper contact is maintained between the contact jaws and the welding wire.
US10857614B2
Systems and methods for a welding-type power supply to provide both a welding output voltage and a battery charging output voltage. The power supply includes a first contactor associated with a first circuit to provide the welding output voltage, and a second contactor associated with a second circuit to provide the battery charging output voltage. An auxiliary switch is operatively coupled to the second contactor, to prevent the first circuit from closing when the second contactor is closed to prevent transmission of the welding output voltage to the second circuit.
US10857610B2
A method and apparatus for providing welding type power is disclosed. The output is cyclical, and is a controlled voltage output during the background and/or peak and a controlled current output during the transition up and/or down. During the controlled current portion the output is responsive to output voltage.
US10857609B2
The present invention provides a non-contact wire array tension control device for controlling a plurality of tension respectively corresponding to a plurality of electrical discharge wires, including delivering spools and electromagnets. The delivering spool has a magnetic end and a wire outputting end, the wire outputting end is coupled with an electrical discharge wire for outputting the electrical discharge wire. A plurality of electromagnets are coupled to the corresponding magnetic end for controlling a spin rate of the corresponding delivering spool, wherein the spin rate of the corresponding delivering spool is controlled by adjusting a magnetic force generated by the electromagnet. Moreover, a magnetic direction of the electromagnet is parallel to an axial direction of the delivering spool. The invention uses the electromagnets to control the magnetic damping force of the delivering spools for simultaneously controlling the tension of the electrical discharge wires by non-contact method.
US10857602B2
An end mill includes a major-diameter shank, a cone-shaped connector portion disposed at the end of the shank, a minor-diameter body disposed by way of the connector portion coaxially therewith, a toothed element disposed at the leading end of the body, an installation recess dented slightly in the toothed element, and a cutting edge held in the installation recess so as to swell in the shape of an arc to protrude from an outer peripheral face of the body.
US10857601B2
A kind of sawtooth structure with reversed cutting function and its drill series are presented in this invention. This invention is suitable for drilling low-damage holes on carbon fiber reinforced polymers (CFRP). The sawtooth structure is comprised of sawteeth and grooves located on the cutting edges of drill. And the sawtooth structure is helically arranged with a specific helix angle around the axis of the drill. It can be classified as the left-hand helix sawtooth structure and the right-hand helix sawtooth structure based on the helix angle value. The bottom edges of the left-hand helix sawtooth structure are the cutting edges, and the rake angles are positive; while the top edges of the right-hand helix sawtooth are the cutting edge with the positive rake angles. The sawtooth structure can be applied to various drilling tools, which proves to be universal. And it can effectively reduce delamination at both hole entrance and hole exit as well as burrs defects. The series of drilling tools include the double point angle drill, the twist drill and the stepped drill all of which have the sawtooth structure on the cutting edges. These series of drilling tools can achieve the CFRP holes with minimum drilling defects. The drilling performance of the tools is improved to a great extent, the tool life is extended and the costs are reduced.
US10857598B2
A coated cutting tool, comprising: a substrate; and a coating layer formed on the substrate, wherein the coating layer includes a lower part layer and an upper part layer formed on the lower part layer, the lower part layer has an average thickness of 2.0 μm or more and 15.0 μm or less, and is formed of a Ti oxycarbonitride layer including a compound having a composition represented by formula (1) below: Ti(C1-x-yNxOy) (1) (where, x denotes an atomic ratio of an N element based on a total of a C element, the N element, and an O element, y denotes an atomic ratio of the O element based on a total of the C element, the N element, and the O element, and 0.35≤x≤0.60 and 0.01≤y≤0.10 are satisfied), a FWHM of a rocking curve of a plane (4,2,2) of the lower part layer, which is obtained through X-ray diffraction, is 20° or less, the upper part layer is formed of an α-aluminum oxide layer having an average thickness of 1.0 μm or more and 15.0 μm or less, and a FWHM of a rocking curve of a plane (0,0,12) of the upper part layer, which is obtained through X-ray diffraction, is 20° or less.
US10857595B2
There is provided an additive manufactured (AM) article formed of a Co based alloy having a composition comprising: in mass %, 0.08-0.25% C; 0.1% or less B; 10-30% Cr; 30% or less in total of Fe and Ni, the Fe being 5% or less; 5-12% in total of W and/or Mo; 0.5-2% in total of Ti, Zr, Nb and Ta; 0.5% or less Si; 0.5% or less Mn; 0.003-0.04% N; and the balance being Co and impurities. The AM article comprises crystal grains with an average size of 10-100 μm. In the crystal grains, segregation cells with an average size of 0.15-1.5 μm are formed, in which components constituting an MC type carbide phase comprising the Ti, Zr, Nb and/or Ta are segregated in boundary regions of the cells, and/or grains of the MC type carbide phase are precipitated at an average intergrain distance of 0.15-1.5 μm.
US10857593B2
Method and device for repairing the spout sleeve of a metallurgical vessel fitted securely within the refractory lining of the vessel in which the sleeve is repaired by applying mortar to the casting channel of the sleeve with a mortar dispenser inserted into the casting channel, which upon removing the mortar dispenser from the casting channel calibrates the latter over the entire length of the channel. The mortar dispenser is driven rotating coaxially to the casting channel during the mortar application and, after a defined time, is removed from the casting channel, still rotating. The method is particularly suitable for repairing the inner sleeve of a casting ladle with a slide closure adjoining the ladle spout, maintenance of which is automatically carried out in a maintenance station of the casting facility. Repair of the inner sleeve is also carried out automatically here during the maintenance of the slide closure.
US10857574B2
A mask cleaning apparatus includes: a mask holding unit configured to hold a mask; a light source unit configured to irradiate light onto the mask to remove a deposition material accumulated on a surface of the mask; and a material collecting unit configured to collect the deposition material removed from the mask, wherein the material collecting unit includes: a plurality of collecting cases corresponding to kinds of the deposition material; a rotating plate having a suction hole; and a plate driving unit configured to rotate the rotating plate to connect the suction hole to at least one of the collecting cases. Based on the irradiated light, different organic deposition materials may be collected for reuse.
US10857573B1
In examples, systems and methods for using skewed waveforms to eject debris using electromagnetic propulsion are disclosed. The systems and methods include a first electronic device having a surface. The systems and methods also include a signal generator configured to generate a skewed signal configured to cause a movement of particles on the surface of the first electronic device. Additionally, the systems and methods include an antenna coupled to the signal generator, where the antenna is configured to receive the skewed signal from the signal generator and radiate the skewed signal as electromagnetic energy proximate to the surface of the first electronic device.
US10857572B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus designed to control the application of the previously uncontrollable reaction of a peroxide composition and an alkaline composition, and accurately maintain the desired composition ratios for removal of and destruction of microbiological and organic contamination on a surface safely and without waste of the materials. The apparatus may also be used to maintain the highest demulsifying and antimicrobial activity of an organic acid composition blended with a peroxide composition by limiting contact time and the level of degradation of the components of the organic acid composition. A method of using the apparatus is provided for removing biofilm, bacteria, fungal cells, spores, fragments, and hyphae, microbiological slime, and organic contaminants from porous and non-porous surfaces, maintaining the integrity and life expectancy of the substrates, and increasing their resistance to new biofilm formation and microbiological deposition.
US10857563B2
A dispenser can prevent leakage of contents from a nozzle tip when stopping discharging the contents. A dispenser includes: a syringe body that has a filled space of contents, and has a discharge hole at a tip thereof; a plunger that is slid in the syringe body by application of a pushing force, to discharge the contents in the filled space from the discharge hole; and a piston that is formed of an elastic material and located at a tip part of the plunger, wherein a gap is formed between an inner peripheral surface of the syringe body and an outer peripheral surface of the piston, when the plunger is pushed, the piston deforms to narrow the gap, and a back leakage risk (=(gap area/final discharge hole area)) after the deformation of the piston is 0 or more and less than 1.
US10857544B2
A disgregating device of biological material, comprising: a hollow outer body, defining an inner chamber; a fixed disgregating grid, having a plurality of microholes provided with sharp edges, and housed transversely in the inner chamber so as to define an upper loading chamber apt to be loaded with the biological material to be disgregated and a lower collecting chamber apt to collect the biological material, after it has been disgregated; and a bladed rotor, rotating in the inner chamber, apt to co-operate, rotating, with the fixed disgregating grid, so as to feed and bring the biological material, contained in the upper loading chamber, into contact with the microholes of the disgregating grid and therefore cause the disgregation of the biological material making it pass through these microholes.
US10857538B2
A sample preparation cartridge for use with a sample preparation device, the cartridge includes a housing defining plural separate segments, at least one of said segments comprising a fixed section of a pipette component; and a moveable head comprising a pipette tip, the head being configured, in use, to be moved between a position in which the pipette tip is in sealed engagement with the fixed section of pipette component and a position in which pipette tip is positioned adjacent to another of said plural segments. With the present invention a disposable sample preparation cartridge and corresponding analytical reader can be provided in a very cost effective and simple manner whilst still ensuring high quality sample preparation for analysis.
US10857526B2
A hydroprocessing catalyst has been developed. The catalyst is a crystalline transition metal tungstate material or metal sulfides derived therefrom, or both. The hydroprocessing using the crystalline transition metal tungstate material may include hydrodenitrification, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodemetallation, hydrodesilication, hydrodearomatization, hydroisomerization, hydrotreating, hydrofining, and hydrocracking. A data system comprising at least one processor; at least one memory storing computer-executable instructions; and at least one receiver configured to receive data of at least one unit or stream in fluid communication with and downstream from or upstream to a conversion process comprising at least one reaction catalyzed by the catalyst or a metal sulfide decomposition product of the catalyst has been developed.
US10857520B2
An exhaust gas-purifying three-way catalyst containing: (i) base material particles of a Nd-solid dissolved zirconia-based complex oxide comprising Nd and Zr as constituent metal elements in the following mass proportions: ZrO250 to 75% by mass; and Nd2O3 25 to 50% by mass, in terms of oxides; and (ii) Pd catalyst particles supported on the base material particles, wherein the Nd-solid dissolved zirconia-based complex oxide further contains at least one or more rare earth elements selected from the group consisting of yttrium, scandium, lanthanum, and praseodymium, as a constituent metal element, in an amount of a total of more than 0% by mass to 20% by mass or less in terms of an oxide.
US10857519B2
Provided is a catalyst including: a support including titanium oxide; an active catalyst component including vanadium oxide; and a co-catalyst including antimony and cerium, in which the catalyst is included in a deNox reduction reaction that decomposes nitrogen oxide. The catalyst may improve sulfur poisoning tolerance characteristics while improving the deNox efficiency at a temperature in a wide range from low temperature to high temperature.
US10857518B2
Dry-scrubbing media compositions, methods of preparation and methods of use are provided. The compositions contain activated alumina and magnesium oxide. Optionally, activated carbon and other impregnates, such as hydroxides of group 1A metals, are included. The compositions exhibit improved efficiency and capacity for the removal of compounds, such as hydrogen sulfide, from an air-stream. The compositions are particularly useful for reducing or preventing the release of toxic gaseous compounds from the areas such as landfills, petroleum storage areas, refineries, drinking water systems, sewage treatment facilities, swimming pools, hospital morgues, animal rooms, and pulp and paper production sites.
US10857512B2
A diluted solution production method of the present invention is a diluted solution production method of producing a diluted solution of a second liquid by adding the second liquid a first liquid, the method including feeding the first liquid to a first pipe; and controlling pressure in a tank that stores the second liquid to add, through the second pipe that connects the tank to the first pipe, the second liquid to the first liquid in the first pipe. Adding the second liquid includes measuring a flow rate of the first liquid or the diluted solution that flows through the first pipe; measuring a component concentration of the diluted solution; and controlling the pressure in the tank, based on the measured values of the flow rate and the component concentration, so as to adjust the component concentration of the diluted solution to a specified value.
US10857496B2
The present invention discloses a novel demister, comprising at least one demisting unit; wherein the demisting unit comprises a glow guide cylinder, a cyclone blade group mounted at a gas inlet of the glow guide cylinder and a liquid collection cylinder arranged outside the flow guide cylinder, wherein the liquid collection cylinder is provided with at least one glow guide cylinder, a water permeable structure is arranged on a side wall of the flow guide cylinder, and a gap is defined between an outer wall face of the flow guide cylinder and an inner wall face of the liquid collection cylinder and an interlayer chamber is formed.
US10857495B2
This device is intended to separate oil droplets from a gas stream and comprises an inlet wall (2) having at least one inlet opening in which there is disposed a propeller for accelerating and radially orienting the gas stream and at least one retaining wall (3) having at least one retaining medium disposed facing a propeller (8). Advantageously, the inlet wall (2) and the retaining wall (3) are linked by a hinge allowing the retaining wall (3) to be folded against the inlet wall from an unfolded production configuration to a folded use configuration.
US10857489B2
A cooking oil disposal assembly includes a pot for receiving used cooking oil. A filter is removably positionable in the pot and the filter is comprised of a fluid permeable material to filter particles from the used cooking oil. A cover is hingedly coupled to the pot and the cover is positionable between a closed position and an open position. A bowl is removably positionable in the cover and the bowl is comprised of a fluid impermeable material to capture the used cooking oil. The bowl is disposed of when the bowl is removed from the pot to facilitate the used cooking oil to be disposed without pouring the used cooking oil down sewer pipes. A blower is coupled to the cover and the blower urging air upwardly onto the bowl when the blower is turned on to cool the used cooking oil in the bowl.
US10857478B2
A stacked type falling film evaporator includes a first evaporator, a second evaporator, a first vapor recovering device, a second vapor recovering device and a vapor recompressor. The first evaporator and the second evaporator respectively have evaporation tubes of a length of 5 m to 10 m, and are stacked in such a manner that wastewater passes through the first evaporator and the second evaporator in order. The first vapor recovering device collects vapor generated from the wastewater in the first evaporator and supplies the collected vapor to the second evaporator. The second vapor recovering device collects vapor generated from the wastewater in the second evaporator and supplies the collected vapor to the first evaporator. The vapor recompressor compresses the vapor collected in the second vapor recovering device before the vapor is supplied to the first evaporator.
US10857472B1
A user motion apparatus has a track. A motion assembly is movably mounted to the track. A drive member drives the motion assembly along the track. A tolerance accommodation member has a first connector portion fixedly mounted to the motion assembly, a second connector portion fixedly mounted to the drive member, and a third connector portion that extends between the first connector portion and the second connector portion. The third connector portion is movably mounted to a first end of the first connector portion and separately movably mounted to a first end of the second connector portion whereby the first connector portion and the second connector portion are movable relative to one another allowing a distance between the first end of the first connector portion and the first end of the second connector portion to vary thereby accommodating a range of manufacturing tolerances in the track.
US10857462B2
A virtual character controlling method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: when detecting a first sliding operation on a shooting control, a virtual character is controlled to move according to the first sliding operation; when detecting a second sliding operation on an aiming area, an aiming direction of the virtual character is adjusted according to the second sliding operation; and when detecting the first sliding operation on the shooting control is ended, the virtual character is controlled to stop moving, and a shooting operation is performed toward a current aiming direction of the virtual control object.
US10857455B2
A method is provided, including: providing a first view of a virtual environment to a first HMD, the first view having a first view direction towards a virtual object, the first view being from a first-person perspective positioned at the first location; simultaneously, providing a second view to a second HMD, the second view being from a first-person perspective positioned at the first location, and rendering in the second view a virtual character associated to the first view, the rendering configured to present the virtual character as being positioned at a second location, and configured to present the virtual character having a second view direction adjusted relative to the first view direction so as to be from a first-person perspective of the virtual character as the virtual character is positioned at the second location, and so as to be towards the virtual object as shown in the second view.
US10857450B1
A physical-virtual gaming platform comprising a game board overlay including logical locations for the placement of game pieces, where the overlay is placed in relationship to the combination of a game board and game pieces. The combination of the game board and game pieces include electronic means that are in communication with a computing device. The computing device processes the information provided by the electronic means to determine the logical location of a game piece with respect to the game overlay and then provides a sensory output to gamers based at least upon the determined locations. The game overlay can be active and in communication with the computing device such that the overlay is operated to alter one or more logical locations thereby changing game play in response to determined game piece movements. The platform includes visualization and audio devices for providing customized visual and audio experiences.
US10857435B2
Embodiments of golf club heads comprising a head interior and a hosel structure, the head interior bounded by a head front portion, a head rear portion, a head heel portion, a head toe portion, a head top portion, and a head sole portion, the golf club heads further comprising various optimized characteristics, are presented herein. Other examples and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US10857432B2
A golf putter head includes a body having an external surface, an internal surface, and a cavity defined by the internal surface, the external surface having a front side configured to contact a golf ball and a top side configured to receive a shaft; and an insert configured to be disposed within the cavity of the body, the insert having a first material comprising an elastomer and a shock absorbing element at least partially encapsulated within the first material.
US10857431B2
Golf club heads include an iron type golf club head body having a rear surface (e.g., a perimeter weighting member) that defines a first weight receiving portion, and a weight member is mounted in the first weight receiving portion. The club head body further defines a second weight receiving portion independent of the first weight receiving portion, and a second weight member is removably engaged with the golf club head body at this second weight receiving portion. The weight members may be interchangeably mounted in the two weight receiving portions to thereby allow selective placement of the center of gravity characteristics of the club head body. Golf clubs including these club heads and methods of making such golf club and golf club heads also are described.
US10857430B2
A wood-style golf club head includes a strike face and a body that cooperate to define a hollow internal club head volume. The strike face formed from a strike plate having an outer perimeter and a frame surrounding the strike plate. The strike plate is affixed to the frame across the entire outer perimeter. The strike plate and frame define a continuous ball striking surface that has a surface texture characteristic of milling that extends continuously across both the strike plate and the frame.
US10857426B1
A system for generating fitness recommendations according to user activity profiles. The system includes a computing device configured to retrieve an element of user activity data and an element of user physiological data. A computing device generates utilizing fitness training data in combination with classification algorithms and a fitness classifier an output that includes a fitness profile. A computing device utilizes feature learning algorithms combined with a fitness profile to identify recommended exercises.
US10857422B2
Apparatus for facilitating core exercises comprises, in combination, a pair of rolling handgrips, each of the rolling handgrips comprising a base having an upper side and an underside, a gripping bar connected to the base and adapted to allow a user to grip the rolling handgrip, and at least three wheels mounted on the underside of the base, each of said wheels providing a 360° freedom of movement, such that the rolling handgrip provides a 360° freedom of movement when the wheels are placed on a floor surface, and a board adapted to be mounted on the pair of rolling handgrips, whereupon, when the board is mounted upon the pair of rolling handgrips, the board provides 360° freedom of movement on the floor surface.
US10857421B2
A dynamic belt-tensioning apparatus for a treadmill includes a base having a first end and a second end spaced from the first end. A foot-striking platform is movably supported by the base so as to allow vertical movement of the platform during operation of the treadmill. A drive belt has a fixed circumference and is positioned above a top portion of the platform. A drive roller is pivotally mounted adjacent to the first end of the base and engages the drive belt. A tensioning roller is pivotally mounted to the base and is capable of a range of movement to provide substantially constant tension to the drive belt in response vertical movement of the platform.
US10857415B2
A multifunctional therapeutic workout enhancement brace has a joint-receiving sling, a pair of adjustable cuffs, and a tension-diverting band. The joint-receiving sling is a flexible piece of material that is molded to conform to the shape of the user's joint. The pair of adjustable cuffs are mounted along opposite edges of the joint-receiving sling. Thus, enabling the user to attach the adjustable cuffs to opposite sides of the user's joint. The tension-diverting band is a strip of material that is mounted in between the adjustable cuffs and the joint-receiving sling. Thus positioned, the tension-diverting band transfers forces that are directed toward the user's joint out of the joint-receiving sling and into the adjustable cuffs. Further, the joint-receiving sling, the pair of adjustable cuffs, and the tension-diverting band work in concert to reduce the torque applied to the user's joint during exercise.
US10857402B2
A firefighting monitor includes logic circuitry for determining the reaction force caused by the flow of firefighting fluid therethrough. The reaction force may be communicated to structures remote from the monitor for taking appropriate actions in response to the reaction forces exceeding one or more criteria. The monitor may also use flow and nozzle data for calculating a reach of the stream of the fluid, and may transmit this reach data to a remote location. The monitor may also utilize multiple pressure sensor transducers positioned inside the monitor for determining the rate of fluid flow, rather than a paddle wheel-type sensor.
US10857398B2
A personal powered air respirator, for example a welding or spraying helmet (10), includes a remote controller (30) for adjusting one or more operating parameters of the helmet and a means of displaying information regarding said parameter in, on or adjacent the interior of the vision panel (12) of the helmet. The invention allows for convenient adjustment in use. The remote controller is adapted to clothing, such as belt, glove or pocket, or may be incorporated in equipment for use with the helmet.
US10857394B2
Disclosed herein is a novel reconfigurable spatial and temporal light modulation method that exploits the imaging medium itself by employing a multi-element ultrasonic transducer array as an in-situ acoustic modulator. The medium density can be modulated using different ultrasonic pressure patterns to pattern an incident collimated beam of light.
US10857390B2
Systems and methods are described for the monitoring of patient motion via the detection of changes in capacitance, as measured using a capacitance position sensing electrode array. The changes in capacitance may be processed to determine a corresponding positional offset, for example, using a calibration data set relating capacitance to offset for each electrode of the array. The detected positional offset may be employed to provide feedback to a surgeon or operator of a medical device, or directly to the medical device for the control thereof. A medical procedure may be interrupted when the positional offset is detected to exceed a threshold. Alternatively, the detected positional offset may be employed to manually or automatically reconfigure a medical device to compensate for the detected change in position. Various configurations of capacitive position sensing devices are disclosed, including embodiment in incorporating capacitive sensing electrodes with a mask or other support structure.
US10857387B2
A beam profile measurement (BPM) system is described including a BPM phantom including a tank to house liquid, a dosimeter disposed in the tank to detect ionization of a radiation beam emitted from a linear accelerator (LINAC), and a positioning device to move the dosimeter in a vertical direction. The BPM system also includes a BPM controller to operably couple to the BPM phantom and the LINAC. A method is described including positioning, using a BPM controller, a dosimeter of the BPM phantom in a first location, positioning, using the BPM controller, the LINAC in a second location, performing, using the BPM controller, a first movement of the LINAC from the second location to a third location, emitting a radiation beam from the LINAC during the first movement, and performing, via the dosimeter, an ion measurement of the radiation beam during the emitting.
US10857384B2
Streamlined and partially automated methods of setting normal tissue objectives in radiation treatment planning are provided. These methods may be applied to multiple-target cases as well as single-target cases. The methods can impose one or more target-specific dose falloff constraints around each target, taking into account geometric characteristics of each target such as target volume and shape. In some embodiments, methods can also take into account a planner's preferences for target dose homogeneity. In some embodiments, methods can generate additional dose falloff constraints in locations between two targets where dose bridging is likely to occur.
US10857380B2
A method for at-home skin condition analyses includes coupling an adapter to a port of a wearable lamp platform. placing the wearable lamp platform on a portion of a user's body, coupling a data acquisition device to the adapter and activating the data acquisition device to acquire data pertaining to the user's body through the optical lens, analyzing the data pertaining to the user's body, determining a light treatment regimen for the user's body, and applying light treatment to the user's body according to the determined light treatment regimen. The port has disposed therein an optical lens and having a plurality of image image-acquisition lamps disposed thereabout. The image-acquisition lamps are energized by a power source electrically coupled to the wearable lamp platform, and the wearable lamp platform comprises a plurality of treatment lamps arranged and configured to irradiate a portion of a wearer's body.
US10857377B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for controlling a laser output. According to an embodiment, there are provided a method for controlling a laser output of a laser device, provided with a laser generator and a handpiece for radiating a laser generated at the laser generator onto a target, and a device performing the method. The method includes the steps of: measuring, by a plurality of distance sensors arranged along a circumference of one end of the handpiece from which the laser is outputted, distances between the plurality of distance sensors and the target; based on the distances between the distance sensors and the target, calculating an effective area which is a region of the target onto which the laser is really radiated; and increasing or reducing the laser output to radiate the laser onto the effective area with a predetermined energy density.
US10857375B2
Aspects for treating spinal cord injuries are disclosed. In a particular aspect, a method includes identifying a neurological level of a spinal cord injury, and activating neurons via laser therapy in which a laser beam is applied to an area proximate to the neurological level. In another aspect, a computer-readable storage medium includes computer-readable instructions for performing various acts. Such acts comprise ascertaining a neurological level of a spinal cord injury, and receiving data corresponding to a severity of the spinal cord injury. The acts further comprise outputting a laser calibration according to the neurological level and the severity. A medical device apparatus is also provided, which includes various computer executable components. The computer executable components include an assessment component configured to receive parameters corresponding to a spinal cord injury, and a calibration component configured to ascertain a laser calibration according to the at least one parameter.
US10857362B2
A method is provided that includes implanting (a) a parenchymal electrode in or in contact with an outer surface of brain parenchyma of a subject identified as at risk of or suffering from a disease, and (b) a cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) electrode in a CSF-filled space of a brain of the subject, the CSF-filled space selected from the group consisting of: a ventricular system and a subarachnoid space. A midplane treatment electrode is disposed in or over a superior sagittal sinus. Control circuitry is activated to drive the parenchymal electrode and the CSF electrode to drive a substance from the brain parenchyma into the CSF-filled space of the brain, and apply a treatment current between the CSF electrode and the midplane treatment electrode to drive the substance from the CSF-filled space of the brain to the superior sagittal sinus. Other embodiments are also described.
US10857359B2
This invention controls stimulation levels and cycling cadence on an FES ergometer to minimize or prevent the occurrence of spasm in spinal cord injured or other neurologically impaired patients.
US10857358B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems, methods, and devices for interpreting neural signals to determine a desired movement of a target, transmitting electrical signals to the target, and dynamically monitoring subsequent neural signals or movement of the target to change the signal being delivered if necessary, so that the desired movement is achieved. In particular, the neural signals are decoded using a feature extractor, decoder(s) and a body state observer to determine the electrical signals that should be sent.
US10857357B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for the treatment of bone, cartilage and other types of hard tissue. The treatments, which are suitable for extended treatment, include the treatment and prevention of pathologies through the controllable use of silver, iron, zinc, or magnesium ions. These pathologies may include a pathology which is at least partially induced or aggravated by an infectious disease, for example a bacterial disease. In this case the electrically released ions are silver ions, which are known to have antibacterial properties.
US10857353B2
Implantable leadless pacing devices and medical device systems including an implantable leadless pacing device are disclosed. An example implantable leadless pacing device may include a pacing capsule. The pacing capsule may include a housing. The housing may have a proximal region and a distal region. A first electrode may be disposed along the distal region. One or more anchoring members may be coupled to the distal region. The anchoring members may each include a region with a compound curve.
US10857352B2
A neuromodulation system includes a first therapy element adapted for positioning within a superior vena cava, and a second therapy element adapted for positioning within a pulmonary artery. The first therapy element is carried on a first elongate flexible shaft, and the second therapy element is carried on a second elongate flexible shaft. One of the first and second shafts is slidably received within a lumen of the other of the first and second shafts—so that the second therapy element may be advanced within the body relative to the first therapy element. A stimulator is configured to energize the first therapy element within the first blood vessel to deliver therapy to a first nerve fiber disposed external to the superior vena cava and to energize the second therapy element within the pulmonary artery to deliver sympathetic therapy to a second nerve fiber disposed external to the pulmonary artery. For treatment of heart failure, the first nerve fiber may be a vagus nerve and the second nerve fiber may be a sympathetic nerve fiber.
US10857346B2
The breakaway assembly includes a first breakaway subassembly and a second breakaway subassembly. The subassemblies are configured to connect, which causes bellows sheaths in each subassembly to compress and open pores, allowing fluid to flow through the subassemblies. The subassemblies can be connected to luer tip. The luer tips can be connected to an intravenous (IV) fluid line or other types of lines used in the medical field to move fluids. This allows the movement of fluid from a fluid-holding component to a patient. Unless the subassemblies are locked together, the subassemblies will be disconnected under the correct amount of pressure. This disconnection closes the pores on the subassemblies, which keeps fluid from leaking, and prevents the contamination of the IV line. Luer tips may also be connected to the subassemblies. Some of the luer tips allow for the quick connection of the luer tip to the subassembly through a flange being inserted into a notch or flange acceptor. This allows for the quick and easy replacement of components of a fluid transfer assembly.
US10857345B2
A medical connector assembly for establishing a fluid connection between a first medical device and a second medical device includes a multi-use connector and a plurality of single-use connectors connected in series. The multi-use connector has a proximal end opposite a distal end along a longitudinal length thereof. The plurality of single-use connectors each have a proximal end opposite a distal end along a longitudinal length thereof. The distal end of the multi-use connector is releasably connected to the proximal end of a first of the serially-connected single-use connectors. When a second of the serially-connected single-use connectors is disconnected from the first single-use connector, the first single-use connector remains connected to the multi-use medical connector as a sterility retaining cover.
US10857321B2
A filter device includes a distal housing comprising a distal inner port and a distal outer port; a proximal housing comprising a proximal inner port and a proximal outer port, the proximal housing being sealingly affixed to the distal housing to form an inspiratory pathway between the distal inner port and the proximal inner port and to form an expiratory pathway between the distal outer port and the proximal outer port that is fluidly sealed from the inspiratory pathway, the inspiratory pathway being laterally adjacent the expiratory pathway; and a first filter in the inspiratory pathway or in the expiratory pathway to filter gases flowing through the inspiratory pathway or the expiratory pathway.
US10857298B2
An apparatus for injectate delivery includes a cartridge, a linear actuator, a rotary motor mechanically coupled the actuator, and a controller coupled to the motor. The controller controls a linear motion of the actuator by controlling an electrical input supplied to the motor in a first interval during which the motor is stationary with the linear actuator engaged with the cartridge to displace an injectate in the cartridge, a second interval following the first interval during which the controller accelerates the motor from stationary to a first speed selected to create a jet of the injectate from the cartridge with a velocity sufficient to pierce human tissue to a subcutaneous depth, a third interval during which the controller maintains the motor at or above the first speed, and a fourth interval during which the controller decelerates the motor to a second speed to deliver the injectate at the subcutaneous depth.
US10857279B2
A device for extracorporeal blood treatment, in particular a dialysis machine, including an internal fluidic system to which a blood treatment unit, in particular a dialyzer, can be connected, the internal fluidic system comprising at least one balancing chamber on the fresh flow side for balancing fresh treatment fluid flowing to the blood treatment unit and at least one balancing chamber on the used flow side for balancing used treatment fluid flowing off the blood treatment unit, wherein the device has a measuring device for gravimetric detection of treatment fluid in the balancing chamber on the fresh flow side and/or a measuring device for gravimetric detection of treatment fluid in the balancing chamber on the used flow side. A method of balancing treatment fluid in such a device.
US10857273B2
Blood pump devices having improved rotary seals for sealing a bearing assembly supporting a rotor provided herein. Such rotary seals are particularly suited for use in blood pump devices that include rotors having cantilevered supported through a sealed mechanical bearing disposed outside a blood flow path of the device to avoid thrombus formation caused by blood contact with the bearing. The rotary seal can include a first and second face seal that are preloaded with a deflectable compliance member incorporated into the pump housing or a pair of magnets. Such rotary seals can instead or further utilize tight fitment between components or a bio-absorbable fill material to seal an interface between the rotor shaft and pump housing to seal the bearing assembly from fluid flowing through the pump.
US10857271B2
Examples disclosed herein are relevant to breast pumps. Disclosed examples include breast pumps that automatically adjust various pumping parameters based on data obtained from one or more sensors. The one or more sensors can produce data regarding an amount of milk expressed by a user. The adjusting of the pumping parameters can be configured to, for example, help the user efficiently express milk by utilizing a closed-feedback system that monitors the flow rate of the expressed milk.
US10857270B2
The present invention relates to a pump arrangement (1) for a double breast pump (2). The pump arrangement (1) comprises first and second terminals (23, 24) for connecting first and second expression kits (3, 4) having first and second breast shields (5, 6) and at least one container (7) for collecting breast milk (8) in fluidic connection with the expression kits (3, 4), a pump (9) for generating reduced pressure within said breast shields, a plurality of conduits (10, 11, 14, 15, 16), a suction valve (12) connected to the pump (9) by a connection conduit (14) and to the first and second terminals (23, 24) by respective air conduits (10, 11), and a venting valve (13) connected to the first and second terminals (23, 24) by venting conduits (15, 16), wherein the venting valve (13) comprises an opening (17) to the environment. The pump (9) is alternatingly connected to the first and second terminals (23, 24) by alternate opening and closing of the suction valve (12) and the venting valve (13).
US10857266B2
Described herein are tissue grafts derived from the placental tissue that are reinforced with at least one biocompatible mesh. The tissue grafts possess good adhesion to biological tissues and are useful in wound healing applications. Also described herein are methods for making and using the tissue grafts.
US10857261B2
A solidifying prepolymeric implant composition comprising a biocompatible prepolymer and an optional filler. One such implant composition is a polyurethane implant composition comprising an isocyanate, such as hydroxymetbylenediisocyanate (HMDI) and an alcohol, such as polycaprolactonediol (PCL diol). The compositions of the invention are useful for improving bone structure in patients by applying the solidifying implant composition to bone, reinforcing bone structure, improving load bearing capacity and/or aiding healing of microfractures.
US10857260B2
A coaxial needle having two or more passageways for forming a biomimetic bioprinted blood vessel tubular construct. The coaxial needle has an external needle passageway and an internal needle passageway separated by an internal barrier, and having a nozzle at an end thereof. A bioink is provided flowable through the external needle passageway and a crosslinking solution is provided flowable through the internal needle passageway. The crosslinking solution contacts the bioink as the crosslinking solution and bioink exit the nozzle thereby forming a tubular blood vessel construct.
US10857258B2
Disclosed are novel peptides with adhesive properties to various materials of biological or non-biological origins.
US10857255B2
An absorbent article includes an absorbent core having an absorbent material enclosed in a core wrap having a top layer and a bottom layer. The bottom layer of the core wrap comprises a nonwoven comprising synthetic fibers, which has a basis weight from about 6 g/m2 to about 10 g/m2 and the nonwoven has a static coefficient of friction as measured in cross-machine direction of no more than 0.40.
US10857253B2
A control circuit for a thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element and a method of dispensing a fluid composition from the same is provided. The thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element includes a plurality of nozzles and a thermal actuator associated with each nozzle, and a control circuit that includes: a logic circuit that increments through a pre-determined sequence, wherein the sequence is defined by the physical layout of the thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element; a first input in electrical communication with the logic circuit; a second input in electrical communication with each thermal actuator, wherein the first input and second input are used to select and energize each thermal actuator on the thermally-activated microfluidic ejection element.
US10857245B2
There is provided a diagnostic imaging agent for early bone metastasis from cancer, containing trans-1-amino-[18F]fluorocyclobutanecarboxylic acid or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as an active ingredient.
US10857242B2
A fluorescent tracer for targeting tumors, comprises: at least one first fluorophore fluorescing in a range of wavelengths of between 700 and 1000 nm, a targeting assembly comprising at least two identical targeting molecules, and a cyclic oligopeptide: configured so as to define a mean plane defining a first upper face and a second lower face, comprising at least one first lysine amino acid residue on the second lower face, the targeting molecules being fixed to the first upper face of the mean plane, the fluorophore being fixed to the second lower face of the mean plane via a spacer arm connecting a carbon of the sequence of the at least three double bonds and the lysine amino acid residue of the oligopeptide.
US10857235B2
The present invention pertains to immunology, biomedicine field, specifically relates to a method for prevention or treatment of one or more of diseases relevant to the protein in the protein-cell conjugate, malignant tumors, infectious diseases caused by pathogenic microorganisms and autoimmune diseases. The method includes a step of administering to a subject in such need a prophylactically or therapeutically effective amount of a protein-cell conjugate, the said protein-cell conjugate is a conjugate formed by covalently linking a protein and a cell to a linker, respectively; the cell has free sulfhydryl groups distributed on its surface, when the cell is not linked to the linker; the linker is derived from a bifunctional cross-linking agent, and the bifunctional cross-linking agent comprises both a group capable of reacting with an amino group and a group capable of reacting with a sulfhydryl group.
US10857233B1
Protease inhibitors together with protease sensitive therapeutics or diagnostics are provided, which may be ionically or covalently bound, or unbound. The protease inhibitors and/or protease sensitive moiety may be provided in monomeric, homopolymeric, heteropolymeric (for each of the protease and agent) and/or block copolymeric (combining polymers of agent and inhibitor) form. The inhibitors may be native active or e.g., protease activated. Multiple protease inhibitor peptides may be used in-frame with multiple protease cleavage signals (polymeric protease activated protease inhibitors). Combination with the protease inhibitors with the protease sensitive therapeutic enhances the intact, active molecule local-regional or targeted cell or tissue concentration, peak concentration and/or duration of the therapeutic exposure, thereby increasing its therapeutic efficacy. The protease inhibitors are particularly useful for tumor-targeted therapies and for vaccines.
US10857224B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods related to equine live-attenuated influenza vaccines.
US10857221B2
The present invention generally provides methods and compositions for eliciting an immune response against Neisseria spp. bacteria in a subject, particularly against a Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B strain.
US10857216B2
The invention features methods and kits use in for preventing and treating vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC), in particular, recurrent VVC.
US10857213B1
The present disclosure provides a method of treating periorbital puffiness in a subject in need thereof by administering a composition that comprises a protein having hyaluronidase activity to a periorbital region of the subject. Also provided is a method of assessing periorbital puffiness in a subject by determining if the subject exhibits pseudoherniation of one or more upper eyelid fat pads and one or more lower eyelid fat pads; determining if the subject exhibits edema in one or more of the upper eyelid fat pads and the one or more of the lower eyelid fat pads; determining if the subject exhibits edema in the periorbital tissue; and scoring the periorbital puffiness due to periorbital edema from each of the prior three determinations.
US10857204B2
The present invention is directed to a method of producing analgesia in a mammalian subject. The method includes administering to the subject an omega conopeptide, preferably ziconotide, in combination with an analgesic selected from the group consisting of morphine, bupivacaine, clonidine, hydromorphone, baclofen, fentanyl l, buprenorphine, and sufentanil, or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the ω-conopeptide retains its potency and is physically and chemically compatible with the analgesic compound. A preferred route of administration is intrathecal administration, particularly continuous intrathecal infusion. The present invention is also directed to a pharmaceutical formulation comprising an omega conopeptide, preferably ziconotide, an antioxidant, in combination with an analgesic selected from the group consisting of morphine, bupivacaine, clonidine, hydromorphone, baclofen, fentanyl, buprenorphine, and sufentanil.
US10857200B2
This invention relates, in part, to methods and compositions that are useful for the treatment and/or prevention of various disorders, including radiation-related disorders, such as acute radiation syndrome.
US10857199B2
A method of promoting hair growth can include: a polypeptide having a sequence that has at least 75% complementarity to or at least 75% identical to SPR4; and topically administering the polypeptide to a subject. This can include putting or causing the polypeptide to be in the skin, such as in any dermal layer. In one aspect, the method can include administering the composition topically so as to administer the polypeptide to the subject. In one aspect, the method can include administering the polypeptide to skin of the subject. In one aspect, the method can include administering the polypeptide to a hair follicle of the subject. In one aspect, the method can include administering the polypeptide to a bald spot of the subject.
US10857198B2
The invention relates to cyclosporine formulations for use in the prevention or treatment of pulmonary chronic graft rejection. In particular, the invention provides a cyclosporine liquid formulation for use as an aerosol for inhalation in a method of preventing or treating pulmonarychronic graft rejection in single lung transplanted patients. The formulation is preferably administered once or twice daily. The formulation may be aerosolized with a nebulizer that comprises features for monitoring the time, date and duration of inhalation by the patient, in order to monitor patient adherence. The formulation according to the invention may be combined with standard immunosuppressants and corticosteroids.
US10857187B2
Brain injury can be caused by trauma or may occur in stroke or neurodegenerative diseases. The disclosure relates to compositions that can include exosomes isolated from human adipose-derived stem cells (hASC) and methods where exosomes from hASC may be used alone or in combination with insulin for the treatment of brain injury.
US10857183B2
The present disclosure provides distinct therapeutic populations of cells that form a pharmaceutical composition useful in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cell transplant. For example, the present disclosure provides a therapeutic population of cells, comprising an enriched population of hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells, memory T cells, regulatory T cells, and wherein the population of cells is depleted of naïve conventional αβ-T cells. The present disclosure further provides methods of treatment using the therapeutic population of cells. In other embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods of producing a therapeutic population of cells.
US10857181B2
Cell preparations comprising a pooled and enriched, mononuclear apoptotic cell population, and a method of preparing this cell preparation are described. The pooled mononuclear apoptotic cell preparation may be obtained from pooled, allogeneic white blood cell fractions that are pooled prior to or following induction of apoptosis. Further, described herein are methods of use of these pooled apoptotic cell preparations for treating an immune disease, an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, or infertility in a subject. For example, a pooled apoptotic cell preparation may be used to treat graft versus host disease (GVHD) in an allogeneic subject.
US10857176B2
The present disclosure relates to a method which allows direct formation of gel-like solutions of polyglucosamine at neutral pH≈7 to 8, eliminating the need of prior dissolution of polyglucosamine in acidic environment; and to a homogeneous liquid combination of polyglucosamine-glyoxylate with hyaluronan.
US10857171B2
The stable pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof are disclosed.
US10857168B2
This invention relates to a method and composition for modulating the microbiota in the gastro-intestinal tracts of non-infant humans who are carriers of the human fucosyltransferase 2 (FUT2) genetic mutation.
US10857164B2
The present invention relates to halogenated salicylanilides, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or esters thereof, for use in the treatment of an infection in a subject caused by Clostridium bacteria, particularly a C. difficile infection. The halogenated salicylanilides are expected to be useful in the treatment of C. difficile associated diseases including C. difficile associated diarrhoea and C. difficile associated colitis.
US10857163B1
The invention provides compositions containing isomerically pure forms of neurosteroids that permit preferential modulation of different subtypes of GABAA receptors, such as preferential modulation of α4β3δ GABAA receptors over α1β2γ2 GABAA receptors. The invention also provides methods of treating GABAA disorders using such compositions.
US10857162B2
This invention relates to methods and compositions for use improving cell viability, particularly neural cell viability, and more particularly to methods and compositions for use improving cell viability by reducing reactive oxygen metabolite-mediated oxidative damage in a cell, regulating redox homeostasis in a cell, or reducing mitochondrial dysfunction in a cell. The invention further relates to the administration of the bile acid tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) in combination with phenylbutyric Acid (PBA) to improve cell viability, and treat at least one symptom associated with, prevent the time of onset of, or slow the development of a disease related to oxidative stress.
US10857146B2
A method for preventing or treating tumor diseases with a combination of a tyrosine kinase inhibitor and a CDK4/6 inhibitor is provided. In particular, a method for preventing or treating tumor diseases, including administering to a patient a tyrosine kinase inhibitor of a compound of formula (I), or a complex, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a stereoisomer thereof and a CDK4/6 inhibitor is provided.
US10857144B2
The present disclosure provides for methods of treating a patient with a CYP3A4 substrate drug, wherein the patient is treated with posaconazole. In some embodiments, the patient stops posaconazole treatment, waits for at least 2 days, and then is treated with the CYP3A4 substrate drug as soon as it is safe to do so. In some embodiments, treatment with the CYP3A4 substrate drug is delayed for about 2-42 days after stopping posaconazole. In some embodiments, the patient is treated with a reduced dose of the CYP3A4 substrate drug for about 2-42 days.
US10857141B2
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.
US10857139B2
Provided herein are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions including the compound having a formula: These compounds are androgen receptor modulators useful for the treatment of androgen receptor-associated conditions.
US10857138B2
Pharmaceutical compositions comprising aztreonam or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative, and a compound of Formula (I) or a stereoisomer or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof are disclosed. (I)
US10857137B2
Provided are methods of administering a vesicular monoamine transport 2 (VMAT2) inhibitor chosen from valbenazine and (+)-α-3-isobutyl-9,10-dimethoxy-1,3,4,6,7,11b-hexahydro-2H-pyrido[2,1-a]isoquinolin-2-ol, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt and/or isotopic variant thereof, to a patient in need thereof wherein the patient is a CYP2D6 poor metabolizer.
US10857121B2
The present invention provides uses of aryl alkyl malononitrile compounds of formula (I), or veterinarily acceptable salts thereof, for controlling and preventing parasite infestations in animals. The invention also provides methods for controlling and preventing parasite infestation in animals comprising administering an effective amount of at least one aryl alkyl malononitrile compound of formulae (I), or a veterinarily acceptable salt thereof, to the animal.
US10857118B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions, and kits for treating intestinal hyperpermeability in a subject in need thereof, including conditions such as hyperglycemia and underlying diseases such as diabetes, autism, fibromyalgia, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), graft versus host disease (GVHD), HIV/AIDS, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), celiac disease, eczema, psoriasis, acute pancreatitis, Parkinson's disease, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, asthma, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, alcoholic cirrhosis, environmental enteropathy, or kwashiorkor.
US10857116B2
Amino acids compositions for use in the treatment of pain in patients who underwent elective arthroplasty.
US10857112B2
A method of treating a cellular injury in a subject comprising administering to a subject in need thereof, a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I: wherein at least one of R1-R8 is a sulfonic acid, a carboxylic acid, a phosphonic acid, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of a sulfonic acid, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of a carboxylic acid, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of a phosphonic acid, a sulfonate ester, a carboxylate acid ester, or a phosphonate ester; and the remaining R1-R8 are each independently selected from hydrogen, halo, hydroxyl, nitro, nitroso, amino, substituted amino, alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, alkynyl, substituted alkynyl, alkoxy, substituted alkoy, alkenyloxy, substituted alkenyloxy, alkynyloxy, substituted alkynyloxy, cycloalkyl, substituted cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, substituted cycloalkenyl, cycloalkynyl, substituted cycloalkynyl, cycloalkyloxy, substituted cycloalkyloxy, heterocyclyl, substituted heterocyclyl, heterocyclyloxy, substituted heterocyclyloxy, heterocyclylthio, substituted heterocyclylthio, cyano, acyl, acylamino, acyloxy, aminocarbonyl, aminocarbonylamino, aminothiocarbonylamino, aminocarbonyloxy, aminosulfonyl, sulfonylamino, aryl, substituted aryl, aryloxy, substituted aryloxy, arylthio, substituted arylthio, alkylthio, substituted alkylthio, cycloalkylthio, substituted cycloalkylthio, cycloalkenylthio, substituted cycloalkenylthio, thiol, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, heteroaryloxy, substituted heteroaryloxy, heteroarylthio, substituted heteroarylthio, sulfonyl, or sulfonyloxy.
US10857094B2
A non-aqueous, anti-microbial, anti-fungal, low pH, lubricating and moisturizing composition adapted for topical or intra-vaginal use during sexual intercourse, the composition consisting essentially of approximately 55-70 vol. % shea butter, approximately 25-40 vol. % coconut oil and approximately 1-5 vol. % grapeseed oil. The composition may further contain no more than approximately 2 vol. % of a scenting component. The composition possesses a low pH to counter the pH elevating effects of semen, soap, menopause and menstruation.
US10857091B2
Fermented composition for preventing hair loss and promoting hair growth containing natural extracts
Provided is a composition for preventing hair loss and promoting hair growth, including a mixed extract consisting of a Lactobacillus-fermented product, a citrus (Citrus unshiu Marcov.) peel extract, a Glycine max embryo extract, a Nelumbo nucifera extract, and a Ziziphus jujube Mill extract as an active ingredient.
US10857087B2
The invention relates to a process for treating keratin fibres, in particular human keratin fibres such as the hair, comprising: (i) a step of applying an oxidized polysaccharide, (ii) a step of heating to a temperature of at least 100° C., (iii) a step of applying a pyridinedicarboxylic acid compound. The process makes it possible to obtain good hair-conditioning cosmetic properties, with a long-lasting effect. The invention also relates to a cosmetic composition and a kit used for performing the treatment process.
US10857079B2
Disclosed is an oil-in-water anionic emulsion for eyelashes, and methods for its use, comprising a continuous phase comprising 35 to 55% by weight of water based on the total weight of the emulsion, a discontinuous phase comprising 15 to 25% by weight of a combination of waxes, wherein the combination of waxes comprises paraffin wax, carnauba wax, beeswax, and candelilla wax based on the total weight of the emulsion, and 5 to 15% by weight of the emulsion of an anionic surfactant system comprising stearic acid, palmitic acid, myristic acid, polyethylene glycol-40 (PEG-40) stearate, and stearyl stearate, wherein the oil-in-water anionic emulsion is capable of thickening the appearance of eyelashes.
US10857077B2
Aspects of the invention include sunscreen formulations that include uniform, rigid, spherical nanoporous calcium phosphate particles. Also provided are methods of making the sunscreen formulations. The sunscreen formulations find use in sunblocking applications.
US10857076B2
A multilayer beauty care product or method is provided. The beauty care product has a water soluble film zone that includes a water soluble film forming polymer and a cosmetic composition with an effective amount of a skin active agent. The product also has a barrier patch having a backing layer and a pressure sensitive adhesive zone. The adhesive zone and the water soluble film zone are continuous, discontinuous, or a combination thereof. The product exhibits a dynamic modulus.
US10857061B2
Neck treatment devices for treating the neck of a person is disclosed herein. The treatment devices have front to back treatment elements with multiple extending ridges located in spaced apart side by side relationship extending substantially in parallel from, at or towards the front edge of treatment element to the back edge of treatment element with a relatively gentle sloping curve in their front portion and a more pronounced curve in their back portion. A method of using the neck treatment device is also disclosed.
US10857060B2
A method of improving stereopsis and devices for improving stereopsis in a patient, including facilitating development of a new stereo preferred retinal locus by presenting the patient with dichoptic images that require simultaneous use of both eyes to accomplish a visual task.
US10857053B2
A robotic operating table may include: a table on which to place a patient; and a robotic arm including a plurality of joints, and having a first end supported on a base fixed to a floor, and a second end supporting the table; and an operation device including: a mode-set operation receiving unit that receives a set operation to set a rotation mode for rotating the table; a move operation receiving unit that receives a move operation to move the table; and a display. When the mode-set operation receiving unit receives the set operation to set the rotation mode, the display may display setting information for setting a rotation center position of the table. When the move operation receiving unit receives the move operation in a state where the rotation center position is set, the robotic arm may rotate the table about a rotation axis at the rotation center position.
US10857051B2
An occupant support system includes a framework, a mattress supported by the framework and having at least one bladder, an electromagnetic signal source, and an electromagnetic signal receiver. The receiver is spaced from the occupant facing side of the mattress. The signal source is configured to direct an electromagnetic signal at a target. The signal receiver is configured to receive a return signal from the target in response to the directed signal. The system also includes a processor adapted to determine immersion of the target as a function of the information content of the return signal.
US10857048B2
A smart brake system for safety at movement on a slope, includes: a multi-brake which comprises a deceleration brake for working while moving on a descending slope and a ratchet brake for working while moving on an ascending slope; a brake controller which selectively controls one of the deceleration brake and the ratchet brake to work as buoyancy of fluid is varied depending on the movement on the descending or the ascending slope.
US10857047B2
A patient transfer apparatus is provided and includes a frame, a seat assembly coupled to the frame, and a track assembly coupled to the frame. The track assembly includes a moveable track for traversing stairs and a motor configured to drive the track. The apparatus further includes a control system. The control system includes a controller configured to control the motor and to adjust a speed of the apparatus based on at least one of an occupancy of the seat assembly upon traversing the stairs and a condition of the stairs.
US10857041B2
A reusable diaper assembly includes a diaper that may be worn on a child. A first mating member is coupled to the diaper and a second mating member is coupled to the diaper. A first fastener is coupled to the diaper and the first mating member is matable to the first fastener to retain the diaper on the child. A second fastener is coupled to the diaper and the second mating member is matable to the second fastener to retain the diaper on the child. An absorbing unit is removably coupled to the diaper. The absorbing unit is comprised of a fluid absorbent material to absorb waste from the child. Moreover, the absorbing unit is selectively removed from the diaper to be disposed of when the absorbing unit becomes soaked with the waste. In this way the diaper may be re-used.
US10857039B2
A hemostatic device for treatment of a gunshot wound includes a barrel, which has a first end that is open, and a plunger. The barrel is arcuate adjacent to a second end to define a tip section. A clotting medium and a gauze are positioned in the barrel proximate to the tip section and between the clotting medium and the first end, respectively. A plurality of slits that is positioned in the tip section defines a plurality of petals, which comprise plastic and are resiliently deformable. The plunger, which has a head that is sealably positioned in the barrel adjacent to the first end, is configured to be pushed into the barrel to apply pressure to the gauze and the clotting medium so that the petals separate. The clotting medium and the gauze are sequentially expelled from the barrel into a wound to induce clotting and to pack the wound.
US10857036B2
The disclosure features systems and methods for providing information to a user about the user's environment. The systems feature a detection apparatus configured to obtain image information about the environment, where the image information corresponds to information at multiple distances relative to a position of the user within the environment, and an electronic processor configured to obtain focal plane distance information defining a set of one or more distance values relative to the position of the user within the environment, construct one or more confocal images of the environment from the image information and the set of one or more distance values, wherein each of the one or more confocal images corresponds to a different distance value and includes a set of pixels, and transform the one or more confocal images to form one or more representative images having fewer pixels and a lower dynamic range.
US10857029B2
A surgical system includes a replaceable surgical cassette that is configured to be received by a surgical console, the surgical cassette permitting fluid flow through the cassette, the surgical system controlling the flow of fluid through the cassette via one or more flexible valves actuated by one or more actuation plungers located on the surgical console. The one or more flexible valves of the surgical cassette and the one or more actuation plungers of the surgical console include a positioning feature configured to assist with positioning the one or more actuation plungers to apply uniform and symmetric pressure to the one or more valves during actuation.
US10857020B2
A gastrointestinal tract constricting method according to the present invention aims to constrict the gastrointestinal tract by contracting a desired region of the gastrointestinal tract by a simple and low-invasive procedure. The method includes forming spreading blocks while observing the gastrointestinal tract with an endoscope inserted into the gastrointestinal tract, the spreading blocks being formed at a position between a mucosa layer and a muscle layer and on both sides of a target region, which is to be damaged by a substance, in a circumferential direction of the gastrointestinal tract so that the spreading blocks block spreading of the substance in the circumferential direction of the gastrointestinal tract to prevent spreading of the substance to an outer side of the target region, and supplying the substance to a mucosal surface of the target region or to the position between the mucosa layer and the muscle layer after formation of the spreading blocks.
US10857013B2
This disclosure describes, inter alia, materials, devices, kits and methods that may be used for loading scaffolds into delivery devices and delivery of scaffolds into the body of a patient, including delivery of scaffolds to the sinuses for the treatment of chronic sinusitis, among other purposes.
US10857007B2
A prosthetic foot, including a keel having a longitudinal axis. The keel includes a keel body including a heel portion, a forefoot portion, and an ankle portion positioned between the heel portion and the forefoot portion. The ankle portion includes a housing having a vertically oriented central axis. In addition, the prosthetic foot includes a coupling assembly disposed within the housing of the ankle portion. The coupling assembly includes a bearing member disposed about the central axis, a support sleeve concentrically disposed about the bearing member, and an embedding member disposed about the support sleeve. The embedding member includes a plurality of interlocking rings.
US10857004B2
Described herein are devices and methods for fusion of adjacent vertebral bones using distractor platforms for exposure and resection of at least a portion of a facet joint, such as in performance of a TLiF procedure. In one embodiment, the distractor platform contains at least a first receptacle and/or extension adapted to couple to the implanted screw/bone marker, and the method includes advancing a threaded segment of a bone fastener assembly into the identified first pedicle of the first vertebral bone, the bone fastener assembly further comprises a second segment adapted to couple with a distraction platform, which is adapted to concurrently attach onto at least one tissue retention blade, and retain the tissue retention blade in the displaced position. Stabilization of a spinal segment is also provided by advancing a substantially concave orthopedic implant through an opening made in a posterior aspect of a disc space.
US10857003B1
Devices, systems and methods for the treatment of spinal instability and/or stenosis of the spinal canal and neural foramina. In one embodiment, a functional spinal unit (FSU) of a subject is approached through a lateral or antero-lateral corridor, and both an anterior and posterior column of the FSU are manipulated, implanted and/or otherwise surgically treated through the same intra-abdominal surgical corridor. A method is disclosed to reach the posterior aspect of the FSU, wherein the intra-abdominal surgical corridor is extended posterior to the psoas major muscle and through the thoraco-lumbar fascia in order to reach the transverse process and/or facet joint. Multiple trajectories for bone screw fixation of the vertebral bone are additionally disclosed. In another embodiment, the FSU is approached through the above corridor and a second posterior skin incision and corridor. The combination of the corridors provided circumferential access to the FSU.
US10857001B2
A bone graft loading system includes a loading funnel, syringe, cannula, plunger, and loading tool. The loading funnel includes an interior passageway to receive the cannula and a syringe docking portion. The syringe may be coupled to the syringe docking portion so that it extends along a longitudinal axis that is transverse to the longitudinal axes of the cannula and the loading funnel. A user may advance bone graft from the syringe to a holding area of the loading funnel. The user may then move the loading tool through the holding area and into the interior space of the cannula to load the cannula with bone graft. This process may be repeated until the cannula is fully loaded with bone graft. The cannula and the plunger inside the cannula may then be removed from the loading funnel and coupled to an injector assembly for use in surgery.
US10857000B2
A spinal bone graft includes one or more cortical bone portions forming a first unit. The first unit includes an engagement surface for contacting bone, and a mating surface. The mating surface forms at least one first undercut. The bone graft also includes one or more cortical bone portions forming a second unit. The second unit includes an engagement surface for contacting bone, and a mating surface. The mating surface forms either at least one second undercut, or at least one connector. In the former, at least one connector is received in each of the first and second undercuts to interconnect the first and second units. In the latter, the at least one connector of the second unit is received in the first undercut of the first unit to interconnect the first unit and second unit.
US10856999B2
An implant including a peripheral frame portion defining a periphery of the body; a first helical bone contacting member attached to the body and disposed within the superior half of the implant; and a second helical bone contacting member attached to the body and disposed within the superior half of the implant. The implant also includes a first support member extending inwardly of the bone contacting member into a central region of the implant; and a second support member extending inwardly of the bone contacting members. The first support member and the second support member are substantially U-shaped and are connected to one another at the bottoms of the two U-shapes in the central region.
US10856996B2
A disc replacement device including a first body member with a convex articulation surface and a second body member with a concave articulation surface is disclosed. When operably positioned, the convex articulation surface engages the concave articulation surface to provide for movement therebetween. The disc replacement device also includes a first opening in the first body member and a second opening in the second body member, wherein the openings are angled and extends from the front aspects of the body members through the external surfaces. The disc replacement device further includes at least two bone fasteners for insertion into the first and second openings to secure the disc replacement device to a first and second vertebra. An interbody motion device and fusion implant, as well as a surgical method for implantation are also disclosed.
US10856994B1
Implants, device, systems and methods for replacing an articulation surface in a joint, for example, a reverse glenoid implant with a baseplate, a central screw, a peripheral screw, a modular taper, and a post. Methods for implanting the glenoid implant are also disclosed.
US10856993B2
A glenosphere includes a body, a first surface, and a cavity defined with the body. The body defines a center and an engagement axis, the engagement axis spaced by an offset from the center. The first surface includes a first rim positioned radially outward from a second rim, a base surface portion, and a hood surface portion extending from the base surface portion and oriented at an obtuse angle relative to the base surface portion. The body defines a hood portion extending from the hood surface portion to a plane including the base surface portion. The cavity has a perimeter defined by the second rim, and includes a first cavity portion configured to receive an attachment structure attachable to a bone, and a second cavity portion configured to engage an engagement member of the attachment structure and oriented along the engagement axis.
US10856992B2
An example implant device includes a base having a surface that mates with bone, and a plurality of tapered protrusions positioned on the base and extending from the surface of the base that mates with bone. A surface of the plurality of tapered protrusions includes a textured surface to increase area for bone growth. An example method for inserting the implant device into bone includes forcing the plurality of tapered protrusions of the implant device into the bone, and securing the implant device in place without cement due to the plurality of tapered protrusions cutting into the bone for fixation of the implant device.
US10856978B2
The invention relates to catheter system for introducing an expandable heart valve stent (150) into the body of a patient, the catheter system comprising: a catheter tip (10) having a seat portion for accommodating the stent (150) in its collapsed state and a stent holder (15) for releasably fixing the stent (150), wherein the seat portion is constituted by a first sleeve-shaped member (11) and a second sleeve-shaped member (21), said sleeve-shaped members (11, 21) being moveable relative to each other and relative to the stent holder (15), and a catheter shaft (30) for connecting the catheter tip (10) to a handle (70). The catheter shaft (30) comprising: first force transmitting means (31) connected to the first sleeve-shaped member (11), second force transmitting means (41) connected to the second sleeve-shaped member (21) and a distal end section connectable to second operating means (81) of the handle (70), and guiding means (51) having a passageway extending there between, wherein the first and second force transmitting means (31, 41) are at least partly received within the passageway such as to be moveable relative to the guiding means (51), and wherein the proximal end of the guiding means (51) terminates distal to the catheter tip (10).
US10856976B2
Embodiments of a radially collapsible and expandable prosthetic heart valve are disclosed. A valve frame can have a tapered profile when mounted on a delivery shaft, with an inflow end portion having a smaller diameter than an outflow end portion. The valve can comprise generally V-shaped leaflets, reducing material within the inflow end of the frame. An outer skirt can be secured to the outside of the inflow end portion of the frame, the outer skirt having longitudinal slack when the valve is expanded and lying flat against the frame when the valve is collapsed. A diagonally woven inner skirt can elongate axially with the frame. Side tabs of adjacent leaflets can extend through and be secured to window frame portions of the frame to form commissures. The window frame portions can be depressed radially inward relative to surrounding frame portions when the valve is crimped onto a delivery shaft.
US10856975B2
Apparatus is provided for use with a heart of a subject, the apparatus including an inner stent frame defining a tubular portion, and an outer stent frame. The apparatus has a relaxed expanded state in which an outer-stent-frame relaxed expanded diameter defined by the outer slept frame is smaller than an inner-stent-frame expanded diameter defined by the tubular portion. Together, the inner stent frame and the outer stent frame define a frame assembly in which outer-frame coupling elements are fixed to inner-frame coupling elements. The frame assembly is expandable into an expanded state in which the tubular portion defines an inner-stent-frame constrained expanded diameter that is smaller than the inner-stent-frame relaxed expanded diameter. The frame assembly includes prosthetic leaflets secured to, and disposed within, the tubular portion, and has a compressed state in which the frame assembly is transluminally advanceable to the heart. Other embodiments are also described.
US10856969B2
A toric intraocular lens includes a lens body, support portions, and connecting portions for connecting the lens body and the support portions. The lens is housed in an insertion apparatus that includes a tubular apparatus body having an insertion tube for the lens and a plunger for moving the lens. Each of the connecting portions is arranged at a position where the connecting portions face each other across a center of an optical axis of the lens body. One end of the flat meridian of the lens body is located at a position opposite to a position, with respect to an axis that passes through the center and connects the connecting portions, at which the plunger contacts the lens body. An angle between the flat meridian and an axis along which the lens is pushed by the plunger is larger than 0° and equal to or smaller than 90°.
US10856968B2
An implant includes a hollow biocompatible shell, first and second electrodes, filling material, and circuitry. The hollow biocompatible shell is configured to be implanted in an organ of a patient. The first electrode is disposed inside the shell. The second electrode has at least one surface disposed outside the shell. The filling material, which includes carbon nanotubes (CNT), fills the shell and is configured, in response to a rupture occurring in the shell, to change a spatial orientation of the CNT and thus to cause a change in electrical conductivity of the filling material between the first electrode and the rupture. The circuitry is electrically connected to the first and second electrodes and is configured to detect the rupture by sensing the change in the electrical conductivity of the CNT, and to produce an output indicative of the detected rupture.
US10856967B2
A device having one or more adjustable loops or coils associated with an implant body for use in soft tissue reconstructions is provided. One exemplary embodiment of a device includes a body and a suture filament, with the filament being used to form a self-locking sliding knot disposed on a top side of the body and a plurality of adjustable coils that are substantially disposed on the body's bottom side. Terminal ends of the filament located above the body's top side can be passed through an opening of a Lark's Head knot from opposite sides, thus forming a self-locking sliding knot, and then the terminal ends can be tensioned to adjust a circumference of the coils. Changing a coil's circumference changes a location of a ligament graft disposed on the coil. Other configurations of devices and systems, as well as methods for performing ACL repairs, are also provided.
US10856964B2
A valve insertable into a body lumen has a body region forming a first leaflet and a second leaflet, with the first leaflet in contact with the second leaflet to provide the valve with a closed position. The body region includes a multiblock copolymer that is biomimetic and hydrolytically stable.
US10856958B2
An interdental cleaner has a gripping portion (3) and a cleaning portion (4) formed by an elongate body made from a thermoplastic material. The cleaning portion (4) has a coating made of a self-adhesive, heat-vulcanized rubber material forming peripheral, flexible brush members (6).
US10856957B2
The invention relates to methods for preparing a three-dimensional digital model of a prosthetic denture base for fabrication using a light-based three-dimensional printing apparatus. A virtual reference model of a prosthetic denture base is prepared and manipulated to establish specific spatial orientation and angular inclination with respect to the build platform surface of the printing apparatus. Methods may include performing a corrective digital scaling process on the virtual reference model in order to achieve further improvements to dimensional accuracy in the fabrication of prosthetic denture bases.
US10856937B2
Ablation systems of the present disclosure facilitate the safe formation of wide and deep lesions. For example, ablation systems of the present disclosure can allow for the flow of irrigation fluid and blood through an expandable ablation electrode, resulting in efficient and effective cooling of the ablation electrode as the ablation electrode delivers energy at a treatment site of the patient. Additionally, or alternatively, ablation systems of the present disclosure can include a deformable ablation electrode and a plurality of sensors that, in cooperation, sense the deformation of the ablation electrode, to provide a robust indication of the extent and direction of contact between the ablation electrode and tissue at a treatment site.
US10856933B2
A surgical device includes a housing, at least one electrical wire, a shaft, and an end effector assembly. The housing defines an interior cavity and first and second housing portions. The first and second housing portions are configured to engage one another to enclose the interior cavity. A channel is defined within an outer perimeter of the first and/or second housing portion such that engagement of the first and second housing portions encloses the channel separate from the interior cavity. The electrical wire(s) is housed within the channel and adapted to connect to a source of energy. The shaft is coupled to the housing and extends distally therefrom. The end effector assembly is disposed at a distal end of the shaft, wherein the end effector assembly is electrically coupled to the at least one electrical wire for supplying energy to the end effector assembly.
US10856932B2
Device and method for sub-xiphoid ablation of patient tissue. A sub-xiphoid access clamp has a handle, an elongate neck coupled to the handle and first and second opposing jaws. The first and second opposing jaws have first and second opposing relief segments being generally co-planar and concave with respect to one another to form a void therebetween, and first and second opposing elongate ablation elements positioned along the first and second opposing jaws and distal of the first and second opposing relief segments relative to the handle. The first and second opposing jaws are articulate between a closed position and an open position to admit, at least in part, a second portion of tissue of the patient within the void created by the first and second opposing relief segments while the first portion of tissue is positioned between the first and second ablation elements in the closed position.
US10856929B2
Various embodiments are directed to methods for use with a surgical device to harvest energy from a surgical generator. The surgical device in use in conjunction with the surgical generator may comprise an energy storage device in electrical communication with a surgical generator to provide energy to charge the energy storage device. The method may comprise the steps of receiving a drive signal from the generator. The method may also comprise directing at least a portion of the drive signal to the energy storage device in a first mode. The method may further comprise directing at least a portion of the drive signal to at least one energy element in a second mode.
US10856926B2
According to some embodiments, a method of treating a subject having diabetes or symptoms associated with diabetes is provided. The method includes delivering a neuromodulation catheter within a vessel (e.g., hepatic artery) having surrounding nerves that innervate the liver (e.g., sympathetic nerves of the hepatic plexus). The method may also include modulating (e.g., disrupting, ablating, stimulating) the nerves by mechanical compression, energy delivery, or fluid delivery.
US10856917B2
A resorbable implant for osteosynthesis for stiffening in a central joint (e.g., the proximal interphalangeal joint referred to as PIP) during arthrodesis or for stiffening in an end joint (e.g., the distal interphalangeal joint referred to as DIP) during arthrodesis and for osteosynthesis and stabilization of fractures of small bones of the human skeleton includes two shafts placed against each other. At least one fixing aid is located between the shafts. The fixing aid protrudes beyond a diameter of the shafts. Each shaft may have longitudinal grooves and transverse grooves. The implant is a magnesium-based material which can be resorbed by the human body. The disclosed implant has a relatively high tensile strength, excellent stability, optimal healing properties, and an optimally adapted resorption speed.
US10856904B2
An introducer for facilitating implantation of a therapy element into a patient defines a lumen configured to receive the therapy element. At least a portion of the introducer is configured to preferentially flex in at least a first direction over at least a second direction. That is, at least a portion of the introducer is predisposed to bend in a particular direction. In some embodiments, the introducer may also resist bending in one or more directions.
US10856903B2
A laparoscopic port is disclosed which includes a tubular member comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a lumen extending there between. At least one seal member provided in the lumen adapted to prevent pressurized gas flow from the distal end to the proximal end of the tubular member. The laparoscopic port further includes a shielding trigger positioned distal to the seal member in the lumen, the shielding trigger is shaped so as at least a proximal portion of the shielding trigger has a narrowing cross-section that extends towards the seal member, the proximal portion is adapted to actuate a reversibly opening and protection of the seal member upon a proximally projected pressure from a distal end of an artifact.
US10856898B2
A foreign object removal device is disclosed, which includes a protective sheath, and a device main body, which is disposed in a lumen of the protective sheath, can protrude from a distal end opening of the protective sheath communicating with the lumen and is rotatable relative to the protective sheath. The device main body includes, at a distal end portion protruding from the distal end opening, a screw which rotates integrally with the device main body and in which a flat plate is twisted, and side edges of the flat plate are formed in a spiral shape.
US10856889B1
A flexible drill bit comprising: a proximal shaft portion for connecting to a source of turning; a distal cutting tip portion for boring into a material; and an intermediate shaft portion extending between the proximal shaft portion and the distal cutting tip portion, the intermediate shaft portion being characterized by (i) sufficient longitudinal flexibility so as to permit the flexible drill bit to be passed along a curve, and (ii) sufficient torsional strength to permit the flexible drill bit to bore into the material. Apparatus for drilling a hole in material, the apparatus comprising: an angled drill guide comprising a curved distal section, a less-curved proximal section, and a lumen extending therebetween, wherein the less-curved proximal section comprises a flat extending therealong for reducing the effective diameter of the less-curved proximal section so as to minimize interference between the angled drill guide and the side wall of an access cannula.
US10856887B2
A surgery device for operating on the human knee. The surgery device comprises a guide component and a tensioning component. The guide component comprises a base body having a base surface for disposing on a tibial end face and comprises guide elements extending from the base surface. The tensioning component is set up for tensioning the guide component such that the ligaments of the knee are uniformly tensioned in the flexed state of the knee. A truing and drilling component for truing and drilling a femoral end face can be pushed onto the guide elements and fixed at various positions relative to the base surface. The risk of injury and misuse during the surgery on a human knee is reduced and the duration of surgery is shortened by means of the surgery device according to the invention.
US10856871B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses for a surgical handle assembly. An example apparatus includes a toothed rack, a movable handle member, a driving pawl configured to engage the toothed rack and advance the toothed rack in a linear distal direction in response to a movable handle member advancing in a proximal direction and a latch configured to engage the toothed rack and advance the toothed rack in a linear proximal direction in response to the movable handle member advancing in a distal direction.
US10856870B2
A surgical instrument that includes a surgical end effector that is articulatable relative to a shaft between a home position and a maximum articulated position. A motor operably interfaces with the surgical end effector to move the end effector between the home position and the maximum articulated position. The motor is configured to operate at a first motor speed to articulate the end effector from the home position to a first articulated position between the home position and the maximum articulated position and to operate at a second motor speed to articulate the surgical end effector from the first articulated position to the maximum articulated position.
US10856869B2
A surgical stapling anvil is disclosed comprising an anvil body comprising a longitudinal slot configured to receive a firing member therethrough and a tissue-facing surface comprising a plurality of staple-forming pockets defined therein. The anvil further comprises an anvil cap and a plurality of welds welding the anvil cap and the anvil body together. The welds comprise a shallow-welded zone comprising a first weld depth and a deep-welded zone comprising a second weld depth which is different than the first weld depth, wherein the shallow-welded zone and the deep-welded zone are configured to increase overall weld depth of the plurality of welds.
US10856864B2
A needle cartridge for a surgical suturing instrument includes a cartridge body, a track extending through the cartridge body and defining a circular path, an arcuate needle movably positioned within the track, and a suture thread extending from the arcuate needle. A needle driver operatively connects to the cartridge body and the arcuate needle. The needle driver is configured to orbit the arcuate needle along the circular path. A needle cover is secured to the cartridge body. A clearance channel extends through at least a portion of the cartridge body along the track in communication with the track such that the clearance channel at least partially defines a suture path. The suture path is configured to receive the suture thread extending from the trailing end of the arcuate needle as the arcuate needle moves along the circular path thereby inhibiting the suture thread from obstructing movement of the arcuate needle.
US10856849B2
An ultrasound diagnostic device includes a propagation information estimator that evaluates reliability of wavefront arrival time data in the wavefront arrival time frame data and, for reliability nonconformance wavefront arrival time data in the wavefront arrival time frame data that does not satisfy a predefined condition, generates compensated wavefront arrival time data by interpolation based on wavefront arrival time data that does satisfy the predefined condition, replaces the reliability nonconformance wavefront arrival time data with the compensated wavefront arrival time data, and generates compensated wavefront arrival time frame data; and an elastic modulus calculator that calculates shear wave propagation speed and/or elastic modulus frame data in the region of interest, based on the compensated wavefront arrival time frame data.
US10856848B2
Aspects of the technology described herein relate to techniques for guiding an operator to use an ultrasound device. Thereby, operators with little or no experience operating ultrasound devices may capture medically relevant ultrasound images and/or interpret the contents of the obtained ultrasound images. For example, some of the techniques disclosed herein may be used to identify a particular anatomical view of a subject to image with an ultrasound device, guide an operator of the ultrasound device to capture an ultrasound image of the subject that contains the particular anatomical view, and/or analyze the captured ultrasound image to identify medical information about the subject.
US10856837B2
A system for detecting blood velocity within a blood vessel includes a transducer array including a plurality of transducers. Each of the transducers includes a carrier substrate, at least one spacer extending upwardly from the substrate, a transducer element attached to the spacer such that the piezoelectric transducer is spaced apart from the substrate, and setting electrodes positioned on the upper surface of the substrate under the piezoelectric transducer. The system also includes a tilt control system that is configured to apply a bias voltage to the setting electrodes which causes the transducer element to pivot about a pivot axis between a first tilted position and a second tilted position.
US10856823B2
An X-ray device includes a casing, an X-ray generator, a zoom ring-like object and an elastic connecting assembly. The casing has a storage space. The X-ray generator is disposed on the casing and located in the storage space. One end of the zoom ring-like object is connected to the X-ray generator. One end of the elastic connecting assembly is connected to the X-ray generator or the zoom ring-like object, and another end of the elastic connecting assembly is connected to the casing, such that the zoom ring-like object or both the zoom ring-like object and the X-ray generator are inclinable relative to the casing.
US10856812B2
Methods and apparatus are described for facilitating the extraction of cleaner biometric signals from biometric monitors. A motion reference signal is generated independently from a biometric signal and then the motion reference signal is used to remove motion artifacts from the biometric signal.
US10856800B2
A portable polysomnography apparatus comprises a unitary flexible structured pillow that is embedded with accelerometers for data collection. The polysomnography apparatus is advantageously sized and shaped to cause the sleeping subject to properly orient the embedded accelerometers for optimal data collection while the subject is asleep. A portable polysomnography system comprises a structured pillow with embedded sensors that are in wireless communication with a companion data collection device that records data from the embedded sensors. In an alternative embodiment, a system may include a structured pillow with an internal pocket into which a single device including embedded sensors and data recording capabilities is inserted.
US10856799B2
The present disclosure generally relates to an automated method and system for generating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a skin structure of a subject. The method comprises: acquiring a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) cross-sectional images of the skin structure, specifically, using optical coherence tomography (OCT) technique; computing a cost for each 2D cross-sectional image based on a cost function, the cost function comprising an edge-based parameter and a non-edge-based parameter; constructing a 3D graph from the 2D cross-sectional images; and determining a minimum-cost closed set from the 3D graph based on the computed costs for the 2D cross-sectional images, wherein the 3D representation of the skin structure is generated from the minimum-cost closed set.
US10856798B2
A monitoring system comprising: a uterine insert comprising an insert extension, wherein the insert extension comprises at least one sensor; a deployment module engageable with the insert, and configured to allow the insert extension to bend when the module is engaged with the insert; a system control device operationally coupled to continuously receive signals from the at least one sensor and to convert the signals into data representing the signals, and a display operationally coupled to display the data from the system control device.
US10856797B2
Method and system for monitoring the autonomic nervous system (ANS) of a subject, comprising acquiring at least one physiological signal having W heartbeats, generating data which is a function of the variability of the heart rate on the W heartbeats, with the HRV having W−1 RR intervals separating two consecutive heartbeats detected respectively at the moments tk−1 and tk, each RR interval having a duration of value aκ=tκ−tκ−1 with k=(X−W+2) . . . X; calculating at least one parameter taken from the parameter TAS(tx) representing the level of activity of the sympathetic system and/or the parameter TAP(tx) representing the level of activity of the parasympathetic system; and/or other parameters such as the parameter SL(tx) representing stress level of the subject at the moment tx and calculated using the equation such that SL(tx)=100+TAS(tx)−TAP(tx); and supplying data representative of at least one parameter.
US10856796B1
A force measurement system is disclosed herein. The force measurement system includes a force measurement assembly configured to receive a subject thereon, and one or more data processing devices operatively coupled to the force measurement assembly. In one or more embodiments, the one or more data processing devices are configured to generate a first image portion comprising a primary screen image for viewing by the subject and display the first image portion using the at least one visual display device, and the one or more data processing devices are further configured to generate a second image portion comprising a virtual screen surround and display the second image portion using the at least one visual display device. The virtual screen surround of the second image portion is configured to at least partially circumscribe three sides of a torso of the subject and to substantially encompass a peripheral vision of the subject.
US10856795B2
A multifunction device for the measurement of the strain on the faces of load cells and displacement on the free ends of load cells allow measurement of the traction and/or compression force and energy expended by a muscle or muscle groups of the human body. Embodiments allow determination of the force profile, the instantaneous power and the average power. Also disclosed is a device for the measurement, recording and digital monitoring of the evolution of force and respective expended energy.
US10856794B2
The invention relates to a method and system for determining the cardiorespiratory fitness level of a person, with the aid of freely performed exercise, in which training: the physiological intensity of the person is measured periodically during the exercise session, the external work output of the exercise session is measured simultaneously relative to the measured intensity, from each period's measured intensity value and external work output, the representativeness of the values measured is determined, in order to determine the fitness level using the following criteria: the physiological intensity should be stabilized relative to the external work output, the external work output should be within a selected range, the physiological intensity should be greater than a selected lower limit, in which case, a fitness level estimate is defined for each accepted period as well as a fitness from several estimates.
US10856791B2
Bodily fluid sample collection systems, devices, and method are provided. The device may comprise a first portion comprising at least a sample collection channel configured to draw the fluid sample into the sample collection channel via a first type of motive force. The sample collection device may include a second portion comprising a sample container for receiving the bodily fluid sample collected in the sample collection channel, the sample container operably engagable to be in fluid communication with the collection channel, whereupon when fluid communication is established, the container provides a second motive force different from the first motive force to move a majority of the bodily fluid sample from the channel into the container.
US10856787B2
Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data are disclosed, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. The sensor can be calibrated using a calibration set of one or more matched sensor and reference analyte data pairs. Reference data resulting from benchtop testing an analyte sensor prior to its insertion can be used to provide initial calibration of the sensor data. Reference data from a short term continuous analyte sensor implanted in a user can be used to initially calibrate or update sensor data from a long term continuous analyte sensor.
US10856786B2
A system and method for controlling and monitoring a diabetes-management system through the use of a model that predicts or estimates future dynamic states of glucose and insulin from variables such as insulin delivery or exogenous glucose appearance as well as inherent physiological parameters. The model predictive estimator can be used as an insulin bolus advisor to give an apriori estimate of postprandial glucose for a given insulin delivery profile administered with a known meal to optimize insulin delivery; as a supervisor to monitor the operation of the diabetes-management system; and as a model predictive controller to optimize the automated delivery of insulin into a user's body to achieve a desired blood glucose profile or concentration. Open loop, closed-loop, and semi-closed loop embodiments of the invention utilize a mathematical metabolic model that includes a Minimal Model, a Pump Delivery to Plasma Insulin Model, and a Meal Appearance Rate Model.
US10856777B2
A method and device for identifying a human movement state that includes: determining according to acceleration signals that are collected by a three-axis acceleration sensor that a human is in a walking state, calculating a walking step number of the human, and calculating a walking step frequency according to the number; calculating a corresponding physical sign frequency during the walking process according to a physical sign signal that is collected; and comparing the walking step frequency and the physical sign frequency that are obtained by calculating respectively with a step frequency threshold and a physical sign frequency threshold, and if the walking step frequency is greater than the step frequency threshold, and the physical sign frequency is greater than the physical sign frequency threshold, determining that the human movement state is a running state, and recording the calculated walking step number to be a running step number.
US10856773B2
A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the diameter of each hair from the acquired image.
US10856772B2
A calculation device, a calculation method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium including a calculation program with which a length of a target region required for a body model can be determined by means of a simple motion are provided. This calculation device configures a wearable device to initiate measurement of a measurement target region. After the measurement of the measurement target region is initiated, a worker wearing the wearable device performs a motion such as rotation of an arm, for example, etc. The calculation device acquires measured information two or more times over time and calculates a body model on the basis of the acquired measured information. During calculation of the body model, calculation is performed to determine a length of a calculation target region by approximately determining a circle or sphere having the length from the rotation center to the calculation target region as a radius using a mathematical method such as a least-squares method on the basis of the measured information acquired over time. Then, the calculation device records the calculated body model in a body model recording unit.
US10856771B2
A system for visually representing estimated ablation size is provided which includes sensors that acquire location signals indicating locations of an ablation device during an ablation of an organ and ablation parameters signals indicating ablation parameters during the ablation. The system also includes memory which stores location data and ablation parameter data corresponding to the location signals and ablation parameters signals. The system also includes a processing device which generates mapping information for displaying a map of the organ and first object information for displaying a first geometrical object having a first size which represents an estimated depth of the ablation of the organ. The processing device also generates second object information for displaying, concurrently with the first geometrical object, a second geometrical object having a second size which represents an estimated width of the ablation of the organ.
US10856762B2
An atrial fibrillation detecting device includes a processor and a memory that stores a computer-readable command. When the computer-readable command is executed by the processor, the atrial fibrillation detecting device is configured to acquire pulse data representing a plurality of pulses, calculate a pulse rate based on the pulse data, calculate respective pulse amplitude indices of the plurality of pluses based on the pulse data, calculate an amplitude dispersion of the pulse amplitude indices based on the calculated pulse amplitude indices, calculate respective pulse interval indices of the plurality of pluses based on the pulse data, calculate an interval dispersion of the pulse interval indices based on the calculated pulse interval indices, and determine whether the pulse data is atrial fibrillation, based on the calculated pulse rate, the calculated amplitude dispersion, and the calculated interval dispersion.
US10856761B2
Methods and systems are provided for detecting arrhythmias in cardiac activity. The methods and systems declare a current beat, from the CA signals, to be a candidate beat or an ineligible beat based on whether the current beat satisfies the rate based selection criteria. The determining and declaring operations are repeated for multiple beats to form an ensemble of candidate beats. The method and system calculate a P-wave segment ensemble from the ensemble of candidate beats, perform a morphology-based comparison between the P-wave segment ensemble and at least one of a monophasic or biphasic template, declare a valid P-wave to be present within the CA signals based on the morphology-based comparison, and utilize the valid P-wave in an arrhythmia detection process to determine at least one of an arrhythmia entry, arrhythmia presence or arrhythmia exit.
US10856756B2
Electrocardiograms can be analyzed in the time-frequency domain, following conversion into time-frequency maps, to determine characteristics or features of various waveforms, such as waveform morphology and/or the amplitude(s) and location(s) (in time and/or frequency) of one or more extrema of the waveform. Based on comparison of the extrema against thresholds and/or against each other, disease conditions may be determined.
US10856753B2
A system, method and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for monitoring a perfusion of a patient. The system, method and computer readable storage medium receive an indication of a voltage applied across a chest of the patient via a first electrode, receive a measurement of a current across the chest of the patient, resulting from the applied voltage via a second electrode, generate an impedance-based respiratory rate waveform based on the applied voltage and the measured current, generate a Fourier Transform of the respiratory rate waveform relative to a heartbeat of the patient, isolate cardiac artifacts in the Fourier Transform and generate a perfusion waveform indicating a perfusion of a chest cavity of the patient based on the isolated cardiac artifacts.
US10856744B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus comprising a portable monitoring device to be affixed to a user. The portable monitoring device including: 1) a set of one or more sensors to generate sensor data indicative of physical activity of a user when the portable monitoring device is affixed to the user; and 2) processing circuitry coupled with the set of sensors, to detect that the user has been sedentary for a period of time, and cause the portable monitoring device to alert the user responsive to the detection to encourage the user to move.
US10856739B2
A system for monitoring parameters of an object is described. The system comprising: a monitoring unit configured for performing one or more monitoring sessions on an object and collecting data from an inspection region on the object over time and generating monitored data indicative of the inspected region, a stimulation unit configured and operable for applying at least one selected external stimulation field on the object during said one or more monitoring sessions, and a control unit configured for receiving the monitored data from the monitoring unit and determining one or more selected parameters. The stimulation unit is configured for providing said at least one selected external stimulation field directed toward said inspection region from two or more different directions. The control unit being configured for utilizing said monitored data in accordance with data on the two or more different directions of the stimulation field applied to the inspection region for determining one or more selected parameters of the object.
US10856738B2
A device for measuring a physiological parameter of a user carrying the device that includes a sensor having at least two sensor elements for detecting a sensor signal, a carrier configured to carry the sensor, and electrical contacts of the sensor elements that lead on, into or through the carrier. One or more frames carried by the carrier are formed around the sensor and/or the individual sensor elements, and an insulator material is filled between the one or more frames and the sensor and/or the sensor elements surrounded by a respective frame without covering a top surface of a respective sensor element facing away from the carrier.
US10856736B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for remote monitoring. In some example implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a remote monitor, a notification message representative of an event detected, by a server, from analyte sensor data obtained from a receiver monitoring an analyte state of a host; presenting, at the remote monitor, the notification message to activate the remote monitor, wherein the remote monitor is configured by the server to receive the notification message to augment the receiver monitoring of the analyte state of the host; accessing, by the remote monitor, the server, in response to the presenting of the notification message; and receiving, in response to the accessing, information including at least the analyte sensor data. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US10856735B2
This disclosure relates to the field of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT). This disclosure particularly relates to an OCT system that generates an image with improved quality. In one example, the OCT system may generate an improved Bscan image by using multiple shaping functions to shape the raw A-scans. In another example, the OCT system may generate the improved B-scan image by forming multiple apodization patterns on a detector and acquiring raw A-scans by using the apodization patterns. A better diagnosis of a health condition may be reached by using the improved images generated by the OCT system of this disclosure.
US10856729B2
A surgical system includes a bronchoscope, an extended working channel defining an elongated passageway and adapted to extend through the bronchoscope, and a valve in fluid communication with the passageway of the extended working channel. The surgical system further includes an elongated surgical instrument configured and dimensioned to be inserted through the extended working channel. During operation, a fluid is able to flow from the valve and through the extended working channel such that the fluid travels within an annular area surrounding the elongated surgical instrument positioned within the extended working channel.
US10856726B2
The present invention aims to make it capable of holding organs more safely.Provided is a medical support arm apparatus, including: an arm unit (510) whose driving is controlled by force control; and a retractor, provided on a front end of the arm unit (510), that holds an organ of a patient during surgery.
US10856721B2
An improved floor mat apparatus is a low profile, rectangular, shoe cleaning apparatus that has an inner volume with two spaced apart rollers mounted within the inner volume that an elongated mat with the ends joined together forming a continuous loop, travels around. A motor turns a first roller and the second roller adjusts to remove slack to tighten the mat. The top surface of the housing is open to expose the mat for cleaning shoes upon. When the mat becomes dirty, the rollers turn via a button located on a panel situated adjacent to one end of the mat and a removable collection chamber at one end of the mat collects debris and helps remove dirt from the mat via a vibrator and brush.
US10856719B2
The invention proposes a cleaning device (110) for cleaning articles (116) to be cleaned. The cleaning device (110) comprises at least one cleaning chamber (114) and at least one application device (120) for applying at least one cleaning fluid to the articles (116) to be cleaned in the cleaning chamber (114). The cleaning device (110) further comprises at least one controller (157) which is designed to actuate the cleaning device (110) for carrying out at least two operating modes. The controller (157) is further designed to detect at least one utilization variable. The utilization variable characterizes a current utilization of the cleaning device (110). The controller (157) is further designed to assign at least one weighting to the at least one utilization variables. The controller (157) further has at least one counting device (170) which is designed to cumulate utilization times of the cleaning device (110) which are weighted with the weighting and to generate at least one item of use information about a use of the cleaning device (110) therefrom.
US10856717B2
A free-floating, hinged release lever on an incorporated track to a three-sided extruded channel housing, which holds multiple magnets with opposite polarity. The housing has a steel top plate to allow for centering a female ACME connector for the attachment of a handle and to allow for an axle at each end to hold wheels for ease of conveyance. After the three-sided extruded channel housing—encapsulated by the free-floating, hinged release lever—has collected ferrous debris, the release lever is pushed away from the housing to allow for easy removal of ferrous material by it falling off by gravitational force without the operator having to be in contact with the metal debris. The magnets remain in place during the entire removal process.
US10856713B2
A cleaner head for a vacuum cleaner includes: a body having a proximal end and a distal end; an agitator, an axis of rotation R1 of the agitator being substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of the body; a motor configured to cause the agitator to rotate; and a joint configured to turnably connect a suction pipe to the body. The joint is positioned closer to the proximal end than to the distal end. The body includes a second suction channel configured to communicate with a first suction channel inside the joint, and a bulkhead configured to separate an agitator chamber and the second suction channel from each other. The second suction channel extends substantially parallel to the axis of rotation of the agitator. The bulkhead includes at least one air vent from the agitator chamber to the second suction channel.
US10856708B2
A portable toilet including: a bowl made of soft material; and a resilient loop integrated with the bowl, the resilient loop forming a rim of the bowl; wherein the bowl comprises a chamber at the bottom of the bowl. The chamber holds a bag which is taken out to cover the bowl during use.
US10856706B2
A toilet paper holster charging station. The toilet paper holster charging station includes a housing having a top portion with opposing arms extending from a bottom thereof. A support shaft spans between the opposing arms and is rotatably attached thereto. The support shaft is removably affixed to the opposing arms and can hold a roll of toilet paper thereon. An electrical outlet is disposed in an arm of the housing and includes standard sockets as well as Universal Serial Bus (USB) outlets for plugging in and charging devices. The electrical outlet is configured to be connected to the electrical grid of a house through wired connection running through the walls. A shelving portion is included on the top surface of the housing to allow a user to rest an electrical device thereon while charging.
US10856688B2
An apparatus for filling the basket of a portafilter of an espresso machine with a predetermined dose of coffee grounds and for pressing it within the portafilter is disclosed. A support device for supporting the portafilter projects out of a front wall of the espresso machine. The portafilter is placed on the support device in a first coffee-dispensing position below a coffee grounds dispenser, then moved to a second position below a pressing device. In the second position, a pestle of the pressing device is moved vertically toward the dose of coffee contained in a basket of the portafilter to compress the coffee grounds a desired amount, and is then removed vertically away from the basket of the portafilter containing the pressed coffee dose.
US10856687B1
The slow cooker with heating and cooling functions comprises a base with both heating and cooling functions, a crock, and a lid. Food may be placed into the crock and covered with the lid. The crock may then be placed into the base, which may be programmed to heat and/or cool the food in the crock. The base further comprises a controller that determines when, how long, and to what extent the heat or cooling should be applied to the crock. The controller may display operational status and accept operational input from a touch sensitive display on the front of the base. The controller may communicate wirelessly with a smart device so that operational status and operational input that are accessible on the front of the base may be accessed from the smart device.
US10856667B2
Bed safety rails with added structures for added functionality are shown and described. The added structures may provide additional functionality, aside from safety and security, of electrical power access, a shelf, a cup-holder, a writing-implement-holder, a light-source, a dry erase board, and/or a magnet board for a given bed safety rail. A given bed safety rail may include at least one vertical-safety-rail-member and at least one horizontal-anchor-member that is attached to the vertical-safety-rail-member. The at least one vertical-safety-rail-member may provide the safety and security features; as well as the additional functional features. The at least one horizontal-anchor-member may have structure permitting the given bed safety rail to be removably anchored to a given bed.
US10856666B1
A treasure chest bed housing apparatus for creating a decorative and functional bed housing includes a base having an access aperture extending through a base back side to a base interior. A top structure is coupled to the base and a door track is coupled to a foot side and a head side of the top structure and beneath a cover side. A principal door is slidably coupled within the door track to move between a closed position extending from the base adjacent the front section of the top structure and an alternate open position overlapping with the cover side of the top structure. The base, the top structure, and the principal door in the closed position resemble a treasure chest. A bed is coupled to the base and is disposed on the base top side within the top interior. An HVAC unit is coupled within the base interior.
US10856662B2
A body support structure includes a frame and a membrane attached to the frame. The membrane includes elastomeric filaments. The membrane includes different regions with different stiffness. The membrane may form a part of a seat or a backrest.
US10856658B2
A kit for providing modular kitchens, which comprises: a plurality of panels, each one defining two mutually opposite greater faces and four side faces; a plurality of battens, each one defining four side surfaces which are interposed between respective base surfaces; a plurality of coupling assemblies, each one adapted for coupling between any side face of any panel and side surface of any batten, at least in order to provide a plurality of basic modular elements with a box-like shape structure, each one having at least two side panels and one lower panel; a plurality of covering walls; a plurality of sliding guide rails; a plurality of angular supports; a plurality of hinge assemblies.
US10856653B2
A light-emitting desk or stool, having a frame and a support portion mounted on the frame; the support portion is a hollowed light-emitting box having a mounting seat and a transparent cover mounted on the mounting seat; a cavity is formed between the mounting seat and the transparent cover; light-emitting bodies are provided within the cavity. Lights emitted by the light-emitting bodies can illuminate through the transparent cover to provide lighting effect. Also, the lights emitted by the light-emitting bodies can pass through hollowed portions provided on the mounting seat, thereby projecting a pattern defined by the hollowed portions to the external environment, and hence enhancing the lighting effect as well as providing aesthetic effect. The pattern defined by the hollowed portions can be flexibly designed according to personal preference or practical need.
US10856644B2
A washing brush to wash a container having a long length. The washing brush includes a handle part, a shaft part connected to the handle part, a sliding part configured to slide along the shaft part, a strip part coupled to the lower end part of the shaft part and lower part of the sliding part, a brush part attached to the outside of the strip part; and a position adjusting part configured to adjust a relative position of the shaft part. The sliding part is pressed to spread the strip part and the spread can be varied by the position adjusting part by adjusting the relative position of the sliding part with respect to the shaft part. A washing brush is provided that can simply and quickly wash a cylindrical container by allowing a washing part to be spread according to the shape of a container.
US10856643B2
Disclosed is a double hair cosmetic brush. The double hair cosmetic brush of the present invention includes a brush body; a first brush hair portion provided at one side of the brush body; and a second brush hair portion provided on the brush body to surround a border of the first brush hair portion, in which a receiving groove in which the cosmetic is received is provided in at least one of the first brush hair portion and the second brush hair portion and the hair of the second brush hair portion is thinner than the hair of the first brush hair portion.
US10856640B2
A light source and a power source are held between upper and lower shells of a fake nail tip. The fake nail tip is provided with its shells hinged open and the light source unactivated. As the shells are brought together, an electrical contact is made between the power source and the light source, which causes the light source to illuminate the fake nail tip. The shells are then fastened together to maintain the light source illuminated.
US10856634B2
A case for a lens or telescope has a generally cylindrical side wall attached to a top wall and a bottom wall defining a compartment accessed by an opening extending across the top wall away from a belt mounting sleeve and down the side wall opposite the belt mounting sleeve. The top wall and the side wall are deformable to permit the opening to be enlarged by hand for insertion or removal of the lens or telescope. A zipper secures the opening. An additional opening may be provided at a juncture of the top wall and the side wall.
US10856625B1
A belt buckle for includes a base frame, a connector housing movably attached on the base frame, and a rapid fastening arrangement. The rapid fastening arrangement includes a first fastening member extended from the base frame, a second fastening member also extended from the base frame, a holding bridge defining a through securing slot, a biasing member, and a resilient assembly. The resilient assembly is arranged to exert an urging force toward the biasing member, in such a manner that when a fastening end portion of the belt strap is received in the through securing slot, the resilient assembly is arranged to drive the biasing member, the first fastening member and the second fastening member to bias against the belt strap so as to securely fasten the fastening end portion on the belt strap.
US10856624B2
The present disclosure relates to novelty and promotional buttons capable of being hung for display. The button includes an insert with an integral tab having an aperture or a button back with integral tab having an aperture for hanging the button.
US10856617B2
An expandable support member for an article of footwear includes a plurality of expansion components that are joined together. The support member can be expandable between a contracted position and an expanded position. The plurality of expansion components are configured to expand along a non-linear path when the support member moves between the contracted position and the expanded position.
US10856613B2
Golf shoes having improved outsole constructions are provided. The outsole contains flex channels that provide flexibility when a person is walking or playing a golf course. The outsole further includes traction members having a serrated, wave-like structure. These traction members make high contact with the ground surface and provide high traction, stability, and support for the golfer. The outsole may further include removable spikes that are fastened to receptacles. These spikes can be arranged in different patterns and they provide additional support and traction.
US10856610B2
Disclosed herein are various methods and devices for modifying the comfort and performance characteristics of a shoe. In various embodiments, the devices are soles, insole or outsoles, of a shoe comprising one or more shocks. The shocks may be defined by shock cavities positioned within one or more surfaces of a sole. In some embodiments the shock cavity may be configured to receive one or more shock cavity inserts.
US10856603B2
Footwear for use during a specialized activity such as skiing, cycling, skating and many other sports or industrial uses, and provides a dorsal element engaging the dorsal aspect of the foot for enabling the user to control relative to the plantar aspect the maximum height of the arch of the foot at substantially all times during the activity regardless of the position or orientation of the foot. A pivotal arm is mounted on a frame attached to the planter aspect for pivotal movement about an axis transverse to the foot and is compressed by an adjustable element operable by the user.
US10856602B2
Adaptive output control is performed on the basis of sound and motion.Footwear includes a sensor portion that detects motion of the footwear, a transmission portion that transmits sensor data detected by the sensor portion to an external apparatus, a reception portion that receives an output control signal based on sound data and the sensor data from the external apparatus, and an output portion that performs output based on the output control signal.
US10856584B2
A cartridge for an aerosol-generating system may comprise a liquid storage portion, which includes a housing holding a liquid aerosol-forming substrate. The housing has a first and a second opening. The cartridge may further comprise a first and a second permeable planar heater assembly, wherein the first permeable planar heater assembly is fixed to the housing and extends across the first opening of the housing, and the second permeable planar heater assembly is fixed to the housing and extends across the second opening of the housing. The first and second permeable planar heater assemblies are arranged opposite each other such that they face each other and form an airflow channel in between.
US10856582B2
An indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator comprises a capillary tube adapted to form an aerosol when liquid material in the capillary tube is heated to volatilize at least some of the liquid material therein and a thermally conductive material in thermal contact with the capillary tube. The indirectly heated capillary aerosol generator provides substantially even and uniform heating across the heated length of the capillary tube.
US10856573B2
A sachet of aerosol-forming substrate for electrically heated aerosol-generating device is provided, including a porous container; and an aerosol-forming substrate within the container, the substrate having a porosity of between about 0.2 and about 0.35, the porosity being the volume fraction of void space within the container. An electrically heated aerosol-generating system is also provided, including a sachet of aerosol-forming substrate; and an aerosol-generating device, the device including an outer housing having a cavity configured to receive the sachet, and an electrical heater including at least one heating element configured to heat the sachet in the cavity to generate an aerosol from the aerosol-forming substrate for inhalation by a user.
US10856570B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, apparatuses, and methods for assembling cartridges for aerosol delivery devices. The cartridges may be assembled by transporting carriages between various substations at which parts are added to a base. In another assembly method, the base may be moved between a plurality of robots which direct the base downwardly into contact with components to couple the components therewith. An inspection system may inspect the cartridges at various stages of completion.
US10856564B2
The present invention relates to a novel emulsion structured in an isometric crystalline network of cellulose derivatives where the emulsion comprises Omega-3 fatty acids homogeneously distributed in the same. The emulsion of the invention has been designed to have greater stability, bioavailability and gastro-resistance and may be used in special medical foods, nutritional supplements, sports nutrition, enteral nutrition or child nutrition, amongst others.
US10856560B2
The invention provides animal feed comprising microbial biomass and methods of producing animal feed by culturing a microorganism to produce microbial biomass. In particular, the invention relates to animal feed produced by fermentation of a gaseous substrate comprising one or more of CO, CO2, and H2, especially by a Gram-positive, anaerobic, and/or Clostridium microorganism.
US10856557B2
Method for coating a piece of chocolate that includes a placement step for placing an edible metal foil having a thickness less than 20 micrometers on at least one part of the outer surface of a surface layer of said piece of chocolate, said layer comprising cocoa butter, a heating step in which the piece of chocolate is exposed to a temperature equal to or greater than the melting temperature of the cocoa butter such that the cocoa butter of said layer melts and attaches said foil to the layer, and a solidification step wherein the melted butter solidifies, the foil being adhered to the surface layer of said piece of chocolate. The invention also relates to a piece of chocolate made according to the methods disclosed herein.
US10856539B2
Herein described is a rod holder assembly that holds an object such as a rod receiver for a fishing rod in a desired orientation that is manually and singlehandedly adjustable about the horizontal and/or vertical axes. The rod holder assembly can be set to lock in positional orientation or clutch in response to an external force, A method for using the rod holder assembly is also described.
US10856537B1
Quick drop halyard line roller guides for removable attachment to existing outriggers to allow the user to quickly drop the halyard rigging lines from the outriggers. Quick release roller line guides are provided for removable attachment to the existing eyelet-type circular outrigger line guides. Quick and installation and removal of outrigger halyard lines permits the lines to be safely stored away from harsh environmental conditions when not use thereby extending line life.
US10856529B2
A protective garment for selectively shielding the nipples of a nursing animal includes a sleeve that has opposing ends. The opposing ends are open, such that the sleeve is configured to position around a torso of the nursing animal with at least the nipples of the nursing animal covered by the sleeve. A plurality of holes is positioned through a bottom of the sleeve. Each hole is configured to insert a respective nipple of the nursing animal. A guard is configured to reversibly couple to the bottom of the sleeve. The guard is positioned to couple to the sleeve to cover the plurality of holes, such that the nipples positioned through the holes are shielded.
US10856524B2
A method of animal corralling and tracking includes: implanting an electronic device within an animal, the electronic device comprising one or more processors with non-transitory memory; receiving, with the electronic device, a GPS (global positioning satellite) signal defining a current location of the animal; selecting, on a digital map, acceptable GPS coordinate locations forming one or more geographic regions with one or more perimeter boundaries; wirelessly programming the electronic device with the selected acceptable GPS coordinate locations; wherein the electronic device non-transitory memory is programmed to: determine if the current location of the animal is approaching the one or more perimeter boundaries, outside of the one or more perimeter boundaries, within a predetermined distance of the one or more perimeter boundaries, or at the one or more perimeter boundaries; and electronically prodding the animal, using the electronic device, based on the determination.
US10856509B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073199. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073199. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073199 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073199 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10856503B1
A novel maize variety designated X90N361 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X90N361 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X90N361 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X90N361, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X90N361 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X90N361 and methods of using maize variety X90N361 are disclosed.
US10856498B1
A novel maize variety designated 3ABIA1619 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 3ABIA1619 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 3ABIA1619 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 3ABIA1619 or a locus conversion of 3ABIA1619 with another maize variety.
US10856494B1
A novel maize variety designated PH46DZ and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety PH46DZ with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH46DZ 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 PH46DZ or a locus conversion of PH46DZ with another maize variety.
US10856490B2
Inbred corn line, designated KW7P1144, are disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line KW7P1144, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line KW7P1144 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line KW7P1144 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line KW7P1144 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line KW7P1144.
US10856485B1
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH101454. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH101454, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH101454 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 CH101454.
US10856483B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH974617. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH974617, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH974617 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 CH974617.
US10856473B1
A weed barrier includes a rigid body defining a plurality of basins. The basins have bottoms with holes therethrough for planting garden plants. In a particular embodiment the bottom surface of the weed barrier includes a plurality of hose channels configured be positioned over a hose. Several example configurations of rigid weed barriers are disclosed.
US10856467B2
An autonomous mobile work system (20) includes a drive wheel (34) that is connected to a frame (24) and a rotating blade assembly (36). The rotating blade assembly (36) includes a blade assembly axis of rotation (38) and is connected to the frame (24) within a housing (26). The mobile work system (20) further includes a single motor (40) operably connected to the blade assembly (36). The motor (50) includes a motor output shaft (44) and the motor output shaft (44) includes an output shaft axis of rotation (46). The mobile work system (20) still further includes a gear box (50) operably connected to the drive wheel (34) and the motor output shaft (44). The single motor (50) urges rotation of both the rotating blade assembly (36) and the drive wheel (34). The gear box (50) can include a planetary gear set (104) including a ring gear (110) defining cavities (120) at its outside diameter (124). A locking shaft (126) can rotate between an engaged position and a disengaged position with one of the cavities (120).
US10856465B2
Systems and methods for inhibiting implement-induced stall of a prime mover associated with a turf vehicle. In some embodiments, the vehicle includes an electronic controller (EC) adapted to monitor a speed of the prime mover and detect when the speed falls below a speed threshold. The EC is adapted to automatically disengage a power take-off (PTO) connecting the prime mover to the implement when the speed of the prime mover falls below this speed threshold.
US10863659B2
In a component mounter, a cut and clinch unit is arranged below a circuit board that is conveyed by a conveyance device, and the cut and clinch unit can be moved to a given position by a moving device. When imaging a fiducial mark of the circuit board using an imaging device, the cut and clinch unit is moved such that an identification assistance sticker arranged on the cut and clinch unit is positioned as the background to the fiducial mark. The color of the circuit board surrounding the fiducial is white and the color of the identification assistance sticker is black. Thus, the outline of the fiducial mark is clear and the fiducial mark can be appropriately recognized based on the image data.
US10863656B2
A radio-frequency module includes a multilayer circuit board, components mounted on a top surface of the multilayer circuit board, a first sealing resin layer sealing the components, a plurality of components mounted on a bottom surface of the multilayer circuit board, a second sealing resin layer sealing the components, a shield electrode disposed on a bottom surface of the second sealing resin layer in a region that overlaps a predetermined component, a shield wall disposed between the predetermined component and another component, part of the shield wall being exposed from the bottom surface of the second sealing resin layer and connected to the shield electrode, and a shield film covering a top surface and side surface of the first sealing resin layer and a side surface of the multilayer circuit board.
US10863655B2
A crossflow heat-exchanger has first and second sets of fluid-flow channels arranged such that each set crosses the other to afford heat-exchange between cooling air in the first set and hot air in the second set, without the cooling air and the hot air contacting one another. A first series of fans causes flow of the external cooling air through the rows. A second series of fans causes flow of the internal hot air through the columns. External and internal fan controllers control the speed of each fan independently such that external cooling air flows through different rows at different rates and internal hot air flows through different columns at different rates.
US10863653B2
A thermal test system includes first and second heat generating components that include first and second temperature sensors, respectively. A thermal controller is coupled to the first and second temperature sensors and at least one cooling device. The thermal controller receives, from the first temperature sensor during a thermal test, first temperature data that is indicative of heat generated in response to the operation of the first heat generating component, as the first heat generating component and the second heat generating component operate as part of the thermal test. The thermal controller also receives, from each second temperature sensor during the thermal test, second temperature data that is indicative of heat generated in response to the operation of the second heat generating component. The thermal controller then operates the at least one cooling device at a level based on the first temperature data while ignoring the second temperature data.
US10863650B2
The present invention relates to an air-vapor separation method for separating air from refrigerant vapor in an immersed liquid-cooling system. The immersed liquid-cooling system comprises an immersed server blade cabinet, a condensing device, an air-vapor separator and a refrigerant storage tank, wherein the refrigerant storage tank supplies a liquid refrigerant to the immersed server blade cabinet, and the liquid refrigerant undergoes a phase change to be vaporized into a refrigerant vapor for cooling of the heating element in the immersed server blade cabinet; the condensing device condenses the refrigerant vapor; the air-vapor separator separates a mixed gas in the immersed liquid-cooling system into the air and the refrigerant vapor. The cooling efficiency of the liquid-cooling system is improved by effectively separating the air from the refrigerant vapor in the liquid-cooling system.
US10863646B1
A modular data center support rack system and installation method whereby system includes a plurality of modular support racks formed from bracket-like rack members that support data center electrical power components, and a transportable fixture that detachably holds the rack members into an assembly position. The transportable fixture remains detachably connected to the assembled modular support rack during the transportation thereof to an installation location to reinforce the modular support rack. Each modular support rack includes an arrangement of data center electrical power supply components that are registrable with and connectable the data center electrical power supply components on another of the modular support racks. In the installation method, the modular support racks are serially interconnected into an appropriate electrical supply configuration for a row of servers located beneath the row of modular support racks.
US10863633B2
An exemplary embodiment provides a display device including: a display panel configured to include a first area, and a second area and a third area respectively disposed at opposite sides of the first area in a first direction; a first roller unit configured to wind the second area thereon; and a second roller unit configured to wind the third area of the display panel in an opposite direction to that of the first roller unit, wherein a distance between the first roller unit and the second roller unit which are separated from each other in the first direction can be adjusted.
US10863631B2
A manufacturing method, wherein the method includes providing a layer stack having at least partially uncured component carrier material, arranging a plurality of components in recesses of the layer stack, integrally connecting the components with the layer stack by curing the component carrier material, and applying a high temperature robust dielectric structure on a main surface of the cured layer stack with the components therein.
US10863629B2
A method of manufacturing a through hole of a substrate includes forming, to the substrate, a cutting hole surrounding a removal-target-part such that a connection part of the substrate remains, the connection part that connects the removal-target-part that is removed from the substrate and a remaining part other than the removal-target-part that has been removed, along a cutting line of the through hole formed to the substrate; applying plating on an area including an inner peripheral wall face of the cutting hole of the substrate; applying a film covering an opening of the cutting hole on a surface of the substrate applied with the plating and performing exposure and development of the film to form an etching resist covering an area including the opening of the cutting hole; performing etching of the plating applied on the substrate; removing the etching resist; and cutting the connection part to remove the removal-target-part.
US10863625B2
A flexible printed circuit board includes: a base material including a principal face; at least one first wiring pattern disposed on the principal face of the base material and extending along a first direction; and a first member and a second member disposed on the first wiring pattern so as to be spaced from each other in the first direction. In the first direction, the first member and the second member divide the flexible printed circuit board into: a first region located opposite to the second member with respect to the first member in the first direction, a second region located between the first member and the second member, a third region located opposite to the first member with respect to the second member, a fourth region in which the first member is disposed, and a fifth region in which the second member is disposed.
US10863621B2
There is provided with a metal foil-releasable resin layer composite comprising a metal foil and a releasable resin layer on at least one surface of the metal foil, wherein the releasable resin layer includes 100 parts by mass, in total, of (A) 50 to 95 parts by mass of a nonpolar resin, (B) 4 to 40 parts by mass of a thermosetting resin, and (C) 1 to 25 parts by mass of a release agent, wherein the mass ratio (A/B) of the nonpolar resin (A) to the thermosetting resin (B) is 55/45 to 96/4. The metal foil-releasable resin layer composite can achieve release with significantly low release strength between the metal foil and the releasable resin layer without damage of the releasable resin layer and can withstand hot pressing.
US10863616B1
A circuit board includes an insulating layer; and a wiring layer disposed on a surface of the insulating layer, wherein the wiring layer includes a noise canceling region including a first wiring having a linear shape; and a second wiring having a linear shape and disposed side by side with the first wiring, wherein the first wiring and the second wiring include a bent portion.
US10863615B2
An electronic apparatus includes a conductive member and a printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board includes a printed wiring board having a signal wiring formed thereon, a first semiconductor device configured to output a digital signal to the signal wiring, and a second semiconductor device configured to input the digital signal output from the first semiconductor device via the signal wiring, wherein the signal wiring has a signal wiring pattern formed on a surficial layer located opposite the conductive member in the printed wiring board, and wherein the conductive member has an aperture formed therein and located opposite the signal wiring pattern or includes a flat plate portion and a recessed portion recessed in a direction more away from the printed wiring board than the flat plate portion.
US10863613B2
An EUV light generator including the following components: A. an electron storage ring including a first linear section and a second linear section; B. an electron supplier configured to supply the electron storage ring with an electron bunch; C. a high-frequency acceleration cavity disposed in the first linear section and configured to accelerate the electron bunch in such a way that a length Lez of the electron bunch satisfies “0.09 m≤Lez≤3 m;” and D. an undulator disposed in the second linear section and configured to output EUV light when the electron bunch enters the undulator.
US10863612B2
A system for generating a plasma jet of metal ions is provided. This system includes a tube made of electrically insulating material containing a metal that is in the solid phase at room temperature and an anode making contact with this metal, a generator connected to this anode that is capable of producing a positive electrical potential at this anode, a heating element that is capable of heating a portion of the metal to a heating temperature Tc that is high enough to vaporize this portion of the metal, an electron source located on the outside of the tube and out of the longitudinal axis of the tube, and being capable of generating an electron stream that is able to ionize the vapor of the metal so as to form metal ions, such that the metal ions thus produced are capable of being accelerated by this potential and ejected out of the tube via the downstream end of the tube, and a portion of which are neutralized by electrons so as to form a plasma stream, the system operating without magnets and without an acceleration grid.
US10863611B2
A dielectric resonator is excited at its natural resonant frequency to produce a highly uniform electric field for the generation of plasma. The plasma may be used as a desolvator, atomizer excitation source and ionization source in an optical spectrometer or a mass spectrometer.
US10863601B2
A detection circuit configured to detect the presence of a TRIAC dimmer for an LED driver, can include: a sampling circuit configured to receive a DC bus voltage, and to generate a voltage sampling signal that characterizes the DC bus voltage; and a detector configured to determine whether the LED driver is provided with the TRIAC dimmer in accordance with a duration of the voltage sampling signal being continuously greater than a first reference voltage.
US10863596B2
A method of determining a drive signal provided to a light-emitting diode (LED). The method includes in response to determining that a second light intensity exceeds the expected light intensity, determining, via the controller, an artificial light intensity based on a task-to-sensor ratio, determining, via the controller, a total natural light intensity based on the second light intensity and the artificial light intensity, determining, via the controller, a non-useful natural light intensity based on the total natural light intensity, the first light intensity, and the task-to-sensor ratio, determining, via the controller, the drive signal based on a desired light intensity for the zone, the total natural light intensity, the non-useful natural light intensity, and the artificial light intensity, and controlling, via the controller, the driver to provide the second drive signal to the LED array.
US10863594B2
A lighting device, comprising: a circuit board; a receiver coil trace located on the circuit board and configured to receive transmitted power from a transmitting coil trace; a light-emitter located on the circuit board, configured to receive power from the receiver coil trace; and receiver electronics located on the circuit board, configured to receive power from the receiver coil trace and control operation of the light emitter.
US10863580B1
A user device may receive, an output stream associated with an application session, wherein the output stream is associated with imperceptible content via an output component. The user device may transmit, via a short range wireless communication component, an advertisement associated with the application session. The user device may configure a main processing thread that is associated with executing the application session to provide the output stream to the output component. The main processing thread may be configured to provide the output stream to: cause the output component to operate in association with the imperceptible content and prevent an operating system from suspending the application session while the application session is executing in a background state.
US10863567B2
In order to provide a communication system capable of charging control in accordance with a bearer used by a UE even when the UE performs dual connectivity, a communication system according to the present disclosure includes a communication terminal (11) configured to communicate with a communication device (12) and a communication device (13) by using a different radio bearer for each of the communication device (12) and the communication device (13), and a control device (14) configured to determine whether to cause the communication device (12) to measure the traffic of each radio bearer.
US10863559B2
A communication method and a device, where the method includes receiving, by a first device, a first message sent by a second device using a peer-to-peer (P2P) network, where the first message includes address information of the second device in an infrastructure network and identification information of a radio access device connected to the second device in the infrastructure network, and if a radio access device connected to the first device and the radio access device connected to the second device in the infrastructure network are a same radio access device, communicating, by the first device, with the second device according to the address information using the connected radio access device.
US10863540B2
Provided is a terminal apparatus configured to receive a PDCCH including DCI format 1C to which CRC parity bits scrambled with a CC-RNTI are added, and to transmit a preamble in an LAA cell, wherein a type of an uplink LBT procedure for a PRACH transmission is determined based on whether or not a PRACH resource to be used for the PRACH transmission is at least included in a subframe in an uplink duration in which no downlink physical channel is received, and a value of the uplink duration is given based at least on an ‘Uplink transmission duration and offset indication’ field included in the DCI format 1C.
US10863535B2
A transmission control technique is provided that is for a scheduling request to reduce latency in uplink transmission. An aspect of the present invention relates to a user equipment including a transceiver that transmits and receives a radio signal to and from a base station; and a scheduling request controller that adjusts a transmission period of a scheduling request in accordance with one or more scheduling request configurations in response to downlink control signaling.
US10863528B2
A wireless device is configured to receive scheduling information at a predetermined time interval from a wireless node. The scheduling information includes a plurality of reception definitions. Each reception definition indicates a reception start time, a reception duration, and assigned frequency information. Each reception definition is derived from a wireless device identification associated with the reception definition. The wireless device is configured to receive data associated with at least one of the reception definitions.
US10863527B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method that includes: transmitting, by a base station, scheduling information for a first uplink transmission to a user equipment with a first beam; receiving, by the base station, a first transmission of the first uplink transmission from the user equipment; and modifying, by the base station, transmission of an acknowledgment for the first uplink transmission in response to receiving an indication from the user equipment that the first beam has failed.
US10863524B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In systems supporting multiple communication protocol types (e.g., ultra-reliable low-latency communication and enhance mobile broadband communication), a user equipment may implement multiplexing rules for handling overlapping transmissions of different communication protocols. For example, if lower latency data supports multiplexing with higher latency data and a lower latency resource overlaps (either partially or completely) with a higher latency resource, a number of options can be taken to control multiplexing. Similarly, if low latency uplink control information supports multiplexing with a slot-based physical uplink shared channel, and the physical uplink shared channel has its own uplink control information, a number of options can be taken to control multiplexing. If slot-based uplink control information overlaps (either partially or completely) with low latency data, then, likewise, a number of options can be taken to control multiplexing. Controlling multiplexing may support meeting low latency thresholds.
US10863522B2
Systems and methods are provided for transmitting and receiving pre-emption indications. The pre-emption indication is transmitted every K symbols or slots, on a group-common physical downlink control channel. The pre-emption indication is in respect of a group of K symbols or slots preceding a symbol or slot containing the group-common pre-emption indication. The group-common pre-emption indication indicates, for the group of K symbols or slots, which resources are pre-empted. The base station schedules resources for first downlink traffic, and transmits the scheduled first downlink traffic subject to pre-emption, and transmits second downlink traffic by pre-empting resources for the first downlink traffic. On the UE side, the UE receives the pre-emption indication. The UE receives its scheduled traffic taking into account the pre-emption indication.
US10863516B2
A mobile communications system communicates data to/from mobile communications devices, and provides a wireless access interface communicating data to/from the mobile communications devices, on a downlink first carrier providing plural communications resource elements across a first frequency range for communicating data, and within a second frequency range within and smaller than the first frequency range. The wireless access interface includes plural time divided sub-frames, each sub-frame including plural communications resource elements of the first frequency range and plural communications resource elements of the second frequency range. By arranging for a narrow band control channel to be within a virtual carrier and to communicate control information to both first full capability communications devices and second reduced capability communications devices, the second reduced capability devices can access the narrow band control channel which is shared with the first full-capability mobile devices, to make use of communications resources available to the communications system.
US10863515B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer-readable medium for wireless communication are provided. In one aspect, an apparatus is configured to determine a plurality of resource units for communication. The apparatus is configured to generate a set of pilot signals in at least one resource unit of the plurality of resource units. The apparatus is configured to transmit the generated set of pilot signals in the at least one resource unit of the plurality of resource units.
US10863514B2
A communication device for handling a narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT) communication comprises a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The processing circuit is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage device. The instructions comprise initiating a radio resource control (RRC) connection reestablishment procedure for a NB-IoT communication; selecting a NB-IoT cell, when initiating the RRC connection reestablishment procedure; receiving a SystemInformationBlockType2-NB message broadcasted by the NB-IoT cell; and using a timeAlignmentTimerCommon comprised in the SystemInformationBlockType2-NB for an uplink (UL) transmission.
US10863505B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to allocating resource blocks and resource block groups in a system band in order to reduce overhead associated with resource allocation. To reduce overhead, the wireless communication device communicates a signal in a control channel that indicates a general area and a resource block in the general area that stores data. The wireless communication device then communicates multiple resource blocks that include the resource block and communicates the data in the resource block using the signal. To reduce overhead, the wireless communication device also communicates multiple mappings for each resource block group into a set of resource blocks and a signal in a control channel that selects one of the multiple mappings. The communication device then determines resource blocks that are included in the resource block group according to the mapping, and communicates data in these resource blocks.
US10863490B2
Disclosed herein is a sounding method of a station (STA) for sending feedback information about a downlink (DL) channel state in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. The sounding method includes receiving an NDP announcement (NDPA) frame providing notification of the transmission of a null data packet (NDP) frame; receiving the NDP frame; receiving a trigger frame comprising resource allocation information allocated to the STA; generating feedback information using the NDP frame; and sending a feedback frame comprising feedback information through uplink (UL) multi-user (MU) transmission using a frequency resource indicated by the resource allocation information. The feedback information may be generated in a frequency granularity (FG) unit with respect to a transmission bandwidth having a size smaller than or equal to the size of a transmission bandwidth of the NDP frame.
US10863485B2
A radio communication device includes: a communication circuit configured to transmit and receive a signal to and from other radio communication device; and a control circuit configured to cause the communication circuit to transmit, through a control channel in a first layer, first acknowledgement information to the other radio communication device, the first acknowledgement information indicating whether data in a second layer different from the first layer is normally received from the other radio communication device.
US10863479B2
A group communication service establishes a communication group comprising a plurality of user nodes configured to receive and transmit user node communications between group communication members over a wireless network. A Family Radio Service (FRS) channel configuration is embedded into each of the plurality of user nodes within the communication group which identifies a designated FRS channel to exchange user node communications. The group communication service detects a trigger to activate an FRS mode and transfers an instruction to each of the plurality of user nodes to identify the FRS channel for the user node communications based on the FRS channel configuration. In response to transferring the instruction to each of the plurality of user nodes, the group communication service receives user node communications from and distributes user node communications to members of the communication group over the designated FRS channel.
US10863477B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for supporting paging of a low complexity UE, including: determining, by a target base station during handover of a UE, whether a source base station during the handover supports low complexity UE, and transmitting paging capability information of the UE to a Mobility Management Entity MME in response to determining that the source base station does not support low complexity UE, wherein the paging capability information of the UE is used by the MME for paging the UE. The method provided by embodiments of the present disclosure is able to enhance paging with respect to the low complexity UE.
US10863475B2
Techniques for supporting positioning for a terminal (sometimes referred to herein as a target device) in a wireless network are described. In an aspect, positioning for a target device includes transmitting a Request Assistance Data message to a location server, the Request Assistance Data message indicating at least one positioning method from a plurality of supported positioning methods. The Request Assistance Data message comprises common parameters that are applicable to all positioning methods indicated in the Request Assistance Data message. The common parameters comprise a serving cell identifier. Positioning for the target device further includes receiving assistance data sent in response to the Request Assistance Data message, and performing positioning based on the received assistance data.
US10863472B2
A communication device for communicating with a long-term evolution (LTE) network and a new radio (NR) network comprises at least one storage device; and at least one processing circuit coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of: the communication device registering to the LTE network and the NR network; and performing an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) registration via the LTE network but not via the NR network, when registering to the LTE network and the NR network.
US10863468B1
A method of communication in a Bluetooth Low Energy network is presented. The network has a master device and a plurality of slave devices between a first slave device and a second slave device. The method steps include: sending from the master device to the first slave device a synchronisation delay parameter; and sending from the master device to the second slave device the synchronisation delay parameter and a relative offset parameter. At the second slave device, the method steps include determining a synchronisation time point by adding the relative offset parameter to the synchronisation delay parameter. At the synchronisation time point, the method steps include waking the first and second slave devices and sending a communication from the first slave device to the second slave device.
US10863467B2
A communication device having an antenna resonant circuit, an antenna driver which is configured to feed a carrier wave to the antenna resonant circuit, and a controller which is configured to detect that a synchronization period is imminent and is configured to control the antenna driver in such a way that the antenna driver feeds the inverted carrier wave to the antenna resonant circuit.
US10863466B2
A wireless device (18) is configured for selecting a synchronization signal to use as a reference for device-to-device, D2D, communication. The wireless device (18) is configured to receive a multi-level synchronization signal (28) for which prioritization rules at the wireless device (18) define multiple priority levels. The wireless device (18) is also configured to select, from among multiple received synchronization signals including the multi-level synchronization signal (28), a synchronization signal to use as a reference for D2D communication, based on priority levels defined for the received synchronization signals and based on a radio resource (32) on which the wireless device (18) received the multi-level synchronization signal (28).
US10863464B2
A method of frame exchange for a first communication device in a multi-radio system is disclosed. The method comprises configuring a time division duplex (TDD) operation in a first radio system and a second radio system, receiving a first frame for requesting a frame exchange, from a second communication device of the first radio system, and transmitting a second frame corresponding to the first frame, to the second communication device, wherein the second frame includes a field for indicating a reserve time for the frame exchange, and the reserve time is set to be aligned with a TDD operation time of the first radio system.
US10863462B2
The present invention relates to a method for receiving a synchronisation reference signal for device-to-device (D2D) communication by a first terminal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. More specifically, the present invention comprises a step of receiving a plurality of synchronisation reference signals including a first synchronisation reference signal and a second synchronisation reference signal over a D2D synchronisation reference signal transmission cycle, wherein the first synchronisation reference signal is transmitted by a cluster head for D2D communication and the second synchronisation reference signal is transmitted by a second terminal that belongs to a cluster for the D2D communication.
US10863459B2
User equipment (UE) provides machine type communications (MTC) through a narrowband (NB)-long term evolution (LTE) system having a downlink transmission bandwidth in a range from about 180 kilohertz (kHz) to about 200 kHz. Receive circuitry is configured to receive, through a downlink transmission of an evolved node B (eNB) in the NB-LTE system, an NB-physical synchronization channel (NB-PSCH), the NB-PSCH including a synchronization signal and having a channel structure, the synchronization signal including a primary synchronization signal (PSS) and a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and the channel structure defined by multiple subcarriers mutually spaced apart by about 15 kHz and located entirely within the downlink transmission bandwidth. Control circuitry configured to decode the synchronization signal.
US10863452B2
The present invention relates to a method for setting the transmission power of a radio transmission of a transmitting radio, the method comprising: determining the position of a first radio and of a second radio, wherein for determining the position geo location information are used; calculating the distance between the first radio and the second radio based on the determined positions of the first and second radio; calculating the attenuation of a radio transmission from the transmitting first radio to the receiving second radio based on the calculated distance; and setting the transmission power of the transmitting first radio based on the calculated attenuation of the radio transmission. The invention further relates to a radio for transmitting radio signals.
US10863449B2
The present invention relates to the communications field, and provides an uplink data sending method and apparatus, so as to adapt to uplink channel sending in a case of a shortened transmission cycle. The method includes: performing, by a terminal, power control depending on whether a time domain resource on which an uplink channel is located carries a reference signal (RS) of the uplink channel; determining first transmission power of a first uplink channel; and sending, by the terminal, the first uplink channel at the first transmission power. The foregoing method improves accuracy of uplink channel demodulation by a base station.
US10863446B2
Provided is a communication control device including a height difference calculation unit that calculates a difference between an altitude of a reference point for calculating interference power including information regarding a height in a first wireless system and an altitude of one wireless communication device in a second wireless system including a plurality of wireless communication devices sharing a frequency allocated to the first wireless system. The communication control device further includes a power calculation unit that determines maximum allowable transmission power of the second wireless system so that an aggregate interference level due to communication of an interference source that can occur at the reference point satisfies an allowable interference level of the first wireless system, using one or more of the wireless communication devices for which the difference is less than a predetermined value as the interference source.
US10863441B2
A system and method for optimizing battery life in Bluetooth low power nodes without appreciably affecting latency is disclosed. The low power node may vary its PollTimeout value based on certain criteria, including time of day, ambient conditions or input from other devices. In this way, power consumption is minimized during those times when latency is not anticipated to be problematic, while latency is reduced during other times. In another embodiment, the low power node may save preconstructed messages before going into a low power or sleep mode to minimize the time required to transmit those messages.
US10863436B2
The present invention is a method for transmitting a data packet by a user terminal in a mobile communication system. The method enters a power saving mode for transmitting the data packet only if a channel state satisfies a transmission threshold value, compares the index indicating the channel state and the transmission threshold value upon occurrence of a data packet to be transmitted, starts transmission of the data packet if the index indicating the channel state is greater than the transmission threshold value, and proceeds with the transmission of the data packet until the time set by the timer that starts at the same time as the transmission of the data packet expires.
US10863425B2
A technique by which a user such as an administrator can appropriately manage activation and stoppage of services that enables performance from an external apparatus of setting for connecting an information processing apparatus to a particular network is provided. A printer (information processing apparatus) activates a wireless LAN setting service in a state in which a wireless network I/F is caused to operate in an access point mode. The printer, via the wireless network I/F, receives network setting information transmitted from the mobile terminal for setting using the wireless LAN setting service. When the network setting information is received, the printer stops the wireless LAN setting service.
US10863418B2
A communication managing device includes a monitoring unit that monitors wireless communication between a plurality of communication devices performing the wireless communication in a vehicle on the basis of a common communication standard and a communication status improving unit that performs a countermeasure for improving a communication status of the wireless communication on the basis of a result of the monitoring. The communication managing device may further include transfer means that sends a message to an occupant in the vehicle, and the communication status improving unit may improve the communication status of the wireless communication by sending a message for requesting for avoiding wireless communication based on the communication standard in a portable device to the occupant via the transfer means.
US10863415B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for configuring a user equipment (UE) to perform access control, for example, applying rules that differentiate between states (e.g., idle, inactive, and connected states) of the UE.
US10863412B2
An apparatus and method are provided for steering a protocol data unit (PDU) session associated with traffic routed to a selected user plane function (UPF). The method includes receiving, from an application function (AF), a first message including information identifying a UPF toward which traffic routing is applied and information on a spatial condition of a terminal location; receiving, from a session management function (SMF) device, a second message including information on a change of the terminal location in an area of interest determined based on the spatial condition; selecting a UPF based on the information identifying the UPF and the information on the change of the terminal location; and transmitting, to the SMF device, a third message including information on the selected UPF for steering a PDU session associated with traffic routed to the selected UPF.
US10863410B1
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, session director apparatuses, and network traffic management systems that facilitate packet data network (PDN) service slicing with microsegmentation in an evolved packet core are disclosed. With this technology, a create session request (CSR) general packet radio service (GPRS) tunneling protocol (GTP) control (GTP-c) message is intercepted. A lookup key is then determined based on content of the intercepted CSR GTP-c message. A PDN gateway (PGW) identifier for a PGW is obtained using a slice name obtained using the lookup key. The intercepted CSR GTP-c message is modified to include the obtained PGW identifier. Subsequently, the modified CSR GTP-c message is steered based on the obtained PGW identifier, such as directly to the PGW or to a serving gateway (SGW) module associated with the PGW.
US10863408B2
The invention relates to an improved handover procedure for a mobile terminal. Under control of the target base station, the mobile terminal is to perform a handoff to a target base station, wherein it is to be configured for communication with the target base station via a target radio cell comprising a downlink carrier and an uplink carrier. The mobile terminal receives a handoff command message for the handoff to the target base station including a handoff execution condition as trigger for executing handoff to the target base station. Then, the mobile terminal determines, based on the received handoff execution condition, whether or not the mobile terminal is to trigger execution of the handoff to the target base station. In case the mobile terminal determines that it is to trigger execution of the handoff to the target base station, the mobile terminal executes the handoff to the target base station.
US10863405B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to access point (AP) selection. According to one embodiment, the serving AP receives from the terminal device a measurement report including one or more measurement parameters for a plurality of neighbor AP devices and the serving AP device and selects from the plurality of neighbor AP devices one or more candidate target AP devices based on the measurement report received from the terminal device. Then, the serving AP can obtain evaluated capability levels from the selected one or more candidate target AP devices and determine from the selected one or more candidate target AP devices a best candidate target AP device with the highest evaluated capability level as a target AP device.
US10863394B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for IoT, and may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.A method by a terminal in a wireless communication system is provided, and includes receiving, from a base station, a paging message for switching a mode of the terminal in an RRC inactive mode to an RRC idle mode, transmitting an RRC message to the base station based on the paging message, receiving an RRC-connection release message (CRR) from the base station, and transitioning from the RRC inactive mode to the RRC idle mode based on the RRC-CRR.
US10863387B2
A method is provided in one example and includes receiving at least one first input indicating at least one network condition associated with a first user device having a user associated therewith. The first user device has a first bearer channel established between the first user device and a gateway, and the first bearer channel has a first quality of service level. The method further includes determining whether to modify the first user device to a second quality of service level based upon the received at least one first input, and sending a first request to a first network element instructing the first network element to modify the first user device to the second quality of service level.
US10863370B2
Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transmitter including a coder capable of receiving user bits and outputting encoded bits at a rate, a mapper capable of mapping encoded bits to symbols in a constellation, and a modulator capable of generating a modulated signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper, wherein the constellation is unequally spaced and characterizable by assignment of locations and labels of constellation points to maximize parallel decode capacity of the constellation at a given signal-to-noise ratio so that the constellation provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a uniform constellation that maximizes the minimum distance between constellation points of the uniform constellation.
US10863364B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to communication systems, and more particularly, to enhanced reporting by user equipment (UE). An example method generally includes receiving an information request from a network node and in response, sending a message to the network node, wherein the message comprises information that allows the network node to determine a starting coverage enhancement (CE) level of the UE.
US10863362B2
Provided is a communication method for interference avoidance in an unlicensed band. A transmission node transmits in the unlicensed band a preemption signal to a target reception node. Upon receiving a ready signal from the target reception node, the transmission node transmits in the unlicensed band a data signal to the target reception node. The preemption signal is transmitted by means of a narrow beam having substantially the same width and direction as the data signal.
US10863361B2
The disclosure relates to an electronic device for wireless communication, a wireless communication method and a computer readable medium. According to an embodiment, an electronic device for wireless communication includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a parameter related to a behavior characteristic of a mobile access point. The processing circuitry is further configure to determine a spectrum allocation manner for the mobile access point based on the parameter.
US10863358B2
Implementations generally relate methods, systems, and computer readable media for providing threat index based wireless local area networks (WLAN) security and quality of service. In one implementation, a method includes receiving a request from a client device connected to a network via a network link. The method further includes determining a threat index value for the client device. The method further includes determining one or more security policies associated with one or more respective network resources, where each security policy applies one or more rules for allocating one of the network resources. The method further includes determining allocation of one or more of the network resources to the client device based on the one or more security policies and the threat index value.
US10863351B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for providing secure network association services to a device seeking to join a distribution network.
US10863346B2
Disclosed is a method feasible for a hidden non-ASCII SSID. The method is carried out by a to-be-set wireless device and includes: broadcasting a beacon signal carrying predetermined data detectable to an already-set wireless device; wirelessly connecting to the already-set wireless device; receiving the profile data of a target wireless device from the already-set wireless device and then wirelessly disconnecting the already-set wireless device, wherein the SSID of the target wireless device is a hidden non-ASCII SSID; acquiring packets for establishment of connection between the already-set wireless device and the target wireless device according to the profile data; obtaining the raw data of the SSID according to the content of the packets and then connecting to the target wireless device according to the profile data and the raw data; and transmitting a connection success message to the already-set wireless device via the target wireless device.
US10863339B1
An automated safety notification system is proposed herein in which one or more safe zone access points may be physically deployed to one or more safe zones associated with a disaster area. If a person with a mobile phone or other mobile device enters the safe zone, the safe zone access point may detect the presence of the mobile device and perform certain functions in response to the detection. For example, the safe zone access point may initiate contact of a predetermined plurality of contacts that the person may have already designated before the disaster. The safe zone access point may also be used to initiate an insurance claim.
US10863327B2
A data-processing system that estimates the particular building floors that are present in a particular building based on differences in barometric pressure measurements provided by wireless terminals. A wireless terminal can report one or more barometric pressure measurements at the ground floor of a building and one or more pressure measurements at one or more above- or below-ground floors, or “non-ground” floors. The data-processing system receives the pressure measurements and uses the difference in the pressure measurements to determine a change in height between the ground floor and a non-ground floor. When the system collects enough data from many wireless terminals, it is able to identify the floors that are present in a particular building and their non-ground heights. Then, when an estimate of the vertical location of a wireless terminal is provided to a location application, the system is able to provide the estimate in terms of building floor.
US10863326B2
A wireless service provider system for authorizing wireless service on a wireless device includes a backend system. The backend system configured receive a request for the wireless service along with a monetary value of the wireless service in any requested amount from the connected device, receive a payment authorization or a verification of payment for the wireless service in the requested amount from the connected device, and receive a request from the connected device for allocating the wireless service.
US10863323B1
Techniques are disclosed for correlating delivery receipt (DLR) messages with short message service (SMS) messages sent in an application-to-person (A2P) manner through a messaging network comprising multiple data centers. SMS and DLR messages are received and stored into a correlator comprising a local and a global storage area. It is then determined whether a received DLR message corresponds to a received SMS message within a local timeout period associated with the received SMS message. When corresponding DLR and SMS messages have been received they are correlated and the DLR message is sent to the sending SMS client. When corresponding DLR and SMS messages have not been received the location of a global storage area of a correlator in a data center where the DLR and SMS messages are intended to be stored is derived. The DLR and SMS messages are then moved to the derived global storage area of the correlator in a data center where it is again determined whether a received DLR message corresponds to a received SMS message within a global timeout period associated with the received SMS message. When corresponding DLR and SMS messages have not been received within the global timeout period, a fail notification is sent to the sending SMS client. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10863320B2
A method for receiving a signal of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH), includes receiving first information specifying a plurality of subframes used for the wireless device, determining multiple downlink subframes, to receive a signal of a first PDSCH, based on the plurality of subframes specified in the first information, receiving the signal of the first PDSCH which is repeated over the determined multiple downlink subframes and based on that the signal of the first PDSCH includes a first system information block (SIB), determining that a signal of a second PDSCH including a data other than the first SIB is not transmitted in the determined multiple downlink subframes, wherein the first SIB is dedicated for the wireless device and different from a SIB for a user equipment (UE) used by a user.
US10863313B2
UE location determined by collecting and preprocessing signal data at a detector and sending extracted data to a remote locate server. The detector buffers samples from signals provided by receive channels, detects known reference signals from receive channels based on reference signal parameters, isolates symbols carrying the reference signal from frames, extracts data from symbols, and sends extracted data to locate server. The locate server receives the extracted data, estimates locate observables based on the extracted data and calculates the UE location based on the estimated locate observables, the reference signal parameters and the extracted data. The detector and/or the server may also generate correlation coefficients between reference signals carrying spectrum received from a serving cell and utilize the correlation coefficients to cancel a serving cell signal in symbols that include known in advance reference signals from the serving cell and one or more neighboring cells of the wireless system.
US10863309B2
A method includes: after receiving a service request that is sent by a first device connected in a local area network and that includes a called object identifier and a service type, sending, by a local area network gateway, a prompt message including a list of second devices supporting the service type to a wearable device corresponding to the called object identifier, then obtaining information about a second device selected by a user by using the wearable device, and establishing a communication connection that is between the first device and the second device and that supports the service type, so that the first device communicates with the second device.
US10863307B2
A system and method of locating “friends” having mobile devices connected to a network and associated with a user account is disclosed. The method includes sending a request to a mobile device, the mobile device determining its present geographic location and responding to the requestor with this information. This information may be in the form of a coordinate location such as a GPS location or it may be in the form of a name that the mobile device owner assigned to a particular area (e.g., “home”). Having this location information, a user is able to view the location of the friend that is associated with the mobile device.
US10863306B2
Various embodiments each include at least one of systems, methods, devices, and software for auto-configuring of radio beacon devices. One embodiment includes a method that detects a beacon device has been connected to a computing device and retrieving beacon identifying data from the beacon device. The method may then query a backend system based on the beacon identifying data to determine whether the beacon identifying data has been previously configured in the backend system. When the beacon device has been previously configured in the backend system, the method includes issuing a command to the backend system to remove the previous configuration of the beacon device then issuing a data write command to the backend system to configure the beacon device in the backend system in association with the computing device.
US10863304B2
A method of determining a location of a mobile terminal location is provided. The method includes respectively receiving, by two antennas, first and second reception signals from the mobile terminal, calculating, by a communication module, a reception strength value (hereinafter referred to as RSSI_1) of the first reception signal and a reception strength value (hereinafter referred to as RSSI_2) of the second reception signal, and determining, by a location determination module, a region where the mobile terminal is located, based on a result obtained by comparing one RSSI of the RSSI_1 and the RSSI_2 with a reference value set based on a decision tree technique and a result obtained by comparing the one RSSI with a detailed reference value set based on a hysteresis technique.
US10863302B2
Examples generate a route point radius for a geofence. A point of interest (POI) is identified. The coordinates for a route point on a navigational path associated with the POI is obtained. A distance from the coordinates of the route point to the POI is determined to generate a radius. An extension amount to encompass at least a portion of the navigational path is added to the radius to generate a route point radius. A contextual environment of a user traveling on the navigational path is utilized to adjust the route point radius. The contextual environment includes the mode of travel and/or the direction of travel of the user. A geofence is generated based on at least one route point radius associated with the POI. An alert is triggered when a user crosses a perimeter of the geofence encompassing the portion of the navigational path.
US10863300B2
Systems and methods of presenting an output audio signal to a listener located at a first location in a virtual environment are disclosed. According to embodiments of a method, an input audio signal is received. For each sound source of a plurality of sound sources in the virtual environment, a respective first intermediate audio signal corresponding to the input audio signal is determined, based on a location of the respective sound source in the virtual environment, and the respective first intermediate audio signal is associated with a first bus. For each of the sound sources of the plurality of sound sources in the virtual environment, a respective second intermediate audio signal is determined. The respective second intermediate audio signal corresponds to a reflection of the input audio signal in a surface of the virtual environment. The respective second intermediate audio signal is determined based on a location of the respective sound source, and further based on an acoustic property of the virtual environment. The respective second intermediate audio signal is associated with a second bus. The output audio signal is presented to the listener via the first bus and the second bus.
US10863299B2
A multi-channel decoder for generating a binaural signal from a downmix signal using upmix rule information on an energy-error introducing upmix rule for calculating a gain factor based on the upmix rule information and characteristics of head related transfer function based filters corresponding to upmix channels. The one or more gain factors are used by a filter processor for filtering the downmix signal so that an energy corrected binaural signal having a left binaural channel and a right binaural channel is obtained.
US10863292B2
An elastic damping element provides a vibration-damping mounting of a receiver inside a hearing instrument. The damping element contains a hollow base body, from the inner surface of which a plurality of retaining projections project, and each retaining projection has at its distal end a contact surface for the receiver that will be mounted there. A recess, which is formed in an outer surface of the base body in alignment with the associated retaining projection in order to achieve a reduced material thickness, corresponds with at least one of the retaining projections.
US10863285B2
A hearing instrument includes: a first portion shaped and sized for placement at a pinna of a user's ear; and a second portion having an earpiece for placement in the user's ear canal; wherein the second portion also comprises a connector assembly configured for electrically coupling to the first portion, the connector assembly having a plurality of connector wires, the plurality of connector wires comprising a first connector wire; wherein the second portion also comprises a receiver or miniature loudspeaker for receipt of an audio drive signal through at least the first connector wire; and wherein the second portion also comprises a non-volatile memory circuit having a data interface configured for receipt and transmittal of module data, the non-volatile memory circuit configured to store the module data, wherein the stored module data at least comprises electroacoustic calibration parameter(s) of the receiver or the miniature loudspeaker.
US10863283B2
A MEMS microphone for a frame-free device, comprising a substrate, wherein the substrate comprises a first substrate region provided with an acoustic sensor, an ASIC chip, and a MEMS chip, and a second substrate region provided with a plurality of pads; both the first substrate region and the second substrate region are disposed at the same side of the substrate; an acoustic through-hole is disposed at the back of the first substrate region; a microphone connection structure further comprises a flexible circuit board, wherein the flexible circuit board electrically connects the plurality of pads of the MEMS microphone to a circuit board of the frame-free device; the acoustic through-hole is aligned with an acoustic opening of the frame-free device; by adopting the MEMS microphone for a frame-free device, the MEMS microphone may be more widely used in many high-tech industries and has better acoustic performance over the conventional MEMS microphone.
US10863282B2
A MEMS package has a MEMS chip, a package substrate which the MEMS chip is adhered, a chip-cover which wraps the MEMS chip, and a cover-supporting part which supports the chip-cover from the inside. In the MEMS package, the chip-cover is supported by the cover-supporting part to form a back chamber, surrounded by the chip-cover and the package substrate.
US10863280B2
A sound producing device is provided. The sound producing device includes a membrane, disposed within a chamber, controlled by a membrane control signal to cause a membrane movement; and a first deflector, disposed within a first opening by the membrane, controlled by a first deflector control signal to cause a first deflector rotation; wherein the sound producing device produces a plurality of air pulses via the membrane movement and the first deflector rotation, the plurality of air pulses has an air pulse rate, the air pulse rate is higher than a maximum human audible frequency; wherein the plurality of air pulses produces a non-zero offset in terms of sound pressure level, and the non-zero offset is a deviation from a zero sound pressure level.
US10863274B2
Apparatuses for playing signals received from the internet or other information highway or a stored database on one or more speakers are described. The apparatus has a receiver for receiving information from preselected addresses; a processor for interpreting the signals; and at least one speaker for playing signals from the internet. There is at least display device in the form of a holographic projector connected to the receiver for displaying a 3D holographic image received from the internet. The processor selects images that correspond with the signals played by the speaker. The speaker projects the sound into certain areas of the environment, so that it appears that the sound is coming from a place other than the actual speaker itself. A holographic projector connected to the processor projects a 3D holographic image onto the place from which the sound appears to originate, rather than on the actual speaker itself.
US10863273B2
An example method is performed by a media playback system comprising a plurality of audio drivers configured to output audio content according to a first radiation pattern that produces an inherent directional effect. Based on data representing positions of one or more listeners in a listening area, the system determines first and second transfer functions corresponding to the first and second audio drivers, respectively. One or both of the transfer functions configure the first and second audio drivers to output audio content according to a second radiation pattern that produces a modified directional effect relative to the first radiation pattern. The system applies the transfer function to audio content thereby causing the first and second audio drivers to play back audio content according to the second radiation pattern.
US10863262B2
The present invention relates to a device (22) for controlling a loudspeaker in an enclosure, the device (22) comprising: a unit (36) for duplicating a desired dynamic signal (Sdyn) to obtain two identical desired dynamic signals (Sdyn1, Sdyn2), a first processing unit (38) configured to process the first desired dynamic signal (Sdyn1) to obtain a first processed signal (Sdyn1′) whereof the frequencies are less than or equal to a predetermined frequency, a second processing unit (40) configured to process the second desired dynamic signal (Sdyn2) to obtain a second processed signal (Sdyn2′) whereof the frequencies are strictly greater than the predetermined frequency, and a unit (42) for combining the processed first and second signals (Sdyn1′, Sdyn2′) to obtain a control signal (Scommande) of the loudspeaker.
US10863260B1
The disclosure is directed to a software-hardware separated voice-controlled Bluetooth headset, which includes a receiver, a storage module, a voice receiving and transmitting module; a command receiving module and a Bluetooth module. and is used for converting audio electrical signals and sound signals. The storage module and the Bluetooth module which is electrically connected to the storage module are used for storing system firmware and system configuration files. The voice receiving and transmitting module is electrically connected with the Bluetooth module, and is configured to transmit the received voice information to a Bluetooth device that matches the headset. The command receiving module which is electrically connected to the Bluetooth module is designed to receive a voice message recognized by a Bluetooth device that matches the headset and send out a command.
US10863257B1
A method of assembling a loudspeaker may include resiliently coupling a voice coil assembly to a transducer basket, the voice coil assembly including a voice coil and first and second lead wires having corresponding proximal and distal ends, where the proximal ends of the lead wires are attached to the voice coil. The method also includes forming a first segment of the first lead wire into a first shape, and forming a second segment of the second lead wire into a second shape. The method also includes affixing an intermediate portion of the first lead wire to a first location on the transducer basket, and affixing an intermediate portion of the second lead wire to a second location on the transducer basket. The method also includes conductively coupling the distal ends of the first and second lead wires to a harness configured to directly connect to an amplifier board.
US10863248B2
A program guide, such as an electronic program guide (EPG), may be used to display information regarding upcoming scheduled transmissions of content. The display may include thumbnail images for selected groups of programs, and the images may be positioned in a pseudo-random location, and moved along a randomly generated trajectory on the display.
US10863243B2
A video streaming playback system is provided that enables video hosting website operators and content creators to obtain revenue. The system includes a video playback module, a tipping module, a video download button/link display module, an ad module, and a video provision options control module. The video provision options control module provides options regarding (1) whether to operate the tipping module to accept tips, (2) whether to operate the download button/link display module to permit videos to be downloaded, and (3) whether to operate the ad module to display ads to the user who is a video provider.
US10863242B1
The system generates a marker indicating a time interval sufficient to display condensed content. In response to identifying a program, the system retrieves information about the program. Based on this information, and optionally information about the user, the system selects a subset of segments of the program, forming a shorter version of the content having a reduced playback time. The system stores marker information corresponding to the reduced playback time, generates a marker for display, or both. The system may generate a grid of content identifiers for display, and also generate one or more makers for display to indicate the time required to display condensed content. One or more versions of condensed content may be generated, each having an associated marker. The system may store marker information for a plurality of programs, in response to user input or prior to a scheduled display time.
US10863237B2
A set-top box for changing channels and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the set-top box includes a network interface controller that is configured to receive a source internet protocol television signal, which includes two channels, from an external source and at least partially prepare the source internet protocol signal in order to forward the tuned signal to a television. The set-top box saves in a buffer the at least partially prepared second channel beginning at a recent periodic, sequential signal access point. In response to receiving a channel change instruction when the set-top box is forwarding the at least partially prepared first channel signal, the set-top box causes the television tuner to forward the at least partially prepared signal based on the second channel stored in the buffer beginning at the recent periodic, sequential signal access point.
US10863233B2
A host device (300) provides wireless docking to a dockee device (250). The host has a remote client unit (210) for providing at least one audio/video (AV) rendering function to an application (252) via remote server unit (251) in a dockee device. The host has transfer units (211,212,213,214) arranged for enabling transmitting a downstream of first AV data to the dockee device, and receiving an upstream of second AV data to be rendered from the dockee device. The host device has an AV router (310) for processing the downstream and the upstream so as to replace first AV data in the downstream by a predetermined pattern before transmitting the downstream to the dockee device, and replace at least part of second AV data in the upstream by at least part of the first AV data after receiving the upstream from the dockee device and before rendering the AV data. Advantageously required bandwidth is reduced in the wireless communication.
US10863230B1
Techniques described herein include systems and methods for identifying areas of a user interface to position overlay content without obscuring primary content. A scene in a content stream may be identified based on one or more user interface elements included in the content stream. Boundaries and positions of the one or more user interface elements may be identified in the scene based on an edge detection algorithm. A prominence value may be determined for a container that corresponds to an area of a user interface that includes the one or more user interface elements based on aggregate user input for the scene. Instructions for updating the scene may be transmitted to a user device to incorporate an overlay that includes containers that correspond to areas of the user interface that enables a user to place an overlay user interface element in a particular container based on the prominence value.
US10863225B2
Systems and methods for a passenger vehicle entertainment system configured to access media data files on a passenger's personal electronic device and play the media data files on a video monitor of the entertainment system installed at a passenger seat. The system includes an onboard display system having a computing device, a wireless communication module and a video monitor. The system has a media player software application executable by the computing device and configured to program the display system to establish a wireless network connection to the personal electronic device using the wireless communication module, access media data files stored on the personal electronic device via the wireless network connection, display the media data files on the video monitor and allow a passenger to browse the media data files and select a media data file to play, and play a selected media data file on the video monitor.
US10863215B2
Disclosed are a content providing apparatus, a method of controlling the same, and a recording medium thereof, the content providing apparatus including: a transmitter configured to transmit data to a display apparatus; and a processor configured to control the transmitter to transmit content data and additional data, relating to image attributes of the content data and having a fixed value corresponding to at least one section, among a plurality of sections of the content data, to the display apparatus based on a command received from a user to playback image content at a predetermined speed. Thus, it is possible to solve a problem of flickering or an error in brightness of a screen at a variable-speed playback of dynamic HDR content.
US10863214B2
The present technology relates to a transmission device, a transmission method, a reception device, and a reception method that can improve transmission efficiency. An encoded signal is generated based on realtime data indicated by a waveform L using a predetermined fixed bit rate as a maximum code amount Sx and the encoded signal into which non-realtime data with an insufficient code amount is inserted is transmitted at the fixed bit rate, as indicated by a range Z12, when a code amount of the generated encoded signal is insufficient for the maximum code amount Sx. The present technology can be applied to broadcasting communication.
US10863213B2
A method and device for controlling a frame rate of an electronic device, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes the following. A frame rate of rendering and a priority of each of target objects currently running on the electronic device are obtained. A synthesizing frame rate of the electronic device is determined according to the frame rate of rendering and the priority of each of the target objects. According to the synthesizing frame rate, respective images rendered by the target objects are synthesized to generate a to-be-displayed image.
US10863211B1
Methods and apparatus are described for providing media presentations that include content originating from multiple sources. Techniques disclosed include server-side logic for inserting secondary content, such as advertisements, into primary content, such as a VOD presentation. Systems implementing the disclosed techniques can support different viewer device capabilities relating to displaying media presentations that include content from multiple sources.
US10863209B2
A media system includes a plurality of set-top boxes coupled to a coax network and a controller. The controller displays a first passkey to a user in response to receiving a request from the user to activate playback of a media content on a particular set-top box. The set-top box receives the first passkey from the user and determines whether the user is authorized to activate playback of the media content by comparing the first passkey received from the user with a second passkey obtained from a passkey module on the set-top box. When the user is determined by the set-top box to be authorized to activate playback of the media content, the set-top box determines a radio frequency channel of the coax network according to the first passkey received from the user and begins playback of the media content received on the radio frequency channel on a display device.
US10863204B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for adaptively reducing blocking artifacts in block-coded video are disclosed. In one implementation, a system includes processing logic at least capable of deblock filtering at least a portion of a line of video data based, at least in part, on edge information and texture information to generate at least a portion of a line of deblocked video data, and an image data output device responsive to the processing logic.
US10863195B2
The present invention provides low complexity planar mode coding in which a first prediction value is calculated using linear interpolation between a value of respective horizontal boundary pixels and a value of one of vertical boundary pixels, and a second prediction value is calculated using linear interpolation between a value of respective vertical boundary pixels and a value of one of the horizontal boundary pixels. The first and second prediction values are then averaged to derive a respective prediction pixel value in a prediction block. A residual between the prediction block and a target block is signaled to a decoder.
US10863190B2
A method and apparatus for encoding of a video sequence in an encoder or decoding of the video sequence in a decoder includes parsing an initial motion vector from the video sequence associated with a block. A plurality of samples are determined and pre-fetched to permit both motion vector refinement and motion compensation based on parsing the initial motion vector. Motion vector refinement is performed to determine a final motion vector using a first subset of the plurality of samples, and motion compensation is performed using a second subset of the plurality of samples.
US10863186B2
An image decoding apparatus is provided with a CT information decoding unit that decodes division information indicating a division method for binary tree division with respect to a coding node of a coding tree unit, and performs the binary tree division with respect to the coding node by referring to the division information of another decoded coding node.
US10863184B2
A method for determining intra-prediction modes for prediction units (PUs) of a largest coding unit (LCU) is provided that includes determining an inter-prediction mode for each child PU of a PU, and selecting an intra-prediction mode for the PU based on the intra-prediction modes determined for the child PUs.
US10863176B2
An apparatus includes: an image encoder to encode an image as a plurality of image regions, the image encoder selecting at least one of the size and the shape of each image region; and an intra-image predictor to predict a current sample of a current region of an image with respect to one or more reference samples of the same image according to a prediction direction between the current sample and a reference position amongst the reference samples; in which the prediction direction is selected from a set of candidate prediction directions; the intra-image predictor being configured to apply two or more different sets of candidate prediction directions in dependence upon an aspect of the image region, the aspect being one of more of: the region shape and the position of the region within the image. Optionally the aspect further includes the region size.
US10863172B2
A method of partitioning a video coding block for JVET, wherein a set of MPMs includes a set of intra prediction coding modes and can be encoded using truncated unary binarization and selected intra prediction coding modes can be determined based upon addition and subtraction of increasing integer values from the set of MPM intra prediction coding modes and a set of non-selected intra prediction coding modes can be determined by addition and subtraction of the increasing integer values from the set of selected intra prediction coding modes.
US10863165B2
The present disclosure relates to information processing apparatus and method configured so that more information can be obtained without the need for a frame memory. Scan of a point light source or a line light source configured to project a pattern image on an object is performed, and exposure and reading by line scan for capturing an image of the object is performed multiple times during a single cycle of the scan as projection of the pattern image. The present disclosure is, for example, applicable to an information processing apparatus, an image processing apparatus, an image projection apparatus, a control apparatus, a projection image capturing system, an information processing method, a program, or the like.
US10863161B2
A head-mounted display image delivery system in combination with a head-mounted display (HMD) device, the image delivery system and the HMD device being local to one another. The HMD device includes: one or more displays; one or more sensors to determine movement, position and attitude of the display; and one or more image inputs configured to receive image data for direct display on the one or more displays without image processing by the HMD from the image delivery system. The image delivery system is configured to communicate a stereoscopic image to the HMD system to convey image information to a wearer.
US10863159B2
Systems and methods described that provide for sending a first temporal portion of video to a client, wherein video quality of a first spatial region associated with a first direction of view is sent with higher quality than video data for another spatial region not associated with the first direction of view; sending a second temporal portion of the video to the client; and responsive to determining that a significant event, audio or video or a combination, occurred during the second temporal portion and corresponds with a second direction of view that is associated with a second spatial region, sending higher quality video for the second spatial region than video data for another spatial region. Virtual reality (VR) video, including 360-degree VR video may thus be foveated, based on contextual information in the video data and corresponding audio data, combined with field of view predictions based upon user motion.
US10863149B2
An image processing apparatus includes a processor configured to execute: acquiring image data; generating first interpolation image data associated with light having a red wavelength band, second interpolation image data associated with light having a green wavelength band, third interpolation image data associated with light having a blue wavelength band, and fourth interpolation image data associated with narrow band light; performing a color space conversion process for converting each of the first to the third interpolation image data to a luminance component and a color difference component; extracting a first specific frequency component included in the fourth interpolation image data; combining the converted luminance component with the extracted first specific frequency component; and generating color image data based on a combination result obtained by the combining and based on the color difference component.
US10863148B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for selectively processing tiles of a captured image. The captured image may be parsed into a plurality of tiles. A subset of the plurality of tiles may be selected based at least in part on at least one metric. The selected tiles may be processed according to a first technique, while each unselected tile may be selectively processed according to one or more techniques different from the first technique. The first technique and the one or more techniques may each be either an image demosaicing technique or an image denoising technique.
US10863145B2
A helmet with video acquisition device and display, comprising a helmet shell on which at least one video acquisition device is fixed, and a display arranged at one end of a front piece of the helmet; further comprising elements to allow the movement of the display laterally with respect to the active position in which the display is arranged completely in front of the eyes of a user.
US10863139B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus (160, 170) comprising a receiver configured to receive anonymized sensor information, at least one processing core configured to convert the anonymized sensor information into personal sensor information based at least partly on personal information, and a memory interface configured to, under control of the at least one processing core, access the personal information.
US10863130B2
An imaging array and method for using the same that are adapted for backside illuminated imaging arrays utilizing a global shutter are disclosed. The imaging array includes a plurality of pixel sensors having an ordered array of pixel sensors. Each pixel sensor includes a main photodiode and a correction photodiode. A controller resets all of the main photodiodes at a first time that is the same for all of the pixel sensors, resets all of the correction photodiodes at a second time that is the same for all of the pixel sensors after the first time, and sequentially reads out the pixel sensors. The pixel sensor is read out at a third time that is different for different ones of the pixel sensors. A correction charge is measured that corrects for the different readout times.
US10863129B2
Reducing power consumption without reducing the number of pixel signals in a solid-state imaging element that performs AD conversion of a pixel signal. A pixel array unit includes a plurality of lines each having a plurality of pixels arranged in a predetermined direction. A scanning circuit sequentially selects the plurality of lines and then controls to output an analog signal from each of the pixels within the selected line in a non-addition mode, and simultaneously selects the plurality of lines and controls to add up the analog signals of each of the pixels arranged in a direction perpendicular to the predetermined direction and output the added signals in a pixel addition mode. The analog-to-digital conversion unit converts each of the analog signals into a digital signal. The control unit performs control of switching from one of the pixel addition mode and the non-addition mode to the other on the basis of the digital signal.
US10863127B1
Some embodiments provide a novel compressive-sensing image capture device and a method of using data captured by the compressive-sensing image capture device. The novel compressive-sensing image capture device includes an array of sensors for detecting electromagnetic radiation. Each sensor in the sensor array has an associated mask that blocks electromagnetic radiation from portions of the sensor. In some embodiments, an array of passive masks is used to block a particular set of areas of each sensor in the sensor array. In some embodiments, the image capture device also includes an array of lenses corresponding to the sensors of the sensor array such that each sensor receives light that passes through a different lens. Some embodiments of the invention provide a dynamic mask array. In some embodiments, a novel machine trained network is provided that processes image capture data captured by the compressive-sensing image capture device to predict solutions to problems.
US10863120B2
An imaging device includes: a modulator configured to modulate the intensity of light, based on a real pattern; an image sensor configured to convert light passing through the modulator to electrical signals to generate a sensor image; a complex sensor image processing unit configured to generate a complex sensor image including a complex number, from an image obtained by executing predetermined positioning for the sensor image taken through the real pattern; and an image processing unit configured to restore an image, based on an operation with the complex sensor image and data of a pattern for reconstruction.
US10863117B2
An apparatus for dynamic range enhancement (DRE) which receives an input signal and provides a DRE output signal is presented. The apparatus has an error correction circuit to apply an error correction factor to the input signal such that the DRE output signal provided by the apparatus is dependent on the input signal and the error correction factor. The error correction factor is representative of an error generated by the apparatus.
US10863116B2
A solid-state image capture device and an image capture system capable of photographing a color image with high sensitivity in a wide illuminance environment from normal illuminance to darkness. A solid-state image capture device is provided with a first detection portion in which a first visible light pixel receiving first visible light and a first near-infrared pixel receiving first near-infrared light are provided adjacent to each other, a second detection portion in which a second visible light pixel receiving second visible light different in wavelength from the first visible light and a second near-infrared pixel receiving second near-infrared light are provided adjacent to each other, and a third detection portion in which a third visible light pixel receiving third visible light different in wavelength from the first visible light and the second visible light and a third near-infrared pixel receiving third near-infrared light are provided adjacent to each other.
US10863115B2
An image processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a color image which is imaged by an imaging unit according to incident light including visible light and near-infrared light; an estimation unit that estimates spectral characteristics of the incident light on the basis of color information about the acquired color image, spectral sensitivity characteristics of the imaging unit, and information obtained by modeling the spectral characteristics of the incident light; and a generation unit that generates a visible image and a near-infrared image on the basis of the estimated spectral characteristics of the incident light and the spectral sensitivity characteristics of the imaging unit.
US10863114B2
A radiation image capturing apparatus includes scan lines of 1st to nth lines, scan driving units, a controller, an OE signal line and a CPV signal line. The OE signal line is to input OE signal by which an ON voltage is applied to a scan line. The CPV signal line is to input CPV signal by which the scan line, to which the ON voltage is applied by the input of the OE signal, is shifted to a next scan line. To the scan driving units, the controller inputs the CPV signal to sequentially shift the scan line from the 1st line to the nth line, and inputs the OE signal to apply the ON voltage only when the scan line is a scan line of an effective pixel region from which image data is read.
US10863111B2
A top-view image of a road is composed from at least two images taken by a vehicle-mounted camera. A speed and/or an acceleration of the vehicle is recorded, as well as at least two sequential images. A first image is selected for further processing. A first selected area of the first selected image is determined, located in a zone of the image with minimum distortion. A second image captured later is selected for further processing. A second area of the second image is selected in a zone of the image with minimum distortion and located such that image content shown at a lower border of the second area is adjacent to image content at an upper border of the first selected area. The first and second selected areas are transformed into a top-view perspective, and the transformed first and second selected areas stitched together for generating a composed top-view image.
US10863110B2
A digital camera that includes an imaging sensor having a stop 2 arranged in front of an imaging surface includes an imaging control unit that starts exposure of pixels on the entire imaging surface at the same time and then, ends the exposure of the pixels at the same time in a state where light from a subject is incident on the imaging surface, by controlling an imaging sensor drive circuit which drives the imaging sensor, and a processor that sequentially changes an F number of the stop 2 to a plurality of values during a period from the start of the exposure until the end of the exposure. The processor controls a time in which the F number is maintained at each of the plurality of values to be a time that is based on a function indicating light transmittance characteristics of an APD filter.
US10863109B2
The present technology is a graphical user interface for a video recording system and method of recording a video while applying special effects in real time prior to and/or while recording. The interface is associated with an electronic device including a processor in communication with a camera and a memory unit. Inputs from the interface are utilized by the processing unit to determine if the native speed rate of the raw video data is to be changed, and if so then modifies at least one frame in the raw video data to create a modified video data at a modified speed rate that is different to the native speed rate. The system then generates an output video feed that is displayed in the graphical user interface. This allows for the continuous recording of video from the camera or video feed at different speed rates without altering camera operations or settings.
US10863099B2
An electronic apparatus includes a processing unit configured to execute processing using a first processing amount for a predetermined item, in a case where the operation amount is included in a range of a first operation amount of the operation member, and to execute processing using a second processing amount for the predetermined item, in a case where the operation amount is included in a range of a second operation amount next to the range of the first operation amount, and a control unit configured to perform control for providing a notification about a function to be executed by the processing unit or the operation amount, in a case where a predetermined condition that the operation amount is continuously included in the range of the first operation amount for a predetermined time or more is satisfied.
US10863092B2
Imaging device has a configuration provided with: a primary correction amount calculator that calculates a primary correction amount for correcting image shake in a current frame image based on a physical shake amount of the imaging device; a secondary correction amount calculator that calculates a secondary correction amount for correcting a search shake amount between the current frame image and a previous frame image which is one frame image before the current frame image; a correction amount selector that selects at least one of the primary correction amount and the secondary correction amount based on at least one of an imaging condition and the primary correction amount; and an image converter that performs a geometrical conversion with respect to the current frame image based on at least one of the primary correction amount and the secondary correction amount which is selected by the correction amount selector.
US10863090B2
A control apparatus obtains the moving speed of an object, and controls, based on the moving speed of the object, an image capturing unit configured to capture the object such that first image capturing for performing image capturing without following the object or second image capturing for performing image capturing while following the object is performed.
US10863088B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor, a readout circuit capable of performing a first readout operation of reading out a first image signal and a second readout operation of reading out a second image signal for which the number of pixels is larger than the number of pixels for the first image signal, a compression circuit that generates a first compressed image signal by compressing the first image signal, and generates a second compressed image signal by compressing the second image signal, a decoding unit configured to decode the first compressed image signal and second compressed image signal, and a control unit configured to perform control so as to transfer the second compressed image signal to the decoding unit during a period during which the decoding unit is not decoding the first compressed image signal.
US10863080B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal, by which an image can be easily attached. In particular, the present invention includes a 1st camera, a touchscreen, and a controller controlling the touchscreen to output a running screen of a prescribed application and a preview screen of the 1st camera to a 1st region and a 2nd region on the touchscreen, respectively, the controller, if a photograph command is received, attaching an image data photographed through the 1st camera to the prescribed application, wherein a data size of the attached image data is based on a size of the 2nd region.
US10863077B2
An image photographing method is provided, including: based on a photographing instruction, selecting at least one focus in a quadrangular image, and photographing at least one initial image based on the at least one focus, where the quadrangular image includes a first pair of opposite sides and a second pair of opposite sides, an included angle between the opposite sides of the first pair of opposite sides is less than that of the second pair of opposite sides, a first side is a shorter side of the first pair of opposite sides, the at least one focus includes a first focus, and the first focus is in the quadrangular image and in a partial region including the first side; adjusting a quadrangular image to a rectangular image; and obtaining a final image and outputting the final image.
US10863075B2
An interchangeable lens includes: a mount unit on which a camera body can be mounted; a driven member; a drive unit that drives the driven member; a storage unit that stores lens data related to driving of the driven member by the drive unit; and a transmitter that sends lens-side judgment data, based on which whether the lens data is properly stored in the storage unit can be judged at the camera body, to the camera body.
US10863063B2
A driver assist system for a vehicle. The driver assist system includes a bracket having a mounting face. The mounting face is adapted to be attached to a part of the vehicle. The bracket includes a first locating member extending from the mounting face. A module is received in the bracket to secure the module to the part of the vehicle. The module has a camera lens extending from a first face and a first module locating member extending from the first face. One of the first bracket locating member and the first module locating member is linearly received within one other of the first bracket locating member and the first module locating member when the module is received in the bracket to maintain an orientation of the module relative to the bracket.
US10863058B2
An image processing device includes: a first processing unit generating third image information about a third image which is a combined image of a first image and a second image, by using first image information about the first image and second image information about the second image, and outputting a first signal including the third image information synchronously with a first synchronization signal; a second processing unit outputting a second signal including the second image information, switching between a first state where the second signal is synchronized with the first synchronization signal and a second state where the second signal is synchronized with a second synchronization signal different from the first synchronization signal, based on a state of the input first synchronization signal; and an output unit having the first signal and the second inputted and selecting and outputting the first signal or the second signal.
US10863051B2
An image forming apparatus includes first storage, a writing controller, a reading controller, a conveyance section, a detector, and a main controller. The conveyance section conveys a recording medium. The detector detects an overrun. Write addresses are designated in a predefined sequence from among addresses. Read addresses are designated in the predefined sequence from among the addresses. The writing process and the reading process are performed in storage areas included in the first storage in a first order. The overrun indicates that the writing and reading processes are performed in the storage areas included in the first storage in a second order that is opposite to the first order. While the conveyance section conveys the recording medium, the main controller controls the writing controller or the reading controller based on a detection result of the detector.
US10863046B2
An image reading apparatus includes a transport unit which transports a document, and reading units which read an image of the document which is transported. It is assumed that an operation of reading an image when specific setting information is not input to a control device of the image reading apparatus is set to a first reading mode, and an operation of reading an image when specific setting information is input to the control device is set to a second reading mode. In this case, in the second reading mode, image data of an image with a resolution which is equal to that in the first reading mode is generated, while causing the reading units to read an image from a document which is transported by the transport device at a lower speed than that in the first reading mode.
US10863041B2
An image forming apparatus including: an image forming portion configured to form an image on a sheet; an image reading portion provided above the image forming portion and configured to read an image from a document sheet; a housing storing the image forming portion and the image reading portion; an operation/display portion provided more outside the housing than a front surface of the housing, and used to operate the image forming apparatus; and a slit provided at the operation/display portion and configured to hold a mobile terminal that is smaller in size than the operation/display portion.
US10863040B2
In a multi-function peripheral (MFP), in some instances, the use of various data transmission functions, such as e-mail or fax, can be prohibited. In such circumstances, acquiring destination information from a business card by optical character recognition and registering the destination information in a list of the MFP's transmission destinations or in an address book can cause an error and force a user to perform additional operations. Based on device settings and user authentication settings, destinations under a disabled protocol are set in a non-display state in advance at the time of display of optical character recognition results.
US10863036B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for delivering plain old telephone service (“POTS”) telephony over high speed data networks. In particular, various embodiments provide tools and techniques for concurrent transmission of POTS voice signals and data signals over the same wire(s) of high-speed data lines or data cables. Various systems and methods might, in some instances, utilize upbanding or rebanding of the POTS voice band to a higher frequency band above the data stream band spectrum for transport of voice concurrent with data over the same wire(s) in the cable. The system might comprise interface devices at either end of a cable segment, one interface device to reband the voice signal and to combine the voice signal with the data signal for each dual-transport wire in the cable, and another interface device at the other end to separate the voice signal from the data signal.
US10863032B2
Methods and apparatus assist listeners in distinguishing between electronically generated binaural sound and physical environment sound while the listener wears a wearable electronic device that provides the binaural sound to the listener. The wearable electronic device generates a visual alert or audio alert when the electronically generated binaural sound occurs.
US10863023B2
A device includes a communication unit configured to receive a call request from a calling user; and a control unit configured to control the communication unit to provide a response message including information about a current situation based on information about an application currently being executed to the calling user in response to a rejection regarding the call request.
US10863021B2
There is a growing problem in correctional facility telecommunications systems in which parties on a voice call may connect inmate callers with restricted parties. Prison communication systems monitor calls to prevent such activity, but in Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) environments such systems may fail to detect this activity. The present disclosure provides details of a system and method for using SIP messages common in VoIP environments to detect illicit activity initiated by a party on a voice call within a controlled environment. Scenarios are detected in which a called party connects an inmate caller to a restricted party via three-way call conferencing, call forwarding, or other call features. Corrective actions are then taken when such activity is detected, such as call blocking or alerting officials illicit activity is occurring.
US10863020B1
A system and method for disabling distracting apps on a driver's personal devices while allowing passengers travelling in the same vehicle to have full use of their personal devices. The system works by first identifying all the personal devices that are in the vehicle and then establishing a loose mesh network between those devices. Once the mesh network is established, the system identifies which of the personal devices is associated with the driver, and ensures that any distracting apps on the driver's personal device are disabled, while allowing full functionality for any passenger's personal devices.
US10863007B2
A method for Xx/Xn interface communication is disclosed, comprising: at an Xx/Xn gateway for communicating with, and coupled to, a first and a second radio access network (RAN), receiving messages from the first RAN according to a first Xx/Xn protocol and mapping the received messages to a second Xx/Xn protocol for transmission to the second RAN; maintaining state of one of the first RAN or the second RAN at the Xx/Xn gateway; executing executable code received at an interpreter at the Xx/Xn gateway as part of the received messages; altering the maintained state based on the executed executable code; and receiving and decoding an initial Xx/Xn message from the first RAN; identifying specific strings in the initial Xx/Xn message; matching the identified specific strings in a database of stored scripts; and performing a transformation on the initial Xx/Xn message, the transformation being retrieved from the database for stored scripts, the stored scripts being transformations.
US10863004B2
A method and receiver are provided. The receiver comprises a first delay buffer and redundant data removal block. The first delay buffer is configured to delay a first data stream carrying first content. The first data stream is comprised of a plurality of compressed data blocks. The redundant data removal block configured to for each compressed data block of the first data stream: identify redundant data in the compressed data block; remove the redundant data to provide a reduced compressed data block; and store the reduced compressed data block in the first delay buffer.
US10863000B2
Technology is disclosed for an image editing tool that generates a recipe for just-in-time processing of images (“the technology”). Various embodiments of the technology include an image processing system that provides image processing services to a client system that publishes content including an image to end users. The image processing system processes the image based on a recipe to generate a processed image. The image editing tool is integrated into an application, e.g., webpage or a web browser, that displays the content. A user, e.g., administrator of the client system, can use the image editing tool to edit the image on the webpage and generate the recipe including instructions regarding the edits. The recipe is transmitted to the image processing system which processes the image based on the recipe, and transmits the processed image to the client system for further transmission to the end users accessing the content.
US10862998B2
Embodiments described include systems and methods for managing downloads from an embedded browser. The client application can control the locations to which downloads are directed. A system administrator can configure a policy to restrict downloads to approved locations. The client application can prevent a user from navigating to and downloading a file to a location that has not been approved according to the policy.
US10862996B2
Method embodiments are disclosed for characterizing network latency for a component of a webpage provided by an application server device, using boxcarring of action requests. The method comprises measuring the network latency for a component provided by an application server device. A latency category is established based on the network latency. An action request of a user occurring within a queue wait time is associated with the latency category. The action request of the user associated with the latency category is enqueued into an enqueued action request, which is batched in a boxcar to create a batched action request. The batched action request is dispatched in the boxcar to the application server device. The queue wait time is adapted based on an updated network latency and a transmission status of the action request of the user and the batched action request. System and computer program product embodiments are also disclosed.
US10862995B2
A method and system for distributing content on a network through network-wide transactions is disclosed. The method and system monitors the network using triggered measurement of the performance of an element of the network, dynamically computing, based on the monitoring, the regions of the network with available performance capacity for the transaction to proceed at a given time, determining, based on the computing, a scheduled time for the transaction to proceed, and distributing the content according to a schedule related to the scheduled time.
US10862994B1
Facilitating a decision of a content player is disclosed. In some cases, performance information associated with a content player is received. The information is received from a client. A determination is made that an update should be sent to the client. The update is sent to the client. In other cases, information is received from an external entity. Based at least in part on the received information, an instruction is sent to a content player.
US10862991B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for conditional call path monitoring in a distributed transactional middleware environment. A cache can be provided in local memory, for use by an agent in the reporting and aggregation of call path metrics. When the agent collects such metrics, it does not report them immediately to a system and application monitor (SAM) manager (e.g., Tuxedo System and Application Monitor, TSAM), but instead stores them in the cache, indexed by correlation ID (identifier). When a predefined condition is met at a participating node, that node propagates a corresponding correlation ID to other participating nodes, via the SAM manager. The other participating nodes can then search for the correlation ID in the cache, and report to the SAM manager metrics of call paths which meet the condition.
US10862990B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media may be configured for improved predictive content caching. A system may determine a value that is a function of one or more rates at which a portion of a content item is being consumed and based on this value, may also calculate a projected position after a predetermined time period. By comparing the projected position to a dynamically adjustable threshold position for requesting a new portion of the content item, a determination may be made as to when to retrieve and/or cache a new portion of the content item.
US10862988B2
Methods and systems for operating a sensor network are provided. In one example, a server may provide graphical data representing a hierarchical sensor network for displaying at a client device. The server may receive a selection to display sensor data from a first node of the nodes of the hierarchical sensor network and determine, based on the selection, a hierarchical sensor label associated with one or more first sensors of the hierarchical sensor network corresponding to the first node. The server may also receive a plurality of messages including sensor data generated by a plurality of sensors of the hierarchical sensor network from an in-bound real-time message processor, and identify a first set of messages based on the hierarchical sensor label. The server may extract the sensor data from the first set of messages and provide the sensor data for displaying at the client device.
US10862981B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide automatic wireless configuration
Systems, methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide automated configuration of local playback devices and networks based on external input are disclosed. An example media playback device includes a control interface to receive and process, at the media playback device, network configuration information for a local network from an external source, the control interface to receive and process the network configuration from the external source without requiring user intervention. The example media playback device includes a wireless interface to communicate with the local network based at least in part on the network configuration information. The example media playback device includes a speaker to output audio based on audio information received via the local network.
US10862979B2
The techniques described herein facilitate supporting remote micro-services from cloud-based analytics platforms as native functions in spreadsheet applications, e.g., Microsoft Excel®. In an implementation, a method of supporting remote micro-services as native functions in a spreadsheet application is disclosed. The method includes accessing a listing identifying at least one micro-service that is available for use by a user of a spreadsheet application. The at least one micro-service is remotely located in a cloud service platform. The method further includes obtaining a schema associated with the at least one remote micro-service, generating a translation model based on the schema, and registering the skeleton spreadsheet function as a native function in the spreadsheet application. The translation model maps between the at least one remote micro-service and a skeleton spreadsheet function.
US10862974B2
A method executed by a local computing device communicatively coupled to a signature device includes launching a signature device control instance including a local web server. The control instance controls the signature device and receives signature data from the signature device, and listens to a localhost and a first port corresponding to a first URL. The method further includes retrieving, by a web browser executing on the local computing device, a web page from a remote server with a second URL. The web page includes a document indicating a context for a signature to be input by the signature device, and a cross-domain reference indicating the first URL. The method further includes, by the web browser, establishing a connection with the first port listened to by the control instance using the first URL; controlling the signature device; and receiving signature data from the signature device.
US10862962B2
Embodiments described herein provide a system for facilitating dynamic content distribution in an enterprise environment. During operation, the system determines topographical information of the enterprise environment. The system determines a set of logical groups based on the topographical information. A respective logical group can include one or more devices managed by the controller and a network that provides connections among the one or more devices. The system generates a distribution plan for a piece of content via a first distribution tree. A respective node of the first distribution tree corresponds to a logical group of the set of logical groups. The logical group hosting the piece of content can correspond to a root node of the first distribution tree. The system then sends a notification message comprising the distribution plan to a respective logical group of the set of logical groups.
US10862960B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for blockchain-based property management are described herein. According to a first embodiment of the disclosure, a plurality of computing systems may be established at a plurality of points along a supply chain associated with the manufacture, shipment, and sale of a physical property item. At each of the plurality of points, the plurality of computing systems may identify data corresponding to the physical property item, which may be stored on a blockchain associated with a decentralized peer-to-peer (e.g., P2P) network. According to a second embodiment of the disclosure, content creator computing devices may transmit digital property item upload requests to a digital property management computing device, which may generate smart contracts corresponding to the requests. Through execution of the smart contracts, access may be granted to digital property items and fees may be provided to the content creator computing devices.
US10862959B2
A method and apparatus is presented for reaching consensus on adding data to a distributed ledger system in which no central trusted authority is available, comprising sending an announcement message by a network connected device to a plurality of network connected devices over a peer-to-peer network, said message providing an identification of the network connected device using a public key of a public/private key pair, a unique address identifier, and a hash. Subsequently, after a waiting period measured in, for example, time or blocks of data, the network connected device may submit data for inclusion in the distributed ledger. If the announcement message and preceding data in the distributed ledger satisfy a predetermined condition, the plurality of network connected devices may include the data in the distributed ledger. If the network connected device fails to submit the data when the predetermined condition is satisfied, the announcement message may be canceled.
US10862954B2
A method for soliciting and creating collaborative content items is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by a user device of a first user, a request to contribute a content item for a personalized message to a second user, the personalized message for an event unique to the second user, wherein the first user is selected to receive the request to contribute the content item based on an affinity score between the first user and the second user, presenting the request to contribute the content item, receiving input from the first user identifying the content item to contribute for the personalized message to the second user, and causing the content item to be added to a collaborative content product generated for the second user, the collaborative content product comprising other content items of other users of the social network.
US10862948B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a data storage device and a set of computing servers communicatively coupled to the data storage device. The set of computer servers are configured to provide a respective virtual data center for each of a plurality of accounts. The respective virtual data center for each account is configured to provide virtual services specified in a respective settings file for the account stored in the data storage device. The virtual data center for at least one of the accounts includes a set of virtual desktops and a set virtual servers, including at least one Voice-over-IP (VoIP) server. The VoIP server provides VoIP service for a plurality of users of the account.
US10862941B2
To enable, on a receiving side, processing obtaining predetermined information to be performed easily and appropriately in a case the predetermined information is divided into a predetermined number of audio frames and transmitted. The predetermined information is inserted into an audio compressed data stream. The audio compressed data stream into which the predetermined information is inserted is transmitted. It is possible to insert each of the pieces of divided information obtained by dividing the predetermined information into the predetermined number of audio frames of the audio compressed data stream. Information indicating the overall size of the predetermined information is added to a first piece of divided information. It is possible to ensure space for storing the predetermined information in a storage medium on the basis of the information indicating the overall size of the predetermined information at a time point where the first piece of divided information is obtained.
US10862937B2
The method, apparatus, and computer program product provided herein provide for distribution of customized content to displays in a network. A display may receive video content for display from a transceiver device. Channel configurations may be user-configured to include content from any number of sources. Channel content may be generated based on a channel configuration to incorporate identified content and the channel content may be provided to transceiver devices. Alert messages may be pushed to channels, and takeovers of transceiver devices to stream a particular channel may be performed.
US10862932B2
Systems and methods of providing push-to-talk communication techniques in a multimedia conferencing session are provided. For instance, a push-to-talk mode can be implemented in a conferencing session associated with a conferencing system comprising a plurality of endpoints. At least one of the endpoints can be a full duplex endpoint. A request for transmission capabilities can be received from a first endpoint. Transmission capabilities can be granted to the first endpoint based at least in part on one or more floor control parameters associated with the conferencing session. Subsequent to granting transmission capabilities to the first endpoint, audio data can be provided from the first endpoint to at least one endpoint of the plurality of endpoints in the conferencing session.
US10862927B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating an adaptive trust profile via an adaptive trust profile operation. In various embodiments the adaptive trust profile operation includes: monitoring a plurality of electronically-observable actions of an entity, the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity corresponding to a respective plurality of events enacted by the entity; converting the plurality of electronically-observable actions of the entity to electronic information representing the plurality of actions of the entity; and generating the adaptive trust profile based upon the plurality of actions of the entity, the adaptive trust profile being generated by an adaptive trust profile system.
US10862916B2
The technology disclosed simulates and analyzes spread of malware through an organization as a result of sharing files using cloud-based services. This analysis is based on actual user and file sharing characteristics collected on a user-by-user and file-by-file basis. The technology disclosed traces connections among the users by traversing a directed graph constructed from the user-by-user data and the file-by-file data. It then simulates the spread of malware, from an entry point user zero through the organization, via the cloud-based services, using the directed graph to simulate user exposure to, infection by, and transmission of the malware within the organization. It then produces a visualization of the spread from the entry point user zero, to users within a user partition to which the user zero belongs, at varying transmission distances from the user zero.
US10862912B2
A device receives network segment information identifying network segments associated with a network, and receives endpoint host session information identifying sessions associated with endpoint hosts communicating with the network. The device generates, based on the network segment information and the endpoint host session information, a data structure that includes information associating the network segments with the sessions associated with the endpoint hosts. The device updates the data structure based on changes in the sessions associated with the endpoint hosts and based on changes in locations of the endpoint hosts within the network segments, and identifies, based on the data structure, a particular endpoint host, of the endpoint hosts, that changed locations within the network segments. The device determines a threat policy action to enforce for the particular endpoint host, and causes the threat policy action to be enforced, by the network, for the particular endpoint host.
US10862909B2
Packets may be received by a packet security gateway. Responsive to a determination that an overload condition has occurred in one or more networks associated with the packet security gateway, a first group of packet filtering rules may be applied to at least some of the packets. Applying the first group of packet filtering rules may include allowing at least a first portion of the packets to continue toward their respective destinations. Responsive to a determination that the overload condition has been mitigated, a second group of packet filtering rules may be applied to at least some of the packets. Applying the second group of packet filtering rules may include allowing at least a second portion of the packets to continue toward their respective destinations.
US10862906B2
A comprehensive security operation platform with artificial intelligence capabilities which may collaborate and/or automate tasks, including complex and/or redundant security tasks. An automated system may assist security analysts and security operations center managers in discovering security incidents. A comprehensive security operations platform may combine intelligent automation scale and collaborative human social learning, wisdom and experience. An automated system may empower security analysts to resolve incidents faster and reduce redundancy through collaboration with peers in virtual war rooms. An automated system may automate security analyst work by executing tasks from the war room or by following playbooks defined by the security analysts.
US10862901B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for generating a cyber behavior profile, comprising: monitoring user interactions between a user and an information handling system; converting the user interactions into electronic information representing the user interactions, the electronic information representing the user interactions comprising temporal detail corresponding to the user interaction; and generating a user behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the user interactions, the generating the user profile including a layer of detail corresponding to the temporal detail corresponding to the user interaction.
US10862893B2
A system and method for managing a network policy of an application on a client includes discovering, by the client, a first network, determining if the first network is a restricted network, applying a restricted network rule to the client when the first network is a restricted network, lowering a network score of the first network when the first network is a restricted network, and associating with the first network.
US10862876B2
A device transmits or receives a packet in a memory network including one or more processors and/or one or more memory devices. The device includes a key storage unit configured to store a one-time password (OTP) key that is shared with a target node, an encryption unit configured to encrypt a transmission packet with the OTP key stored in the key storage unit and to transmit the encrypted transmission packet to the target node, and a decryption unit configured to decrypt a receiving packet from the target node with the OTP key stored in the key storage unit. The device is a processor or a memory device in the memory network.
US10862872B1
A networked device communication system can configure network devices (e.g., a primary and secondary database) to send and receive sequences of messages, such as replicated data, using one or more keypairs and wrapping keys. The sequences of messages can include an initial set of messages that are encrypted by a wrapping key, and further include another set of messages that are encrypted by a replaced staggered key. The sequence of messages can be configured to be decrypted without exporting keys of hardware security modules.
US10862866B2
A method for multiple transaction capabilities application part (TCAP) operation code (opcode) screening includes receiving a first SS7 signaling message including multiple TCAP opcodes. The method further includes determining that the first SS7 signaling message requires further processing. The method further includes, in response to determining that the first SS7 signaling message requires further processing, decoding, from the first SS7 signaling message, N TCAP opcodes, where N is an integer of at least two. The method further includes, for each of the N TCAP opcodes, applying a filter and determining that one of the filters indicates that the opcode, alone or in combination with other parameters in the first SS7 signaling message, is not allowed. The method further includes, in response to determining that the one filter indicates that the opcode, alone or in combination with the other parameters is not allowed, performing an SS7 firewall action.
US10862864B2
Network devices within an enterprise are configured to pass out-of-band security information such as heartbeats, notifications of compromise, device identification information, and so forth between logical or physical network partitions such as subnets, routing domains, access points, and so forth. This technique can advantageously facilitate integrated management of endpoints across network boundaries that might otherwise interfere with the identification and management of specific devices.
US10862863B2
Techniques for a session identifier for a communication session are described. According to various implementations, a session identifier that is usable for initiating a communication session is allocated prior to the communication session being initiated. The session identifier can then be activated to enable the session identifier to be used for routing data packets of a communication session.
US10862854B2
Described systems and methods allow a selective collection of computer security data from client devices such as personal computers, smartphones, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A security application executing on each client device comprises a domain name service (DNS) proxy that tags outgoing DNS messages with a client ID. The DNS server selects a client for to data collection by returning a DNS reply comprising a service activation flag. Some embodiments thus enable a per-DNS-message selectivity of data collection. In some embodiments, subsequent network access requests by the selected clients are re-routed to a security server for analysis.
US10862852B1
Systems and methods are for domain name system (DNS) resolutions in heterogeneous network environments including a virtual private cloud (VPC). An administrator of a virtual private cloud (VPC) specifies rules identifying sources for resolving DNS resolution requests. The rules may include routing a request to a source outside the VPC such as to an on-premises DNS resolver through an outbound IP endpoint.
US10862850B2
Example methods and systems are provided for network-address-to-identifier translation in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise: based on traffic flow information associated with a first network address and a second network address, determining that the first network address is associated with a first identifier that identifies the first virtualized computing instance. The method may also comprise: obtaining network topology information specifying how the first virtualized computing instance is connected to the second virtualized computing instance via one or more logical forwarding elements; and based on the network topology information, determining that the second network address is associated with a second identifier that identifies the second virtualized computing instance. The method may further comprise: utilizing the first identifier and the second identifier in a firewall rule to allow or deny a traffic flow between the first virtualized computing instance and the second virtualized computing instance, or to monitor the traffic flow, or both.
US10862841B1
A method of detecting establishment of a voice communication between a first voice communication equipment and a second voice communication equipment and automating requests for content. The method includes analyzing the voice communication to detect a request for content, analyzing the voice communication to identify the request for content as a request to share content between a first user account and a second user account, and identifying the requested content from a data storage. The method includes causing the sharing of the requested content with the second user account.
US10862839B2
Systems and methods for managing and storing electronic communications are disclosed. According to certain aspects, the systems and methods may receive a request to classify a previously-sent electronic communication with a certain designation. The systems and methods may transmit a notification to the participants of the electronic communication, where the notification indicates the classification of the electronic communication. The systems and methods may store the electronic communication appropriately for later analysis and retrieval.
US10862830B2
A system and method for real-time data transfer on a system-on-chip (SoC) allows MIPI-CSI (camera serial interface) data received on a first interface to be output on another MIPI-CSI interface without using system memory or delaying the loopback path. The system includes a CSI receiver, a loopback buffer, and a CSI transmitter. The loopback buffer is used for the data transfer between the CSI receiver and the CSI transmitter. The CSI transmitter receives a payload included in a data packet from the CSI receiver by way of the loopback buffer. The CSI receiver communicates a packet header of the data packet to the CSI transmitter. The CSI transmitter reads the payload from the loopback buffer based on the packet header and at least one of a buffer threshold capacity and payload size.
US10862826B2
In one illustrative example, a switch for use in a network fabric which includes a plurality on interconnected switches configured to facilitate communication of IP multicast traffic amongst host devices may be provided. The switch may receive, from a controller, a global set of host policies associated with the plurality of switches of the network fabric. The switch may select, from the global set of host policies, a local subset of host policies applicable to the switch. The switch may grant or deny admission of host devices to receive or send IP multicast traffic flows in the network fabric according to the selected, local subset of host policies.
US10862823B2
Embodiments provide a method, which can implement establishment of an network function virtualization (NFV) network service chain. The method includes obtaining, by a first communications unit, a service chain rule, where the service chain rule is used to indicate service processing that needs to be performed. The method also includes obtaining, according to the service chain rule, information about a service chain through which a service route passes, where the information about the service chain is used to indicate information about a virtualized network function (VNF) through which the service route passes, and the VNF is configured for the service processing; and sending a route and resource configuration request message, where the route and resource configuration request message carries the information about the service chain, to request to perform, according to the information about the service chain, route and resource configuration for the VNF included in the service chain.
US10862820B2
The embodiments are directed to methods and appliances for scheduling a packet transmission. The methods and appliances can assign received data packets or a representation of data packets to one or more connection nodes of a classification tree having a link node and first and second intermediary nodes associated with the link node via one or more semi-sorted queues, wherein the one or more connection nodes correspond with the first intermediary node. The methods and appliances can process the one or more connection nodes using a credit-based round robin queue. The methods and appliances can authorize the sending of the received data packets based on the processing.
US10862801B1
A network device may select a candidate entry to remove from a media access control (MAC) table maintained at the network device based on determining that the MAC table is exhausted. The candidate entry may include an identifier for a first virtual local area network (VLAN) associated with the candidate entry. The network device may receive a packet from a source node having a MAC address that does not appear in the MAC table, where the packet may include an identifier for a second VLAN in which the source node is a member. The network device may replace the candidate entry in the MAC table with a new entry corresponding to the source node based on determining that the second VLAN is associated with a greater number of ports than the first VLAN.
US10862794B2
An automated Link Aggregation Group (LAG) configuration system includes a plurality of slave switch devices that are each coupled to an endhost device by at least one respective link. Each of the plurality of slave switch devices receives a Link Aggregation Group (LAG) communication from the endhost device, and forwards endhost device information in that LAG communication to a master switch device. The master switch device receives endhost device information from each of the plurality of slave switch devices and determines that each of the plurality of slave switch devices are coupled to the endhost device. In response, the master switch device sends a LAG instruction to each of the plurality of slave switch devices that causes the at least one respective link that couples each of the plurality of slave switch devices to the endhost device to be configured in a LAG.
US10862790B2
A computer-implemented method, in a content delivery (CD) network, wherein said CD network delivers content on behalf of multiple content providers. The method includes, at a client, requesting one or more parts of a randomly generated test object; in response to said requesting, receiving one or more response objects; generating one or more portions of said randomly generated test object, and comparing the one or more response objects received to at least some of the one or more portions of the object generated. Based on said comparing, when said one or more response objects received do not match said at least some of the one or more portions of the object generated, reporting and logging an error.
US10862788B2
A method for evaluating and predicting telecommunications network traffic includes receiving site data for multiple geographic areas via a processor. The processor also receives weather data, event data, and population demographic data for the geographic areas. The processor also generates predicted occupancy data for each of the geographic areas and for multiple time intervals. The processor also determines a predicted telecommunications network metric for each of the geographic areas and for each of the time intervals, based on the predicted occupancy data.
US10862787B2
A management apparatus transmits information of a manager control task to each agent service, manages an execution result of processing executed in each network device, which is a processing target, for each of the sub-tasks generated at each agent service based on the manager control task, and transmits a response indicating whether execution of a sub-task is permitted based on an inquiry from each agent service to control the number of sub-tasks executed in parallel in the same time slot.
US10862785B2
The present application provides monitoring and managing usage of one or more network-connected devices over a network. The network-connected devices may include devices connected to the Internet of Things (IoT). Some aspects provide systems, methods and computing devices for: receiving usage and rate data associated with network-connected device(s); determining device expenditure data based on the usage and rate data; obtaining allocation information pertaining to a time period; updating information associated with one or more data files with the device expenditure data; comparing the updated information to the allocation information; and determining whether an allocation indicated by the allocation information for the time period is feasible.
US10862777B2
A determination is made that a graphical representation of network health state information pertaining to a client account of a provider network is to be provided. Using respective network metrics groups corresponding to several data sources, a network health state descriptor corresponding to a resource associated with the client account is generated. A data set usable to generate a graphical display of network health state information of the resource of the client account is transmitted.
US10862762B2
Techniques for implementing a single-addressable virtual topology element (VTE) in a virtual topology. A VTE in a virtual topology may be distributed as multiple instantiated elements in a physical topology. However, the multiple instantiated elements are addressable as a single entity. Obtaining information associated with the VTE includes obtaining and aggregating information from each of the instantiated elements. Applying an overall configuration to the VTE includes determining a respective configuration for each instantiated element based on the overall configuration, and applying the respective configuration to each instantiated element.
US10862756B2
Systems and methods for identifying a new device in an internet of things (IoT) network comprising a plurality of devices. The method includes, by a processor: detecting that a new device has been added to the IoT network; receiving identification data corresponding to the new device; determining a first device identification using a deep learning algorithm; determining a second device identification using a clustering algorithm; determining a third device identification based on a reference table; determining a fourth device identification by analyzing one or more values included in the identification data. The method further includes selecting, at least one of the first device identification, the second device identification, the third device identification, or the fourth device identification, as a final device identification by performing a weighted selection.
US10862750B2
A network configuration apparatus includes a user interface module configured to receive a traffic request from a user. The traffic request includes a source and a destination for desired traffic. A barrier identification module obtains network data indicating a set of networking devices present in a route between the source and the destination. For each of the devices, the barrier identification module determines whether the device may block traffic from reaching the destination and, if so, adds the device to a set of potential barriers. A route analysis module, for each device of the potential barriers, flags the device if it will block the desired traffic. The user interface module, in response to there being at least one flagged device, transmits an alert that the traffic request is a failure; and, in response to there being zero flagged devices, transmits an alert that the traffic request is a success.
US10862747B2
Disclosed are various examples for staging client devices. A computing device assigns a first policy to a client device. The computing device later authenticates a user account based at least in part on receipt of a user authentication message from the client device. The computing device then selects a second policy to assign to the client device based at least in part on authentication of the user account. The computing device then assigns the second policy to the client device.
US10862744B2
Monitoring systems and methods for use in security, safety, and business process applications utilizing a correlation engine are disclosed. Sensory data from one or more sensors are captured and analyzed to detect one or more events in the sensory data. The events are correlated by a correlation engine, optionally by weighing the events based on attributes of the sensors that were used to detect the primitive events. The events are then monitored for an occurrence of one or more correlations of interest, or one or more critical events of interest. Finally, one or more actions are triggered based on a detection of one or more correlations of interest, one or more anomalous events, or one or more critical events of interest. Events may come from sensory devices, legacy systems, third-party systems, anonymous tips, and other data sources. The present invention may be used to increase business productivity by improving security, safety, and increasing profitability of business processes.
US10862740B2
Provided in the disclosed embodiments are methods and apparatuses for switching service nodes in a distributed storage system, the service nodes comprising a current service node and backup service nodes. The method comprises: monitoring response states of the service nodes to a service request; and if a response state of the current service node is abnormal, stopping communication between the current service node and the backup service nodes, and triggering a switching process for the current service node. In the case of a service timeout, service unavailability, service abnormality, or the like caused by a hardware failure or software defect, logic is checked with a service node that performs logical determination and data statistics collection for multiple factors affecting response states of service nodes, thereby achieving autonomous switching and recovery of the service nodes and improving service availability.
US10862731B1
Described are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program product for selectively utilizing demonstration data based on dynamically determining feature availability on computer systems. A first request is received from a client device for computer system feature data related to a computer system feature. A second request is sent to a computer system to invoke by the computer system the computer system feature. Response computer system feature data including feature status information is received. The computer system feature data is formed based on the response computer system feature data, if the feature status information indicates that the computer system feature is available on the computer system. The computer system feature data is formed based on demonstration data, if the feature status information indicates that the computer system feature is not available on the computer system. The computer system feature data is sent to the client device.
US10862727B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) between a terminal and a base station, and a device for supporting same. More specifically, disclosed are: a method for transmitting and receiving a PUCCH between a terminal and a base station through one or more resource elements included in one or more interlaces among interlaces of RB units in a frequency domain during one or two symbol periods unlike in a conventional method; and devices for supporting the same.
US10862726B2
A method and an apparatus for receiving broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the signal frame includes service data corresponding to each of a plurality of physical paths, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave service data in each physical path by a TI (Time Interleaving) block, wherein the time deinterleaver further performs inserting at least one virtual FEC block into at least one TI block of the service data, wherein each TI block includes a variable number of FEC blocks of the service data, wherein a number of the at least one virtual FEC block is defined based on a maximum number of FEC blocks of a TI block and a decoder to decode the time deinterleaved service data.
US10862714B1
A method for testing on-die capacitors is provided. The method comprises transmitting, during a first time period, a first modulated testing signal from a first transmitter port of a transmitter to a first receiver port of a receiver along a first path of a differential signal, the first receiver port connected to a first on-die capacitor in the receiver along the first path; driving, during the first time period, a constant voltage on a second transmitter port of the transmitter to a second receiver port of the receiver along a second path of the differential signal comprising a second on-die capacitor; and determining whether the first on-die capacitor is functional, based on the first modulated testing signal.
US10862713B2
A method at a network node that is configured to simultaneously transmit and receive wireless RF signals, comprising: transmitting, from the network node, a downlink message, the downlink message having a preamble that includes channel estimation information for estimating a self-interference channel; monitoring at the network node, during an initial duration while transmitting the downlink message, for the channel estimation information, and estimating a self-interference channel based on received portions of the channel estimation information; and using the estimated self-interference channel to cancel self-interference while receiving an uplink message and simultaneously transmitting a remainder of the downlink message.
US10862710B2
A distribution network system having a plurality of nodes using a scheme for data-centric object-oriented communication (DDS) effectively manages the frequently occurring connections for each node and the real-time addition or deletion of a node. Each node includes a gateway connected to a Wide Area Network (WAN) and configured to transmit and receive a message using a Real-Time Publish-Subscribe (RTPS) protocol that applies simple tunneling to communicate as if all nodes communicate in a Local Area Network (LAN), and to insert magic information into a header of the message, the inserted magic information including source IP information of the message, destination IP information of the message, and destination User Datagram Protocol (UDP) information of the message.
US10862704B2
In a System on a Chip (SOC) having multiple masters and multiple slaves connected to a bus via a crossbar switch, a time-based secure access control system of the SOC includes a central access control (CAC) circuit coupled to the master devices through respective channels to receive time-based access requests from the masters. Each slave is connected to a slave access control (SAC) circuit and each SAC circuit includes an access time control (ATC) circuit in communication with the CAC circuit and a dedicated timer. The CAC circuit controls the ATC circuits to limit the access permission from the masters to the slaves by checking whether a requested access time has expired.
US10862697B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for controlling multicast traffic flows through provider edge routers. In some examples, a multicast traffic of one or more multicast traffic flows is received from a multicast source at a first provider edge router of a plurality of provider edge routers. A multicast routing message including a loopback address of the first provider edge router can be originated at the first provider edge router. The multicast routing message can be flooded into a multicast core network for controlling traffic in the one or more multicast flows through the multicast core network to the first provider edge router. Subsequently, multicast joins can be received at the first provider edge router for establishing the one or more multicast flows through the multicast core network based on the multicast routing message including the loopback address of the first provider edge router.
US10862696B2
In a cellular wireless network, methods and apparatus are disclosed for a signal broadcasting scheme that can be individually augmented for users with poor reception. The network employs a first downlink channel for broadcasting data to all mobile stations, a second downlink channel for sending signals to a specific mobile station in a cell, and an uplink channel for feeding back information to the base station. To achieve a certain user reception quality, the system adjusts its broadcasting parameters based on the statistical analysis of the feedback data. If some users still require better reception, the system individually augments their broadcast signals via the second downlink channels. Methods and apparatus are also disclosed for synchronization of data distribution by base stations, which, in part, allows the receivers to combine the receiving signals and improve their reception quality.
US10862676B2
A method is described for secure communication with a field measuring device of process measuring technology. A plurality of scopes of rights, and a plurality of public keys of a corresponding plurality of asymmetrical key pairs, are stored in the field measuring device. Each public key is assigned a scope of rights, and at least one private key of the corresponding plurality of asymmetric key pairs is stored in an external communicator. Upon establishing contact of the external communicator with the field measuring device, the external communicator identifies itself by a public-key authentication with the stored private key to the field measuring device. The field measuring device authenticates the external communicator using a suitable public key stored in the field measuring device. The field measuring device then opens an operating session in which the external communicator is granted access to the information technology content of the field measuring device.
US10862672B2
Techniques are disclosed for managing data of an application. One embodiment presented herein includes a computer-implemented method, which includes scanning a distributed system to identify one or more blocks comprising data associated with the application. The method further includes generating a witness block based on the one or more blocks. The witness block may comprise a state of the data from the one or more blocks. The method further includes adding the witness block to the distributed system.
US10862668B2
An operation method of a first communication node operating as a current reference grand master (GM) node in a vehicle network may comprise: transmitting a first synchronization message including a first reference time of the first communication node; receiving a first response message from a second communication node, the first response message including a first synchronization offset indicating a difference between a first local time of the second communication node and the first reference time; receiving a second response message from the second communication node, the second response message including a second synchronization offset indicating a difference between the first local time and a second reference time of a third communication node operating as a GM node; and determining the first communication node or the third communication node as a first reference GM node based on a result of comparison between the first synchronization offset and the second synchronization offset.
US10862664B2
A receiver may include a plurality of receiving units connected with corresponding channels, and a clock data recovery unit connected with a sensing channel among the channels via a sensing line and connected with the receiving units via a common clock line. The receiving units may receive training pattern signals having the same transition direction through the channels in a training mode, and, in the training mode the clock data recovery unit may generate a phase-adjusted sampling clock signal so that a sampling time corresponds to a transition time of a training pattern signal of the sensing channel.
US10862657B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of cells. The cells are grouped into a primary group comprising a primary cell, and a secondary group. The secondary group comprises first secondary cells. The first secondary cells comprise a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) secondary cell with a secondary PUCCH. A channel quality indicator of a signal is transmitted via the secondary PUCCH. A message indicating a release of fewer secondary cells than the first secondary cells is received. The fewer secondary cells comprise the PUCCH secondary cell. The first secondary cells are released based on releasing the PUCCH secondary cell.
US10862653B2
Disclosed is a method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, including identifying first offset information and second offset information, determining a size of uplink data for the UE, and transmitting, to a base station in the wireless communication system, the uplink data with at least one of acknowledgement/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) information and channel quality indicator (CQI) information on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), wherein a number of symbols for the ACK/NACK information is determined based on the first offset information and the size of the uplink data, and wherein a number of symbols for the CQI information is determined based on the second offset information and the size of the uplink data.
US10862652B2
Embodiments provide an uplink signal acknowledge method. In the method, an uplink signal sent by a terminal device for tracking the terminal device can be received by a base station or a transmission/reception point (TRP). A downlink tracking acknowledge message can be sent to the terminal device. The downlink tracking acknowledge message can include at least one of the following: information about a status in which the base station or the TRP tracks the terminal device, timing advance information required by the terminal device to send an uplink tracking signal, power adjustment information required by the terminal device to send the uplink signal, and access control information of the terminal device. The base station or the TRP sends the downlink tracking acknowledge message to the terminal device, so that the terminal device learns whether a network has tracked the terminal device.
US10862643B2
A device to process a channel state information reference signal CSI-RS and further data to be transmitted via a first radio module of a radio communications network, in which data to be transmitted is mapped on subcarriers and in the radio module subsequently up-converted to a radio frequency higher than the subcarrier frequencies is provided. The subcarriers are grouped into frequency subbands, and at least one subband is scalable with at least one subband parameter for a period of time. A subband parameter is in particular a subcarrier spacing, and in at least one subband at least two different parameters, in particular subcarrier spacings, can be used.
US10862638B2
A transmission apparatus including: a transport stream generation unit configured to generate a transport stream in which a first transport packet containing transport media in a payload and a second transport packet containing information about the transport media in a payload, are time-division multiplexed; a transport stream transmission unit configured to transmit the transport stream to a receiver through a predetermined transmission channel; and a time information insertion unit configured to insert time information for allowing the receiver to obtain decoding time and/or presentation time into the first transport packet or the second transport packet.
US10862637B2
In accordance with embodiments, methods and systems for data transmissions are disclosed. A station (STA) transmits an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) frame to an access point (AP). The OFDM frame comprises an OFDM symbol. The OFDM symbol comprises data tones and pilot tones. The total number of the data tones and the pilot tones in the OFDM symbol is divisible by 4. In some embodiments, the OFDM symbol may comprises 232 data tones, 8 pilot tones, 5 direct current (DC) tones, and 11 edge tones. The 232 data tones and 8 pilot tones of the OFDM symbol may be segmented to a set of 15 blocks for channel estimation between the AP and the STA.
US10862634B2
Embodiments are provided for supporting variable sub-carrier spacing and symbol duration for transmitting OFDM or other waveform symbols and associated cyclic prefixes. The symbol duration includes the useful symbol length and its associated cyclic prefix length. The variable sub-carrier spacing and symbol duration is determined via parameters indicating the sub-carrier spacing, useful symbol length, and cyclic prefix length. An embodiment method, by a network or a network controller, includes establishing a plurality of multiple access block (MAB) types defining different combinations of sub-carrier spacing and symbol duration for waveform transmissions. The method further includes partitioning a frequency and time plane of a carrier spectrum band into a plurality of MAB regions comprising frequency-time slots for the waveform transmissions. The MAB types are then selected for the MAB regions, wherein one MAB type is assigned to one corresponding MAB region.
US10862632B2
A digital routing unit (DRU) within a wireless distribution system (WDS) couples to multiple signal sources (e.g., base band units (BBU)) through common public radio interface (CPRI) links in such a fashion that clock reconditioning circuitry within the DRU is consolidated. That is, instead of each receiver circuit at each input at the DRU having its own clock reconditioning circuit, signals from the same network operator may be multiplexed so as to select a single signal and, from that single signal, recover a cleaned clock signal for use by all the receivers that receive signals from that network operator.
US10862623B2
A transmitting apparatus is disclosed. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder to perform channel encoding with respect to bits and generate a codeword, an interleaver to interleave the codeword, and a modulator to map the interleaved codeword onto a non-uniform constellation according to a modulation scheme, and the constellation may include constellation points defined based on various tables according to the modulation scheme.
US10862616B2
A communication processing apparatus includes: an application unit that causes application software to be executed; and a real-time communication unit that receives communication requests from the application software and performs transmission and reception of data based on the communication requests. The real time unit includes: a request buffer that temporarily stores the communication requests received from the application software; a real-time communication-unit interface unit that, when the communication requests are data transmission requests, extracts the data transmission requests from the request buffer and performs transmission processing; and a self-diagnostic unit that detects a diagnostic index related to processing of the real-time communication unit, and transmits a notification of operation status of the real-time communication unit to the real-time communication-unit interface unit when the diagnostic index is within a predetermined range.
US10862614B2
A base station apparatus capable of preventing occurrence of a communication delay when performing an inter-cell interference control using an ABS is provided. The base station apparatus is capable of performing an inter-cell interference control by setting an ABS pattern with one cycle of a predetermined number of subframes, and when the ABS pattern is to be switched, changes an MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) index value to be determined by an adaptive modulation control, for a communication within a predetermined period of time on or before a switching time of the switching, with respect to a subframe in which a communication with a mobile station apparatus is allowed before switching the ABS pattern.
US10862610B1
A multi-channel photonic demultiplexer includes an input region to receive a multi-channel optical signal including four distinct wavelength channels, four output regions, each adapted to receive a corresponding one of the four distinct wavelength channels demultiplexed from the multi-channel optical signal, and a dispersive region optically disposed between the input region and the four output regions. The dispersive region includes a first material and a second material inhomogeneously interspersed to form a plurality of interfaces that each correspond to a change in refractive index of the dispersive region and collectively structure the dispersive region to optically separate each of the four distinct wavelength channels from the multi-channel optical signal and respectively guide each of the four distinct wavelength channels to the corresponding one of the four output regions.
US10862606B2
Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for signaling and using one or more virtual cell identifications (V-cell IDs) for single frequency network (SFN)-type of transmissions in wireless communications systems. A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. In an aspect, the method may include performing, by a user equipment (UE), a cell search to obtain a cell ID, and decoding, by the UE, a message based on the cell ID, wherein the message includes a master information block (MIB). The method may further include identifying, by the UE, a virtual cell ID used for SFN-type transmissions based on information decoded from the message. The techniques described herein may apply to different communications technologies, including 5th Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) communications technology.
US10862601B1
A switching device is provided and includes a processor and a physical layer device. The processor is configured to generate a synchronization frame and a corresponding follow up frame. The follow up frame is generated while or subsequent to the generating of the synchronization frame and without waiting for an egress timestamp indicating when the synchronization frame is to be transmitted from the switching device to a network device. The physical layer device is configured to: receive the synchronization and follow up frames from the processor; prior to transmitting the follow up frame to the network device, modify the follow up frame to include the egress timestamp indicating when the synchronization frame is transmitted from the switching device via the physical layer device; and perform a precision time protocol process including transmitting the synchronization and follow up frames from the switching device to the network device for clock synchronization.
US10862585B1
A terminal (1050) includes a light receiver (151) that receives a light signal emitted by an apparatus (1000), the light signal including an identifier (SSID) of at least one base station (470); a receiver (153) that performs a reception process on the received light signal to output reception data; a data analyzer (155) that selects one base station based on the identifier of the at least one base station that is included in the reception data; and a radio device (453) that establishes a wireless connection with the selected base station (470) by using the identifier of the base station (470) and wirelessly communicates with the base station (470).
US10862575B2
An embodiment of the invention provides a transmissive passive repeater having two or more antenna arrays, each array comprised of a plurality of antenna elements. Each antenna array has an associated region. An aperture is defined by the antenna arrays with which energy at respective antenna arrays passes between each of the regions. Another embodiment of the invention provides a reflective passive repeater having an aperture. Energy received at the aperture is reflected back from the aperture. The aperture is configured to provide a conformal mapping between two regions as determined by complex coupling by individual antenna elements.
US10862570B1
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable media for facilitating adaptive precoder updating for channel state feedback are disclosed herein. An example method of wireless communication at a UE includes selecting a second wideband component W1 of a second PMI, the second PMI including the second wideband component W1 and a second subband component W2, and the selecting of the second wideband component W1 being based at least on a determining of whether to reuse for the second wideband component W1 a first wideband component W1 of a first PMI previously determined based on received first CSI-RS, the first PMI including a first wideband component W1 and a first subband component W2. The example method also includes determining the second PMI based on a received second CSI-RS, the second wideband component W1, and the second subband component W2. The example method also includes reporting the determined second PMI to a base station.
US10862567B2
A wireless communication device includes a number of radio-frequency (RF) antennas and one or more radio circuits. Each radio circuit includes a receive (RX) chain to process RX signals and a transmit (TX) chain to process TX signals. An RF switch network couples at least one RF antenna to at least one radio circuit. A baseband processor controls a configuration of the RF switch network. The baseband processor determines a plurality of parameters and controls the RF switch network based on at least one of the parameters. The parameters are determined during a training interval including at least an inter-frame space (IFS). The configuration of the RF switch network is based on the determined parameters and is employed for selection of an antenna to improve a link performance when used for communication of a next packet following the IFS.
US10862559B2
A system, in a programmable active reflector (AR) device associated with a first radio frequency (RF) device and a second RF device, receives a request and associated metadata from the second RF device via a first antenna array. Based on the received request and associated metadata, one or more antenna control signals are received from the first RF device. The programmable AR device is dynamically selected and controlled by the first RF device based on a set of criteria. A controlled plurality of RF signals is transmitted, via a second antenna array, to the second RF device within a transmission range of the programmable AR device based on the associated metadata. The controlled plurality of RF signals are cancelled at the second RF device based on the associated metadata.
US10862547B2
Disclosed is a MIMO-OFDM-based intercellular cooperative communication system and a cooperative communication method using the system, the system and method using the system mitigate influence of an intercellular interference and to increase reliability of the mobile terminal located at an edge of a cell, using a CoMP scheme by which base stations cooperate in a HetNet system, a pre-coding scheme by which a channel coefficient of a desired signal increases and a channel coefficient of an interference signal is reduced, and a MIMO detection scheme with an excellent signal detection performance.
US10862540B1
Various embodiments are directed to a method and system for mapping or visualizing the magnetic fields and their associated field strengths of an object, such as a mobile computing device. An example source of the magnetic fields may be a near-field communication (NFC) reader configured in the object. A computer vision system or device may track a visual marker arranged near or on a magnetic field strength detector in order to associate, match, or map the magnetic field strength measurement readings of the detector at different positions or locations on the object. The computer vision system may generate and display a heat map of the object based on at least the magnetic field strength measurements and their relative positions.
US10862539B2
A reception pad for a wireless power transfer (WPT) system includes: a plate-shaped ferrite; an insulating layer disposed on one side of the ferrite; a first coil layer disposed on the insulating layer; an interlayer insulating layer disposed on the first coil layer; and a second coil layer disposed on the interlayer insulating layer. The insulating layer at least partially surrounds the first coil layer and the second coil layer, the first coil layer and the second coil layer at least partially overlap each other and are arranged in a rectangular ring form on the one side of the ferrite, and a ratio of a width which is larger between a first width of the first coil layer and a second width of the second coil layer to a first length of the ferrite in a width direction corresponding to the first width or the second width is 0.14 to 0.15.
US10862538B2
A method can include energizing, by a vehicle, a passive wireless communication device along a route over which the vehicle is traveling; and transmitting information about the route from the energized wireless communication device to the vehicle.
US10862520B1
Provided are a wireless communications node (WCN) and a method therefor achieving mitigation of multipath interference via optimized estimation of coordinate location of the WCN relative to wireless communications with a plurality of reference points (RPs). To do so, the WCN effects a constrained gradient descent with respect to phase ranging measurements to one or more of the plurality to minimize a cost of error associated with the obtaining of such measurements.
US10862502B2
Techniques are described that can be used to extract an offset and a gain of a signal chain, which can be used for digital correction of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) output to help achieve a life time and temperature stable ADC output. For example, using various techniques, a value for a voltage reference VREF and a value for ground (GND) (or other reference voltage) can be converted, which can then be used to determine gain and offset, respectively, of the signal chain.
US10862501B1
Multipliers and Multiply-Accumulate (MAC) circuits are fundamental building blocks in signal processing, including in emerging applications such as machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) that predominantly utilize digital-mode multipliers and MACs. Generally, digital multipliers and MACs can operate at high speed with high resolution, and synchronously. As the resolution and speed of digital multipliers and MACs increase, generally the dynamic power consumption and chip size of digital implementations increases substantially that makes them impractical for some ML and AI segments, including in portable, mobile, near edge, or near sensor applications. The multipliers and MACs utilizing the disclosed current mode data-converters are manufacturable in main-stream digital CMOS process, and they can have medium to high resolutions, capable of low power consumptions, having low sensitivity to power supply and temperature variations, as well as operating asynchronously, which makes them suitable for high-volume, low cost, and low power ML and AI applications.
US10862498B1
The invention discloses a calibration circuit and a calibration method for an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The calibration method of the ADC includes the following steps: (a) resetting the voltage at the first input of the comparator and the voltage at the second input of the comparator; (b) changing a terminal voltage of at least one capacitor in the first capacitor group; (c) the ADC generating a first digital code; (d) after the first digital code is obtained, resetting the voltage at the first input of the comparator and the voltage at the second input of the comparator; (e) changing a terminal voltage of at least one capacitor in the third capacitor group; and (f) the ADC generating a second digital code. The first digital code and the second digital code are used to correct the output of the ADC.
US10862493B2
An integrated circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) core including a plurality of thermometric arms and an R-2R ladder, the DAC core to convert a DAC code to an analog signal. The integrated circuit includes additional components as well. A differential non-linearity (DNL) calibration circuit outputs DNL coefficients based on the DAC code. A memory stores a value indicative of a product of a resistor temperature coefficient (TC) and a resistor self-heating coefficient (SHC). A current DAC (IDAC) couples to the R-2R ladder. A self-heating calibration circuit generates a self-heating trim code based on the value from the memory. An adder adds a value indicative of the DNL coefficients with the self-heating trim code to generate an IDAC trim code and provides the IDAC trim code to the IDAC to trim the R-2R ladder.
US10862484B2
A voltage level translator translates signals between first and second voltage domains. An output buffer for a channel thereof includes a first plurality of PFETs and a first plurality of NFETS that are coupled to provide staggering of the output signal. A supply difference sensing circuit can disable staggering when an input voltage supply is greater than or equal to a VCCI trigger for the output voltage supply.
US10862480B2
A controlled active resistance. The active resistance is implemented on an integrated circuit. In some embodiments, the active resistance includes a MOSFET. In alternate embodiments, the active resistance includes a MOSFET and a resistor. The control for the active resistance includes a reference resistor and an operational amplifier. The control for the active resistance further includes two current sources: i) a current source producing a current that is proportional to absolute temperature, and ii) another current source that is produced by a bandgap voltage reference. In one aspect, the active resistance generates an effective resistance that is proportional to thermal voltage. In another aspect, the active resistance generates an effective resistance that is proportional to inverse of the thermal voltage. In an alternate aspect, the current sources have various dependencies, and the active resistance generates an effective resistance that is proportional to those dependencies.
US10862459B2
The signal strength of a vector modulator based phase shifter can be increased enabling signals to be received or transmitted over larger distances than existing phase shifters by applying multiple weights to components of a signal. An input signal can be divided into orthogonal components that can be weighted and combined to generate an intermediate signal. A second intermediate signal can be generated by applying complementary weights to the orthogonal component signal. The two intermediate signals can be combined to obtain the phase shifted signal. By combining complementary weighted component signals, a phase shifted signal with improved signal to noise ratio and greater signal strength can be generated.
US10862457B2
A filter includes: a series part disposed between a signal input terminal and a signal output terminal, and including at least one first bulk-acoustic resonator; an inductor portion including a first inductor disposed between ends of the series part and a second inductor having a first end connected to a connection node of the series part and the first inductor; and a shunt part disposed between a second end of the second inductor and a ground, and including at least one second bulk-acoustic resonator, wherein a resonant frequency of the at least one second bulk-acoustic resonator is higher than a resonant frequency of the at least one first bulk-acoustic resonator.
US10862456B2
An acoustic wave filter device includes a ground connection terminal connected to an external ground electrode, a serial arm resonator, a first parallel arm circuit connected to a first node of the serial arm resonator, the first node being positioned closer to an input/output terminal, and to the ground connection terminal, and a second parallel arm circuit connected to a second node of the serial arm resonator, the second node being positioned closer to an input/output terminal, and to the ground connection terminal. The first parallel arm circuit includes a parallel arm resonator having a resonant frequency higher than a center frequency of a filter pass band, and a frequency varying circuit connected to the parallel arm resonator and the ground connection terminal. The second parallel arm circuit includes a parallel arm resonator having a resonant frequency higher than the center frequency of the filter pass band.
US10862452B2
An elastic wave filter device includes a ladder filter that includes series arm resonators and parallel arm resonators. In one series arm resonator in which the acoustic velocity in a first and second edge area is lower than in a central area, each first electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in the second edge area, and each second electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in the first edge area. In at least one of remaining series arm resonators and the parallel arm resonators, each first and second electrode finger includes a large-width portion having a width larger than in remaining portions in both of the first and second edge areas.
US10862449B2
A MEMS resonator system has a micromechanical resonant structure and an electronic processing circuit including a first resonant loop that excites a first vibrational mode of the structure and generates a first signal at a first resonance frequency. A compensation module compensates, as a function of a measurement of temperature variation, a first variation of the first resonance frequency caused by the temperature variation to generate a clock signal at a desired frequency that is stable relative to temperature. The electronic processing circuit further includes a second resonant loop, which excites a second vibrational mode of the structure and generates a second signal at a second resonance frequency. A temperature-sensing module receives the first and second signals and generates the measurement of temperature variation as a function of the first variation of the first resonance frequency and a second variation of the second resonance frequency caused by the temperature variation.
US10862448B2
A piezoelectric thin film resonator includes: a substrate; a piezoelectric film located on the substrate; a lower electrode and an upper electrode facing each other across at least a part of the piezoelectric film; and a wiring layer located on the upper electrode, the wiring layer having a thickness equal to or greater than 0.8 μm and equal to or less than 3.0 μm, at least a part of the wiring layer overlapping in plan view with a resonance region in which the lower electrode and the upper electrode face each other across the piezoelectric film, a distance between an outline of the resonance region and an edge of a lower surface located within the resonance region and farthest from the outline being greater than 0 μm and less than 2 μm.
US10862445B2
Disclosed herein is an amplification circuit that outputs an output signal formed by amplifying a differential signal between a first input terminal and a second input terminal using an operating amplifier and a plurality of resistors, the amplification circuit including an adjustment circuit configured to adjust a frequency property of the output signal for an in-phase alternating current signal input between the first input terminal and the second input terminal. The adjustment circuit is connected to one input terminal of the first input terminal and the second input terminal through one or more resistors, the adjustment circuit includes a capacitor part whose capacitance is set to be variable, and the adjustment is realized through variable setting of the capacitance of the capacitor part.
US10862442B2
In a Class-D amplifier, first/second ratios and first/second RC time constants are sequentially matched by trimming. An integrator is coupled to differential first/second paths. The first/second ratios are of a feedback resistor to an input resistor in the first/second paths. R's of the first/second RC time constants are the resistors of the first/second matched ratios. C's of the first/second RC time constants are integrating capacitors in the first/second path. For each of multiple power rails, a ramp amplitude is determined based on a sensed voltage. Concurrently, the driver stage is switched from first to second power rails and quantizer switched from first to second ramp amplitudes to achieve constant combined quantizer/driver stage gain. Based on a sensed load current, an IR drop is determined for a respective output impedance of the driver stage and added to a loop filter output to compensate for the respective output impedance.
US10862434B1
A Doherty power amplifier includes input circuitry that provides input signals to asymmetric carrier and peaking amplifiers (e.g., a peaking-to-carrier size ratio, α is greater than 1.15) with an absolute value of an input phase offset between 15 degrees and 165 degrees or between 195 degrees and 345 degrees. Carrier and peaking amplifier output signals are combined at a combining node. A complex combining load matching circuit, which is connected to the combining node, provides a complex impedance, ZL, with a non-zero reactive portion, xn. The output circuit between the peaking amplifier and the combining node has an electrical length of 0 or n*180 degrees (n=an integer value). The output circuit between the carrier amplifier and the combining node has an electrical length, θx, where a difference between the electrical lengths of the peaking output circuit and the carrier output circuit is equal to the input phase offset.
US10862428B2
An envelope tracking system for controlling a power amplifier supply voltage includes envelope circuitry and a feed forward digital to analog converter (DAC) circuitry. The envelope circuitry is configured to generate a target envelope signal based on a selected power amplifier supply voltage. The feed forward DAC circuitry includes a voltage source circuitry and a selector circuitry. The voltage source circuitry is configured to generate a plurality of voltages. The selector circuitry is configured to select one of the plurality of voltages based at least on the target envelope signal. The feed forward DAC circuitry is configured to provide the selected voltage to a supply voltage input of a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency (RF) transmit signal.
US10862421B2
The invention relates to a cover element, in particular a lid, for a junction box of a solar module, wherein the cover element forms upper and undersides that are mirror-symmetrical in terms of its geometrical form, and wherein at least one first marking is applied to the upper side and/or at least one first marking is formed via the upper side in the form of an indentation and/or elevation, and at least one second marking is applied to the underside and/or at least one second marking is formed via the underside in the form of an indentation and/or elevation, wherein the at least one first marking is not identical to the at least one second marking and/or the cover element comprises a rotational joint or a part of a rotational joint and/or is/can be operatively connected to a rotational joint, such that the lid is/can be mounted so that it can be horizontally rotated about the rotational axis of the rotational joint. The invention also relates to an assembly of the cover element and junction box, and to a use thereof.
US10862419B2
A motor drive system includes a motor for driving a vehicle, an inverter, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to change a carrier frequency as a frequency of a carrier wave, according to operating conditions of the motor. The electronic control unit is configured to set the carrier frequency to a protection frequency when the operating point of the motor lies in a lock region, and the motor is not in an accelerating or decelerating state, and set the carrier frequency to a non-protection frequency higher than the protection frequency, when the operating point lies in the lock region, and the motor is in the accelerating or decelerating state.
US10862415B2
A motor controller includes an inverter that drives a motor, an operation controller that controls the inverter according to a current command value, and a torque ripple compensation generator that adds a compensation value to compensate for a torque ripple in the motor to the current command value. The operation controller uses, as the current command value, a q-axis current command value indicating a q-axis current in a rotational coordinate system of the motor, and also uses, as the current command value, at least temporarily a d-axis current command value indicating a d-axis current in the rotational coordinate system, and the torque ripple compensation generator calculates a phase difference of the compensation value with respect to the q-axis current command value according to an equation using the q-axis current command value and the d-axis current command value as variables.
US10862413B2
An electrical assembly includes a motor, a first switch, a second switch, a third switch, and a fourth switch. The first switch may be connected to a first contact of the motor, and/or the second switch may be connected to a second contact of the motor. The third switch may be connected to the first switch, and/or the fourth switch may be connected to the second switch. The first switch, the second switch, the third switch, and/or the fourth switch may be configured to switch the electrical assembly between a first state, a second state, and/or a third state. If the electrical assembly is in the first state, at least one of the first contact and/or the second contact of the motor may be connected to an open circuit, and/or the motor may be configured to rotate freely.
