US10892191B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes irradiating a division region of a semiconductor wafer with laser to form a plurality of modified portions arranged in a direction along the division region in the semiconductor wafer, and splitting the semiconductor wafer into a plurality of semiconductor chips using a groove generated from the plurality of modified portions in the semiconductor wafer. The plurality of modified portions is at a first interval in a first part of the division region and at a second interval smaller than the first interval in a second part of the division region.
US10892184B2
Approaches based on photobucket floor colors with selective grafting for semiconductor structure fabrication, and the resulting structures, are described. For example, a grating structure is formed above an ILD layer formed above a substrate, the grating structure including a plurality of dielectric spacers separated by alternating first trenches and second trenches, grafting a resist-inhibitor layer in the first trenches but not in the second trenches, forming photoresist in the first trenches and in the second trenches, exposing and removing the photoresist in select ones of the second trenches to a lithographic exposure to define a set of via locations, etching the set of via locations into the ILD layer, and forming a plurality of metal lines in the ILD layer, where select ones of the plurality of metal lines includes an underlying conductive via corresponding to the set of via locations.
US10892182B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device with Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) includes performing the following steps in the following sequence: providing a substrate comprising first and second gate regions separated by a trench formed in the substrate, wherein the trench is filled with an STI material. The method further includes depositing a sacrificial polysilicon layer covering the STI material; growing a thick oxide layer on the first and second gate regions; removing the thick oxide layer from the first gate region while leaving the thick oxide layer in the second gate region.
US10892179B2
A ceramic layer is attached to a top surface of a base plate using a bond layer. The ceramic layer has a top surface configured to support a substrate. A clamp electrode assembly is positioned within an upper region of the ceramic layer. The clamp electrode assembly serves to clamp the substrate to the top surface of the ceramic layer and functions as a primary radiofrequency (RF) power delivery electrode. A plurality of RF power delivery connection modules is distributed in a substantially uniform manner about a perimeter of the ceramic layer. Each of the RF power delivery connection modules is configured to form an electrical connection from the base plate to the clamp electrode assembly at its respective location.
US10892177B2
A substrate processing method which processes a substrate having a metal layer on a surface thereof includes a metal oxide layer forming step of forming a metal oxide layer formed of one atomic layer or several atomic layers on a surface layer of the metal layer by supplying an oxidizing fluid to the surface of the substrate, and a metal oxide layer removing step of selectively removing the metal oxide layer from the surface of the substrate by supplying an etchant to the surface of the substrate.
US10892162B2
There is provided a method of forming a silicon film, which includes: a film forming step of forming the silicon film on a base, the silicon film having a film thickness thicker than a desired film thickness; and an etching step of reducing the film thickness of the silicon film by supplying an etching gas containing bromine or iodine to the silicon film.
US10892161B2
Methods for depositing desired materials formed on certain locations of a substrate with desired materials using a selective deposition process for semiconductor applications are provided. In one embodiment, a method of forming a structure with desired materials on a substrate includes supplying a first gas comprising a hydroxy terminated hydrocarbon containing material to a surface of a substrate, selectively forming a passivation layer on a first material of the substrate, selectively forming self assembled monolayers on a second material of the substrate, and selectively forming a material layer on the passivation layer.
US10892158B2
A manufacturing process of a semiconductor device including a SiGe channel can form a Si segregation layer for protecting the SiGe channel without damaging the SiGe channel. A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: a first step for performing plasma processing on a semiconductor substrate having a silicon layer and a silicon germanium layer formed on the silicon layer under a first condition to expose the silicon germanium layer; and a second step for performing plasma processing on the semiconductor substrate under a second condition to segregate silicon on the surface of the exposed silicon germanium layer. The silicon germanium layer or layers lying adjacent to the silicon germanium layer can be etched under the first condition, hydrogen plasma processing is performed under the second condition, and the first step and the second step are executed in series in the same processing chamber of a plasma processing apparatus.
US10892157B2
Methods of selectively depositing blocking layers on conductive surfaces over dielectric surfaces are described. In some embodiments, a carboxylic acid is exposed to a substrate to selectively form a blocking layer. In some embodiments, a hydrazide is exposed to a substrate to selectively form a blocking layer. In some embodiments, an alkyl phosphonic acid is exposed to a substrate to selectively form a blocking layer. In some embodiments, the alkyl phosphonic acid is formed in-situ and exposed to the substrate. In some embodiments, a layer is selectively deposited on the dielectric surface after the blocking layer is formed.
US10892155B2
In an embodiment, the present invention discloses a EUV cleaner system and process for cleaning a EUV carrier. The euv cleaner system comprises separate dirty and cleaned environments, separate cleaning chambers for different components of the double container carrier, gripper arms for picking and placing different components using a same robot handler, gripper arms for picking and placing different components using a same robot handler, gripper arms for holding different components at different locations, horizontal spin cleaning and drying for outer container, hot water and hot air (70 C) cleaning process, vertical nozzles and rasterizing megasonic nozzles for cleaning inner container with hot air nozzles for drying, separate vacuum decontamination chambers for outgassing different components, for example, one for inner and one for outer container with high vacuum (e.g., <10−6 Torr) with purge gas, heaters and RGA sensors inside the vacuum chamber, purge gas assembling station, and purge gas loading and unloading station.
US10892152B1
A method of analyzing a sample includes setting initial dwells time for a plurality of transitions; monitoring the transitions during a mass spectrometry analysis; detecting a signal intensity above a first threshold for a first transition of the plurality of transitions; increasing a dwell time for the first transition in response to the signal intensity being above the first threshold; detecting the signal intensity for the first transition falling below a second threshold; and decreasing the dwell time for the first transition in response to the signal intensity falling below the second threshold.
US10892136B2
A system for reducing clogging and deposition of feed gas on a gas tube entering an ion source chamber is disclosed. To lower the overall temperature of the gas tube, a gas bushing, made of a thermally isolating material, is disposed between the ion source chamber and the gas tube. The gas bushing is made of a thermally isolating material, such as titanium, quartz, boron nitride, zirconia or ceramic. The gas bushing has an inner channel in fluid communication with the ion source chamber and the gas tube to allow the flow of feed gas to the ion source chamber. The gas bushing may have a shape that is symmetrical, allowing it to be flipped to extend its useful life. In some embodiments, the gas tube may be in communication with a heat sink to maintain its temperature.
US10892131B2
The invention refers to a low-cost fuse switch module that comprises a pair of fixed contacts and a rotary contact rotatable about a rotation axis located in-between the fixed contacts. The rotary contact is rotatable between a closed position in which it is connected with the fixed contacts to enable current circulation, and an open position in which the rotary contact is electrically isolated from the pair of fixed contacts. An overcurrent protection fuse is provided for limiting maximum current circulation through the contacts in the closed position, and the fuse is rotatable about the axis and it is arranged to operate as the rotary contact of the switch, such as by rotating the fuse about the rotation axis, the switch reciprocally transit from the closed to the open position.
US10892130B2
A protection device comprises a first planar substrate, a second planar substrate, a heating element and a fusible element. The second planar substrate is attached to the underside of the first planar substrate to form a composite structure. The heating element comprises an insulating layer and a heating layer disposed thereon. The heating element is disposed on the first planar substrate, and the insulating layer is disposed between the first planar substrate and the heating layer. The fusible element is disposed above the heating element. The heating element heats up to blow the fusible element in the event of over-voltage or over-temperature.
US10892127B2
A contactor assembly is connected to a bus-bar of a main circuit-breaker. The assembly includes a housing including an opening defined therein; a contactor passing through the opening, wherein the contractor includes contacting portions projecting forwardly of the opening and coupled portions projecting rearwardly of the opening; a presser passing through the opening, wherein the presser is interposed between the contactor and the housing, wherein the presser is supported on the housing and presses the contacting portions and the coupled portions; and a connector coupled to the coupled portions of the contactor and electrically connected to the contactor.
US10892126B2
A novel temperature-triggered fuse device is configured to be activated at a designer-specified ambient temperature by utilizing wetting force among a pair of wetting material bays and a solder bridge or a solder ball. The solder bridge or the solder ball is typically positioned on top of the pair of wetting material bays separated by an electrically-insulated gap. Preferably, the wetting material bays are at least partly made of gold, nickel, or other elements suitable for generating an increased wetting force to the solder bridge or the solder ball upon increases in ambient temperature. The novel temperature-triggered fuse device can be integrated into various types of integrated circuits (IC's), or can function as a discrete fuse connected to one or more electronic components for robust protection from power surges and/or thermal runaway-related device malfunctions, meltdowns, or explosions. Various methods of producing the temperature-triggered fuse device are also disclosed herein.
US10892122B2
A covering for a trigger assembly of an electrical device, said covering being configured for at least partially covering a torsion spring of the trigger assembly so as to alleviate ingress of dust, water and other particulates in to contact with the torsion spring.
US10892115B2
A veneer configured to be secured to a backlit button of a control device may include a plate portion. The plate portion may have one or more laser-cut indicia defined therethrough, may have laser-cut rounded corners, and may have angularly offset outer edges that may be defined during an embossing process. The laser-cut indicia may be representative of a command for controlling an electrical load. The indicia may include an alphanumeric character, an icon, or the like, may define one or more substantially zero-radius corners, and may define respective inner surfaces that are substantially perpendicular to an outer surface of the plate portion. A laser-cut alphanumeric character may have variable (e.g., continuously variable) line width. The plate portion may define a rib that suspends a floating portion of the alphanumeric character relative to an open portion. The rib may define a thickness that does not exceed 0.003 inches.
US10892105B2
The present invention provides a substrate assembly includes at least two ceramic layers, at least two layers of one or more electrodes, at least one high dielectric constant layer, two or more holes, electrically conductive structures formed in the two or more holes, and the electrically conductive structure is physically connected to at least one of the electrodes, thereby forming a set, wherein each of the sets if physically separated from at least one of the other sets. A process includes cutting ceramic sheets, removing material from the ceramic sheets to form holes, depositing a metallic material into the holes, depositing the metallic material to form electrodes, selectively depositing a thin layer of high dielectric constant material, and firing the ceramic sheets, the metallic material, the high dielectric constant material layer, and the electrodes.
US10892100B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a connecting electrode provided on a surface opposite to a surface on which the capacitor body is mounted, and a third external electrode and a fourth external electrode extend to cover opposing ends of the connecting electrode across a width of the capacitor body. The third and fourth external electrodes are disposed on respective side surfaces of the capacitor body opposite each other across the width, and contact respective first and second pluralities of internal electrodes disposed in the capacitor body.
US10892097B2
A dielectric ceramic composition, a method for producing a dieelctric composition and the use of the dielectric composition are disclosed. In an embodiment a ceramic composition includes a main component with a quantity ratio Mg(1+x)(1−y)O3+xA(1+x)ySi(1−z)Dz and a remainder comprising contaminants, wherein 0.01×0.30, wherein 0.00≤y≤0.20, and wherein 0.00≤z≤1.00.
US10892096B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes disposed on the dielectric layers to face each other with each of the dielectric layers interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the ceramic body and electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, wherein the dielectric layer includes a dielectric ceramic composition including a base material main component represented by z(Ba(1-x)Cax)TiO3-(1-z)BaTi2O5 including a first main component represented by (Ba(1-x)Cax)TiO3 and a second main component represented by BaTi2O5, 0.7≤z≤0.8 and 0≤x<0.1.
US10892094B2
BN nanosheets are prepared by a method comprising heating to a temperature of at least 500° C., a mixture comprising: (1) an alkali borohydride, and (2) an ammonium salt. NaN3 may be included to increase the yield. No catalyst is required, and the product produced contains less than 0.1 atomic percent metal impurities.
US10892090B2
A magnet core for low-frequency applications and method for producing a magnet core for low-frequency applications is provided. The magnet core is made of a spiral-wound, soft-magnetic, nanocrystalline strip. The strip essentially has the alloy composition FeRestCoaCubNbcSidBeCf, wherein a, b, c, d, e and f are stated in atomic percent and 0≤a≤1; 0.7≤b≤1.4; 2.5≤c≤3.5; 14.5≤d≤16.5; 5.5≤e≤8 and 0≤f≤1, and cobalt may wholly or partially be replaced by nickel. The magnet core has a saturation magnetostriction λs of λs<2 ppm, a starting permeability μ1 of μ1>100 000 and a maximum permeability μmax of μmax>400 000. In addition, a sealing metal oxide coating is provided on the surfaces of the strip.
US10892083B1
A toroidal transformer assembly of an electronic component module assembly includes a transformer mounting plate receptive of the toroidal transformer. The transformer mounting plate includes a base, a center boss extending from the base, and an outer ring extending from the base, and spaced apart from the center boss. The center boss and the outer ring define a mounting location for a toroidal transformer therebetween. A plurality of fins are positioned to conduct thermal energy from the toroidal transformer to the base.
US10892077B2
A clamping mechanism comprising: a first part; a clamp coupled to said first part to enable the clamp to slide relative to said first part in a first linear direction, the clamp being provided with a first magnetic component; a second part for clamping by said clamp, the second part being provided with a second magnetic component. The mechanism is configured such that movement of the clamp in said first linear direction, between a clamping and an unclamped position, is effected by movement of the first part and the clamp, relative to said second part, in a second linear direction substantially orthogonal to said first linear direction as a result of alignment and misalignment of the magnetic components.
US10892076B2
A rare earth magnet includes a main phase, a grain boundary phase present around the main phase and an intermediate phase interposed between the main phase and the grain boundary phase, and has an overall composition that is represented by the formula ((Ce(1-x)Lax)(1-y)R1y)pT(100-p-q-r)BqM1r′(R21-zM2z)s (where, R1 and R2 are rare earth elements other than Ce and La, T is at least one selected from among Fe, Ni, and Co, M1 is an element having a small amount that does not influence magnetic characteristics, and M2 is an alloy element for which a melting point of R21-zM2z is lower than a melting point of R2). A total concentration of Ce and La is higher in the main phase than in the intermediate phase, and a concentration of R2 is higher in the intermediate phase than in the main phase.
US10892075B2
The present application relates to a composition for 3D printing, a 3D printing method using the same, and a three-dimensional shape comprising the same, and provides a composition for 3D printing capable of embodying a precise formation of a three-dimensional shape using a ceramic material and a uniform curing property of the three-dimensional shape.
US10892072B1
A PTC device comprises a laminated substrate, a first PTC material layer, a second PTC material layer, a first metal layer and a second metal layer. The laminated substrate comprises a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and an insulating layer laminated between the first and second conductive layers. The first PTC material layer is disposed on the first conductive layer, and the second PTC material layer is disposed on the second conductive layer. The first metal layer is disposed on the first PTC material layer, and the second metal layer is disposed on the second PTC material layer. The insulating layer has a through hole filled with PTC material to form a PTC connecting member of which one end connects to the first PTC material layer and another end connects to the second PTC material layer.
US10892069B2
A ribbon cable can include a plurality of spaced apart substantially parallel conductor sets. The conductor set includes a plurality of spaced apart substantially parallel conductors extending along a length of the conductor set and arranged along a width of the conductor set; first and second non-conductive structured layers disposed on opposite sides of and substantially coextensive with the plurality of conductors along the length and width of the conductor set; and a conductive shielding layer wrapped around the first and second non-conductive structured layers. Each structured layer is adhered to the conductors and includes a plurality of higher dielectric constant regions defining a plurality of lower dielectric constant regions therebetween.
US10892058B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for rapid generation of simulations of a patient's spinal morphology that enable pre-operative viewing of a patient's condition and to assist surgeons in determining the best corrective procedure and with any of the selection, augmentation or manufacture of spinal devices based on the patient specific simulated condition. The simulation is generated by morphing a generic spine model with a three-dimensional curve representation of the patient's particular spinal morphology derived from existing images of the patient's condition. Other anatomical structures in the patient's skeletal system are likewise simulated by morphing a generic normal skeletal model, as applicable, particularly those skeletal entities that are connected directly or indirectly to the spinal column.
US10892047B2
Systems and methods of a cipher-based system for tracking a patient within a clinical pharmacy workflow, the system includes providing a meshed network having smart devices that communicate patient data with aggregators. The smart devices and aggregators located within the space form a meshed network, the aggregators communicate data to a computer in communication with a cloud-based network. A smart device with a mobile application wirelessly communicates with an internet system in communication with the cloud-based network. Receiving by the computer, information about the user smart device entering the meshed network by wireless tags positioned within the space. Information is obtained by the smart devices during a recognition process by wirelessly transmitting messages between the wireless tags to aggregators, and then wirelessly transmitting information from the aggregators to the computer, the computer communicates with the cloud-based network, the cloud-based network communicates with healthcare administrator systems via jointly defined API interface.
US10892043B2
A server system for distributing information securely includes a network interface for receiving, over a network, an information object accompanied by metadata. A repository stores the information object. Metadata is mapped to electronic addresses of trusted recipients. A processor is configured to generate a link for accessing the information object in the repository, acquire an electronic address of a trusted recipient based on the metadata accompanying the information object, insert the link into an electronic message addressed to the electronic address of the trusted recipient, and send the electronic message with the link to the trusted recipient. The processor is further configured to receive, over a second network, a request for the information object sent from a user device in response to an activation of the link, retrieve the information object from the repository, and transmit the information object to a browser of the user device over the second network.
US10892040B2
A method is provided for evaluating a set of measurement data from an oral glucose tolerance test. The method may include calculating a similarity measure that quantifies the similarity between a time profile of the series of measured data of the glucose concentration and a corresponding glucose reference profile. The method may include calculating a further similarity measure that quantifies the similarity between the profile of the series of measured values of the further analyte concentration and the corresponding analyte sample profile, wherein the data set is represented by a point in a vector space that comprises coordinate axes that are formed by the similarity measures, whereby the coordinates of said point contain the calculated values of the similarity measures. The method also may include evaluating the position of the point with respect to reference points, which each represent a defined state of health, in order to calculate a parameter that specifies the state of the glucose metabolism of the patient.
US10892038B2
The present disclosure provides gene and gene sets, the expression of which is important in the classification and/or prognosis of cancer, in particular of renal cell carcinoma.
US10892036B1
The present invention relates to systems and methods for determining the identity of alleles from genomic sequencing data via pseudoalignments. Particularly, aspects of the present invention are directed to a computer implemented method that includes obtaining a paired-end fragment from a genomic sample, determining a first nucleotide substring from a first end of the paired-end fragment matches a nucleotide substring within an index of nucleotide substrings and alleles, determining a second nucleotide substring from a second end of the paired-end fragment matches another nucleotide substring within the index, determining an intersection between the nucleotide substring and the another nucleotide substring exists, when an allele that contains the nucleotide substring is the same allele that contains the another nucleotide substring; and determining a probability that the paired end fragment is an observation of the allele based on the existence of the intersection.
US10892033B2
A method of monitoring bioprocesses, wherein a course of a bioprocess is predicted using a process model and values for process parameters are estimated during the bioprocess, where at least one process parameter is selected (step a), for which current measured values are determined during the bioprocess, the respective current measured value of the selected process parameter is compared with the corresponding estimated value for this process parameter estimated by the process model (step b), a variance is then compared with a predetermined threshold value (step c), in a step d), at least one model parameter is then changed when the threshold value is exceeded by the variance, where steps b) to d) are executed until the variance fails to meet the threshold value, and in the case that the threshold value is not met after a predetermined number of repetitions, the method is discontinued and a warning is output.
US10892027B2
Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices and systems are provided, in which at least a subset of a non-volatile memory array is configured to behave as read-only memory by not implementing erase or write commands. In one embodiment of the present technology, a memory device is provided, comprising a non-volatile memory array, and circuitry configured to store one or more addresses of the non-volatile memory array, to compare an address of a received command to the one or more addresses, and at least in part based on the comparison, determine not to implement the received command. The circuitry can be further configured to return an error message after determining not to implement the received command.
US10892012B2
An apparatus, vision processing unit, and method are provided for clustering motion events in a content addressable memory. A motion event is received including coordinates in an image frame that have experienced a change and a timestamp of the change. A determination is made as to whether determine whether there is a valid entry in the memory having coordinates within a predefined range of coordinates included in the motion event. In response to a determination that there is the valid entry having the coordinates within the predefined range of coordinates included in the motion event, write to the valid entry the coordinates and the timestamp in the motion event.
US10892008B2
A memory macro system may be provided. The memory macro system may comprise a first segment, a second segment, a first WL, and a second WL. The first segment may comprise a first plurality of memory cells. The second segment may comprise a second plurality of memory cells. The first segment may be positioned over the second segment. The first WL may correspond to the first segment and the second WL may correspond to the second segment. The first WL and the second WL may be configured to be activated in one cycle.
US10891999B1
A MRAM memory cell comprises a SHE layer, a magnetic bit layer with perpendicular anisotropy and an Oersted layer. The magnetic bit layer has a switchable direction of magnetization in order to store data. Data is written to the MRAM memory cell using the Spin Hall Effect so that spin current generated in the SHE layer exerts a torque on the magnetic bit layer while the Oersted layer provides heat and an Oersted field to enable deterministic switching. Data is read form the MRAM memory cell using the Anomalous Hall Effect and sensing voltage at the Oersted layer.
US10891995B2
A semiconductor device and command generation method, the semiconductor device includes a command recovery circuit configured to receive a command from a plurality of commands, to store a code signal which is generated by encoding the received command from the plurality of commands, depending on the received command, and generate a plurality of internal commands by decoding a command code signal which is generated from the code signal after shifting the received command depending on a shifting control signal; and a memory circuit configured to perform an internal operation depending on the plurality of internal commands.
US10891981B2
Disclosed herein are slider designs having improved trailing air flow dams, and data storage devices including such sliders. In some embodiments, a slider comprises a trailing edge and an air-bearing surface (ABS) comprising a trailing edge pad, and a trailing air flow dam coupled to the trailing edge pad, wherein, in an ABS view of the slider, the trailing air flow dam is recessed from and curves away from the trailing edge. In the ABS view, a shape of the trailing air flow dam may comprise two segments. The slider also has a leading edge and may at least one sub-ambient pressure cavity adjacent to the trailing air flow dam and disposed between the trailing air flow dam and the leading edge. A contact point of the trailing air flow dam may be at least 50 microns from a corner of the slider.
US10891976B1
The present disclosure generally relates to data storage devices, and more specifically, to a magnetic media drive employing a magnetic recording head. The head includes a main pole at a media facing surface (MFS), a trailing shield at the MFS, and a heavy metal layer disposed between the main pole and the trailing shield at the MFS. Spin-orbit torque (SOT) is generated from the heavy metal layer and transferred to a surface of the main pole as a current passes through the heavy metal layer in a cross-track direction. The SOT executes a torque on the surface magnetization of the main pole, which reduces the magnetic flux shunting from the main pole to the trailing shield. With the reduced magnetic flux shunting from the main pole to the trailing shield, write-ability is improved.
US10891974B1
A magnetic head includes a main pole configured to serve as a first electrode, an upper pole containing a trailing magnetic shield configured to a serve as a second electrode, and a record element located in a trailing gap between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield. The record element includes an electrically conductive, non-magnetic material portion which is not part of a spin torque oscillator stack. The main pole and the trailing magnetic shield are electrically shorted by the record element across the trailing gap between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield such that an electrically conductive path is present between the main pole and the trailing magnetic shield through the record element.
US10891970B2
Provided are a detection method for a sound source and a detection device therefor, which are capable of accurately detecting the position of a sound source through use of measurement results of sound intensities. In the detection method, Iall=√(Ix2+Iy2+Iz2), which is a total value of the sound intensities Ix, Iy, and Iz in three axial directions (x-, y-, and z-axis directions) orthogonal to each other at a sound receiving point (P) in a sound field, is calculated, and then the position of the sound source is estimated after extracting the sound source by performing processing with averaged values within a predetermined peak width instead of the magnitude of a peak in a sound intensity waveform of the total value, or the position of the sound source is estimated after extracting the sound source with attention being given to a spatial travel speed of a sound intensity or a sound particle velocity of the total value.
US10891967B2
A method and an apparatus for enhancing speech are provided. The method includes: obtaining time domain speech of multiple channels acquired by a microphone array; generating frequency domain speech of at least one channel based on the time domain speech of the multiple channels; analyzing the frequency domain speech of the at least one channel to obtain a normalized enhancement coefficient of the frequency domain speech of the at least one channel; enhancing the frequency domain speech of the at least one channel by using the normalized enhancement coefficient of the frequency domain speech of the at least one channel to obtain enhanced frequency domain speech of the at least one channel; and performing an inverse Fourier transform on the enhanced frequency domain speech of the at least one channel to obtain enhanced time domain speech of the at least one channel.
US10891962B2
A method for rendering an audio output based on an audio data stream including M audio signals, side information including a series of reconstruction instances of a reconstruction matrix C and first timing data, the side information allowing reconstruction of N audio objects from the M audio signals, and object metadata defining spatial relationships between the N audio objects. The method includes generating a synchronized rendering matrix based on the object metadata, the first timing data, and information relating to a current playback system configuration, the synchronized rendering matrix having a rendering instance for each reconstruction instance, multiplying each reconstruction instance with a corresponding rendering instance to form a corresponding instance of an integrated rendering matrix, and applying the integrated rendering matrix to the audio signals in order to render an audio output.
US10891954B2
Embodiments for managing a voice response system by one or more processors are described. At least one sound is detected. A signal that is representative of at least a portion of the at least one detected sound is received. A voice communication is determined based on the at least one detected sound and the signal. A response to the determined voice communication is determined.
US10891944B2
A speech recognition method includes clustering feature vectors of training data to obtain clustered feature vectors of training data performing interpolation calculation on feature vectors of data to be recognized using the clustered feature vectors of training data, and inputting the feature vectors of data to be recognized after the interpolation calculation into a speech recognition model to adaptively adjust the speech recognition model. The techniques of the present disclosure improve speech recognition accuracy and adaptive processing efficiency.
US10891942B2
There are provided mechanisms for determining an uncertainty measure of a mixture-model based parametric classifier. A method is performed by a classification device. The method includes obtaining a short-term frequency representation of a multimedia signal. The short-term frequency representation defines an input sequence. The method includes classifying the input sequence to belong to one class of at least two available classes using the parametric classifier. The parametric classifier has been trained with a training sequence. The method includes determining an uncertainty measure of the classified input sequence based on a relation between posterior probabilities of the input sequence and posterior probabilities of the training sequence.
US10891941B2
The present application discloses a method for presenting a virtual resource, a client, and a plug-in. The method includes: receiving a virtual resource associated with a piece of push information, and first text information associated with the push information from a server; presenting the first text information and prompt information, the prompt information prompting a user to input an audio data input to obtain the virtual resource; receiving audio data input by the user, obtaining an audio file data packet; uploading the audio data packet to the server for audio recognition; receiving second text information returned by the server, and determining an interaction result according to the first text information and the second text information; and presenting the virtual resource and sending a virtual resource activation acknowledgment message to the server based on the interaction result.
US10891939B2
Provided are techniques for sharing confidential information with privacy using a mobile phone. A voice preference and language preferences are received for an information provider profile of an information provider, where the language preferences include a first language for typing text and a second language for speaking the text. During an on-going live phone call between the information provider and an information requester, selection of a text to talk feature is received. Text is received in the first language, where the text includes confidential information. The text is converted from the first language to text in the second language. The text in the second language is converted to a voice message that is spoken in a voice identified by the voice preference through the on-going live phone call to provide the confidential information with privacy. Then, control is returned to the on-going live phone call.
US10891935B2
A active noise cancellation (ANC) system may include an adaptive filter divergence detector for detecting divergence of the one or more controllable filters as they adapt, based on various temporal or frequency domain amplitude characteristics. Upon detection of a controllable filter divergence, the ANC system may be deactivated, or certain speakers may be muted. Alternatively, the ANC system may modify the diverged controllable filters to restore proper operation of the noise cancelling system. This may include adjusting a leakage value of an adaptive filter controller.
US10891929B2
A relationship of 0<α1<2θ1 is satisfied, where α1 is an angle formed between a first line which is vertical to a parallel line passing through a pivot center point and being parallel to a pivot extending direction, passes through a center point of a first portion from the center point of the first portion toward the parallel line, and a second line which is vertical, at the center point of the first portion, to a first portion extending direction, passes through the center point of the first portion toward a vertical line being vertical to the parallel line and passing through the pivot center point, and where θ1 is an angle formed between the first line and a third line connecting the pivot center point and the center point of the first portion from the center point of the first portion toward the pivot center point.
US10891924B2
A musical instrument sound amplifying device includes a hollow annular chamber formed inside the musical instrument sound amplifying device; a flaring slot including a lug on a bottom; and a bowl-like annular base including a dimple part on a bottom. The lug is secured to the dimple part. An annular sound hole is disposed between an opening of the bowl-like annular base and an edge of the flaring slot. An inner circumference of the bowl-like annular base is a 3D ring structure of concave surface.
US10891921B2
Systems and methods for outputting to a vehicle dashboard screen from multiple operating systems are described in this disclosure. The systems and methods use a computing device to host different types of applications in the operating systems. A first of the operating systems runs driving-critical applications, and a second of the operating systems can run non-driving-critical applications. The first operating system has direct access to display hardware on the computing device, and can include security features to prevent it from being compromised. Outputs generated by the non-driving-critical applications in the second operating system are sent to the first operating system, where the outputs are combined with outputs from the driving-critical applications, to create a series of composite images for display on the dashboard screen. Either the first operating system or the second operating system can control the whole dashboard screen based on predetermined configurations.
US10891920B2
A scenario projection system and a controlling method thereof are provided. The scenario projection system includes a display device, a reflective device and a scenario light source. The display device is configured to show an image on the screen area of the display device. The scenario light source disposed on a slide rail is to project a scenario beam to the screen area where the reflective device is disposed within. The reflected scenario beam by the reflective device is to form a characteristic image outside the screen area, wherein there is a linkage relationship between the image and the characteristic image.
US10891917B2
A transparent display system including a display panel, a data acquisition module and a computation module is provided. The data acquisition is adapted to capture a field luminance of a field where the display panel is located and a display information luminance of display information of the display panel. The computation module determines whether a luminance contrast of the display information falls within a range from a lower boundary to an upper boundary, wherein the luminance contrast of the display information equals to the field luminance plus the display information luminance and then divided by the field luminance. If it is determined that the luminance contrast of the display information does not fall within the range from the lower boundary to the upper boundary, a luminance contrast optimization procedure is performed. An operation method of the transparent display system is also provided.
US10891914B2
A control buffer in a source driver includes a first CMOS inverter configured to output a switch signal to control turning on and off of a switch, and a first tri-state inverter that is connected to the first CMOS inverter and configured to selectively adjust a size of the control buffer, wherein a slew rate of the switch signal is adjusted depending on the size of the control buffer.
US10891909B2
A display device includes drivers. The drivers apply a voltage having a polarity opposite to a polarity of a voltage applied to red, green, blue, and white picture elements in one first picture element columns to red, green, blue, and white picture elements in another first picture element columns adjacent to the one first picture element columns, and apply a voltage having a polarity opposite to a polarity of a voltage applied to red, green, blue, and white picture elements in one second picture element columns to red, green, blue, and white picture elements in another second picture element columns adjacent to the one second picture element columns.
US10891905B1
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) at least one light-emitting device, (2) a boost circuit electrically coupled to the light-emitting device, and (3) a microcontroller that (A) receives, from a visual display system, a control signal indicating one or more points in time that the light-emitting device is to illuminate a portion of a visual display and (B) directs, based at least in part on the control signal, the boost circuit to provide a sufficient amount of power to the light-emitting device to enable the light-emitting device to illuminate the portion of the visual display at the points in time. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10891882B1
The present techniques are capable of identifying and pinpointing defective microdrivers and/or row/column drivers either before or after any μLEDs have been placed on the display. Using the architectures described herein, test data may be delivered in a parallel fashion to the drivers from support circuitry, such as a timing controller and/or a main board, and outputs based on the test data may be similarly delivered back to the support circuitry do determine which drivers are defective. This yields access to the output of every microdriver and row drier, thus enabling the identification of specific defective elements.
US10891863B2
An apparatus or system for monitoring a network communication system onboard a vehicle includes control circuitry configured to obtain location data for a plurality of vehicles within a geographic area, and generate graphical interface data representing a map of the geographic area and vehicle icons at positions on the map corresponding to respective geographic locations of associated vehicles. In response to user input associated with a vehicle icon, graphical interface data is generated representing a vehicle identifier and a trip identifier. In response to user input associated with the vehicle identifier, graphical interface data is generated representing the set of vehicle data, including communication service data for a communication service provided on the vehicle. In response to user input associated with the trip identifier, graphical interface data is generated representing the set of trip data, including communication service data related to a trip.
US10891862B2
A vehicle-mounted information communication device includes a unit for acquiring information relating to the vehicle's current position; a position change amount calculation unit for acquiring information relating to an amount of change in the current position; and a transmission information generation unit for performing information communication with the outside of the vehicle. The transmission information generation unit generates reference information including the information relating to the vehicle's current position and transmits the reference information to the outside. At a timing different from that of the reference information, the transmission information generation unit generates progress information including the information relating to the amount of change in the current position and transmits the progress information to the outside.
US10891853B2
A method, device and system for measuring the volume, classification, direction, and turning movement of vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic through a given location in a given time period. The device is portable and incorporates a touch screen. A set of buttons corresponding to each direction at the location are selected by the user to count particular types of vehicles. The buttons are mapped to fields in a database on a server. The fields correspond to a particular direction. When the orientation of the portable device changes, the buttons are remapped to different database fields than originally mapped. The new fields corresponding to the orientation. The collected data may be transmitted to a server.
US10891847B2
Examples herein disclose an apparatus. The apparatus includes a network interface controller (NIC) port to be dedicated to a management functionality of a server. The apparatus also includes a light emitting diode (LED), coupled to the NIC port, to provide a visible indication that the NIC port is dedicated to the management functionality of the server.
US10891844B1
An electronic bracelet and an offender monitoring system. The electronic bracelet comprises a monitoring device, a strap configured for attaching the monitoring device to a wrist of an offender and a tamper detection device for detecting a bracelet attachment error. The monitoring device of the electronic bracelet communicates with a central monitoring station and with a home station. The monitoring device is configured for displaying instructions on a screen of the monitoring device. The instructions are related to for example a violation of home curfew rules or a violation of geographical restriction rules. The electronic bracelet allows for both monitoring an offender inside and outside the offenders residence.
US10891843B2
Embodiments for managing hazard risk by one or more processors are described. A presence of an individual at a location is detected. A hazard risk score is calculated based on at least one data source associated with at least one of the individual and the location. A notification of the calculated hazard risk score is caused to be generated.
US10891841B2
Disclosed is an overhead criminal capturing system comprised of joysticks, buttons, video display, microphone, speaker and a virtual reality headset remotely controlling an electrically motorized mechanical gripper that is attached to an electrically motorized mechanical arm that is attached to an electrically motorized wall and ceiling mounted rail system.
US10891836B2
The present invention relates to an input/output port mounting unit integrated type display frame for POS equipment, the input/output port mounting unit integrated type display frame (300) for POS equipment comprising: a display panel mounting unit (310), in which a display panel (50) is loaded, formed at a front surface thereof; an input/output port mounting unit (320) formed at a rear surface thereof and having an input/output port mounting hole (322), in which an input/output port (31) provided at a main substrate (30) is inserted and coupled, the input/output port mounting unit having a part cut from an input/output port mounting unit perforation (321) and being formed to be bent towards the rear direction so as to be protruded therefrom; and a lower main ventilation hole (330) formed at a lower side of the rear surface thereof.
US10891832B2
A tracking apparatus for a machine having an operation assembly is disclosed. The tracking apparatus has an electric relay configured to be connected to the operation assembly, a tracking device that is connected to the electric relay, and an electronic payment device that is connected to the electric relay. The electric relay is configured to transfer a first electrical pulse from the operation assembly to the tracking device. The electric relay is configured to transfer a second electrical pulse from either the electronic payment device or the operation assembly to the tracking device. The relay transfers the first electrical pulse or the second electrical pulse when the operation assembly performs an operation.
US10891831B2
The method of awarding a bonus includes executing a game so as to define a combination (Step S2); ascertaining if the combination falls within a predefined sub-set of combinations (Step S3), and, if so, setting the combination as a target combination (Step S4). Once a target combination has been set, further games are executed (Step S5), each of which defines a further combination. If the further combination bears a predefined relationship to the target combination (Step S6) then bonus is awarded (Step S7).
US10891821B2
A terminal is provided. The terminal includes a horizontal touch-based operating surface, a first vertical support side car, and a second vertical support safe enclosure. The operating surface includes integrated transaction devices that perform transaction processing on the terminal. The operating surface can be dynamically switched between a self-service mode of operation, an assisted service mode of operation, and a teller-service mode of operation. Each mode of operation dynamically orients displayed information on the operating surface to a particular side or both sides of the operating surface and selectively activates and deactivates the integrated devices.
US10891814B2
A mobile credential management system includes a processing system and a memory system with computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to perform a plurality of operations. The operations include issuing a credential to a mobile device operable to trigger opening of a releasable latch of a vehicle key box responsive to receiving the credential within an assigned window of time. The operations also include monitoring for a releasable latch opened indicator from the vehicle key box indicative of the vehicle key box acknowledging the credential and providing access to a vehicle key corresponding to a vehicle assigned to the vehicle key box. The operations further include sending a notification to a user system responsive to receiving the releasable latch opened indicator, the notification identifying the vehicle and information about a user of the mobile device.
US10891807B1
Systems and methods which utilize gravity feed for mail item movement in postage metering operations are shown. Embodiments provide for gravity drop feeding mail items into a portion of a postage metering system for metering operations, such as to activate or apply postage indicia thereto. Embodiments provide for gravity drop exit of mail items from a portion of a postage metering system after metering operations, such as activation or application of postage indicia thereto. Postage metering operations as performed by embodiments of the invention may comprise scanning and activation of preprinted tokens. Postage metering operations according to alternative embodiments of the invention may printing postage indicia. Embodiments provide processing in addition to or in the alternative to the aforementioned postage indicia activation or printing and mail item marking operations, such as weighing, sorting, etc.
US10891802B2
An information processing device includes a corrector and a layer information generator. The corrector is configured to, when a three-dimensional image is to be built by depositing a build material based on height information indicating heights of the three-dimensional image on a per-pixel basis and based on color information indicating colors of the three-dimensional image on a per-pixel basis, correct the height information so that surface of the three-dimensional image is covered with the colors indicated by the color information. The layer information generator is configured to generate layer information indicating, on a per-layer basis, pixel layouts for building the three-dimensional image whose shape is corrected so that the surface of the three-dimensional image is covered with the colors indicated by the color information, based on the corrected height information and the color information.
US10891801B2
A method for generating a user-customized computer-generated animation includes receiving digital content and determining a modifiable portion of the digital content. The digital content includes a computer-generated animation. A design template is received, where the design template includes a representation of the modifiable portion of the digital content. Template image data is generated by performing image analysis on the representation of the modifiable portion of the digital content. A revised portion of the digital content is generated based on the template image data, where the revised portion is a revised version of the modifiable portion of the digital content. Updated digital content that includes a version of the computer-generated animation with the revised portion of the digital content is generated and displayed.
US10891798B2
A system for displaying an asset of an interactive electronic technical publication synchronously in a plurality of extended reality display devices. The system comprises a computer having a display displaying the interactive electronic technical publication with a reference to the asset; a multi-channel messaging subsystem; an extended reality application and the plurality of extended reality display devices. The multi-channel messaging subsystem comprises a key-value server and a subscription manager together defining a message broker and using a reactive protocol component allowing clients to subscribe to a channel associated to a conversation. The reactive protocol component used by the message broker allows sending and receiving messages containing at least one of commands, events and property value changes relative to the asset referenced in the interactive electronic technical publication. The extended reality application module and the plurality of extended reality display device subscribe to the channel.
US10891795B2
A localization method and apparatus are provided. The method comprises generating a synthetic image corresponding to a current time period based on a three-dimensional (3D) color map corresponding to an image captured at a time period prior to the current time period, and position information at the current time period time, and determining final position information at the current time period based on the synthetic image corresponding to the current time period and an image captured at the current time period.
US10891792B1
A mobile device executes an augmented reality (AR) software application that detects an orientation of a client device. The AR software application projects a line from a reference position on the client device to a physical object. The AR software application identifies a first location on the physical object that intersects with the line. The AR software application determines an x-coordinate and a y-coordinate of a portion of the physical object included in an image displayed on the client device based on the first location. The AR software application receives a z-coordinate of the portion of the physical object. In response to receiving user input via the client device, the AR software application anchors an augmented reality object at a second location that corresponds to the x-coordinate, the y-coordinate, and the z-coordinate. The orientation of the augmented reality object corresponds to the orientation of the client device.
US10891781B2
A virtual object and a virtual vantage point are included within a three-dimensional space. An exemplary virtual scene capture system generates a key description frame representative of a state of the virtual object and a state of the virtual vantage point at a first point in a temporal sequence. The virtual scene capture system also generates an update description frame that represents the state of the virtual object and not the state of the virtual vantage point at a second point in the temporal sequence. The virtual scene capture system provides the key description frame and the update description frame to a three-dimensional rendering engine server. The rendering engine server is configured to render, based on the key and update description frames, surface data frames depicting the virtual object from the virtual vantage point. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.
US10891780B2
Instructions indicative of changing a view of a virtual object may be received by a device. At least a portion of the virtual object may be viewable from a viewpoint that is at a given distance from a surface of the virtual object. The device may cause a change of the view along a rotational path around the virtual object in response to the receipt of the instructions based on the given distance being greater than a threshold distance. The device may cause a change of the view along a translational path indicative of a shape of the surface of the virtual object in response to the receipt of the instructions based on the given distance being less than the threshold distance.
US10891778B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising: receiving, by a processing system including a processor, an input three-dimensional dataset comprising a first plurality of two-dimensional images of all or a portion of a subject; applying, by the processing system, bias field correction to the input three-dimensional dataset to generate a corrected three-dimensional dataset comprising a second plurality of two-dimensional images; and generating, by the processing system, a labeled three-dimensional dataset comprising a third plurality of two-dimensional images, wherein the labeled three-dimensional dataset further comprises one or more labels indicating an anatomical structure, and wherein the labeled three-dimensional dataset is generated via a convolutional neural network based upon the corrected three-dimensional dataset and based upon a previously trained three-dimensional dataset. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10891764B2
A control unit of a console acquires a plurality of projection images obtained by irradiating a subject disposed between a radiation source and a radiation detector with radiation emitted from the radiation source at different irradiation angles and capturing the radiation with the radiation detector at each of the irradiation angles and decomposes each of the plurality of projection images into a plurality of first projection images with a low-frequency component lower than a predetermined spatial frequency and a plurality of second projection images with a high-frequency component higher than the predetermined spatial frequency. The control unit generates a pseudo two-dimensional image using a plurality of first tomographic images and a plurality of second tomographic images.
US10891763B2
An apparatus for determining an enhanced image of a vascular treatment provides (12) a plurality of images including a representation of a region of interest of a vascular structure. Each of the plurality of images includes image data of at least one localizing feature associated with at least one tool configured to be used in the vascular treatment. Each of the plurality of images also includes image data associated with the at least one tool. Registration information for each of the images of the plurality of images is determined (14). At least two images from the plurality of images are selected (16) as a function of the registration information for each of the images. An enhanced image that provides for enhanced visibility of the at least one tool is determined (20). Data representative of the enhanced image is output (24).
US10891762B2
Provided is a method for CT image denoising based on deep learning, and the method for CT image denoising based on deep learning includes: extracting examination information from an input CT image; selecting at least one deep learning model corresponding to the examination information from multiple previously trained deep learning models; and outputting a CT image denoised from the input CT image by feeding the input CT image into the selected at least one deep learning model.
US10891760B2
In some embodiments, a graphics manipulation application accesses, for a received brushstroke input, brushstroke parameters that include a maximum alpha-deposition parameter and a fractional alpha-deposition parameter. The graphics manipulation application computes an alpha flow increment from the maximum alpha-deposition parameter and the fractional alpha-deposition parameter. The graphics manipulation application computes an output canvas color from the alpha flow increment and a current canvas opacity, and obtains an output canvas opacity based on the current canvas opacity and the maximum alpha-deposition parameter. If the current canvas opacity exceeds or equals the maximum alpha-deposition parameter, the current canvas opacity is selected as the output canvas opacity. Otherwise, the graphics manipulation application computes the output canvas opacity by increasing the current canvas opacity based on the alpha flow increment. The graphics manipulation application updates a canvas portion affected by the brushstroke input to include the output canvas opacity and the output canvas color.
US10891750B2
A projection control device according to the invention includes a projection module configured to project a correcting image in which a marker including a first polygon and a second polygon disposed inside the first polygon is provided in a predetermined position in such a manner as to be picked up by an image pickup device, and at least one of sides of the first polygon is not parallel to sides of the second polygon.
US10891746B2
A three-dimensional geometry measurement apparatus includes: a projection part that projects a projection image onto an object to be measured; an image capturing part that generates a captured image by capturing the object to be measured on which the projection image is projected; a relationship identification part that identifies a projection pixel position having correspondence with a captured pixel position; and a defective pixel determination part that determines whether the pixel at the captured pixel position is a defective pixel on the basis of a positional relationship between a projection light beam starting from the projection part and passing through the pixel at the projection pixel position and a captured light beam starting from the image capturing part and passing through the pixel at the captured pixel position having correspondence.
US10891739B2
Approaches presented herein enable tracking a physical object with a holographic projection, and, more specifically, enhancing a view of an object by tracking the object with a 3-D holographic projection. A holographic object tracking projection system receives, from a sensor, a feed of an area containing a physical object and locates a position of the physical object in the area based on the feed. The system creates a visible holographic object to mark the physical object, and projects the holographic object, using a holographic projector, at the position of the physical object. The holographic object can be a shape that surrounds the physical object in order to increase a visibility of the physical object. The physical object may move, and, as the physical object moves, the holographic object tracking projection system tracks this movement and adjusts the holographic object to match the movement of the physical object.
US10891729B2
Automated and objective methods for quantifying a retinal characteristic include segmenting an optical coherence tomography image into a plurality of layered retinal regions, and quantifying the retinal characteristic for each region as normalized to a range defined by the characteristic value in the vitreous region and in the retinal pigment epithelium region. Such methods are useful for detecting occult ocular pathology, diagnosing ocular pathology, reducing age-bias in OCT image analysis, and monitoring efficacy ocular/retinal disease therapies.
US10891723B1
A mobile device can implement a neural network-based style transfer scheme to modify an image in a first style to a second style. The style transfer scheme can be configured to detect an object in the image, apply an effect to the image, and blend the image using color space adjustments and blending schemes to generate a realistic result image. The style transfer scheme can further be configured to efficiently execute on the constrained device by removing operational layers based on resources available on the mobile device.
US10891718B2
A method and apparatus for correcting nonuniformity noise in thermal images. The method comprises receiving a current image being part of a stream of thermal images; concatenating the current image from the stream of thermal images with hidden state images; processing, by a first convolutional neural network, the concatenated image to extract a number of feature channels; generating based on the feature channels at least a first multiplicative mask; processing, by a second convolutional neural network, a masked concatenated image to compute a weighting parameter, wherein the masked concatenated image is resulted by applying the first multiplicative mask on the concatenated image; and simulating, using the weighting parameter, an infinite impulse response (IIR)-style updating scheme to estimate the nonuniformity noise in the current image.
US10891716B2
A process that allows the removal of fixed-pattern noise in effective images formed by electromagnetic sensor arrays in a light field, which includes at least the following steps: (a) The formation of a digital image from an electromagnetic sensor array; (b) the formation of a light field that must have at least 2×2 digital images of a scene, with a separation distance of at least the size of the effective area of an electromagnetic sensor; and (c) the reconstruction of an image by means of digital refocusing from the light field.
US10891711B2
Provided is an image processing method including: generating an omnidirectional spherical image; determining information regarding a director's view that indicates some regions of the omnidirectional spherical image; generating a projection image by projecting the omnidirectional spherical image to a development view of a polyhedron; dividing, from the projection image, a director's view projection image corresponding to the director's view, based on the information regarding the director's view; reshaping the director's view projection image into a director's view rectangular image by moving a location of at least one of pixels of the director's view projection image; and generating a bitstream which the director's view rectangular image is encoded into.
US10891688B1
A system for causing a dynamic interface adjustment includes a user device. The user device includes an active financial interface associated with a financial institution. The system further includes a computer system communicatively coupled to the user device. The computer system is configured to receive, via the user device, a sensory input associated with a customer of the financial institution, determine a sensory impairment associated with the customer based on the sensory input, and cause a dynamic interface adjustment of the active financial interface in response to the determination of the sensory impairment.
US10891682B2
Facilitating conversations among people within physical spaces is described. An interaction tablet can be housed within a physical space and configured to receive profile information from mobile devices of customers. The profile information can indicate conversational topics that customers are interested in within the physical space. Similarities between conversational topics of customers can be determined and those customers can be recommended to engage in a conversation regarding that conversational topic. One customer can also be provided information regarding what another customer prefers to purchase from the physical space and, therefore, use the purchase to facilitate a conversation to create a more engaging environment within the physical space.
US10891677B2
A system and method for dynamically obtaining and evaluating information to optimize the generation of vehicle suggestions for a customer. A profile based on an initial set of information received from a user is created. Metrics are generated based on the profile information. Upon receiving a vehicle request, the profile and the request are analyzed in view of available vehicles. A customer's response to the vehicle suggestion list, as well as events triggered by a perceived need for additional information result in the dynamic adjustment of the profile and thus, the generated metrics.
US10891667B2
Embodiments are disclosed for bundling and arranging online content fragments for presentation based on content-specific metrics and inter-content constraints. For example, a content management application accesses candidate content fragments, a content-specific metric, and an inter-content constraint. The content management application computes minimum and maximum contribution values for the candidate content fragments. The content management application selects, based on the computed minimum and maximum contribution values, a subset of the candidate content fragments. The content management application applies, subject to the inter-content constraint, a bundle-selection function to the selected candidate content fragments and thereby identifies a bundle of online content fragments. The content management application outputs the identified bundle of online content fragments for presentation via an online service.
US10891664B2
One embodiment provides a system that obtains, for a business entity, review and revenue information for a period of time from network packets, and extracts rankings and revenues from the review and revenue information. The system determines respective correspondence between the rankings and revenues for a plurality of points of time. The system determines first and second normalized rankings for first and second points of time, respectively, in the plurality of points of time. The system determines first and second normalized revenues for the first and second points of time, respectively. The system calculates a first correlation strength between the changes in the first and second normalized rankings, and the changes in the first and second normalized revenues. The system computes a correlation between the rankings and corresponding revenues based on a plurality of correlation strengths, which includes the first correlation strength, over the period of time.
US10891661B2
A facility for generating an advertising message is described. The facility extracts visual content from a model web page. The facility then constructs an advertising message that contains the extracted visual content.
US10891658B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for ranking promotions selected for recommendation to consumers based on predictions of promotion performance and consumer behavior. In embodiments, a set of promotions to be recommended to a consumer can be sorted and/or ranked according to respective relevance scores representing a probability that the consumer's behavior in response to the promotion will match a ranking target. In embodiments, calculating scores is based on a relevance model (a predictive function) derived from one or more contextual data sources representing attributes of promotions and consumer behavior. In embodiments, an absolute relevance score represents an absolute prediction of a ranking target variable. In embodiments, absolute relevance may be used to determine personalized local merchant discovery frontiers; featured result set thresholding for impressions; and/or promotion notification triggers. In embodiments, predictive models based on gross revenue may be optimized using promotion category-dependent price boosting.
US10891655B1
Techniques are disclosed utilizing cognitive computing to improve banking experiences. A user's financial account(s) and location may be monitored to predict when a user is near a retail store and the user has not used a particular account in a predetermined amount of time. The techniques disclosed include receiving a location for a user's mobile device, and determining when the mobile device is within a predetermined threshold distance of a retail store. The techniques include building a shopping profile for the user based upon shopping habits for the user. The shopping profile may be used to determine what commercial communications should be transmitted to the user to encourage them to utilize an inactive account to make a purchase at the retail store when the user is within the threshold distance of the retail store.
US10891651B1
A computer-executable method, a computer system and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided for launching application programs on a mobile computing device. The method includes receiving, at a promotion application program, user input selecting a first impression of a first promotion associated with a first product or service offered by a first merchant. The method includes using the promotion application program to initiate detection of a first application program installed on the mobile computing device, the first application program associated with the first merchant. The method also includes, in response to the user input, using the promotion application program to automatically launch the first application program on the mobile computing device.
US10891646B2
A method of locating one or more endpoint connectors of a network cable wherein the network cable includes a first endpoint connector and a second endpoint connector comprises: one or more processors capturing an incoming packet carrying therein a specific identifier, wherein the specific identifier is a specific bit string that has been predefined to trigger an activation of one or more indicating devices located on one or more endpoint connectors on the network cable; determining that the incoming packet carries therein the specific identifier; and in response to determining that the incoming packet carries therein the specific identifier, triggering an activation of a first indicating device indicative of a location of the first endpoint connector.
US10891640B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed at adaptive representation of a price/volume relationship. In embodiments, a method may include receiving, from a campaign control system, a request for price/volume information. The request may include an identifier of an audience which is targeted by the campaign control system. The method may continue by generating a representation of a price/volume curve based on previously collected price/volume data for the target audience. In some embodiments, adjacent prices included within the representation are determined based on a change in volume between the adjacent prices. The representation can then be output to the campaign control system to enable the campaign control system to determine an initial bid calculated to achieve a desired pacing based on the representation. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed herein.
US10891638B2
The present subject matter discloses systems(s) and method(s) for processing survey data. According to the present subject matter, the method(s) include providing a first survey question from a set of survey questions, and receiving a first response to the first survey question from a surveyee, and generating an Extensible Markup Language (XML) file for the first response for storing the first response in the XML file. The method further comprises executing a semantic analysis for the first response to determine an evaluation, and generating a second survey question dynamically from the set of survey questions based on the evaluation. The method further comprises receiving a second response to the second survey question and appending the XML file with a second data structure representing the second response, where the appended XML file is transmitted to a server at pre-defined intervals for analysis of the survey data.
US10891632B2
Metrics for online ads are captured by parsing web pages to identify ad beacons containing information identifying whether the online ads are for a particular client. These metrics are used to determine key performance indicators for auditing and competitor analysis for an online ad campaign.
US10891615B1
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for dynamic and flexible reconfiguration of workflows and/or microservices. Other aspects may provide for data snapshots and workflow tracking, allowing for monitoring, quality control, and auditability of transactions on the transaction exchange platform.
US10891609B2
Disclosed are a transaction card and an information displaying method. The transaction card includes a card body, a power supply, a graphic code generation circuit, and a display device. The power supply, the graphic code generation circuit, and the display device are embedded within the card body. The power supply is connected to the graphic code generation circuit and the display device. The graphic code generation circuit is configured to generate a graphic transaction code based on transaction account information of a user. The display device is configured to display the graphic transaction code.
US10891604B2
The present invention addresses the problem of preventing products from being carried outside a store without complete a checkout process in a checkout system in which a product, a shopping basket in which the product is accommodated, or a shopping cart in which the product is accommodated is disposed in a checkout device when performing a checkout process. In order to solve the problem, a product registration device (10) registers the product. The checkout device (20) performs the checkout process for the product registered by the product registration device (10). An output unit (320) outputs information indicating that a target object (30) (in the example shown in the drawing, a shopping cart (32) in which a product is accommodated) has moved from the checkout device (20) on the basis of the presence or absence of movement of the target object (30) from the checkout device (20), and the state of the checkout process.
US10891602B2
A point of sale (POS) security system includes a POS device including a non-transitory memory, one or more hardware processors, and one or more environment sensors. A plurality of POS instructions are located on the non-transitory memory in the POS device and executable by the one or more hardware processors in the POS device to provide a POS engine that is configured to receive and transmit payment information for conducting a payment transaction associated with a purchase. A plurality of security instructions are located on the non-transitory memory in the POS device and are executable by the one or more hardware processors in the POS device to provide a security engine that is configured to receive environment signals from the one or more environment sensors in the POS device and analyze those environment signals to determine a security breach.
US10891600B2
A system and method for transaction bitcoin is described. Bitcoin can be sent to an email address. No miner's fee is paid by a host computer system. Hot wallet functionality is provided that transfers values of some Bitcoin addresses to a vault for purposes of security. A private key of a Bitcoin address of the vault is split and distributed to keep the vault secure. Instant exchange allows for merchants and customers to lock in a local currency price. A vault has multiple email addresses to authorize a transfer of bitcoin out of the vault. User can opt to have private keys stored in locations that are under their control. A tip button rewards content creators for their efforts. A bitcoin exchange allows for users to set prices that they are willing to sell or buy bitcoin and execute such trades.
US10891597B2
Methods and systems for using natural language processing and machine-learning algorithms to process vehicle-service data to generate metadata regarding the vehicle-service data are described herein. A processor can discover vehicle-service data that can be clustered together based on the vehicle-service data having common characteristics. The clustered vehicle-service data can be classified (e.g., categorized) into any one of a plurality of categories. One of the categories can be for clustered vehicle-service data that is tip-worthy (e.g., determined to include data worthy of generating vehicle-service content (e.g., a repair hint). Another category can track instances of vehicle-service data that are considered to be common to an instance of vehicle-service data classified into the tip-worthy category. The vehicle-service data can be collected from repair orders from a plurality of repair shops. The vehicle-service content generated by the systems can be provided to those or other repair shops.
US10891594B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for generating a calendar interface. The method includes determining a total time period value indicating a total time period to be displayed, determining a segment duration, determining an interval duration, calculating timeline coordinates defining a timeline extending from a foreground of the display to a background of the display and having a perspective appearance, and displaying a timeline in accordance with the timeline coordinates. The timeline coordinates define the timeline to have a plurality of segments, each segment representing a period of time within the total time period equal to the segment duration. Each segment is composed of a plurality of timeline intervals, each timeline interval representing a period of time within the total time period equal to the interval duration. Each segment has a display length, and wherein the display length of a segment representing an earlier period of time is longer than a display length of a segment representing a later period of time. A given segment travels in a direction that is re-entrant relative to a direction travelled by an adjacent segment.
US10891592B2
Instead of a fixed fee for a particular job application, discussed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which provide for a job posting service that utilizes a pay-per-click model. That is, job posters pay a fee for each time the member selects the job posting for further inquiry when that posting is shown to a member (called an impression). The fee that is paid is determined by the job poster. Selecting a job posting may comprise clicking on or otherwise entering an input signifying an intention to view the job.
US10891590B2
A pet insurance system and method are provided. The pet insurance system provides rapid insurance enrollment and quick claim processing. In addition, the pet insurance system and method generates a pet health status identifier that is displayed to users of the system.
US10891580B2
A service design assistance apparatus includes an input apparatus, a storage, a display, and an arithmetic apparatus. The arithmetic apparatus, in response to a specific request received via an input apparatus, placing objects for a service of a new design target in corresponding areas on the design screen, the objects representing a relevant business, a problem with the business, a value to be obtained by solving the problem, a service to provide the value, and an apparatus or technology needed for the service.
US10891577B2
A method and article of manufacture are provided for detecting message impressions from a document. The document includes one or more data collection areas adapted to receive input, and one or more message areas. Each message area includes a message. Memory representations of messages are stored in a memory. The document is received at a document processing engine which is adapted to access the memory to obtain the representations of messages. Message impressions are detected from the document by analyzing the document in the document processing engine. Message impressions are detected if it is determined that there is relevant input in the one or more data collection areas, and the document includes a representation of one or more of the messages.
US10891566B2
A device for managing material delivery productivity is disclosed. The device may receive information identifying a job site, a load zone, a dump zone, a quantity of loads, and a material. The device may provide, to a user device associated with a machine, information indicating that the load zone, the dump zone, the quantity of loads, and the material are assigned to the machine, and may receive, over a time period, location information associated with the machine. The device may determine statuses of the machine over the time period and based on the location information, and may calculate a dump count of the material and a quantity of material delivery cycles, for the machine and at a particular time, based on the statuses of the machine. The device may perform an action based on the dump count of the material and the quantity of material delivery cycles.
US10891562B1
When attending an event at a venue, the attendee typically presents ticket information that is scanned by a venue scanner. In conventional systems, once validated, the scanner prints a paper stub that typically includes seat location data. Production of this paper stub can be dispensed with, and the associated data conveyed by the paper stub as well as additional information not contemplated or possible with paper stubs can be conveyed by an electronic stub or e-stub that resides on a device of the attendee, generally the same device employed to present the ticket information.
US10891559B2
Systems and methods for classifying binary data based training data having a predefined sample size is obtained. The training data is composed of separable binary datasets. An exact bound on Vapnik-Chervonenkis (VC) dimension of a classifier for the training data is determined. The exact bound is based one or more variables defining the hyperplane. The exact bound may be minimized for generating a classifier for predicting one class to which a given data sample of the training data belongs.
US10891554B2
In a quantum processor some couplers couple a given qubit to a nearest neighbor qubit (e.g., vertically and horizontally in an ordered 2D array), other couplers couple to next-nearest neighbor qubits (e.g., diagonally in the ordered 2D array). Couplers may include half-couplers, to selectively provide communicative coupling between a given qubit and other qubits, which may or may not be nearest or even next-nearest-neighbors. Tunable couplers selective mediate communicative coupling. A control system may impose a connectivity on a quantum processor, different than an “as designed” or “as manufactured” physical connectivity. Imposition may be via a digital processor processing a working or updated working graph, to map or embed a problem graph. A set of exclude qubits may be created from a comparison of hardware and working graphs. An annealing schedule may adjust a respective normalized inductance of one or more qubits, for instance to exclude certain qubits.
US10891548B2
In an approach to predicting user touch events, one or more computer processors receive a detected electromagnetic noise signal of an object. The one or more computer processors compare the detected electromagnetic noise signal of the object to one or more stored electromagnetic noise signals associated with one or more objects. Based, at least in part, on the comparison, the one or more computer processors determine the identity of the object. Responsive to determining the identity of the object, the one or more computer processors store metadata associated with at least one of the objects and an electromagnetic noise signal detection event. The one or more computer processors determine whether an amount of the metadata associated with the object meets a learning threshold. If the amount of metadata meets the learning threshold, the one or more computer processors predict a subsequent electromagnetic noise signal detection event associated with the object.
US10891547B2
T-shirt size recommendation for a first user based on crowd sourcing. A recommendation for t-shirt size may be made by defining a first image of a container based on historical data related to container instantiation; receiving, by the computer, from a first user, a request to deploy a first instantiation of a container corresponding to the first image, with the request including input data including information indicative of a planned context of the first instantiation; applying a plurality of machine logic based rules to the input data to determine a first a first recommended T-shirt size associated with the first image; and communicating, by the computer, the first recommended T-shirt size to the first user for use with the first instantiation of the container corresponding to the first image.
US10891540B2
A method and computer system for managing a neural network. Data is sent into an input layer in a portion of layers of nodes in the neural network. The data moves on an encode path through the portion such that an output layer in the portion outputs encoded data. The encoded data is sent into the output layer on a decode path through the portion back to the input layer to obtain a reconstruction of the data by the input layer. A determination is made as to whether an undesired amount of error has occurred in the output layer based on the data sent into the input layer and the reconstruction of the data. A number of new nodes is added to the output layer when a determination is present that the undesired amount of the error occurred, enabling reducing the error using the number of the new nodes.
US10891525B1
A method and system for processing images by a neural network are provided. A first computer can sequentially transfer at least two versions of an image having increasingly greater resolution to a second computer. The second computer performs an image identification process on each of the sequentially transferred at least two versions until the image is identified.
US10891523B2
Four computerized machine learning methods for deep semantic segmentation are fast machine learning method, active machine learning method, optimal machine learning method, and optimal transfer learning method. The fast machine learning method performs a fast deep semantic segmentation learning on training images to generate a deep model. The active machine learning method performs a fast deep semantic segmentation learning on initial training images to generate a first deep model and then an active deep semantic segmentation learning to generate a second deep model. The optimal machine learning method performs a fast deep semantic segmentation learning on initial training images to generate a first deep model and then an optimal deep semantic segmentation learning to generate a second deep model. The optimal transfer learning method applies a pre-trained first deep model on transfer training images and then an optimal deep semantic segmentation transfer learning to generate a second deep model.
US10891522B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed for image recognition and other applications. The method employs an SVM model and can reduce false negatives and increase recognition accuracies by raising the sample-to-support-vector ratio.
US10891512B2
Provided is a method of spatially referencing a plurality of images captured from a plurality of different locations within an indoor space by determining the location from which the plurality of images was captured. The method may include obtaining a plurality of distance-referenced panoramas of an indoor space. The distance-referenced panoramas may each include a plurality of distance-referenced images each captured from one position in the indoor space and at a different azimuth from the other distance-referenced images, a plurality of distance measurements, and orientation indicators each indicative of the azimuth of the corresponding one of the distance-referenced images. The method may further include determining the location of each of the distance-referenced panoramas based on the plurality of distance measurements and the orientation indicators and associating in memory the determined locations with the plurality of distance-referenced images captured from the determined location.
US10891509B2
There are described methods and systems for facilitating identification of an object-of-interest. A face similarity score and a body similarity score of a query image relative to a gallery image are determined. A fused similarity score of the query image relative to the gallery image is determined by applying a relationship between the face similarity score, the body similarity score, and the fused similarity score. The fused similarity score is indicative of whether or not the object-of-interest and the potential object-of-interest are the same object-of-interest. For example, a machine learning process is used to fuse the face similarity score and the body similarity into the fused similarity score. The process is repeated for multiple gallery images. The gallery images may then be ranked according to their respective fused similarity scores.
US10891502B1
Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for alleviating driver distractions. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for alleviating driver distractions by provoking driver interaction.
US10891501B2
A transport service system automatically associates road sign information with road segments based on image data including a representation of the road sign. The transport service system receives image data from one or more camera systems. Based on the image data, the transport service system determines a distance score and an orientation score for one or more candidate road segments. The transport service system additionally determines whether the image data is anomalous. Based on the determined distance and orientation scores, the transport service system generates a composite score and a confidence score for each candidate road segment. The confidence score is adjusted based on whether the image data is anomalous. Based on the generated scores, the transport service system identifies a most likely candidate road segment for association with the road sign.
US10891500B2
A method for acquiring traffic sign information includes acquiring an image of a scene comprising a traffic sign, the image being obtained by photographing the scene, using a photographing apparatus, acquiring first laser data of the scene, the first laser data being obtained by performing laser scanning on the scene, and the first laser data being of a plurality of first laser points, performing spatial clustering on the plurality of first laser points to obtain candidate point sets, acquiring a spatial distribution feature of respective laser points in each of the candidate point sets, determining at least one point set corresponding to the traffic sign in the candidate point sets, based on the spatial distribution feature, extracting image data of the traffic sign, from the image, using the at least one point set corresponding to the traffic sign, and extracting sign information of the traffic sign, from the image data.
US10891490B2
Methods and systems for passive approaching object recognition are disclosed. A method includes: detecting, by a computing device, an object in an area monitored using a camera; determining, by the computing device, whether the object is a known object or an unknown object; and in response to determining that the object is the unknown object, the computer device sending an unmanned aerial vehicle to monitor the object.
US10891488B2
Described is a system for visual activity recognition. In operation, the system detects a set of objects of interest (OI) in video data and determines an object classification for each object in the set of OI, the set including at least one OI. A corresponding activity track is formed for each object in the set of OI by tracking each object across frames. Using a feature extractor, the system determines a corresponding feature in the video data for each OI, which is then used to determine a corresponding initial activity classification for each OI. One or more OI are then detected in each activity track via foveation, with the initial object detection and foveated object detection thereafter being appended into a new detected-objects list. Finally, a final classification is provided for each activity track using the new detected-objects list and filtering the initial activity classification results using contextual logic.
US10891485B2
Implementations relate to removal of one or more images from a view of a plurality of images. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining a plurality of images, programmatically analyzing the plurality of images to determine a plurality of image features, and determining one or more image categories for the plurality of images based on the image features. The method further includes identifying a subset of the plurality of images based on the image categories, wherein each image of the subset is associated with an image category for archival. The method further includes causing a user interface to be displayed that includes one or more images of the subset, receiving user input to archive at least one of the one or more images, and in response to the user input, removing the at least one of the images from a view of the plurality of images.
US10891482B2
Methods, devices, and systems may be utilized for detecting one or more properties of a plant area and generating a map of the plant area indicating at least one property of the plant area. The system comprises an inspection system associated with a transport device, the inspection system including one or more sensors configured to generate data for a plant area including to: capture at least 3D image data and 2D image data; and generate geolocational data. The datacenter is configured to: receive the 3D image data, 2D image data, and geolocational data from the inspection system; correlate the 3D image data, 2D image data, and geolocational data; and analyze the data for the plant area. A dashboard is configured to display a map with icons corresponding to the proper geolocation and image data with the analysis.
US10891476B2
A method, system, and neural network for identifying direction of a document where the method comprises: extracting a text line in the document; calculating a first normal direction result indicative of the text line probably being in a normal direction and a first upside-down direction result indicative of the text line probably being in a direction upside-down with respect to the normal direction; calculating a second normal direction result indicative of the text line after being rotated by 180 degrees probably being in the normal direction and a second upside-down direction result indicative of the text line after being rotated by 180 degrees probably being in the direction upside-down with respect to the normal direction; and determining the direction of the document according to the first normal direction result, the first upside-down direction result, the second normal direction result and the second upside-down direction result.
US10891473B2
A method and device for use in hand gesture recognition is applicable to image processing. The method includes: acquiring a depth map of a hand in a current image; estimating first positions of joints of the hand according to the depth map of the hand; creating a 3D point cloud of the hand according to the depth map of the hand; matching the first position of the joints of the hand and a stored 3D hand model to the 3D point cloud of the hand to obtain second positions of the joints and first degree of freedom parameters of the joints; and recognizing the hand's gestures according to the second positions of the joints and the first degree of freedom parameters of the joints. The method achieves a practical hand gesture recognition technique and recognizes hand gestures accurately.
US10891471B2
A method and a system for pose estimation are provided. The method includes: extracting a plurality of sets of part-feature maps from an image, each set of the extracted part-feature maps encoding the messages for a particular body part and forming a node of a part-feature network; passing a message of each set of the extracted part-feature maps through the part-feature network to update the extracted part-feature maps, resulting in each set of the extracted part-feature maps incorporating the message of upstream nodes; estimating, based on the updated part-feature maps, the body part within the image.
US10891467B2
A facial verification method includes separating a query face image into color channel images of different color channels, obtaining a multi-color channel target face image with a reduced shading of the query face image based on a smoothed image and a gradient image of each of the color channel images, extracting a face feature from the multi-color channel target face image, and determining whether face verification is successful based on the extracted face feature.
US10891464B2
An imaging apparatus 1 includes an image acquisition unit 51 and an image processing unit 53. The image acquisition unit 51 acquires a face image. The image processing unit 53 acquires a face image which has been acquired by the acquisition unit 51 and has been adjusted by at least one type of adjustment and synthesizes a plurality of face images including the adjusted face image, using map data in which a predetermined region of a face has been set as a transparent region on the basis of a three-dimensional shape of the face.
US10891461B2
Facilitating live fingerprint detection utilizing an integrated ultrasound and infrared (IR) sensor is presented herein. A fingerprint sensor can comprise a first substrate comprising the IR sensor, and a second substrate comprising an ultrasonic transducer. The second substrate is attached to a top portion of the first substrate, and a temperature output of the IR sensor facilitates a determination that a fingerprint output of the ultrasonic transducer corresponds to a finger. The IR sensor can comprise polysilicon comprising a thermopile and an array of photonic crystals thermally coupled to the thermopile.
US10891450B2
Antenna assemblies for controlling radiation patterns or backscatter sensing zones are provided. The antenna assemblies may be used in a system for identifying items, such as a radio-frequency identification (RFID) system having an RFID reader and a plurality of RFID tags. In one embodiment, an antenna assembly may include a directional antenna having a fanned-shaped radiation pattern. In addition to the directional antenna, the antenna assembly may further include a right shroud element configured to reduce a right side of the fanned-shaped radiation pattern and a left shroud element configured to reduce a left side of the fanned-shaped radiation pattern.
US10891446B2
A call translation system and a method for operating the management system in a controlled environment is disclosed. The call translation system includes a calling device and a call translation server. The calling device receives authorization from the call translation server to conduct call sessions within the controlled environment. The calling device further receives a call session application from the call translation server that enables the calling device to initiate and establish call sessions through the call translation server. The call session application allows a user of the calling device to select outside parties to add to the call session.
US10891442B2
A method, computer program product and system for message tone evaluation. A message or a group of messages are retrieved between a sender entity and a recipient entity. Text content for the message or group of messages is extracted and the analysis of the tone of the text content is obtained. A graph is referenced in which nodes represent entities and edges between the nodes have tone weightings for a tone for a communication relationship between the entities. The graph is updated with a tone weighting for the retrieved message or group of messages by setting or updating an edge tone weighting between the nodes for the sender entity and the recipient entity. The graph is analyzed to obtain analysis of one or more entities and the tone weightings of their communication relationships.
US10891438B2
Systems and methods for Deep Learning techniques based multi-purpose conversational agents for processing natural language queries. The traditional systems and methods provide for conversational systems for processing natural language queries but do not employ Deep Learning techniques, and thus are unable to process large number of intents. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for Deep Learning techniques based multi-purpose conversational agents for processing the natural language queries by defining and logically integrating a plurality of components comprising of multi-purpose conversational agents, identifying an appropriate agent to process one or more natural language queries by a High Level Intent Identification technique, predicting a probable user intent, classifying the query, and generate a set of responses by querying or updating one or more knowledge graphs.
US10891434B2
Methods for generation and execution of elastic sheet-defined functions and arrays are performed by systems, devices, and apparatuses. Elastic sheet-defined functions are generated from inelastic defined functions. Specific notations for tile ranges and range references of inputs for an inelastic function are generated, and heights, widths, rows, and columns of the inputs are modified with delta variables. Constraints for the delta variables are generated and mapped to solve for a constraints solution for a given inelastic function. Based on the constraints solution, an elastic sheet-defined function is generated that takes dynamic input ranges of different sizes. Elastic sheet-defined functions are executed to prevent overlap of tiles and ranges for variables by generating new sheets for tiles and ranges, dynamically moving tiles and ranges, and assigning cells as arrays. Software programming arrays are also dynamically sized in a similar manner.
US10891427B2
An affective summarization system provides affective text summaries directed towards affective preferences of a user, such as psychological or linguistic preferences. The affective summarization system includes a summarization neural network and an affect predictor neural network. The affect predictor neural network is trained to provide a target affect level based on a word sequence, such as a word sequence for an article or other text document. The summarization neural network is trained to provide a summary sequence based on the target affect level and on the word sequence for the text document.
US10891422B1
A tag manager system provides access to a domain in a container in the tag manager system. A tag user navigates to elements in the domain (such as site pages, text elements, graphic elements, or video elements) and selects elements for tagging from within the container. The user selects tag options from within the tag manager system. The tag manager system uses the selected tag options to generate the corresponding tag codes for insertion in the domain HTML code. The tag manager saves previously defined tag codes and the tag user updates stored tag options in the tag manager system. The tag manager system provides pointer codes to insert in the HTML code so the user can update stored tag codes without updating the HTML code. The tag manager further highlights elements of the domain in the container for suggested tagging, and automatically selects option based on the element type.
US10891409B2
A method for locating an anomaly in a fluid transmission pipeline system is provided. The method may include receiving data for one or more physical conditions measured at an input and output of a pipeline portion, performing multiple simulations on a model of the pipeline portion to determine sets of simulated conditions that respectively correspond to simulated leak locations, determining a probability for a leak at one or more of the simulated leak locations by comparing one or more sets of simulated conditions to the received output data, and determining a highest probability location for the leak based on the probability for the leak at the one or more of the simulated leak locations. At least one simulation of the multiple simulations may be performed as a stochastic process and may be based on the received input data.
US10891394B2
A system includes a medical device and an authenticator. The medical device has a medical sensor configured to generate patient data indicative of a sensed physiological characteristic of a patient. The authenticator has at least one biometric sensor configured to generate at least one biometric signal indicative of at least one biometric characteristic of a user of the medical device. The authenticator is configured to (i) identify and authenticate a user of the medical device, (ii) protect patient data generated by the medical sensor of the medical device using a user ID unique to the identified user, and (iii) save the protected patient data to a memory.
US10891391B2
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for accessing a document from a cloud storage system and controlling the display of sensitive data within the document based on user permissions. One or more restricted information segments are identified within a document to be stored on the cloud storage system. Restricted information segments can include anything within an electronic file for which it is desired to provide multiple levels of access. In some embodiments, the restricted information segments are automatically identified via computer-implemented natural language processing (NLP) techniques. For each restricted information segment, one or more alternative data sequences are generated. The alternative data sequences are encrypted using various keys residing on a client device associated with a user. The keys can be used to decrypt data stored within a multiple-value encrypted field structure. In this way, multiple levels of information can be disseminated to an audience with various permission/privilege levels.
US10891382B2
A method can include for vulnerability analysis based on input or output points inferred from execution traces can include monitoring application access operations to a memory, monitoring responses from the memory to the access operations, generating execution traces based on the monitored access operations and responses, the execution traces including data identifying an instruction to be performed and a corresponding memory location to access in performing the operation, identifying and recording whether the instruction corresponds to an input or an output to the system based on the generated execution traces, and determining vulnerabilities of the application based on the generated execution traces and identification of the instruction corresponding to the input or output.
US10891381B2
Examples relate to detecting vulnerabilities in a web application. One example enables identifying a set of inputs in a web application input form. The set of inputs may be categorized based on a set of predetermined conditions. The set of inputs may be scored based on the categorization. A subset of the set of inputs may be determined to be a set of parameters of interest for the web application based on the scored set of inputs.
US10891380B1
Methods, systems, and media for determining application permissions are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving a description of an application to be installed on a user device and a group of permissions required by the application; identifying a subset of words in the description of the application; determining an expected group of permissions based on the subset of words; comparing the group of permissions required by the application and the expected group of permissions; determining a privacy score associated with the application based on the comparison of the group of permissions required by the application and the expected group of permissions; and causing the application to be installed on the user device based on the privacy score associated with the application.
US10891379B2
A program analysis method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes: generating an analysis-target abstract code that is data representing a mathematical model into which an inspection-target execution code is transformed; and determining whether or not the inspection-target execution code is a fraudulent program by executing at least processing of determining whether or not the analysis-target abstract code includes a known factor code that is data representing a mathematical model into which a known execution code is transformed, and processing of determining whether or not a state at an end of execution of the inspection-target execution code is included in success state information indicating a state in which an attack by a fraudulent program is successful.
US10891365B2
Approaches presented herein enable restricting access to a locked computing resource in a web browser with a user-tailored CAPTCHA. More specifically, a request for a CAPTCHA is obtained from a web browser of a user attempting to access a resource. A set of terms associated with the user are selected from a pool of terms collected from an environment of the user within a pre-determined time period. A familiarity value of the selected terms indicating a recognizability of the terms by the user is determined. A CAPTCHA of the selected set of terms is generated having a level of graphic noise corresponding to the familiarity value. The generated CAPTCHA is then sent to the web browser. When a response to the CAPTCHA is received from the web browser, it is analyzed to determine whether the response matches the selected set of terms. If so, the web browser is instructed to grant the user access to the resource.
US10891358B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for industrial control software execution management. For example, there is provided a method for enabling a software module included in a plurality of software modules of an application package installed on a computing device configured to control a turbomachine of an industrial plant. The method can include receiving, by a processor of the computing device, a request for executing the software module. The method can include generating and sending an activation request to a remote server. The method can include generating, by the remote server, an activation code if a verification protocol is successfully completed. The method can include forwarding the activation code to the computing device. The method can include activating the software module when the activation code is received by the processor.
US10891354B2
A method for performing responses based on time-series data includes receiving time-series data for each variable of a plurality of explanatory variables, determining a least common period for the plurality of explanatory variables, forming a plurality of explanatory variable groups using lags less than the least common period, determining one or more selected explanatory variable groups of the plurality of explanatory variable groups based on at least one information metric, receiving categorical data for a response variable corresponding to the plurality of explanatory variables, generating a response variable model using the selected explanatory variable groups, receiving additional time-series data corresponding to the selected explanatory variable groups, generating a categorization sequence for the additional time-series data using the response variable model, and performing one or more responses based on the categorization sequence. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed herein.
US10891342B2
Implementations relate to content data determination, transmission, and storage for local devices. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes determining an event for a user based on user data associated with the user, and includes programmatically analyzing the user data having one or more references to at least one of persons, locations, and scheduled activities. The method determines a set of content items to be accessed at the event, where one or more content items of the set are determined based on the user data, and the set of content items includes content data related to the event. Prior to a time of the event, the set of content items are transmitted over a communication network from network storage to local device(s) associated with the user, where the content items are stored in local storage of the local device(s).
US10891340B2
A method and a system for updating a search index divided into a plurality of chunks, each chunk including a portion of a plurality of documents, comprising: receiving a request to update a set of documents including deletion of a first subset of documents, computing for each given chunk of a set of chunks, each given chunk including at least one document of the first subset: an active size of a set of active documents, the set of active documents not including the at least one document, a total size, the total size not including the at least one document and a ratio of the active to the total size, duplicating, based on the ratio, a subset of chunks to obtain a subset of candidate chunks, updating the set of documents in the subset of candidate chunks, replacing the subset of chunks with the subset of candidate chunks.
US10891339B2
A question is analyzed to determine a set of categories, a category corresponding to a type of possible answers responsive to the question. A set of opinions is extracted from social media data. Each opinion is from a corresponding responder on a social media platform to which the question is sent. An opinion from the set of opinions is categorized into a category from the set of categories. A strength of the opinion is computed using a subset of a set of strength parameters. The opinion is ranked according to the strength of the opinion. The opinion, the strength, and the category are presented in a filterable presentation.
US10891334B2
A learning graph is generated for documents according to a sequencing approach. The learning graph includes nodes corresponding to the documents and edges. Each edge connects two of the nodes and indicates a sequencing relationship between two of the documents to which the two of the nodes correspond that specifies an order in which the two of the documents are to be reviewed in satisfaction of the learning goal. The learning graph is a directed graph specifying a learning path through the documents to achieve a learning goal in relation to a subject.
US10891333B2
A first connection state may be entered on a computing device. While the computing device is in the first connection state, actions taken on a playlist on the computing device may be applied to the playlist and not applied to a playback queue associated with a zone. An input may be received via the computing device, indicating a selection of the zone. In response to receiving the input, a second connection state may be entered. Entering the second connection state may comprise establishing a connected state between the computing device and the one or more playback devices. While the connected state is established, one or more actions taken on the playlist on the computing device may be applied to the playlist and transmitted, in a message to the zone over a network. The one or more actions may be one or more corresponding actions applied to the playback queue.
US10891328B2
A system for providing a life log service and a method of providing the life log service. The computing device for providing the life log service includes: a display which displays a map in a first display area and which displays like content in a second display area; and a processor including a content generator which generates the life content of a user based on a current position of the computing device, and a controller, which, in response to the generated live content, updates the second display area in real time to display the generated life content and updates the map in the first display area to display a path synchronized with the generated life content.
US10891322B2
An example environment can automatically generate content for a conversation in response to a presented content item. An example computing device receives information associated with a content item produced by a source system, the content item being accessible to other the computing devices via a network. In response to receiving the information, the computing device identifies a start comment. In response to identifying the start comment, the computing device identifies a reply to the start comment using at least a ranking model.
US10891317B1
Assembling a cohort includes: receiving genetic characteristic information pertaining to a desired genetic characteristic; using the genetic characteristic information to search a data storage comprising information of previously genotyped individuals to derive a candidate group having the desired genetic characteristic; and assembling the cohort based at least in part on the candidate group.
US10891314B2
A system and method for assigning concepts to sets of values. A dataset is selected, wherein the dataset includes a plurality of records, each record including a plurality of named fields, wherein each record includes each of the named fields. Each named field is assigned to a category and a concept is selected by identifying one or more named fields that, when combined, provide a unique value for each record. In some embodiments, the data is organized as a table, wherein the records are rows and the named fields are columns.
US10891312B2
Systems and methods for sharing information between distributed computer systems connected to one or more data networks. In particular, a replication system implements methodologies for sharing database information between computer systems where the databases use different classification schemes for information access control.
US10891311B2
An example system includes a first machine and a second machine, a clustering module, and a training module. The clustering module receives a plurality of data sets, each including attributes. The clustering module partitions the plurality of data sets into a first clustered data set and a second clustered data set. Each data set of the plurality of data sets is partitioned. The training module assigns a first stochastic model to the first clustered data set and a second stochastic model to the second clustered data set. The first machine selects the first clustered data set and the first stochastic model and generates a first synthetic data set having generated data for each one of the attributes. The second machine selects the second clustered data set and the second stochastic model and generates a second synthetic data set having generated data for each one of the attributes.
US10891305B2
A computer hardware system for synchronization of data between a first data system and a second data system includes an event propagation processor. Both data systems are modeled as a collection of representation state transfer (REST) resources. The event propagation processor is configured to integrate data between the first and second data systems for events about data changes in the data systems. The processor includes an adaptation layer in the form of an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) facade to represent REST resources. The adaptation layer includes a provider component configured to provide access to data resources in one of the data systems, and an initiator component configured to emit events corresponding to data changes in one of the data systems.
US10891298B2
Computing systems, database systems, and related methods are provided for providing visualizations of distributed package components. One exemplary method involves a server providing a graphical representation of a plurality of classes of a package, receiving a request to view a global class of the plurality of classes, obtaining previously compiled code associated with the global class of the from a database, filtering the code to include global source components of the global class while removing non-global source code components, and providing a graphical representation of the filtered code on the client device requesting presentation of the global class.
US10891293B2
Techniques for managing parameterized continuous query templates are provided. In some examples, a continuous query may be generated based at least in part on one or more selections of one or more business logic templates and business event parameters associated with a user. The continuous query may also be configured to retrieve business event data of the user. In some examples, a service provider may receive selection of one or more business logic templates. The service provider may also receive the business event parameters associated with the user. The business event parameters may be received via the selected template. The continuous query may then be generated using the information received via the template.
US10891270B2
One aspect relates to generating a unifying virtual schema in a non-relational database. A database is analyzed either in its entirety, or in part by using a sample of the database as a representative portion of the database as a whole. Common attributes within the database may be identified, ranked and displayed to a user through one or more of various visualizations. In other examples, the user may further refine the way the data is displayed and how much is displayed by interacting with a user interface.
US10891269B2
A traditional data processing system is configured to process input data either in batch or in real-time. On one hand, a batch data processing system is limiting because the batch data processing often cannot take into account any data received during the batch data processing. On the other hand, a real-time data processing system is limiting because the real-time system often cannot scale. The real-time data processing system is often limited to dealing with primitive data types and/or a small amount of data. Therefore, it is desirable to address the limitations of the batch data processing system and the real-time data processing system by combining the benefits of the batch data processing system and the real-time data processing system into a single data processing system.
US10891261B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and device for deduplication. Specifically, the method may comprise obtaining a property of a file stream, the property of a file stream including a file type or a magic number identifying a format of a protocol or a file. The method further includes in response to receiving an I/O request for a data block of the file stream, assigning a deduplication level to the I/O request based on the property of the file stream. Moreover, the method further includes deduplicating the data block of the file stream based on the deduplication level assigned to the I/O request. In addition, a corresponding device and computer program product are provided.
US10891257B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for locally processing a plurality of data files stored on a local data storage system to identify an archivable file for storage on a remote data storage system. A remote tiering appliance is enabled to obtain the archivable file, wherein the remote tiering appliance stores the archivable file at a defined remote address on the remote data storage system. An identifier is received from the remote tiering appliance that locates the archivable file at the defined remote address on the remote data storage system. The identifier is stored on the local data storage system.
US10891250B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to computer applications for collating scattered signals in a computer system. The computer system may include a processor, memory, display, and a plurality of applications. The plurality of applications may include a central application and a plurality of peripheral applications. The peripheral applications may generate signals. The central application may access the signals generated by the peripheral applications. The central application may collate the signals and store the collated signals. The central application may present the collated signals on the display. The collated signals may be actionable in the central application. Actions performed in response to the collated signals in the central application may be conveyed to the peripheral application from where the collated signal originated.
US10891246B2
A buffer (32) for temporarily storing a packet is installed in a packet order control circuit (12H). A comparison circuit (31) compares the packet ID of an input packet with a next-selection ID indicating the packet ID of a packet to be selected next in accordance with an order. If the comparison result indicates that the packet ID and the next-selection ID do not match, a control circuit (36) stores the input packet in a storage position corresponding to the packet ID. If the packet ID and the next-selection ID match, the control circuit (36) selects the input packet as a target of a transfer process without storing the packet in the buffer (32). If the next-selection ID matches the packet ID of a packet stored in the buffer (32), the control circuit (36) selects the packet as a target of the transfer process. This guarantees the packet processing order with few memory resources.
US10891243B2
A method performed by a memory chip is described. The method includes receiving an activated chip select signal. The method also includes receiving, with the chip select signal being activated, a command code on a command/address (CA) bus that identifies a next portion of an identifier for the memory chip. The method also includes receiving the next portion of the identifier on a portion of the memory chip's data inputs. The method also includes repeating the receiving of the activated chip select signal, the command code and the next portion until the entire identifier has been received and storing the entire identifier in a register.
US10891240B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to low latency communications in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a spatial array of processing elements to receive an input of a dataflow graph comprising a plurality of nodes, a plurality of request address file circuits coupled to the spatial array of processing elements and a cache memory, each request address file circuit of the plurality of request address file circuits to access data in the cache memory in response to a request for data access from the spatial array of processing elements, a plurality of translation lookaside buffers comprising a translation lookaside buffer in each of the plurality of request address file circuits to provide an output of a physical address for an input of a virtual address, and a function controller to receive an interrupt that includes a first field, that when set to a first value, causes a shootdown message to be broadcast to the plurality of translation lookaside buffers to cause a shootdown in the plurality of translation lookaside buffers.
US10891239B2
One embodiment facilitates operation of non-volatile memory. During operation, the system determines, by a flash translation layer module, a physical block address associated with a first request which indicates data to be read, wherein the non-volatile memory is divided into separate physical zones, wherein the physical block address is associated with a first physical zone, and each separate physical zone has a dedicated application to read or write data thereto. The system obtains a free page frame in a volatile memory by writing data from a cold page in the volatile memory to a second physical zone, wherein a cold page is a page with a history of access which is less than a predetermined threshold. The system loads, based on the physical block address, data from the non-volatile memory to the free page frame. The system executes the request based on the data loaded into the free page frame.
US10891237B2
An apparatus and method are described for mediate pass through and shared memory page merging. For example, one embodiment of a method comprises: generating a page identifier (PI) for each of a set of guest memory pages, wherein equivalent PIs indicate that the corresponding memory pages are the same; upon detecting that a first guest memory page and a second guest memory page have PIs that are equal, merging the first and second guest memory pages into a single memory page; detecting that the first guest memory page is to be used for a direct memory access (DMA) operation; and responsively unmerging the first and second guest memory pages.
US10891226B1
A method, computer system, and computer program product for operating a computer system to carry out a data dump of a data image of memory contents. Computer operations are temporarily suspended to service the dump request in order to dump the volatile memory contents required for the data image and to generate a record of the non-volatile memory pages which need to be dumped. Computer operations are then resumed under supervision of a monitoring process which screens access requests to the non-volatile memory against the dump record. A request relating to a page contained in the dump record is acted upon by writing the contents of that page to the dump storage space, so the page contents is dumped before it is modified. The dump record in continually updated to keep track of what is still outstanding to complete the dump until such time as the dump is complete.
US10891221B2
A method for allocating memory in a computing device having a non-volatile main memory is described. The method comprises receiving, by a memory allocator, a request for non-volatile memory allocation of an object from a program executing on the computing device, the request comprising a requested memory size and registration data from the program. The method comprises finding an available address of one of a plurality of portions of a page of the non-volatile memory and searching an active page table in the non-volatile main memory to find the page and if the page is not found in the active page table: inserting the page into the active page table; and waiting for a memory write for inserting the page into the active page table to complete.
US10891220B2
An application program stored in a ROM includes a function lookup data structure in which functions called by the application program have identifiers and memory addresses at which the function is located and can be executed. Upon startup, the function lookup data structure is copied to a RAM as a revised lookup data structure and is compared to a revision lookup data structure also written to that RAM or elsewhere. If the revision lookup data structure contains replacement functions having the same function identifiers but new memory addresses, these new memory addresses are written over the existing addresses in the revised lookup data structure for those replacement functions. The application program refers to the revised lookup data structure to find and execute the functions; thus the original application program on the ROM can continue to be used with revised functions.
US10891213B2
Providing debugging support for a carried thread are disclosed. A debug agent converts between identifiers of carried threads and carrier threads. Further, a debug agent transfers debug configurations amongst multiple carrier threads associated with a same carried thread. With respect to identifier conversion, an agent receives, from a debuggee, a notification that an event occurred in association with a carrier thread. The agent determines that a carried thread is mounted on the carrier thread. The agent transmits, to the debugger, a notification that the event occurred in association with the carried thread.
US10891205B1
The system and methods disclosed herein relate to an improved hardware configuration for geographically dispersed data restart (“GDDR”) systems. Specifically, the teachings herein allow users to reduce the number of operating systems required to run multiple GDDR systems simultaneously by employing multitenancy principles in the system design. The embodiments cover a system for operating multiple GDDR complexes wherein the individual control systems typically required to run each GDDR complex are combined into a single logical partition. We also disclose methods and computer executable products for operating multiple GDDR complexes wherein the individual control systems typically required to run each GDDR complex are combined into a single logical partition.
US10891197B2
The illustrative systems and methods consolidate storage-array command channels into a media agent that executes outside the production environment. A “snapshot-control media agent” (“snap-MA”) is configured on a secondary storage computing device that operates apart from client computing devices. A “forwarder” media agent operates on each client computing device that uses the storage array, yet lacks command channels to the storage array. Likewise, a “forwarder” proxy media agent may operate without command channels to the storage array. No third-party libraries or storage-array-command devices are installed or needed on the host computing device. The forwarder media agent forwards any commands directed at the storage array to the snap-MA on the secondary storage computing device. The snap-MA receives and processes commands directed at the storage array that were forwarded by the forwarder media agents. Responses from the storage array are transmitted to the respective forwarder media agent. The snap-MA advantageously pools any number of storage-array-command devices so that capacity limitations in regard to communications channels at the storage array may be avoided. As a result, the snap-MA operating in conjunction with the forwarder media agents enable the illustrative system to consolidate the communication of storage-array commands away from client computing devices and/or proxy media agent hosts and into the secondary storage computing device that hosts the snap-MA.
US10891196B2
According to the present invention, content generated from a mobile terminal, a camera, or the like is stored automatically in a home gateway in a home network system. If synchronization is set between the home gateway and a home device, the home gateway may transmit backup content to the synchronized home device. Content may be selectively stored and classified based on a specific location, memo, voice, and the like set by a user for privacy protection.
US10891191B2
An example method for determining likelihood of erroneous data bits stored in memory cells may include sensing a first plurality of memory cells based on a first sense thresholds. Responsive to sensing the first plurality of cells, a first set of probabilistic information may be associated with the first plurality of memory cells. A second plurality of memory cells may be sensed based on a second sense threshold. Responsive to sensing the second plurality of memory cells, a second set of probabilistic information may be associated with the second plurality of memory cells. An error correction operation may be performed on the first and second pluralities of memory cells based, at least in part, on the first and second values.
US10891189B2
Read parameter estimation techniques are provided that obtain information from multiple read operations to customize read parameters for data recovery. One method comprises performing the following steps, in response to a decoding failure of a page of a memory or a codeword of the memory: obtaining at least three read values of the page or codeword; and processing the at least three read values to determine read parameters comprising: (i) a log likelihood ratio, and/or (ii) a center read reference voltage, wherein the determination is based on a signal count of a number of bits falling in particular regions of multiple regions of the memory and wherein the determined read parameters are used for a decoding of the page or codeword following the decoding failure and/or a subsequent read operation following a successful decoding of the page or codeword.
US10891185B2
Example implementations relate to tracking memory unit errors on a memory device. In example implementations, a memory device may include on-die error-correcting code (ECC) and a plurality of error counters. One of the plurality of error counters may count errors, detected by the on-die ECC, in a memory unit on the memory device. A post package repair (PPR) may be initiated on the memory device in response to a determination that a value of the one of the plurality of error counters equals a threshold value.
US10891184B2
An integrated circuit device can comprise addressable memory, and a receiver. Data integrity logic can be coupled to the input data path and configured to receive a data stream having a reference address, and a plurality of data chunks with data integrity codes. Also, the data integrity logic can include a configuration store to store configuration data for the data integrity checking. Also, the integrated circuit can include logic to parse the data chunks and the data integrity codes from the data stream, and logic to compute computed data integrity codes of data chunks in the received data stream, and compare the computed data integrity codes with received data integrity codes to test for data errors in the received data stream. The data integrity logic includes logic responsive to the configuration data that control the data integrity logic. In one aspect, the data integrity data indicates a floating boundary data integrity mode or a fixed boundary data integrity mode.
US10891183B1
A self-correcting secure computer system is provided. The computer system includes a read-only memory (ROM) device, a random access memory (RAM) device, and at least one processor in communication with the ROM device and the RAM device. The at least one processor is programmed to receive an activation signal, retrieve, from the ROM device, data to execute an operating system, and execute, on the RAM device, the operating system based on the data from the ROM device.
US10891174B1
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes identifying an event within a system; applying a model to the event to create an aggregated event; and storing the aggregated event.
US10891173B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing a distributed alert system using actor models. The approach includes initializing an alert actor configured to run an alert action. A datapoint related to the alert action is received, and can then be processed at the alert actor against a current status of an alert (such as a running average of prior datapoints) in order to determine a new status of the alert. This allows for a notification to be provided, such as to a system administrator, based on a change in status if needed.
US10891169B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to distribute a workload for execution are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a workload container interface to access a workload for execution at a remote device, the workload including workload instructions and a specified capability to be met by the remote device. A runtime selector is to select the remote device for execution of the workload based on the specified capability being present in a list of capabilities discovered for the remote device. A workload transmitter to transmit, in response to the selection of the remote device for execution of the workload, the workload to the remote device for execution.
US10891167B2
A method of protecting software in a computer system includes defining a memory fractionation configuration for an application software program in the computer system, fractionating at least one page of the application software program into fractions according to the memory fractionation configuration, and running the application in such a manner that, at any particular point in time when the application is running, at least a first one of the fractions is stored in a manner that is not accessible from a user space or a kernel space of the computer system.
US10891161B2
Evaluation results of a plurality of users are received from a plurality of data providers. The evaluation results are obtained by the plurality of data providers evaluating the plurality of users based on evaluation models of the plurality of data providers. A plurality of training samples is constructed by using the evaluation results. Each training sample includes a respective subset of the evaluation results corresponding to a same user of the plurality of users. A label for each training sample is generated based on an actual service execution status of the same user. A model is trained based on the plurality of training samples and the plurality of labels, including setting a plurality of variable coefficients, each variable coefficient specifying a contribution level of a corresponding data provider. Virtual resources to each data provider are allocated based on the plurality of variable coefficients.
US10891158B2
Data contention caused by multiple threads accessing one data block at the same time when used to execute tasks concurrently may be avoided, and difficulty in detecting and debugging a concurrent error may be reduced. A solution is: adding, according to correspondences between multiple tasks and M data blocks that are accessed by the multiple tasks, each of the multiple tasks to a task queue of a data block corresponding to the task; using N threads to execute tasks in N task queues of M task queues concurrently, where each of the N threads executes a task in a task queue of the N task queues, different threads of the N threads execute tasks in different task queues, and 2≤N≤M.
US10891156B1
Systems and methods are provided to implement intelligent data coordination for accelerated computing in a distributed computing environment. For example, a method includes executing a task on a computing node, monitoring requests issued by the executing task, intercepting requests issued by the executing task which correspond to data flow operations to be performed as part of the task execution, and asynchronously executing the intercepted requests at scheduled times to coordinate data flow between resources on the computing node.
US10891148B2
The current document is directed to automated methods and systems that employ unsupervised-machine-learning approaches as well as rule-based systems to discover distributed applications within distributed-computing environments. These automated methods and systems provide a basis for higher-level distributed-application administration and management tools and subsystems that provide distributed-application-level user interfaces and operations. In one implementation, the currently disclosed methods and systems employ agents within virtual machines that execute routines and programs and that together comprise a distributed application to continuously furnish information about the virtual machines to a pipeline of stream processors that collect and filter the information to provide for periodic application-discovery. The stream processors generate data representations of the processes currently running on the virtual machines and data representations of the communications connections between the virtual machines. An application-discovery subsystem periodically employs these data representations, and additional data derived from them, to identify the different distributed applications running within a distributed-computing facility and to identify tiers of virtual-machine nodes within each identified distributed application. This, in turn, allows the application-discovery subsystem to generate sets of delta changes for the discovered applications after each periodic application discovery.
US10891144B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a first managed forwarding element operating within a first data compute node (DCN) that executes on a host machine. From the first DCN, the method receives a packet destined for a second DCN that is logically connected to the first DCN through a set of logical forwarding elements of a logical network. The method performs forwarding processing on the packet in order to (i) identify a particular logical forwarding element in the set of logical forwarding elements, a logical port of which is coupled to the second DCN, and (ii) identify a second managed forwarding element that implements the logical port of the particular logical forwarding element. The method forwards the packet to the second managed forwarding element.
US10891141B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for plugin loading. The method includes obtaining an identifier of a plugin component of a plugin from a threading module, recording the identifier of the plugin component, and replacing the identifier of the plugin component with an identifier of a host component of an application program. The method also includes sending the identifier of the host component to a threading module, to perform system permission verification and receiving runnable notification information when passing the verification. The method further includes in response to the received runnable notification information, replacing the identifier of the host component with the identifier of the plugin component according to the recorded identifier of the plugin component; and sending the identifier of the plugin component to the threading module, to load the plugin. The present invention further discloses an apparatus and a storage medium for plugin loading.
US10891136B1
A system to support data gathering for a machine learning (ML) operation comprises a memory unit configured to maintain data for the ML operation in a plurality of memory blocks each accessible via a memory address. The system further comprises an inference engine comprising a plurality of processing tiles each comprising one or more of an on-chip memory (OCM) configured to load and maintain data for local access by components in the processing tile. The system also comprises a core configured to program components of the processing tiles of the inference engine according to an instruction set architecture (ISA) and a data streaming engine configured to stream data between the memory unit and the OCMs of the processing tiles of the inference engine wherein data streaming engine is configured to perform a data gathering operation via a single data gathering instruction of the ISA at the same time.
US10891133B2
Code-specific affiliated register prediction. A determination is made as to whether a unit of code is a candidate for affiliated register prediction. The determining employs a code specific indicator specific to the unit of code. Based on determining the unit of code is a candidate for affiliated register prediction, an indication of an affiliated register is loaded into a selected location. Based on the loading, the affiliated register is employed in speculative processing.
US10891120B2
Embodiments described herein provide a solution for optimizing a compiling of program code. A proposed state pointer, which corresponds to a current state pointer to a current state node that represents a section of the program code, is added in an intermediate language (IL) representation of the program code. When the optimizing compiler determines that an optimization should be made to a section of code, the current state node is copied to create a proposed state node, which is then referenced by the proposed state pointer. The proposed state node is edited to include the optimization while the current state node remains unchanged. The success of the optimization is evaluated, and an updated IL representation is generated in which any references to nodes that are no longer included in the flow of the former IL representation are removed.
US10891119B2
Techniques are described for sharing software targets in componentized automated software product build processes. In some examples, a method includes identifying among software component builds having dependencies on software targets, two or more software targets having a number of common dependencies that exceeds a threshold. The method further includes integrating the two or more software targets into at least one integrated software target. The method further includes assigning at least one subset of software component builds having dependencies on the two or more software targets, as having dependencies on the at least one integrated software target. The method further includes executing a software build process using the at least one integrated software target and the assigned dependencies of the at least one subset of the software component builds on the at least one integrated software target.
US10891117B2
A method to process subroutine-structured graph-based intermediate representations during formal language processing implemented by a computing device. The method includes classifying a set of subroutines identified in an intermediate representation of code according to mutually recursive relationships between subroutines in the set of subroutines, recording the mutually recursive relationships, labeling to track the mutually recursive relationships, constructing a set of graph representations, collecting partial positions that distinguish points of action in generated code, labeling nodes of the graph of the intermediate representation, generating a subsequent intermediate representation by serialization of the graph of the intermediate representation through pre-order depth-first traversal, and creating the generated code from the intermediate representation.
US10891098B2
A projector includes an image projection unit which projects an image; a first communication unit which detects an information processing device connectable via wireless communication; and a control unit which causes the image projection unit to project a guidance image including a necessary operation to connect the projector to the information processing device, when the first communication unit detects the information processing device.
US10891097B2
A receiving device includes a display, a communication unit, and a protrusion portion. The display displays an image and receives an operation corresponding to the image in such a manner that a user comes into contact with the image. The communication unit communicates with a wireless communication apparatus performing near-field wireless communication. The protrusion portion is disposed at least between the display and the communication unit and protrudes from a surface on which the display is provided.
US10891093B2
The present invention relates to a system for operating textile printing machines, with a first textile printing machine and at least one second textile printing machine, which machines are provided in a first entity or a second entity, which are independent of each other, wherein each textile printing machine is provided with a data-processing module, which detects data about the state, set-up and/or utilization of the textile printing machine, wherein the textile printing machine transmits the detected data to a data center, independent from entities and/or location, and wherein the data center is configured to accept print jobs from third parties and, based on the transmitted data, to transmit at least one print job fitting the data to one of the at least two textile printing machines. Moreover, the invention relates to a module for the system according to the invention.
US10891086B2
Embodiments described herein manage conflicts between media descriptions in a print job, and media descriptions in a job ticket associated with the print job. One embodiment comprises a print controller. The print controller identifies a logical page having an unmodifiable media attribute, directs a Raster Image Processor (RIP) of the print controller to rasterize the logical page based on the unmodifiable media attribute, and modifies the raster data generated by the RIP for the logical page based on a media attribute specified in a job ticket for the logical page.
US10891083B2
A method and associated system for randomizing data to be stored in a memory storage device including, receiving a plurality of data bytes to be randomized at a memory controller and written to a page of a memory storage device, wherein the page comprises a plurality of data sectors and wherein each of the plurality of data sectors are configured to store a plurality of data bytes, randomizing a first portion of the plurality of data bytes using a first randomizer initialized by a first seed to generate a first portion of randomized data bytes and randomizing a second portion of the plurality of data bytes using a second randomizer initialized by a second seed to generate a second portion of randomized data bytes, wherein the first seed is uncorrelated with the second seed.
US10891082B2
The invention introduces a method for accelerating compression, performed by configuration logic of a compression accelerator, containing: obtaining an input parameter from a processor core; obtaining a configuration setting from a compression parameter table according to the input parameter; configuring hardware coupled between a first buffer and a second buffer to form a data transmission path according to the input parameter, wherein the first buffer stores raw data; and transmitting the configuration setting to devices on the data transmission path for processing the raw data to generate compressed data and storing the compressed data in the second buffer.
US10891079B2
An information processing apparatus includes a non-volatile semiconductor storage device including a flash memory, a write buffer memory that stores data that is to be stored onto the non-volatile semiconductor storage device, and a controller that performs control to write in a batch onto the non-volatile semiconductor storage device the data stored on the write buffer memory when an amount of the data stored on the write buffer memory reaches a predetermined amount of data.
US10891078B2
A method of sending a command from a slave storage device to a master host includes receiving an initial command from the master host. A callback response containing a requested command triggered by the initial command is sent by the slave storage device. In one embodiment, the master host is a Universal Flash Storage (UFS) host and the slave storage device is a UFS storage device. In one embodiment, the initial command is a start stop unit (SSU) command with a power condition field of sleep or powerdown and the requested command is a read buffer command. In another embodiment, the initial command is a start stop unit (SSU) command with a power condition field of active and the requested command is a write buffer command.
US10891073B2
Provided are storage apparatuses for a virtualized system and methods for operating the same. A method for operating a storage apparatus having a write buffer and a memory includes receiving a write request from a virtual machine, identifying a write pattern corresponding to the received write request by comparing a write data size indicated by the write request with a predetermined threshold, and allocating the received write request differently based on the identified write pattern.
US10891066B2
Example storage systems, storage controllers, and methods provide data redundancy reconfiguration using logical subunits. Storage devices are configured in a storage group with a first data redundancy configuration. A second data redundancy configuration is selected and the space available in the storage group is determined. For each logical data unit, logical data subunits are selected, written to the space available in the second data redundancy configuration, and deleted from the logical data unit. Storage operations using the storage group may be maintained during the migration process.
US10891051B2
Embodiments of a system and method for assisting disabled users can include: a display configured to receive an input from the disabled user; a set of tactile cues proximal the display; and a processing system configured to: store an assistance map, and map the touch input to a digital input based on the assistance map.
US10891049B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining a preference for content based on swipe characteristics. A swiping application may present a user with a content identifier on a touchscreen display. Based on the user's touch-based interaction with the content identifier (e.g., the speed at which the user swipes the content identifier away, the angle and direction of the user's swipe gesture, and any halt time in the swipe gesture), the swiping application assigns a preference level to the content identifier.
US10891048B2
An input device is provided, such as for a vehicle, whereby a gesture may be provided to present an application associated with the gesture, even if another application is being displayed by an output. If a gesture does not match, the gesture may be processed as an input to the other application currently displayed. A time shift algorithm may be utilized to determine if the received gesture matches the gesture associated with the other application. Additionally, a dedicated close gesture may be utilized to dismiss a currently displayed application.
US10891044B1
Systems and methods are described that include providing, on a touchscreen display of an electronic device, a stream of content items, at least some of which are associated with a corresponding display anchor. Inputs are detected at the touchscreen display and the inputs are associated with a scroll speed. The scroll speed may be based on a detected distance between the inputs on the touchscreen and an elapsed time between at least two of the inputs. In response to determining a lack of input for a predefined time period, a display anchor can be determined and selected. The display anchor may correspond to a content item to be used as a pause location for the stream. The scrolling of the stream of content items can be paused at the pause location to use the selected display anchor to display the content item in a top viewable portion of the display.
US10891043B2
The slide bar display control device according to the present invention includes, a display means which indicates a first slide bar including a first slider and a first bar, an input means which can select an arbitrary part of the first slide bar shown on the display means based on touch operation, and a control means which controls the display means and the input means, wherein, when the control means detects that a first operation has been performed in a state that the first slider shown on the display means is being touched in the input means, the display means indicates a second slide bar including a second slider and a second bar, and wherein the second slider is a slider different in a variation amount of a set value per unit moving distance from the first slider.
US10891042B2
A user interface includes a touch-sensitive display and a display control unit for controlling the display. A method for controlling a household appliance using the graphical user interface includes the steps of: displaying a first graphical representation on the display, the first graphical representation including symbols, each symbol being associated with an appliance subunit of the household appliance; when a symbol is touched by a touching means, transmitting control signals from the control unit to the display to change the first graphical representation into a second graphical representation; displaying information regarding a change of a setting value of the appliance entity associated with the touched symbol when the touching means is dragged from a first position to a second position at the display; and changing the graphical representation at the display from the second graphical representation to a third graphical representation when lifting the touching means from the display.
US10891039B2
Systems and methods for instantiating collaboration interfaces via object recognition are disclosed. An object recognition engine communicatively coupled to a database and an electronic device receives sensor data related to an object and identifies an object characteristic. A component is selected having criteria satisfied by the object characteristic and a collaboration interface is instantiated on the electronic device. This can allow a user to edit content related to an object. A substantially identical collaboration interface can be instantiated on a second electronic device to allow collaboration among user with respect to content related to the object.
US10891036B1
A method for displaying an information graphic via an electronic user interface to integrate information from accounts held at a financial institution. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying a first graphic element to display first information associated with at least one first account and displaying a second graphic element to display second information associated with at least one second account. A dimension of the first graphic element is representative of the first information and a dimension of the second graphic element is representative of the second information. Displaying the second graphical element includes displaying a first portion of the second graphic element that is selectable to alternately virtually hide and display a second portion of the second graphic element.
US10891022B2
The present method and system provides for interacting with a display device including accessing an external content database having images stored therein, and storing a plurality of the images to a local memory device associated with the display device and therein displaying one or more of the images on an output display. The method and system includes displaying a user interface screen on the output display of the display device and detecting, via at least one of a plurality environmental sensors, a user gesture external to the display device, the user gesture relating to gesture-based control of the display device. The method and system determines a gesture context value relating to the detected gesture and accesses a gesture library to retrieve an interface command. The method and system thus updates the output display of the at least one of the plurality of images based on the interface command.
US10891012B2
A method of controlling a system including a display device and a mobile terminal can include performing, in the display device, a data communication with the mobile terminal wirelessly; capturing, in the mobile terminal, a current screen; generating, in the mobile terminal, screen information based on the captured current screen; setting, in the mobile terminal, right and left margins in the screen information when the mobile terminal is in a portrait mode and the display device is in a landscape mode; transmitting, in the mobile terminal, the screen information with the right and left margins to the display device wirelessly, when the mobile terminal is in the portrait mode and the display device is in the landscape mode; displaying, in the display device, a first mirroring image with the right and left margins based on the screen information when the mobile terminal is in the portrait mode and the display device is in the landscape mode; setting, in the mobile terminal, upper and lower margins in the screen information when the display device is in a portrait mode and the mobile terminal is in a landscape mode; transmitting, in the mobile terminal, the screen information with the upper and lower margins to the display device wirelessly, when the display device is in the portrait mode and the mobile terminal is in the landscape mode; and displaying, in the display device, a second mirroring image with the upper and lower margins based on the screen information when the display device is in the portrait mode and the mobile terminal is the landscape mode.
US10891000B2
The present invention is a touchscreen-based control system for massage chairs that includes a touchscreen device. In another aspect, the present invention is a massage chair controlled by a touchscreen-based control system that includes a touchscreen-based control system. In a further aspect, the present invention is a massage chair controlled by a touchscreen-based control system that includes a touchscreen-based control system having a software program allowing a user to customize a massage function and save it in a memory thereby allowing the user to open or load the saved function. In a further aspect, the present invention is a massage chair controlled by a touchscreen-based control system wherein the massage chair includes an inflatable air-cell to provide massage effects in the footrest and armrest areas of a user.
US10890987B2
The present invention provides a stylus for transmitting electrical signals carrying pressure information, comprising: a first component with variable impedance reflecting a pressure, wherein the first component is configured for receiving first signals encoded by a pseudo-random number (PN) code in a first time period; a second component with fixed impedance, wherein the second component is configured for receiving second signals encoded by the PN code in a second time period; and a conductive tip section configured for: receiving the first signals from the first component in the first time period; receiving the second signals from the second component in the second time period; transmitting electrical signals which is composed of the first signals in the first time period; and transmitting electrical signals which is composed of the second signals in the second time period.
US10890980B2
An operating apparatus is provided with: a line-of-sight detector configured to detect a line of sight of an occupant of a vehicle; a face direction detector configured to detect a face direction of the occupant; and an estimator configured to estimate an operation intention intended by the face direction on the basis of the detected face direction, on condition that a change in the detected face direction is greater than a change in the detected line of sight by an amount that is greater than or equal to a predetermined amount.
US10890978B2
An electronic device is configured to provide haptic feedback to a user based on an input action associated with an input device. The electronic device includes a haptic engine operably connected to a processing device. The haptic engine includes an electromagnetic actuator that detects an input action associated with the input device. The electromagnetic actuator also produces a haptic output in response to the detection of the input action.
US10890972B2
Provided are prefrontal-based brain-machine interfacing apparatus and a method thereof. The apparatus includes a brainwave measurement device configured to measure a prefrontal brainwave signal of a subject, and a processor configured to execute a cognitive brain-machine interface program stored in a memory, the processor pinpoints a brain cortical region generating the corresponding prefrontal brainwave signal among previously assigned multiple subdivisions of a prefrontal area, measures the sensor-level brain activity, extracts a prefrontal cortical-level activity pattern by computing source localization and calculating causal connectivity among two or more previously assigned brain regions on the basis of the degree of corresponding sensor-level brain activities, inputs the prefrontal activity pattern into a classifier which is previously generated by machine learning of multiple prefrontal activity patterns of the subject to identify one of the preset control conditions, and generates and outputs a preset machine regulating signal on the basis of a result of identification.
US10890960B2
A method and an apparatus for limiting rack power consumption are provided. The method includes: determining a rack power consumption limitation threshold; determining a current power consumption limitation mode; calculating a total power consumption limit for nodes in a rack; calculating a power consumption threshold for each of the nodes based on the current power consumption limitation mode, the rack power consumption limitation threshold and the total power consumption limit for the nodes in the rack; and transmitting the power consumption threshold for each of the nodes to the node, to enable the node to limit power consumption according to the received power consumption threshold.
US10890957B2
Techniques for low-power USB Type-C receivers with high noise rejection are described herein. In an example embodiment, a USB-enabled device comprises a receiver circuit coupled to a Configuration Channel (CC) line of a USB Type-C subsystem. The receiver circuit is configured to reject the incoming signal even when the incoming signal includes noise with a magnitude of more than 300 mVpp, and to operate in the presence of a VBUS charging current that is compliant with a USB-PD specification.
US10890952B2
A protective covering for an electronic device such as a tablet computer. In various embodiments, to protective covering may cover both front and rear surfaces of the electronic device, as well as from and rear surfaces of an associated keyboard. Additionally, certain configuration for the protective covering may operate to trigger a sleep mode for the keyboard.
US10890946B2
A stacking structure for a flexible display assembly is provided, which is advantageous in that, an region of a lower protection film protruding from an region in a flexible display panel, serves as an region for a waste removal device to capture and discharge waste, and meets the needs of the waste removal device for waste removal and the flexible display panel is not contaminated. In addition, a width of an edge removal area of the flexible display panel decreases, a layout efficiency of the irregular-shaped flexible display assembly is thereby improved, and a utilization rate of a master flexible display panel greatly increases to save costs.
US10890945B2
An electronic device includes a display panel, two camera and at least one light sensor. The display panel includes a full screen display area. The full screen display area includes a display surface and a back surface opposite to the display surface. The display panel defines a slot extending through the display surface and the back surface, and the slot is located in the full screen display area. The full screen display area includes a plurality of image pixels configured to display data information. The two cameras are received in the slot, and the at least one light sensor is received in the slot.
US10890944B1
A tablet support stand attached a hinged left keyboard and right keyboard. When the keyboard folds, the two sides can capture the folded support stand creating a compact assembly that can be easily transported by the user and then unfolded when needed. The support arm is made of segments that are pivotally and frictionallly hinged. The support stand members are hollow and open on one side that allows the support arms to fold into each other for maximum compactness. A steel plate attached the back of a standard tablet attaches to a magnetic plate at the end of the support stand.
US10890943B2
The disclosure relates to a holding device for a handheld computer unit that is designed to control a machine, wherein the holding device has a holding unit that is designed to hold the handheld computer unit, and wherein at least one integrated safety switch for a safety function of the machine is integrated into the holding device and/or wherein the holding device has a further holding unit for holding at least one external safety switch for a safety function of the machine.
US10890937B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to reducing clock-ungating induced voltage droop by determining a maximum frequency value associated with an output clock waveform; modulating a clock frequency of the output clock waveform for a first time duration based on a first programmable mask pattern or a first Boolean function; and determining if either the first programmable mask pattern or the first Boolean function should be changed. In accordance with one aspect, a voltage droop mitigation circuit includes a control logic for receiving an input clock waveform and a clock enable signal waveform and for outputting a gated clock enable signal waveform; a latch coupled to the control logic, the latch for holding a state of the gated clock enable signal waveform and a AND gate coupled to the latch, the AND gate for outputting an output clock waveform.
US10890934B2
A control system that performs VEE on consumption streams, including: data stores that provides data sets, each of the data sets comprising groups of contiguous values that correspond to correct data; a rules processor that reads the data stores and, for the each of the data sets, that creates anomalies having different durations using only the groups of contiguous values, that generates estimates for the anomalies by employing estimation techniques for each of the different durations and, for the each of the different durations, that selects a corresponding one of the estimation techniques for subsequent employment when performing VEE of subsequent energy consumption data associated with the each of the different durations for the corresponding one of the consumption streams; a peak prediction element that estimates future cumulative energy consumption and that predicts a brown out time; and a peak controller that triggers exceptional measures to manage the cumulative energy consumption in order to preclude a brown out.
US10890924B2
An embodiment rotorcraft includes a rotor system including a plurality of blades; a control assembly operable to receive commands from a pilot; a flight control system (FCS), the flight control system operable to control flight of the rotorcraft by changing an operating condition of the rotor system; and a flight management system (FMS) in signal communication with the control assembly and the FCS. The FMS is operable to receive a target location and a plurality of approach parameters from the control assembly; generate a plurality waypoints between a current location of the rotorcraft and a missed approach point (MAP) based on the target location and the plurality of approach parameters; receive a command to engage in an approach maneuver from the control assembly; and in response to the command to engage in the approach maneuver, instruct the FCS to fly to the MAP.
US10890923B2
A charge control system includes a lithium battery configured to provide lithium battery power to a set of electrical loads, a user signaling device, and control circuitry coupled with the lithium battery and the user signaling device. The control circuitry is operative to: (A) detect availability of charge from an external charger, (B) in response to detection of the availability of charge from the external charger and prior to controlling the external charger to adjust the amount of charge stored by the lithium battery, perform a set of pre-charging assessment operations, and (C) based on the set of pre-charging assessment operations, provide a user notification via the user signaling device, the user notification indicating whether the lithium battery is properly setup for charge adjustment. When the user signaling device generates the user notification, the user is informed that the utility vehicle is properly connected to the external charger.
US10890922B2
A navigation system aids a driver of a collection vehicle in keeping pace and distance with a lead harvester while collecting grain. The navigation system can be used for any leader-follower vehicle drive formation. A navigation system steers the head vehicle based on a continuously known position and attitude. Navigation data for the lead vehicle is broadcast to a following collection vehicle. A navigation system in the following vehicle processes the lead vehicle navigation data to determine a relative position and attitude. The navigation system in the following vehicle generates steering and speed commands based on the relative position and attitude to automatically drive to a designated target position alongside the lead vehicle. In one example, an artificial oscillation is induced into the target position to more evenly distribute material in the following vehicle.
US10890917B2
A vehicle controller configured to control traveling of a vehicle includes a processor configured to execute a nearby-object detection module, a first route computation module configured to compute a first target travel route specifying route and speed of a vehicle, a second route computation module configured to compute a second target travel route specifying route and speed of so as to prompt the vehicle to avoid the detected nearby object, and a control module configured to control at least one of a traveling speed and vehicle steering so as to prompt the vehicle to travel on the first or second target travel route. The first route computation module computes the route so as to prompt the vehicle to travel with lower energy consumption, and the control module switches the target travel route to the second route when the nearby object to be avoided is detected within a range.
US10890913B1
A robotic platform may include a chassis, left and right wheel assemblies, and a controller. The left and right wheel assemblies may include a caster wheel, a motor, a shaft, and a bevel gear. The wheel may be mounted to an axle for rotation about a drive axis and steering about a steering axis. The drive shaft may have one end coupled to the axle and another end wrapped by a respective belt to control rotation of the shaft about the steering axis. The bevel gear may couple the shaft to the axle so rotation of the shaft about the steering axis controls rotation of the wheel about the drive axis to drive the platform in a substantially horizontal direction. The controller may control the left and right drive motors independently, to provide differential drive. Various other assemblies, robots, and methods are also disclosed.
US10890910B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for using a drone to test monitoring system sensors. In one aspect, the drone perform operations that include navigating from a first location of a property towards a second location of the property, detecting a sensor that is installed at the property, interrupting, by the drone, navigation through the property from the first location of the property towards the second location of the property to initiate a test of the detected sensor and (ii) determining a sensor test type for the detected sensor, administering a sensor test to the detected sensor, wherein the sensor test is based on the determined sensor test type, evaluating results of the administered test, storing data describing the results of the administered test, and continuing navigation through the property towards the second location of the property or towards another location of the property.
US10890901B2
A control unit and method for operating an industrial automation system communication network that includes a plurality of communication devices, wherein a plurality of control units redundant with respect to each other controls functions of a plurality of associated communication devices, where the communication devices transmit communication-specific input variables to all associated redundant control units, output variables (produced by the control units redundant with respect to each other are checked for deviations from each other, and where if there are deviations, then a switchover is made to reserve control units or control units having output variables that deviate with respect to a majority of control units redundant to each other are deactivated.
US10890897B2
A method and system for assembling a modular structure from components configured to be fitted together to create the modular structure in accordance with a construction plan. Each component includes: a communication interface; and an output interface configured to generate sensory signals. The components communicate, via the communication interface of each component, with a controller to establish an availability of the components for the modular structure. A target component is determined at the controller from the components based on the construction plan and the availability of the components. The target component is a starting component used for initiating creation of the modular structure in accordance with the construction plan. A first sensory signal indicating the target component to a user is generated by the output interface of the target component.
US10890896B2
A monitoring device for managing at least one applicator fixture mounted on an applicator which has a magnetic body and connects a terminal to wiring via up and down movement. The monitoring device having a magnetic sensor which is mounted on the applicator and senses the movement of the magnetic body. At least one slave module receives identification information of the applicator fixture and mobility information of the magnetic body sensed by the magnetic sensor. A master module receives the identification information of the applicator fixture and the mobility information of the magnetic body in real time from the at least one slave module, while an interface module generates a monitoring interface indicating the degree of use of at least one applicator fixture by using the identification information of the applicator fixture and the mobility information of the magnetic body.
US10890893B2
An apparatus and methods for generating geometric data for use in an additive manufacturing process. The apparatus includes a processing unit. The processing unit may be arranged for receiving data defining surface geometry of a plurality of objects to be built together in an additive manufacturing process, providing a user interface that allows a user to define a location of each object within a common build volume and carrying out a slicing operation on at least one of the objects located in the common build volume independently from another one of objects located in the common build volume. The slicing operation determines sections of the at least one object to be built in the additive manufacturing process. In one embodiment, the objects are defined in a hierarchical data structure. Supports for supporting the objects during the build may be defined with reference to a 2-dimensional support cross-section.
US10890890B2
A smart adjustment system is provided, which may include a cloud computing device and a data acquisition device. The cloud computing device may include a neural network model saving the model data of machine tools, and the estimated increase percentages of each machine tool in different cutting parameters. The data acquisition device may receive the model data of a target machine tool. The could computing device may compare the model data of the target machine tool with the model data of the machine tools via the neural network model in order to calculate an estimated cutting parameter with an estimated increase percentage and control the target machine tool to perform a machining process by the estimated cutting parameter.
US10890887B2
A platform for actuation of at least one industrial field device in an industrial installation having control software includes: an execution environment, in which the control software is runnable; and an external interface for communicating between the control software and the at least one industrial field device. The execution environment has virtual hardware which, from a point of view of the control software, behaves in a manner of the at least one industrial field device. A switching unit is connected between the virtual hardware and the external interface. The switching unit bidirectionally translates data, interchanged between the control software and the virtual hardware, for communication with the at least one industrial field device via the external interface.
US10890882B2
A method includes obtaining one or more models associated with a model-based controller in an industrial process having multiple actuator arrays and performing spatial tuning of the controller. The spatial tuning includes identifying weighting matrices that suppress one or more frequency components in actuator profiles of the actuator arrays. The spatial tuning could also include finding a worst-case cutoff frequency over all output channels for each process input, designing the weighting matrices to penalize higher-frequency actuator variability based on the model(s) and the cutoff frequencies, and finding a multiplier for a spatial frequency weighted actuator variability term in a function that guarantees robust spatial stability. The controller could be configured to use a function during control of the industrial process, where a change to one or more terms of the function alters operation of the controller and the industrial process and at least one term is based on the weighting matrices.
US10890877B2
A pawl system (1) for a wheel (2) of a drivetrain for winding a horology barrel (3), including (i) a pawl (10) having at least one tooth (1a) intended to collaborate with a toothset (2a) of the wheel (2); and (ii) an element (6) for activating and deactivating the pawl, which is arranged so that, when it is in a first configuration, the at least one tooth (1a) of the pawl collaborates with the toothset (2a) directly or indirectly, notably under the effect of a return force returning the at least one tooth (1a) of the pawl against the toothset (2a), and, when the activation and deactivation element is in a second configuration, the at least one tooth (1a) of the pawl does not collaborate with the toothset (2a) or a return force returning the at least one tooth (1a) of the pawl against the toothset (2a) is reduced.
US10890868B2
A fixing member includes: a substrate layer including a resin; a first metal layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the substrate layer and includes Cu; a second metal layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the first metal layer so as to be in contact with the first metal layer and includes Ni, and has crystal orientation indexes of from 1.0 to 1.8 for a (111) plane, from 0.5 to 1.3 for a (200) plane, and from 1.0 to 1.6 for a (311) plane; and an elastic layer that is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the second metal layer.
US10890864B2
A belt device includes a belt configured to rotate, a plurality of stretch rollers configured to stretch the belt wound around the plurality of stretch rollers, and a belt alignment mechanism configured to align the belt. At least one of the plurality of stretch rollers has a diameter at a center greater than diameters at both ends in an axial direction of the at least one of the plurality of stretch rollers. The diameter at the center and the diameters at both ends are different from a diameter of the other of the plurality of stretch rollers.
US10890852B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are related to systems and methods for autofocusing an imaging apparatus in real-time during substrate scanning to pattern a substrate that includes a photoresist formed over one or more patterned materials. Displays of varying sizes can be fabricated using digital photolithography systems. The digital photolithography systems discussed herein, which may be referred to as imaging systems, use one or more exposure sources, including solid state emitter devices, for operations including patterning photoresists. Signal classifiers are used to perform shape and pattern recognition to determine whether signals received during substrate scanning are from a top photoresist surface or from sub-surface layers. One or more parameters of the imaging apparatus can be adjusted or maintained based on the signal analysis.
US10890850B2
An optical imaging arrangement includes an optical projection system, a support structure system and a control device. The optical projection system includes a group of optical elements supported by the support structure system and configured to transfer, in an exposure process using exposure light along an exposure light path, an image of a pattern of a mask onto a substrate. The group of optical elements includes a first optical element and a second optical element and the control device includes a sensor device and an active device. The sensor device is functionally associated to the first optical element and is configured to capture mechanical disturbance information representative of a mechanical disturbance acting on the first optical element in at least one degree of freedom up to all six degrees of freedom.
US10890842B2
A reflective mask blank includes, on/above a substrate in the following order from the substrate side, a reflective layer which reflects EUV light, and an absorber layer which absorbs EUV light. The absorber layer contains Sn as a main component and Ta in an amount of 25 at % or more.
US10890838B2
The described embodiments are directed to a system and methods of calibrating a fluorescence microscope and/or light detection device using a calibrating apparatus. The apparatus may comprise a main body housing, a sensor head, and a microcontroller assembly disposed within the housing. The housing may include an adapter to mechanically couple the housing to a microscope. The sensor head may comprise (i) an optical power sensor to produce a power signal representative of an optical power magnitude of light applied to the optical power sensor, (ii) an optical wavelength sensor configured to produce wavelength information associated with the light applied to the optical wavelength sensor, and (iii) a light source configured to direct light toward a detection device associated with the microscope. The microcontroller assembly may be configured to generate an optical power magnitude value based on the power signal and adjusted according to the wavelength information.
US10890818B2
A pixel structure is provided. The pixel structure has a first substrate, a scan line, a data line, an active device, a pixel electrode, and a conductive strip-shaped pattern. The scan line and the data line are located on the first substrate. The active device is electrically connected to the scan lines and the data line. The pixel electrode is electrically connected to the active device. The conductive strip-shaped pattern is correspondingly disposed over the data line. The conductive strip-shaped pattern has an opening at least partially overlapped with the data line in a vertical projection at the first substrate.
US10890814B2
A pixel structure substrate includes a first substrate, a plurality of first, second, and third color resists, at least two dummy color resists, and at least one transfer electrode. The first substrate has a display area and a periphery area, where the periphery area has a plurality of dummy pixels, each dummy pixel includes at least three dummy sub-pixels, and the display area has a plurality of sub-pixel units. The first, the second, and the third color resists are respectively disposed on at least some of the sub-pixel units. The at least two dummy color resists are disposed in a first one and a second one in the three dummy sub-pixels included in at least one dummy pixel, and a third one does not include the dummy color resists and the first, the second, and the third color resists. The at least one transfer electrode is disposed in the third one in the three dummy sub-pixels included in the at least one dummy pixel.
US10890809B2
A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a display region and a non-display region located at a periphery of the display region. The non-display region includes a plurality of conductive poles arranged on a base substrate, and the plurality of conductive poles is grounded and is distributed at the periphery of the display region to transfer static electricity out.
US10890806B2
The present application relates to a transmittance variable film, a method for producing the same, and a use thereof. The transmittance variable film of the present application can solve the drive unevenness phenomenon by adjusting the pre-tilt of the opposite alignment film of the alignment film to which the ball spacer is fixed to minimize the reverse tilt occurring upon on-off driving. The transmittance variable film of the present application can be used as sunroofs.
US10890803B2
A head-up display including a display element illuminated by a plurality of light emitting elements. A lenslet is between a TIR lens array and the display element. The lenslet includes a first side facing the display element and a second side facing the TIR lens array. At least one of the first side and the second side includes a plurality of horizontal lenses or a plurality of vertical lenses configured to evenly distribute light from the TIR lens array across an eyebox generated by the head-up display and balance luminous uniformity and luminous intensity across the eyebox.
US10890797B2
A second substrate of an electro-optical device includes a first light-shielding layer formed around a display region, and a peripheral region of a first substrate is provided with a second light-shielding layer, a third light-shielding layer, and a translucent region overlapping neither the second light-shielding layer nor the third light-shielding layer. A maximum incident angle θ of light-source light being incident on an electro-optical layer from the second substrate, a maximum width W of the translucent region, and a thickness d between an end portion on an edge of the third light-shielding layer at a side opposite to the first light-shielding layer, and the first light-shielding layer satisfy the following relationship: W<2×d×tan θ.
US10890796B2
An electronic device includes a circuit board including at least one electronic component, a housing accommodating the circuit board, an emissivity control layer disposed in an upper portion of the circuit board and transmitting radiant heat generated by the electronic component, and a temperature controller controlling an amount of the radiant heat transmitted to the housing by adjusting the emissivity of the emissivity control layer. The temperature controller may adjust the emissivity of the emissivity control layer to a first range value, when the electronic device is in an idle state, not performing a foreground operation, and may adjust the emissivity of the emissivity control layer to a second range value, lower than the first range value, when the electronic device is in a busy state, performing the foreground operation.
US10890787B2
The MZ type optical modulator of the invention includes: a Si optical modulator including an input optical waveguide, two arm waveguides branching and guiding light input from the input optical waveguide, an output optical waveguide combining the light guided through the two arm waveguides and outputting the combined light, two signal electrodes for applying radio frequency signals that are arranged in parallel to the two arm waveguides respectively, and a DC electrode for applying a bias voltage that is provided between the two signal electrodes; and at least one ground electrode arranged in parallel to the two signal electrodes.
US10890776B1
A near-eye display assembly includes an electronic display for providing image light, a circular polarizer disposed downstream of the electronic display for circularly polarizing the image light, and a pancake lens disposed downstream of the circular polarizer for conveying the image light to an eyebox of the near-eye display. The circular polarizer includes a quarter-wave waveplate disposed between the electronic display and the pancake lens, and spaced apart from the electronic display and the pancake lens, to additionally defocus ghost image artifacts at the eyebox.
US10890765B2
Systems, articles, and methods that integrate photopolymer film with eyeglass lenses are described. One or more hologram(s) may be recorded into/onto the photopolymer film to enable the lens to be used as a transparent holographic combiner in a wearable heads-up display employing an image source, such as a microdisplay or a scanning laser projector. The methods of integrating photopolymer film with eyeglass lenses include: positioning photopolymer film in a lens mold and casting the lens around the photopolymer film; sandwiching photopolymer film in between two portions of a lens; applying photopolymer film to a concave surface of a lens; and/or affixing a planar carrier (with photopolymer film thereon) to two points across a length of a concave surface of a lens. Respective lenses manufactured/adapted by each of these processes are also described.
US10890761B2
Disclosed is a photoreactive sensor including an optical amplification phototransistor, in which a non-overlapping region that does not overlap with a local gate electrode between a source electrode and a drain electrode is formed and which senses an optical image through the non-overlapping region for amplify photoconductivity; and a contact light emitting device that is formed on the optical amplification phototransistor and generates the optical image corresponding to a contacted surface upon contact with an object.
US10890754B2
An observation optical system 10 is provided with an objective optical system LO, an inversion optical system PR provided in the objective optical system LO or immediately posterior to the objective optical system LO to invert an inverted image to an erected image, and an eyepiece optical system LE arranged so as to be the closest to a pupil EP to observe the erected image, the observation optical system satisfying following conditional expressions 1.6
US10890750B2
An observation system includes a microscope optical system, an image pickup unit, an image pickup control unit, a detection unit, and an observation control unit. The image pickup unit is configured to take an image of a field-of-view range of the microscope optical system. The image pickup control unit is configured to cause the image pickup unit to take images of an observation sample in the field-of-view range at a plurality of focal positions and generate detection images. The detection unit is configured to detect a three-dimensional position of an observation target object in the observation sample from the detection images. The observation control unit is configured to fit the field-of-view range of the microscope optical system to the three-dimensional position.
US10890745B2
A Mirau interference objective includes an objective lens and a splitter element arranged between the objective lens and an object to be examined. The splitter element is configured to split an incident light beam into a sample beam path and a reference beam path. The objective lens is configured to focus the sample beam path on the object to be examined. A mirror element is arranged between the splitter element and the objective lens. The mirror element is configured to reflect the reference beam path. A phase shift compensating element is configured to compensate for a wavelength-dependent phase shift between the reference beam path and the sample beam path which is superposed on the reference beam path.
US10890743B2
An illumination device includes: an objective; a first scanning device that moves a focusing position of light in an optical-axis direction of the objective; and a relay optical system that is configured to correct an aberration that is generated in the objective by the first scanning device moving the focusing position, the relay optical system being arranged on an optical path between the first scanning device and the objective.
US10890738B2
An optical imaging lens assembly includes five lens elements, which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region thereof. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element has negative refractive power.
US10890734B1
Some embodiments include a camera voice coil motor (VCM) actuator configured to shift a lens and/or an image sensor along multiple axes. The VCM actuator may include a bottom flexure and a top flexure that connect one or more dynamic members to one or more static members. The VCM actuator may include stationary magnets and coils held by dynamic members. In some cases, the VCM actuator may be configured to move the image sensor along an optical axis, to move the image sensor in directions orthogonal to the optical axis, and/or to tilt the image sensor relative to the orthogonal axis. In some examples, the VCM actuator may be configured to move the image sensor in directions orthogonal to the optical axis, to move the lens along the optical axis, and/or to tilt the lens relative to the optical axis.
US10890730B2
The present disclosure relates to fiber optic cable clamps and fiber optic cable clamp assemblies that includes cable clamps having bracket slots that receive bracket arms for securing a plurality of cable fan-outs at or near their point of connection to telecommunications equipment.
US10890726B2
A pluggable optical connector is configured to be insertable into and removable from an optical communication apparatus, and to be capable of communicating a modulation signal and a data signal with the optical communication apparatus. A wavelength-tunable light source is configured to output an output light and a local oscillation light. An optical transmission unit is configured to output an optical signal generated by modulating the output light in response to the modulation signal. An optical reception unit is configured to demodulate an optical signal received by using the local oscillation light to the data signal. Pluggable optical receptors are configured in such a manner that an optical fiber is insertable into and removable from the pluggable optical receptors, and configured to be capable of outputting the optical signal to the optical fiber and transferring the optical signal received thorough the optical fiber to the optical reception unit.
US10890721B2
A ferrule assembly comprises a ferrule mounted in an opening of a ferrule back body. The ferrule assembly is mounted at an end of an optical fibre extending through the ferrule along an axial direction. The ferrule assembly is passed through a tubular section and then through a biasing member. The back body is then inserted into an opening of a back body holder and attached to the back body holder. The back body holder prevents the ferrule assembly from passing back through the biasing member. The insertion comprises moving the ferrule assembly relative to the back body holder in the axial direction. During the relative movement, an orientation of the back body relative to the back body holder, determined by a guide element of the back body, is maintained. The tubular section may for example be a duct as narrow as 3 mm.
US10890718B2
A silicon photonic integrated system in a switch includes a multi-wavelength laser module, a first multiplexer, an optical channel, and a light signal generating element. The multi-wavelength laser module is configured to emit n laser beams with different peak wavelengths, and n is an integer greater than 2. The first multiplexer is optically coupled to the multi-wavelength laser module and configured to receive the laser beams and combine them into a combined beam. The optical channel is configured to receive a combined beam. The light signal generating element receives the combined beam through the optical channel and modulates the combined beam to emit a plurality of light output signals.
US10890717B2
An optical delay method, and related system, includes propagating an optical signal along an optical delay device (10) with a first stage (11) having a variable input coupler (20) and a delay element. An intermediate stage (12) has a variable intermediate coupler (30) and a delay element. An output stage (13) includes a variable output coupler (40). The method sets a coupling ratio of the input (20) and output couplers (40) equal to a value K1 selected among a plurality of at least three values. A coupling ratio of the intermediate coupler (30) is set equal to a value K2, wherein K1=sin2(θ) & K2=sin2(A*θ) with θ greater than or equal to zero and less than or equal to π/2 and A greater than or equal to 1.5 and less than or equal to 2.5.
US10890709B2
In one embodiment, an overhead street light (a luminaire) is formed that has an asymmetric light intensity distribution, where the peak intensity is greatest along the direction of the street, lower directly across the street, and much lower on the house side of the street. Around the edge of a circular transparent light guide are white light LEDs that inject light into the light guide. To help control the asymmetry of the light intensity distribution, sawtooth-shaped grooves are formed in the light guide surface opposite to the light-emission surface and parallel to the street. Gaussian diffusers are used to partially diffuse the light. By proper selection of the grooves, the Gaussian diffuser, and the relative amounts of light emitted by LED segments around the light guide, the desired asymmetrical light intensity distribution is achieved while a direct view of the light exit surface appears as a uniform light.
US10890708B2
Disclosed are a light guide plate having an engraved pattern and a backlight unit having the same and a display device having the same, wherein the engraved pattern is configured such that a light incident surface thereof has an arc shape on a plane and a vertical section taken along a straight line passing through a center of the light incident surface is triangular. This makes it possible to maximize total reflection efficiency to increase luminous intensity of light output, resulting in improved light use efficiency and enhanced brightness of the backlight unit.
US10890705B2
A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the inventive concept may include a display panel, a light guide panel, and the light source. The light guide plate may include a light guide portion, a barrier rib portion, a wavelength conversion portion, and a cover portion. The barrier rib portion may be disposed on an upper surface of the light guide portion. The wavelength conversion portion may be disposed on the upper surface of the light guide portion to be surrounded by the barrier rib portion. The cover portion may be disposed on the wavelength conversion portion and the barrier rib portion, and cover the wavelength conversion portion.
US10890704B2
There is provided a display device exhibiting a good color reproducibility, even when observed through polarized sunglasses. A display device comprises a polarizer a and an optical film X on a surface on a light emitting surface side of a display element, wherein L1, which is the light incident vertically on the optical film X, among light incident on the optical film X from the display element side, satisfies a specific condition, and L2, which is the light emitting vertically from the light emitting surface side of the optical film X, and passing through a polarizer b having the absorption axis parallel to the absorption axis of the polarizer a, satisfies a specific condition.
US10890703B2
To provide a polarizing plate capable of excellently controlling reflectance characteristics, a polarizing plate manufacturing method, and an optical apparatus including the polarizing plate. Provided is a polarizing plate 10 with a wire grid structure, including: a transparent substrate 1 and a grid-shaped convex portion 6 arranged on the transparent substrate at a pitch shorter than a wavelength of light of a use band and extending in a predetermined direction, wherein the grid-shaped convex portion 6 includes a reflection layer 2, a first dielectric layer 3, and an absorption layer 4 in order from the transparent substrate 1, and wherein the reflection layer and the first dielectric layer have substantially the same width and a minimum width of the absorption layer is smaller than a minimum width of the reflection layer and the first dielectric layer as viewed from a predetermined direction.
US10890695B2
Provided are a compound lens and a display device including the same. The compound lens may improve image quality by providing a higher resolution in a central image region and a lower resolution in a peripheral image region. The compound lens includes a central lens portion and at least one peripheral lens portion, the at least one peripheral lens portion surrounds the central lens portion, the central lens portion has a first focal length, the at least one peripheral lens portion has a second focal length, and the first focal length is greater than the second focal length.
US10890693B2
A tunable acoustic gradient (TAG) lens includes an acoustic wave generating element and a refractive fluid in a casing cavity surrounded by a lens casing. The lens casing includes case ends which each include a window configuration, a case end rim portion and an enhanced axial compliance portion. The window configuration includes a window and a window mounting portion having an overall window mount dimension along the axial direction. The enhanced axial compliance portion is coupled between the window mounting portion and the case end rim portion and includes a reduced thickness region characterized by a material thickness that is at most 75% of the associated window mount dimension. The axial compliance portion is configured to enhance the axial deflection of the window mounting portion compared to the case end rim portion, when a periodic drive signal is applied to the acoustic wave generating element.
US10890689B2
Described are silicone hydrogels that are more biocompatible than current ocular materials. The silicone hydrogels are formed from a reactive monomer mixture comprising: a mixture of hydroxyl substituted silicone containing components, at least one polyamide; and at least one hydrophilic monomer. The silicone hydrogels also display a desirable balance of properties, including clarity, oxygen permeability, wettability and desirable protein uptake.
US10890686B2
A method for making a log of material properties in a plurality of beds from an instrument utilizes steps such as estimating material properties for said plurality of beds and/or estimating positions for a plurality of bed boundaries and/or estimating orientations for said plurality of bed boundaries wherein the bed boundary orientations are individually variable. The estimated positions, orientations, and/or material properties can be utilized to compute the log.
US10890684B2
A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) sensor including a magnet that generates a static magnetic field, a soft magnetic core secured to the magnet, and an antenna extending at least partially about the soft magnetic core and generating a radio frequency (RF) magnetic field. A magnetic permeability of the soft magnetic core in a direction of the static magnetic field is less than the magnetic permeability of the soft magnetic core in a direction of the RF magnetic field.
US10890682B2
A method for imaging one or more dipping structures is provided. The method comprises providing a given velocity model, calculating travel time of a seismic wave using the velocity model, estimating coherency of event signals of array data that are time-corrected for a trial reflector, weighting a waveform sample corresponding to the travel time based on the coherency, and mapping the weighted waveform sample.
US10890674B2
In described examples, a charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) generates an integrated signal in response to a current signal. A high pass filter is coupled to the CSA and receives the integrated signal and an inverse of an event signal, the high pass filter generates a coarse signal. An active comparator is coupled to the high pass filter and receives the coarse signal and a primary reference voltage signal, the active comparator generates the event signal.
US10890672B2
A scintillation apparatus design is provided which eliminates the requirement of an optical window between the scintillator and the photosensitive device. The disclosed design provides significantly improved performance with a scintillator mounted directly to the photosensitive device. Improved light coupling between the scintillator and the photosensitive device is achieved. The present disclosure improves the light transmission to the photosensitive device (PSD) by direct coupling of the photosensitive device to the scintillator. By eliminating the need for an optical window, light loss due to the glass interface caused by the optical window likewise may be eliminated. The improvement of light transmission to the PSD improves the gamma ray energy resolution. The quality of the gamma spectroscopy is improved with this design. Furthermore, providing the means and method for evacuating the internal assembly significantly improves the reliability and lifespan of the detector assembly.
US10890671B2
Disclosed herein are a time-based signal acquisition apparatus and method using sawtooth-shaped threshold voltage. The signal acquisition apparatus for acquiring the information of a scintillation signal includes a sawtooth-shaped voltage generation unit and a signal comparison unit. The sawtooth-shaped voltage generation unit generates a sawtooth-shaped threshold voltage which increases when the threshold voltage is smaller than a voltage value of the scintillation signal and which decreases to an initial value when the threshold voltage is larger than the voltage value of the scintillation signal. The signal comparison unit receives the scintillation signal, compares the voltage value of the scintillation signal with the threshold voltage, and generates a digital pulse train.
US10890668B2
A rotorcraft includes a flight control computer (FCC), a GPS receiver configured to calculate a groundspeed based on a first carrier signal, and an attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) configured to determine an acceleration of the rotorcraft. The AHRS is operable to receive an indication of the groundspeed from the GPS receiver and to calculate a velocity of the rotorcraft based on the indication of the groundspeed and the acceleration. The FCC is operable to receive an indication of the velocity from the AHRS, to generate the flight control device control signal according to the indication of velocity, and to send a flight control device control signal to one or more flight control devices.
US10890664B2
A vehicle unit adapted to receive a GNSS raw data signal, characterised in that it comprises a secure processor or secure microcontroller unit (MCU) adapted to authenticate the GNSS raw data signal and securely calculate a position of the vehicle unit based on the authenticated or to be authenticated GNSS raw data signal.
US10890659B2
Disclosed is a light-weight radar system (“LWRS”) for sense and avoid applications in a vehicle. The LWRS includes a plurality of receivers, a plurality of transmitters, an obstacle database, and a processing device. The processing device is in signal communication with the plurality of receivers, plurality of transmitters, and the obstacle database. The processing device includes at least one processor and a computer computer-readable medium (“CRM”) having encoded thereon computer-executable instructions.
US10890651B2
A transmit/receive system for an imaging device includes a transmit circuit configured to generate and output test pulses to a transducer of a probe to cause the probe to propagate an ultrasonic wave through an object. A receive circuit is configured to receive, from the transducer, a composite signal that includes the test pulses output by the transmit circuit and a reflected signal corresponding to reflected waves sensed by the transducer in response to the ultrasonic wave propagated through the object and filter the test pulses from the composite signal and output the reflected signal in accordance with a predetermined minimum frequency of the reflected signal.
US10890645B2
The disclosure relates to a tracking device configured to track an object in space, such as the sun, as the object moves across the sky. The tracking device may further be configured to direct a payload toward the object or toward an angle relative to the object. The tracking device may continuously or intermittently determine the location of the moving object, and adjust the position of the payload accordingly. The tracking device may calculate the position of the moving object based on GPS information, such as triangulated coordinates of the tracking device, date, and time. Generally, the tracking device may be capable of tracking an object such as the sun from anywhere on the earth's surface. The tracking device may employ one or more actuation assemblies to position the payload toward or relative to the moving object. The one or more actuation assemblies may operate through linear motion.
US10890615B2
A sensor system for providing a main signal and an error signal, comprising: a sensor unit providing a sensor signal; a first signal processor downstream of the sensor unit, adapted for receiving a second signal equal to or derived from a sensor signal, and for performing a first operations on the second signal so as to provide a first processed signal; a second signal processor for receiving the first processed signal and for performing second operations inverse of the first operations, so as to provide a second processed signal; and an evaluation unit for receiving the second signal and the second processed signal, and for evaluating whether the second signal matches the second processed signal within a predefined tolerance margin, and for providing the error signal.
US10890604B2
A test and measurement instrument having a signal generator circuit and a waveform monitor circuit for monitoring a waveform received at a device under test (DUT). The signal generator circuit generates a waveform based on an input from a user, while the waveform monitor circuit sends captured signals to a processor to determine a waveform received at the DUT. The waveform monitor captures a signal at a first test point and a second test point, via a switch, and the processor receives the captured signals and using linear equations determines both an incident waveform and a reflected waveform from the DUT.
US10890601B2
An electrical equipment includes a calculator or a data concentrator for connecting to a tachometer via a cable that includes a measurement wire and a test wire. The electrical equipment has a measurement input to which the measurement wire can be connected and a test input to which the test wire can be connected, measurement acquisition components connected to the measurement input and arranged to acquire an electrical measurement signal present on the measurement wire and produced by the tachometer, test acquisition components connected to the test input and arranged to detect whether the test wire is or is not open-circuit, and processor components arranged to detect a break of the measurement wire if the test wire is open-circuit.
US10890596B2
A sampling system is provided. The sampling system includes a housing. Mounted to the housing is a Hall effect sensor. A probe configured to contact a sample is inserted into the housing. The probe includes an elongated portion and a restorative spring inserted onto the elongated portion of the probe. The restorative spring provides sufficient restorative force to return the probe to a relaxed position. The Hall effect sensor is configured to sense a field strength generated by the proximity of the restorative spring of the probe in the extended position.
US10890594B2
The automated analyzer equalizes the temperature inside a reagent container storage apparatus. The automated analyzer is provided with a reagent container storage apparatus that cools a reagent container, the reagent container storage apparatus being provided with: a reagent storage chamber for storing the reagent container, the reagent storage chamber having at least one of the bottom surface and the side surface thereof cooled by a first cooling source; and a transfer member which is arranged to cover the reagent container stored in the reagent storage chamber, and which is thermally connected to the reagent storage chamber.
US10890590B2
Apparatus is disclosed for identifying at least a first target condition in a human or animal body. The apparatus comprises one or more test portions for identifying a first analyte in a biological sample from the body, the first analyte providing a marker of the first target condition, and a second analyte in the biological sample, the second analyte being different from the first analyte. The apparatus is configured to identify the first target condition in the body based on the identification of both the first and second analytes. In one embodiment, the first target condition is pregnancy, the first analyte is human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and the second analyte is luteinizing hormone (LH).
US10890586B2
A method for assaying endoglycosidase activity includes providing a proteoglycan having a glycosaminoglycan chain with a non-reducing end; treating the proteoglycan with a glycosyltransferase to incorporate a carbohydrate into the non-reducing end of the glycosaminoglycan chain, wherein the carbohydrate includes a click chemistry moiety; adding a label to the proteoglycan, wherein the label includes a click chemistry moiety that reacts to the click chemistry moiety of the carbohydrate such that the label attaches to the carbohydrate to form a labeled proteoglycan; immobilizing the labeled proteoglycan on a multi-well plate, wherein the multi-well plate includes a specific anti-proteoglycan antibody for binding the labeled proteoglycan; treating the labeled proteoglycan with an endoglycosidase specific to the glycosaminoglycan chain; and detecting the labeled proteoglycan.
US10890583B2
The present invention relates to the field of Clostridium difficile infections. Methods of diagnosing, treating and preventing Clostridium difficile-associated disease and recurrent CDAD are disclosed herein.
US10890582B2
A sensor for detecting an analyte can include a photoluminescent nanostructure embedded in a sensor hydrogel. The sensor hydrogel can be supported by a substrate hydrogel.
US10890581B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods, compositions and systems for highly efficient, robust, multiplex analysis of biomolecules based on substrate-mediated compartmentalization in conjunction with controlled release of assay reagents for interference-free detection of biomolecules.
US10890578B2
Devices and methods for using changes in the configuration of micrometer sized dispersed liquid crystal domains to detect or quantify analytes in a test sample, including endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS), are disclosed. The test sample includes one or more potential masking agents, such as a non-ionic surfactant, a chelating agent, a divalent cation, a protein, or a nucleic acid, and may also include a buffer. The dispersed liquid crystal microdomains are exposed to the test sample, and any changes in the configuration in the liquid crystal microdomains, such as from the bipolar to radial configuration, are detected. Such changes in configuration signal the presence of analyte in the test sample, and the proportion of liquid crystal microdomains exhibiting the change in configuration is correlated with the quantity of analyte in the test sample.
US10890573B2
Methods and systems for detecting environmental contaminants is described. In an embodiment, a method includes macerating and extracting a sample; reacting a first polymerizable compound with the sample to form a second mixture comprising a second polymerizable compound; adding an initiator to the second mixture comprising the second polymerizable compound; performing a polymerization reaction on the second mixture comprising the second polymerizable compound to form a third mixture comprising a precipitate; and performing a turbidimetric analysis on the third mixture comprising the precipitate. In another embodiment, a method includes macerating and extracting a sample; reacting a first mixture comprising the functionalized polythiophene compound and the sample to form a second mixture comprising a second functionalized polythiophene compound; performing a colorimetric analysis on the second mixture comprising the second functionalized polythiophene compound.
US10890571B2
A control apparatus mounted on a diesel vehicle including an oxidation catalyst, a selective reduction catalyst, and a gas sensor includes an activation determination section, a concentration computation section, and a deterioration determination section. The concentration computation section computes the concentration of flammable gas from a sensor output in a period during which the activation determination section determines that the oxidation catalyst is not in the activated state and computes the concentration of ammonia gas from the sensor output in a period during which the activation determination section determines that the oxidation catalyst is in the activated state. The deterioration determination section determines whether or not the oxidation catalyst has deteriorated, on the basis of the concentration of the flammable gas computed by the concentration computation section.
US10890558B2
A food wash reference fluid delivery apparatus includes a portable reference fluid reservoir comprising an inlet and an outlet and configured to store a reference fluid that includes a predetermined concentration of an analyte, a pump fluidly coupled to the outlet of the portable reference fluid reservoir and configured to pump the reference fluid from the outlet of the portable reference fluid reservoir, a sensor connector configured to fluidly couple with a sensor positioned along a fluid flow path of the food wash system, a sensor fluid line configured to provide the reference fluid from the pump to the sensor connector, an inlet fluid line configured to provide the reference fluid from the pump to the inlet of the portable reference fluid reservoir, and a valve configured to adjustably control a fluid flow rate of the reference fluid through the sensor fluid line and the inlet fluid line.
US10890555B2
A gas sensing device, that may include a suspended gas sensing element, a frame that supports the suspended gas sensing element, and one or more traps for trapping at least one out of Siloxane and silicon dioxide. The suspended gas sensing element may include a gas reactive element that has a gas dependent temperature parameter, and a semiconductor temperature sensing element that is thermally coupled to the gas reactive element, and is configured to generate detection signals that are responsive to a temperature of the gas reactive element. The gas reactive element and the semiconductor temperature sensing element are of microscopic scale.
US10890552B2
A gas sensor includes a pump cell unit that regulates the oxygen concentration of a measured gas using a pump electrode, a monitor cell unit that detects the residual oxygen concentration of the measured gas using a monitor electrode, and a sensor cell unit that detects the concentration of a specific gas component in the measured gas using a sensor electrode. Between a pump electrode lead part and the sensor electrode, there is arranged the monitor electrode. Between an upstream portion of the pump electrode lead part and a monitor electrode lead part, there is provided an interval w1 of 0.5 mm or more.
US10890551B2
A gas sensor includes a sensing element having an electrode pad a metal terminal, and a separator that has insertion holes in which the metal terminal is held. The metal terminal includes a main body and an elastic portion that is integrally connected to the main body and is elastically connected to the electrode pad at a predetermined contact point. The main body includes a front-end-side restricting portion and a rear-end-side restricting portion that restrict the movement of the main body by contacting wall surfaces of the insertion hole when the main body moves in a direction intersecting the direction of an axial line. The contact point is located between the front-end-side restricting portion and the rear-end-side restricting portion in the direction of the axial line. The front-end-side restricting portion and the rear-end-side restricting portion are connected to each other so that a flat board portion is interposed therebetween.
US10890550B2
The present invention discloses a novel capacitive vapor sensor comprising porous immobilized graphene oxide (pGO) on an electrode surface. Also disclosed is an in-situ process for the preparation of this sensor and various uses thereof.
US10890542B2
A fluid sensor has a core defining a fluid flow path and a cavity member located externally of the core. The cavity member includes an electrically-conductive composite material including a matrix and one or more reinforcing elements embedded within the matrix. The cavity member is configured so as to provide confinement for an electromagnetic field and the core is configured so as to permit transmission therethrough of electromagnetic radiation at a frequency of the electromagnetic field. The electromagnetic field may be a radiofrequency (RF) electromagnetic field. The fluid sensor can be used in the measurement of the composition and/or flow characteristics of fluid in the fluid flow path.
US10890539B1
A semiconductor defect inspection apparatus for inspecting a specimen including a semiconductor substrate having a surface on which a predetermined pattern is formed, includes an excitation light irradiator, a polarization converter, a detector, and a defect analysis detector. The excitation light irradiator irradiates the specimen with excitation light along an optical path from the irradiator to the specimen and such that the excitation light is obliquely incident at a predetermined incident angle. The first polarization converter is disposed in the optical path, and converts the excitation light into s-polarized light. The detector detects photoluminescence light generated from the specimen when the excitation light is incident on the specimen. The defect analysis detector detects a dislocation defect by analyzing a photoluminescence image obtained by photoelectrically converting the photoluminescence light.
US10890537B2
An imaging lighting device of an appearance inspection device images a product T. A controller of the appearance inspection device causes an imaging control unit to obtain an image, a preprocessing unit to position the product and remove background of the product, a color space processing unit to perform color space processing for emphasizing a defect such as a flaw and a dent of the product and to create a color space processing image, and an assessment unit to make an quality assessment of the product using a learned model obtained through machine learning of quality assessment of the product using the color space processing image.
US10890531B2
Provided herein is an apparatus for assessing a fluorescence characteristic of a gemstone. The apparatus comprises an optically opaque platform for supporting a gemstone to be assessed, one or more light source to provide uniform UV and non-UV illumination, an image capturing component, and a telecentric lens positioned to provide fluorescent images of the illuminated gemstone to the image capturing component. Also provided are methods of fluorescence analysis based on images collected using such an apparatus.
US10890515B2
An apparatus for classifying fine particles in slurry provides a sharp particle size distribution with few mixed coarse particles and high classification accuracy. The apparatus includes a rotor (15) including classification chambers (17) between blades (16) radially arranged at circumferentially regular intervals, and classifies particles so that a classified particle size is constant in an entire radial region from an outer periphery to an inner periphery of the classification chamber. The blade (16) of the rotor has a circumferential thickness t(d) increasing toward the outer periphery, and the classification chamber (17) has a width increasing toward the inner periphery.
US10890514B2
A vacuum manifold for filtration microscopy includes a manifold top having multiple openings, and a capture membrane positioned above and spaced apart from the manifold top, where the capture membrane is configured to deflect into contact with a surface of the manifold top when a negative pressure is applied to the multiple openings. A method for filtration microscopy includes the steps of providing a vacuum manifold including a manifold top having a plurality of openings, and a capture membrane positioned above and spaced apart from the manifold top; applying sample drops to sample spots on the membrane, the sample spots positioned above the plurality of openings; applying a negative pressure to the openings such that the capture membrane contacts a surface of the manifold top; and optically imaging particulates on the capture membrane.
US10890508B2
The invention provides a large-amplitude vertical-torsional coupled free vibration device, which belongs to the technical field of vertical-torsional coupled free vibration device for wind tunnel test. The gear blocks are consolidated at both ends of the beam. The screws, beam, and the gear blocks are fixed on the model, and they can fulfil the vertical-torsional coupled free vibration. The toothed plate is attached to the sliding block that iteratively moving along the vertical guide rail which is fixed to the ground. The vertical springs attached to the sliding blocks provide both vertical and torsional linear stiffness for the suspension vibration system. The springs only have vertical linear tensile deformations without any lateral tilt, which ensures the linear vertical and torsional stiffness of the model, and the lateral freedom is effectively restrained. This device can achieve the large-amplitude vertical-torsional coupled free vibration of the model, and the deficiency of the traditional device where springs are apparently tilted and the inefficacy of linear stiffness can be avoided. The lateral vibration is restrained, and it is applicable to large-amplitude vertical-torsional coupled free vibrations.
US10890505B2
Devices and methods for conducting pipeline inspecting operations are disclosed. Embodiments may include a robotic crawler or other devices with a plurality of arms, which carry imaging equipment, such as radiation sources and linear detectors disposed on or coupled to arms of the plurality of arms. The robotic crawler is configured to traverse a target pipeline, and the arms of the plurality of arms are configured to rotate with respect to the pipeline to move the radiation sources and/or the linear detectors in order to avoid an obstruction on the target pipeline while traversing.
US10890502B2
A pressure sensor device including: an absolute pressure sensor unit; a sensor case to accommodate the absolute pressure sensor unit; and an adhesive provided between the absolute pressure sensor unit and the sensor case to fix the absolute pressure sensor unit and the sensor case together, is provided. The sensor case has protrusions on the bottom surface, the absolute pressure sensor unit is provided above the protrusions, and there is space free of the adhesive at a part of a region between the absolute pressure sensor unit and the sensor case, and under the absolute pressure sensor unit.
US10890497B2
The pressure pad which pressure-sensing fabric which is within a gasket and which measures the distribution of pressure on the gasket. Thus, the gasket protects the pressure-sensing fabric from damage due to water or mechanical trauma. The pressure pad includes multiple piezoresistive depositions of piezoresistive depositions ink or paste which act as individual pressure-sensing points. Conductive tracks between the piezoresistive depositions transmit the pressure measurements in the form of electrical signals. The pressure-sensing fabric is connected to a controller and transmits pressure measurements to the controller. Algorithms stored on the controller create a map of absolute mechanical loading to each pressure-sensing point of the pressure pad. The gasket may be mounted beneath a toilet or between plumbing joints. The pressure pad may detect weaknesses in the gasket, a toilet user's weight, a weight of excrement added to the toilet, or a toilet user's posture.
US10890495B2
A pressure-sensitive sensor includes a hollow tubular member including an elastic insulation, plural electrode wires spaced from one another and held on an inner circumferential surface of the tubular member, and helical ribs formed on at least one of inner and outer circumferential surfaces of the tubular member along a longitudinal direction thereof. The electrode wires are helically arranged along the longitudinal direction. A helical direction of the helical ribs of the tubular member is a same as a helical direction of the helically-arranged electrode wires.
US10890491B2
The invention relates to an optical detector (110) for an optical detection, in particular, of radiation within the infrared spectral range, specifically, with regard to sensing at least one optically conceivable property of an object (112). More particular, the optical detector (110) may be used for determining transmissivity, absorption, emission, reflectance, and/or a position of at least one object (112). Further, the invention relates to a method for manufacturing the optical detector (110) and to various uses of the optical detector (110). The optical detector (110) comprises —an optical filter (114) having at least a first surface (116) and a second surface (118), the second surface (118) being located oppositely with respect to the first surface (116), wherein the optical filter (114) is designed for allowing an incident light beam (120) received by the first surface (116) to pass through the optical filter (114) to the second surface (118), thereby generating a modified light beam (122) by modifying a spectral composition of the incident light beam (120); —a sensor layer (128) comprising a photosensitive material (130) being deposited on the second surface (118) of the optical filter (114), wherein the sensor layer (128) is designed to generate at least one sensor signal in a manner dependent on an illumination of the sensor layer (128) by the modified light beam (122); and —an evaluation device (140) designed to generate at least one item of information provided by the incident light beam (120) by evaluating the sensor signal. The optical detector (110) constitutes an improved simple, cost-efficient and, still, reliable detector for detecting optical radiation, especially within the infrared spectral range, specifically with regard to sensing at least one of transmissivity, absorption, emission and reflectance. Hereby, the optical detector (110) is capable of effectively removing stray light as far as possible.
US10890481B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus related to an ultrasonic microphone and an ultrasonic acoustic radio. In one aspect a system includes a transmitter and a receiver. The receiver comprises a membrane. The membrane comprises a single layer or multiple layers of a two-dimensional material. The receiver is operable to receive sound waves in a frequency range, with the frequency range being the ultrasonic frequency range.
US10890476B1
A storage container (1) having a pour spout (7) that doubles as a measuring cup for dispensing a set amount of contents from the storage container. A user may manipulate the storage container to force the contents into the spout. The contents are prevented from falling or spilling out of the spout while the storage container is in an upright position.
US10890475B2
The present invention intends to more accurately diagnose a function of a flow rate sensor regardless of a variation in measurement ambient condition. The present invention includes: a flow rate sensor for measuring the flow rate of fluid; a correction part adapted to measure an output value of the flow rate sensor or a value related to the output value (hereinafter collectively referred to as an “output-related value”), relates the measured output-related value and a corresponding measurement ambient condition to each other, and in accordance with the measurement ambient condition in measurement data, correct the output-related value or a reference value that is predetermined in order to determine whether the output-related value is normal; and a diagnostic part adapted to compare the output-related value and the reference value on the basis of a correction result by the correction part and correct the function of the flow rate sensor.
US10890456B2
A method of providing route guidance includes: acquiring, by a sensor, traveling environment information including at least a target time of arrival at a destination in a vehicle; determining, by a controller, whether the target time of arrival is satisfiable by the vehicle; determining, by the controller, whether the target time of arrival is satisfiable by a public transport connection upon determining that the target time of arrival is not satisfiable by the vehicle, and selecting, by the controller, a parking lot according to a criterion upon determining that the target time of arrival is satisfiable by the public transport connection.
US10890452B2
A mobile device includes processor(s) coupled to memory, an input device, an output device, and a wireless transceiver. The mobile device can determine whether a destination is in a no wireless network coverage area. If so, then the route data used to provide navigation instructions to the destination is retained in the memory of the mobile device. In subsequent navigation, the mobile device can use the route data for navigation to a subsequent destination.
US10890438B2
There is provided a method for measuring a laminated iron core. The method includes preparing a laminated iron core in which two or more kinds of metal plates with different shapes are laminated and a deformed part is formed inside a hole continuing in a lamination direction of the laminated iron core, acquiring a surface profile data indicating a surface shape of the deformed part through an inlet of the hole by a non-contact sensor located in an outside of the hole, and calculating a length from the inlet of the hole to the deformed part in the lamination direction by a calculator based on the surface profile data.
US10890437B2
Problem: To provide a sheet that can clearly and easily measure displacement when displacement of a subject is small, and to provide an article for evaluating the deformation of a building containing this sheet. Resolution Means: A sheet having a first main surface and a second main surface facing the first main surface, including a first section having a first pattern image, a second section having a second pattern image, and the third section provided between the first section and the second section, wherein the first section has higher extensibility then the second section, the first section includes a first main surface of the sheet, the second section includes a second main surface of the sheet, the first pattern image is visible through the second pattern image, and the first main surface includes a high adhesive surface and a low adhesive surface.
US10890435B2
A device is disclosed for measuring the geometry of the inner wall of bores, drill holes and passages, which are optionally countersunk, and in particular for threaded, pin, and rivet connections of workpieces, said device comprising at least one optical sensor measuring towards the inner wall and capable of being introduced into the drill hole and rotated via a feed/rotating unit, wherein an auxiliary object is provided with a passage and rests on the surface of the workpiece, through which passage said sensor is inserted into the countersink and/or bore. The device is characterized in that the inner wall of the auxiliary object is provided with a structure and that the sensor scans said structure(s) while passing through the auxiliary object. The disclosure also relates to a corresponding method.
US10890428B2
A method for measuring a property of a test object with an interferometer includes: a) providing calibration information relating a focus setting for the interferometer to a position of the test object relative to a reference surface of the interferometer; b) determining the position of the test object relative to the reference surface; and c) using the interferometer to collect interferometric images of the test object for use in measuring the property of the test object.
US10890425B1
Embodiments are directed to a vented torque release device including hollow fuze well having a proximal end, a distal end, an inner surface, and an outer surface. A wall is defined by the inner surface and the outer surface. A plurality of vents are axially spaced at equal distance about the outer surface.
US10890424B2
The disclosure describes, in various example embodiments, a small arms or firearm projectile including a shell and a hemostatic material retained within the shell. The hemostatic material has a mechanical modulus above 25,000 Pa. In some embodiments, the shell includes a plurality of perforations. In some embodiments, the plurality of perforations are configured to provide, upon an impact of the projectile, fluid communication between the hemostatic material and the exterior of the shell via the plurality of perforations. In some embodiments, the hemostatic material includes a polymer core configured to provide a scaffold for inducing hemostasis in a local wound volume. In some embodiments, the projectile includes a contrasting agent. In some embodiments, the projectile includes a lubricating agent retained in the interior of the shell. In some embodiments, the projectile further includes 0.5 to 3 grains of Kaolin retained in the interior of the shell.
US10890423B2
The invention relates to a projectile (1, 1′) comprising a retaining element (2, 2′) and a penetrator (3). The penetrator (3) is at least partly received in a retaining element (2, 2′) receiving opening (12, 12′) which runs centrally relative to the projectile axis (A) and has a penetrator front (4) and a penetrator rear (5). The penetrator rear (5) has a cylindrical shape, and the penetrator front (4) runs in a conical manner from the penetrator rear (5) in the direction of a penetrator tip (6) with respect to the projectile axis (A). The length ratio of the length (LPF) of the penetrator front (4) to the length (LPH) of the penetrator rear (5) is approximately 1 to 1, preferably approximately 1 to 1.5, particularly preferably approximately 1 to 2.2.
US10890415B2
Man portable weapons include integrated electronics that calculate orientation and movement in addition to providing that data to a user's heads-up displays (HUD) as well as to group and area networks. By passing data to a HUD, the user is able to see, virtually, the flight path, point of impact and other ballistic data as well as data representing the condition and performance of the weapon for any rounds fired. The HUD also displays the relative position of other members of the team, last known enemy area of operation and other useful parameters from the man portable weapons of the other team members through the network. The electronics may be integrated within the main components of any suitable man portable weapon in a non-intrusive way as to have no effect on the firing mechanism of the small arm when it is fully assembled.
US10890412B2
A double-barreled revolver has a frame, a trigger lever having a first end connected to the frame and movable between a forward rest position and a rearward actuated position, the trigger lever having a free end extending away from the frame and opposite the first end, a guard element forward of the trigger lever and having an upper end connected to the frame and a downwardly depending lower end, and the free end of the trigger lever being separated from the lower end of the guard element by a limited gap, such that the frame, trigger lever and guard element collectively define a protected trigger space. The gap may be less than 0.9 cm such that a user's finger may not enter the trigger space except from a lateral direction. The trigger lever may have an exposed actuation portion configured to be actuated by two fingers.
US10890409B2
A transducer attenuates a physiologically damaging vibration by converting vibration energy to fluidization energy. The transducer includes a canister defining a sealed enclosure, a powder contained within the enclosure, and a coupler for vibrationally coupling the canister to the physiologically damaging vibration. When undisturbed, the powder has a settled state occupying less than the entire enclosure of the canister. However, when excited by physiologically damaging vibration, the powder has a fluidized state occupying the entire enclosure of the canister. When agitated by the physiologically damaging vibration via the coupler, the canister transmits vibration energy to the powder contained therein and causes the powder to fluidize, thereby attenuating the physiologically damaging vibration.
US10890408B2
The invention provides an automatic launching system for simulated training ammunition. It can mimic the effect of explosive detonation in close quarters battles without causing any casualties, and can ignite the fuze and launch the simulated training ammunition without gunpowder involved. The technical solution of the invention is that: the automatic launching system for simulated training ammunition comprises a launcher, a controller and a simulated training ammunition loaded inside the launcher. The Simulated training ammunition comprises an outer shell, a core and a fuze structure at the bottom of the simulated training ammunition. The piston cylinder of the launcher comprises vents in the cylinder sidewall for communicating the cylinder cavity with the launcher cavity. The lower part of the cylinder is connected to a high-pressure gas holder through a pipeline and a normally closed solenoid valve. This invention can automatically identify the target and ignite the fuze and launch the simulated training ammunition after identifying the target, and mimic explosion effects. It uses no gunpowder, thus has no potential safety risks, and is safe, reliable, easy to operate, simple in structure, and suitable for civil production and manufacturing.
US10890403B2
Methods and systems are provided for a firearms suppressor adapted with blowout panels. In one example, the blowout panels may be configured to have a lower tolerance for pressure than the materials from which outer components of the suppressor are formed. During over pressure events of the suppressor, the blowout panels may rupture, thereby dissipating pressure in the suppressor.
US10890402B2
A firearm suppressor assembly that includes a quick connect mounting methodology that allows the suppressor to be quickly and repeatably associated with the muzzle end of a firearm. In a preferred embodiment, the mounting methodology includes a plurality of lobes that facilitate less than 90 degree rotation between the muzzle of the firearm and the suppressor and provide a tactile indication of a secured engagement therebetween.
US10890400B2
A fastening device is provided for fastening a weapon accessory to a firearm, in particular a hand-held firearm, and to a weapon accessory having a fastening device according to the invention. The weapon accessory is in particular a silencer or a tactical light. The fastening device has a fastening rail, wherein at the rear end of the fastening rail a support surface is formed which rests at least partially on the front end of the trigger of the firearm when the fastening device is fastened to the firearm.
US10890396B2
An apparatus and method for a slotted trigger actuation mechanism for a firearm are described herein. The slotted trigger actuation mechanism may be a slotted trigger bar interface. The slotted trigger bar interface may serve to increase a distance of trigger pull required to execute firing ammunition. A trigger body may comprise a trigger bias for increasing trigger work. The apparatus and method described herein may help to improve results during drop safety testing.
US10890390B2
A system and method for cleaning of heat exchanger tubes including an assembly, an indexer, and a communication device provided with specialized software and programming. The indexer includes orthogonally arranged first and second arms. A trolley and sensors are provided on the indexer arms. One or more lances are provided on the trolley to deliver water jets into the openings. Sensors measure displacement as the trolley is moved relative to the heat exchanger's face plate. An operator controls the system from a distance away using the communication device. During setup, the pattern of the face plate is learned and mapped utilizing information from the sensors as one of the inputs. This information is utilized to help navigate the face plate during a subsequent cleaning operation. A kit for retrofitting existing X-Y indexers is also disclosed.
US10890384B2
A plate heat exchanger includes heat exchanger plates positioned between two end plates, a plurality of threaded tightening bolts each extending between one of the end plates and a drive unit, and through the other end plate, and a plurality of motors collectively defining the drive unit. The threaded tightening bolts each include a bolt head that bears directly/indirectly against the first or second end plate. A nut is in threaded engagement with each threaded tightening bolt and bears directly or indirectly against the second or first end plate so that the bolt head/nut associated with each threaded tightening bolt bear directly or indirectly against different ones of the first and second end plates. Each of the motors is operatively connected to a respective one of the threaded tightening bolts so that each of the threaded tightening bolts is rotatable independently of others of the threaded tightening bolts.
US10890378B2
The herein described invention is a Negative Pressure Drying Apparatus. The preferred embodiment of the Negative Pressure Drying Apparatus is designed for drying saturated baseballs; however, the Negative Pressure Drying Apparatus could be used to dry most any article that would fit within the drying receptacle. The Negative Pressure uses mechanical means of moving air, generally an outward blowing fan mounted to a first end of a drying receptacle, which is comprised of a plurality of intake holes at a second end of the drying receptacle. The outward blowing fan creates negative pressure within the drying receptacle due to the output of the fan exceeding the intake of air through the intake holes. The negative pressure within the drying receptacle accelerates drying by drawing moisture out of the saturated articles.
US10890376B2
In a method for separating a synthesis gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen, a synthesis gas flow from a synthesis gas source is compressed in a compressor and separated into at least three gaseous products. If there is insufficient synthesis gas, at least three separation products are recycled in the compressor in order to separate said products.
US10890350B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for continuously monitoring residential air quality and providing a trend based analysis regarding various air pollutants are presented herein. The system comprises an air quality monitor located in a residential house, wherein the air quality monitor is configured to measure the level of an air pollutant. The system also includes a server that is communicatively coupled to the air quality monitor, wherein the server is configured to generate a unique environmental fingerprint associated with the residential house.
US10890346B2
An on/off system operates to affect a variable state or condition of a building by switching between an on state and an off state. An extremum-seeking controller operates the on/off system by providing a pulse width modulated (PWM) control signal having a duty cycle to the on/off system. The extremum-seeking controller is configured to generate the PWM control signal by receiving a performance variable as feedback from the on/off system, extracting a gradient of the performance variable with respect to the duty cycle, modulating the duty cycle using an extremum-seeking control technique to determine an optimal value of the duty cycle that drives the gradient toward zero, and generating the PWM control signal such that each period of the PWM control signal has a pulse width proportional to the duty cycle.
US10890338B2
The present invention relates to a water system with a warm water line (3) for supplying at least one first consumer (4, 4a, 4b) connected thereto with warm water and a continuous flow heater (1), in which cold water introduced into the latter is heatable, connected to said warm water line (3). In case warm water remains in the continuous flow heater, because it is only partially consumed, limescale deposit can reduce the performance and the service life of the continuous flow heater. Limescale deposit is particularly likely to happen in stagnant warm water. The present invention aims to solve aforesaid problem in that a flushing station (2) connected to said warm water line (3) is provided, by way of which stagnant water in said warm water line can be drained in a chronological sequence until the water contained in said continuous flow heater (1) is below a predetermined setpoint temperature.
US10890331B2
A cooking appliance includes a knob assembly to emit light to improve an aesthetic feel and user convenience. The cooking appliance includes a main body having at least one heating source, a panel disposed in the main body and provided with a through hole, and a knob assembly coupled to the panel. The knob assembly includes a knob, at least one light source configured to emit light, a first light guide passing through the through hole and arranged to guide the light emitted from the light source, and a second light guide configured to guide the light guided by the first light guide to an outside of the knob.
US10890328B2
A transition piece can include: an inner transition piece including an inlet and an outlet; an outer transition piece surrounding the inner transition piece with a flow passage; an outlet fin-pin flow guide disposed on the inner transition piece and located closer to the outlet than the inlet; a first bottom fin disposed at a bottom portion of the inner transition piece; and a second bottom fin disposed at the bottom portion of the inner transition piece, wherein the first bottom fin and the second bottom fin are arranged to be inclined to each other at an acute angle.
US10890325B2
A flame arrestor including a flame arrestor collar and a flame arrestor plug. The flame arrestor collar includes a flame path that may be defined by one or more modules. The flame arrestor plug may be configured for connection to the flame arrestor collar. Various embodiments of a flame arrestor, including those having venting and/or draining elements or capabilities are also disclosed.
US10890320B1
A fuel torch display assembly including a base member, an inner canister member coupled to the base member and with a can channel having the fuel canister disposed therein. The assembly includes an outer canister member of a transparent material defined on a portion thereon and an inner surface with a radial retention flange having an upper wall and a sidewall defining an inner canister member retention zone with an enclosed sidewall of the inner canister member disposed therein and the outer surface of the enclosed sidewall of the inner canister member and the inner surface of the enclosed sidewall of the outer canister member defining and flanking an indicia medium placement zone with an indicia medium selectively removably disposed therein adjacent to the transparent material to display an indicia disposed on the indicia medium to an outside ambient environment of the fuel torch assembly.
US10890305B2
A lamp for a vehicle includes an array module comprising a plurality of micro Light Emitting Diode (LED) chips that are arranged in one or more patterns and that are configured to generate light, where the array module has a shape that is concave in a first direction.
US10890301B2
A lamp assembly includes a base, a hermetically sealed outer jacket mounted on the base, and a driver circuit disposed within the hermetically sealed outer jacket and electrically coupled to the base. The lamp assembly may also include a safety circuit configured to interrupt electrical power to the lamp assembly if the hermetically sealed outer jacket is compromised.
US10890300B2
An LED tube lamp includes a lamp tube; an LED light strip disposed inside the lamp tube and comprising a mounting region and a connecting region, a plurality of LED light sources mounted on the mounting region and at least two first connecting pads arranged on the connecting region; a fixing structure disposed inside the lamp tube and extending along the longitudinal direction of the lamp tube, the fixing structure comprising a first end fixedly connected to an inner circumferential surface of the lamp tube and second end fixedly connected to the LED light strip; a power supply module disposed on the fixing structure and electrically connecting to the LED light strip via the two first connecting pads, the power supply module comprising a circuit board separate from the light strip and a plurality of electronic components mounted on the circuit board; and two end caps attached to two ends of the lamp tube respectively. The power supply module comprises at least a rectifying circuit and a filtering circuit, wherein the rectifying circuit is coupled to two pins to receive an external signal, and the filtering circuit is coupled to the rectifying circuit and is configured to receive a signal from the rectifying circuit.
US10890298B2
Devices, systems, and methods of detecting and providing an alert regarding the presence of liquid contamination in a pneumatic supply line and/or in a pneumatic instrument are described. A liquid detection device configured to be coupled to the pneumatic supply includes an electronic liquid sensor configured to detect the presence of liquid in the pneumatic supply and a wireless communicator configured to transmit data from the electronic liquid sensor to a wireless communication node. The liquid detection device may be installed at different locations along a pneumatic supply in a plant. The plant network can forward the transmitted message from the communication node onto a plant computer, where and alert or other message may be provided to an operator or other computer system when water or other liquid is detected.
US10890297B2
The application is directed to a system for conveying fluid to one or more downstream locations including a plurality of downstream locations severally. The system includes one or more upstream fluid sources, a fluid routing system in fluid communication with the one or more upstream fluid sources via an upstream fluid line and each of the downstream locations via separate downstream fluid lines. The fluid routing system includes fluid connections corresponding to each of the downstream fluid lines and is operationally configured to fluidly connect with a particular fluid connection while remaining fluidly disconnected from the remaining fluid connections.
US10890292B2
A device for detecting a movement of a piston of a lubricant distributor includes a movable actuator including a first magnet element, and a movable indicator including a second magnet element. The actuator is configured to be moved from an initial actuator position to an end actuator position by a movement of the piston, and the actuator and the indicator are configured and disposed such that a magnetic force prevails between them such that the indicator is moved from an initial indicator position to an end indicator position by the movement of the actuator from the initial actuator position toward the end actuator position.
US10890290B2
An additively manufactured auxiliary device has a device body with a lower face, which is integrally connected to a component, and at least one mounting element, which projects from an upper face of the device body, wherein the at least one mounting element is arranged such that a contact face and at least one fastening element of the connection part can be attached to the device body such that the contact face of the connection part rests against the upper face of the device body in a planar manner, and such that each mounting element of the device body adjoins a fastening element of the connection part.
US10890284B2
A profiled clamp with a clamping band and a clamping device. The ends of the clamping band each have a clamping head which protrudes radially with respect to a receiving space. The clamping device has two clamping parts and an elongate clamping element connecting the clamping parts. The clamping element extends through the openings in the clamping heads and presses the clamping parts against the clamping heads. The profiled clamp has intermediate elements which are provided between the clamping heads and the clamping parts. The intermediate elements have cutouts through which the clamping element extends, and an application surface for contact against the clamping head.
US10890282B2
Face-sealed fittings are described for joining flanged tubes. These fittings utilize unique designs for pairing rings, nipples, and nuts to provide several advantages over prior art designs. Face-sealed fittings provided herein are symmetrical and genderless, and are field attachable/removable over previously welded glands. Moreover, they are torque free and have footprints comparable or smaller than legacy assemblies.
US10890279B2
The present application relates to a method for pressurizing the inner flow space of an underwater flexible pipe intended for transporting hydrocarbons, comprising the following steps: a) providing a flexible pipe comprising a reinforcing layer made up of a short-pitch winding of at least one metal wire with noncontiguous turns around a thermoplastic polymer sheath defining an inner space, then b) filling the inner space of the flexible pipe with an oil, then c) increasing the inner pressure Pi of the flexible pipe to at least 10 MPa, the inner pressure being exerted by said oil, then d′) maintaining the inner pressure Pi of the flexible pipe at a pressure of at least 10 MPa for a time D of at least one minute, characterized in that said oil has a kinematic viscosity at 40° C., measured according to the ASTM D445 standard, of more than 10 mm2/s. This method makes it possible to reduce, or even prevent, the appearance of cavitation and crazing on the polymer sheath.
US10890267B2
A pressure-limiting valve includes a housing and a pressure adjustment device provided therein. The pressure-limiting valve further includes a valve seat arranged in the housing and configured to be closed by a spring-loaded closing element of the pressure adjustment device. The housing is composed of cast iron having spherical graphite. The housing is surface-hardened at least in a region of the valve seat.
US10890260B2
A tank valve for installation at a pressure gas tank has a base body including a first base body section, which in the assembled state projects into the pressure gas tank and is sealingly connected with the same, and includes a second base body section, which in the assembled state remains outside the pressure gas tank. The tank valve further has a plurality of functional sub-groups for refueling the pressure gas tank via a refueling path, for the extraction of gas from the pressure gas tank via an extraction path, and for implementing safety and operating functions.
US10890258B2
The fluid-cushion sealing device (100) for a piston (101) moving in a cylinder (102) and defining with the latter a chamber to be sealed (104) includes: a continuous perforated ring (105) through the radial thickness of which passes a calibrated opening (111) and which is sealingly accommodated in a ring groove (109) provided in the piston (101) so as to define, with said groove (109), a pressure distribution chamber (119) connected to a pressurized fluid source (112), while an axially blind counter-pressure recess (115) is provided recessed on an external cylindrical ring surface (107) which faces the cylinder (102) and which the continuous perforated ring (105) comprises, the calibrated opening (111) leading into said recess (115).
US10890252B2
A control mechanism for a hydrostatic transmission includes a piston rod, a neutral biasing spring, a piston, a cylinder case provided with a first fluid chamber and a second fluid chamber, a solenoid valve capable of selectively supplying pressurized fluid to the first fluid chamber and the second fluid chamber, a pivot shaft configured to swingably support the cylinder case, and a first relief valve configured to flow the hydraulic fluid from the first fluid chamber to the second fluid chamber when a hydraulic pressure in the first fluid chamber exceeds a set pressure, and a second relief valve configured to flow the hydraulic fluid from the second fluid chamber to the first fluid chamber when a hydraulic pressure in the second fluid chamber exceeds a set pressure.
US10890251B2
At least some implementations of a transmission gear shifter include a first shift member, a second shift member, an actuator, multiple feedback surfaces and a follower. The actuator drives the second shift member between a first position and second position and thereby rotates the first shift member from one of the multiple positions to another of the multiple positions. The feedback surfaces are associated with the first shift member, and the follower is movable relative to the feedback surfaces between a first position and a second position. When the follower is in the first position, the follower is not engageable with the feedback surfaces, and when the follower is in the second position, the follower is engageable with the feedback surfaces and when the follower is in the second position there is relative sliding motion between the follower and the feedback surfaces when the first shift member is rotated.
US10890248B2
A planetary gearbox includes a ring gear accommodated in a housing part, the ring gear particularly has on its radially outer surface, in particular its radially outer side, an annular groove, the annular groove, in particular a circumferential annular groove in the circumferential direction, and a spring element is accommodated in the annular groove, which projects at least partially into an annular groove introduced into the housing part.
US10890246B2
A transmission includes an oil pipe disposed above a first gear group and a second gear group, the oil pipe having small holes. The oil pipe is formed integrally with a first restricting portion and a second restricting portion, the first restricting portion abutting against an inner surface of a first unit inside a case to thereby restrict an axial position of the oil pipe on an outside in one direction, and the second restricting portion abutting against an inner surface of a second unit to thereby restrict an axial position of the oil pipe on an outside in an other direction and rotation thereof.
US10890237B2
An actuator includes a drive assembly, a ball screw, and a ball nut. The ball nut may include a first nut member, a second nut member; and first arm extending from the first nut member. The first arm may include a first portion and a second portion. The first portion may extend radially outward from the first nut member. The second portion may extend substantially axially from the first portion such that at least some of the second portion is disposed radially outward of the second nut member. A second arm may extend from the second nut member, and the second arm may include a first portion and a second portion. In embodiments, at least part of the second portion of the first arm is disposed radially outward of at least a part of the second portion of the second arm.
US10890232B2
A socket assembly includes a socket. The socket defines a first interior space. The socket includes a first frame and a second frame disposed opposite to the first frame. The first frame is coupled with the second frame using at least one fastening member. The socket assembly includes a locking member disposed within the first interior space of the socket. The locking member includes a first portion and a second portion. The first and second portions define a second interior space for holding a rope.
US10890231B2
An engine device having a flywheel housing (7) in which a flywheel that is rotated integrally with a crankshaft (5) is accommodated on one side portion (303) of a cylinder block (6), in which the cylinder block (6) is integrally formed with housing bracket portions (304) each protruding in a direction away from the crankshaft (5) from each of opposite side portions (301) of the cylinder block (6) extending along a crankshaft axial direction (300), the housing bracket portions (304) protruding from end portions of the opposite side portions (301) close to the one side portion (303) A space surrounded by the one side portion (303), the housing bracket portions (304), and the flywheel housing (7) constitutes a gear case (330) for accommodating therein a gear train.
US10890214B2
A method for attaching a bearing carrier having an opening to an outer ring of a bearing includes placing the bearing carrier against a first body that is not the outer ring of the bearing, pressing the first body against a first location on the bearing carrier with a force having a radial component to increase a width of the opening of the bearing carrier, placing the opening of the bearing carrier on the outer ring of the bearing while maintaining the force, and releasing the force after placing the bearing carrier on the outer ring.
US10890205B2
Watertight fastening devices and systems and methods for the employment thereof are disclosed. The disclosed watertight fastening device includes a head, a shank extending away from the head toward a distal end, and a cover extending outwardly and away from the head in the direction of the shank and defining a hollow region between the shank and an inner surface of the cover. The watertight fastening device may be used in conjunction with a solar power installation system that includes a base plate configured to be positioned against an installation surface. The base plate includes an aperture for receiving the shank of the fastener and protrusion surrounding the aperture configured to be received in the hollow region of the fastener, thereby providing an enhanced barrier against moisture reaching the installation surface.
US10890202B2
A method for attaching a fastening element to a surface includes arranging a basic body in contact with the surface using an adhesive ring. The surface, the adhesive ring, and a gap therebetween form airtight barriers of a space. The basic body has at least one air- and/or water-permeable connection between the space and an outer side of the basic body. An adhesive is introduced into the space so that it is filled with a quantity of adhesive which has a contact surface with the basic body. A curing process for the adhesive provides moisture, wherein prior to the curing process or/and during the curing process, the adhesive ring and the quantity of adhesive are heated so that some of the adhesive located in the region of the contact surface forms an insulating layer which is cured over and beyond the contact surface and constitutes a further airtight barrier for the remaining quantity of adhesive which has not cured.
US10890197B2
Disclosed herein are hydraulic actuators and methods for the operation of actuators having variable relative pressure ratios. Further disclosed are methods for designing and/or operating a hydraulic actuator such that the actuator exhibits a variable relative pressure ratio. In certain embodiments, the relative pressure ratio of the hydraulic actuator may be dependent on one or more characteristics (such as, for example, frequency or rate of change) of an oscillating input to the hydraulic actuator.
US10890194B2
Provided is an air-sending device in which, in blades, an upstream end of a blade outer periphery is more on an upstream side than an upstream end of a blade inner periphery as seen along a rotation axis, and a downstream end of a blade outer periphery is more on a downstream side than a downstream end of the blade inner periphery, and in which, in the blades, when an angle formed by a line segment, which connects a point internally dividing a line segment connecting the downstream end and the upstream end of an outer periphery of the blades along the rotation axis and a point internally dividing a line segment connecting the downstream end and the upstream end of an inner periphery of the blades along the rotation axis at the same ratio to each other, and a reference line is defined as θ, and a direction inclined toward the downstream side is defined as positive, the angle θ is changed from negative to positive at a duct portion.
US10890190B2
A magnetic pump includes a front casing including: a shaft supporting body that supports a leading end of a supporting shaft; and a plurality of supporting legs that extends toward an inner wall of a suction port from the shaft supporting body, and that supports the shaft supporting body in the suction port. In the magnetic pump, a leading end of the shaft supporting body is positioned further toward the inlet side of the suction port than a connecting section between the inner wall of the suction port and the supporting leg.
US10890186B2
A compressor may include a shell, a compression mechanism, a driveshaft, a motor assembly, and a stator support member. The compression mechanism is disposed within the shell. The driveshaft drivingly is engaged with the compression mechanism. The motor assembly may be disposed within the shell and is drivingly engaged with the driveshaft. The motor assembly includes a rotor and a stator. The stator is fixed relative to the shell. The rotor may include an axially extending portion and a radially extending portion. The axially extending portion may be disposed radially outward relative to the stator. The radially extending portion may engage the driveshaft and may be disposed axially between the stator and the compression mechanism. The stator support member may be fixed relative to the shell and the stator. The stator support member may extend longitudinally through at least a portion of the stator.
US10890183B2
A centering process and fastening bolt are not required for assembling a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll of a scroll compressor that includes a hermetically sealed container and a compression mechanism. The fixed scroll includes a cylindrical portion formed in a circumferential direction on an outer circumferential side of the fixed wrap, a flange provided in the circumferential direction further outside of the cylindrical portion, and a first hole provided in the flange in an axial direction. The frame includes an inner circumferential surface, a flange provided in the circumferential direction further outside of the inner circumferential surface, and a second hole in the axial direction which is provided in a position of the flange opposite to the first hole. A knock pin is inserted in the first and second holes to prevent the frame and the fixed scroll from being displaced in the rotational direction.
US10890181B2
In a general aspect, fluid flow in a gerotor system is enhanced. In some cases, a gerotor apparatus includes inner and outer gears. The outer gear includes inward-facing teeth and an inner surface that defines an inner profile of the outer gear. The inner gear includes outward-facing teeth and an outer surface that defines an outer profile of the inner gear. The inner gear and the outer gear reside in contact such that the inner profile of the outer gear seals against the outer profile of the inner gear at multiple distinct points. One or more cutouts are defined by the inner surface of the outer gear between a neighboring pair of the inward-facing teeth, by the outer surface of the inner gear between a neighboring pair of the outward-facing teeth, or both.
US10890177B2
A metering valve is installed in a feed passage that supplies low pressure fuel, which is fed from a feed pump, to a pressurizing chamber. The metering valve adjusts a discharge amount of the low pressure fuel discharged from the pressurizing chamber. A first pressure regulating valve is opened in a case where a pressure of the low pressure fuel becomes equal to or larger than a first preset pressure. A second pressure regulating valve is opened in a case where the pressure of the low pressure fuel becomes equal to or larger than a second preset pressure. The first pressure regulating valve and the second pressure regulating valve are configured such that a degree of responsiveness of valve opening and closing of the second pressure regulating valve is higher than a degree of responsiveness of valve opening and closing of the first pressure regulating valve.
US10890176B2
A control device includes a plurality of sound reducing parts that is operated individually, when a predetermined condition for operation is met, at each of a plurality of timings when an operating sound is generated as a result of a movement of a valve body, in one open-and-close period, and that reduces the operating sound, at each of the plurality of the timings, by changing a period of energizing an electromagnetic part to an increase side relative to a normal time, an upper limit determination part that determines whether a required period of energizing the electromagnetic part in the one open-and-close period exceeds a predetermined upper limit value, when all the plurality of the sound reducing parts are operated, and a selectively operating part that selects and operates one or more of the plurality of the sound reducing parts to an extent that the required period of energizing does not exceed the upper limit value, when the upper limit determination part has determined that the required period of energizing exceeds the upper limit value.
US10890175B2
This disclosure relates to a direct drive pumping unit having a reciprocator for reciprocating a sucker rod string and a sensor for detecting position of a polished rod. The reciprocator includes a tower for surrounding a wellhead. The polished rod is connectable to the sucker rod string and has an inner thread open to a top thereof and extends along at least most of a length thereof. A screw shaft extends into the polished rod and interacts with the inner thread. A motor is mounted to the tower, torsionally connected to the screw shaft, and operable to rotate the screw shaft relative to the polished rod.
US10890171B2
A pump (1) includes a vibrating plate (15) that has a central part (21), a frame part (22), and connecting parts (23 to 26), a piezoelectric element (16) that is stacked over the central part (21) and configured to cause flexural vibrations to occur concentrically from the central part (21) to the connecting parts (23 to 26), and an opposed plate (13) that is stacked over the frame part (22) and positioned facing each of the connecting parts (23 to 26) with a spacing therebetween. The vibrating plate (15) has such a resonant mode that an antinode occurs in each of the central part (21) and the connecting parts (23 to 26). The opposed plate (13) has, at positions facing the connecting parts (23 to 26), a plurality of channel holes (39 to 43) through which a fluid flows.
US10890170B2
A replacement tube for a manifold is provided. The replacement tube includes a closed cell foam and a reinforcement strip. The closed cell foam is formed in a cylindrical tube and flexible to absorb pressure pulsations in a chamber of a suction manifold or in another device. The reinforcement strip is fixed along a length of the closed cell foam to support the closed cell foam from flexing and collapsing along the length of the closed cell foam.
US10890168B2
A linear compressor is provided. The linear compressor may include a cylinder that defines a compression space, a piston having a plurality of suction holes through which a refrigerant is introduced into the compression space, and a muffler connected to the piston and through which the refrigerant supplied to the piston flows. The muffler may include a seat seated on one side of the piston, and a protrusion arranged inside the piston. The protrusion may include plurality of flow pipes that extends from the seat to an inside of the piston to guide the refrigerant to the plurality of suction holes and a resonator arranged at one side of the plurality of flow pipes and having a resonance space therein.
US10890157B2
A system for enabling servicing of a rotor of a wind turbine has a rotor blade sling with at least one strap configured to be placed over the top of a rotor blade in a ten o'clock position or a two o'clock position. One or more rigid bars extend from the hub and out away from the hub, and the one or more rigid bars are coupled to the at least one strap. One or more support straps are coupled to the at least one strap, and the one or more support straps are configured to couple and support a rotor blade in a six o'clock position.
US10890122B2
At start of an engine, a fuel injection amount is set to a jump-over injection amount if the engine speed obtained in each cycle is higher than or equal to a determination threshold value, which is set lower than a lower limit of a resonance speed range of powertrain by a predetermined reference value. If the engine speed is lower than the value, the fuel injection amount is set to a step-over injection amount that is smaller than the jump-over injection amount. This setting makes it possible to increase the engine speed such that the engine speed approaches the lower limit of the resonance speed range causing resonance in the powertrain, up to a predetermined range, and then causes the engine speed to jump straight to an engine speed which exceeds the resonance speed range, while in the process of increasing the engine speed by executing the combustion cycles.
US10890106B2
The invention involves a system and method for providing a liquid fuel or a liquid and gaseous fuel to a diesel or Otto cycle engine for operation of the engine. The system includes a primary electronic control module (ECM), which monitors engine sensors and contains a first three-dimensional fuel map for the liquid fuel. A second ECM is connected for bi-directional transfer of information to the first ECM, the second ECM contains a second three-dimensional fuel map for delivery of the gaseous fuel through a secondary gaseous fuel injection assembly. The bi-directional communication between the two ECMs while monitoring the engine sensors allows both ECMs to “learn” an efficient fuel map for delivery of both fuels in the same cycle for improved efficiency, reduction in slip and lower emissions.
US10890105B2
The present invention includes: a turbine wheel 24 that is attached to a rotating shaft 14 and that has a plurality of turbine blades in the circumferential direction; scroll passages 15Aa, 15Ab that are formed in a spiral shape on the outside of the turbine wheel 24, and that are formed by being divided into a plurality of sections in the circumferential direction, the passages communicating with each other at the position of the turbine wheel 24 disposed between respective tongue sections 15Ac, 15Ad; and threads 51 that are provided on an back facing surface 41 disposed so as to oppose the back surface of the turbine wheel 24, the back surface being on the axially opposite side from the turbine blade side, and the linear parts extending from starting points 51a near the tongue sections 15Ac, 15Ad toward the rotating shaft 14 side so as to control the passage of fluid between the back surface and the back facing surface 41.
US10890099B2
A closure element is provided for closing a recess in a heat-transfer-fluid pump that is contained in an engine of a vehicle. In particular, in a cylinder block of the engine, the closure element including an element for guiding the flow of heat transfer fluid to an inlet of the pump.
US10890089B2
A PCED can include an outer can, an upper lid having an upper lid intake and an upper lid exhaust, a lower lid having a lower lid exhaust, and an internal frame disposed within the can. With the internal frame disposed within the can, first, second, third, and fourth chambers can be formed, with the first chamber containing a coalescing material. Gases from a combustion engine crankcase can enter the PCED via the upper lid intake, move through the chambers, and exit the PCED via the upper lid exhaust and return to the crankcase. While moving through the chambers, impurities within the gas convert to liquid form via condensation, collect in the second chamber, and can be subsequently drained from the PCED via the lower lid exhaust.
US10890082B2
An aspirating face seal between high and low pressure regions of a turbomachine at a juncture between rotatable and non-rotatable members of turbomachine includes gas bearing rotatable and non-rotatable face surfaces. A starter seal tooth and optional deflector seal tooth are mounted on a seal teeth carrier on the rotatable member. The primary seal tooth and non-rotatable face surface are mounted on an annular slider on the non-rotatable member. A pull-off biasing means urges the annular slider away from the rotatable member and the non-rotatable face surface away from the rotatable surface. A secondary seal is in sealing engagement with the annular slider in the low-pressure region and the pull-off biasing means is located radially outwardly of the annular slider in the high pressure region.
US10890076B1
A turbine vane assembly adapted for use in a gas turbine engine includes a turbine vane and a spar support. The turbine vane comprises ceramic matrix composite materials and is shaped to include an airfoil configured to direct the flow of hot gases through a primary gas path of the turbine vane assembly. The spar support comprises metallic materials and is configured to support other components of the turbine vane assembly relative to an associated turbine case.
US10890065B2
A set of directional measurements are obtained for multiple measured depth intervals along the length of a wellbore. Based on the directional measurement sets, and for each measurement set, the locations corresponding to a portion of the well exposed to the reservoir rock are selected. The filtration area of the reservoir formation is calculated based on the selected locations in each measured depth interval. The filtration area is presented for display and analysis.
US10890063B2
A method includes deploying a tool in a well. The method also includes providing a conductive path with a segmentation module in the well. The method also includes conveying power and telemetry signals from a surface or uphole interface to the tool via the conductive path, where conveying the power and telemetry signals includes the segmentation module decoupling and later coupling power and telemetry signals conveyed along the conductive path.
US10890058B2
A workflow using techniques for improving signal-to-noise ratio and decreasing interferences for Low-Frequency Distributed Acoustic Sensing is described.
US10890056B2
An electric motor is configured to be positioned in a well. The motor includes a housing flooded with an incompressible fluid, a seal, a stator in the housing, and a rotor-impeller. The housing is configured to affix to a tubing of the well. The housing defines an inner bore having an inner bore wall continuous with an inner wall of the tubing for flow of well fluid. The housing defines a port that can be in fluid communication with the well. The seal seals the port against ingress of fluid. The seal is movable by the well fluid to apply a pressure on the incompressible fluid to equalize pressure between the incompressible fluid and the well fluid. The rotor-impeller is configured to be positioned within the inner bore of the housing. The rotor-impeller is configured to be retrievable from the well while the stator remains in the well.
US10890041B2
Systems and methods for managed pressure cementing and/or completions operations in subterranean well bores are provided. In some embodiments, the methods comprise: placing a tubular string into a well bore, wherein an outer surface of the tubular string and an inner wall of the well bore define an annulus in a closed pressure loop and in communication with a choke valve; pumping a fluid into the annulus; and while pumping the fluid, determining a setpoint for the choke valve corresponding to a setpoint for a bottomhole pressure in the annulus, determine an actual bottomhole pressure in the annulus using data from a downhole sensor in the annulus, determining if the actual bottomhole pressure is greater than, less than, or equal to the setpoint, and if the actual bottomhole pressure is greater or less than the setpoint, manipulating the choke valve using a controller to decrease or increase the bottomhole pressure.
US10890039B2
A deck bushing system for a drilling machine having a mast deck including a deck hole is disclosed. The deck bushing system may include a deck bushing sized to be received in the deck hole. The deck bushing may include a tubular member having a generally square shaped flange. Additionally, the deck bushing system may include a deck bushing housing fixedly secured to the mast deck. The deck bushing housing may form a generally V-shape opening toward the deck hole.
US10890029B2
A fall arrest ladder system including a housing assembly having a retractable lanyard, braking system, safety line, and webbing belt is disclosed. The fall arrest system allows for the safe deceleration of the user from an elevated position on a ladder to prevent the user from making harmful contact with the ground. The safety line and retractable lanyard are each attached to a ladder and then attached to the webbing belt worn by the user, permitting the user to freely move along the length of the ladder while remaining tethered securely in the event of a slip or fall from the ladder. The safety line prevents the user from falling away from the ladder while the retractable lanyard and incorporated braking system decelerate the user during a downward fall.
US10890022B2
This disclosure is directed to hinge assemblies for securing closure members to a vehicle body. Exemplary hinge assemblies may include icebreaker features for breaking through ice formations that can form on the closure members. The icebreaker features are configured to break through the ice formations as the closure members are moved.
US10890020B2
A double latch lockset, or its kit form, generally includes first and second retractable latches connected by a drive assembly. The first retractable latch may be activated by a first inside and/or outside actuator, and the second retractable latch may be activated by a second inside and/or outside actuator that activates the second retractable latch (such as a deadbolt) independently of the first retractable latch. Movement of the first inside and/or outside actuator in a first direction simultaneously retracts the first and second retractable latches, and movement of the first inside and/or outside actuator in a second direction locks the second retractable latch. The first inside and outside actuators may be configured to move in the second direction without retracting the first retractable latch.
US10890019B2
A reversible electric door lock includes a clutch unit, a dead bolt unit and a handle unit. The clutch unit has an external driving member, two driving plates mounted at two sides of the external driving member, an internal driving member rotatably mounted in the external driving member, and a clutch pin movably disposed in the external driving member between an engaging position to allow synchronous rotation of the external and internal driving members, and a disengaged position to allow idle rotation of the internal driving member. The external driving member is rotated to actuate the dead bolt unit to switch to an unlatched position. The handle unit includes an internal operating handle coupled with one of the driving plates, and an external operating handle coupled with the internal driving member. The reversible electric door lock can be applied to left-hand and right-hand doors.
US10890017B2
The invention relates to a motor vehicle door locking system, comprising a motor vehicle door lock (1) on a motor vehicle door (2) and a lock retainer (3), interacting therewith, on a motor vehicle body (4), or vice versa, according to patent application DE 10 2014 007 119.7, characterized in that a hold-back element (5) is provided which keeps clear an inlet opening (6) for the lock retainer (3) in the motor vehicle door lock (1) even in the event of deformations of the motor vehicle door (2) caused by an accident, wherein the hold-back element (5) keeps the opening clear on account of a shaping of the hold-back element.
US10890003B2
A chimney liner removal apparatus including a main chassis, a first telescoping front arm, a second telescoping front arm, a rear telescoping arm, a movable mass and an extendible excavator. The first telescoping front arm is fixedly connected to the main chassis and includes a first hollow member and a first extendible member within the first hollow member. The second telescoping front arm is fixedly connected to the main chassis and includes a second hollow member and a second extendible member within the second hollow member. The rear telescoping arm is fixedly connected to the main chassis and includes a third hollow member and a third extendible member within the third hollow member. The movable balance mass is arranged on the third hollow member. The extendible excavator assembly is pivotally connected to the main chassis opposite the rear telescoping arm.
US10889996B2
An engineered flooring product suitable for indoor or outdoor flooring applications, and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided. The engineered flooring product comprises a core layer, the core layer comprising: (i) a hydrate compound comprising magnesium hydroxide and magnesium chloride; (ii) one or more hydrate compounds each comprising magnesium hydroxide and magnesium sulfate; and (iii) one or more stabilizing agents. The hydrate compounds are derived at least in part from magnesium oxide. The core layer has a composition that is free of PVC and other plastic-based materials and is selected to provide one or more desired physical properties such as, but not limited to, a desired degree of water resistance, durability, and thermal expansion and contraction. The core layer preferably has a composition that provides a thermal expansion coefficient equivalent to or comparable to concrete.
US10889995B2
A wall assembly comprises a first sidewall, a second sidewall and a rear wall, wherein a plurality of non-porous tiles are affixed to the first sidewall, the second sidewall and the rear wall of the wall assembly. Each first sidewall tile, second sidewall tile, and rear wall tile extends the full length of one dimension of the first sidewall, the second sidewall, and the rear wall, respectively. Both upper and lower edges of the first sidewall tiles, second sidewall tiles, and rear wall tiles comprise a chamfer optionally terminating short of a first end and a second end of the first and second sidewall tiles and rear wall tiles. The rear wall tiles comprise a dado located at each end of the rear wall tile that provides a hidden connection with the first and second sidewall tiles. The first and second sidewall tiles and the rear wall tiles are of a synthetic or natural material.
US10889981B2
Systems and methods for making a waterproofed concrete wall assembly, such as for a basement wall. A form is constructed. At least a first side of the form is made of one or more boards having a polymer foam and a fibrous facer. At least some of the boards have perimeter edges shaped such that some adjacent boards overlap at the shaped perimeter edges. Concrete is poured into the gap between the sides of the form, and is allowed to harden. The other side of the form may be removed, while leaving the boards of the first side of the form in place adjacent the hardened concrete. Some of the concrete is infused into the fibrous facers of at least some of the boards.
US10889974B2
The tool for clearing a clog includes a tool shaft, a nozzle body, and a handle portion. The tool shaft includes an outer tube, an inner tube, and radial supports for the inner tube. The outer tube can be symmetrical so that the nozzle body can be aimed according to alignment of the outer tube. The nozzle body includes a nozzle connector, a sealing member with a hardness less than the nozzle connector and a diameter greater than the nozzle connector, and a nozzle tip. The sealing member can create the seal. The handle portion includes a handle body, handles, a handle chamber with a pin member, air cartridge, and a button member, and a handle body cover. The attachment of the handle body cover sets the button member in a sealed position to release the blast of air from the air cartridge, when moved to the released position.
US10889968B2
A flush-mounted box for a fitting body having a housing, including a receiving chamber for the fitting body, the housing having at least one detent area; a fastening frame for fastening the flush-mounted box on a support, the fastening frame including at least one spring element, which may be engaged in the at least one detent area of the housing for fastening the fastening frame to the housing; and at least one clip for securing the at least one spring element in the at least one detent area of the housing.
US10889967B2
A dual purpose valve assembly may comprise a conduit, a first valve, and a second valve. The first valve may comprise a vacuum breaker valve. The second valve may comprise a check valve. A drain system may comprise a supply tube, a drain tube, and a dual purpose valve disposed between the supply tube and the drain tube. The drain system may allow fluid to drain based on gravity alone, and the dual purpose valve assembly may operate based on gravity alone.
US10889963B2
A working machine includes a hydraulic pump, a first traveling device to be driven by a first traveling hydraulic actuator, a second traveling device to be driven by a second traveling hydraulic actuator, a first output tube to connect a first output port of the hydraulic pump to the first traveling hydraulic actuator, a second output tube to connect a second output port of the hydraulic pump to the second traveling hydraulic actuator, a first operation device to operate the first traveling device, a second operation device to operate the second traveling device and a correction mechanism to equalize a driving force of the first traveling hydraulic actuator and another driving force of the second traveling hydraulic actuator when the first operation device and the second operation device are operated each at same operation extents to perform a straight-traveling operation.
US10889962B2
A work machine having a controller configured to receive a first position signal from a first boom position sensor, a second position signal from a second boom position sensor, and a load signal from the load measuring device, wherein the controller is further configured to calculate a map of hydraulic capacities within an envelope of movement for one or more of a first and a second actuators based on the first position signal, the second position signal, and the load signal, and generate a lift path of movement for the pin through at least a portion of the envelope based on the hydraulic capacities, wherein the movement envelope being smaller than the envelope.
US10889942B2
A system for a screed assembly of a paving machine can include a plurality of screed plates, a screed frame, a first plurality of sensors, a second plurality of sensors, a device and a controller. The device can be configured to create a physical phenomenon that is detectable by the first plurality and the second plurality of sensors. The controller can be configured to, based on a detected position of each of the rust plurality of sensors and each of the second plurality of sensors relative to the physical phenomenon, determine a relative position between the first screed plate and the second screed plate including a degree of parallelism between the major surface of the first screed plate and the major surface of the second screed plate.
US10889936B2
The invention relates to a press jacket comprising at least one polymer layer, where the polymer layer comprises, or has been produced from, a polyurethane, where the polyurethane has been formed from a prepolymer and a crosslinking agent, and the prepolymer is a reaction product of phenylene 1,4-diisocyanate and of a polyol, where the crosslinking agent comprises the following components: a first component comprising 1,4-butanediol or 1,4-hydroquinone bis(2-hydroxyethyl) ether (HQEE), a second component comprising at least one aliphatic diamine, a third component comprising at least one alkanolamine.
US10889935B2
A dyeing method in which a transparent resin body having a surface applied with a dye is heated to fix the dye to the transparent resin body comprises a heating step of irradiating a laser beam having a wavelength less likely to be absorbed by the dye toward the transparent resin body applied with the dye on the surface while relatively scanning the laser beam with respect to the transparent resin body to heat a to-be-dyed region of the transparent resin body to fix the dye, wherein the laser beam is irradiation to heat by changing a laser beam irradiating condition with respect to a portion of the transparent resin body to be heated so that a heating temperature on the transparent resin body by irradiation of the laser beam is substantially equal throughout an entire area of the to-be-dyed region.
US10889932B2
The invention pertains to a method for manufacturing a textile product comprising providing a first sheet having a front surface and a back surface, covering the back surface of the sheet with a porous layer having a porosity of 50% to 99%, the layer comprising a thermoplastic material, forming a pile on the front surface of first sheet by stitching one or more yarns through the first sheet, the one or more yarns having a free end that forms the said pile and a locked end that extends into the porous layer, thereby forming an intermediate product, processing the intermediate product by feeding this product along a body having a heated surface, the porous layer being pressed against the said heated surface, to melt at least a fraction of the thermoplastic material, cooling the molten fraction of the thermoplastic, thereby connecting the locked end of the one or more yarns to the first sheet, and optionally connecting a second sheet to the processed intermediate product, using an adhesive applied between the processed surface of the intermediate product and the second sheet. The invention also pertains to a primary backing for use in this method and to a method for manufacturing this primary backing.
US10889929B1
Various examples are provided related to transporting and sewing material in, e.g., automation of sewing robots. Multiple pieces of layered materials can be transported on a flat planar surface while maintaining the material layer's position and orientation relative to one another during a sewing procedure of these materials along any arbitrary seam shape. In one example, among others, a system includes a sewing machine including a sewing needle, a material holding assembly and a translation system. The material holding assembly can include mechanical fingers that can contact material on a sewing plane adjacent to the sewing needle and a structural grounding system supporting the mechanical fingers. The translation system can reposition the material on the sewing plane via the mechanical fingers. Clearance around the sewing needle can be provided by repositioning individual mechanical fingers around the sewing needle.
US10889923B2
Knit apparel formed using knitted structures and yarn content to create zonal venting and material standoff are provided. In aspects, garments having standoff structures knitted into one or more zones within the garment, on an internal and/or external surface of the garment, include tops and half-tights. The standoff structures are created using missed stitches with floats adjacent knitted stitches are integral to the surrounding material. Additionally, garments having airflow apertures are included, with transfer-stitch structures creating integral openings within the surrounding material.
US10889921B2
Nonwoven fabrics suitable for a wide variety of applications (e.g., healthcare, filtration, industrial, packaging, etc.) are provided. In one aspect, the nonwoven fabric includes a plurality of segmented fibers. Each of the plurality of segmented fibers may comprise a fiber axis and a plurality of alternating larger diameter and smaller diameter segments along the fiber axis. The plurality of segmented fibers may be substantially aligned in a first direction.
US10889909B2
A method for producing a galvanically decorated component with a symbol or structure of a transilluminatable design incorporated in the surface produces the component from an electroplatable plastic in an injection-molding process, and the symbol or structure is produced from a non-electroplatable, electroplating-resistant printed image. The printed image is transferred from a carrier onto the component using thermal transfer by being activated using a laser. A galvanically decorated component is produced by the method.
US10889904B2
An improved process for the preparation of nanostructured metal species-based films in a flame aerosol reactor is provided. The present invention also further provides improved nanostructured photo-watersplitting cells, improved dye sensitized solar cells and improved nanostructured p/n junction solar cells.
US10889903B2
An anode for oxygen evolution that operates at a small overpotential and in a stable manner, and can be used favorably in an organic chemical hydride electrolytic synthesis apparatus. An anode 10 for oxygen evolution that evolves oxygen in a sulfuric acid aqueous solution containing a substance to be hydrogenated dissolved at a concentration higher than 1 mg/L, wherein an anode substrate 10a is composed of a valve metal, and an anode catalyst layer 10b containing at least one oxide, nitride or carbide of iridium, and at least one oxide, nitride or carbide of at least one metal selected from the group consisting of elements belonging to groups 4, 5 and 13 of the periodic table is formed on the surface of the anode substrate 10a.
US10889896B2
With respect to a dielectric electrode, gas-jetting holes and gas-jetting holes formed in two rows along the X direction are provided as three or more gas-jetting holes along the X direction in a central region. By providing a difference in the X direction between the position where the gas-jetting hole is formed and the position where the gas-jetting hole is formed, the gas-jetting holes and the gas-jetting holes disposed in two rows are provided such that gas-jetting holes and gas-jetting holes are alternately disposed along the X direction.
US10889893B2
An atomic layer deposition apparatus includes: a film-forming container 11 in which a film-forming process is performed; a vertically movable stage 14 provided in the film-forming container 11 and being configured to hold a substrate 100; a stage stopper 17 configured to stop rising of the stage 14 and, when in contact with the stage 14, partitioning a film-forming space S in which the film-forming process is performed and a transporting space in which transport of the substrate 100 is performed; a peripheral stage deposition prevention member 15 covering a peripheral portion of the stage 14; and a stage stopper deposition prevention member 24 provided on the stage stopper 17.
US10889892B1
The invention includes apparatus and methods for instantiating and quantum printing materials, such as elemental metals, in a nanoporous carbon powder.
US10889891B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include an abatement system and method for abating compounds produced in semiconductor processes. The abatement system includes a remote plasma source for generating an oxidizing plasma for treating exhaust gases from a deposition process performed in the processing chamber, the treatment assisting with the trapping particles in an exhaust cooling apparatus. The remote plasma source then generates a cleaning plasma for treating exhaust gases from a cleaning process performed in the processing chamber, the cleaning plasma reacting with the trapped particles in the exhaust cooling apparatus and cleaning the exhaust cooling apparatus.
US10889888B2
There have been cases where transistors formed using oxide semiconductors are inferior in reliability to transistors formed using amorphous silicon. Thus, in the present invention, a semiconductor device including a highly reliable transistor formed using an oxide semiconductor is manufactured. An oxide semiconductor film is deposited by a sputtering method, using a sputtering target including an oxide semiconductor having crystallinity, and in which the direction of the c-axis of a crystal is parallel to a normal vector of the top surface of the oxide semiconductor. The target is formed by mixing raw materials so that its composition ratio can obtain a crystal structure.
US10889875B2
A grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet, wherein a total area percentage of defective parts scattered on the forsterite film is less than 1.5% relative to a surface area of the forsterite film when viewed from above the surface, and methods for evaluating a grain oriented electrical steel sheet comprising a grain oriented electrical steel sheet having a surface and a forsterite film formed on the surface of the steel sheet.
US10889873B2
A high strength steel sheet mainly used as an automotive exterior panel material is provided. In detail, a complex-phase steel sheet having excellent formability and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A steel sheet may have excellent strength and ductility, and a relatively low yield ratio and an excellent surface quality may be provided.
US10889872B2
In one aspect, methods of foil ling tooling articles from tool steel powder compositions via additive manufacturing techniques are described herein. A method of forming a tooling article comprises consolidating powder alloy into the tooling article via an additive manufacturing technique and heat treating the tooling article to provide the tooling article hardness of 35 to 65 HRC. The tooling article can be formed of an alloy composition comprising 0.2-2 weight percent carbon, 0-1 weight percent manganese, 0-1.5 weight percent silicon, 0-0.3 weight percent nickel, 0-15 weight percent cobalt, at least two of chromium, molybdenum, tungsten and vanadium in a combined amount of 5-25 weight percent and the balance iron. As described herein, the method can further comprise hot isostatic pressing the tooling article prior to the heating treatment.
US10889862B2
The invention provides a method for identifying or detecting small RNA (sRNA) predictors of a disease or a condition. The method comprises identifying one or more sRNA sequences that are present in one or more samples of an experimental cohort, and which are not present across a comparator cohort; and optionally identifying one or more sRNA sequences that are present in one or more samples of a comparator cohort, and which are not present across an experimental cohort. In contrast to identifying dysregulated non-coding RNAs (such as miRs that are up- or down-regulated), the invention identifies sRNAs that are binary predictors, that is, present in one cohort (e.g., an experimental cohort) and not another (e.g., a comparator cohort). Further, by quantifying reads for individual sequences (e.g., iso-miRs), without consolidating reads to annotated reference sequences, the invention unlocks the diagnostic utility of miRs and other sRNAs.
US10889861B2
The present invention relates to a method of creating a biomarker profile, the method comprising the steps of: obtaining a sample of biofluid from a subject, wherein the sample is stored on a sample collection apparatus; removing the sample from the sample collection apparatus; extracting nucleic acids from the sample; sequencing the extracted nucleic acids to generate sequence data; and analyzing the sequence data using a two-step analytical methodology to create the biomarker profile. The present invention athletic performance in a subject.
US10889854B2
Present invention disclosed a novel method for detecting and quantifying target DNA from the biological sample. It provides a method of amplification of DNA sequences with loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) and its easy and accurate detection and quantification by electrochemiluminescence (ECL) technique. The target LAMP DNA is bound electrostatically with [Ru(bpy)3]+2 on the carbon electrode surface, and an ECL reaction is triggered by tripropylamine (TPrA) to yield luminescence. This is a highly sensitive strategy for the detection of sequence-specific DNA from different biological samples at picogram levels. The target DNA of Sus scrofa (pork) meat was detected as low as 1 pg/μL (3.43×10−1 copies/μL) and for Bacillus subtilis DNA samples the detection limit of 10 pg/μL (2.2×103 copies/μL) was achieved.
US10889849B2
The present invention provides an assay for detection of oxidized glutathione (GSSG).
US10889848B2
A process for determining the viability of a biological indicator includes exposing the biological indicator to a viability detection medium, the biological indicator including test microorganisms, the exposing the biological indicator to the viability detection medium producing a gaseous reaction product when one or more of the test microorganisms are viable. The presence or absence of the gaseous reaction product produced by the biological indicator combined with the viability detection medium is detected with a sensing device, the sensing device comprising a capacitive sensor, wherein the presence of the gaseous reaction product indicates the presence of viable test microorganisms and the absence of the gaseous reaction product indicates the absence of viable test microorganisms. A sterilization detection device includes a container configured to contain the biological indicator, a viability detection medium, and the sensing device.
US10889844B2
The invention provides a method of degrading or hydrolyzing a polysaccharide, preferably cellulose or chitin, comprising contacting said polysaccharide with one or more oxidohydrolytic enzymes, preferably a CBM33 family protein (preferably CBP21) or a GH61 family protein, wherein said degradation or hydrolysis is carried out in the presence of at least one reducing agent and at least one divalent metal ion. A method of producing an organic substance comprising said method is also provided.
US10889843B2
The present invention relates to an L-lysine-producing microorganism of the genus Corynebacterium and a method for producing L-lysine using the same.
US10889842B2
The present disclosure relates to recombinant microorganisms engineered for enhance production of a desired amino acid, as well as related biomass, and compositions which are useful, inter alia, as animal feed ingredients. The present invention also provides related methods.
US10889841B2
The present invention concerns an oleaginous yeast variant of the species Rhodosporidium azoricum characterized by higher biomass yields and intra-cellular lipid accumulation useful for the production of bio-fuels higher, in determined conditions, with respect to the wild type strain of the same species. Furthermore, the invention concerns a method through which said oleaginous yeast variant of the species Rhodosporidium azoricum was obtained. The invention further concerns the lipid production by means of said variant strain of oleaginous yeast of the species Rhodosporidium azoricum.
US10889837B2
The present invention relates to using high oil corn to make a biochemical such as ethanol. More particularly, the invention relates to methods of making a biochemical using relatively low temperature saccharification followed by fermentation or simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of high oil corn.
US10889836B2
Described herein are processes for producing ethanol from starch-containing material using a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain MBG4985 (deposited under Accession No. NRRL Y67342 at the Agricultural Research Service Patent Culture Collection (NR-RL), Northern Regional Research Center, 1815 University Street, Peoria, Ill., USA) or a fermenting organism strain having properties that are about the same as that of the deposited Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain or a derivative of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain MBG4985 (e.g., a recombinant derivative expressing an alpha-amylase and/or a glucoamylase) having the defining characteristics of strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast MBG4985. Also described is Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain MBG4985 deposited under the Budapest Treaty and having accession No. NRRL Y67342 or a derivative of strain NRRL Y67342 which exhibits one or more properties or defining characteristics of strain Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain MBG4985. Also described are compositions comprising the Saccharomyces yeast and naturally occurring and/or non-naturally occurring components.
US10889835B2
This invention provides compositions and methods for providing high product yield of transgenes expressed in cyanobacteria and microalgae.
US10889834B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for enhancing insertion of transgene sequences encoding proteins that is aberrantly expressed in disease or disorder such as a lysosomal storage disease or a hemophilia by administering one or more topoisomerases inhibitors, one or more stabilizers of R loop formation or inhibitors of R-loop repair and/or one or more up-regulators of the TC-NER pathway to the target cell.
US10889831B2
The present invention presents a sequence of the AAV/UPR-plus virus, a genetic treatment method and its use in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson's and Huntington's diseases, among others, as presented in the in vitro studies shown in FIG. 14/17.
US10889829B2
The present invention relates to a genetic determinant which may comprise at least two copies of a combination of two closely linked RDR1 genes, which two closely linked RDR1 genes are inversely oriented, and which genetic determinant leads to virus resistance when present in a plant. In one embodiment, of the RDR1 genes in the combination is represented by SEQ ID No. 1 or has at least 70% sequence identity, and one of the RDR1 genes in the combination is represented by SEQ ID No. 3 or has at least 70% sequence identity; or one of the RDR1 genes in the combination encodes a protein represented by SEQ ID No. 2 or a protein that has at least 70% sequence identity, and one of the RDR1 genes encodes a protein represented by SEQ ID No. 4 or a protein that has at least 70% sequence identity.
US10889828B2
This disclosure provides plants having enhanced traits such as increased yield, increased nitrogen use efficiency and increased water use efficiency: propagules, progeny and field crops of such plants; and methods of making and using such plants. This disclosure also provides methods of producing seed from such plants, growing such seed and selecting progeny plants with the composition, or with enhanced traits. Also disclosed are plants with altered phenotypes which are useful for screening and selecting events for the desired enhanced trait.
US10889824B2
A method for genetic transformation of edible mushrooms is provided relating to the technical field of genetic transformation of Agaricus bisporus, enoki mushroom and shiitake. The disclosed method for genetic transformation of Agaricus bisporus includes: inoculating Agaricus bisporus liquid mycelia into a foxtail-millet-grain culture medium, and pre-culturing them at 20-25° C. until Agaricus bisporus mycelia grow on surfaces of foxtail millet grains. This method uses the foxtail millet grains as an attachment matrix, and during the pre-culturing and co-culturing, the culture substrate is shaken up every day. The method for genetic transformation of enoki mushroom or shiitake includes: inoculation of enoki mushroom mycelia or shiitake mycelia, activated culturing of agrobacterium, and agrobacterium infecting a foxtail millet grain-enoki mushroom mycelium matrix or a foxtail millet grain-shiitake mycelium matrix.
US10889821B2
Presented herein are biocatalysts and methods for converting C1-containing materials to organic acids such as muconic acid or adipic acid.
US10889805B2
Provided is a selective method for inducing differentiation from pluripotent stem cells to enterocyte-like cells. Also provided is an excellent enterocyte-like cell expressing drug-metabolizing enzymes and drug transporters. More specifically, provided is an enterocyte-like cell having properties closer to those of primary enterocytes, which are difficult to acquire. The foregoing is achieved by adding an ALK5 inhibitor (SB431542), Wnt3a, and EGF to a culture system of definitive endoderm cells obtained by differentiation induction from pluripotent stem cells and extending a culture time. The foregoing is also achieved by introducing CDX2 gene and/or FOXA2 gene into the pluripotent stem cells or the definitive endoderm cells. The foregoing is also achieved by overlaying a basement membrane matrix on the enterocyte-like cells.
US10889803B2
Described herein are chimeric receptors. Chimeric receptors comprise a cytoplasmic domain; a transmembrane domain; and an extracellular domain. In embodiments, the cytoplasmic domain comprises a cytoplasmic portion of a receptor that when activated polarizes a macrophage. In further embodiments, a wild-type protein comprising the cytoplasmic portion does not comprise the extracellular domain of the chimeric receptor. In embodiments, the binding of a ligand to the extracellular domain of the chimeric receptor activates the intracellular portion of the chimeric receptor. Activation of the intracellular portion of the chimeric receptor may polarize the macrophage into an M1 or M2 macrophage.
US10889794B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus that uses shadow images of cells to continuously measure cell activity at a high processing rate in order to provide cell activity and cell number results. According to one embodiment of the present invention, instead of a highly experienced examiner or technician using a microscope, ELISA reader, etc. having to collect various cell activity measurements and cell numbers, the collection of said information can be automated so as to reduce cost and largely reduce errors in measurements through the development of computer software coupled with hardware using low cost and compact optoelectronic components and simple image processing techniques.
US10889793B2
A fermenter can have at least one hollow fluid conduit disposed at least partially within a vessel. An external circumference of the hollow fluid conduit and an interior circumference of the vessel can define a downward flow path through which a multi-phase mixture including a liquid media and compressed gas substrate bubbles flows. An interior circumference of the hollow fluid conduit can defined an upward flow path which is in fluid communication with the downward flow path. The multi-phase liquid can flow through the upward flow path and exit the fermenter. Cooling may be provided in the hollow fluid conduit or the vessel. One or more backpressor generators can be used to maintain a backpressure on the fermenter. One or more fluid movers can be used to variously create an induced and/or forced flow in the downward and upward flow paths.
US10889786B2
A water-soluble pouch suitable for use in machine dishwashing and which comprises a plurality of compartments in generally superposed or superposable relationship, each containing one or more detergent active or auxiliary components, and wherein the pouch has a volume of from about 5 to about 70 ml and a longitudinal/transverse aspect ratio in the range from about 2:1 to about 1:8, preferably from about 1:1 to about 1:4. The water-soluble pouch allows for optimum delivery of dishwashing detergent. A process for the manufacture of multi-compartment pouches and a pack to contain the pouches are also disclosed.
US10889785B2
Formulations, compositions and products for reducing allergenic Fel d 1 from the environment are disclosed. The formulations include at least one protease that interacts with the Fel d 1 and substantially degrades allergenic epitopes on the Fel d 1. Methods of using the formulations for reducing or eliminating allergenic Fel d 1 from the environment are also disclosed.
US10889779B2
Provided is a lubricating oil composition for a transmission having excellent gear properties, clutch properties, cooling properties, and electric insulating properties. The lubricating oil composition for a transmission preparing by blending (A) a base oil, (B) a viscosity index improver having a mass average molecular weight of 10,000 to 50,000, and (C-1) a polyamide and/or (C-2) a polyol ester, the base oil (A) including (A-1) a synthetic oil having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1.0 to 10.0 mm2/s.
US10889776B2
The present invention relates to a refrigerator oil containing a specified amount of a polyvinyl ether-based compound (A) containing a structural unit (a1) having a methoxy group in a side chain thereof and a specified amount of a polyvinyl ether-based compound (B) containing a structural unit (b2) of a specified structure; a refrigerator oil composition containing the refrigerator oil; and a production method the refrigerator oil.
US10889768B2
Systems and processes are disclosed for producing petrochemical products, such as ethylene, propene and other olefins from crude oil in high severity fluid catalytic cracking (HSFCC) units. Processes include separating a crude oil into a light fraction and a heavy fraction, cracking the light fraction and heavy fraction in separation cracking reaction zones, and regenerating the cracking catalysts in a two-zone regenerator having a first regeneration zone for the first catalyst (heavy fraction) and a second regeneration zone for the second catalyst (light fraction) separate from the first regeneration zone. Flue gas from the first catalyst regeneration zone is passed to the second regeneration zone to provide additional heat to raise the temperature of the second catalyst of the light fraction side. The disclosed systems and processes enable different catalysts and operating conditions to be utilized for the light fraction and the heavy fraction of a crude oil feed.
US10889765B2
Systems for separating a contaminant trapping additive from a cracking catalyst may include a contaminant removal vessel having one or more fluid connections for receiving contaminated cracking catalyst, contaminated contaminant trapping additive, fresh contaminant trapping additive, and a fluidizing gas. In the contaminant removal vessel, the spent catalyst may be contacted with contaminant trapping additive, which may have an average particle size and/or density greater than the cracking catalyst. A separator may be provided for separating an overhead stream from the contaminant removal vessel into a first stream comprising cracking catalyst and lifting gas and a second stream comprising contaminant trapping additive. A recycle line may be used for transferring contaminant trapping additive recovered in the second separator to the contaminant removal vessel, allowing contaminant trapping additive to accumulate in the contaminant removal vessel. A bottoms product line may provide for recovering contaminant trapping additive from the contaminant removal vessel.
US10889763B2
Disclosed are compositions for catalysts comprising a zeolite promoted by metal and or metal oxide. In some aspects, the metal and/or metal oxide comprise a mixture of two or more metal or metal oxides. In various aspects, the zeolite is a pentasil zeolite and/or a ZSM-5 type zeolite. Also disclosed are processes for making the disclosed heterogeneous catalysts comprising preparing a mixture of a zeolite and one or more metal salts, which can include use of incipient wetness impregnation methods. In various aspects, also disclosed are methods for direct, non-oxidative preparation of higher hydrocarbons from natural gas, including selective for high yield production of C6 and higher hydrocarbons. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US10889754B2
A compound having a Pt tetradentate structure of Formula 1, is provided. In the structure of Formula 1, rings C and D each independently represent 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; L1, L2, and L3 are each independently a direct bond, BR, NR, PR, O, S, Se, C═O, S═O, SO2, SiRR′, GeRR′, alkyl, cycloalkyl, or a combination thereof; the sum of n1 and n2 is 1 or 2; X is selected from NRE, O, S, and Se; X3 and X4 each independently carbon or nitrogen; and one of Q1, Q3, and Q4 is oxygen, and the remaining two of Q1, Q3, and Q4 each represents a direct bond. Formulations and devices, such as an OLEDs, that include the compound of Formula 1 are also described.
US10889753B2
Treatment fluids comprising an aqueous base fluid and a gelling agent of selected from the group consisting of hydroxypropyl starch phosphate, a hydroxypropyl starch phosphate derivative, and any combination thereof. The treatment fluids may be used to perform subterranean formation operations, such as fracturing operations and proppant particulate placement operations. The treatment fluids are self-breakable and provide viscosity for proppant particulate suspension without the use of breakers or crosslinkers.
US10889748B2
The present invention discloses a process for preparing a dibenzylaminquaternary ammonium salt high-temperature resistant corrosion inhibitor and applications thereof. The preparation process comprises the following steps: (1) Dissolve the amine reagents benzylamine, phenethylamine, morpholine or indole in an organic solvent, slowly add epichlorohydrin dropwise, stir to react at a room temperature for 12-14 hours, and then distill under reduced pressure, and wash to obtain an intermediate I; (2) Dissolve the intermediate I in an organic solvent, add dibenzylamine at a ratio, then add an acid binding agent, warm to 60-80° C. to react for 14 to 16 hours, after cooling to room temperature, perform filtration, extraction and distillation under a reduced pressure to obtain an intermediate II; (3) Dissolve the intermediate II in an organic solvent, add quaternizing reagent at a ratio, then warm to 80-110° C. to react for 12 to 15 hours, after cooling to room temperature, perform filtration, extraction and distillation under a reduced pressure to obtain the dibenzylaminquaternary ammonium salt high-temperature resistant corrosion inhibitor. The process is simple and feasible, and its principle is reliable, and the prepared corrosion inhibitor has good resistance to the acid corrosion of carbon steels in oil-gas wells.
US10889741B2
A fluorocarbon resin composition is applicable to produce high-frequency circuit boards including a polytetrafluoroethylene resin; a fluorine-containing copolymer such as poly fluoroalkoxy and fluorinated ethylene propylene; low molecular-weight PTFE micro-powders and inorganic powders; in particular the temperature of pressing copper foil substrates is lowered from 350° C. to 250° C. via a lowering temperature rate of 1 to 4° C./min to improve the crystallinity of the fluorocarbon resin composition as well as improve the copper foil substrate with a high thermal conductivity and a wide range of dielectric constant.
US10889736B2
A polymer that can be used as a release coating or a release agent in an LAB, either of which can be provided in VOC-free form and which exhibits excellent release even after aging under high humidity, includes mer that contain pendent groups that include carbamate functionalities.
US10889735B2
A cross-linkable composition can be provided in the present application. In one embodiment, the cross-linkable composition can allow a membrane formed of the cross-linkable composition to have an excellent interfacial adhesion with another membrane and prevent the occurrence of a detachment phenomenon or the like.
US10889734B2
This invention is directed to stretchable polymer thick film compositions useful for wearable garments. More specifically, the polymer thick film may be used in applications where significant stretching is required, particularly on substrates that can be highly elongated. A particular type of substrate is a thermoplastic polyurethane substrate.
US10889726B2
The present invention provides a polymer having antimicrobial and/or antifouling (protein-repellent) properties, a monomer that can be used in a method of producing the polymer of the invention, and a use of the polymer of the invention, including a method for coating the surface of a material, substrate or product with the polymer of the invention, as well as to products comprising the polymer of the invention and/or a coating comprising the polymer of the invention.
US10889710B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a resin composition for reducing an acetic acid odor that is generated during melt molding of a polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)-based resin and may remain in a molded product. The resin composition of the present invention contains: a PVA-based resin (A); and a multimeric aldehyde compound (B), wherein a content of the multimeric aldehyde compound (B) is 0.5×10−4 to 100×10−4 parts by weight with respect to 100 parts by weight of the PVA-based resin (A).
US10889696B2
Microparticles that have a multimodal pore size distribution are provided, Notably, the pore structure of the present invention can be formed without the need for complex techniques and solvent chemistries traditionally employed to form porous microparticles. Instead, the microparticles contain a polymeric material that is formed from a thermoplastic composition, which is simply strained to a certain degree to achieve the desired porous network structure.
US10889688B2
Cross-linked polymer resins and related salts, solvates, tautomers or stereoisomers are described herein. The cross-linked polymer resins may comprise monomer units of N,N-diallyl aminoalkylphosphonate, a hydrophobic pendant, a tetraallylpiperazinium cross-linker, and sulfur dioxide. A method for producing the cross-linked polymer resins is described. The cross-linked polymer resins may be used as adsorbent materials for the removal of heavy metal ions and contaminant dyes from aqueous solutions. Used cross-linked polymer resins may be removed from solution, cleaned, and reused while maintaining adsorption capacity.
US10889687B2
A polymerizable composition includes an organoborane-base complex that is a complex of an organoborane and a base, a decomplexing agent that at least partially liberates the organoborane from the organoborane-base complex, a polymerizable thiol-containing component comprising at least one polymerizable thiol-containing compound having a plurality of thiol groups in which the sulfur atom of the thiol group is covalently bonded to carbon, a hydroperoxide, and a polymerizable ethylenically-unsaturated component comprising at least one polymerizable ethylenically-unsaturated compound having a plurality of ethylenically-unsaturated groups. The combined amounts of the thiol-containing and ethylenically-unsaturated compounds total at least 50 percent by weight of all polymerizable material in the polymerizable composition. The composition may be provide as a two-part composition. Polymerized reaction product of the composition and methods of making the composition are also disclosed.
US10889686B2
A curable system containing a benzoxazine and a benzothiazole sulfenamide. The curable system may be catalyzed at temperatures generally used to cure multifunctional epoxy resins yet exhibits improved pot-life and processing times and provides a cured article that exhibits acceptable thermo mechanical properties.
US10889685B2
Cyclic imino ether polymers, such as polyoxazolines or polyoxazines, having a low polydispersity index can be obtained in a tubular flow reactor by applying a sufficiently high linear flow velocity of the reaction mixture in the tubular flow reactor, such as a flow velocity of least 100 cm/min or at least 120 cm/min. Also, methods to control the polydispersity of a cyclic imino ether polymer during polymerization are provided.
US10889684B2
A polyester resin having a diol constitutional unit and a dicarboxylic acid constitutional unit, wherein 20 to 100 mol % of the diol constitutional unit is a constitutional unit derived from a diol having a dinorbornane ring; a glass transition temperature of the polyester resin is 90° C. or higher; an amount of heat of a crystallization exothermic peak in temperature drop of the polyester resin is 5 J/g or less; and a yellow index (YI) value as measured by a reflection method according to JIS K 7103 is 10 or less.
US10889683B2
The present invention relates to the polyamines N,N′-diaminopropyl-2-methyl-cyclohexane-1,3-diamine and N,N′-diaminopropyl-4-methyl-cyclohexane-1,3-diamine and mixtures thereof, to the use thereof as curing agents for epoxy resin and to a curable composition comprising epoxy resin and these polyamines. Even at low temperatures this curing agent/the corresponding curable composition cures rapidly and is early-stage water resistant and is thus especially suitable for floor coatings. The invention further relates to the curing of this composition and the cured epoxy resin obtained by curing of this composition.
US10889674B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing grafted copolymers of lignin and/or cellulose, comprising the generation of macroradicals in situ by mechanical impact on the backbone of said lignin and/or cellulose of said lignin and/or cellulose containing material and grafting monomers and/or polymers to said backbone. Furthermore, the present invention relates to the grafted copolymers obtainable by said method, composite materials comprising said copolymers as well as to uses thereof.
US10889670B2
A copolymer of ethylene with silane groups containing comonomer that is produced in a high pressure radical polymerisation process comprising the steps of: (a) compressing ethylene together with the silane groups containing comonomer under pressure in a compressor, wherein a compressor lubricant is used for lubrication, (b) polymerising ethylene together with the silane groups containing comonomer in a polymerisation zone, (c) separating the obtained ethylene from the unreacted products and recovering the separated ethylene copolymer in a recovery zone, wherein in step a) the compressor lubricant comprises a mineral oil and ethylene copolymer has a silane groups containing comonomer content of 0.5 to 3 wt % and an MFR2 of 0.3 to 10 g/10 min. The copolymer of ethylene with silane groups containing comonomer can be used.
US10889662B2
Provided are a novel metallocene-supported catalyst and a method of preparing a polyolefin using the same. The metallocene-supported catalyst according to the present disclosure may be used in the preparation of polyolefins, it may have excellent activity and excellent reactivity with comonomers, and it may prepare olefinic polymers having a high molecular weight and a low molecular weight.
US10889658B2
A tire manufacturing method includes making a master batch, using the master batch to make a rubber composition, and making a green tire. The master batch is made wherein a carbon-black-containing pre-coagulation rubber latex is coagulated to obtain a coagulum; a compound according to Formula (I) is added to the water-containing coagulum; wherein R1 and R2 each indicates a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, an alkenyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, or an alkynyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, R1 and R2 may be the same or different, and M+ indicates sodium ion, potassium ion, or lithium ion; and the compound according to Formula (I) is dispersed within the coagulum. The green tire is provided with unvulcanized rubber sheeting made up of the rubber composition, chafer(s), carcass ply or plies, and bead filler(s).
US10889646B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods related to conditioning a subject for a hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation using an inhibitor of a stem cell growth factor receptor (KIT). The compositions and methods described herein are particularly useful for a subject who is in need of a HSC transplantation and who is hypersensitive to at least one DNA damaging agent, e.g., a subject with fanconi anemia. Compositions and methods related to conditioning a fanconi anemia subject for HSC transplantation using an inhibitor of KIT are also provided herein.
