US10889643B2
The present invention relates to antibodies binding to human interleukin-2 (hIL-2). The invention more specifically relates to humanized antibodies specifically binding a particular epitope of hIL-2 and, when bound to this epitope, displaying a unique capability of inhibiting binding of hIL-2 to CD25.
US10889642B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to the treatment, prevention or alleviation of conditions such as fibrosis in a subject. In some embodiments, the treatment, prevention or alleviation of fibrosis in a subject through the administration of an agent capable of inhibiting the action of Interleukin 11 (IL-11) is disclosed.
US10889638B2
The invention provides antibodies that specifically bind tau. The antibodies inhibit or delay tau-associated pathologies and associated symptomatic deterioration.
US10889636B2
The invention provides antibodies that specifically bind to the LG4-5 modules of the G domain of laminin α4. The antibodies can preferentially stain cancer or tumor cells or tissue. The antibodies can be used for detecting cancer, evaluating the efficacy of a cancer therapy, treating cancer, and treating obesity or obesity-related diseases, among other applications.
US10889629B2
Disclosed are T-cell receptors (TCRs) binding to tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) for targeting cancer cells, T-cells expressing same, methods for producing same, and methods for treating cancers using same. Disclosed are TCRs and their variants that bind to HLA class I or II molecules with a peptide, such as MAG-003 have the amino acid sequence of KVLEHVVRV (SEQ ID NO:1). The description further relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods, the immunotherapy of cancer, and tmor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T-cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10889625B2
Methods for treating and preventing neurodegenerative disease, neurological injury, including stroke, via administration of Transient receptor potential M2 (TRPM2)-inhibitors. The inhibitors may be administered in conjunction with another therapeutic agent or therapeutic regimen. The peptides may be administered to a human male. The peptides may be administered within eight hours of a neurological injury, such as a stroke.
US10889612B2
The present invention pertains to pharmaceutical chemical field, and relates to a sterol derivative as well as preparation method and uses thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to a compound of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, ester or ether thereof, wherein, R1 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, ═O(carbonyl), H, and C1-C3 alkyl; R2 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, H, and C1-C3 alkyl; R3 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, ═O, H, and C1-C3 alkyl; R4 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, H, and C1-C3 alkyl; and none, one, two, three or four of R1, R2, R3, and R4 are —OH. The compound of the present invention can inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, tumor cells and lipase effectively, and is a potential drug for reducing blood-fat, antitumors, or for losing weight.
US10889609B2
The present invention relates to a mannitol-based amphipathic compound, a method of preparing the same, a method of extracting, solubilizing, stabilizing or crystallizing a membrane protein using the compound, and a method of analyzing a structure of the membrane protein under an electron microscope using the compound. When the mannitol-based compound according to the present invention is used, the membrane protein can be stably stored in an aqueous solution for a prolonged period of time and thus can be applied to analysis of functions and structures thereof. Since the analysis of the structures and functions of the membrane protein is one of the fields of most interest in biology and chemistry currently, and more than half of new drugs currently in development are targeting membrane proteins, the present invention is applicable to research on the structures of membrane proteins closely related to the development of the new drugs.
US10889605B2
The present disclosure relates to a light emitting material for a tetradentate cyclometalated platinum complex and an application thereof in the field of OLED. The tetradentate cyclometalated platinum complex is selected from one of compounds as shown in formula I. The present disclosure adjusts the photophysical properties of the tetradentate cyclometalated platinum complex by changing the structure of a ligand surrounding a metal center or regulating and controlling the structure of a substituent on a ligand, which can emit light in a range of about 400 nm to about 700 nm and has the advantages of narrow emission spectrum, high stability and high efficiency and has a wide application prospect in the field of OLED display and illumination.
US10889603B2
A versatile, highly efficient process for the preparation of acylphosphines such as mono- and bisacylphosphines via reaction of phosphines (PH3 and higher homologues) or silylated phosphines with acylhalides in the presence of at least one lewis acid. Further a novel acyl phosphines obtainable by the process.
US10889602B2
Embodiments relate to an organic compound of Formula 1: The excitons in the triplet state are engaged in emission such that the emitting efficiency of the organic compound is increased. Embodiments also relate to an organic light emitting display device with an organic light emitting diode that includes the organic compound.
US10889600B2
Described herein are boron-containing compounds, compositions, and methods for their preparation.
US10889597B2
Provided is a desulfurizer for removing a sulfur compound contained in a fluid, comprising a desulfurization agent for removing the sulfur compound from the fluid and a housing which contains the desulfurization agent and the inside of which the fluid flows through. The desulfurization agent includes a metal organic framework. The metal organic framework has copper ions and organic ligands. The organic ligands include 1,3,5-benzenetricarboxylic acid and 1,3-benzenedicarboxylic acid.
US10889592B2
The disclosure relates to inhibitors of USP28 and/or USP25 useful in the treatment of cancers, inflammation, autoimmune diseases, and infectious diseases, having the Formula: (I), where R1, R2, R3, R4, R4′, R5, R6, X, and n are described herein.
US10889591B2
The present invention falls within the technical field of medicine, and in particular relates to PDE9 inhibitor compounds as shown in formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or stereoisomers thereof, and also relates to pharmaceutical preparations and pharmaceutical compositions of the compounds and the uses thereof. X1, X2, X3, X4, R1, R2, ring A, L and m are as defined in the description. The compounds can be used to prepare drugs for treating or preventing related diseases mediated by PDE9.
US10889589B2
Compounds of Formula I: or stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, wherein Ring A, Ring C and X are as defined herein, are inhibitors of TrkA kinase and are useful in the treatment of diseases which can be treated with a TrkA kinase inhibitor such as pain, cancer, inflammation/inflammatory diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, certain infectious diseases, Sjogren's syndrome, endometriosis, diabetic peripheral neuropathy, prostatitis and pelvic pain syndrome.
US10889584B2
The present invention relates to certain bicyclic bis-heteroaryl compounds of Formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for preventing, reversing, slowing, or inhibiting protein aggregation, and methods of treating diseases that are associated with protein aggregation, including neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Lewy body disease, Parkinson's disease with dementia, fronto-temporal dementia, Huntington's Disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and multiple system atrophy, and cancer including melanoma.
US10889565B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I) wherein all variables are as defined in the specification, and compositions comprising any of such novel compounds. These compounds are APJ agonists which may be used as medicaments.
US10889563B2
Provided herein are dUTPase inhibitors, compositions comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds and compositions.
US10889562B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include prodrugs of compounds that activate Nrf2. Such prodrugs find use in the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and disorders, such as for example psoriasis and multiple sclerosis. Embodiments of the present disclosure also relate to pharmaceutical compositions that include these prodrugs, methods of using these prodrugs in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, processes for preparing these prodrugs and intermediates useful in these processes.
US10889558B2
Described herein is a compound of formula (I) in the form of any one of its stereoisomers or a mixture thereof, and where the Q group represents a —CH═CH—CH3 group or a —C≡C—CH3 group. Also described herein is a method of using a compound of formula (I), the method including using the compound of formula (I) as part of a perfuming composition or as part of a perfumed consumer product.
US10889549B2
The invention relates to a commercially viable, cost effective and energy efficient process for the preparation of 2-(1H-Imidazol-4-yl)ethanamine or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof in high purity and yield via application of continuous flow technology.
US10889538B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include fatty acid β-hydroxyester compounds (e.g., fatty acid esters of β-hydroxybutyrate), fatty acid esters of butanediol, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions having one or more fatty acid β-hydroxyester compounds and/or one or more fatty acid esters of butanediol. Methods for treating a subject by administering one or more esters to the subject are also provided. Kits containing one or more of the subject esters are also described.
US10889534B2
An alkylation process is described. The alkylation process includes contacting a feed comprising a paraffin or an aromatic with an olefin feed in the presence of a liquid Lewis acid catalyst in an alkylation reaction zone under alkylation conditions to form a reaction mixture comprising alkylation products and the liquid Lewis acid catalyst. The liquid Lewis acid catalyst is the liquid reaction product of a donor molecule and a metal halide. The alkylation products are separated from the liquid Lewis acid catalyst and recovered.
US10889533B2
A process for selectively producing 1-butene comprises combining at least one antifouling agent and at least one aluminum alkyl compound to form an antifouling feed stream, wherein bringing the antifouling agent into contact with the aluminum alkyl compound forms at least one antifouling agent co-catalyst in a first step. The antifouling agent co-catalyst may comprise a structure comprising a central aluminum molecule bound to an R1 group, an R2 group, and an R3 group. The process further comprises feeding the antifouling feed stream, a catalyst comprising at least one titanate compound, and ethylene into a reactor dimerize ethylene in a second step. The catalyst is fed as a stream separated from the antifouling feed stream. The feeds may be varied in real-time to adjust a ratio of the formed antifouling agent co-catalyst and residual aluminum alkyl compound or antifouling agent in the antifouling feed stream.
US10889528B2
A fertilizer derived from an organic source and a method of making are provided. The fertilizer of the present invention advantageously has a nitrogen content greater than 4%. The method of making the fertilizer also produces potable water.
US10889521B2
A glass plate, curved around a first axis, has a first surface being concave and a second surface being convex. In a cross sectional view of a plane perpendicular to the first axis, both end portions of the second surface are chemically strengthened. Compressive stress produced by ion exchange in the both end portions of the second surface is larger than that of the first surface. An X axis includes a line segment connecting one end point and a point, most distant from the one end point, on the cross section of the second surface. A Y axis passes a center point of the line segment, and positive direction is from a first surface toward a second surface. A second-order coefficient of a quadratic curve that approximates second-order differential values of a locus of a partial shape in a positive Y value region in the cross section is negative.
US10889520B2
Described herein are glass forming apparatuses with cooled muffle assemblies and methods for using the same to form glass ribbons. According to one embodiment, a muffle assembly for a fusion forming apparatus may include a muffle frame comprising a back wall, a front wall opposite the back wall, and a pair of sidewalls joining the front wall to the back wall in a closed-loop. At least one first cooling tube may extend through the back wall and the front wall across the closed-loop. At least one second cooling tube may extend through the back wall and the front wall across the closed loop such that the at least one second cooling tube is spaced apart from and parallel with the at least one first cooling tube.
US10889518B2
The present invention provides a use of an inorganic salt or acid capable of producing free phosphate or fluoride ion in reducing the hardness and/or alkalinity of a water system containing residual antiscalant. In the lab test, it is found that the addition of a suitable amount of sodium phosphate or sodium fluoride may induce alkalinity reduction as well as hardness reduction. The production efficiency can be enhanced since the scaling was relieved and heat exchange efficiency can be improved. Meanwhile, lower scaling stress also means lower antiscalant dosage and cost, and thus the total operation cost can be reduced.
US10889515B2
In one embodiment, hydrodynamic cavitation lyses influent bacteria, releasing intracellular enzymes, and creates CaCO3 seed crystals that are discharged at the base of the water column. Bottom-dwelling upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB)-like granules grow in a dense, viscous N, P & Ca++ rich fluid (“hydrolytic brine”). The brine hydrolyzes ancient sludge and fresh solids into simple liquids. The granules convert hydrolyzed liquids into gas. New CaCO3 seeds grow at the produced gas/supernatant interface and propagate across the entire lagoon. Once the sludge inventory is digested, there is an excess of granules that modulate their gross productivity in response to substrate load, pH, and temperature. In one specific example, the treated lagoon has no odor, is free of gelled sludge and effluent.
US10889513B2
A method for the separation and removal of organic and inorganic contamination in fluids where water is the continuous phase and oil contamination is present in the continuous phase, is described. Xanthan and/or Guar in the unsolved state dispersed in nonpolar solvent of de-aromatized aliphatic or a synthetic isoparaffine, immiscible with water and miscible with oil, is dosed into the fluid.
US10889495B2
Method for stable ethanol steam reforming, wherein a catalytic ethanol reforming is carried out in two vessels operating in parallel mode both filled in with a catalyst active for this reaction, with the first vessel acting in operation mode, generating an hydrogen rich stream, and the parallel vessel, acting in regeneration mode, made flowing with steam in order to carry out the gasification of carbonaceous compounds deposited on the catalyst.
US10889494B2
Various embodiments of the invention describe an environmentally stable, and exceptionally dense hydrogen storage (6.5 wt % and 0.105 kg H2/L in the total composite, 7.56 wt % in Mg) using atomically thin and gas-selective reduced graphene oxide sheets as encapsulants. Other approaches to protecting reactive materials involve energy intensive introduction of considerable amounts of inactive, protective matrix which compromises energy density. However, these multilaminates are able to deliver exceptionally dense hydrogen storage far-exceeding 2020 DOE target metrics for gravimetric capacity (5.5 wt %), and ultimate full-fleet volumetric targets (0.070 kg H2/L) for fuel cell electric vehicles. Methods of stabilizing reactive nanocrystalline metals in zero-valency also has wide-ranging applications for batteries, catalysis, encapsulants, and energetic materials.
US10889480B2
A dispensing system for dispensing a precise or controlled volume of fluid to a downstream assembly of an appliance is provided. As one example, the downstream assembly may be an ice making assembly and the appliance may be refrigerator appliance. In one example aspect, a dispensing system includes a housing that defines a chamber. A piston is movable within the chamber. The dispensing system also includes a plurality of valves that may be moved between various positions to move the piston between various positions. When the piston is moved within the chamber, the piston displaces a precise or controlled volume to the downstream assembly.
US10889466B2
Access prevention systems of elevator landing door locks including a landing door lintel for a landing door of an elevator system, a lock mechanism mounted to the lintel and arranged to enable unlocking of the elevator landing door, and an indicator feature on the lintel and aligned with the lock mechanism to indicate a location of a blocked locking mechanism, wherein the indicator feature is at least one of frangible or breakable to permit access to the lock mechanism when the indicator feature is broken.
US10889462B2
A cable reel includes an outer frame and a reel assembly. The reel assembly is installed on the outer frame. The reel assembly includes a left reel and a right reel. An inner bracket is arranged in the outer frame. The inner bracket includes a left bracket and a right bracket which are respectively connected with the left reel and the right reel. A telescopic cylinder for controlling the swing is arranged between the left bracket and the right bracket.
US10889461B1
A coil deployment system and one or more methods of manipulating a coil deployment system, is provided. The coil deployment system has a trailer frame of one or more frame components including a pair of support brackets, a first pair of lower support arms, a second pair of lower support arms, a first pair of upper support arms, and a second pair of upper support arms. The trailer frame is adjustable such that the width and height of the trailer can be adjusted to manipulate and accommodate various sizes of coil drums of spoolable pipe deploy, collect, transport or store the spoolable pipe.
US10889456B2
A handling system (100) for handling stackable flat elements, in particular carton elements. The system (100) includes a supporting table (102) on which at least an edge portion (303) of a stack (101) of flat elements is supportable, a clamping device (103) configured for clamping a first part (113) of the edge portion of the stack (101) to the supporting table (102), and a lifting device (104) configured for lifting a second part (114) of the stack (101) from the supporting table (102). The lifting device (104) and the clamping device (103) are arranged to the supporting table (102) such that the stack (101) is bendable by clamping the first part (113) of the stack (101) onto the supporting table (102) by the clamping device (103) and lifting the second part (114) of the stack (101) from the supporting table (102) by the lifting device (104) at the same time such that the stack (101) is bent around a bending axis (109), wherein the bending axis (109) extends within a plane parallel to a supporting plane (112) of the supporting surface (111).
US10889452B1
An article processing station is characterized by an accumulating article shaft and robotic EOAT receiving articles entering the shaft. The shaft includes a grouped article receiving deck within an egress portion of the shaft, opposingly paired sidewalls, and an end wall downstream of the sidewalls. The deck includes spaced apart deck fingers, the end wall includes spaced apart wall fingers, and the EOAT includes spaced apart tool fingers. The tool fingers are registerable in relation to spaces of the spaced apart wall fingers and the spaced apart deck fingers so as to pass there through. The tool travels to, through and from the shaft, so as to receive articles entering the ingress portion of the shaft while traveling from the ingress portion towards the egress portion in furtherance of depositing an article group upon the deck during travel from the shaft.
US10889448B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods for chain wear elongation measurement and drive compensation. In one embodiment, a chain system includes a chain including a plurality of links arranged in a continuous loop and having first measurement values for plurality of links and total chain length, wherein the chain is configured to rotate on a sprocket, and a chain elongation measurement system for counting the plurality of links of the chain and for determining total chain length to determine first chain elongation measurement values.
US10889444B2
Work-saving improvements for food-process lines include (1) mounting alternate machines of a food process line on pivot hardware to speed up washing and maintenance operations, (2) mounting the machines on rolling riding gear in order to speed up the activities of building and re-building food process lines of a different series of machines, or (3) isolate the food process line in its own tunnel and hence its own climate-controlled atmosphere to reduce conflicts with running two food process lines side by side where one food process line is a source of air borne allergens.
US10889431B2
The present invention is directed to a thermoplastic bag comprised of a front panel and a back panel. The front panel and back panel are generally joined along a first side edge, a second side edge, and a bottom edge of the respective front panel and back panel. The front panel has a distal edge with the distal edge folded over the front panel to provide a hem and an overlap area immediately below the first hem. The overlap encapsulates a scent carrier that can provide a scent to the thermoplastic bag.
US10889420B2
A packaging system protects and retains all the components of a lighting unit with a resilient binding unit. The packaging system is used for a lighting unit with a first component having a first elongate member and a second component having a second elongate member. It also includes a carrier base with a first and second aperture used to receive and hold the first and second elongate member at a first longitudinal location. The second aperture is located proximate to the first aperture. The packaging also includes a resilient binding element for holding the first and second components with a first and second ring to receive and hold the first and second elongate member at a second longitudinal location, where the second longitudinal location being spaced a distance from the first longitudinal location. The binding element is used to inhibit the first and second components from being longitudinally moved relative to each other.
US10889407B2
A convertible pallet alternately displays and ships/transports associated product received thereon is disclosed herein. The pallet includes a substantially planar support member for receiving the associated product thereon. At least first and second wheels are mounted to the pallet. A convertible support surface is movably mounted to the pallet, the convertible support surface having (i) a first position where the convertible support surface receives loads imposed on the upper surface and transfers the loads directly to an associated surface, and (ii) a second position where the wheels extend outwardly from the lower surface for engagement with the associated surface so that loads imposed on the upper surface are transferred to the associated surface through the wheels and for converting the pallet into a movable cart.
US10889401B2
Systems and methods for applying decorations from a web onto a substrates are disclosed. According to some aspects, a decoration may be transferred from the web directly to a substrate based on contact of the substrate with an adhesive of a portion of the decoration while the portion of the decoration is attached to the web.
US10889400B2
Method of unwrapping a generally parallelepiped palletised load, which comprises making vertical and/or horizontal linear cuts in a plastics material which surrounds the palletised load, wherein at least one of the linear cuts has a discontinuous cut portion which comprises a plurality of cuts of determined length and constant pitch, the method comprising a subsequent step of tearing said discontinuous cut portion.
US10889387B1
Disclosed is an aircraft lighting system disposed in an environment of an aircraft. The system includes a housing. The system includes an illumination element disposed within the housing. The system includes energy generation circuitry configured to generate electricity from the environment. The system includes switching circuitry including a driver operable to control illumination of the illumination element and operated with a driver voltage. The system includes energy harvesting circuitry including a regulator configured to draw energy from the energy generation circuitry and output a regulator voltage at the driver voltage.
US10889369B2
Described herein is an apparatus comprising an aircraft wing and a trailing edge aerodynamic surface connected to a trailing edge of the aircraft wing via a piston assembly in which the piston assembly holds the trailing edge aerodynamic surface in a neutral position relative to the aircraft wing at a constant supply pressure. The piston assembly may be implemented using a pneumatic piston or a hydraulic piston. A first end of the piston assembly may be connected to the aircraft wing and a second end of the piston assembly may be connected to the trailing edge aerodynamic surface. The piston assembly may include a pressure relief valve which may open or close, raising or lowering the aerodynamic surface, responsive to lift load on the aircraft wing.
US10889357B1
The buoy and rope launching device comprises a launch structure, a vessel, and a buoy. The launch structure is configured for use with the vessel. The launch structure is configured for use with a buoy. The buoy further comprises a pennant. The pennant is a rope that attaches the buoy to the pot. The launch structure jettisons the buoy and the pennant from the vessel. The use of the launch structure prevents the entanglement of a crewperson in the pennant as the buoy and pennant are jettisoned.
US10889353B2
A bicycle rear sprocket assembly comprises a plurality of sprockets and a sprocket carrier configured to support at least one of the plurality of sprockets. The sprocket carrier includes at least ten internal spline teeth and a circumferentially extending non-splined portion. The at least ten internal spline teeth are configured to engage with the sprocket support body of the bicycle rear hub assembly. The at least ten internal spline teeth extend in an axial direction with respect to a rotational center axis of the bicycle rear sprocket assembly and are spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction with respect to the rotational center axis. The circumferentially extending non-splined portion is disposed to be adjacent to the at least ten internal spline teeth in the axial direction and recessed from the at least ten internal spline teeth in a radial direction with respect to the rotational center axis.
US10889345B2
An attachment apparatus for a vehicle body includes: a first roller rotatably disposed at a first hinge at one side of upper portion of a moving body and moving up and down with respect to a first fixing body; a link rotatably disposed with reference to the first hinge and extending to both directions; a second roller rotatably disposed at a second hinge at one end portion of the link and disposed at one side of the first roller; and a first elastic member disposed to elastically pull or push another end portion of the link so that the second hinge rotates with reference to the first hinge, wherein the first and second rollers respectively contact with a surface of the vehicle body.
US10889330B2
A vehicle-body upper structure includes a roof panel constituting an outer plate of a vehicle-body upper part, a roof side reinforcement provided below, in a vehicle up-down direction, an outer region of the roof panel in the vehicle width direction, and a roof side rail provided in an outer end portion, in the vehicle width direction, of the vehicle-body upper part so as to extend along a vehicle front-rear direction. The roof panel includes an outer joining portion in an outer end portion of the roof panel in a vehicle width direction. The roof side reinforcement includes a rail joining portion and a roof joining portion, and the roof joining portion is joined to a predetermined part of the roof panel. The roof side rail is joined to the outer joining portion of the roof panel and the rail joining portion of the roof side reinforcement.
US10889328B2
A front subframe structure includes a subframe body and a pair of right and left longitudinal members. The subframe body includes an arm front-side supporting portion, an arm rear-side supporting portion, and a detaching portion. Each of the longitudinal members has, in the rear part thereof, a bent portion that is further in the vehicle width direction outer side with respect to the arm front-side supporting portion. A lower arm has, in the rear part thereof, a longitudinally extending portion. The rear face portion of the bent portion, and the front face portion which is in the front side of the longitudinally extending portion of the lower arm extend substantially parallel to each other along the vehicle width direction. A reinforcing portion is provided on a face of the rear face portion of the bent portion, the face opposing the front face portion of the longitudinally extending portion.
US10889321B2
A steering module for a vehicle has a steering input element and a sensor device, which includes at least one sensor, for registering the position of the steering input element, and has a servomechanism which includes a first actuator and acts on the steering input element. The servomechanism is redundantly designed and comprises a second actuator.
US10889319B2
A method for controlling a power steering device including a steering assist motor and a steering wheel. In the method, a steering wheel torque setpoint is generated, the actual steering wheel torque actually exerted by the driver on the steering wheel is measured, the difference, the so-called “steering wheel torque error”, between the steering wheel torque setpoint and the actual steering wheel torque is determined, then a motor torque setpoint for the steering assist motor is generated from a first filtered proportional component on one hand, obtained by filtering via a phase-lead filter the steering wheel torque error weighted by a first assist gain, and from a second derivative return component on the other hand, obtained by calculating the time derivative of the actual steering wheel torque and weighting the derivative by means of a second derivative gain.
US10889315B2
A supporting apparatus for a steering gear box includes a pressing yoke part for supporting a side surface of a rack bar to be engaged with a steering input gear in a shape to wrap the side surface of the rack bar, a supporting yoke part provided in a mounting groove together with the pressing yoke part, an elastic link part formed of an elastic material and extending from the pressing yoke part to be inserted into the supporting yoke part, a cover part provided at a position opposite to the supporting yoke part and shielding an inlet of the mounting groove, and a pressing part located between the supporting yoke part and the cover part and pressing the supporting yoke part by a predetermined elastic force.
US10889310B2
The present disclosure relates to a railway collision protection and safety system having a vehicle device located on rail vehicles at a work zone, a personal protection unit located with rail workers at the work zone, and a dispatcher processor at a control center. An authority limit within the work zone may be determined by the dispatcher processor, and an authority exceeded signal is sent to the rail vehicle when the rail vehicle is determined to exceed the authority limit.
US10889309B2
Provided is a bearing monitoring device of a railcar, the bearing monitoring device being configured to monitor a bearing of a bogie supporting a carbody, the bearing monitoring device including: a receiving unit configured to receive a data piece of a temperature of the bearing and at least one of a data piece of a load of the bearing and a data piece of a rotating speed of the bearing; and a diagnostic unit configured to, when a monitoring value exceeds a variable threshold, determine that an abnormality of the bearing has occurred, the monitoring value being at least one of a temperature value and a temperature increase rate, the at least one of the temperature value and the temperature increase rate being obtained from the data piece of the temperature of the bearing received by the receiving unit, wherein when at least one of a value of the data piece of the load and a value of the data piece of the rotating speed decreases, the diagnostic unit lowers the variable threshold.
US10889306B2
According to some embodiments, a railcar comprises a first end, a second end, and a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side disposed between the first end and the second end. The first longitudinal side comprises a center panel and an intermediate panel. The center panel is disposed between a center of the railcar and the intermediate panel. The intermediate panel is disposed between the center panel and the first end or the second end. A width of the railcar at the intermediate panel is greater than a width of the railcar at the center panel. The center panel and the intermediate panel comprise generally straight panels coupled together at an angle. In particular embodiments, the first longitudinal side further comprises an end panel disposed between the intermediate panel and the first end or the second end.
US10889304B2
A vehicle control device includes: an automatic driving control unit that executes a first driving mode in which at least one of acceleration/deceleration, and steering of a host vehicle is automatically controlled in order for the host vehicle to travel along a route up to a destination; and a specific situation transition control unit that encourages a vehicle occupant of the host vehicle to transition to a second driving mode in which the degree of automatic driving is lower in comparison to the first driving mode by decelerating the host vehicle in a case of terminating execution of the first driving mode at a scheduled termination point of the first driving mode.
US10889295B2
One variation of a method for influencing entities proximal a road surface includes, at an autonomous vehicle: over a first period of time, detecting a pedestrian proximal a road surface; predicting an initial path of the pedestrian an initial confidence score for the initial path of the pedestrian based on and motion of the pedestrian during the first period of time; in response to the initial confidence score falling below a threshold confidence, replaying an audio track audible to the pedestrian and calculating a revised path of the pedestrian and a revised confidence score for the revised path based on motion of the pedestrian following replay of the audio track; and autonomously navigating across the road surface according to a planned route in response to the revised path of the pedestrian falling outside of the planned route and the revised confidence score exceeding the threshold confidence.
US10889292B2
An apparatus and a method for supporting safe driving of a vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a detector that detects surrounding information of the vehicle and state information of a driver. A processor determines whether attention of the driver is dispersed based on the state information of the driver when entrance of the vehicle into a dangerous driving situation is determined based on the surrounding information and restricts use of a convenience function in the vehicle based on whether the attention of the driver is dispersed.
US10889284B2
An electric vehicle allows a user to experience changes in acceleration g-force, as with a conventional power plant, including: a transmission that sets a gearshift position based on a gearshift position command value to be supplied, and reduces a rotation speed of a motor with the gear ratio based on the gearshift position to rotationally drive wheels; a user operation unit that outputs the gearshift position command value and a speed control amount, based on user operation; and a controller that sets a DC voltage command value or an AC voltage command value to an operation-based value corresponding to the gearshift position and the speed control amount, and, on the condition that operation on the user operation unit satisfies a predetermined condition, sets the DC voltage command value or the AC voltage command value to a value higher than the operation-based value for causing a change in acceleration.
US10889269B2
A vehicle washing system for cleaning a vehicle located in a washing zone of the vehicle washing system includes a device for creating a foam curtain extending substantially transversely to a longitudinal direction of the vehicle washing system. The device is arranged on the vehicle washing system in such a way as to be vertically adjustable.
US10889264B2
A vehicle includes a seat movable from an upright position to a folded position. The vehicle includes a steering wheel in front of the seat. The vehicle includes a lockout box supported by the seat and positioned to restrict access to the steering wheel when the seat is in the folded position.
US10889253B1
A wire harness assembly includes a wire harness and a bracket fixedly secured to the wire harness by an overmold. The bracket includes a first wall fixedly secured to and facing the wire harness from a first radial angle with respect to a centerline of the wire harness such that a first wall normal line directed normal from the first wall intersects the centerline of the wire harness where the first wall is fixedly secured to the wire harness. The bracket also includes a second wall fixedly secured to and facing the wire harness from a second radial angle that is a different radial angle from the first radial angle with respect to the centerline of the wire harness such that a second wall normal line directed from the second wall intersects the centerline of the wire harness where the second wall is fixedly secured to the wire harness.
US10889252B2
A vehicle body rear structure includes: an opening and closing body for opening and closing an opening defined in a vehicle body rear part, the opening and closing body having an outer panel and an inner panel located inwardly of the outer panel, the outer panel having a rear surface part facing substantially in a vehicle rearward direction; a license plate provided on a bumper member under the opening and closing body; an emblem disposed on the rear surface part and having a projecting part projecting rearward from the rear surface part outer panel; and an image capturing device installed between the rear surface part and the inner panel and configured to capture images behind the vehicle. The rear surface part has an installation hole which is located at a position lower than the projecting part and in which the image capturing device is installed.
US10889246B2
An automotive interior equipment tray that defines a top surface, an under surface and a peripheral edge section extending between the under surface and the top surface over a contour of the tray. The peripheral edge section defines with the under surface a peripheral ridge. The tray includes a bead protruding from the under surface in the vicinity of the peripheral ridge.
US10889238B2
A method for providing a spatially perceptible acoustic signal for a rider of a two-wheeled vehicle, including: providing an acoustic signal by a two-wheeled vehicle; determining the position of a helmet worn by the rider of the two-wheeled vehicle relative to the two-wheeled vehicle; processing the acoustic signal depending on the determined position to provide a three-dimensional output signal which constitutes a binaural projection of the acoustic signal; and outputting the output signal via a stereo headset of the helmet, wherein the output signal spatially positions a sound source contained in the acoustic signal depending on the determined position, whereby the sound source is spatially locatable by the rider of the two-wheeled vehicle.
US10889236B2
A working spotlight for a vehicle is provided, featuring a housing, a light source, and a light guide system for guiding working light generated by the light source in a predefined direction out of the housing and into a working area. In and/or on the housing, a means of generating a motif is arranged for projecting at least one motif onto a projection surface outside of the housing.
US10889226B1
An assembly includes a floor, a vehicle pedal disposed above the floor, and a cover. The cover is rotatably connected to the floor. The cover is rotatable relative to the floor from a closed position in which the cover is disposed above the vehicle pedal to an open position in which the vehicle pedal is disposed above the cover.
US10889222B2
A seat latching system for use in moving a movable seat portion between a first position and a second position. The seat latching system includes a first fastener that is attached to a first location and a second fastener that is attached to a second location. An elongated resilient strap extends from a first end to a second end and has a first coupling at the first end and a second coupling at the second end. The first coupling is attached to the first fastener and the second coupling is attached to the second fastener. The elongated resilient strap allows the movable seat portion to move between the first position and the second position while the strap is under tension.
US10889210B2
An apparatus for a vehicle comprises a lid for covering an opening of a container and a panel pivotally attached to the lid to enable the panel to pivot between a stowed orientation, in which the panel extends alongside the first face of the lid, and a first deployed orientation, in which the panel extends at a positive angle to the first face of the lid. The apparatus also includes a cushion member and a cushion attachment mechanism attaching the cushion member to the lid. The cushion attachment mechanism is arranged to enable the cushion member to move between a stowed position and a deployed position.
US10889207B2
A longitudinal adjuster (10) for a vehicle seat (1) includes at least one rail pair (12) with a longitudinal direction (x) relatively sliding and engaging first seat rail (14), for connecting to a seat frame side part (6), and a second seat rail (16), for connecting to a vehicle structure. A first clamping element (20), fastened to the first seat rail and a second clamping element (22), fastened to the second seat rail are usually spaced apart from each other and engage with each other, in response to a defined application of force, for example in the event of a crash. The first clamping element has a connection section (24), which can be connected to a surface (8) of a seat frame side part (6) directed toward the rear. The vehicle seat includes the longitudinal adjuster and a seat frame side part, which is connected to a first seat rail.
US10889202B2
A vehicle power supply system is provided. The vehicle power supply system includes a first power line connected by a first inverter and a first battery, a second power line connected by a second inverter and a second battery, a voltage converter converting a voltage between the power lines, a charging and discharging control device that controls charging and discharging of the batteries by operating the inverters and the voltage converter, and a permission unit that permits or prohibits execution of the electrical pass control for charging the second battery with power discharged from the first battery. The charging and discharging control device executes the electrical pass control when a second SOC is equal to or less than a predetermined value and the electrical pass control is permitted by the permission unit. The permission unit does not permit the execution of the electrical pass control during regenerative deceleration.
US10889201B2
Provide is a power supply redundant system in which power supply systems of different voltages coexist, which allows electric power to be supplied to a load even if a ground fault or short circuit occurs therein. The system includes a DCDC converter, a first side of the DCDC convertor being connected to a first battery having a first voltage, a first switch provided between a second battery having a second voltage different from the first voltage and a second side of the DCDC converter, a load operating with the second voltage, separately connected to the second battery and the second side of the DCDC converter, and a controller monitoring a voltage of the second battery by turning on the first switch, and when the voltage of the second battery becomes equal to or lower than a first reference value, switching off the first switch and allowing the DCDC converter to output the second voltage from the second side.
US10889199B2
A method for determining a charging requirement for an energy storage means of a vehicle can include: determining a routine of use of charge of the energy storage means; predicting a future use of charge of the energy storage means based on the routine; determining a charging requirement for the energy storage means based on the prediction; and providing an output to a user of the vehicle indicative of a time at which an increase in the state of charge of the energy storage means will be required based on the determined charging requirement.
US10889195B2
An amount of electric power generated by a power supply device is input, an upper-limit current value is calculated using a relationship which varies with operation of the conversion circuit, a lower-limit voltage of the conversion circuit is calculated based on the amount of generated electric power and the upper-limit current value, and control is performed such that a voltage on an output side of the conversion circuit is higher than the lower-limit voltage. Accordingly, even when a voltage conversion device restricts a current output from the conversion circuit, it is possible to curb an influence on an output of the power supply device.
US10889189B2
A braking force control apparatus for a vehicle has a friction braking device, a regenerative braking device, and a control unit for controlling the friction braking device and the regenerative braking device. The control unit is configured to calculate a target pitch gain of the vehicle so that a pitch gain of the vehicle gradually changes in accordance with a difference between a target braking force of the vehicle and a regenerative braking force when the target braking force of the vehicle exceeds a maximum regenerative braking force and changes within a range larger than the maximum regenerative braking force, and to control a front-rear wheel distribution ratio of a friction braking force so that the pitch gain of the vehicle becomes the target pitch gain and the friction braking force becomes the difference between the target braking force of the vehicle and the maximum regenerative braking force.
US10889187B2
A vehicle-mounted power supply system according to the present invention is provided with: a main battery; a sub-battery; a voltage regulating unit which regulates the voltage of power supplied from the main battery and the sub-battery; and a state detecting unit which detects the state of the sub-battery. The state detecting unit is provided with: a first calculating unit which calculates a first internal resistance on the basis of a drop in the voltage across the sub-battery and an inrush current when the sub-battery supplies power to a load; a second calculating unit which manipulates the voltage regulating unit immediately following the calculation of the first internal resistance, and subsequently at least one more time, to cause the sub-battery to be forcibly discharged, and calculates a second internal resistance on the basis of a relationship between the voltage across the sub-battery and the current flowing thereinto when forcibly discharged; and a state determining unit which determines the state of the sub-battery on the basis of the first internal resistance and changes in the second internal resistance.
US10889175B1
A power transmission apparatus for a vehicle includes: an input shaft receiving engine torque; a compound planetary gear set formed by first and second planetary gear sets and having first to fifth elements; a first shaft fixedly connected to the first element, fixedly connected to a motor/generator, and selectively connected to the input shaft; a second shaft fixedly connected to the second element and selectively connected to the input shaft; a third shaft fixedly connected to the third element and selectively connected to a housing; a fourth shaft fixedly connected to the fourth element, fifth shaft fixedly connecting the fifth element and an output gear; a sixth shaft selectively connected to the second shaft and the fourth shaft and selectively connected to the housing; engagement elements including a clutch and a brake; and an engagement unit selectively connecting the sixth shaft to the second shaft or the fourth shaft.
US10889169B2
A latching assembly for use on a pick-up truck, and particularly on a truck bed cover configured to sit over a truck bed section is provided. The latching assembly includes an electronic release assembly and a mechanical override system. An electronic release assembly includes a first rod coupled to a first electronic actuator and a second rod coupled to a second electronic actuator. The electronic release assembly also includes a first electronic actuator that selectively moves the first latch catch and the second electronic actuator that selectively moves the second latch catch. A switch is engaged to send a signal to the first and second electronic actuators to cause the first and second latch catches to disengage from the truck bed section. The first and second rods and the first and second electronic actuators also serve as part of a mechanical override system that selectively unlatches at least a portion of the truck bed cover from the truck bed section. The mechanical override system moves the first and second rods to mechanically cause the first and second electronic actuators, respectively, to manually move the first and second latch catches, respectively, to unlatch the at least the portion of the truck bed cover from the truck bed section as an alternative to moving the first and second latch catches by electrically moving the first and second electronic actuators.
US10889159B2
A control device that includes a body, a movable element that is movable according to a first degree of freedom relative to the body, an actuator for moving the movable element relative to the body, and a secondary control device. The secondary control device has a switch movable between an open position in which a function is deactivated and a closed position in which the function is activated. The actuator is movable according to a second degree of freedom between a spaced apart position and a control position in which the actuator moves the switch between its open position and its closed position.
US10889156B2
A suspension bearing unit for a motor vehicle, comprising an upper cup, a lower cup and a bearing interposed between the upper cup and the lower cup in rotation in relation to each other about a principal axis. The suspension bearing unit also comprises at least one seal in a hollow housing provided on one face of a first element from among the lower cup and the upper cup. The hollow housing comprises a plurality of protruding ribs spaced apart circumferentially, the ribs protruding into the base of the seal.
US10889150B2
Provided is a pneumatic tire which has both improved driving stability performance on a dry road surface and improved on-snow performance. A pneumatic tire has defined on the tread first lands and second lands. The first lands and the second lands are provided with recesses. The recesses include first recesses provided in first edges of the first lands, and also include second recesses provided in second edges of the second lands. The second recesses are provided so as not to intersect projection regions formed by projecting the first recesses onto the second edges in the axial direction of the tire.
US10889143B2
The present invention, in general, describes a refillable writing instrument. The writing instrument may comprise one or more master reservoir, one or more slave reservoir, one or more slave reservoir gate and one or more master reservoir gate. The slave reservoir may have reducing cross-section, facilitating fluid flow towards nib of the writing instrument. The slave reservoir gate may comprise at least one of blocking element, blocking element seat, one or more gates, one or more covers and a combination thereof. The slave reservoir gate provides a connection between the master reservoir and the slave reservoir. Further, the blocking element rests over the blocking element seat due to gravity, restricting return flow of the fluid to the master reservoir. The master reservoir gate facilitates clean, easy and fast refilling of master reservoir using fluid container or fluid nozzle without the need of opening the master reservoir cap.
US10889137B2
A tape cartridge mounted to a tape printer includes a ribbon feeding core on which an ink ribbon is wound so as to be capable of being fed and a ribbon winding core that winds the ink ribbon fed from the ribbon feeding core. In the tape cartridge, the ribbon feeding core includes a core body that winds the ink ribbon and a shaft engaging part formed at an end portion of the core body and engaged with a feeding-side driving shaft of the tape printer. The shaft engaging part protrudes in an axial direction of the core body from an end surface of the core body and is formed in a crown shape in which a plurality of convex portions and a plurality of concave portions are alternately arranged side by side in a circumferential direction.
US10889136B2
A printing target holder includes a platen to hold a printing target portion of a printing target to which printing is applied, and the platen is configured to hold the printing target in a flat state. The platen includes a support face disposed on a top side of the platen and configured to support the printing target portion of the printing target; and an escape portion lower in height than the support face.
US10889133B2
A printing apparatus includes a liquid ejector configured to eject liquid droplets towards a medium. A particle delivery device is configured to deliver particles to the medium. The particles are configured to combine with at least some of the liquid droplets and change at least one property of the liquid droplets. The particle delivery device is configured to deliver the particles after or substantially simultaneously as the liquid droplets are ejected. A curing device is configured to cure the combination of the liquid droplets and the particles onto the medium. A controller is configured to independently control the liquid ejector and the particle delivery device.
US10889132B2
A machine for digital printing on tape, which comprises a frame that supports elements of entraining at least one tape along an advancement path and is provided with at least one printing assembly, which comprises at least one ink-jet printing head; downstream of the printing assembly, along the advancement direction of the tape, there is at least one assembly for drying the inks applied to the tape; the drying assembly comprises a temperature-adjustable drum for supporting and entraining the tape, adhesion elements adapted to allow the retention in adhesion of the tape on the outer lateral surface of the drum, and hot air emitter elements which face at least one portion of the outer lateral surface of the drum.
US10889124B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head that ejects a liquid accommodated in a liquid container, a detection unit that detects a remaining amount of the liquid accommodated in the liquid container, and a control unit that operates in a normal mode and a special mode. In the normal mode, the control unit prohibits ejection of the liquid from the liquid ejecting head when the detection unit has detected that the remaining amount of the liquid accommodated in the liquid container has become smaller than a predetermined threshold value. In the second mode, the control unit allows ejection of the liquid from the liquid ejecting head with an instruction from a user as a requirement when the detection unit has detected that the remaining amount of the liquid accommodated in the liquid container has become smaller than the predetermined threshold value.
US10889118B2
In an example, a wiper system includes a first wiper blade, a second wiper blade, and a cam. In that example, the cam is coupled to the first wiper blade to move the first wiper blade to a first wipe position when the cam is in a first cam position and coupled to the second wiper blade to move the second wiper blade to a second wipe position when the cam is in a second cam position.
US10889117B2
A capping station is configured for storing printheads during printer inactivity to preserve the viscosity of the ink in the nozzles of the printheads. Each capping station has a receptacle, a vacuum source, a transducer, and a valve in an opening in a floor of the receptacle. A controller is operatively connected to actuators to move the receptacle so a seal on an upper wall of the receptacle engages a printhead housing. The controller also operates the valve to close the opening in the receptacle floor and then operates the vacuum source to establish a negative pressure in the volume within the receptacle. The transducer is then operated by the controller to fluctuate ink menisci in the nozzles of the printheads to prevent the ink from drying in the nozzles.
US10889112B2
The liquid ejection head includes a plurality of element substrates including first and second element substrates and an electrical wiring substrate. The first and second element substrates each has a heating element array in which a plurality of heating elements producing heat energy for liquid ejection is arrayed, an electrically conductive protection layer covering the plurality of heating elements, an insulating layer arranged between the plurality of heating elements and the electrically conductive protection layer, and a connecting terminal for connecting to the outside. The electrical wiring substrate is electrically connected with the first and second element substrates via the connecting terminal. On the first and second element substrates, the connecting terminal includes a connecting terminal for the electrically conductive protection layer, and the electrically conductive protection layer is electrically connected to a common wiring provided on the electrical wiring substrate via the connecting terminal.
US10889105B2
An apparatus (1) for preparing a flexographic printing sleeve (3) comprises a support structure (21), comprising first support mechanism (2) which defines a workstation for rotatably supporting a first flexographic printing sleeve (3) such that it can rotate about a preset axis (K-K), a roll (11) of double-sided adhesive tape rotatably supported by a second support mechanism (10), and a first feeding and guiding mechanism (13) for unwinding the double-sided adhesive tape (12) from the roll (11) and directing the double-sided adhesive tape (12) to the surface of the first sleeve (3).
US10889101B2
A screen printer including a squeegee device to spread from above solder paste on a stencil; a clamp device to grip a board conveyed to a position below the stencil by a board conveyance member that is flat and provided with a board holding portion in a central opening portion, the clamp device gripping the board via the board conveyance member; a board supporting device to support the board from below and move the board in a vertical direction inside the clamp device; and a raising and lowering device to move the board supported inside the clamp device in the vertical direction and position the board at a printing position, and the clamp device is provided with a board printing guide member to be removably attached to an upper end of a pair of clamp members to sandwich the board conveyance member in a widthwise direction.
US10889099B2
The automatic support device generation method includes: receiving a virtual part; determining a retention direction for the virtual part; determining a retention rotation for the virtual part; and constructing a support device based on the part, the retention rotation, and the retention direction.
US10889096B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a facer used as protective covering for an insulation product. The facer may include a metallic foil layer, a scrim layer, and a paper layer positioned adjacent the scrim layer. The facer may also include a polypropylene material forming a polypropylene layer positioned adjacent the paper layer and heat bonded to an exposed major surface of the paper layer such that a portion of the polypropylene extends into pores of the paper layer to assist in coupling the polypropylene material to the paper layer.
US10889093B2
Described herein is a sheet comprising: a multi-layer structure comprising: a plurality of layers including an uppermost layer and a lowermost layer, each of the plurality of layers having a molecular orientation that results in a stress value for each layer; wherein the stress value of at least two of the plurality of layers are non-zero and different from one another; and wherein the multi-layer structure has a net stress value that is less than the greater stress value of the plurality of layers.
US10889072B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of making a composite part. The method comprises covering a mold tool for a composite part with a parting film. The method further comprises laying up at least one layer of pre-preg on the parting film covering the mold tool to form a laid-up composite part and removing the laid-up composite part from the parting film. The parting film comprises a polymer sheet having a first major surface and a second major surface; and a first adhesive disposed on the first major surface of the polymer sheet, the first adhesive adhering the polymer sheet to the mold tool.
US10889051B2
A high-pressure tank fabrication method includes a pre-form fabrication step and a molding step. In the pre-form fabrication step a pre-form is fabricated by winding dry fiber bundles with different thicknesses (first fiber bundles and second fiber bundles) onto a liner in a state in which the dry fiber bundles with different thicknesses are made to be adjacent to one another. In the molding step, molding includes disposing the pre-form fabricated in the pre-form fabrication step in a mold and injecting resin.
US10889050B2
In one aspect, a method of forming a linear panel from a thermoformable fibrous material by a continuous process includes continuously drawing an elongate strip of thermoformable fibrous material through a heating station to heat the material, forming the heated material into a desired panel shape, and continuously drawing the material through a cooling unit in order to cool the material after the material has been formed into the desired panel shape.
US10889036B2
A cast mould for manufacturing a contact lens or an intraocular lens, wherein the cast mould is provided with a central part and a bearing ring and a flexible connection between the central part and the bearing ring. Further, an injection mould is provided for manufacturing such a cast mould and a method for manufacturing such a cast mould. The injection mould is provided with a mould cavity with a plunger biased by spring means towards the mould cavity which serves for compensating shrinkage which occurs during the curing of the plastic injected into the injection mould. Also described is a method for manufacturing a contact lens or intraocular lens with the aid of the cast mould, as well as a contact lens or intraocular lens obtained with this method.
US10889031B2
The present invention is related to a method and an apparatus for curing a polymeric form. The method includes arranging an uncured polymeric form within a curing chamber (60) formed by a base member (20) and a constraining member (40). A thermal expansion member (30) is additionally positioned within the curing chamber (60) with the uncured polymeric form (70) such that the thermal expansion member and the uncured polymeric form are positioned between the base member (20) and the constraining member (40). The thermal expansion member (30) is heated to expand in size into an expanded state. In the expanded state the thermal expansion member (30) applies pressure to the uncured polymeric form (70) within the curing chamber. The expansion of the thermal expansion member (30) is maintained to maintain the application of pressure to the uncured polymeric form while the uncured polymeric form is being cured to form a cured polymeric form.
US10889017B2
A safety razor that includes a handle; a head on one end of the handle, with the head adapted to hold a razor blade and having a top plate and a bottom plate; a razor blade having first and second portions which each terminate at a blade edge; and a slot configured on first and second portions of the bottom plate, each slot configured and dimensioned for receiving one portion of the razor blade and for holding the blade edge at a predetermined angle with respect to the bottom plate. The most preferred blade edge angle is approximately 30° with respect to the bottom plate.
US10889012B2
A machine tool which removal-machines a workpiece by a tool includes an in-machine robot provided in a machining chamber, and a cleaning mechanism that cleans the in-machine robot by removing an adhering substance adhering to the in-machine robot. When the in-machine robot is cleaned, the in-machine robot moves relative to the cleaning mechanism and positions in proximity to the cleaning mechanism.
US10889010B2
A grasping mechanism including a first grasping piece and a second grasping piece that are coupled with each other so as to be pivotable about a pivoting axis, a pulling pulley that is supported by the second grasping piece so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to the pivoting axis, and a wire whose distal end is secured to one grasping piece and that is wound around the pulling pulley so that a resultant force of tensile forces on both sides of the pulling pulley flanking the rotation axis generates a rotational moment about the pivoting axis in a closing direction of the second grasping piece.
US10889006B2
A suction device includes a base having a first end surface, at least three suction nozzles and a driving assembly. The at least three suction nozzles are disposed on the first end surface. A load bearing region is defined by the at least three suction nozzles. The driving assembly is configured to adjust the area of the load bearing region. The driving assembly is fixed to the base.
US10889005B2
A microstructure arrangement for gripping low coefficient material comprising: a substrate disposed on a gripping surface; a set of pillars disposed on the substrate; and, wherein the set of pillars have the physical property of a grip force in excess of 50.0N with a contact area of 25% or less as determined by the friction testing method. A first set of pillars can be disposed on the substrate having a cross section area in the range of 100 μm2 to 160,000 μm2, height relative to the substrate in the range of 10 μm to 400 μm, and a pitch determined from the center of the pillars, in the range of 20 μm to 1000 μm; and a secondary set of pillars disposed on the first set of pillars having a cross section area less than that of the pillars in the first set of pillars.
US10889004B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to soft robotic gripper systems suited to grasping target objects in cluttered environments. Some embodiments provide extension rods, hinges, and/or rails that allow a soft robotic actuator to be extended towards or away from a robotic base and/or other actuators. Accordingly, a gripper including the actuator may be reconfigured into a size and/or shape that allows for improved access to the cluttered environment. Further embodiments relate to soft robotic gripper systems for supporting grasped objects during high acceleration movements using vacuum, gripper, and/or bellows devices. Still further embodiments relate to specialized grippers for manipulating food items.
US10889001B2
In a service provision system utilizing a movable device such as a robot, a service is realized, in which an external service device installed at a service location and the movable device cooperate with each other. A position of the movable device as well as an installation position and an availability range of the service devices are managed at a service provision location; when the movable device provides a service, an availability of a service device necessary for the service is determined, and when there is a service device not available, the robot is moved to a position where the service device becomes available.
US10888991B2
A mobile robot includes an electric device unit disposed inside a cover and upward of a robot, and a transport mechanism disposed downward of the robot. An end part of a rotation shaft of a motor driving an arm portion of the robot faces downward. The cover includes a partition plate separating a first housing space in which the electric device unit is housed and a second housing space in which the robot is housed. The partition plate has a protrusion protruding into the first housing space. The protrusion provides a motor housing space in the second housing space. At least one part of the first motor is housed in the motor housing space when a base of the robot is elevated to an uppermost position.
US10888986B2
A hammer drill includes a housing, a first ratchet fixed to the housing, a spindle rotatably supported by the housing about an axis, and a second ratchet coupled for co-rotation with the spindle. The second ratchet is engageable with the first ratchet in response to rearward displacement of the spindle to impart a hammering action on the spindle. The hammer drill further includes a thrust bearing having an arm extending away from the axis, and a selector ring having a post extending toward the arm. The selector ring is rotatable between a first position in which the post is engageable with the arm to limit the rearward displacement of the spindle and prevent engagement of the first and second ratchets, and a second position in which the post is misaligned with the arm to permit the rearward displacement of the spindle and engagement of the first and second ratchets.
US10888982B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a gas-powered fastener-driving tool. In one embodiment, the tool includes a combustion or precombustion chamber a valve comprising a body that is mobile within the combustion or precombustion chamber between a first closed position and a second open position. The body defines two opposing orifices at longitudinal ends of the body. The orifices form part of a bore defined through the body that enables gas to pass through the valve. This makes it possible to limit the pressure drops as gas is being admitted to or exhausted from the chamber, thus making it possible to optimize the duration of the firing cycle of the tool.
US10888981B2
A magazine for use with a fastening tool. The magazine can have a pusher assembly that can be retracted into a recess in the magazine to facilitate loading and reloading of fasteners. The pusher assembly can have a pusher assembly knob which can be reversibly latched to a detent to maintain the pusher assembly in a retracted state. The fastening tool can use a magazine which can be reloaded by a method which has a step of reversibly retracting the pusher assembly into the retracted state to allow for feeding one or more fasteners to the magazine.
US10888978B2
A socket wrench for turning sockets has a handle joined to a head having an inside wall accommodating a body including a socket holder. A permanent magnet attached to the socket holder holds a socket on the socket holder. The body has a plurality of ramps facing the inside wall of the head. Rollers engage the ramps and inside wall. A member mounted on the body engages the rollers to selectively shift the rollers relative to opposite end sections of the ramps. First and second permanent magnets on the body and member maintain the member in selected shifted positions to retain the rollers adjacent the end sections of the ramps.
US10888968B2
A milling machine calibration technique, and article of manufacture are described. The article comprises a calibration fixture, together with a calibration pin. The calibration fixture preferably is shaped as a cube, and each of the side faces of the cube comprise a set of indentations (dimples or features) that are configured in a predetermined pattern. A preferred pattern is a “5-dimple” pattern. To find a mapping between axis coordinates (of a mill spindle) and the mill mandrel at some orientation, the calibration fixture is inserted into the mandrel, and the calibration pin is inserted into a collet. Using an x-axis directional position error-based probing mechanism, the system then registers the exact position of each of the five (5) dimples on the surface of the die. Using the positional information so determined, spindle-mandrel spatial relationships for one or more orientations of the mandrel are then identified for calibration purposes.
US10888961B2
The joining material of the present invention is a joining material which contains a first metal powder and a second metal powder having a higher melting point than the first metal powder, in which the first metal powder is formed of Sn or an alloy containing Sn, the second metal powder is formed of a Cu—Ni alloy in which a proportion of Ni is 5 wt % or more and 30 wt % or less, a Cu—Ni—Co alloy in which a total of a proportion of Ni and a proportion of Co is 5 wt % or more and 30 wt % or less, or a Cu—Ni—Fe alloy in which a total of a proportion of Ni and a proportion of Fe is 5 wt % or more and 30 wt % or less, and a 90% volume grain size D90 of the second metal powder is 0.1 μm or more.
US10888957B2
The present invention accurately distinguishes a soldering material less likely to oxidize. A Cu core ball has a Cu ball having a predetermined size, and a solder layer coating the Cu ball. The Cu ball provides a space between a semiconductor package and a printed circuit board. The Cu core ball has the soldering material having lightness greater than or equal to 62.5 in L*a*b* color space subsequent to a heating storage test performed for 72 hours in a temperature-controlled bath at 150° C. with a temperature of 25° C. and 40% humidity, and the soldering material, prior to the heating storage test, having lightness greater than or equal to 65 in the L*a*b* color space and yellowness less than or equal to 7.0 in the L*a*b* color space.
US10888953B2
A laser marker device (11) includes: a free running counter (16) configured to output a free count value (Cf) obtained by counting the number of pulses of a pulse signal; a FIFO memory (15) configured to sequentially store the free count value as a trigger timing count value every time a trigger signal (tr) is output from a trigger sensor (13); a printing control unit (17, 18) configured to sequentially read out the trigger timing count value from the memory in order of storage, recognize a position of a workpiece to be printed next, and perform printing processing with respect to the workpiece if the workpiece is conveyed to the printing position.
US10888951B2
The method for producing a metal member includes a step of preparing a first member made of a first metal and having a recessed portion formed therein, and a second member made of a second metal having a smaller deformation resistance than the first metal, and a step of joining the first member and the second member. The step of joining includes a step of increasing temperatures of the first member and the second member by relatively rotating the second member with respect to the first member while pressing the second member against the first member with at least a part of the second member being received in the recessed portion, and a step of stopping the relative rotation of the second member with respect to the first member and cooling the first member and the second member with the members being pressed against each other.
US10888944B2
A system for and a method of controlling filler wire is provided. The system includes a high intensity energy source configured to heat at least one workpiece to create a molten puddle on a surface of the at least one workpiece. A filler wire feeder is configured to feed a filler wire into said molten puddle, and a travel direction controller is configured to advance the high intensity energy source and the filler wire in a travel direction to deposit the filler wire on the at least one workpiece. The system also includes a filler wire controller configured to move the filler wire in at least a first direction during the feeding and advancing of the filler wire. At least the first direction is controlled to obtain a desired shape, profile, height, size, or an admixture of a bead formed by the molten puddle.
US10888937B2
A continuous strip of T-Nuts formed on a common strip of metal. Each T-Nut of the strip of T-Nuts is integrally connected to the next adjacent T-Nut by carry tabs. The carry tabs can be frangible themselves or contain a frangible portion. Each T-Nut includes a cylindrical bore therein and a threaded interior. A mechanism feeds and severs the endmost T-Nut in endwise fashion. The mechanism to feed and sever the endmost T-Nut includes a cutting blade positioned vertically below the frangible portion of the carry tab. A shearing ram having a guide positioned axially in line with the cylindrical bore in the endmost T-Nut is adapted to move vertically from an upper to a lower position to engage the cutting blade with the frangible portion and sever the endmost T-Nut.
US10888936B2
A cutting tool includes a housing, a head assembly disposed on the housing and carrying a first blade. A cam drive mechanism is disposed within the housing. The cam drive mechanism carries a second blade opposed to the first blade. A motor drives the cam drive mechanism. A battery pack is electrically connected to the motor. The cam drive mechanism moves the second blade towards the first blade, so that a wire disposed between the first and second blades receives a cutting force of less than 12 kiloNewton. The cam drive mechanism may include a spindle driven by the motor, a radial cam fixed to the spindle, a roller assembly contacting the radial cam, and a shuttle connected to the roller assembly, the shuttle being movable in a reciprocating motion and carrying the second blade.
US10888927B2
A method of manufacturing a multi-material tubular structure includes spinning a can, depositing a powdered material into the can and compacting the powdered material within the can to provide a tubular structure.
US10888925B2
The present disclosure provides three-dimensional (3D) printing methods, apparatuses, systems and/or software to form one or more three-dimensional objects, some of which may be complex. The three-dimensional objects may be formed by three-dimensional printing using one or more methodologies. In some embodiments, the three-dimensional object may comprise an overhang portion, such as a cavity ceiling, with diminished deformation and/or auxiliary support structures.
US10888916B2
This torsion beam manufacturing method is a method for manufacturing a torsion beam which is provided with a uniformly shaped closed cross-sectional portion in which a cross section orthogonal to a longitudinal direction is a closed cross section having a substantial V-shape or a substantial U-shape with a pair of ear portions, and a shape changing portion which leads to the uniformly shaped closed cross-sectional portion and in which a shape of the closed cross section changes progressively away from the uniformly shaped closed cross-sectional portion, the torsion beam manufacturing method comprising: thickening to form a pair of thickened portions in at least the shape changing portion by pressurizing each of the pair of ear portions from outside against swelling of the pair of ear portions in a slate where both outer surfaces of each of the pair of ear portions are supported.
US10888912B2
A slew-actuated stamping station includes an expandable core configured to apply radially outward pressure to a radially inward facing surface of a radial wall, and at least one slew-actuated punch for piercing, along a radially inward direction, a respective hole in the radial wall. A method for piercing a radial wall includes simultaneously (a) applying radially outward pressure against a radially inward facing surface of the radial wall, and (b) driving a slew to actuate at least one punch to pierce, along direction opposite the radially outward pressure, at least one hole in the radial wall. A method for forming an object, having a radial wall with holes, includes forming a ring with a radial wall, and piercing at least one hole in the radial wall with at least one slew-actuated punch.
US10888911B2
The invention relates to a forming machine for the spinning/flow forming of a workpiece, having a machine bed, a headstock, a main spindle rotatably mounted on the headstock, having a flow forming mandrel, which is provided to receive the workpiece, a support, which carries at least one machining tool, and which is axially displaceable relative to the main spindle in a longitudinal direction of the machine bed. Furthermore a main spindle drive for driving the main spindle in rotation and a feed drive for displacing the support are provided. The main spindle drive has at least two drive motors, each having a drive pinion. The main spindle has a driving gear, which can be driven by the drive pinions of the drive motors.
US10888910B2
A machining method for a burred flat hole includes first an overhang portion is formed in a flat hole-forming region in a metal plate in a first step, subsequently a flat hole portion is formed in the overhang portion in a second step, and finally burring is formed on the peripheral edge portion of the hole portion in a third step. Accordingly, when burring is to be formed, overhanging machining and perforating machining have been substantially completed, and therefore pressing force of a punch for burring machining can be set to the minimum value necessary for burring formation.
US10888906B2
A piercer plug having good base-material deformation resistance is provided. A method of manufacturing a piercer plug (10) includes the steps of; preparing a plug body (1) including a tip portion (11) and a cylindrical portion (12) having a hole (121) usable to attach a bar and located rearward of the tip portion (11); forming a build-up layer (2) on the surface of the tip portion (11); and heating the plug body (1) such that the temperature of the tip portion (11) with the build-up layer (2) formed thereon is not lower than the austenite transformation temperature and the temperature of the cylindrical portion (12) is lower than the austenite transformation temperature.
US10888903B2
A washing apparatus for a 3D-printed article is provided for the removal of support material from the article. The apparatus includes a glove isolation cabinet with a liquid-discharging nozzle to enable an operator to spray an article with a washing liquid, and a drain. A first filter arrangement receives liquid discharged from the cabinet. The washing liquid drains through the first filter arrangement under the influence of gravity but the first filter arrangement is located in a trough in which washing liquid that has passed through the first filter arrangement accumulates whereby, in use, one or more filters of the first filter arrangement are submerged to ensure filtered-out residue remains submerged in the washing liquid. A pump is provided to pump liquid that has passed through the first filter arrangement through a second filter arrangement adapted to filter out solid material equal to or greater than 5 μm in size.
US10888889B2
The invention relates to a system having a dosing dispenser for dispensing pasty or viscous material with a housing, a cartridge displaceably accommodated therein and a walking piston accommodated in the cartridge that forms a unit ready for assembly with a shutter button to be arranged at a cartridge end.
US10888887B2
A pressure washer includes a motor configured to drive a pump, a frame having first and second end portions, a handle having first and second end portions, and a rotating joint rotatably coupling the first end portion of the handle to the second end portion of the frame. The rotating joint includes a locking mechanism to selectively lock the position of the handle relative to the frame. The handle rotates between a storage position and an extended position. In the storage position, the second end portion of the handle is positioned near the first end portion of the frame such that the motor and the pump are located within a volume defined by the first and second end portions of the handle and the frame. In the extended position, the second end portion of the handle is spaced apart from the frame.
US10888886B2
An adapter for connecting a cold-spray nozzle to a cold-spray machine includes a receiver having a first end and a second end and defining an internal space for receiving the cold-spray nozzle; an end cap engageable with the first end of the receiver for securing the cold-spray nozzle in the receiver and having an opening aligned with an outlet of the cold-spray nozzle; and a threaded connection at the second end of the receiver, the threaded connection being configured for connection to the cold-spray machine.
US10888883B2
The invention relates to a nozzle arrangement for atomizing a fluid flow, which is supplied under pressure, into fine particles, which has: a conical element with an upper surface, a lower surface and an outer surface which is adjacent to the upper and the lower surface, wherein the outer surface has a multiplicity of grooves which are formed therein and extend between the lower surface and the upper surface; and a counter element which is provided with a recess and is designed to receive the conical element and which has an inner surface such that the grooves are at least partially covered by the inner surface in order to form a multiplicity of channels; wherein the channels define outputs in order to let out a respective fluid jet which strikes against at least one other fluid jet in a region spaced apart from the upper surface of the conical element in order thus to atomize the fluid flow, and wherein the conical element is movable along the axis in order to increase or to reduce the effective cross section of the nozzle arrangement.
US10888882B2
The present invention relates to a device for spraying a product, in particular a cosmetic product, makeup product or care product, said device comprising: a container containing the product, and a dispensing head (3) comprising a body (5), and an endpiece, in particular a diffuser (7), attached to the body, the body and the endpiece (7) being configured to allow the product to be sprayed through outlet orifices about a longitudinal axis (Y) of the endpiece, in particular in at least two different directions, which are in particular diametrically opposite, the dispensing head (3) comprising at least first (15) and second (16) chambers, in particular concentric chambers, through which the flow of product successively passes before emerging from the outlet orifices, at least one opening between the first and second concentric chambers being able to be offset angularly with respect to at least one of the outlet orifices.
US10888873B2
The invention concerns a mobile processing device having a material processing unit, such as a mobile crusher having a crusher unit or a mobile screen having a material screening unit. The mobile processing device comprises a power unit, a frame and a noise encapsulation for the material processing unit. The noise encapsulation is attached to the frame and comprises two cover elements, each of which is pivotable between an open position providing access to the crusher unit and a closed position wherein the cover elements can be interconnected to create an encapsulation for the material processing unit.
US10888869B2
A grinder for grinding beans of plant-based products and generating a ground powder can include: a grinding chamber; a wheel motor having a shaft defining an axial direction; a rotating grinding wheel and a stationary grinding wheel housed in the grinding chamber, wherein the rotating grinding wheel is connected to the shaft of the wheel motor and is configured to rotate around the axial direction, and wherein the stationary grinding wheel is stationary against rotation and is configured to axially move in both ways in the axial direction; and a device for resetting position of the rotating and stationary grinding wheels. The device can include: a mechanism for axially moving the stationary grinding wheel; an electric motor, coupled to the mechanism, for actuating the mechanism; and a way to stop the electric motor as soon as a contact state is detected between the stationary and rotating grinding wheels.
US10888862B2
A microfluidic system for processing biological samples comprising a holding chamber adapted for holding a fluid and to be rotated on a platform, said holding chamber comprising an outlet through which fluid flow is controlled by an acceleration-primed valve system, wherein the acceleration-primed valve system comprises a capillary valve and an outlet channel. The invention provides a novel valving system, which retains fluids at low angular velocities, removes the need for hydrophilic surfaces, minimises disc real-estate and optimises certain microfluidic processes done in the holding chamber.
US10888859B2
Provided in part herein are multiple-tube devices that contain a region of reduced wall thickness, which devices facilitate biological fluid processing and analysis. Also provided in part herein are methods of manufacturing and using such devices.
US10888858B2
Pipette tip couplers, pipette tips, coupler and tip combinations, and methods for coupling and decoupling a pipette tip to or from a pipette tip coupler mounted on a pipette device. The pipette tip couplers include a shank, a coupler body distal to the shank, a distal stem and distal end plate distal to the coupler body, a proximal elastomeric element disposed around the shank, a distal elastomeric element disposed around the distal stem, and a coupler stop shoulder surface between the proximal elastomeric element and distal elastomeric element. When a pipette tip is mounted on the pipette tip coupler, the proximal elastomeric element abuts the interior surface of the pipette tip for securing the pipette tip to the coupler, and the distal elastomeric element abuts the interior surface of the pipette tip to form a seal between the coupler and the pipette tip.
US10888853B2
Provided herein are cinchonium betaine catalysts and methods of promoting asymmetric imine isomerization reactions using the same.
US10888852B2
Provided is a process for manufacturing a Fluid Catalytic Cracking catalyst additive composition with a novel binder. The steps involve mixing an alumina source with water to make a slurry; adding to the alumina slurry an amount of P2O5 source; the slurry is then stirred and reacted under controlled temperature and time conditions to form an aluminum phosphate binder; adding to the aluminum phosphate binder a zeolite, an amount of silica binder and an amount of clay; and spray-drying the slurry to form catalyst additive particles. The catalyst additive composition comprises a about 35 wt % to about 65 wt % zeolite; about 0 wt % to about 10 wt % silica; about 15 wt % to about 50 wt % clay and an aluminum phosphate binder comprising about 2.5 wt % to 5 wt % amorphous or pseudo-boehmite alumina and about 7 wt % to 15 wt % phosphoric acid.
US10888847B2
The present disclosure relates to a UV- and visible-light photocatalytic titanium dioxide composite material. In particular, the disclosure relates to a 5 photocatalytic titanium oxide composite material for the decomposition of airborne pollutants.
US10888836B2
Various embodiments disclosed relate to extraction of target materials using a CZTS sorbent. A method of extracting a target material from a medium includes contacting a copper zinc tin sulfur (CZTS) sorbent with the target material in the medium including the target material to form a used CZTS sorbent that includes the target material.
US10888833B2
The present invention relates to a reactor for producing synthesis gas which has a fluid-tight connection to a heat exchanger, and to a process for producing synthesis gas, preferably under high pressure, by using the reactor. The reactor comprises a mixer, a mixing space, a reactor space, separate inlets for at least two fluid reactants and an outlet for at least one fluid product, and a reactor shell surrounding these, and wherein the mixer comprises a mixer base, at least one mixer disk with channels for a first fluid, at least one mixer disk with channels for a second fluid, a mixer closure, and a mixer lid.
US10888832B2
The present invention provides methods, compositions, and systems for distributing single polymerase molecules into array regions. In particular, the methods, compositions, and systems of the present invention result in a distribution of single polymerase molecules into array regions at a percentage that is larger than the percentage expected to be occupied under a Poisson distribution.
US10888827B2
A component mixing jet including a jet nozzle housing with at least one component inlet and one component outlet. An axially movable jet needle is arranged in a reception in the jet nozzle housing and can rest against the jet nozzle housing with an axial end in the region of the component outlet in a sealable manner. The jet needle is connected with a membrane fixed in the jet nozzle housing. A pressure chamber is arranged in the jet nozzle housing at the side of the membrane averted from the axial end of the jet needle. The membrane is a holding element for the jet needle and guides the jet needle axially and holds it radially in the reception. The axial region between the membrane and the axial end of the jet needle is free from any bearing element for the jet needle in the region of the component outlet.
US10888824B2
The present invention is directed to a method for treating a surface of a filled microporous membrane. The microporous membrane includes a polyolefinic matrix, inorganic filler distributed throughout the matrix, and a network of interconnecting pores throughout the membrane. The method includes sequentially (1) contacting at least one surface of the membrane with a treatment composition of a silane-functional polyamine compound having at least one alkoxy silane group, such that the silane-functional polyamine compound is in intimate contact with the filler present in the matrix; and (2) subjecting the membrane of (1) to conditions sufficient to effect a condensation reaction between the inorganic filler and the silane-functional polyamine compound. Treated membranes also are provided.
US10888823B2
A semipermeable asymmetric hollow fiber membrane is provided, based on a hydrophobic polymer, such as polyethersulfone or polysulfone, and on a hydrophilic polymer, such as PVP. The PVP polymer comprises a high molecular weight component and a low molecular weight component. The membrane has a significantly improved permeability and selectivity, based on its structure, composition, and the method of manufacture of the membrane A process for manufacturing such a membrane by a solvent phase inversion spinning process is also provided.
US10888821B2
A method for treating a surface of a microporous membrane includes: (1) contacting at least one surface of the membrane with a treatment composition including: (a) an acrylic polymer prepared from a mixture of vinyl monomers including: (i) a (meth)acrylic acid monomer and (ii) a silane-functional acrylic monomer; and (b) a base, where the acrylic polymer is in contact with the filler present in the matrix; and (2) subjecting the membrane of (1) to conditions sufficient to effect a condensation reaction between the filler and the acrylic polymer. A treated microporous membrane and an aqueous treatment composition are also disclosed.
US10888815B2
A system includes a cooler, a refrigeration cycle, one or more receivers, and multiple adsorption dryers. The cooler is configured to cool compressed air received from multiple compressors by exchange with a refrigerant. The refrigeration cycle is in fluid communication with the cooler. The refrigeration cycle includes the refrigerant circulating in the refrigeration cycle. The refrigeration cycle includes a refrigerant chiller configured to re-cool the refrigerant received from the cooler. The one or more receivers are downstream of the cooler and are configured to collect condensate from the cooled compressed air. The adsorption dryers are in parallel downstream of the one or more receivers. The adsorption dryers are configured to remove moisture from the cooled compressed air to form dried compressed air with a dew point of approximately −40° F. or below.
US10888808B2
A filter support for a handheld power tool includes at least one filter support element, a first fastening element, and a second fastening element. The filter support element includes at least one receiving opening configured to receive a filter element. The filter elements of the filter support are preferably associated with air inlet openings of the handheld power tool and are configured to filter dust particles and/or material particles from a cooling air flow. The filter support can be fastened to a handheld power tool via the first and second fastening elements. The first and the second fastening elements of the filter support can be connected to each other. Advantageously, no fastening elements are provided on the handheld power tool.
US10888800B2
An apparatus and method for replenishing urease in a sorbent cartridge for use in sorbent dialysis using urease pouches. The sorbent cartridge is configured to allow insertion of a urease pouch or injection of a urease solution into the sorbent cartridge containing a urease pouch. The sorbent module can also comprise other, rechargeable, sorbent materials for removing toxins other than urea from spent dialysate.
US10888792B2
A charging station for a simultaneous charging of multiple gaming controllers and multiple gaming controller supplement battery packs. The charging station supports and charges a game controller above the charging station while a supplement battery pack is simultaneously charged underneath the game controller. The charging station also includes electric current flow indicators associated with at least two gaming controllers and at least two supplement battery packs.
US10888786B2
Methods and systems for dynamically incorporating advertising content into multimedia environments, such as games, are provided. Example embodiments include a dynamic inserter, which selects content, based upon a set of criteria, to deliver to a receiving client system, such as a game client. The game client typically dynamically determines locations with the game where advertisements may be inserted. Associated with these locations are ad tags that specify criteria for the ads. For example, the criteria may include ad type, ad genre, and scheduling information. The game client then sends indications of these ad tags to the dynamic inserter to be used to select appropriate ads. The dynamic inserter selects ads based upon the criteria and sends them to the game client, which selects them for ad tags with conforming criteria. The game client then renders the selected ad in the appropriate location. In one embodiment, the dynamic inserter comprises a game client, game server, ad server, a communications channel, and, optionally, an ad client.
US10888784B2
A video game apparatus, comprising at least one processor and a non-transitory storage medium operably connected to the at least one processor and storing computer-readable program instructions. The at least one processor is configured to execute the program instructions, wherein execution of the program instructions by the at least one processor causes carrying out of a method. The method comprises maintaining a virtual environment in the memory, the virtual environment including a player character; receiving a request for enhanced motion functionality of the player character; identifying a landing site in the virtual environment based on one or more validity criteria; determining a trajectory to the identified landing site; and causing the player character to exhibit enhanced motion functionality by traveling at least partly along said trajectory.
US10888779B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an accessory having a plurality of tactile-sensitive buttons, a plurality of light sources, wherein each light source emits a controllable spectrum of light through a corresponding one of the plurality of tactile-sensitive buttons, and a controller coupled to the plurality of tactile-sensitive buttons, and the plurality of light sources. The controller can be operable to detect tactile contact of each of the plurality of tactile-sensitive buttons, receive status information associated with a video game, and adjust the spectrum of light emitted by at least a portion of the plurality of light sources according to the status information to indicate one or more aspects of the video game. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10888773B2
A force sensing resistor (FSR) that is constructed with a first substrate made of polyimide disposed underneath a second substrate that is resistive and flexible. A handheld controller for an electronic system may include the FSR having a first substrate made of polyimide. The FSR may be mounted on a planar surface of a structure within the controller body, such as a structure mounted within a handle of the controller body, and/or a structure that is mounted underneath at least one thumb-operated control that is included on a head of the controller body. The FSR may be configured to measure a resistance value that corresponds to an amount of force applied to an outer surface of the handle and/or an amount of force applied to the at least one thumb-operated control.
US10888769B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, a determining that a first distance between a reference location and an accessory is less than a first threshold, responsive to determining that the first distance is less than the first threshold, processing a tracking output of the accessory, subsequent to determining that the first distance between the reference location and the accessory is less than the first threshold, determining that a second distance between the reference location and the accessory is greater than a second threshold, wherein the second threshold is greater than the first threshold, and responsive to determining that the second distance is greater than the second threshold, ignoring the tracking output of the accessory. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10888767B2
A card shooter device includes a main unit with a card storage section storing cards constituting a predetermined number of decks, a removable top face cover, arranged on top of the card storage section, for covering the card storage section, a bottom face, inclined forward, for guiding the cards onto a game table from the card storage section, and a front cover, arranged in front of the main unit so that the cards can be extracted one by one from the card storage section, in which the front cover is removable from the main unit in cooperation with an engagement member provided in front of the main unit, and is adapted to be able to store the cards constituting the predetermined number of decks in the card storage section when the front cover is removed.
US10888764B2
To precisely identify a state of an athlete who is present in a swimming pool, a processor used in a device for identifying a state of an athlete or a method for identifying a state of an athlete refers to a result of performing processing of detecting the athlete in a video image obtained by imaging the athlete who is present in the swimming pool and identifies an advancing direction of the athlete as a direction that is different from the previous advancing direction on the basis of a result of the detection of the athlete after the athlete is present in a region on the side of an end of the swimming pool. In this manner, it is possible to more accurately identify the advancing direction of the athlete and to thereby precisely identify the state of the athlete who is present in the swimming pool.
US10888762B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems, and methods for implementing drills and providing coaching instructions to users. Embodiments may load a drill, measure values obtained from one or more sensors installed on a player's tennis racket and/or worn on the player's body, and use those values to detect various parameters, such as the physical impact of a ball at the player's racket. Embodiments may then output a coaching instruction to the user. Embodiments may also include adding customized coaching instructions to a drill.
US10888761B2
A grappling dummy having a generally human shape includes a trunk with a head, arms, and legs extending from the trunk. The legs can be connected together by an elongate connecting leg segment forming a leg enclosure. The grappling dummy also includes padding disposed about the trunk, the head, the arms, and the legs. When resting on the ground in a “kneeling” position, the midline of the trunk is generally parallel and elevated with respect to the ground. The grappling dummy can include a jacket assembly to be worn around the trunk and the two arms, where the jacket assembly is divided at its back into trunk sections with arm coverings. The trunk sections are configured to connect at the back of the grappling dummy to form a cloth jacket open at the front, and are connectable by a fastener assembly at the back.
US10888750B2
A golf club head includes a body having a crown defining a perimeter of the club head, a sole opposite the crown, a toe end opposite a heel end, a back end, and a hosel, the body further including a club face, an exterior side, an interior side, a head center of gravity, and a weight member positioned on one of the exterior side or the interior side of the crown.
US10888748B2
A golf club includes a shaft and a club head for a metal wood type club head. The club head includes a ball striking face, a heel, a toe, a rear, a crown, and a sole. The sole includes a forward sole surface and a rearward sole surface. The substantially horizontally-oriented forward sole surface extends rearwardly from the ball striking face to a rearward edge. The substantially horizontally-oriented rearward sole surface extends forwardly from the rear of the club head. The rearward sole surface extends over and is offset in a height direction from the rearward edge. A cavity may be located above the forward sole surface, the cavity having a rearward facing opening located below the rearward sole surface. A projection may extend rearwardly from the rearward edge beneath the rearward sole surface, the projection having sides that extend in a generally breadthwise direction.
US10888747B2
An aerodynamic golf club head producing reduced aerodynamic drag forces via unique club head curvatures and relationships.
US10888739B1
A golf ball with improved durability is disclosed herein. The golf ball has a core comprising a polybutadiene material and methyl methacrylate, butadiene, styrene (MBS) with a weight percentage of MBS ranging from 0.5 to 5 weight percent of the core.
US10888728B2
A portable and kinetic motion resistance upper body invention that can be used for a variety of exercises. This invention combines dial tension adjustment clutch sheaves, a variable linear tract bearing and a one piece resistance shock-cord, together these core components achieve a unique minimal impact work-out. The multi-motion and changeable adjustments for this invention, result in a wide variety of muscular stimulation and therapeutic exercises that are non-existent in the fitness and health industry. The outcome of the mechanism can be customized for a particular sport requirement or physio and other therapeutic restorations, or even for case specific industrial and robotic counter-balancing controls. This invention is can also be used as a lift-assist device.
US10888723B2
A self-retracting lanyard including a main body and a retractable line. The retractable line is coupled to the main body so as to be extendible and retractable relative to the main body and to be restricted from extending relative to the main body in response to a user of the self-retracting lanyard falling. The self-retracting lanyard further includes a manual control operable by the user to initiate controlled descent of the retractable line relative to the main body. The manual control may be operable by the user to deliver a fluid (e.g. compressed gas) from a fluid supply disposed in a housing of the manual control to an actuator of the main body to initiate controlled descent. Solar panel(s) may be disposed on the main body. When the retractable line is retracted, the housing may dock with and be charged by a solar powered charger disposed on the main body.
US10888717B2
A method and system for providing ultrasound treatment to a tissue that contains a lower part of dermis and proximal protrusions of fat lobuli into the dermis. An embodiment delivers ultrasound energy to the region creating a thermal injury and coagulating the proximal protrusions of fat lobuli, thereby eliminating the fat protrusions into the dermis. An embodiment can also include ultrasound imaging configurations using the same or a separate probe before, after or during the treatment. In addition various therapeutic levels of ultrasound can be used to increase the speed at which fat metabolizes. Additionally the mechanical action of ultrasound physically breaks fat cell clusters and stretches the fibrous bonds. Mechanical action will also enhance lymphatic drainage, stimulating the evacuation of fat decay products.
US10888701B2
An implantable cardiac stimulation device provides electrical stimulation therapy to stabilize the ventricular rate of a heart during episodes of atrial fibrillation. The stimulation therapy may be a plurality of sub-threshold stimulation pulses delivered to capture AV node vagal innervations following the detection of atrial fibrillation.
US10888696B2
A vestibular stimulation array is disclosed having one or more separate electrode arrays each operatively adapted for implantation in a semicircular canal of the vestibular system, wherein each separate electrode array is dimensioned and constructed so that residual vestibular function is preserved. In particular, the electrode arrays are dimensioned such that the membranous labyrinth is not substantially compressed. Furthermore, the electrode array has a stop portion to limit insertion of the electrode array into the semi-circular canal and is still enough to avoid damage to the anatomical structures.
US10888693B2
An injection includes a tube having opposite first and second ends. A hub is coupled to the first end. A sheath is coupled to the tube and the hub. The hub is movable relative to the tube to move the sheath between a first orientation in which the sheath covers an orifice in the second end and a second orientation in which the sheath is spaced apart from the orifice. Kits and methods of use are disclosed.
US10888692B2
A method for using a universal electronic toolset for indicating and adjusting of an implantable programmable bodily fluid drainage valve regardless of whether the valve includes a fixed reference magnet used to determine an angle of orientation of the implantable programmable bodily fluid drainage valve or not. A magnetic field detection sensor array in an indicator tool of the electronic toolset determines whether the fixed reference magnet is present in the implantable programmable bodily fluid drainage valve. If the presence of the fixed reference magnet is detected then the center and direction of flow of the adjustable valve unit is ascertained via electronic feedback from the electronic toolset; otherwise, the center and direction flow is ascertained via exclusively by manual physical palpation of the valve.
US10888677B2
An inflatable balloon cuff may be adapted to seal a patient's trachea when associated with an endotracheal tube. Configurations of these cuffs that include tapered regions with certain characteristics, such as cuff wall diameter and thickness, may provide improved sealing of the trachea.
US10888671B2
An infusion fluid warmer including a heat exchanger and first and second printed circuit boards having respective integrally formed electrically resistive patterns acting as heating elements. The integrally formed electrically resistive patterns are heated by supply of electrical power and thermally coupled to a heat exchanger to warm an infusion fluid flowing through a fluid passage of the heat exchanger.
US10888669B2
A drug delivery device comprising a case adapted to hold a medicament container, a plunger disposed within the case and slidable from a proximal position into a distal position for delivering a medicament from the medicament container, an audible indicator that is arranged within a case pocket lateral to the plunger and that is in operative connection with the plunger, the audible indicator comprises at least one indicator spring and at least one locking element. The indicator spring is biased by the locking element, and the indicator spring relaxes due to a release of the locking element by a movement of the plunger.
US10888668B2
The disclosure relates to a drug delivery device including a plunger disposed within a case and an audible indicator that comprises a resilient element. The plunger is slidable from a proximal position to a distal position within the case and the resilient element is in a first configuration when the plunger is in the proximal position, such that the resilient element is deflected radially outwards to a second configuration during movement of the plunger from the proximal position towards the distal position. The resilient element moves from the second configuration towards the first configuration when the plunger moves towards or reaches the distal position, thereby generating an audible and tactile signal.
US10888656B2
A syringe pump is provided. The syringe pump includes a pump body, a control system, a transmission mechanism, and a propulsion mechanism. The transmission mechanism includes a bracket, a propulsion driving motor, a screw rod, a sliding seat, a half nut, and a clutch driving assembly. The propulsion driving motor configured to drive the screw rod to rotate, the clutch driving assembly is disposed on the sliding seat, and configured to drive the half nut and the screw rod to be engaged and disengaged from each other. The propulsion mechanism includes a connecting rod, a pushing block, a pressure sensing assembly, and a clutch switch. The pressure sensing assembly is disposed on the pushing block and configured to detect pressure of a piston rod of a syringe. The clutch switch is disposed on the pushing block and electrically connected to the clutch driving assembly.
US10888655B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure enable a user-wearable infusion pump that may have a limited user interface including no display to be paired with a remote control device that can include a remote consumer electronic device such as a smartphone and/or a dedicated remote controller.
US10888653B2
A pump set for use with a pumping apparatus having a rotor with a plurality of rollers mounted on the rotor rotatable about an axis of rotation is disclosed. The pump set comprises a cassette body comprising a stator member with a fixed portion secured to the cassette body, a second portion opposite the fixed portion, a reaction surface and a second surface opposite the reaction surface, the reaction surface defined between the fixed portion and the second portion, and a tube secured to the cassette body, at least a portion of the tube is disposed against the reaction surface.
US10888640B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of treating a stricture in a nonvascular body lumen such as urethral strictures, benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) strictures, ureteral strictures, esophageal strictures, sinus strictures, and biliary tract strictures. Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for treating at least one of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), prostate cancer, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The method can include delivering, for example, via drug coated balloon catheters, anti-inflammatory and anti-proliferative drugs (e.g., rapamycin, paclitaxel, and their analogues) and one or more additives.
US10888637B2
Methods and devices are described for using a controlled extensional strain to organize prefibrillar collagen and/or elastin solutions into an organized array of fibrils. The organized array of collagen fibrils produced by the disclosed methods and devices can be used for tissue engineering applications.
US10888635B2
An absorbent article includes a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and backsheet. The absorbent core contains superabsorbent polymer material and about 10% or less by weight of cellulosic fibers. The backsheet comprises a film comprising a plurality of micropores. The film comprises odor absorbing material disposed in one or more of the micropores.
US10888634B1
Atomizers and methods for operating atomizers for dispersing vapor into the ambient air are disclosed. Liquid from a vessel connected to the atomizer may be pumped to a first chamber having an atomizing element at or near the bottom of the first chamber. The atomizing element may convert the liquid to a vapor, and a fan may push air into the first chamber, causing the vapor to be dispersed into the ambient air through apertures at or near the top of the first chamber. Liquid remaining in the first chamber may be pumped back to the vessel, while the fan continues to run to dry the components in the first chamber.
US10888624B2
Disclosed are dendrimers of formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the dendrimer of formula (I) and methods of using the same for treating cancer.
US10888620B2
Compositions useful in the treatment of cough and cold symptoms, including but not limited to, cough, nasal congestion and sore throat, are disclosed.
US10888619B2
The invention provides stabilized aqueous pharmaceutical etanercept compositions suitable for long-term storage of etanercept, methods of manufacture of these compositions, methods of administration, and kits containing same.
US10888617B2
The present invention is generally directed to materials, gels, coatings and films prepared using a biomaterial (e.g., a fatty acid-based material comprising a network of cross-linked fatty acids) and a fixating material, layer or film (e.g., a fixating material comprising Na-CMC). The materials, gels, coatings and films disclosed herein can be used to facilitate the delivery of one or more therapeutic agents to a targeted tissue and a desired rate of release.
US10888615B2
Provided herein is a human monoclonal antibody 8D6 against hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. The antibody binds to the E2 subunit of HCV capsid protein, and can prevent HCV from infecting susceptible host cells. By using the antibody variable region gene or the complementary determining region (CDR) gene, different forms of genetic engineering antibodies have been transformed and produced in any expression system of the prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells as therapeutics to prevent or treat HCV infection.
US10888614B2
Emulsifiers for emulsions vaccine formulations and use in water-in-oil emulsion for vaccine formulations as an emulsifier. The emulsifier is an alkoxylated polyol or polyamine which is optionally acyl terminated. There is also provided a method of forming the vaccine formulation. The emulsifiers provide for emulsions which may require less emulsifier than known emulsifiers, and provide stable emulsions.
US10888608B2
The technology relates generally to the field of immunology and relates in part to methods for activating T cells and other cells resulting in an immune response against a target antigen. The technology also relates to costimulation of therapeutic cells that express chimeric antigen receptors that recognize target antigens using chimeric MyD88- and CD40-derived polypeptides. The technology further relates in part to therapeutic cells that express chimeric antigen receptors, wherein the chimeric antigen receptors have an endodomain that includes MyD88- and CD40-derived polypeptides, and methods for treating patients using the modified therapeutic cells.
US10888606B2
A peptide with anti-inflammatory activity is described, wherein the peptide comprises at least one amino acid sequence among SEQ ID NO: 2 to SEQ ID NO: 179, the peptide has above 80% homology of amino acid sequence with above-mentioned sequences, or the peptide is the fragment of the above-mentioned peptides. The peptides that have at least one amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 to SEQ ID NO: 179 shows outstanding efficacy in both suppressing inflammation and in prophylactic means. Therefore, the composition comprising those peptides can be used as anti-inflammatory pharmaceutical compositions or as cosmetic compositions, in turn, treating and preventing a variety of different types of inflammatory diseases.
US10888605B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions of the GLP-1 peptide semaglutide comprising no more than 0.01% (w/w) phenol, their preparation, kits comprising such compositions as well as uses thereof.
US10888598B2
Provided herein are low salt ophthalmic pharmaceutical composition and methods of use thereof, for example, in the treatment of dry eye syndrome.
US10888591B2
Provided are vesicles derived from bacteria belonging to the genus Micrococcus, a composition and a use thereof, wherein the vesicles and the composition comprising the same may be effectively used for the development of a method of diagnosing gastric cancer, pancreatic cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, bladder cancer, myocardial infarction, cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation, variant angina, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), dementia, or diabetes.
US10888589B2
Methods and compositions for modifying stem cells using one or more ZFPs are disclosed. Such methods and compositions are useful for facilitating processes such as, for example, dedifferentiating cells, differentiating stem cells into the desired phenotype, propagating stem cells and/or facilitating cloning.
US10888586B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10888585B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10888584B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10888575B2
The invention provides a combination comprising zidovudine or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof and a carbapenem or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, optionally with a polymyxin selected from polymyxin E and polymyxin or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof. This combination is particularly useful for the treatment of microbial infections.
US10888570B2
Disclosed herein is a stable, ready-to-use liquid formulation comprising spironolactone and its method of use.
US10888566B1
Compounds for the chemosensitization of antibiotic resistant bacteria such as multidrug resistant (MDR) Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) are provided. The compounds inhibit the MDR efflux proteins and re-sensitize the bacteria towards killing by antibiotics. Thus, the compounds are used in combination with antibiotics to treat or prevent infections caused by MDR bacteria.
US10888565B2
The disclosure relates to compounds and compositions for forming bone and methods related thereto. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a composition comprising a compound disclosed herein, such as 2,4-diamino-1,3,5-triazine derivatives or salts thereof, for use in bone growth processes. In a typical embodiment, a bone graft composition is implanted in a subject at a site of desired bone growth or enhancement.
US10888555B2
The present invention relates to a new pharmaceutical composition containing nicotinic acid and/or nicotinamide and/or related compounds for beneficially influencing the intestinal microbiota and blood lipid levels. In certain embodiments, the pharmaceutical composition is partially or entirely released into the lower small intestine and/or large intestine.
US10888554B2
The present disclosure relates to salts of heterocyclic compounds and methods that inhibit HIF pathway activity. The compounds are designed to treat or prevent cancer and other hypoxia-mediated diseases.
US10888550B2
Disclosed are compounds, compositions and methods for treating of diseases, syndromes, conditions, and disorders that are affected by the modulation of MALT1. Such compounds are represented by Formula (I) as follows: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, G1 and G2, are defined herein.
US10888547B2
The hemitartrate salt of a compound represented by the following structural formula: (Formula I Hemitartrate), which may be used in pharmaceutical applications, are disclosed. Particular single crystalline forms of the Formula (I) Hemitartrate are characterized by a variety of properties and physical measurements. As well, methods of producing crystalline Formula (I) Hemitartrate, and using it to inhibit glucosylceramide synthase or lowering glycosphingolipid concentrations in subjects to treat a number of diseases, are also discussed. Pharmaceutical compositions are also described.
US10888540B2
An isothiocyanate functional surfactant, wherein the protonated form of said surfactant is represented by the following chemical structure: wherein X includes an integer ranging from approximately 1 to approximately 25, and wherein Y includes an integer ranging from approximately 6 to approximately 25.
US10888536B1
A method for improving insulin sensitivity in obesity-induced metabolic syndrome by administering propanamide to a subject in need thereof the increase of ATP synthesis, decreasing inflammation, reducing accumulation of visceral fat and improving hyperglycemia and hyperinsulinemia. Propanamide can be orally administered to the subject. Propanamide can be administered to the subject in a dosage of 11.56-15.38 mg/kg/day. Propanamide can be administered to the subject postprandially.
US10888532B2
A patch comprising: a backing layer; and an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer contains at least one drug selected from the group consisting of butorphanol and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and a silicone-based adhesive base, and a mass per unit area of the adhesive layer is 30 to 90 g/m2.
US10888529B2
The invention relates to a nanoparticle comprising: (i) between 60 wt.-% and 99 wt.-% sorbitan ester, relative to the total weight of the nanoparticle; (ii) a positively charged substance; and (iii) a miRNA. The invention also relates to the methods for producing same and to the uses thereof, particularly for therapeutic uses, such as cancer treatment.
US10888525B2
There are provided HPMCAS (hypromellose acetate succinate) having such a property that a solution of the HPMCAS in a solvent has a controlled viscosity; and a method for producing the HPMCAS. More specifically, provided are HPMCAS having such property that a solution of 10 parts by weight of the HPMCAS in 100 parts by weight of a mixed solvent having a weight ratio of methylene chloride to methanol of 1:1 has a viscosity at 20° C. of 135 mPa·s or less; and a method for producing the HPMCAS including an esterification step of adding acetic anhydride and succinic anhydride to a solution of hypromellose in glacial acetic acid in the presence of sodium acetate to obtain a reaction product mixture, wherein the succinic anhydride is added intermittently, and a precipitation step of mixing the reaction product mixture with water to precipitate the HPMCAS.
US10888520B2
The present invention relates to a coating particle containing a nuclear particle covered with a coating layer, and in the coating particle, the coating layer is a layer containing hydroxyalkyl cellulose and a binder.
US10888514B1
The present disclosure relates to anhydrous cosmetic composition comprising a silicone oil; a spherical powder; a pigment; silicone emulsifier; hydrophobic silica particles; and a silicone resin, wherein the cosmetic composition is essentially free of water.
US10888512B2
The present disclosure concerns a cosmetic product for changing the natural colour of keratinous fibres, in particular human hair, which contains at least one package (VP) as well as a cosmetic composition (KM) contained in this package (VP). The package is formed from a multilayer film (F) which contains at least two polymer layers (P1) and (P2) as well as at least one barrier layer (BS). The cosmetic composition comprises at least one oxidizing compound and at least one thickening agent, wherein the oxidizing compound is a solid oxidizing compound, in particular a percarbonate. The cosmetic product is in the form of a double sachet in which a colour composition (FZ) is provided in addition to the cosmetic composition (KM).
US10888511B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and articles of manufacture to treat skin to improve and/or increase hydration, pliability, and thickness for improved texture, feel and appearance. Embodiments feature applying an effective amount of an acetylation agent to natural dermal collagen under reaction conditions to react the natural dermal collagen with the acetylation agent to form a modified collagen. The modified collagen has a higher net charge and higher net charge density than natural dermal collagen. The modified collagen improves or increases one or more skin characteristics consisting of hydration, pliability and thickness.
US10888510B2
The present invention relates to a process for dyeing keratin fibres, in particular human keratin fibres such as the hair, using one or more particular 2- or 4-azopyridinium dyes and one or more fluorescent dyes. The present invention also relates to a cosmetic composition comprising the dyes defined above, and also to a multi-compartment device containing said dyes. The present invention also relates to the use of said dyes for dyeing light keratin fibres, especially human keratin fibres such as the hair, in chestnut-brown, dark chestnut-brown, brown, brown with a glint, or even black, without using an additional dye other than those defined above.
US10888508B1
A multifunctional dental composition may include polyoxyethylene sorbitan monooleate; sorbitan monooleate; benzoate sodium; distilled water; and ethylene diamine tetra acetic acid. For dental use, the required hydrophilic/lipophilic balance of the composition may be 7; and a critical micellar concentration of the composition may be 0.5%. The dental composition may be applied in a manner similar to how tap water is conventionally used, and the composition may be delivered to the dental unit system using various methods.
US10888506B2
The present invention relates to a composition in the form of an O/W emulsion, comprising: (a) at least one UV filter; (b) at least one inulin or inulin modified with hydrophobic chains; (c) at least one sugar ether surfactant; (d) at least one hydrophilic acrylic polymer; and (e) water. The composition according to the present invention can provide a homogeneous film when being applied, and good cosmetic effects such as superior UV filtering effects, while providing a watery fresh feeling during the application and a non-sticky feeling after the application.
US10888494B2
A massage apparatus holder, comprising: a first holder side having a first substantially flat portion and an indentation shaped to receive a portion of a massage apparatus; a second holder side having a second substantially flat portion, wherein the holder is larger in size than the massage apparatus, the thickness is at least 7 mm and a portion of the holder is attached to a body.
US10888493B2
An example of a system for providing emergency care to a patient is described that includes a backboard arranged to support the patient, a chest compressor attached to the backboard and positioned to engage the patient at the chest, the chest compressor configured to provide multiple chest compression cycles to the patient, a cuirass attached to the backboard and positioned to engage the patient at the abdomen, the cuirass configured to generate negative pressure to pull outward on the abdomen and to provide multiple abdominal compression cycles to the patient and a controller including processors configured to: control the chest compressor to perform the multiple chest compression cycles according to a programmed sequence, control the cuirass to perform the multiple abdominal compression cycles according to the programmed sequence, and control the cuirass to generate the negative pressure to pull outward on the abdomen during the multiple abdominal compression cycles.
US10888491B2
An apparatus and method used for medical and/or cosmetic treatment of a tissue, such as skin tightening, skin laxity and/or wrinkle reduction and or other skin flaws, including an energy source, a vacuum chamber and rollers which may facilitate easy sliding of the apparatus from one treated area to another. The rollers may also prevent excessive friction of the skin during the treatment. The energy source can be configured to emit energy based on the position of the apparatus on the skin (i.e., the position of the rollers), as well as the pressure within the vacuum chamber. The vacuum level and energy emission can be changed or pulsed based on the treatment regime.
US10888487B1
A grasp assist system includes a glove having a glove palm and fingers, with the glove worn on a user's hand. A sensor measures flexion of the glove fingers, and thus a change of position and/or attitude of the fingers is determined. Finger saddles at least partially surround a phalange of a respective one of the user's fingers. The system uses one or more tendon actuators to pull on flexible tendons. Each tendon connects to a respective finger saddle. A controller is in communication with the actuators and sensor(s). The glove may use feedback from optional contact sensors to adjust tension, and may have a built-in restorative force. In executing a control method, the controller selectively applies tension to the tendons in response to finger flexion, via the tendon actuators, at a level sufficient for moving the user's fingers when the user executes a hand maneuver.
US10888479B1
Disclosed herein is a biosafety enclosure for protecting occupants of a vehicle from pathogens. In one example, the biosafety enclosure comprises a protective cover member made of a durable material shaped to form a three-dimensional structure that is installed inside of the vehicle and isolates the one or more occupants of the biosafety enclosure from other occupants of the vehicle. The biosafety enclosure comprises a plurality of connectors attached to the protective cover member in order to secure the protective cover member inside the vehicle. In addition, the biosafety enclosure comprises one or more air circulation vents disposed within the protective cover member, wherein an air circulation vent is connectable to an external air filtration device or an air filtration system of the vehicle. The biosafety enclosure also comprises an ingress/egress member comprised in the protective cover member to allow entry/exit of occupants to/from the enclosure.
US10888477B2
A bed comprises: a height-adjustable lying surface; a head part, a foot part, and/or at least one side part; a motor for adjusting the height of the lying surface; and a control system for controlling the motor to adjust the height. The control system comprises at least one sensor and at least one actuator. The sensor includes: at least one actuating element that can be actuated to generate a control signal; an interface to emit the control signal; and at least one element for producing energy, by which energy needed for generating and transmitting the control signal can be generated via actuation of the sensor from the outside. The actuator includes: an interface to receive the control signal; and a switching element to switch at least one current path or an adjusting element to set at least one voltage, one current, or another physical variable based on the control signal.
US10888475B1
A lightweight collapsible frame, a plurality of wheels, at least one supporting member for supporting a patient at least partially, and at least one guiding member for guiding the movement of the transporter is provided. At least one of the plurality of wheels is mounted on the lightweight collapsible frame and at least one of the plurality of wheels is mounted on the guiding member. The guiding member and the supporting member are mounted on the frame.
US10888474B2
Disclosed is a wheelchair power apparatus for electronic driving conversion. It is an object of the present invention to provide a wheelchair power apparatus for electronic driving conversion, which can provide severely disabled people, for instance, patients with spinal cord injury, the weak or the old, who use wheelchairs, with convenience in movement, and convert a manual four-wheel wheelchair into an electronic three-wheel wheelchair just by detachably mounting the electronic module having electronic wheels to the existing manual four-wheel wheelchair.
US10888472B2
An absorbent article includes an absorbent element obtained by wrapping an absorbent body in a wrapping sheet. The wrapping sheet includes an intermediate part located on one side of a front side and a back side of the absorbent body and both side parts folded back to the other side of the absorbent body from the intermediate part. The both side parts are overlapped with each other on the other side of the absorbent body. An overlapped part is bonded through a hot melt adhesive to form a connecting portion. A surface of the absorbent body on a side of the connecting portion is bonded to an internal surface of the wrapping sheet through hot melt adhesives, and the connecting portion of the wrapping sheet extends in a width direction to extend over both widthwise sides of a slit provided in the absorbent body.
US10888462B2
Disclosed is an ultrasonic wave generation device for hearing recovery treatment, including an ultrasonic wave generation part. The ultrasonic wave generation part comprises a reference time-delay determination module, an emission sequence parameter determination module and an ultrasonic transducer module. The ultrasonic transducer module is used for emitting actual ultrasonic waves, and the efficiency and precision are improved by focusing by means of a plurality of array elements.
US10888461B2
The object of the invention relates to a field of devices for performing treatments in ophthalmology, preferably to a field of devices for selective laser trabeculoplasty and capsulotomy. The essence of a laser therapeutic device for performing treatments in ophthalmology lies in that it is based on a laser source with a short resonator based on a end pumping technique, wherein the pumping is ascertained by a VCSEL light source (vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser). Optimization of constructional and physical properties of a laser source is herewith achieved. The laser source meets all requirements for use in both above-mentioned treatments, wherein the device for capsulotomy is also suited for iridotomy and other surgeries, in which the effects of photodisruption are exploited.
US10888458B2
Both visible and IR cameras are integrated without an increase in an optical stack height of a surgical microscope used for ophthalmic surgery. The IR camera may be used to directly and intraoperatively capture a scanning OCT measurement beam, which uses NIR light that is invisible to the human eye. An IR image from the IR camera taken from the same surgical field as displayed intraoperatively to a user of the surgical microscope may be displayed in an ocular to the user, enabling visualization of a location of an OCT scan along with actual visible images of the surgical field.
US10888456B2
A surgical cassette for use with a phacoemulsification system having a front plate, a back plate, and a gasket therebetween. The front plate having molded fluid channels that mate with the gasket. The gasket having multiple valves and a sensor or diaphragm accessible through the back plate.
US10888454B2
Fluid delivery devices and methods are described, where the device may comprise a piezoelectric actuator operatively coupled to an ampoule with fluid, under a preloading force. The ampoule may comprise a thin-walled thermoplastic package which includes one or more apertures positioned on the wall of the ampoule. The piezoelectric actuator may be configured to clamp at least partially around the circumference of the ampoule and apply oscillations to its wall. The oscillations, typically in ultrasonic frequency, produce cycles of acoustic pressure in the fluid, leading to ejection of the fluid droplets or streams from the apertures.
US10888452B2
A wearable thermal gel-pack comprising a gel-pack body having a first portion including an inner surface and defining a gel cavity encapsulating a gel material therein and a second portion including a container with a first member coupled to the first portion, a second member pivotally coupled to the first member to form a joint and with an outer surface opposing the inner surface of the first portion, and a container cavity defined by the first and second members, the container cavity juxtaposed to and fluidly uncoupled to the gel cavity, the first and second members of the container having a closed position with a watertight configuration and an open position with a container opening in fluid communication with the container cavity and a strap couplable to the second member at a location along a strap length and operably configured to surround the inner surface of the first portion.
US10888448B2
Provided is a supporter in which it is possible to prevent floating of the supporter from the back portion of a wearer of the supporter in an upper side and a lower side of a back-contact section having a wide width and reliably support the waist portion of the wearer. The supporter 100 comprises: a band-shaped body section 10 provided with a back-contact section 11 which is brought into contact with the back portion of a wearer, and protruding sections 12 protruding to the right and left from both sides of the back-contact section 11; a pair of right and left auxiliary band sections 31 and 32 fixed so as to intersect one another in the vicinity of an upper side 11a of the back-contact section 11; a pair of right and left adjustment band sections 51 and 52 loosely inserted into annular rings 41 and 42 respectively disposed at the auxiliary band sections 31 and 32; and a band-shaped support band section 70 fixed to the vicinity of a lower side 11b of the back-contact section 11.
US10888440B2
The invention relates to a self-expanding intraosseous stent (100) intended to contain intraosseous cement, characterized in that the stent comprises a central part (101) and two lateral parts (102, 103) arranged on either side of the central part and extending along the same longitudinal axis (X), and in that the central part has a radial force lower than the radial force of the lateral parts.
US10888437B2
A method for inserting an intervertebral disc prosthesis into a space between two vertebrae involves inserting the prosthesis partway into the space under constraint to prevent endplates of the prosthesis from articulating, releasing the prosthesis from constraint, and inserting the unconstrained prosthesis farther into the space. In some embodiments, the method involves grasping the prosthesis with a grasping device to insert the prosthesis partway under constraint, loosing the grasping device to release the prosthesis from constraint, and pushing the prosthesis farther into the disc space using the grasping device and/or one or more separate pusher devices. A system includes a grasping device, at least one separate pushing device, and optionally a vertebral spreading device and/or a vertebral midline indicator device.
US10888425B2
An exemplary valve repair device for repairing a native valve of a patient includes a coaption element and a pair of paddles. The coaption element and/or the pair of paddles can be made from a fabric, such as a braided metal fabric. The pair of paddles are connected to the coaption element. The paddles are movable between an open position and a closed position. The valve repair device is configured to attach to the native valve of the patient.
US10888420B2
Stented prosthetic heart valves comprising a stent frame having a compressed arrangement for delivery within a patient's vasculature and an expanded arrangement for deployment within a native heart valve. The stented prosthetic heart valves including a paravalvular leakage prevention or mitigation wrap that encircles a stent frame and is formed of a flexible material having a variable diameter defined by a greatest distance between the wrap and the stent frame. The wrap further includes a first end coupled to the stent frame and an opposing second end that is not coupled to the stent frame, wherein the wrap can selectively enlarge its diameter in situ via movement of the second end. Devices for and methods of selectively deploying the wrap are also disclosed.
US10888417B2
There is discloses an iris-lens diaphragm made of elastic material in the form of a colored ring. The iris0lens diaphragm comprises peripheral arc-shaped and open-ended support elements for one-point contact that are capable of bending in the plane of the colored ring, wherein a thickness of support elements exceeds a thickness of the colored ring.
US10888413B2
A multi-component stent-graft system is provided, which includes a first stent-graft, which is configured to assume radially-expanded and radially-compressed states; and a second stent-graft, which is configured to assume radially-expanded and radially-compressed states. A delivery tool includes an outer tube, in which the first and the second stent-grafts are initially positioned at respective axial sites within the outer tube, in their radially-compressed states without being fixed to each other. Other embodiments are also described.
US10888409B2
A multi-laminar electrospun nanofiber scaffold for use in repairing a defect in a tissue substrate is provided. The scaffold includes a first layer formed by a first plurality of electrospun polymeric fibers, and a second layer formed by a second plurality of electrospun polymeric fibers. The second layer is combined with the first layer. A first portion of the scaffold includes a higher density of fibers than a second portion of the scaffold, and the first portion has a higher tensile strength than the second portion. The scaffold is configured to degrade via hydrolysis after at least one of a predetermined time or an environmental condition. The scaffold is configured to be applied to the tissue substrate containing the defect, and is sufficiently flexible to facilitate application of the scaffold to uneven surfaces of the tissue substrate, and to enable movement of the scaffold by the tissue substrate.
US10888406B2
A diagnosis device provided with a position data generation unit (224) and a linking unit (226). The position data generation unit (224) generates first position data and second position data using a relative position image showing the relative positions of an upper bow and a bite-fork, an upper-part image showing the positional relationship of the bite-fork and the maxillary dental arch of a patient, and an articulation image showing the positional relationship of the maxillary dental arch and the mandibular dental arch of the patient. The linking unit (226) generates a virtual articulator by positioning three-dimensional models of the patient's maxillary dental arch and mandibular dental arch generated by a model generation unit (223), using the first position data and the second position data.
US10888405B2
A sonic vibration toothbrush includes a head extending in an axial direction with a plurality of bristles implanted at an outer circumference thereof in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction; a head arm having an inner space to transmit a sonic wave to the head. A top portion of the head arm where the inner space is narrowed is coupled to the head and a motor accommodating portion that accommodates a motor therein and transmits a sonic wave generated by a rotating force of the motor to the head arm. The toothbrush further includes a handle having a space for accommodating a battery; an input unit provided at the motor accommodating portion in a button form; a display unit provided at the handle; and a control circuit that controls the motor according to input information provided from the input unit.
US10888401B2
Methods and systems for scanning an intraoral cavity of a patient provide capturing one or more viewfinder images of the intraoral cavity and scanning the intraoral cavity with an intraoral scanner to generate one or more topography scans of the intraoral cavity. The one or more topography scans may correspond to the one or more viewfinder images. The methods and systems further provide capturing a viewfinder image of a portion of the intraoral cavity, the viewfinder image overlapping with the one or more viewfinder images. An area of overlap of the viewfinder image with the one or more viewfinder images can be determined. One or more indicators of the area of overlap can be displayed on one or more locations of a display in order to provide guidance for positioning a field of view of the intraoral scanner.
US10888395B2
Embodiments relate to adding customized cut line information to a shell that is to be formed over mold of a dental arch. In one embodiment, a cut line is determined for the shell. A processing device determines one or more markings for the shell that will mark the cut line. The processing device determines one or more features to add to the mold over which the shell will be formed that will cause the shell to have the one or more markings. The processing device generates a digital model of the mold, the digital model comprising the one or more features, wherein the digital model is usable to manufacture the mold having the one or more features.
US10888390B2
Provided is a sterile drape configured to cover a medical observation apparatus to keep the medical observation apparatus sterile, the medical observation apparatus including a microscope part configured to magnify and image a microfine site of an observation object, an input part configured to receive an input of an operation instruction to the microscope part, and a grip part having a bar shape and having a surface provided with at least a portion of the input part, the sterile drape including: an attaching part configured to be fixed and attached to the grip part in a state where the sterile drape covers the medical observation apparatus.
US10888384B2
A surgical robot for performing minimally invasive surgery (e.g. in the eye) is provided. A cannula connection is positioned at a fixed surgical arm part and aligned with a movable surgical arm part movable with respect to the fixed surgical arm part. A surgical instrument can be mounted at the movable part. The surgical instrument can pass through the cannula connection. Reference arm(s) and manipulation arm(s) connect a base element with the fixed surgical arm part. The base element could have a surgical operating table attachment part to movably attach to a surgical operating table and rotating parts movably attached to the surgical operating table attachment part.
US10888380B2
Systems and methods for intraocular lens selection include receiving, by one or more computing devices implementing a prediction engine, pre-operative multi-dimensional images of an eye; extracting, by the prediction engine, pre-operative measurements of the eye based on the pre-operative images; estimating, by the prediction engine using a prediction model based on a machine learning strategy, a post-operative position of an intraocular lens based on the extracted pre-operative measurements; selecting a power of the intraocular lens based on the estimated post-operative position of the intraocular lens; and selecting the intraocular lens based on the selected power. In some embodiments, the systems and methods further include receiving post-operative multi-dimensional images of the eye after implantation of the selected intraocular lens, extracting post-operative measurements of the eye, and updating the prediction model based on the pre-operative measurements and the post-operative measurements.
US10888368B2
An electrosurgical dissection apparatus is disclosed, and includes a thermally insulating body, a thermally conductive insert, at least one active electrode, and at least one return electrode. The at least one active electrode is disposed on the thermally conductive insert, and the at least one return electrode is spaced from the at least one active electrode by a portion of the thermally insulating body. The thermally conductive insert is configured to cauterize tissue dissected by radiofrequency energy passing from the at least one active electrode to the at least one return electrode.
US10888367B2
A system and method for providing greater control over the temperature of a thermal treatment element of a medical device, enabling an operator to extend a thawing period of a cryoablation procedure. The system may include a fluid flow path that bypasses a subcooler, giving the operator selective control over the temperature of refrigerant delivered to the treatment element and, therefore, treatment element temperature. Additionally or alternatively, the system may include a fluid delivery conduit that is in communication with a liquid refrigerant and a gaseous refrigerant. Adjustment of the ratio of liquid to gaseous refrigerant also offers control over the treatment element temperature. Additionally or alternatively, the system may include one or more valves and/or heating elements in the fluid delivery and recovery conduits to control the treatment element temperature.
US10888365B2
A screw guide assembly includes a guide body extending along a central longitudinal axis. The guide body has a proximal end portion having an attachment face extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and a distal end portion having a screw support member extending away from the longitudinal axis. The screw support member is configured to allow for the insertion of a screw at an angle oblique relative to the longitudinal axis. A wire guide is removably inserted into the screw support member. A method of inserting a screw using the assembly is also disclosed.
US10888362B2
A bone repair device includes a plate having a pathway and a flexible structure. The plate includes opposing top and bottom surfaces and a first side extending between the top and the bottom surfaces. The flexible structure is directly attached to and extends from the first side of the plate. In operation, the bone repair device is placed around and over a plurality of bone parts. The plate is secured to the plurality of bone parts with a cable inserted through the pathway and wrapped around the bone parts.
US10888349B2
A medical device may include a handle having a first portion and a second portion angled with respect to the first portion. The handle may further include a rail extending along the first portion of the handle. The rail may include a groove. The handle may also include a first actuator longitudinally moveable with respect to the handle along the rail and a second actuator rotatable about an axis collinear to a longitudinal axis of the first portion. Further, the handle may include a shaft longitudinally fixed relative to the first actuator.
US10888348B2
A scar subcision devices comprising a first elongated element comprising a pivotal connection to a second elongated element, the first elongated element having a blunt distal end, the second elongated element having a proximal-facing cutting edge at a distal end thereof, the device having a first state wherein the cutting edge is retracted to a location within an outer perimeter of the first elongated element, and a second state wherein the cutting edge is exposed outside of the outer perimeter of the first elongated element and the device transitioning between the first state and the second state by the first elongated element and the second elongated element rotating relative to each other about the pivotal connection are disclosed. Methods are also disclosed.
US10888347B2
An ultrasonic surgical blade includes a body having a proximal end, a distal end, and an outer surface. The distal end is movable relative to a longitudinal axis in accordance with ultrasonic vibrations applied to the proximal end. At least a portion of the outer surface of the body comprises a lubricious coating adhered thereto. The lubricious coating has a coefficient of friction that is less than the coefficient of friction of the outer surface of the body.
US10888325B2
The present disclosure provides a surgical cartridge assembly including a proximal end, a distal end, and an elongate channel. The elongate channel includes a base and at least one opening within the base. The surgical cartridge assembly further includes a cartridge body configured to be removably received within the elongate channel and a slot configured to receive a cutting member. In addition, the surgical cartridge assembly includes at least one lockout tab extending from the proximal end of the cartridge body, wherein the at least one lockout tab is configured to cover the at least one opening when the cartridge body is received within the elongate channel, and wherein the at least one lockout tab disables a lockout mechanism to allow the cutting member to advance distally through the slot.
US10888323B2
A staple cartridge assembly comprises a staple cartridge, an anvil and a cutter, wherein the cutter comprises a first end and a second end; the staple cartridge assembly also comprises a rotation shaft and an auxiliary closing member which is connected with the rotation shaft; the staple cartridge assembly is also provided with a driving component capable of driving the rotation shaft to rotate; the driving component drives the rotation shaft to drive the auxiliary closing member to move in the process in which the staple cartridge assembly is converted from an original status to a closed status; when at least the staple cartridge assembly is in the closed status, one end surface of the auxiliary closing member abuts against the anvil to apply a force to the anvil for driving the anvil to be closed towards the staple cartridge.
US10888317B2
An apparatus includes a body, a motorized end effector, and a control system. The end effector extends distally from the body and comprises a stapling assembly operable to drive staples into tissue. The control system is in communication with the end effector. The control system comprises a motor, a firing trigger, a switch assembly, and a movable member in communication with the firing trigger. A resilient member is engaged with the movable member. The firing trigger and the resilient member are configured to cooperate to move the movable member into engagement with the switch to thereby activate the motor. The switch assembly is configured to couple a power source with the motor to thereby activate the motor in response to actuation of the firing trigger.
US10888314B2
A suturing device includes a curved needle, a suture, an elongate body, an actuator and a curved needle holder. The suture connects with the curved needle. The actuator is operable between a first operating position and a second operating position. The curved needle holder extends away from a distal end portion or is provided as part of the distal end portion of the elongate body. The curved needle holder includes a distal end section having a distal-most tip. The curved needle holder defines a curved needle passage and a distal opening. Movement of the actuator from the first operating position toward the second operating position moves the curved needle with respect to the curved needle holder toward a released condition. The distal end section is configured to allow the curved needle to release from the curved needle holder at a location offset from the distal-most tip.
US10888311B2
A suture anchor for tissue repair that has a proximal section and a main section where the proximal and main sections are formed of different materials. Only the proximal section is formed of a biologic material, such as human cortical bone. The proximal section is about one-third of the body of the anchor.
US10888306B2
A medical instrument including a shaft and an actuated structure mounted at a distal end of the shaft can employ a pair of tendons connected to the actuated structure, extending down the shaft, and respectively wound around a capstan in opposite directions. A passive preload system may maintain minimum tensions in the tendons.
US10888304B2
Methods and system for producing combined photoacoustic/ultrasonic image frames use a low-power narrow beam laser to direct sequential pulses along a path overlying an internal region of interest. Photoacoustic responses are received and used to generate sub-frames. Between each of the laser pulses a plurality of ultrasound pulse-echo beams are sequentially emitted towards the region of interest, and the reflections are received and used to generate ultrasound sub-frames. The photoacoustic sub-frames are combined to produce a photoacoustic frame, and the ultrasound sub-frames are combined to produce an ultrasound frame. The photoacoustic and ultrasound frames are combined to produce an image frame. The method and system are suitable for producing real-time, high-contrast video.
US10888302B2
An image processing device is described herein including an information input unit that receives as an input three-dimensional structure information indicating a three-dimensional structure of a heart; and an image generation unit that develops an inner wall of atria and ventricles of a heart indicated by the three-dimensional structure information into a two-dimensional image based on an equal-area projection, and generates a developed image interrupted by dividing the two-dimensional image into a front wall, a rear wall, a left wall, and a right wall.
US10888294B2
A method and system is disclosed for acquiring image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system in a selected manner and/or motion. More than one projection may be combined to generate and create a selected view of the subject.
US10888287B2
Provided is an imaging device including a body, an x-ray detector assembly attached to the body, and an x-ray source assembly attached to the body. The x-ray detector assembly includes a telescopic actuator movable between a retracted position and an extended position, and an x-ray detector attached to the telescopic actuator.
US10888285B2
An imaging system with integrated magnification stand is described. In an embodiment, the imaging system may include an imaging detector configured to capture an image of human tissue. The imaging system may include a compression paddle situated apart from the imaging detector. A magnification stand of the imaging system may be configured to rotate between a first position and a second position, wherein the magnification stand is situated between the compression paddle and the imaging detector in the first position such that the human tissue can be compressed between the magnification stand and the compression paddle, and wherein the magnification stand is rotated to the second position in which the second position is generally perpendicular to the first position. In this manner, the magnification stand may be stored on the imaging system itself. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10888282B2
A method of producing an artificial neural network capable of predicting the survivability of a patient, including: storing in an electronic database patient health data comprising a plurality of sets of data, each set having at least one of a first parameter relating to heart rate variability data and a second parameter relating to vital sign data, each set further having a third parameter relating to patient survivability; providing a network of nodes interconnected to form an artificial neural network, the nodes comprising a plurality of artificial neurons, each artificial neuron having at least one input with an associated weight; and training the artificial neural network using the patient health data such that the associated weight of the at least one input of each artificial neuron is adjusted in response to respective first, second and third parameters of different sets of data from the patient health data.
US10888280B2
A photoplethysmography (PPG) circuit or non-contact camera obtains PPG signals at a plurality of wavelengths. A signal processing module obtains at least a first spectral response around a first wavelength and a second spectral response around a second wavelength. The signal processing device generates PPG input data using the PPG signals, wherein the PPG input data includes one or more parameters obtained from each of the first spectral response and the second spectral response. A neural network processing device generates an input vector including the PPG input data and determines an output vector including health data, wherein the health data includes for example, an oxygen saturation level, a glucose level or a blood alcohol level.
US10888279B2
There is provided a biological information monitoring system for monitoring biological information of a subject on a bed, the system comprising: detectors which detect load of the subject; a center of gravity position calculating unit which acquires temporal variation of a center of gravity position of the subject based on the detected load; a body motion information determining unit which acquires information on body motion of the subject based on the acquired temporal variation; and a respiratory rate calculating unit which calculates a respiratory rate of the subject based on the acquired temporal variation and the information on the body motion of the subject. The body motion information includes information on large and small body motions of the subject, and the body motion information determining unit includes first and second body motion information determining units which determine the information on the large and small body motions of the subject, respectively.
US10888266B2
Sleep related conditions of a subject are monitored and/or diagnosed based on both sleep quality and apnea hypopnea index. A first sleep test is performed in which a sleep quality of the subject and an apnea-hypopnea index are determined. A determination is made as to whether results of the first sleep test meet a first condition based on both the sleep quality and apnea-hypopnea index of the subject associated with the first sleep test. Responsive to the results of the first sleep test failing to meet the first condition, a recommendation of a treatment for the subject is provided. An efficacy of the treatment is confirmed in a second sleep test involving the treatment by determining whether results of the second sleep test meet the first condition based on both the sleep quality and apnea-hypopnea index of the subject associated with the second sleep test.
US10888264B2
A method for treating depression in a subject in need thereof is provided. The method includes treating the subject by seizure therapy administered through electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) or magnetic seizure therapy (MST). The method further includes evaluating change in complexity of temporal dynamics in the brain of the subject, following treatment, to identify whether complexity of fine time scale temporal dynamics in the fronto-central and/or parieto-occipital region is reduced following treatment. The reduced complexity of fine time scale temporal dynamics in the fronto-central and/or parieto-occipital region following treatment identifies the subject as a responder to the seizure therapy for treating depression. The step of evaluating further comprises identifying change in complexity of coarse scale temporal dynamics in a parieto-central region following treatment.
US10888262B2
A regulator for in-line modulation of the flow rate of fluid during blood collection includes a fluid transfer device for transferring fluid from a patient to a collection device. The fluid transfer device comprises a fluid passageway defined by a tubular sidewall and a flexible member associated with a portion of the tubular sidewall. The flexible member is configured for movement with respect to the fluid passageway upon exposure of the fluid transfer device to a differential pressure during a blood collection procedure to prevent collapse of a patients blood vessel. The flexible member of the regulator can be a frame surrounding a flexible diaphragm. Alternatively, the flexible member can include a flexible material integrally formed within the tubular sidewall of the pressure regulator.
US10888257B2
Analyte sensor connectors that connect analyte sensors, e.g., conductive members of analyte sensors, to other devices such as sensor electronics units, e.g., sensor control units, are provided. Also provided are systems that include analyte sensors, analyte sensor connectors, and analyte sensor electronics units, as well as methods of establishing and maintaining connections between analyte sensors and analyte sensor electronics units, and methods of analyte monitoring/detection. Also provided are methods of making analyte sensor connectors and systems that include analyte sensor connectors.
US10888253B2
An audiometer is provided which has: a main body section; and multiple sets of a headphone section and a response operation section, wherein the main body section performs wireless communication with the headphone section and performs wireless communication with the response operation section independently of the wireless communication with the headphone section, thereby supplying a test sound output command to the headphone section to cause the headphone section to output the test sound and receiving information on operation by a subject from the response operation section, and performs the wireless communication with the headphone section and the response operation section of each set by a time-division multiplexing system.
US10888252B2
A scapulae position measurement device and method includes a main body extending in the vertical direction, configured to be positioned to run along the spinal column, having a vertical scale, and a moveable arm, extending in a horizontal direction on the right or left side of the main body, having a horizontal scale. The scapulae position measurement device is capable of measuring position changes of the horizontal direction (X axis) and vertical direction (Y axis) of the scapulae, and capable of displaying the tension/relax state of the surrounding muscles of the scapulae with an objective numerical value.
US10888237B2
A computer system for determining Ventricular Far Field contribution in atrial electrograms of a patient. The system includes an interface module configured to receive a plurality of electrical signals generated by a plurality of sensors wherein the plurality of electrical signals relate to a plurality of locations in an atrium of the patient; a reference module configured to determine a reference signal reflecting electrical excitation of the patient's ventricles; and a data processing module. The data processing module is configured to select from the plurality of the received electrical signals such electrical signals which are recorded a number of conditions. The data processing module is further configured to determine a spatio-temporal distribution of the Ventricular Far Field inside the atrium by approximating the spatio-temporal distribution (VFFc) based on signal data of the selected signals by using an approximation model.
US10888230B2
Methods and systems for detecting early stage dental caries and decays are provided. In particular, in an embodiment, laser-induced autofluorescence (AF) from multiple excitation wavelengths is obtained and analyzed. Endogenous fluorophores residing in the enamel naturally fluoresce when illuminated by wavelengths ranging from ultraviolet into the visible spectrum. The relative intensities of the AF emission changes between different excitation wavelengths when the enamel changes from healthy to demineralized. By taking a ratio of AF emission spectra integrals between different excitation wavelengths, a standard is created wherein changes in AF ratios within a tooth are quantified and serve as indicators of early stage enamel demineralization. The techniques described herein may be used in conjunction with a scanning fiber endoscope (SFE) to provide a reliable, safe and low-cost means for identifying dental caries or decays.
US10888227B2
Apparatus and methods are presented herein that permit real-time, accurate detection of residual tumor in the operating room. The Raman-based wide-field imaging apparatus and methods described herein permit real-time imaging of tumor-targeted R-MR nanoparticles over a wide field. Apparatus and methods are presented herein for operating a Raman-based resection system.
US10888222B2
A system and a method for testing a visual field of a subject are described. The method includes determining inter-eye distance of the subject. Visual stimuli are displayed on a left display region and a right display region of a two-dimensional display to the subject based on the determined inter-eye distance. The left display region is configured to display content specific to the left eye and the right display region is configured to display content specific to the right eye of the subject. Subject responses to the visual stimuli are tracked. Based on the subject responses, a condition of the visual field of each eye the subject is evaluated and then results of the evaluation describing the subject's visual field condition is reported or stored.
US10888220B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of tomographic data based on measurement light controlled to scan the same position of a fundus; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a correction coefficient by performing an arithmetic operation on a first approximate parameter obtained by transforming, in a first dimension, a parameter of the tomographic data to be used for calculating a motion contrast, and a second approximate parameter obtained by transforming the parameter in a second dimension smaller than the first dimension; a correction unit configured to correct a parameter of at least one piece of tomographic data through use of the correction coefficient; and a generation unit configured to generate a motion contrast image through use of the at least one piece of tomographic data corrected by the correction unit.
US10888213B2
An intubation system includes an intubation instrument for capturing an image, wherein the intubation instrument has a first interface for providing an image signal representing the captured image, a display device with a second interface for receiving the image signal, wherein the display device is provided and designed to display the image captured by the intubation instrument, and a cable with a third interface at a first end of the cable and with a fourth interface at a second end of the cable. The first, second, third, and fourth interfaces are designed such that the first interface at the intubation instrument is connectable directly to the second interface at the display device and is alternatively connectable directly to the third interface at the cable, and such that the second interface at the display device is connectable directly to the first interface at the intubation instrument and is alternatively connectable directly to the fourth interface at the cable.
US10888211B2
A dishwashing method in which water having an oxidizing and disinfecting action is provided in a dishwasher and used as dishwashing water or added to a dishwashing water, wherein, to provide the water, a) a stream of untreated water is fed into a reverse osmosis device and separated into a concentrate stream and a permeate stream, b) ozone is produced by an ozone generator, and c) the ozone is introduced into the permeate stream emerging from the reverse osmosis device, wherein the reverse osmosis controls ozone production in that the ozone generator is configured such that ozone is only produced and mixed with the permeate stream when the reverse osmosis device is in operation.
US10888210B1
A cleaning mitt has upper and lower material cleaning layers attached to form an interior pocket. The lower material cleaning layer has a bottom exterior side having a moderately abrasive first cleaning surface for light duty scrubbing and cleaning and a top interior side having a second cleaning surface less abrasive than the first cleaning surface for streak-free polishing. The upper material cleaning layer has a bottom interior side having a third cleaning surface which has the identical abrasiveness as the second cleaning surface and a top exterior side having a fourth cleaning surface which is more abrasive than the second and third cleaning surfaces for medium duty scrubbing and cleaning. A fifth cleaning surface partially circumscribes the cleaning layers for heavy duty scrubbing and cleaning. The fifth cleaning surface may also be provided as a scrubber patch on one of the cleaning layers.
US10888208B2
A supply unit for a cleaning machine which can be connected via at least one flexible hose, has a heating device for heating water, a water pump for conveying water into or out of the heating device, a hot water and/or steam connector which is connected to the outlet of the heating device, a dirty water tank, a suction device, which preferably includes a suction turbine, for sucking dirty water from a dirty water connector into the dirty water tank. In a preferred embodiment the unit has at least one, preferably precisely one central, drive unit for driving at least one, preferably a plurality of or all components to be driven of the supply unit and/or of a cleaning machine to be connected to it.
US10888205B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a rotatably mounted brush associated with a dirty air inlet. A plurality of bristles extend outwardly from a radial outer surface of the rotatably mounted brush. A leading hair blocking member is provided adjacent a forward rotational side of the bristles, and a trailing hair blocking member is provided adjacent a rearward rotational side of the bristles.
US10888202B2
A method of manufacturing a substrate configured to be wetted by a device internal to the substrate. The method includes a roll to roll processing method using two different plies to form a substrate incorporating a latent wetting device. The method includes forming a container by creating a vessel in two parts. One part is formed on a bottom ply and another part is formed on a top ply. A wetting agent for wetting the substrates is added to one part of the vessels and the plies and vessel parts are joined using a continuous manufacturing method.
US10888185B2
A beverage system is provided that includes a cup having a frustoconical wall extending from a first end to a second end. The first end is coupled to a bottom wall and the second end defines a rim. Inner surfaces of the walls define a cavity. The rim defines an opening that is in communication with the cavity. A lid is coupled to the rim such that the lid covers at least a portion of the opening. A sleeve includes a collar that surrounds a portion of the frustoconical wall. The sleeve includes first and second arms. The arms each include a first end coupled to the collar and an opposite second end. The second end of the first arm directly engages the lid. The second end of the second arm directly engages the second end of the first arm when the second end of the first arm directly engages the lid to prevent the lid from being removed from the cup.
US10888176B2
A door for a refrigerated merchandiser including a case that defines a product display area. The door includes a frame and a first glass pane coupled to the frame. The first glass pane has heat-absorbing glass and is configured to be positioned adjacent an ambient environment surrounding the refrigerated merchandiser to absorb radiation from the ambient environment. The door also includes a second glass pane coupled to the frame and configured to be positioned adjacent the product display area. The second glass pane includes a conductive coating. The door further includes a third glass pane positioned between and spaced from the first glass pane and the second glass pane, and has a low emissivity coating.
US10888172B2
A folding bed is provided, comprising: a support frame and an air mattress; the air mattress is arranged on the support frame; the support frame is used to support the air mattress. When a user lies on the air mattress, the air mattress touches the back of the human body. Since the air mattress is internally filled with air, the air mattress is relatively soft when supporting the back of the human body, thus the comfort degree of the folding bed is improved.
US10888170B2
A chest configured to transition between an open position and a closed position may include a front panel, side panels and a top panel, the front panel including a first and second portions, the side panels including first and second sub-side panels, the first portion of the front panel being hingably connected to a base of the chest, and the second portion of the front panel hingably connected to the first portion of the front panel and fixed to the first sub-side panels, wherein the second portion of the front panel is stored within an enclosure formed by at least the first portion of the front panel, the side panels and the top panel when the chest is in the closed position, and the first portion and the second portion of the front panel form a portion of a sleeping platform when the chest is in the open position.
US10888158B1
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, a first slide-aiding device and a second slide-aiding device. The second rail is displaceable relative to the first rail. The first slide-aiding device and the second slide-aiding device are arranged at the first rail. When the second rail is located at a retracted position relative to the first rail, the first slide-aiding device and the second slide-aiding device are configured to support the second rail.
US10888153B1
This disclosure relates to oral care mouthpieces and methods of forming oral care mouthpieces. A disclosed oral care mouthpiece includes a base shaped to a dental arch. The base elastically deforms in response to pressure variations in the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece also includes a set of one or more supports attached to the base and placed to allow the base to elastically deform in response to the pressure variations in the mouthpiece. The mouthpiece also includes a set of oral care elements attached to the set of one or more supports and placed to transmit pressure to the dental arch when the base elastically deforms in response to the pressure variations in the mouthpiece.
US10888142B1
A synchronous opening and closing structure and a backpack including the same are provided. The synchronous opening and closing structure includes: a first opening and closing structure including a first sliding member and a first tape assembly, wherein the first sliding member is slidably disposed on the first tape assembly so that the first tape assembly is in a closed state or in an open state; a second opening and closing structure including a second sliding member and a second tape assembly, wherein the second sliding member is slidably disposed on the second tape assembly so that the second tape assembly is in the closed state or in the open state; and a connecting structure including a connector connecting the first sliding member and the second sliding member, wherein the connector moves to a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US10888127B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments for full body garments having wide, abdominal-shaping portions stitched onto an inner shaping liner, and methods of making the same. The garments disclosed herein have wide, abdominal-shaping portions with features constructed to smooth and restrain the garment-wearer's abdominal area, back, and upper hip. The combination of the outer shell, liner, and inner third partial layer create the unique shaping garment.
US10888123B2
There is provided a cartridge for an aerosol-generating system, the cartridge including: a first compartment having a first air inlet and a first air outlet, the first compartment containing a nicotine source; and a second compartment having a second air inlet and a second air outlet, the second compartment containing a lactic acid source, a ratio of flow area of the first air inlet to a flow area of the second air inlet being between about 3:4 and about 1:2. There is also provided an aerosol-generating system including the and an aerosol-generating device including a housing defining a cavity configured to receive at least a portion of the cartridge, and a heater configured to heat the first compartment and the second compartment of the cartridge.
US10888121B2
A cartridge for an aerosol generating system is provided, including a liquid storage portion including a rigid support portion having a nozzle defining an opening configured to dispense an aerosol-forming substrate and a collapsible portion, attached to the rigid support portion; and a wick disposed in the nozzle, extending across a full cross-section of the opening. An aerosol generating system is also provided, including the cartridge; and a method is provided for forming the cartridge including providing a rigid support portion with a nozzle defining an opening; attaching a collapsible portion to the rigid support portion to form a liquid storage portion; and providing a wick in the nozzle, the wick extending across a full cross-section of the opening.
US10888118B2
There is provided a method of making rods having predetermined values of cross-sectional porosity, and a cross-sectional porosity distribution value for use as an aerosol-forming substrate in a heated aerosol-generating article, including providing a continuous sheet of aerosol-forming material having a specified width and a specified thickness; gathering the sheet transversely relative to a longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; severing the rod into a plurality of discrete rods; determining values of cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution for at least one of the discrete rods; and controlling one or more manufacturing parameters to ensure that the cross-sectional porosity and cross-sectional porosity distribution values of subsequent rods are within the predetermined values.
US10888111B2
The present invention relates to a multicomponent aerosol-forming article defining a longitudinal axis, the article comprising: —a first rod-shaped component comprising a first longitudinal surface having a first and a second axially opposed ends, said first longitudinal surface being at least partially wrapped around the longitudinal axis in a first wrapping sheet; —a second rod-shaped component comprising a second longitudinal surface having a first and a second axially opposed ends, said second longitudinal surface being at least partially wrapped around the longitudinal axis in a second wrapping sheet, the first end of the second component being in direct abutment to the second end of the first component along said longitudinal axis; —wherein a portion of said second longitudinal surface at said first end of said second component is free of said second wrapping sheet; and—wherein said first wrapping sheet is wrapped for at least an overlapping length along the longitudinal axis on the second wrapping sheet.
US10888102B2
A self-contained food processor is provided for treating a food flow path in the food processor with a solution. The food flow path can be treated without requiring disassembly and reassembly of the food processor and without requiring direct operator input. The food processor includes a controller for directing passage of a solution through at least portions of the food flow path without requiring constant operator oversight. The food processor can employ available positive pressure water supply, such as public utility water pressure to selectively and automatically push solutions, including rinses, backwards or forwards through the food flow path in the food processor.
US10888098B2
A lifting apparatus (1), configured to lift poultry legs (9) conveyed suspended in a row, comprises a conveying device (11) and a poultry leg lifting device (12). The poultry legs (9) can be suspended by their ankle joint balls (911) in poultry carriers (131) of the conveying device (11). The poultry leg lifting device (12) has a poultry leg positioning device (70) having at least one positioning element (71-78, 141) which, with weight unloading of the poultry carrier (131), lifts the conveyed poultry legs (9) with the ankle joint balls (911) in a poultry leg lifting way (h) into lifted ankle joint ball positions. A carrier lifting device (13) is configured to lift each foot hook-in device (31) to suspension heights which correspond with the ankle joint ball positions lifted in the poultry leg lifting device (12). For this purpose, the carrier guiding device (132) has a dynamically movable lifting guiding member (4) and a guiding bearing device (42) which carries the lifting guiding member (4), in conjunction with a weight unloading of the poultry carriers (131) effected by the lifting of the poultry legs (9), in a vertically movable manner. The foot hook-in device (31) is mounted on the poultry carrier (131) in such a manner that it is freely vertically movable.
US10888096B2
Bacterial strains, or extracts thereof, are effective to control, treat or prevent infection of solanaceous plants with Phytophthora infestans, the causative agent of potato late blight disease. Also provided are biopesticidal formulations containing one or more of the bacterial strains or extracts thereof, and the use of the bacterial strains, extracts or biopesticidal formulations in the control, treatment and/or prevention of potato late blight disease.
US10888095B2
The present invention provides a temperature stable herbicidal composition comprising 2-amino-4-[hydroxy(methyl) phosphinoyl]butyric acid, its salts, its isomers, mixture of isomers, derivatives or their lower alkyl esters or salts thereof with acids or bases, (C8-C20) alkyldimethylamine N-oxide and an inorganic ammonium salt. Also provided is a process for preparing the composition by mixing said active ingredient in a formulation vessel with water and solvent followed by the addition of calculated amount of (C8-C20) alkyldimethylamine N-oxide and inorganic ammonium salt, and if required further customary adjuvants, solvents or other components such as wetting agent, coloring agent or defoamer followed by homogenizing the resultant mixture to obtain a clear solution. A method of weed control applying the composition of the present invention as well as a multipack herbicidal product comprising the composition are within the purview of the present invention.
US10888088B2
The present invention relates to a concentrate comprising at least one lipid of mannosylerythritol and at least one ester of fatty acid and polyethylene glycol having an HLB value greater than or equal to 12, to the method for producing same and to the uses thereof, in particular as a surfactant.
US10888084B2
A bat deterrent system to deter bats from approaching wind turbines may include a first deterrent box having a first and second transducer bank. The first transducer bank may include a first set of transducers located on a first plane and a second set of transducers located on a second plane. The second plane may be different from the first plane. The bat deterrent system may also include a second deterrent box having a third and fourth transducer bank. The third transducer bank may include a third set of transducers located on a third plane and a fourth set of transducers located on a fourth plane. The fourth plane may be different from the third plane. At least one transducer may simultaneously emit a different ultrasonic output waveform than the ultrasonic output waveform emitted from another transducer.
US10888083B2
A ceiling-mountable animal trap (100) has a housing (102), a snap trap (110), and an indicator (118). The snap trap (110) has a treadle member (112), a killing arm arrangement, and a trigger (116). A killing arm (114) is pivotally mounted, has a set position, and is biased toward an impact position. The trigger (116) couples the treadle member (112) to the killing arm (114) and releases the killing arm from the set position. The indicator (118) is movable between a recessed position and a projecting position in which it projects from the underside of the housing (102). The indicator is held in the recessed position by the killing arm arrangement when the killing arm (114) is in the set position. The indicator (118) decouples from the killing arm arrangement when the killing arm (114) moves towards the impact position so that the indicator moves to the projecting position.
US10888077B2
A pole-and-line fishing device includes a rotary drum, a drive motor, an electromagnetic clutch, an encoder for detecting direction and speed of rotation of the rotary drum, and a control unit for controlling the electromagnetic clutch. The drive motor can rotate the rotary drum in a forward winding direction until a load reaches a transmission torque, and when load exceeds the transmission torque, the drum can rotate in a reverse unwinding direction. In a reverse torque operation region, a winding torque is set to a preset Winding Force 2 Reference Rotation Speed relative to a Winding Force 1, and is changed based on a change of rotation speed of the drum. The ratio of winding torque increase/decrease is determined by a torque rising curve. The winding torque switches to Winding Force 3 to perform a constant torque operation when speed of the drum reaches Winding Force 3 Reference Rotation Speed.
US10888076B2
A reel for fishing line or the like provides for extremely rapid payout by releasing the line to unwind by sliding rapidly around a guide surrounding the line spool and by rotation of the line spool itself. A handle extending rearwardly from the reel controls a line guide preventing sliding of the fishing line around the guide and providing controllable friction and locking of rotation of the line spool only when actuated by the user to permit retraction of the line or controlled tensioning of the line.
US10888070B2
A tag attachable to an animal, the tag comprising: a battery connected to a radio transceiver that consumes power from the battery during transmissions and receptions of signals to and from one or more proximate tags attachable to one or more other animals to generate paired tag readings; and a controller configured to operate the radio transceiver for a predetermined duration and frequency of transmissions, and a predetermined duration and frequency of receptions; wherein the predetermined duration and frequency of transmissions and the predetermined duration and frequency of receptions are based on power consumptions of the radio transceiver during transmissions and receptions, and a targeted number of paired tag readings of the tag.
US10888068B2
Provided is an adjustable hollow food-leaking toy. The adjustable hollow food-leaking toy includes a housing and an inner container; the inner container is a hollow shell made of a hard material; a food eaten by a pet is accommodated in the inner container; a window configured to leak the pet food is formed on the sidewall of the inner container; the window can be switched between a sealed state and a non-sealed state. The housing is a hollow shell; the inner container is held in the housing; a space for moving the pet food is provided between the housing and the inner container; and multiple food-leaking holes for leaking the pet food are formed on the sidewall of the housing.
US10888050B2
A system and method of abating air pollution and stimulating crop growth. A reagent is introduced to a crop canopy to neutralize air pollutants within said canopy, wherein the reagent induces an oxidation-reduction chemical reaction with the air pollution present throughout the acreage of crops, and by means of the reaction effectually neutralizes the harmful effects of the air pollutants on the crops. The reagent is diluted using a venturi valve or other means. The flow rate of said reagent is regulated using an electronic control unit, based on data collected from at least one type of sensor in the canopy that is in communication with the control unit.
US10888044B2
A lift and rotate style agricultural implement with forward folding wings is provided. The agricultural implement includes a center frame that may be operatively configured to be lifted and rotated approximately 90 degrees when switching between a field configuration and a transport configuration. Furthermore, the wings may include an inner portion and an outer portion, wherein the outer portion may be operatively configured to be rotated or pivoted approximately 180 degrees relative to the inner wing portion when switching between a field configuration and a transport configuration. The inner and outer wing portions may be connected by a hinge and the outer wing may be pivoted about the inner wing portion by a cylinder.
US10893640B2
A component pickup apparatus includes a component pickup unit including a plurality of nozzles, each of the plurality of nozzles configured to adsorb a component; a light emitter configured to emit light toward the plurality of nozzles; an image splitter configured to receive an image of the plurality of nozzles generated by the light and configured to split the image of the plurality of nozzles into different groups; and an image capturer configured to capture an image outputted from the image splitter. The image splitter is configured to guide a first image of a first group of the plurality of nozzles to a first row of the image capturer and guide a second image of a second group of the plurality of nozzles to a second row of the image capturer.
US10893637B2
An electronic device including a shield structure is provided. The electronic device includes a first device including a first magnetic substance, a second device including a second magnetic substance, and a shield structure configured to shield at least part of a magnetic force generated between the first magnetic substance and the second magnetic substance, wherein the shield structure includes a shield member disposed between the first device and the second device and including a property of a magnetic substance, and a connecting member physically connected to at least part of the shield member and including a property of a nonmagnetic substance, wherein at least part of the connecting member is physically connected to a circuit board.
US10893623B2
The invention relates to a method for obtaining a leaktight electronic device according to which provision is made for steps consisting in: a) placing an electronic module (3) inside a mould (100), b) holding said electronic module away from the walls (101) of said mould with the aid of holding claws (200) each exhibiting an end which protrudes towards the interior of the mould, c) injecting into said mould a thermoplastic material able to harden so as to form a leaktight shell, said holding claws retracting towards the exterior of the mould during the injection of said thermoplastic material.
US10893611B2
A circuit assembly includes: a substrate with an electrically conducting path; plate-shaped busbars that have connection portions connected to the electrically conducting path of the substrate, and are arranged in an orientation in which plate surfaces thereof intersects with a surface of the substrate; a heat discharge member that is laid on a side of the substrate opposite to the busbars, and is configured to discharge heat of the substrate; and a resin frame that extends along the busbars, and holds the busbars while being in intimate contact with the busbars, wherein the frame includes mounting portions mounted on at least either the substrate or the heat discharge member.
US10893608B2
The present invention provides a fabric having a multiple layered circuit thereon integrating with electronic devices. The fabric comprises: a base layer; a plurality of conductive circuit layers; at least one connecting layer having electrically-conductive via-hole(s) and electrically-insulated area covering the area without the via-hole(s) and electrically connecting two conductive circuit layers through the via-hole(s) but electrically insulating the rest of the two conductive circuit layers; one or more than one electrical devices mounted to the conductive circuit layer and connected to circuits on the conductive circuit layer through anisotropic conductive film (ACF); and a water-proof layer disposed on the conductive circuit layer which is the farthest away from the base layer and covering the electrical device(s).
US10893600B2
An induction plasma torch comprises a tubular torch body, a plasma confinement tube disposed in the tubular torch body coaxial therewith, a gas distributor head disposed at one end of the plasma confinement tube and structured to supply at least one gaseous substance into the plasma confinement tube; an inductive coupling member embedded within the tubular torch body for applying energy to the gaseous substance to produce and sustain plasma in the plasma confinement tube, and an electrically conductive capacitive shield on an inner surface of the tubular torch body. The capacitive shield is segmented into axial strips interconnected at one end. Axial grooves are machined in the inner surface of the tubular torch body, the axial grooves being interposed between the axial strips.
US10893594B2
A lighting system including a set of lighting devices for lighting an environment that may be controlled by a method. The method may include receiving, from one or more image sensors (e.g. a RGB-D camera—W), an image signal including a sequence of images of the environment under different conditions of illumination and light reflection. The method may further include processing the image signal to provide a light source identification signal representative of light sources affecting the environment, and controlling the lighting devices as a function of the light source identification signal, and, possibly, of human occupancy and activity.
US10893590B2
Techniques and devices are provided for sensing image data from a scene and activating primary light sources based on information sensed from the scene. Subsets of a plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit sensing spectrum of light onto a scene. Combined image data may be sensed from the scene while the subsets of the plurality of primary light sources are activated. Reflectance information for the scene may be determined based on the combined image data and combined sensing spectra. Spectrum optimization criteria for the primary light sources may be determined based on the reference information and a desired output parameter provided by a user or determined by a controller. The plurality of primary light sources may be activated to emit a lighting spectrum based on the spectrum optimization criteria.
US10893585B2
A LED controller for an LED pixel array includes a serial interface to an external data bus, along with an address generator connected to the serial interface and the LED pixel array. An image frame buffer is connected to the interface to receive image data and further connected to the address generator to receive an image frame buffer address. A command and control module is connected to the serial interface and configured to modify image frame buffer output signals. A calibration data storage module is connected to the command and control module to store calibration data related to pixel voltage response in the LED pixel array.
US10893582B1
A biodegradable microwave susceptor and constructs incorporating the susceptor are disclosed for heating a food item in a microwave oven. The biodegradable microwave susceptor includes a patterned susceptor layer of metal on a biodegradable substrate. Selected areas of the susceptor layer may be demetallized to remove susceptor material. The susceptor may be incorporated into a construct for containing or supporting a food item to be heated.
US10893572B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for a user-equipment-coordination set for disengaged mode (602). In aspects, a base station (121) forms a disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set (602) including multiple user equipment (110) operating in a disengaged mode (524). The disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set (602) uses joint transmission and reception to communicate with the base station (121). The base station (121) communicates control-plane information to an individual user equipment (110) or multiple user equipment (110) in the disengaged-mode-user-equipment coordination set (602).
US10893570B2
There is provided a method comprising causing transmission of a first uplink transmission from a first user device, the first uplink transmission having a transmission time interval comprising a plurality of subframes, receiving information from a base station, the information comprising an indication to pause transmission of the first uplink transmission for N subframes, pausing transmission of the first uplink transmission for N subframes and causing, after N subframes, continued transmission of the first uplink transmission.
US10893568B2
A method at a network node of a radio access network (RAN) for managing a context of a user equipment (UE) operating in an inactive mode, the method comprising: receiving, from a second network node, a context retrieval request comprising a UE identifier and a first message, the first message being protected with a first cryptographic key; validating the first message using a stored cryptographic key associated with a UE context indicated by the UE identifier; and sending a context retrieval response message to the second network node containing a relocation indication of whether the UE context is to be relocated to the second network node.
US10893562B1
A cell site that has multiple first-RAT carriers will monitor a capacity demand respectively of each first-RAT carrier, with capacity demand representing an extent to which adding more service capacity could be useful in view of the state of service on the 4G carrier. Further, the cell site will dynamically allocate resources of a second-RAT carrier for use in dual-connectivity service of UEs served on various ones of the first-RAT carriers, with the allocation being based on the capacity demands of the various primary-RAT carriers. For instance, if a first first-RAT carrier has a higher capacity demand than a second first-RAT carrier, then the cell site could allocate a more resources of the secondary-RAT carrier for use in dual-connectivity service of UEs served on the first first-RAT carrier than for use in dual-connectivity service of UEs served on the second first-RAT carrier.
US10893559B2
A device, system, and method select a frequency band during an attenuation activity state. The method is performed at a device that is configured to establish a network connection to a network having a first priority of available frequency bands set by the network. The method includes identifying an attenuation activity state. The method includes generating a second priority of the available frequency bands based on the attenuation activity state. The method includes selecting one of the available frequency bands based on the second priority to establish the network connection.
US10893548B2
An apparatus is configured to be employed within one or more user equipment (UE). The apparatus includes control circuitry and a transceiver. The control circuitry is configured to generate a physical random access channel (PRACH), wherein the PRACH includes a preamble for PRACH transmission using a license assisted access (LAA) secondary cell. The transceiver is coupled to the control circuitry and is configured to retry transmission of the PRACH on a listen before talk (LBT) failure based of the secondary cell.
US10893540B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Wireless communications systems may support uplink random access channel (RACH) transmissions on multiple beams and over multiple component carriers (CCs). A wireless device may transmit a random access preamble to a base station in a first RACH transmission, which may indicate a set of CCs over which the base station may respond with a random access response (RAR) in a second RACH transmission. The second RACH transmission may then include an indication for which CCs the wireless device may use for a subsequent RACH transmission (e.g., a RACH message 3). The wireless device may also indicate a beam index and/or time-frequency resources associated with beams and/or CCs used for such cell acquisition transmissions. In other examples, the base station may indicate resources (e.g., via a handover command or RACH command) for wireless device scheduling request and/or beam-failure recovery request transmission.
US10893538B2
Methods and apparatus for generating a scheduling grant for a wireless device of a communication system are provided. The communication system supports variable TTI lengths to be transmitted in one TTI. It is presented how to determine a TTI length for a scheduled TTI, where the TTI length is determined in number of symbols. It is further presented how to determine at least one reference signal parameter for the scheduled TTI, where the at least one reference symbol parameter is selected from a reference symbol position and a reference symbol cyclic shift. Finally, encoding the TTI length and the at least one reference symbol parameter into a TTI index is presented.
US10893536B2
A method for transmitting an uplink control channel for a terminal configured to support multiple transmission time interval (TTI) lengths in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention is performed by the terminal and may comprises the steps of: receiving a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) according to a first TTI length at a first time point; receiving a second PDSCH according to a second TTI length differing from the first TTI length at a second time point; and when TTIs for transmitting uplink control channels for the received first PDSCH and second PDSCH overlap, transmitting uplink control information for the first PDSCH and second PDSCH on a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) having the shorter TTI length among the first TTI length and the second TTI length.
US10893535B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving an uplink signal between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system for supporting an unlicensed band, and an apparatus for supporting same. More particularly, the present invention includes a structure of interlace(s) scheduled for transmitting and receiving an uplink signal in an unlicensed band, and one embodiment in which the uplink signal is transmitted and received in the unlicensed band on the basis of same.
US10893534B2
The method for air interface resource allocation, including allocating a first air interface resource to a first service with a first latency sensitivity, allocating, to a second service with a second latency sensitivity that is greater than the first latency sensitivity, a second air interface resource on subcarriers of all frequency bands within a current transmission time interval (TTI); and preempting, for the second service, the first air interface resource allocated to the first service, wherein the second service has a higher priority for obtaining the first air interface resource than the first service.
US10893521B2
A method in a wireless communication device including receiving (410) a composite control channel including at least two control channel elements, each control channel element only contains radio resource assignment information, for example, a codeword, exclusively addressed to a single wireless communication entity. The device combines (420) at least two of the control channel elements, and decodes (430) the combined control channel elements.
US10893517B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems are described relating to wireless communications. A base station may transmit a message comprising a subframe allocation bitmap indicating a plurality of subframes. The indicated subframes may correspond to Almost Blank Subframes transmitted by the base station. The base station may transmit a message to a wireless device indicating measurement subframe allocation bitmaps. A first measurement subframe allocation bitmap may exclude the plurality of subframes. A second measurement subframe allocation bitmap may exclude subframes of the first measurement subframe allocation bitmap. These and other features are described.
US10893516B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications provide for transmission of a beam switch command to a user equipment (UE) via control channel signaling. The UE may establish a connection with a base station using a first transmission beam, receive configuration information configuring the UE to select between a first decoding hypothesis corresponding to downlink control information (DCI) including a bit field including a beam switch command and a second decoding hypothesis corresponding to the DCI not including the bit field, receive a downlink control channel transmission via the first transmission beam, decode the downlink control channel transmission in accordance with the configuration information to obtain decoded DCI, and communicate with the base station based at least in part on the decoded DCI.
US10893510B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides a user equipment method. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)-downlink (DL) configuration from a frequency division duplex (FDD)-based primary cell; receiving downlink data from at least one secondary cell; determining an uplink subframe of the primary cell to transmit a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK)/negative-acknowledgement (NACK) for the received downlink data, which is transmitted from the at least one secondary cell, according to the TDD UL-DL configuration; and transmitting the HARQ ACK/NACK from the determined uplink subframe to the primary cell.
US10893509B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for wireless communication. A transmitting device may send a signal including multiple transport blocks corresponding to multiple simultaneous hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes. Additional control information may be used to support the multiple simultaneous HARQ processes. For instance, the additional control information may indicate the number of available HARQ processes, an activity state for each HARQ process (e.g., active new data, active retransmission, or inactive), and the redundancy versions of each HARQ process. In some cases, the additional control information may be included in a downlink grant. A receiving device may respond with an acknowledgement or negative acknowledgment (ACK/NACK) for each of the transport blocks. The transmitting device may identify a retransmission status for each HARQ process based on the ACK/NACKs, and transmit new redundancy versions (or new data) to the receiving device.
US10893507B2
A method for notifying a repetition pattern of uplink data, a method for determining a repetition pattern of uplink data, and a corresponding user equipment (UE) and base station are provided, wherein the base station is notified of a repetition pattern selected by the UE, so that the base station can correctly determine a transmitting timing of feedback information, thereby preventing a problem in which a transmitting timing of expected feedback information of the UE is inconsistent with the transmitting timing of the feedback information determined by the base station.
US10893504B2
User equipment provides, to a network device, reference paging information generated according to a moving speed of the user equipment. The reference paging information is used by the network device to determine a paging area for sending a paging message. The network device receives the reference paging information generated by the user equipment according to the moving speed of the user equipment. The network device determines, according to the reference paging information, a paging area for sending a paging message to the user equipment. The network device sends, in the paging area, the paging message to the user equipment. The network device can determine the paging area according to the reference paging information, so that a paging resource waste in a paging process is reduced, relatively accurate paging is implemented, overheads of inter-network interfaces and air interfaces are greatly reduced, and system efficiency and stability are improved.
US10893498B2
The present application provides a method and apparatus for supporting general registration of user equipment to facilitate MO only mode preferences.
US10893495B2
A method, apparatus, receiver and system provide timing synchronization during data transmission over a channel. In the context of a method, the method receives, for individual ones of a plurality of sequences of samples generated by a channel in response to transmission of corresponding frames that are comprised of a plurality of symbols including a preamble and one or more data symbols: (i) a probability vector and (ii) an indication of the sample of the respective sequence that corresponds to the particular symbol of the corresponding frame. The method determines one or more updated parameters of a frame detector of a receiver that receives the sequence of samples from the channel. The method determines one or more updated parameters of a preamble generator of a transmitter that provides the preamble for transmission over the channel.
US10893488B2
Radio Frequency (RF) power back-off optimization techniques are described for specific absorption rate (SAR) compliance. A mobile device may be configured to intelligently modify antennas and radio device transmission levels to maintain compliance with SAR limits while minimally perturbing radio operations. The mobile device may implement a SAR optimization scheme that accounts for user presence and signal conditions to maintain compliance. Rather than setting a fixed back-off, user presence detectors may be employed along with information on current signal conditions to determine potential for excessive SAR exposure and selectively apply variable adjustments to RF transmission power (e.g., “back-offs”), accordingly. The mobile device may also be configured to report SAR conditions and/or mitigation actions to a base station to enable the base station to manage a connection to services based at least in part upon knowledge of SAR actions taken by the mobile computing device.
US10893483B2
A system and method are provided for extending range of devices in a legacy wireless network. Generally, the method involves providing in a transmitter of the system a frame having a first field including a number of preamble segments and a second field including a number of data segments. The transmitter in the system is then operated to transmit at least one of the preamble segments with at least a first transmit power, and to transmit the segments of the second field at a second transmit power, wherein the first transmit power is greater than the second transmit power. Other embodiments are also described.
US10893482B2
Wireless stations may operate to configure direct communication with neighboring wireless stations (direct communication between wireless stations without an intermediate access point). Mechanisms for near-field device-to-device communications are disclosed. A wireless station may be configured to determine a minimum power level for a near-field device-to-device datapath. The wireless device may determine an average channel interference for a first discovery channel and compare the average channel interference to a first threshold. If the average channel interference is less than the first threshold, the wireless device may select a first transmission mode associated with a first power level and determine a maximum data rate for the first transmission mode. If the maximum data rate at least meets a quality of service requirements for a device-to-device transmission with a neighboring wireless device, the wireless device may perform device-to-device transmissions with the neighboring wireless device using the first transmission mode.
US10893481B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatuses for power control of transmissions on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) with shortened transmission time intervals (sTTIs). According to certain aspects, a UE may calculate a transmit power for an aperiodic channel state information (A-CSI) report that is independent of an actual number of channel quality indicator (CQI) and precoding matrix indicator (PMI) bits to transmit in the A-CSI report. The UE may then transmit the A-CSI report in accordance with the calculated transmit power.
US10893471B2
A communication system includes a base station configuring an energy saving cell (ES cell) and a base station configuring a compensation cell (Comp cell). The ES cell is switchable between a switch-on state and a switch-off state. The Comp cell compensates for the coverage of the ES cell when the ES cell is in the switch-off state. Before the Comp cell starts compensating for the coverage, for example, before the ES cell decides to switch itself off in Step ST2101, in Step ST2201 for example, the base station configuring the ES cell notifies the UE being connected with the ES cell of the information about a Comp cell, for example, a Comp cell list.
US10893468B2
One aspect of the disclosure provides a method in a wireless terminal device for use with a telecommunications network. The wireless terminal device is operable in a plurality of states, including a first state and a second state. The second state requires less signalling overhead with the telecommunications network than the first state. The method comprises: performing measurements on one or more reference signals transmitted by a cell of the telecommunications network, or a set of one or more beams of a cell of the telecommunications network; based on the measurements, acquiring an access configuration for accessing the cell of the telecommunications network, or for accessing the set of one or more beams of a cell of the telecommunications network; while in the second state, determining the presence of data to transmit to the telecommunications network; and, responsive to determining the presence of data to transmit, utilizing the acquired access configuration to transmit an access request to the cell or the set of one or more beams without performing further measurements on further reference signals from the cell or the set of one or more beams.
US10893467B2
A home automation (HA) system may include addressable HA devices and an HA interface device that includes a housing, a display, and an audio input device carried by the housing. The HA interface device may also include a controller carried by the housing to store HA device signatures of the addressable HA devices and determine an unpaired addressable HA device and compare the associated HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device with the stored HA device signatures. The controller may also, when there is a match between the HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device and one of the stored HA device signatures, permit pairing of the unpaired addressable HA device to communicate with the unpaired addressable HA device using a respective wireless communications protocol, and selectively operate paired addressable HA devices based upon voice commands received via the audio input device.
US10893465B2
A communication device comprises a storage unit for storing instructions and a processing means coupled to the storage unit. The processing means is configured to execute the instructions stored in the storage unit. The instructions comprise receiving a master information block (MIB) indicating that an access for enhanced coverage is supported from a cell; and starting acquiring at least one system information block (SIB) for enhanced coverage.
US10893463B2
Technologies for incrementally increasing a query timer value are described. When in a roaming mode, a user device is attached to a visited public land mobile network (VPLMN). The user device queries for a more preferred VPLMN or the home public land mobile network (HPLMN) to which the user device is subscribed. When the mobile device queries for a more preferred VPLMN or the HPLMN, if the mobile device does not detect a more preferred VPLMN or the HPLMN, the mobile device stays in roaming mode and increments a query timer value so the interval between a subsequent query operation and the currently performed query operation is greater than the interval between the currently performed query operation and a previously performed query operation. Upon attaching to an HPLMN, the query timer value may be reset.
US10893459B2
A wireless base station for wireless communication includes: a wireless apparatus configured to perform first signal processing that is a part of signal processing in the wireless communication; a first wireless control apparatus configured to perform a user plane (U-plane) processing of the wireless communication; and a second wireless control apparatus configured to perform a control plane (C-plane) processing of the wireless communication.
US10893456B2
Method performed by a wireless device (10) for handling neighbour relationships between radio network nodes (12, 13, 15) in a wireless communication network. The wireless device is served by a first radio network node (12) in the wireless communication network (1). The wireless device (10) receives (401), from the first radio network node (12), a report indication indicating that the wireless device is to report information identifying the first radio network node (12) to another radio network node (13). The wireless device receives (402) a signal from a second radio network node (13) which signal is associated with the second radio network node (13); and transmits (405), to the second radio network node (13), the information identifying the first radio network node (12).
US10893455B2
Methods are performed by a first radio node for handling mobility of a wireless device in a communication network having partitioned sets of functionalities. Each set of functionalities belongs to a network slice and is separated from other sets of functionalities out of a total set of functionalities. The first radio node transmits information indicating one or more slice identities supported by the first radio node to a second radio node. The first radio node receives information indicating one or more slice identities supported by the second radio node from the second radio node. The first radio node obtains a support indication indicating the slice ID the wireless device supports, during a connection setup of the wireless device to the network slice. The first radio node initiates a mobility procedure towards the second radio node taking the information in the received response message and the obtained support indication into account.
US10893454B2
The invention provides a method and system for monitoring one or more properties of an asset using a plurality of mobile sensor nodes. The method generates a distance-based schedule for the plurality of mobile sensor nodes for monitoring the one or more properties of the asset. The method, then, monitors a location of a first mobile sensor node in the asset. The data collection operation is then initiated at the first mobile sensor node based on the location of the first mobile sensor node in accordance with the distance-based schedule. The data collection operation of the first mobile sensor node is then managed based on the distance-based schedule and an energy status of the first mobile sensor node. Finally, the data pertaining to the one or more properties of the asset is collected from the plurality of mobile sensor nodes.
US10893452B2
Provided are a method of reselecting a cell by a terminal in a wireless communication system and a device supporting the same. A terminal may measure a cell on the basis of a priority, may calculate a ranking of the cell, using a cell measurement result, and may reselect a cell having the highest ranking. Otherwise, the terminal may measure a cell and evaluate a cell reselection criterion on the basis of a priority, may calculate a CE level with respect to a cell satisfying the cell reselection criterion evaluation, using a cell measurement result, and may reselect a cell having the lowest CE level. The terminal may be a terminal operating in a coverage extension mode and the coverage extension mode enables the cell measurement to be performed for a longer time than a normal mode.
US10893443B2
The present invention faces identifying resource allocation results when resource request and modifications occur in fast succession, and provides for associating at an AF each media component description transmitted to a PCRF with a media component instance identifier, associating at the PCRF each media component instance identifier with rule instance identifiers for control rules determined for each media component description, and associating at a PCEF each rule instance identifier with a control rule and with a bearer for which the control rule is to be installed or modified. Upon obtaining a resource allocation result for a bearer at the PCEF, determining and transmitting to the PCRF the rule instance identifier associated with the bearer and an affected control rule, determining and transmitting from the PCRF to the AF a media component instance identifier associated with the received rule instance identifier for the affected control rule, and identifying at the AF the media component description associated with the received media component instance identifier and for which the received resource allocation applies.
US10893442B2
An access point advertises a management frame quality of service (MFQ) policy that defines an access category used for transmitting a first type of management frame. Each mobile station associated with the access point is to prioritize transmission of management frames according to the MFQ policy advertised by the access point, unless a policy configuration request for the mobile station to prioritize transmission of management frames according to a different MFQ policy has been accepted.
US10893439B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless node may establish a wireless connection between the wireless node and a second wireless node in a wireless backhaul communications network. The wireless node may identify a first set of common resources for use in at least one of access communications or backhaul communications. The first set of common resources is allocated for common use by the wireless nodes of the wireless backhaul communications network. The wireless node may identify a second set of partitioned resources available for at least one of access communications or backhaul communications. The second set partitioned into a plurality of subsets each allocated for use by selected subsets of one or more of the wireless nodes of the wireless backhaul communications network.
US10893438B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of wireless communication, and in particular, to a wireless local area network data transmission method and apparatus, which are used for improving data transmission efficiency. The method of the embodiments of the present invention includes: carrying, by a control domain of a PLCP header domain in a PPDU constructed by an AP, identifier information of the AP, duration information, and an identifier of at least one STA, so that a STA may obtain the identifier information of the AP, the duration information, and the identifier of at least one STA by parsing only the control domain of the PLCP header domain.
US10893437B2
A user equipment (UE) can receive a first data stream and a second data stream. The UE can store data units of the second data stream, as stored data units, in a buffer while a retransmission operation is performed for the first data stream. The UE can determine that a threshold is satisfied with regard to the buffer, wherein the threshold is associated with a counter that is maintained based on the storing of the data units and can provide the stored data units based on determining that the threshold is satisfied.
US10893436B2
A gateway server situated between a radio access network and a core network is disclosed that includes a radio access network packet interface, a load management module for monitoring load of a management server in the core network coupled to the radio access network packet interface, a packet forwarding module for forwarding requests to the management server coupled to the load management module, and a local packet core module coupled to the load management module and the packet forwarding module, the local packet core module being configured to respond to a mobile device, when an overload is detected at the management server, with a management server message requesting that the mobile device try again at a later time.
US10893430B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for transmitting channel state information. The method includes: receiving, by a first terminal device, downlink control information DCI transmitted by a network device; determining, by the first terminal device, according to the DCI, whether it is necessary to report CSI; and when the first terminal device determines that it is necessary to report the CSI, transmitting, by the first terminal device, the CSI of the first terminal device to the network device. The first terminal device may be triggered to report the CSI according to the DCI transmitted by the network device, and thus the terminal device may report its own CSI.
US10893426B2
Embodiments of the application relate to the communications field, and disclose a channel quality information calculation method, apparatus, and system. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, a downlink configuration instruction sent by an access network device; performing, by the terminal, measurement on a reference signal resource indicated by the downlink configuration instruction, to obtain first channel quality information, and sending the first channel quality information to the access network device; sending, by the terminal, an SRS to the access network device; and calculating, by the access network device, second channel quality information based on the first channel quality information and the SRS.
US10893422B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program are disclosed for selecting an optimal small cell base station (“small cell”) for a UE within wireless communication range of a macro cell base station (“macro cell”). The apparatus includes a processor for the macro cell and a memory storing program code executable to cause the macro cell to receive measurements of co-frequency interference between individual small cells of a group within wireless communication range of the macro cell, receive signal strength measurements for the small cells from a user equipment (“UE”) within wireless communication range of the macro cell, and select one of the small cells of the group as an optimal base station for the UE, based on the signal strength measurements received from the UE for the individual small cells and on measurements of co-frequency interference between the individual small cells. A method and computer program perform functions of the apparatus.
US10893412B2
Authenticated device assisted user authentication includes detecting, by an authenticated device, a proximate device, wherein a user of the authenticated device is currently authenticated to access a restricted-access function of the authenticated device. The method includes performing, by the authenticated device, an intent determination for the user with respect to a restricted-access function of the proximate device. The method includes in response to the intent determination indicating an intent to access the restricted-access function of the proximate device, performing, by the authenticated device, authentication assistance for the user with respect to the proximate device.
US10893410B2
A network element of a core network receives a connectivity request for a first peer device. The connectivity request includes an indication for establishing a peer-to-peer connection for the first peer device to communicate data packets with a second peer device. The network element sends, to a first base station of an access network, an access network bearer setup request, which includes an address for the first peer device and serves as a request for the first base station to establish, for the peer-to-peer connection, an access network bearer in the access network for use in communicating the data packets with the second peer device without the use of a core network bearer.
US10893392B2
Methods and apparatus for providing enhanced access options for wireless access points (e.g., cellular femtocells). These access options in one embodiment include various grades or levels of private and public access to available femtocell services. Each service may be separately assigned a various access type, such that a femtocell may service multiple users both within the “closed” group authorized by the femtocell white list, and non-members. In one variant, a femtocell broadcasts enhanced system information to all terminals (regardless of member/non-member status) such that a non-CSG (Closed Subscriber Group) member terminal or UE is capable of obtaining partial service access within the femtocell. Broadcast multimedia or other services can be delivered to both CSG members and non-members, advantageously without having to establish a dedicated connection for the non-member users.
US10893383B2
Various embodiments provide systems and methods for diagnosing monitoring system equipment functionality. In some instances, a first test command is provided to a user attached monitor device and a second test command is provided to a user detached monitor device. A first test result is received from the user attached monitor device and a second test result is received from the user detached monitor device. A combination of the first test result and the second test result is analyzed to determine an operation status.
US10893377B2
A method is disclosed that is performed by a mobile device and that includes receiving at least one radio signal when scanning for observable radio signals at an observation position of the mobile device; determining or causing determining a venue associated with an identifier contained in or represented by the at least one radio signal at least partially based on a plurality of venue information items; and determining or causing determining a position estimate of the observation position at least partially based on layout information representing a layout of the venue associated with the identifier. A corresponding apparatus and non-transitory computer readable storage medium are also disclosed.
US10893376B2
Provided is a communication device within a communication network including a plurality of communication nodes, including: a reception unit that receives a data packet transmitted from a terminal device or transmitted to the terminal device; a communication control unit that selects a forwarding destination node of the data packet from a plurality of forwarding destination node candidates when the terminal device is a machine-type communication (MTC) terminal; and a transmission unit that transmits the data packet to the forwarding destination node selected by the communication control unit.
US10893370B1
A system and method for aiding hearing are disclosed. In one embodiment of the system, a programming interface is configured to communicate with a device. The system screens, via a speaker and a user interface associated with the device, a left ear—and separately, a right ear—of a patient at an incrementally selected frequency between a frequency range of 50 Hz to 5,000 Hz, with detected frequencies being re-ranged tested to better identify the frequencies and decibel levels heard. A frequency range of 5,000 Hz to 10,000 Hz is then tested. The system then determines a left ear preferred hearing range and a right ear preferred hearing range.
US10893367B2
Loudspeaker unit with a membrane (2) and a plurality of drive units (5) driving the membrane (2). Each of the plurality of drive units (5) has n voice coils (3) and at least n+1 magnets (4), n being an integer larger than or equal to 1. The magnets (4) have an axial magnetization and are stacked in axial direction with similar pole parts of adjacent ones of the at least n+1 magnets facing each other. The at least n+1 magnets (4) are separated in the stack over a magnet separation distance (dm), the magnet separation distance (dm) being substantially equal to a width (ws) in the stack direction of the at least n voice coils (3).
US10893359B1
Systems and devices configured by an algorithm to prevent or limit a speaker over-excursion are disclosed. The disclosed algorithm is computationally efficient because it exploits a relationship between an audio signal and a speaker's excursion that exists at low-frequencies, below a self-resonance of a speaker. The disclosed algorithm combines the low-frequency excursion protection with a high-frequency, transient excursion protection. The combined approach allows the transient excursion protection to use a shorter delay than otherwise possible. The shorter delay allows for a compressor to apply attenuation to a transient audio signal before a momentum of the speaker, caused by the transient audio signal, grows too large to be controlled.
US10893343B2
An optical network including an input to receive from an optical network light comprising plural wavelength components. An optical wavelength selective filter, optically connected to the input, extracts a first wavelength component of the plural wavelength components from the light, thereby providing a first optical signal including the first wavelength component and a second optical signal including a remainder of the plural wavelength components a light emitter to provide a modulated broadband optical signal. A first output, optically connected to the optical wavelength selective filter, receives a first portion of the second optical signal for transmission to a light detector and a second output, optically connected to optical wavelength selective filter, receives a second portion of the second optical signal for transmission to the optical network.
US10893338B1
A method for ad delivery placements to consumer devices within managed service provider networks comprising the following steps is provided. providing Real-time, targeted video advertisements delivery to at least one consumer device is provided across multiple content delivery services accessible to viewers. A unified system capable of simultaneous targeting and delivery of a video advertisement is supported across multiple content delivery platforms to one more consumer devices. Delivery of the targeted video advertisements is supported to managed service provider devices. Efficient IP delivery of video advertisements is supported to service provider managed networks of consumer devices. Real-time targeted advertisements to all IP connected devices and managed consumer devices are supported based on targeting criteria.
US10893336B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the generation and output of customized caption data, the caption data being customized for a specific client device. Caption data associated with requested content can be edited at a customer premise equipment device according to caption settings associated with the requesting client device. Caption settings associated with the requesting client device can be determined based upon user-input or caption settings previously used for the requesting client device.
US10893333B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a video playing method performed at a client. The method includes: sending, by the client, first indication information to a server, the first indication information being used to instruct to play, in video mode, a first target video to be live broadcast, and instruct to play, in text mode, a second target video to be live broadcast; receiving, by the client, first live-broadcast data sent by the server, the first live-broadcast data including video data of the first target video and text data of the second target video; and simultaneously playing, by the client, the video data of the first target video and the text data of the second target video on a second live-broadcast page. The embodiments of the present disclosure resolve a problem in the related technology that a function of playing live-broadcast videos on a same live-broadcast page is monotonous.
US10893323B2
A system and method is provided for managing visual content. In one instance, an exemplary method includes receiving a stream of video fingerprints derived in a fingerprint generator by an irreversible data reduction process, from respective temporal regions within a particular visual content stream and at a fingerprint processor that is physically separate from the fingerprint generator via a communication network. The fingerprints are processed in the fingerprint processor to generate metadata which is not directly encoded in the fingerprints. Processing of the fingerprints includes windowing the stream of fingerprints with a time window, deriving frequencies of occurrence of particular fingerprint values or ranges of fingerprint values within each time window, determining statistical moments or entropy values of said frequencies of occurrence, comparing said statistical moments or entropy values with expected values for particular types of content, and generating metadata representing the type of the visual content.
US10893307B2
The present disclosure relates to a video subtitle display method and apparatus. The method includes receiving a request to play a target video sent by a terminal; determining a display mode of a subtitle according to a content type corresponding to the subtitle of the target video; and controlling the terminal to display the subtitle on a video picture according to the display mode when the target video is played. The video subtitle display method and apparatus provided by the embodiments of the present disclosure enable the display mode of the subtitle of the video to be changed according to the content type corresponding to the subtitle, and therefore, satisfying the user's viewing requirements for subtitles of different content types.
US10893306B2
Embedding of digital tokens within a digital video can occur cryptographically using a public key in some embodiments. The digital video may be altered in a variety of ways so that the video itself contains an integrated token that can represent various quantities. Audiovisual data can be altered to contain both a token and a perceptible user auditory or visual cue as to the presence of the encrypted digital token. A video with an embedded digital token may be sent to users on the Internet. A video recipient may be able to view the video and also take additional action or gain additional functionality from the digital token embedded in the video. Tokens can be embedded by altering video metadata so that the perceptible video content itself is not changed in some embodiments.
US10893300B2
A system for processing a video obtains a prediction table for a reference frame of the video and codes one or more target frames of the video based on the prediction table. The prediction table is a Huffman table of difference values for reference pixels of the reference frame. The difference value for a reference pixel is determined based on an actual value of the reference pixel and a prediction value determined based on respective pixel values of one or more pixels adjacent to the reference pixel. The one or more target frames are coded based on the Huffman table of the reference frame and prediction values of the one or more target frames.
US10893299B2
An apparatus to facilitate processing video bit stream data is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to encode surface normals data with point cloud geometry data included in the video bit stream data for reconstruction of objects within the video bit stream data based on the surface normals data and a memory communicatively coupled to the one or more processors.
US10893293B2
An image coding method includes: deriving a candidate for a motion vector predictor from a co-located motion vector; adding the candidate to a list; selecting the motion vector predictor from the list; and coding a current block and coding a current motion vector, wherein the deriving includes: deriving the candidate by a first derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of a current reference picture and a co-located reference picture is a long-term reference picture; and deriving the candidate by a second derivation scheme in the case of determining that each of the current reference picture and the co-located reference picture is a short-term reference picture.
US10893291B2
A device and method for coding video data utilizes ultimate motion vector expression (UMVE). The device determines a candidate list from one or more spatial neighboring blocks in a set of spatial neighboring blocks that spatially neighbor a current block of video data. The device may determine a base candidate index, a direction index and a distance index based on data obtained in the bitstream and may use those indices to determine a base candidate, a direction and a distance. The device may also use the direction and distance to calculate a motion vector difference (MVD). The device may determine a prediction block using the MVD and a motion vector of the base candidate, and decode the current block based on the prediction block.
US10893289B2
An image decoding method performed by means of a decoding device according to the present disclosure comprises the steps of: configuring an affine merge candidate list with respect to a current block; deriving CPMVs with respect to CPs of the current block on the basis of the affine merge candidate list; deriving prediction samples with respect to the current block on the basis of the CPMVs; and generating a reconstructed picture with respect to the current block on the basis of the derived prediction samples, wherein the maximum number of inherited affine candidates is two, a first inherited affine candidate is derived on the basis of a left block group of the current block, and a second inherited affine candidate is derived on the basis of an upper block group of the current block.
US10893279B2
The present disclosure relates to a decoding apparatus and a decoding method and a coding apparatus and a coding method capable of adjusting a compression rate of a lowest limit. A decoding unit decodes a bit stream coded according to an H.265/HEVC standard having a profile in which a lowest compression rate at the time of coding an image is set for each of a main tier and a high tier in units of Coding Units (CU) that are recursively divided. The present disclosure, for example, can be applied to a decoding apparatus of an High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) system and the like.
US10893278B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for generating a video bitstream for high-resolution video streaming. The present disclosure in some embodiments provides a method and apparatus for generating a video bitstream by encoding a video at a different bit rate for each of video areas, in order to efficiently transmit a large amount of high-resolution video contents.
US10893275B2
A method that is performed by a video encoding device is provided. The method includes identifying N image frames in a sliding window of an image frame sequence, the N image frames including N−1 encoded image frames and a to-be-encoded image frame; obtaining a motion amplitude difference of the N image frames in the sliding window, the motion amplitude difference indicating a difference between a corresponding image frame motion amplitude and a previous image frame motion amplitude; updating a static variable based on the motion amplitude difference of each of the N image frames in the sliding window, the static variable indicating a number of consecutive static image frames; and encoding the to-be-encoded image frame as an I frame based on the updated static variable not being less than a first preset threshold.
US10893264B1
A signal strength meter/indicator for use with an over-the-air broadcast television signal receiving antenna includes an input bandpass filter circuit, a first preamplifier circuit, a controllable variable attenuator circuit, a second preamplifier circuit, a splitter, an output bandpass filter circuit, a VHF/UHF filter circuit, a power detector circuit, a microcontroller and a display. The microcontroller, the controllable variable attenuator circuit, the second preamplifier circuit, the splitter, the VHF/UHF filter circuit and the power detector circuit together define an AGC circuit which adjustably controls the power level of an output signal provided to a television. The display is also adjustably controlled by the AGC circuit in displaying an indication of the relative signal strength of the broadcast television signal received by the signal receiving antenna to provide more accurate measurements and indication of the relative signal strength of the received broadcast television signal indicated on the display.
US10893263B2
A method for pairing of shutter glasses (411-414) with a remote control unit (RCU) (461-464, 272-273) for use with a display device (220, 230) configured to display a plurality of video streams by time interleaving the frames of the video streams and sending synchronization signal to shutter glasses. The method comprises the steps of: generating at least one synchronization signal (911, 912; 921, 922; 913, 923) for the shutter glasses (411-414); receiving an IR signal (331B) from the RCU (461-464, 272-273); comparing the temporal correspondence of the received IR signal (331B) with the generated at least one synchronization signal (911, 912; 921, 922; 913, 923); and in case a temporal correspondence is found, pairing the RCU (461-464, 272-273) with the shutter glasses (411-414) for which the correspondent synchronization signal (911, 912; 921, 922; 913, 923) was found.
US10893249B2
An imaging device includes an imaging sensor that outputs an imaging signal representing a sequence of frame images of a photographic subject. A buffer memory temporarily stores data of the sequence of frame images from the imaging signal. A release switch is actuated by a user to output an image-taking signal. A controller, upon receipt of the image-taking signal from the release switch: (i) generates moving image data from at least some of the plurality of frame images stored in the buffer memory, (ii) generates at least one piece of still image data based on at least one frame image of the plurality of frame images stored in the buffer memory, and (iii) associates the moving image data with the still image data and records the moving image data and the still image data in a recording medium.
US10893243B1
A computer implemented method including receiving, by a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property, and from a camera, first image data, based on the first image data, determining, by the monitoring system that an animal is located at the property, and that a human is within a threshold distance of the animal, based on determining that the animal is located at the property and that a human is within the threshold distance of the animal, determining, by the monitoring system, that the animal likely discharged feces on the property and that the human did not remove the feces from the property, and based on determining that the animal likely discharged feces on the property and that the human did not remove the feces from the property, performing a monitoring system action.
US10893242B1
A communication vehicle system or platform that provides for the integration of multiple audio, visual, telecommunications, thermal, radiological, chemical and biological data detection and/or communication devices. The communication vehicle can be configured for providing mobile communications and surveillance in an environment in which the surrounding communications and/or power infrastructure has been damaged or is non-existent. For example, the vehicle can be deployed to the scene of a disaster or emergency. Accordingly, the mobility of the preferred communication vehicle can enhance and extend the reach of any emergency operations center. Other possible applications include law enforcement surveillance; tactical military command and control; weather and storm chasing; homeland security search and rescue; forward deployment monitoring, news agencies and border patrol. It can be operated in a stand-alone mode or act as a versatile forward-deployable remote vehicle while communicating to a rear command center.
US10893240B2
Event-related data based on an image that has been captured is generated. Coverage information relating to imaging range is compared to the event-related data. The cameras that can capture an image of the event, based on a comparing result, are listed so that an operator can select one of the listed cameras.
US10893238B2
A traffic surveillance and guidance system comprising a traffic server system is disclosed. The traffic server is configured to receive and update and record data of geographical positions of registered road users, and wherein each registered road user is registering a replaceable and modifiable geometrically shaped model of a field of view representing the respective road users observation space and observation ability of possible traffic incidents around geographical positions the respective road users are located on at any time.
US10893236B2
A system and method for providing virtual interpersonal communication that include receiving data associated with one-to-one interpersonal communication between a user and a target individual. The system and method also include determining at least one contextual data point and at least one associated behavioral attribute of the user and the target individual during the one-to-one interpersonal communication. The system and method additionally include analyzing at least one statement spoken by the user to a virtual representation of the target individual and presenting a virtual avatar of the target individual in a manner that replicates the personality of the target individual and communicates with the user based on the at least one contextual data point and the at least one associated behavioral attribute.
US10893235B2
A conferencing apparatus and a method for switching an access terminal therein are provided. The conferencing apparatus according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a conference information management module configured to generate mapping information for terminal identification information of a first terminal and access information of a conference participant who is accessing a conference through the first terminal; and an access switch module configured to provide a token corresponding to the mapping information to the first terminal according to an access terminal switch request from the first terminal and, when the token is received from a second terminal, switch a terminal of the conference participant from the first terminal to the second terminal according to validity of the received token.
US10893229B1
Techniques for video with dynamic pixel update rates are described. A first video frame is received from a video source, the first video frame having a first pixel value at a first frame location of a plurality of frame locations, wherein the first frame location includes a horizontal pixel location and a vertical pixel location. A second video frame is received from the video source, the second video frame having a second pixel value at the first frame location. The first frame location is identified based at least in part on determining a difference between the first pixel value and the second pixel value. A package including a pixel update value and an indication of the first frame location is sent to a video destination, wherein the pixel update value is based at least in part on the second pixel value.
US10893223B2
Image captured with an image capture device with a rolling shutter may be deformed due to changes in imaging sensor orientation during image capture. Image deformities may occur due to rolling shutter that exposes rows of pixels to light at slightly different times during image capture. Deformities such as wobble, for example, and/or other deformities may be corrected by constructing an output image. The output image may be constructed by determining corresponding pixels within the input image. The location of the input pixel may be determined by performing one or more fixed point iterations to identify one or more input pixels within the input image. A value of the output pixel within the output image may be determined based on a value of a corresponding pixel within the input image.
US10893216B2
An electronic apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to obtain a wide range image, an information acquisition unit configured to obtain attribute information including orientation information, and a control unit configured to control selection of any one of a plurality of processes based on a condition to display the wide range image, the plurality of processes including at least two of first to fourth processes, the first process providing a display in which a zenith and a yaw angle is corrected based on the orientation information, the second process providing a display in which the zenith is corrected based on the orientation information, the third process providing a display in which the yaw angle is corrected based on the orientation information, the fourth process providing a display in which neither the zenith nor the yaw angle of the wide range image is corrected.
US10893213B2
Devices and methods for capturing vehicle undercarriage images are described. In some instances, a mirror assembly may be used to reflect images of portions of a vehicle undercarriage into a field of view of a camera to be captured, e.g., as a vehicle passes over the mirror assembly. Composite images may be reconstructed from the reflected portions of the vehicle undercarriage, and analysis may be performed on those reconstructed, composite images to identify features in the composite vehicle undercarriage images.
US10893211B2
Limiting exposure to infrared light. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including: repeatedly illuminating a field of view of an image sensor with infrared light from a light emitting diode (LED), each illumination defining an exposure time, and time between contiguous illuminations defining a frame period; and forcing the frame period to be greater than a frame period threshold. Forcing the frame period to be greater than the frame period threshold may also include setting the frame period threshold by a first resistor coupled to a first terminal of a LED driver circuit. Setting the frame period threshold further may also include setting the frame period threshold by a first resistor coupled between ground and the first terminal of the LED driver circuit. The methods further include limiting exposure time of each illuminations to be less than an exposure time threshold.
US10893210B2
Provided is an imaging apparatus including: a plurality of pixels; a scan unit configured to perform a first scan that outputs, from a first pixel of the plurality of pixel, a first signal based on a light flux that has passed through a first region of an exit pupil of imaging optics and a second scan that outputs, from a second pixel of the plurality of pixels, a second signal based on a light flux that has passed through a second region that is a part of the first region; a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to set a second exposure time of the second pixel to be shorter than a first exposure time of the first pixel; and an exposure time setting unit configured to set the first exposure time and the second exposure time based on a determination result of the determination unit.
US10893209B2
A photographing direction deviation detection method is provided for a deviation detection device. The method includes obtaining a horizontal acceleration of an image capturing device at each of a plurality of time points in a pre-determined time period, and determining a target photographing direction of the image capturing device according to the horizontal acceleration at each of the time points. The method also includes, when a direction angle satisfies a preset condition, determining that an actual photographing direction of the image capturing device deviates, where the direction angle is an angle between the target photographing direction and the actual photographing direction of the image capturing device at an end time point of the pre-determined time period.
US10893200B2
The present invention is a mechanism to achieve autofocus (AF) and optical image stabilization (OIS) to counteract hand-shake by tilting the lens and the image sensor simultaneously such that no vignetting effect is introduced to the image. The present invention removes the blur or distortion (vignetting effect) by incorporating an actuator beneath the image sensor to tilt the image sensor in conjunction with the lens barrel tilt to achieve OIS. Such simultaneous and coordinated tilting to the optical elements in the camera (lens barrel and image sensor) guarantees that the plane of the reflected image and the plane of the image sensor are both parallel, and aberrations free images are constructed.
US10893198B1
Systems and methods for determining a location of a wearable electronic device are disclosed. In some aspects, the device includes a position acquisition device and an accelerometer. A hardware processor included in the device may be configured to generally maintain the position acquisition device in a low power state to save power. When a video or image is captured, it may tag the video or image with first location information. Given the inoperative position acquisition device, a current location may not be known. In some aspects, in response to a need for location information, measurements from an accelerometer may be stored. The position acquisition device may also be transitioned to an operative state, and after some time delay, a second location determined. In some aspects, the location of the capture may then be obtained based on the acceleration measurements and the second location.
US10893196B2
A panoramic camera is provided with an orientation sensor to record orientation along with a panoramic image. The display or print image is selected from the captured panoramic image, a warped, non-scale-correct image. The selection of the display image is done using the orientation sensor. The orientation sensor data can be recorded with the panoramic image as metadata. The orientation sensor can also be used to control an external display and/or panoramic image selection during browsing.
US10893193B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire first data based on a first image that includes a high-luminance region and a second image that includes an overlapping region with the first image and that does not include the high-luminance region, the first data representing flare distribution in the overlapping region in the first image, a second acquisition unit configured to acquire second data representing a position of the high-luminance region in the first image, a generation unit configured to generate third data representing flare distribution in the first image based on the first data and the second data, and a correction unit configured to correct the first image based on the third data.
US10893191B2
An image capturing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire data concerning a captured image captured by an image capturing unit, a learning unit configured to learn a condition of an image that a user likes, based on supervised data, a control circuit configured to decide automatic image capturing by the image capturing unit based on the condition learned by the learning unit and to register, as the supervised data, data acquired by the acquisition unit for a captured image obtained by image capturing performed based on an instruction of the user, and data acquired by the acquisition unit for captured images for learning which are captured before and/or after the image capturing performed based on an instruction of the user.
US10893189B2
There is disclosed a photography housing (10) for a portable electronic device (56) having an image sensor (58). The housing has first (12) and second (14) housing components defining at least a partial enclosure for receiving a portable electronic device, the first and second housing components being movably connected to one another, such that an internal dimension of the at least partial enclosure can be altered to releasably fit a dimension of the portable electronic device (56) inserted therein. The housing (10) comprises a user input device (22, 24, 26, 28) for controlling the operation of the image sensor (58) during use of the photography housing. The housing may provide a professional photography housing for a mobile telephone, e.g. providing ergonomic shutter control and photographic function selection via wireless communication with the mobile telephone.
US10893177B2
A camera module in an electronic device which is retracted in the body of the device until deployed includes a drive assembly, a camera assembly, and a first connecting rod. The drive assembly includes a driver and a first member. The first connecting block connects to the driver, the driver can drive the first connecting block toward or away from the driver. The camera assembly comprises a camera bracket and a second connecting block connected to the camera bracket. The first connecting rod connects to the first and second connecting blocks, the first connecting block can drive the first connecting rod to move in a circular motion during the linear movement of the first connecting block, causing the camera bracket to be received in the body or deployed out.
US10893166B2
A management system includes a plurality of network devices, a client communicating with the plurality of network devices, and a manager managing the client. The manager includes a management unit managing a destination list set including a plurality of destination lists including one or more destinations and a generation unit generating a task in which the destination list set and the network device to be distributed are set. The client includes a first determination unit that determines whether the network device to be distributed is able to manage the plurality of destination lists of the destination list set, based on the task generated by the manager and a second determination unit that determines whether the number of destinations included in the plurality of destination lists of the destination list set is within the number of destinations manageable by the network device to be distributed.
US10893158B2
To provide a display device including a display that displays an input screen having one or a plurality of areas arranged with an input element, a determiner that determines a cause of a disabled state if the input element is in the disabled state, and a display controller that performs control to identifiably display the one or the plurality of areas arranged with the input element in the disabled state, in a color corresponding to the cause.
US10893151B1
A computer implemented method for decreasing latency in a billing cycle, the method comprising receiving a first charging data report (CDR) including a sent data volume from a vendor and comparing the first CDR to an operator received data volume and when the first CDR does not match the operator received data volume, rejecting the first charging report. The method further comprising providing a second CDR having the operator received data volume to the vendor, receiving a charging data acceptance including a negotiated data volume from the vendor, constructing a publicly verifiable proof of charging based on the charging data acceptance, and sending the publicly verifiable proof of charging to the vendor.
US10893143B2
A computerized method for automatic detection of an availability of an agent to attend a schedule of customer calls in a call center and reassignment thereof may include assessing an agent availability to attend a schedule in a predefined time interval before a starting time of the schedule. If the assigned agent is not available, candidate agent availability may be assessed from a plurality of schedules to participate in the schedule of the unavailable agent. One or more candidate agents from a plurality of agents may be identified to replace the unavailable assigned agent based on the candidate agent availability. A replacement agent chosen from the one or more candidate agents may be assigned based on skills or preferences for each of the one or more identified candidate agents. A supervisor may be notified that the chosen replacement agent will attend the schedule in place of the unavailable assigned agent.
US10893140B2
A method system and device are described as a solution for a called party that receives a call from a calling party that intends to be another calling party by means of A-number spoofing. The method comprises a verification request by the called party network during a call setup, made to the network of the assumed calling party. The address of the network of the assumed calling party is derived from the Calling Party Number CgPN identifier or Calling Line Identification CLI as provided by a call setup. When the CgPN is correctly provided, a verification request with the network where the calling party resides will yield status information that the calling party indeed has a call setup with the called party. When the A-number is spoofed, the verification will not yield status information that the calling party has a call setup with the called party.
US10893137B2
Embodiments of this application provide a photography guiding method, a device, and a system, relate to the field of terminal technologies, so as to precisely search for a reference picture by using a search word, and accurately guide a user based on the reference picture to perform composition photographing, thereby improving user photographing experience. A specific solution includes: displaying, by a photographing device, a photographing screen; when detecting at least one search word entered by a user on the photographing screen, performing picture retrieval based on the search word, where the at least one search word is used to describe a feature of a to-be-photographed picture; and displaying, on the photographing screen, at least one reference picture in a retrieved picture, where the reference picture is used to guide the user to perform composition photographing. The embodiments of this application are used to guide the user to perform composition photographing.
US10893136B2
A system for monitoring the status of a vehicle to obtain vehicle status data, and controlling an electronic device based on the vehicle status data is disclosed. The device that may monitor the status of the vehicle may be an hours of service system (HOS), and the electronic device may be a mobile device. The controlling of the mobile device may include restricting use of the devices functionalities.
US10893135B2
A method and an apparatus of data processing are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a message including a non-triggered event; determining an event type and a triggering time of the non-triggered event according to the message; and providing a reminder for the non-triggered event according to the event type and the triggering time, and/or controlling a state of the mobile terminal according to the event type and the triggering time. By determining a triggering time and an event type of a non-triggered event, a prompt may also be made before the triggering time even if a user has read the information. Alternatively, the user may also be helped to adjust the state of the mobile terminal to a state related to the event type, so that the mobile terminal is in a state required by the user during the execution of the non-triggered event, thus improving the user experience.
US10893131B2
A protective case for a mobile electronic device includes a case body and a protection element. The case body is sized to receive a mobile electronic device. The protection element can be coupled to the case body and include a chamber filled with air.
US10893130B1
Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal including a first frame, a second frame slideably movable from the first frame in a first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a slide frame movable in the first or second direction with respect to the second frame, a magnetic roller rotatably coupled to one side of the second frame, a flexible display including a first region coupled to the first frame, a second region coupled to the slide frame, and a third region disposed between the first and second regions and bent around the magnetic roller, and a rolling plate attached to the flexible display. The magnetic roller provides magnetic force to cause the rolling plate to be attached to the magnetic roller. The mobile terminal may maintain the display in a flat state during movement of the second frame by preventing the display from being separated.
US10893125B2
The present invention discloses a method and a server for allocating game resources, which belongs to the field of network technology. The method includes: receiving a game participation request including game subzone information sent by a user; when the user enters a game subzone identified by the game subzone information, assigning the user to a waiting queue corresponding to the user in the game subzone in accordance with a predetermined condition; and when the user is successfully assigned to the waiting queue, selecting participants to play in the same group with the user from waiting queues other than the waiting queue of the user, and allocating game resources for the user and the selected participants. The present technical solution can effectively reduce occurrence of the game participants' cheating.
US10893124B2
An electronic device includes display, radio communication circuit configured to perform radio communication, at least one processor operatively connected to display and radio communication circuit, and memory operatively connected to the at least one processor and configured to store a first application program including a first user interface and to store instructions, executable by the at least one processor, for establishing a connection to an external server including a second application program executable in place of at least part of operations of a first application program via the radio communication circuit, executing, upon receipt of a first user input associated with the first application program, the first application program, displaying a first user interface of the first application program on the display, and displaying, upon receipt of a second user input associated with the first application program, a second user interface associated with the second application program on the display.
US10893121B2
A system includes a subscriber identity module (SIM) application; a physical SIM driver configured to be coupled to a physical SIM card; a simulated SIM driver; a control switch that selectively couples the SIM application to the physical SIM driver or the simulated SIM driver, wherein the SIM application, when coupled to the physical SIM driver, is configured to read and write on the physical SIM card; and a SIM simulator in communication with the control switch and the simulated SIM driver, wherein the SIM simulator is configured to control the selective coupling of the control switch, and is configured to receive at least one request comprising an authentication request from the simulated SIM driver and transmit at least one response comprising an authentication response to the simulated SIM driver.
US10893118B2
Embodiments herein include methods and systems for use in delivering resources to a client device over a local network. An exemplary system comprises a plurality of caching devices operable to cache resources on behalf of a plurality of content providers, and a local caching device communicatively situated between an access network and the client device, wherein the access network is communicably situated between the plurality of caching devices and the local caching device. The local caching device is operable to retrieve a requested resource from at least one of the plurality of caching devices, deliver the requested resource to the client device over the local network, and store the requested resource for future requests by other client devices.
US10893117B2
A system for enhancing speed and power operation of a sensor network is provided. The system includes an edge section disposed at an edge location and including a reservoir layer placed at the edge location. The reservoir layer has a set of reservoir nodes for performing edge computing by compressing time-series data by reducing a dimensionality of the time-series data using a random projection method. The compression of the time-series data reduces spatial redundancy and preserves a structure of the time-series data. The system further includes a datacenter section disposed at a datacenter location and including an output layer placed at the datacenter location. The output layer has a set of output nodes connected to the set of reservoir nodes for reconstructing the time-series data from the compressed time-series data, thereby enhancing speed and power operation of the sensor network.
US10893116B1
A centralized Internet of Things (IoT) manager of an IoT system is configured generate and deploy a data pipeline application to an edge system. The centralized IoT manager is configured to receive a request for a data category and identification of a data transformation function, identify a data source of the IoT system belonging to the data category, and identify an edge system of the IoT system associated with the data source. The centralized IoT manger is further configured to generate a containerized data pipeline application based on a configuration of the edge system that is configured apply the data transformation function to input data to provide transformed data, and provide the containerized data pipeline application to the edge system.
US10893115B2
On-demand auctioning of cloud services amongst cloud computing service providers includes publishing, by a client, on a publish-subscribe platform, cloud computing resource requirement(s); subscribing to the publish-subscribe platform by at least two providers of cloud computing service(s); bidding, by each of the at least two providers, on one or more the at cloud computing resource requirement(s) via a bidding platform; selecting, by the client, and publishing on the publish-subscribe platform, at least one of the at least two providers for the cloud computing resource requirement(s); and, in one example, prior to the selecting, cognitively recommending to the client, by a data processing system, one or more of the at least two providers.
US10893108B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting, by an apparatus, establishment of a stateful application session between a mobile endpoint device and a stateful virtualized application executed by a first virtualization host in a data network, the mobile endpoint device establishing a network connection with the stateful virtualized application via a first wireless connection with a first network access point; generating, by the apparatus, a connection container comprising a connection identifier uniquely identifying the network connection, connection metadata describing the network connection, and application state metadata describing execution of the stateful virtualized application for the mobile endpoint device; and outputting, by the apparatus, the application state metadata for continuous execution of the stateful virtualized application by a second virtualization host associated with a second network access point, based on determining the mobile endpoint device connecting with the second network access point and disconnecting from the first network access point.
US10893106B1
Techniques and mechanisms described herein provide for verifying data across cloud-based and on-premises data storage systems. According to various embodiments, data can be received by a gateway from a client machine and stored in a file data repository accessible via the internet. The stored data can have a common master namespace. Indications of updates to the master namespace can be received. Updated namespace data and metadata can be transmitted to the gateway.
US10893096B2
Embodiments for optimizing dynamic resource allocations in a disaggregated computing environment. A data heat map associated with a data access pattern of data elements associated with a workload is maintained. The workload is classified into one of a plurality of classes, each class characterized by the data access pattern associated with the workload. The workload is then assigned to a dynamically constructed disaggregated system optimized with resources according to the one of the plurality of classes the workload is classified into to increase efficiency during a performance of the workload.
US10893095B1
The Distributed Software Defined Network (dSDN) disclosed herein is an end-to-end architecture that enables secure and flexible programmability across a network with full lifecycle management of services and infrastructure applications (fxDeviceApp). The dSDN also harmonizes application deployment across the network independent of the hardware vendor. As a result, the dSDN simplifies the network deployment lifecycle from concept to design to implementation to decommissioning.
US10893087B1
A method for streaming and nonstreaming media transfer between devices includes receiving, by a server, a request message for a handoff of content from a first device displaying the content to a second device. The method further includes generating a handoff protocol for the handoff in response to the handoff request message. The method further includes transmitting, to one of the first device and the second device, a first notification message that includes a plurality of handoff parameters, based on the handoff protocol, that identifies an algorithm for the handoff of the content. The method further includes receiving a second notification message indicating that the handoff is complete with the second device displaying the content.
US10893076B2
A communication event is established between an initiating device and a responding device under the control of a remote communications controller. In a pre-session establishment phase: a compression dictionary or a dictionary link that identifies an addressable memory location, at which a compression dictionary is held, is received at the initiating device. The received compression dictionary or the received dictionary link is stored in electronic storage of the initiating device. In response to a communication event establishment instruction received at the initiating device after the dictionary or the dictionary link has been received and stored at the initiating device, a session is established between the initiating device and the communications controller by the initiating device transmitting an initial session establishment message—compressed using the dictionary—to the communications controller to establish the communication event.
US10893074B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and policy rating server device that receives a request from a client computing device for one or more privacy ratings. The request identifies at least one application, such as an application installed on the client computing device for example. A policy associated with the identified application is obtained. The obtained policy is analyzed to identify a plurality of key words or phrases associated with use by the at least one application of functionality of, or personal information stored on, the client computing device. One or more privacy ratings are generated based on numerical values assigned to each of the identified key words or phrases. The generated one or more privacy ratings are output to the client computing device in response to the request.
US10893070B2
An online system maintains pages and accesses a graph of nodes representing the pages. Each node is labeled to indicate that a corresponding page is for a real-world entity, an imposter of the real-world entity, or a derived entity complying with or violating a policy. The online system retrieves machine-learning models, each of which is trained based on labels for a set of the nodes and features of corresponding pages. A first model predicts whether a page is for a derived entity based on features of the page. Responsive to predicting the page is not for a derived entity, a second model predicts whether the page is for a real-world entity or an imposter based on features of the page. Responsive to predicting the page is for a derived entity, a third model predicts whether the derived entity complies with or violates the policy based on features of the page.
US10893069B2
In accordance with the example embodiments of the Invention there is at least a method and apparatus to detect that at least one message received from another network device of a communication network is in response to a prior message using a spoofed source address; based on the detecting, mirror the at least one message; and send to the another network device the mirrored at least one message to cause the another network device to filter out the at least one message in response to the prior message using the spoofed address. Further, there is at least a method and apparatus to receive from a network node signaling associated with at least one message; based on the signaling, detect that the at least one message is in response to a prior message using a spoofed source address; and based on the detecting, filter out the at least one message in response to the prior message using the spoofed source address.
US10893068B1
A computerized system and method to detect ransomware cyber-attacks is described. The approach entails analyzing the features associated with a file access event by a process operating on a computing device, to ascertain whether the process is associated with a ransomware cyber-attack.
US10893062B2
A cable assembly may include an outer jacket, a printer circuit board including light emitting diodes, and a cable configured to transmit information. The outer jacket may include a channel opening and the printed circuit board may be configured to be positioned within the channel opening and between the cable and the outer jacket. Another cable assembly may include an inner jacket, an outer jacket, a printed circuit board including light emitting diodes, and a cable configured to transmit information. The inner jacket may include a channel opening, and the printer circuit board may be configured to be positioned within the channel opening and between the inner jacket and the outer jacket.
US10893056B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core configured to obtain, from a timestamp, a truncated timestamp comprising a first number of least significant bits of the timestamp and not comprising at least one most significant bit of the timestamp, to derive a hash value based at least in part on the timestamp, a payload and a secret value, and to compile a first message comprising the truncated timestamp, the payload and, at least in part, the hash value, and a transmitter configured to be directed by the at least one processing core, to transmit the first message toward a recipient.
US10893051B2
Embodiments concern a dynamic authorization framework. Security Classification Process (SCP) is the process of classifying raw data, information extracted from raw data, content or code from security-value perspective. Security Achievability Determination Process (SADP) is a process based on a SV/SC that has been assigned, the RHE may determine the Security Requirements and how the security requirements may be achieved. During the Security Achievability Listing Process (SALP), the RHE uploads onto the Resource Listing Entity (RLE) the URI of the resource, the SAM associated with the resource and optionally a digital certificate associated with the resource. During the SAM Assessment Process (SAMAP) process, a Client evaluates the security mechanisms that must be carried out in order to meet the SAM that was provided as part of the Discovery Process (DP). Based on the SAM obtained from the RLE, the Client may initiate a Security Achievability Enabling Process (SAEP). The Client may be required to initiate an Authentication, Authorization, Payment and obtain an assertion of secure behavior from a Security-Achievability Enabler Function (SAEF), which may be a trusted third-party Function or Entity.
US10893044B2
An authentication information request packet of user equipment is received at an authentication server. The authentication information request packet includes a device identity of the user equipment. A virtual account identity corresponding to the device identity is obtained. The authentication information response packet is signed using a server private key. An authentication request packet of the user equipment is received. The authentication request packet includes the device identifier, the virtual account identity, and a biometric feature token. A registered service public key and a registered biometric feature token corresponding to the device identifier, the virtual account identity, and a biometric authentication type are obtained. A signature verification is performed by the authentication server on the authentication request packet using the registered service public key. An identity authentication is performed based on the biometric feature token in the authentication request packet and the registered biometric feature token.
US10893043B1
Disclosed herein are display techniques that will allow sensitive data displayed on a computer screen to only be viewed by authorized users and will render computer screen unreadable to unauthorized users. One or more display techniques are capable of automatically scrambling and unscrambling display screen of the computing device in which only an intended viewer is able to view data on the display screen using deciphering glasses.
US10893038B2
Methods and systems generate an attributed network for tracing transmitted data that is attributable to a user. A digital registration certificate includes an identity marker and a verified privity marker. The digital registration certificate is registered with an immutable entry in a registry, with the immutable entry also storing the identity marker and referencing the verified privity marker, and with retrieval of the digital registration certificate being required to access the attributed network. A client device requests to access the attributed network, and the systems and methods authenticate a user of the client device by verifying biometric login data as matching the identity marker included in the immutable entry in the registry. The digital registration certificate is obtained from the registry. A virtual browser configured for accessing the attributed network packages the digital registration certificate with data specified by the client device.
US10893036B2
The present disclosure generally relates to messaging user interfaces. The method includes displaying a messaging session between a user of the device and a respective participant in the message session other than the user of the device in a messaging user interface, wherein the respective participant is associated with a user account of the user. While the messaging session is active, the method also includes displaying, on the display, a first credential verification affordance in the messaging user interface. The method further includes detecting one or more user inputs to authenticate with the user account. After detecting the one or more user inputs to authenticate with the user account, in accordance with a determination that the authentication with the user account was successful, the method further includes providing an indication that the user was successfully authenticated with the user account to the respective participant via the messaging user interface.
US10893023B2
One or more VPN tunnels are established in a site-to-site configuration. A VPN transition subnet is defined and associated with each VPN tunnel. Once the VPN tunnel(s) and the LAN(s) have been configured, a per-application VPN policy can be specified for any applications that require site-to-site VPN access. Whenever a new application is launched, a container is created for executing the VM. The VPN management system reads the VPN policy to determine whether the application is permitted to access any VPN tunnels. If the application is permitted to access a VPN tunnel, a vNIC is generated on the VM for the container of the application and/or a new IP address on the vNIC is assigned to the container. The new IP address and/or the new vNIC are then added to the VPN transition subnet associated with the VPN tunnel to enable the application to access the VPN tunnel.
US10893019B2
The present invention discloses an address management method and apparatus, to help dynamically adjust an address resource and improve address resource utilization. The method includes: establishing a communication connection to a network device based on a specified routing protocol; receiving an address pool status message sent by the network device; determining, based on the address pool status message, whether an address pool of the network device is in an address insufficient state or an address abundant state; and sending a first routing message to the network device by using the communication connection if the address pool of the network device is in the address insufficient state; or sending a second routing message to the network device by using the communication connection if the address pool of the network device is in the address abundant state.
US10893015B2
Aspects subscribe consumer message threads to each of a plurality of topics including a high-priority topic and a different, low-priority topic; initialize both the high-priority and low-priority topics as not-paused; poll for an unread message from not-paused ones of the high-priority and low-priority topics; in response to a return of an unread message from polling the not-paused ones of the high-priority and low-priority topics, pause the low-priority topic and process the returned unread message; and, until determining that no new message is returned, iteratively repoll for new unread messages from not-paused ones of the high-priority and low-priority topics and process any new unread messages returned from each repolling, wherein the low-priority topic is paused during each repolling executed prior to determining that no new message is returned from the repolling.
US10893013B1
Notifying a recipient of an electronic message that the message was produced via a voice-to-text engine can include accessing text data produced by the voice-to-text engine; adding at least one symbol to the text data to form the electronic message; and providing the electronic message to a messaging engine that sends the electronic message to the recipient, who is notified by the at least one symbol that the electronic message was produced via the voice-to-text engine. The at least one symbol can be added to at least one of the head of the text data, the tail of the text data, and a position within the text data. A symbol can be any combination of ASCII, GSM 03.38, Unicode, and HTTP encoding symbols. A messaging engine can send electronic messages as SMS, MMS, or E-Mail messages.
US10893003B2
Embodiments of an interconnect apparatus enable improved signal integrity, even at high clock rates, increased bandwidth, and lower latency. In an interconnect apparatus for core arrays a sending processing core can send data to a receiving core by forming a packet whose header indicates the location of the receiving core and whose pay load is the data to be sent. The packet is sent to a Data Vortex switch described herein and in the patents incorporated herein. The Data Vortex switch is on the same chip as an array of processing cores and routes the packet to the receiving core first by routing the packet to the processing core array containing the receiving processing core. The Data Vortex switch then routes the packet to the receiving processor core in a processor core array. Since the Data Vortex switches are not crossbar switches, there is no need to globally set and reset the Data Vortex switches as different groups of packets enter the switches. Mounting the Data Vortex switch on the same chip as the array of processing cores reduces the power required and reduces latency.
US10892998B2
Customers of shared resources in a multi-tenant environment can have token buckets allocated that have an associated depth and fill rate, with each token enabling the customer to obtain an amount of work from a shared resource. A resource management system can monitor one or more system or output metrics, and can adjust a global fill rate based at least in part upon values of the monitored metrics. Such an approach can provide a fair distribution of work among the customers, while ensuring that the metrics stay within acceptable ranges and there are no drastic changes in performance levels of the system. The fill rate can update dynamically with changes in the monitored parameters, such that the system can float near an equilibrium point. Commitments for specific minimum service levels also can be met.
US10892997B2
A method of scheduling transmission of a data flow in a data center network comprising a plurality of network nodes and links. The method comprising, at a network controller receiving (14) a transmission request for a data flow, obtaining (15) a tolerated time interval for the data flow, and scheduling (16) transmission of the data flow within the tolerated time interval and without contention with other transmissions.
US10892995B2
A surgical hub within a surgical hub network may include a controller having a processor, in which the controller may determine a priority of a communication, an interaction, or a processing of information based on a requirement of a system or a device communicating with the hub. The controller may prioritize an order of transmission of communication packets, including packets to a device outside of the network. The packets may include data to update routines, processes, or execute a critical procedural step. The controller may prioritize a communication traffic flow within the hub network. A network of surgical hubs may include a first hub having a first controller and a second hub having a second controller. The first controller may control interactions between the first hub and the second hub based on the capabilities of the first hub and a location of modules within the network.
US10892994B2
A switch in a slice-based network can be used to enforce quality of service (“QoS”). Agents can run in the switches, such as in the core of each switch. The switches can sort ingress packets into slice-specific ingress queues in a slice-based pool. The slices can have different QoS prioritizations. A switch-wide policing algorithm can move the slice-specific packets to egress interfaces. Then, one or more user-defined egress policing algorithms can prioritize which packets are sent out into the network first based on slice classifications.
US10892986B2
In general, the invention relates to a method for programming a network element. The method includes detecting an addition of a first route in a routing information base (RIB) on the network element, adding, in response to detecting the addition, a first route network prefix associated with the first route to a network prefix trie (NPT), identifying, based on the adding, a first parent network prefix for the first route network prefix using the NPT, making a first determination that the first route network prefix and the first parent network prefix are reachable via a first common next hop connected to the network element, and waiving, based on the first determination, a creation of a forwarding information base (FIB) entry associated with the first route network prefix in a FIB on the network element.
US10892973B2
An example method is described for monitoring a network. The method includes detecting that a network attribute has been updated at a network device. The method further includes selecting, based in part on the updated network attribute, a set of network functionality tests from a group of network functionality tests. The method further includes executing the set of network functionality tests. The method further includes receiving information describing functionality of the network during the set of network functionality tests at the network device. The method further includes determining results of the set of network functionality tests based on the information describing functionality of the network. The method further includes calculating a network functionality score based, in part, on the results of the set of network functionality tests.
US10892970B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to provide host-independent resource monitoring for distributed networks. The method includes determining, from a set of jobs, one or more jobs to execute that monitor the status of resources within a distributed network. The method determines one or more environments in which to run the one or more jobs, and instantiates the one or more jobs with one or more environment variables for the determined one or more environments such that the one or more jobs are configured for operation in the determined one or more environments. The method accordingly displays, using a graphical user interface, a job environment matrix including a list of the set of jobs in conjunction with a running status of each of the jobs in each of one or more environments. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US10892963B2
A system for determining bandwidth usage from a plurality of subscribers in a cable network; the system including an engine component comprising a computer processor receiving data from an Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) module and from a subscriber module; the engine component configured to receive requests from an Application Programming Interface (API) module to retrieve or manipulate data and to return a reporting result; the IPDR module collecting IPDR data from a plurality of cable modem termination systems (CMTS); and wherein the data collected by the IPDR module from the plurality of CMTS is normalized by the IPDR module executing a normalization algorithm prior to the engine component returning a reporting result.
US10892962B2
An inter-channel linear crosstalk estimation method and apparatus and a communication system are disclosed. The apparatus includes: an adjacent channel synchronizing unit configured to synchronize adjacent channel information inserted with a cyclic training sequence in a received signal, to determine a time window of occurrence of the cyclic training sequence; a time domain cutoff unit configured to perform time cutoff on center channel information in the received signal according to the time window of occurrence of the cyclic training sequence, to obtain center channel information within the same time window as the cyclic training sequence; a filtering unit configured to filter the center channel information within the time window, and reserve center channel information containing linear crosstalk from an adjacent channel; and a linear crosstalk estimating unit configured to estimate a magnitude of linear crosstalk leaking into the center channel by using a cyclic characteristic of the cyclic training sequence.
US10892949B2
Method and apparatus to use infra-structure or network connectivity services provided by 3RD parties
A telecom connectivity service provider (TCSP) and a method for allocating an infrastructure resource to a virtual network operator (VNO). A TCSP control element sends to a downstream control element, a request for a portion of the infrastructure to be allocated to the TCSP by an infrastructure provider (InP) and receives a response from the downstream control element providing access to and control of the allocated infrastructure. The TCSP control element can pool the allocated infrastructure with other resources allocated to the TCSP and/or communicate with an upstream control element for providing access to and control of the allocated infrastructure to the VNO. The downstream control element is a local InP control element or a downstream TCSP control element. The upstream control element is a VNO control element or an upstream TCSP control element.
US10892945B2
A technique for providing a redundant network connection for an industry automation apparatus is provided. In one aspect of the present disclosure, a network controller is provided that is configured to control a redundant connection of the industry automation apparatus via a communication network to another apparatus. The industry automation apparatus has a first radio interface and a second radio interface. The communication network comprises two or more functionally equivalent network entities grouped in a first entity set and a second network entity set disjoint to the first network entity set, wherein the first network entity set and the first radio interface are associated with a first redundancy group and wherein the second network entity set and the second radio interface are associated with a second redundancy group.
US10892942B2
In general, this disclosure describes techniques for coordinating, with a cloud exchange, automated cloud-based disaster recovery across containers from a failed cloud service to a backup cloud service. In some examples, an orchestration engine for a cloud exchange is configured to: detect an indication of a disruption in a first cloud service provided by a first cloud service provider network coupled to the cloud exchange to send and receive data packets via the cloud exchange; provision, in response to detecting the indication of the disruption in the first cloud service, disaster recovery infrastructure layers in containers of a second cloud service provided by a second cloud service provider network coupled to the cloud exchange; obtain code and state from containers of the first cloud service; and communicate the code and state to the disaster recovery infrastructure layers in the containers of the second cloud service.
US10892941B2
Improved network visibility may be achieved by deriving network traffic information from numerous visibility platforms that are communicatively coupled to one another. In some embodiments, an end user interacts with a distributed visibility fabric via a user interface, which can include a high-level representation of each visibility platform. The end user can then map the network objects of each visibility platform onto a series of network visibility appliances. This technique allows certain network objects (e.g., maps) to be intelligently distributed amongst the series of network visibility appliances.
US10892940B2
Systems, methods, and computer readable storage mediums are disclosed for scalable data collection and aggregation of statistics for logical objects of an application centric network. An analytics agent running on a logical object of an application centric network is elected as one of a Designated Stats device (DSD) or a Member Stats device (MSD). If the analytics agent is defined as a DSD, the analytics agent receives data reported from a downstream MSD communicated over the analytics plane and aggregates data from the MSD belonging to the same access control list rule. If the analytics agent is defined as an MSD, the analytics agent selects a DSD and reports the statistics to that DSD over the analytics plane.
US10892937B1
Techniques described in this disclosure are directed to a co-location facility provider generating an inter-metropolitan area service chain for application of a plurality of services offered by cloud service providers located in geographically distributed metropolitan areas. In some examples, a method includes receiving, by a controller executing at a computing device of a co-location facilities provider, a request for a plurality of services to be applied to data of a customer; in response to receiving the request, generating, by the controller, a service chain for application of each of the plurality of services provided by a different one of a plurality of cloud service providers, wherein the services are applied by each of the plurality of cloud service providers at co-location facilities in geographically distributed metropolitan areas; and providing, by the controller and to the customer, the service chain for application of the plurality of services.
US10892934B2
The present invention provides a signal sending apparatus, a signal detection apparatus, a signal sending and detection system, a signal sending method, and a signal detection method. The apparatus determines a time unit that is in each time window and that is used to transmit a synchronization signal, and transmits the synchronization signal in the determined time unit in each time window. Therefore, a synchronization signal is always located in a time unit that has a fixed location in each time window, so that a device at a receive end needs to perform detection only in a fixed time unit in each time window, thereby reducing complexity of designing and detecting the synchronization signal.
US10892932B2
Methods and apparatus for distributing content using a spectrum generation device. In one embodiment, digital content is received via a time-multiplexed network transport (such as Gigabit Ethernet), and converted to frequency channels suitable for transmission over a content distribution (e.g., Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC)) network. In one variant, the conversion is performed using digital domain processing performed by a full spectrum generation device. Additionally, methods and apparatus for selectively adding, removing, and/or changing digital content from the full spectrum device are also disclosed. Various aspects of the present invention enable physical (infrastructure) consolidation, and software-implemented remote management of content distribution.
US10892929B2
The methods and apparatus disclosed herein processes reference signals in an antenna diversity system, e.g., where both the transmitting and receiving devices use multiple antennas. The solution presented herein process reference signals at the transmitting device in such a way to enable the receiving device to efficiently and accurately estimate the covariance matrix associated with data transmitted using transmitter diversity. This is achieved by processing the reference signals used for the covariance estimation and the data signals in the same way, e.g., by precoding data and reference signal portions of one or more signals using the same coding scheme.
US10892926B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for differently applying phase rotations for each antenna by dividing a frequency band in order to solve a problem in which reception performance deteriorates in a specific subcarrier when the correlation between antennas is high. According to the present invention, a method by which a transmitter transmits a signal comprises the steps of: estimating the transmission correlation between respective transmission paths; calculating a phase rotation value to be applied to a transmission signal on the basis of the estimated transmission correlation; applying a phase rotation in accordance with the phase rotation value to the transmission signal; and transmitting the transmission signal.
US10892924B2
Disclosed herein is a demodulation method of a Layer-Division Multiplexing (LDM) system. The demodulation method may include receiving an LDM modulation signal, restoring a first-layer signal from the LDM modulation signal and remodulating the first-layer signal, restoring and remodulating a second-layer signal by performing cancellation of the amplitude component of the first-layer signal from the LDM modulation signal using signaling information independently of restoration and remodulation of the first-layer signal, and restoring a third-layer signal using the first-layer signal, the second-layer signal, and the LDM modulation signal.
US10892920B2
A driver circuit of a PAM-N transmitting device transmits a PAM-N signal via a communication channel, wherein N is greater than 2, and the PAM-N signal has N signal levels corresponding to N symbols. A PAM-N receiving device receives the PAM-N signal. The PAM-N receiving device generates distortion information indicative of a level of distortion corresponding to inequalities in voltage differences between the N signal levels. The PAM-N receiving device transmits to the PAM-N transmitting device the distortion information indicative of the level of the distortion. The PAM-N transmitting device receives the distortion information. The PAM-N transmitting device adjusts one or more drive strength parameters of the driver circuit of the PAM-N transmitting device based on the distortion information.
US10892918B1
A speculative decision feedback equalizer with split unroll multiplexers is provided. The speculative decision feedback equalizer splits an unroll multiplexer into two multiplexers. One split multiplexer provides a data path for the unroll selection signal, and the other split multiplexer provides a separate data path for the summer differential tap. In this way, the loading of an input stage of the summer circuit and the loading from the h1 unrolling loop are decoupled, allowing each split multiplexer to be configured according to a specific timing requirement along a respective data path. Thus, timing performance of the speculative decision feedback equalizer is improved.
US10892917B2
A channel correction method, used for performing channel correction on radio frequency apparatuses in a network area, is provided. The radio frequency apparatuses are divided into at least one radio frequency apparatus group. A correction resource location is set for each radio frequency apparatus in the radio frequency apparatus group. These resource locations may be stored in a form of configuration information in base stations where the radio frequency apparatuses are located, so that the base station controls each of these radio frequency apparatuses to send a correction signal in a respective correction resource location based on the configuration information, and to implement, by using these correction signals, channel correction for the radio frequency apparatuses in the radio frequency apparatus group. The method can implement joint channel correction for a plurality of radio frequency apparatuses and improve correction efficiency.
US10892906B2
Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for efficient network distribution of group-based communication data transmissions comprising group-based communication data required by client devices within a group-based communication platform.
US10892901B1
The present application provides a facial data collection and verification solution. In this solution, after collecting a face sample, a collection device uses the face sample and check data including a random number as to-be-signed data, performs signature by using a device private key, to obtain a facial data signature, and then obtains trusted facial data based on the to-be-signed data, the facial data signature, and a digital certificate that includes a device public key. When performing verification on the trusted facial data, a facial recognition server sequentially performs verification on the digital certificate that includes the device public key, the facial data signature, and the check data. Because content used for the verification process is added for the face sample on the collection device, subsequent verification cannot succeed if a transmitted communication packet is replaced by an attacker. Therefore, a replay attack is prevented at the collection source.
US10892898B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for communicating and sharing blockchain data. One of the methods includes sending current state information associated with a current block of a blockchain to one or more shared storage nodes of the blockchain network; sending a hash value to the one of the one or more shared storage nodes for retrieving an account state stored in the historic state tree; receiving the account state in response to sending the hash value; and verifying, by the consensus node, that the account state is part of the blockchain based on the hash value.
US10892886B2
Systems and methods including a transmitter resource to transmit a message having one or more packets, each packet having a boundary identifier including a first placeholder generated based on or in response to data in a fixed-sized window of the message, and a second placeholder generated based on or in response to all data in a respective packet, and a receiver resource to receive the message and to detect the boundary identifiers of the respective packets.
US10892880B1
In present embodiments, operation methods and apparatus for reducing power consumption in a 10GBASE-T transceiver circuit having transmit circuitry and receive circuitry for coupling to a plurality of physical channels are provided to transmit first data with the transmit circuitry in a first direction, receive second data with the receive circuitry in a second direction opposite to the first direction, identify an end-of-data indicator associated with the second data, and deactivate the receive circuitry in response to the end-of-data indicator. Preferably, in some embodiments, the receive circuitry is selectively switched off to reduce power consumption.
US10892877B2
A user equipment transmits a first wireless signal and transmits a second wireless signal; the first wireless signal is generated by a first sequence; the first wireless signal is used to determine a first time interval; the first time interval is a time interval between a first and a second time instant; the first time instant is a starting time instant at which a transmitter of the first wireless signal transmits the first wireless signal; the second time instant is a starting time instant at which a transmitter of the second wireless signal transmits the second wireless signal; the first time instant is earlier than the second time instant; the second wireless signal occupies a first wireless resource; the first wireless resource is one of J candidate wireless resources; the first time interval is used to determine the first wireless resource out of the J candidate wireless resources.
US10892870B2
One or more devices, systems, and/or methods for transmitting time domain location information for a common control block on a physical broadcast channel via a plurality of antenna ports are provided. The common control block is transmitted according to the time domain location information.
US10892867B2
Provided are an sTTI setting method for an sPUSCH in a short ITT frame structure and a specific operating method for an sPUSCH based on a shared DM-RS. In the method, a shared DM-RS within an SPUSCH is allocated only to a specific symbol included in a partial sTTI and is used in all sPUSCHs within a legacy TTI (=1 ms).
US10892863B2
Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method of communication are generally described herein. An AP may be configurable to operate as a master AP of a multi-AP group comprising the master AP and one or more satellite APs. The master AP may select, from the multi-AP group, a set of APs that is to communicate with a STA in accordance with joint processing. The master AP may allocate one or more spatial streams to each of the APs of the set of APs for a joint transmission of a null data packet (NDP) to the STA for channel sounding. The master AP may transmit an NDP announcement (NDPA) that indicates that the APs of the set of APs are to perform the joint transmission of the NDP.
US10892861B2
An apparatus and a method for transmitting HARQ feedback information in a wireless communication system are provided. In so doing, the method for transmitting the HARQ feedback information in a receiving end includes confirming the number of packets received from a transmitting end, and when receiving a reference number of packets from the transmitting end, transmitting to the transmitting end a feedback signal comprising HARQ feedback information for the reference number of the packets.
US10892839B2
The invention relates to a method for fast reconfiguration of GM clocks in the TSN network by means of an explicit teardown message. Carrying out a network-wide cleansing of the outdated information ensures that outdated GM information having a higher priority cannot overwrite new information. The current BMCA+ relies on the hold time mechanism in order to quickly carry out the GM reconfiguration on all nodes. The problem is solved by the introduction of a specific advertising schema for the BMCA+ protocol in order to resolve the described instability during the GM reconfiguration period. The method uses an announce+ message for an extra messaging that displays a clock having outdated information and disseminates new information in the complete network. The aim is to inform all clocks that outdated information is present such that the GM reconfiguration can be carried out quickly and without extra conflicts. This so-called “teardown” notification is provided for the case when a current best clock (that is, either a first or second-best GM clock) lowers its priority in order to become a subordinate clock.
US10892832B2
An orientation tracking system for a moving platform includes a transmitter which generates an beam having a known polarization with respect to a predefined coordinate system. The moving platform includes an ellipsometric detector capable of detecting the polarized beam when within the line-of-sight of the transmitter, and measuring its polarization state. The polarization state indicates the rotational orientation of the moving platform with respect to the predefined coordinate system. The beam could also be used to convey guidance commands to the platform.
US10892828B2
A system and method for managing the optical layer network data communications of an optical fiber data network by an optical transceiver module is disclosed. The management of the optical layer network data communications comprising data link layer functions or layer 2 functions in an OSI model. Benefits include reduction in reduced cost of network deployments from consolidation of network equipment, such as switches, and reduction in power consumed as well as enabling point-to-multipoint network connections from previously only point-to-point network connection.
US10892827B2
Cost-effective high-data-rate optical data transceivers are presented, comprising an electronic analog transversal filter simultaneously providing one or more of bandwidth compensation and forward impairment compensations for the transmitted optical signal.
US10892820B2
Methods and systems for calibrating the return and forward links of a satellite communication system are provided according to embodiments of the invention. The phase and/or amplitude variations caused by the return and forward links are calculated and/or estimated to aid in beamforming, such as ground-based beamforming. Calibration earth stations, distributed within one or more beam patterns, may be used to transmit calibration codes to the gateway to calibrate the return link. Return links variations may be estimated using a weighted minimum mean square algorithm at the gateway. Forward links may be calibrated with calibration codes transmitted from the gateway through a hybrid matrix to at least one calibration station. Forward calibration links may also calibrate for temperature-dependent signal variations such as diplexer variations at the satellite.
US10892814B2
At an antenna array of a user device, a plurality of transmit beams having first widths are received from an access point. The array, using a receive beam having a second width, wider than the first width, measures a quality metric of each of the plurality of transmit beams, and determines angle of arrival for at least a given one of the plurality of transmit beams having a highest quality metric. The user device advises the access point of results of the quality metric measurement. The antenna array receives, from the access point, a selection, based on the advising, of a best one of the plurality of transmit beams for transmission from the access point to the user device. The antenna array forms a receive beam, having a third width, along the angle of arrival, and the third width is narrower than the second width.
US10892811B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for performing a beam recovery procedure using a second CC are disclosed. A UE may perform a beam recovery procedure using two component carriers (CCs): for example, CC1 may be a beam formed millimeter wave (MMW) carrier having a beam recovery procedure and CC2 may be an assisting carrier such as a sub-6 GHz carrier. In a first example, a UE may trigger beam recovery for CC1 (on CC2), generate a beam measurement report, and transmit the beam report on resources allocated for uplink transmission on CC2. In a second example, a new scheduling request (SR) may be defined on CC1 for CC2 beam recovery. In a third example, RACH resources or procedures on CC2 may be used to perform the beam recovery for CC1.
US10892807B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a transmitter device may determine an adapted codebook for beamforming transmission based at least in part on an initial codebook and one or more spatial parameters, wherein the adapted codebook is associated with an adapted set of candidate beams with an adapted angular range that is different than an initial angular range of an initial set of candidate beams of the initial codebook. In some aspects, the transmitter device may transmit using at least one beam of the adapted set of candidate beams associated with the adapted angular range based at least in part on determining the adapted codebook. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10892805B2
Disclosed are a beam scanning method and a related device, used for solving the problem that, during the existing process of determining the optimal transceiving beam by performing traversal search on a combination of potential transceiving beams, a large amount of system overhead needs to be occupied, thus reducing the system efficiency and the adaptability to a time-varying channel. The method comprises: a first communication node determines at least one transmitted beam according to the optimal receiving beam group between a receiver of the first communication node and a transmitter of a second communication node; the first communication node sequentially sends a signal to the second communication node by means of the transmitter according to the determined at least one transmitted beam until the optimal transmitted beam is determined.
US10892798B2
A communication device includes a first processing unit that detects a target and receives a first command for activating an interface upon a detection of the target. The communication device also includes a second processing unit that exchanges data with the target through the first processing unit. Further, the communication device includes an interface between the first processing unit and the second processing unit. The first processing unit selects a predetermined interface level from among a plurality of interface levels based on the first command and exchanges data with the second processing unit based on the predetermined interface level.
US10892791B2
Decision feedback equalization (DFE) is used to help reduce inter-symbol interference (ISI) from a data signal received via a band-limited (or otherwise non-ideal) channel. A first PAM-4 DFE architecture has low latency from the output of the samplers to the application of the first DFE tap feedback to the input signal. This is accomplished by not decoding the sampler outputs in order to generate the feedback signal for the first DFE tap. Rather, weighted versions of the raw sampler outputs are applied directly to the input signal without further analog or digital processing. Additional PAM-4 DFE architectures use the current symbol in addition to previous symbol(s) to determine the DFE feedback signal. Another architecture transmits PAM-4 signaling using non-uniform pre-emphasis. The non-uniform pre-emphasis allows a speculative DFE receiver to resolve the transmitted PAM-4 signals with fewer comparators/samplers.
US10892789B2
Embodiments of the subject disclosure includes a device comprising a processing system including a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include obtaining a measurement associated with wireless signals transmitted by communication devices in a cellular network. Each measurement provides a quality measure of the wireless signals. Further operations can include determining a first measurement associated with a first communication device does not conform to a signal quality condition, identifying that the first communication device is assigned to a first uplink frequency band, and generating a first frequency band reassignment strategy to direct the first communication device to use a second uplink frequency band responsive to the first measurement not conforming to the signal quality condition and the first communication device being assigned to the first uplink frequency band. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10892787B2
A transmitter for transmitting a signal is provided, in which the transmitter includes a power amplifier and a driver amplifier, an output of the driver amplifier being connected to an input of the power amplifier via a first load modulation device operable to match the impedance of the driver amplifier output with impedance of the power amplifier input. A second load modulation device can be connected to the output of the power amplifier and operable to match the impedance of the power amplifier output with input impedance of a further device. Envelope tracking can be applied to the power amplifier and the driving amplifier.
