US10926473B1
A scanning approach used in the feedback procedure is able to distinguish between different materials, for example, based on spectral properties (e.g., color) of reflectance from a partially fabricated object. Because material layers can be quite thin, and in general the materials are not completely opaque, properties of subsurface layers can greatly affect the reflectance of a thin layer of one material over a thicker section of another material. Detection of locations of thin layers after a material change takes into account the reflectance characteristics of the object before the thin layer was deposited.
US10926467B2
A 3D printer includes a resin reservoir arranged for being filled with a predetermined amount of liquid resin, a light exposure module, and a control processor. The light exposure module includes a plurality of light sources supported above the resin reservoir, wherein each of the light sources is arranged for flashing a discrete image to solidify the liquid resin in the resin reservoir. The control processor controls the light sources to flash the discrete images at the same time and to combine the discrete images into a combined image for forming a layer of a 3D object when the liquid resin is solidified.
US10926466B2
An integrated build and material supply system (12) for an additive manufacturing apparatus comprises a building compartment (24) adapted to accommodate an object (50) to be formed by means of additive manufacturing and a storage compartment (22) adapted to store a build material for forming said object. A volume of said building compartment and a volume of said storage compartment are variable in size, and said system is adapted to re-allocate at least a portion of a volume previously allocated to said storage compartment to said building compartment.
US10926463B2
A filament guide that guides thermoplastic filament to an object being manufactured. A deposition head comprising the disclosed filament guide provides a filament to the intended deposition point. The filament guide comprises a guide member having a filament groove configured to guide the filament along a path of travel. The groove has an upstream end that is configured to receive the filament from a source and a downstream end that is configured to direct the filament toward the deposition point in the intended direction. A notch at the downstream end of the guide member enables the filament to travel toward the deposition point. The portions of the guide member on either side of the notch act to keep the filament centered laterally. A plate that is transparent to electromagnetic radiation from a heat source covers the groove and permits the electromagnetic radiation to reach the filament while providing added support.
US10926461B2
A method of additive manufacturing is provided. The method includes depositing a layer of polymeric material from which an additively manufactured part is produced. The method also includes depositing a slurry upon the layer of polymeric material, wherein the slurry includes a conductive material that imparts conductive properties to the layer of polymeric material.
US10926455B2
There is provided an apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object having a desired decoration. The apparatus for forming a three-dimensional object configured to form a three-dimensional object includes: a head for reflective ink configured to form a light reflection layer, a head for decorative ink, a head for transparent ink, a main scanning driving unit and a sub-scanning driving unit. At least the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are arranged to be positionally offset in a sub-scanning direction, the head for reflective ink, the head for decorative ink and the head for transparent ink are configured to form a transparent layer between the light reflection layer and a decorative layer, thereby forming the decorative layer, the transparent layer and the light reflection layer in corresponding order from a surface layer-side of the three-dimensional object towards an inner side of the three-dimensional object.
US10926449B2
An orthosis is fitted to a body joint, in a preferred embodiment the equine fetlock, by locating the center of rotation (COR) of the joint; measuring the bones comprising the joint at points located with respect to the COR; selecting the appropriate orthosis from a selection of models thereof; and custom-fitting the orthosis to the individual by heating it to soften a layer of thermoformable foam on the interior of the orthosis, and clamping the orthosis in place over the body joint. A kit of tools for performing the measurements is disclosed, as are a method for location of the COR of the body joint by palpation and a preferred heater.
US10926442B2
The present disclosure provides a mold of a resin body capable of reducing the cost of manufacturing a resin body including a resin base material and a foamed resin part provided on the resin base material. This mold is a mold of a resin body including resin base material molding die parts for molding a resin base material. The mold includes: a sliding part capable of sliding inside a foamed resin part molding cavity that communicates with a resin base material molding cavity of the resin base material molding die parts. The sliding part is swingably floated in a direction perpendicular to a sliding surface on which the sliding part slides. In the process of molding the resin base material, the sliding part blocks an opening part that communicates from the resin base material molding cavity to the foamed resin part molding cavity.
US10926441B2
There is provided a liquid supply member capable of suppressing deformation of a liquid supply path and decrease in sealing property of a liquid supply path, during molding, and a manufacturing method of the liquid supply member. For that purpose, in die-slide injection molding that combines two components, a protection portion that protects a part of one component easily affected by heat and pressure, is provided on the other component.
US10926434B2
An optical lens casting gasket, wafer, and system and method that provides for more efficient formation of optical lenses employing optically functional wafers.
US10926433B2
A method for manufacturing a high-pressure tank, capable of removing bubbles inside a carbon-fiber layer and those on an outer surface thereof without deteriorating a strength of the carbon-fiber layer, preventing a defective appearance, reducing variations in size, and thereby manufacturing a high-pressure tank having an excellent strength is provided. A method for manufacturing a high-pressure tank includes an uncured carbon-fiber layer forming step of forming an uncured carbon-fiber layer around a liner, a glass-fiber layer forming step of forming an uncured glass-fiber layer around the uncured carbon-fiber layer, a pin inserting step of inserting a tubular pin disposed therein from an uncured glass-fiber layer side to an interface of the uncured carbon-fiber layer, a gas sucking step of sucking a gas from the pin, and a thermally-curing treatment step of forming a glass-fiber layer and a carbon-fiber layer.
US10926429B2
Shaping systems and methods suitable for cutting a material, and deburring devices for performing a deburring operation on an edge of the material. Such deburring devices include a manifold having at least first, second, and third nozzles having first, second, and third axes on different first, second, and third planes, respectively. The first, second, and third nozzles are adapted to project first, second, and third gas streams therefrom in the first, second, and third planes axes. A mechanism is provided for orienting the manifold to project the first, second, and third gas streams at the edge of the material.
US10926423B1
An interchangeable different style-blade utility knife includes an elongate handle having proximal and distal ends along a handle axis. A blade holder is provided for supporting a blade and actuating means is provided for selectively attaching and detaching the blade holder to the distal end of the handle at a parting line. A blade is supported by the blade holder and has an exposed cutting edge generally along a lower side of the handle and has a projected predetermined length along the axis. The blade holder has a support upper portion generally along an upper side of the handle and has a projected length along the axis substantially equal to or generally proportional to the predetermined length to provide support for the blade. A kit includes a plurality of blade holders each with a different style blade, each blade holder having a support upper portion proportional to an associated blade.
US10926418B2
Various embodiments relate to magnetically moveable displacement devices or robotic devices. Particular embodiments provide systems and corresponding methods for magnetically moving multiple movable robots relative to one or more working surfaces of respective one or more work bodies, and for moving robots between the one or more work bodies via transfer devices. Robots can carry one or more objects among different locations, manipulate carried objects, and/or interact with their surroundings for particular functionality including but not limited to assembly, packaging, inspection, 3D printing, test, laboratory automation, etc. A mechanical link may be mounted on planar motion units such as said robots.
US10926414B2
A system for calibrating tool center point of robot is provided, which may include a first image sensor, a second image sensor, and a controller. The first image sensor may have a first image central axis. The second image sensor may have a second image central axis not parallel to the first image central axis, and intersect the first image central axis at an intersection point. The controller may control a robot to repeatedly move a tool center point thereof between the first and the second image central axis. The controller may record a calibration point including the coordinates of the joints of the robot when the tool center point overlaps the intersection point, and then move the tool center point and repeat the above steps to generate several calibration points, whereby the controller may calculate the coordinate of the tool center point according to the calibration points.
US10926408B1
A machine learning system builds and uses control policies for controlling robotic performance of a task. Such control policies may be trained using targeted updates, for example by comparing two trials to identify which represents a greater degree of task success, using this to generate updates from a reinforcement learning system, and weighting the updates based on differences between action vectors of the trials.
US10926406B2
A robot for a linear transport system includes a carriage guide rail and first and second XY tables, each with first and second carriages arranged to move independently on the carriage guide rail, and first and second linear guides, each having first and second guide elements which can be moved relative to one another and are configured with an angular offset. The first guide elements of the first and second linear guides are connected via a support structure. The second guide elements of the first and second linear guides are connected to the first and second carriages. The robot can include first and second arm systems connected to one another via an articulated system, with an attached work tool. The first and second arm systems can connect to the support structures of the first and second XY tables via corresponding first and second joints.
US10926399B2
A drill assist device comprising a first segment and a second segment telescopically coupled to one another, where the first segment further contains a gas strut. A pull down handle is configured to connect the first segment and the second segment and enable compression of the drill assist device when a worker applies pressure to the pull down handle. This compression is further assisted by at least one wire rope cable that is affixed to both the pull down handle and the second segment and may be secured via one or more wire rope clamps. The wire rope claims maybe tightened or released to extend or retract the second segment to achieve the desired height of the drill assist device.
US10926397B2
A hand-held power tool includes an output spindle and a user guidance unit configured to be actuated by a user. The hand-held power tool further includes a drive unit configured to rotationally drive the output spindle. The drive unit can be changed over between a first direction of rotation and a second direction of rotation in order to drive the output spindle in the first or second direction of rotation. The power tool further includes a communication interface configured to communicate with the user guidance unit. The communication interface is further configured to receive, from the user guidance unit, changeover instructions for changing over the drive unit between the first direction of rotation and the second direction of rotation in an application-specific manner.
US10926396B2
A tool is provided in order to facilitate utilization by users in a wide variety of applications. By way of example, a multipurpose tool may include first and second handles configured for relative movement between a closed position and an open position. At least the first handle includes an axle extending thereacross. The multipurpose tool also includes one or more tool members rotatably mounted upon the axle and foldable into the first handle and first and second jaws rotatably connected to the first and second handles, respectively. At least the first jaw defines an opening through which the axle of the first handle extends. The multipurpose tool further includes a resilient member disposed at least partially within the opening in order to apply a bias force to the first jaw during rotation of the first jaw relative to the first handle.
US10926393B2
A percussion tool comprises a housing and an electric motor positioned within the housing. The motor has a nominal outer diameter of up to about 80 mm and is operable to output at least about 2760 W. The percussion tool further comprises a battery pack supported by the housing for providing power to the motor. The battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells having a nominal voltage of up to 80 Volts and a sustained operating discharge current of between about 40 A and about 60 A. The percussion tool further comprises a percussion mechanism driven by the motor and including a striker supported for reciprocation in the housing. The percussion tool has a ratio of impact energy to mass that is greater than or equal to 2.5 Joules/kilogram.
US10926387B2
A fastener-driving tool includes a housing and a workpiece-contacting element movable between a rest position and an activated position. The tool also includes a trigger connected to the housing and movable between a rest position and an activated position, a control valve including an actuating pin, an actuation lever movably connected to the trigger and movable between a rest position and an actuating position adjacent to the actuating pin, and a trigger control mechanism associated with the actuation lever and configured for moving and holding the actuation lever in the actuating position. In a powered mode, the trigger control mechanism causes the-actuation lever to move and remain in the actuating position such that the tool is actuated each time the workpiece-contacting element contacts a workpiece and moves to the activated position causing the actuation lever to contact the actuating pin and initiate an actuation of the tool.
US10926380B2
A clamping device includes a first holder and a second holder. The first holder includes a first abutting member and a driving member. The driving member is coupled to the first abutting member. The second holder includes a second abutting member. The first abutting member and the second abutting member are oppositely disposed and spaced apart from each other to receive a workpiece. The driving member is coupled to the first abutting member to drive the first abutting member to move in a direction toward the second abutting member to clamp the workpiece between the first abutting member and the second abutting member.
US10926378B2
Abrasive disk sheet articles having raised islands coated with abrasive have a flexible disk polymer backing. The top flat surfaces of the raised islands are coated with a liquid controlled-thickness slurry mixture of abrasive particles and a polymeric adhesive by use of a magnetic precision-thickness coating-control font sheet having individual open holes that are slightly smaller than the respective raised islands. The magnetic coater font sheet is placed in flat-surfaced contact with the raised island surfaces where each individual font sheet open hole is aligned with a respective island surface. A magnet placed on the non-island surface of the disk polymer backing urges the magnetic coater font sheet into conformal contact with the island surfaces. A squeegee device moved along the font sheet fills and level coats the island tops with a uniform-thickness abrasive slurry mixture. After coating, the font sheet is removed and the abrasive slurry is solidified.
US10926375B2
A pressure-fit grinding pad assembly and a method of constructing same and connection to a grinding pad of a floor grinding machine or other suitable type grinding machines is described. The grinding pad is formed by an abrasion head of abrasion material which is immovably bonded on a metal attachment base which is shaped for pressure fit connection to a mounting base and wherein its removal therefrom requires it to be pressure punched with adequate force. The mounting base can be a steel plate shaped for connection to retainers secured to or formed in an outer surface of a grinding disc or may be constituted by holes formed in the top surface of the grinding disc. The mounting base can be formed integrally with the attachment base of the grinding pad for connection to the retainers.
US10926373B2
A honing machine features a stand (1) with at least two feet (3), wherein the stand (1) has an area with two substantially parallel surfaces, and wherein at least one honing spindle (11), another machining spindle (11) or another functional unit is arranged on the two substantially parallel surfaces of the stand (1).
US10926366B2
A two degree-of-freedom nano positioning stage with a parallel flexure hinge mechanism includes two driving systems respectively arranged along an X axis and a Y axis, a moving stage, a parallel flexure hinge mechanism and a base frame, wherein each of the driving systems includes a piezo actuator, a connecting block, a lever, a preloading spring, a push rod and a plurality of connecting hinges; the piezo actuator is fixed on the base frame at one end and connected with the connecting block at the other end; the lever is connected between the connecting block and the preloading spring, the connecting block is connected with the lever through one of the connecting hinges; the preloading spring is fixed on the base frame at one end and connected with the lever at the other end, and the lever is connected with the base frame through another one of the connecting hinges.
US10926363B2
A method that includes: providing a blank; heating the blank; forging the heated blank to form a forged gear having a plurality of spiral bevel gear teeth; machining the forged gear to a predetermined thickness while locating off of the plurality of gear teeth to form a green machined forged gear; rotationally and axially engaging a die to the gear teeth of the green machined forged gear to induce plastic flow in the gear teeth to form an intermediate gear in which the plurality of gear teeth conform to a predetermined tooth form; heat-treating the intermediate gear to form a hardened intermediate gear; and lapping the plurality of gear teeth of the hardened intermediate gear with a spiral bevel pinion gear; wherein the plurality of gear teeth are not machined in a chip-producing machining operation before the plurality of gear teeth are lapped.
US10926358B2
The invention relates to a drilling device comprising a light source configured to provide a light beam and a diffractive beam propagation device having a substantially planar surface, wherein the light source is configured such that the light beam is incident on the planar surface of the diffractive beam propagation device, and wherein the diffractive beam propagation device is configured to propagate the light beam as one or more propagated beams such that the one or more propagated beams, at least when being integrated over time, surround an area with a substantially circular shape. A use of the drilling device for drilling a hole in a work piece and a method suitable for drilling a hole in a work piece are also provided.
US10926351B2
A method for performing a noise removal operation includes decomposing an acquired signal considered as one dimensional series. A trajectory matrix is constructed, transforming the trajectory matrix in a form to which single value decomposition is applicable. A single value decomposition is done on the transformed matrix computing eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the matrix. A one dimensional series is reconstructed, corresponding to the denoised signal. After the single value decomposition operation is provided, a single value decomposition is applied sequentially starting from a given window value. For each iteration, the root mean square value is calculated between a current and previous eigenvalue, calculating a minimum and its position of said root mean square value. The iterations are halted if the minimum is lower than a determined threshold value, otherwise increasing the window value and returning to the operation of decomposition of the acquired signal.
US10926345B2
A scale-style micro-texture electrode wire material and a preparation method therefor and use thereof. In particular, the electrode wire material has a scale-style micro-texture layer on the surface, and the electrode wire material comprises: i) an alloy substrate layer as an inner layer; ii) an interdiffusion layer as an intermediate layer; and iii) a plating layer as an outer layer; and a contact angle of the electrode wire material to a cooling liquid is 105-150°. A method for preparing the electrode wire material and a use thereof. Due to the special surface bionic structure, the electrode wire can obviously reduce the cutting resistance and improve the cooling speed, thereby improving the cutting speed and effectively improving the use performance of the electrode wire. The preparation method has the characteristics of simple process and easy for industrial production.
US10926343B2
A saw blade includes a blade backer with a pair of side surfaces that extend substantially parallel to each other. An intermediate surface extends between the pair of side surfaces of the blade backer. A plurality of teeth extends from the intermediate surface. The plurality of teeth includes an asymmetrically ground tooth tip having a first rake face angle and a symmetrically ground tooth tip having a different, second rake face angle.
US10926341B2
A portable zero clearance circular saw including a motor frame portion with a transverse oriented drive shaft and arbor coupled to the drive shaft, a handle portion with a hand grip coupled to the motor frame portion aft end, a planar blade deck on a first lateral side, a movable blade shield rotatably mounted coaxial with the drive shaft and having a sidewall with a edge face coplanar with the blade deck, a trigger proximate the hand grip to move the blade shield, and a blade couplable to the drive shaft against the arbor, such that the blade outer surface is flush with the blade deck and blade shield sidewall. The handle portion may be rotatably coupled to the motor frame portion, and may include two laterally disposed blade shield triggers operably coupled to the blade shield via a dual pulley system.
US10926340B2
A chamfering device includes: a main body including, at a proximal end side thereof, a shank to be attached to a main shaft of a machine tool, the main body including, at a distal end side thereof, a shaft portion extending in a rotational axis direction; a movable body whose proximal end portion is mounted to the shaft portion, the movable body being configured to rotate together with the shaft portion and be movable in the rotational axis direction; an urging member configured to urge the movable body in a direction toward the distal end of the main body; a chamfering tool mounted to a distal end portion of the movable body and configured to rotate together with the movable body to perform chamfering on an edge portion of a workpiece; and a following member mounted to the movable body such that a position of the following member relative to the movable body in the rotational axis direction is invariable and the following member is rotatable relative to the movable body, the following member being configured such that a distal end thereof comes into contact with a surface of the workpiece.
US10926331B2
A method of reinforcing a metallic material includes adding graphene to an alcohol solution; subjecting the alcohol solution containing graphene to sonication; mixing a metal powder with the alcohol solution containing graphene; milling the metal powder and alcohol solution containing graphene mixture; drying the metal powder and alcohol solution containing graphene mixture to form a composite powder; subjecting the composite powder to a densification process followed by a hot isostatic pressing treatment to form a composite material; and molding the composite material by hot extrusion.
US10926329B2
The present disclosure generally relates to methods and apparatuses for additive manufacturing (AM) that utilize compression chambers to reduce pressure on grown objects. In one aspect, the disclosure provides a method for fabricating an object. The method includes (a) irradiating a layer of powder in a build area above a build platform to form a fused region; (b) providing a subsequent layer of powder over the build area; and (c) repeating steps (a) and (b) until at least a portion of the object, at least one chamber, and a tube are formed in the build area. The chamber encloses a region of unfused powder and the tube extends from a passage within the build platform to the chamber. The method also includes (d) removing unfused powder from within the chamber via the tube and the passage. The disclosure also provides an apparatus for forming compression chambers within an object.
US10926328B2
An inspection system for in situ evaluation of an additive manufacturing (AM) build part is provided. The inspection system comprises a build plane induction coil sensor configured and positionable so that during construction of the build part, the sensor's magnetization and sensor coils surround at least the last-produced layer of the AM build part in the build plane. The inspection system further comprises an energization circuit and a central processing system. The central processing system comprises a communication processor configured for sending command signals to the energization circuit and receiving impedance data from the build plane induction coil sensor, and energization controller configured for determining energization commands for transmission to the energization circuit, and an induction data analyzer configured for processing build part impedance data using complex impedance plane analysis and for identifying anomalies in the AM build part.
US10926300B2
The disclosure includes a watercraft cleaning system that includes a housing, a water input line, a pump and motor system, a high-pressure output line, and a heater. The cleaning system can be arranged and configured to be coupled to a dock post located adjacent a watercraft. The system can easily and conveniently allow watercraft personnel to clean the watercraft.
US10926293B2
Disclosed is a vibration provision system for providing real-time vibration according to a frequency change, including a communication unit 110 configured to receive a signal which is output from a computer, a game machine, or a portable terminal via wired or wireless communication; a conversion unit 120 configured to convert a sound signal transmitted from the communication unit 110 to a vibration signal which is capable of driving a vibrator on a real time basis by amplifying the transmitted sound signal; and a vibrator 130 configured to vibrate according to a vibration signal transmitted from the conversion unit 120, and the present invention provides a haptic signal which is suitable for an image and sound output from a portable terminal realistically and rapidly and thus has an effect to transmit information more realistically by visual, auditory, and tactile sense to a hardware environment requiring three-dimensional vibration.
US10926292B2
A frame includes a substrate, a first priming paint layer, a second priming paint layer, a non-conductive vacuum metallized priming paint layer, and a non-conductive vacuum metallized coating layer. The substrate is made by die casting technology of metal powder. The substrate, the first priming paint layer, the second priming paint layer, the non-conductive vacuum metallized priming paint layer, and the non-conductive vacuum metallized coating layer are stacked in the order written. The disclosure also provides a surface treatment method for the frame.
US10926286B2
An apparatus for applying a viscous material, comprising a bell having a circumferential mounting rim, and a feed line, wherein the material is conveyable via a conveying element through the feed line into the bell, wherein the bell can be transported with the mounting rim, in a direction of mounting, over a protruding element, in particular a rivet head, of a component, in order to encase the element with the material, wherein in the region of the bell or the feed line a metering member is provided, wherein in the course of an application process a flow of the material can be influenced by the metering member.
US10926285B2
A method for treating a piece of wood impregnates the piece of wood with a water repellent, wherein the water repellent is solid at ambient temperatures. The method includes the steps of providing a piece of wood to be treated; heating the piece of wood for a predetermined period of time, the piece of wood being heated at a temperature A; subsequently immersing at least a portion of the piece of wood in a bath of liquefied water repellent, the bath being at a temperature B, for a predetermined period of time. Thereafter the piece of wood is removed from the bath and allowed to cool. The temperature A is above 100° C. and the temperature B is below 100° C. but above a liquefying point for the water repellent, and a differential between temperatures A and B is at least 60° C.
US10926279B2
A press pump (1) comprises a press pump body 10) in which a spring tube (20) is provided, a spring (21) is contained within the spring tube (20); a cylinder head (30) mounted on the press pump body 10) and including a internal bore (31); a press head (40) including a pressing portion (41) and a rod portion (42), the rod portion (42) is fit within the internal bore (31) of the cylinder head (30), and a lower portion of the rod (42) engages with the spring (21), so that the spring (21) applies an upward bias force on the press head (40); and a piston (50) connected to the press head (40) and is slidably and sealingly engaged with the internal circumference of the press pump body 10). The press pump (1) can use a spring (21) with relatively small size, while meet the requirement of large displacement, thus reducing manufacturing cost, and also can prevent contact between the product and the spring (21), avoiding negative effects between them.
US10926277B2
A fluid dispensing apparatus may be used to dispense a paint fluid from a paint container that is under pressure and that has a pierceable membrane. The fluid dispensing apparatus may include a valve body having a bore, an adaptor having a bore and a piercing member, and a nozzle having a bore. The fluid dispensing apparatus may be operable to pierce the pierceable membrane to communicate the paint within the paint container with the adaptor bore and with the valve body bore. The nozzle may be operable to permit the paint to flow under the pressure out of the paint container, through the adaptor bore, through the valve body bore and through the nozzle bore to ambient.
US10926264B2
A dispersant system comprises a plurality of taggant vessels, each having a taggant that corresponds to a position in a tag string and a computer controller convert the tag string into a selection of a taggant set while computer-controlled valves allow or block a flow of taggants to a manifold output tube. From the output tube, a mix of the taggants flow to form a dispersant formed according to the tag string. A nozzle disperses the dispersant onto an object to be tagged, possibly atomized with air. The taggant can comprise a DNA taggant comprising a static portion and a dynamic portion that is unique to each tag string position. Tag strings for adjacent lots might have a low Hamming distances to reduce cross-contamination and/or have redundancy for error detection and correction and selected so that consumption of taggants evens out over the plurality of taggant vessels.
US10926262B2
Technology for a biochip pillar structure is disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the biochip pillar structure includes: a pillar structure including a plate-shaped first substrate portion, and pillar portions protruding from a surface of the first substrate portion; and a well structure including a plate-shaped second substrate portion, and well portions formed in a surface of the second substrate portion and having a predetermined depth to respectively receive the pillar portions of the pillar structure, wherein the well portions have a diameter within a range of 800 μm to 1500 μm, and the pillar portions configured to be inserted into the well portions have a diameter of which the ratio to the diameter of the well portions ranges from 0.3 to 0.58, thereby providing a high-density biochip and preventing bubbling in an aqueous liquid contained in the well portions when the pillar portions are inserted.
US10926239B2
The invention relates to a fuel processor component for a propylene glycol fuel processor, comprising at least one housing (G) having at least two inlets (E1, E2) and two outlets (A1, A2), wherein there is a multitude of first plates (P1) having a first side (S1) and a second side (S2) and second plates (P2) having a third side (S3) and a fourth side (S4) arranged as a stack in the housing (G), wherein the stacked first and second plates (P1, P2) form at least first cavities (H1) and second cavities (H2), wherein the first inlet (E1) has fluid connection to the first outlet (A1) via first cavities (H1) and the second inlet (E2) has fluid connection to the second outlet (A2) via second cavities (H2). The invention further relates to a propylene glycol fuel processor.
US10926236B2
The invention relates to an apparatus and methods for producing liquid colloids such as suspensions of nanoparticles, in which liquid feedstock materials are reacted on a reaction surface of a rotatable plate. The apparatus has a first plate (101) mounted for rotation about a rotation axis (102), the first plate (101) providing a reaction surface (103) having a concave portion; first (106) and second (107) inlet lines arranged to introduce respective first and second liquid feedstock materials to the reaction surface (103); and a collection unit (110) arranged to collect a reaction product formed from reaction of the liquid feedstock materials as a liquid colloid ejected from an outer edge of the plate (101).
US10926230B2
Provided is a semipermeable membrane having a high chlorine resistance. The semipermeable membrane is formed of a cellulose ester, the cellulose ester having an optionally substituted benzoyl group.
US10926221B2
A catalyst article including a substrate with an inlet side and an outlet side, a first zone and a second zone, where the first zone includes a passive NOx adsorber (PNA), and an ammonia slip catalyst (ASC) comprising a platinum group metal on a support and a first SCR catalyst; where the second zone includes a catalyst selected from the group consisting of a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) and a diesel exotherm catalyst (DEC); and where the first zone is located upstream of the second zone. The first zone may include a bottom layer with a blend of: (1) the platinum group metal on a support and (2) the first SCR catalyst; and a top layer with a second SCR catalyst, the top layer located over the bottom layer.
US10926215B2
A method of drying a fluid comprising a fluoropropene, which method comprises the step of contacting the fluid with a desiccant comprising a molecular sieve having openings which have a size across their largest dimension of from about 3 Å to about 5 Å. A heat transfer device comprising a heat transfer fluid comprising a fluoropropene, and a desiccant comprising a molecular sieve having openings which have a size across their largest dimension of from about 3 Å to about 5 Å. Preferably, the fluoropropene is R134yf or R-1225ye.
US10926208B2
Disclosed herein are nanofiber structures, and methods of making and using the same. In some embodiments, provided is a porous sheet comprising a plurality of nanofibers in contact with a supporting structure comprising a plurality of supporting elements, wherein: the nanofibers have an average diameter of about 10-900 nm; the supporting elements have an average thickness less than, about equal to, or greater than that of the thickness of the nanofibers; the sheet has an average thickness that is about 75%-150% of an average thickness of the supporting elements; a total volume of the nanofibers is less than about 20% of a total volume of the porous sheet; and/or a total volume of the supporting structure is less than about 50% of the total volume of the porous sheet. In some embodiments, provided is a multilayer structure comprising one or more sections, where each section independently comprises one or more porous sheets as described herein.
US10926206B1
A filter cartridge includes a casing. A filter medium is disposed within the casing. A radio-frequency identification, RFID, tag is positioned on the casing. A leak detection pad is positioned on the casing. The RFID tag is in communication with the leak detection pad. The RFID tag is configured to transmit a leak detection signal in response to a liquid at the leak detection pad.
US10926204B2
A purification device comprises a main body; and a water-outlet module formed to protrude forward of the main body, wherein the water-outlet module includes a water-outlet nozzle for supplying water passing through the filter out of the main body, wherein the water-outlet module includes: a casing, wherein at least a portion of the water-outlet nozzle is mounted on a bottom of the casing so as to be exposed to an outside; a water-supply hose, wherein one end thereof is connected to an inside of the main body while the other end thereof is provided inside the casing and is connected to the water-outlet nozzle, such water from the main body is supplied to the water-outlet nozzle; and a valve provided within the casing, wherein the valve is provided above the water-discharge nozzle and is installed on the water-supply hose to control a flow of water through the water-supply hose.
US10926202B2
A filter device has a filter element (1) received in a filter housing of at least two interconnectable housing parts (17, 19). The filter element (1) can be fixed to a housing part (19) in a removable manner by one screw connection (32, 33). An additional screw connection (17, 41) is provided for connecting the housing parts (17, 19). To transmit a torque between threaded elements (33) of the one screw connection (32, 33) and of the additional screw connection (41), the threaded elements are rotatable relative to each other. A coupling device (43, 46, 61) is added that allows an additional rotational movement of the threaded element (17) of the additional screw connection (41) when the threaded element (33) of the one screw connection (32, 33) reaches the fixed rotational state.
US10926201B2
Locally backwashing portions of filter media allows a simple and effective design of intake and pretreatment units, as well as their integration. An enclosure is used to limit portions of filter media and backwash them locally by suction, utilizing filtered water from adjacent filter media as the back wash water. Wastewater is produced at small amounts that allows efficient sludge treatment. This design enables water pretreatment at the intake unit, simplifying overall plant design and preventing damage to organisms living outside the intake unit.
US10926199B1
Vertically oriented cylindrical vaults, boxes, systems, and methods of treatment systems to capture pollutants from storm water runoff and prevent the conveyance of these pollutants from entering a receiving water body or landscape area, which is designed to be a part of a local permanent storm water drainage infrastructure. A flow deflector can include a flow spreader for splitting an incoming flow into two flow paths that interact with high profile vertical baffle(s), and with low profile vertical baffles, and angled low profile vertical baffles that extend above downwardly inclined surfaces of a horizontal deflector having an opening for allowing debris to fall. Treated water can pass out of an outflow pipe on an opposite side of the cylindrical vault. A bottom open skimmer or a flow restrictive skimmer or a hydro-variant skimmer can be used in front of the output flow port. A hydro slide system can be used to push debris toward the middle of a sloped floor for easier removal through access points in the vault lid. The input flow port can be spaced approximately 90 degrees from the output port. And the input port and the output port can be on the same sides of the cylindrical vault.
US10926198B2
This disclosure provides a deaeration apparatus comprising: a closable deaeration cavity configured to accommodate a liquid to be deaerated; a heating member configured to heat the deaeration cavity; a temperature detection member configured to detect a temperature inside the deaeration cavity; and a controller configured to receive the temperature detected by the temperature detection member and control the heating member based on the temperature. When using in deaeration of a liquid, the deaeration apparatus of the disclosure can shorten the deaeration time and improve the deaeration efficiency of the liquid.
US10926194B2
Separation apparatuses for the separation of a mixture of two fluids, such as a water-in-oil emulsion, via electrocoalescence, are provided. A separation apparatus may include a series of flow conditioners each having a different permittivity, such that the flow conditioner having a permittivity that is similar or equal to the permittivity of the flowing medium is selected. Another separation apparatus may include a flow conditioner having a frequency-dependent permittivity, such that the frequency of the electric field generated is selected so that the permittivity of the flow conditioner is as similar as possible to or equal to the permittivity of the flowing medium. Another separation apparatus may include a replaceable flow conditioner that may be replaced with a flow conditioner having a permittivity that is as similar to or equal to the permittivity of the flowing medium.
US10926174B2
An example system including a plurality of terminals configured to be operated by respective users each belonging to one of a plurality of groups executes a game process involved in a game related to a virtual area in the plurality of terminals, respectively, updates area information about the virtual area for each group, based on the game process executed in the plurality of terminals, determines, for each of a plurality of periods of time, which group acquires the virtual area based on the updated area information for each group, and outputs a result of the game in which the plurality of groups compete against each other to acquire the virtual area after repeatedly performing the determining.
US10926157B2
A climbing aid for a ski has a plane base element which is connected on the inner side to a fastener to be detachably fastened to a running surface of the ski and which is connected on the outer side to backwards-slipping prevention elements acting contrary to a direction of travel. A flexible plastic support material forms the base element, and the backwards-slipping prevention elements are integrally formed with the plastic support material. In lateral regions, the base element has backwards-slipping prevention elements with push-off wings positioned obliquely to the direction of travel and, in the central region, has backwards-slipping prevention elements with push-off wings arranged substantially perpendicular to the direction of travel. The push-off wings of the backwards-slipping prevention elements of a first type are of lesser length and/or of lesser height than the push-off wings of the backwards-slipping prevention elements of a second type.
US10926145B2
A soccer training device and system includes a generally horizontal and planar platform and at least one sloped soccer ball collection trough provided generally around a perimeter of the platform. A segmented cage is provided generally at and around outer bounds of, and vertically above, the platform. At least one sensored gate includes at least one soccer ball impact curtain provided above the at least one soccer ball collection trough to direct soccer balls into the trough, and at least one arrangement of sensors to sense presence of the soccer balls that are impacting the at least one curtain. A ball thrower sequentially receives the soccer balls from the silo, to sequentially deliver the soccer balls to a player on the platform. A control panel and a control box control operation of the soccer training device and system.
US10926142B2
Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head may include a body portion having a toe portion, a heel portion, a top portion, a bottom portion, a rear portion, and a front portion having a face portion. The body portion may include a cavity wall portion extending from the top portion to the bottom portion. The body portion may include a first interior cavity portion and a second interior cavity portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10926138B2
The invention relates to a device (100) for performing exercises, comprising a housing (105), a deviation sensor (140) for detecting a deviation of said housing (105) from an equilibrium, and a control unit (110) coupled to said deviation sensor (140) arranged to count deviations from the equilibrium.
US10926134B2
A method for locating a golf ball including changing a temperature of a golf ball from a first temperature to a second temperature before use or marking the ball by reflective (mirror) or fluorescent material (e.g., NIR-IR fluorescent dye). The temperature changed ball is struck. Using either a thermal imaging camera with an imaging processing unit or a near-infrared (NIR) imaging camera with an imaging processing unit to produce a digital image of a part of the golf course with a potential golf ball location. An image processing technique is applied to produce an enhanced image of the golf ball location. A thermal imaging camera and a NIR imaging camera for locating a golf ball are described. A non-transitory computer readable media is described.
US10926133B2
A system for transitioning from a first footwear type to a second footwear type is usable with an article of footwear including a sensor system with a plurality of force sensors engaged with an article of footwear and configured to sense force exerted by a foot of a user and an electronic module configured to collect data based on force input from the sensors and to wirelessly transmit data generated by the sensor system. An electronic device includes a processor that receives the data from the electronic module, compares the data to a footstrike template corresponding to a desired footstrike pattern of a footwear transitional program, determines whether a deviation from the footstrike template exists, and generates an indication to the user when the deviation from the desired footstrike pattern is determined to exist. The desired footstrike pattern corresponds to a preferred footstrike of the second type of footwear.
US10926131B2
An elliptical machine has a base, an upright column fixed to the base, a transmission mechanism mounted on the base, and two link mechanisms respectively connected with opposing sides of the transmission mechanism. Each link mechanism includes a first link rod that is telescopic and connected with both the transmission mechanism and the base, and a second link rod having a pedal and connected with the first link rod such that the pedals of the two link mechanisms are respectively linked to the transmission mechanism through the first and second link rods. When a user uses each pedal, a total length of the corresponding first link rod is reciprocatingly and continuously changed, so that a top end of the first link rod makes a first circulatory movement along a first elliptical path, and the corresponding pedal synchronously makes a second circulatory movement along a second elliptical path.
US10926123B2
Exosuit systems and methods according to various embodiments are described herein. The exosuit system can be a suit that is worn by a wearer on the outside of his or her body. It may be worn under the wearer's normal clothing, over their clothing, between layers of clothing, or may be the wearer's primary clothing itself. The exosuit may be assistive, as it physically assists the wearer in performing particular activities, or can provide other functionality such as communication to the wearer through physical expressions to the body, engagement of the environment, or capturing of information from the wearer.
US10926117B2
A fire suppression system for an aircraft cargo compartment comprises a source of fire suppression agent, a supply line for conducting the fire suppression agent to the compartment, at least one first pressure sensor for sensing the pressure within the cargo compartment and at least one second pressure sensor for sensing the pressure in an area within the aircraft but external to the cargo compartment. The system further comprises a first, inlet valve permitting fluid communication between the area external to the cargo compartment and the cargo compartment, a second, outlet valve permitting fluid communication between the cargo compartment and an or the area external to the cargo compartment and a fan for extracting fluid from the cargo compartment through the outlet valve.
US10926111B2
Provided is a real-time detector of a Bragg peak, comprising: an emitter configured to emit a particle beam toward a target region in a first direction, thereby creating emission of electromagnetic radiation in the target region; a first detection module comprising a stack of first scintillators and first photosensors respectively connected to the first scintillators and configured to detect the electromagnetic radiation and convert into a first signal; a second detection module comprising a stack of second scintillators and second photosensors respectively connected to the second scintillators and configured to detect the electromagnetic radiation and convert into a second signal; and a coincidence detection circuit configured to determine an end point of the particle beam with respect to the first direction based on the first signal and the second signal.
US10926104B2
An intracavity balloon catheter may include a flexible catheter and a balloon provided on a distal end of the flexible catheter. The balloon may be inflatable with the introduction of fluid into the balloon from the flexible catheter. The balloon may be composed of a plurality of sections, including a center section and side sections. The inflated balloon may have shapes such as cylindrical, semi-cylindrical, or pillow shape. The intracavity balloon catheter may further include a securing device, such as a positioning ring, for securing the position of an inserted intracavity balloon catheter. This securing device may be composed of two, matable components with a passage extending through. The flexible catheter may be insertable into the passage. Tabs may be provided, either on one of the components or on a locking mechanism provided between the components, to prevent sliding of an inserted flexible catheter.
US10926103B2
An energy degrading device for attenuating energy of a particle beam with reduced emittance growth. An energy degrader comprises an emittance control material that can preferentially scatter the beam particles that is incident on a surface with a shallow angle. In one approach, the energy degrader may include alternating layers of a low-Z and a high-Z material, wherein the low Z material serves to attenuate energy of the beam particles by virtue of scattering and the high Z material serves to suppress the emittance increase by scattering back the beam particles toward the beam axis. In another approach, the energy degrader may be composed of carbon nanotubes or a material with oriented crystalline structure that is substantially orientated in the incident direction of the particle beam. The carbon nanotubes may serve to preferentially scatter beam particles towards the central beam axis as well as attenuate energy thereof.
US10926092B2
Medical device systems and methods for providing spinal cord stimulation (SCS) are disclosed. The SCS systems and methods provide therapy below the perception threshold of the patient. The methods and systems are configured to measure neurological responses to stimulation and use the neurological responses as biomarkers to maintain and adjust therapy. An example of neurological responses includes an evoked compound action potential (ECAP).
US10926089B2
The present methods and apparatus can provide improved efficacy with improved tolerance. The methods and apparatus can be configured to alter the stimulus, which can decrease neural adaptation of the subject and provide an improved response. The acoustic stimulus can be delivered as a tone, which can make the stimulus more acceptable to the subject receiving the stimulus. The stimulus may comprise a varying stimulus in order to decrease neural adaptation to the stimulus. The stimulus can be varied by varying one or more of a duty cycle, a frequency, or a shape of the waveform. The waveform may comprise a plurality of individual pulses, in which the waveform varies among pulses of the plurality. Acoustic stimulation can be combined with electrical stimulation. The device may comprise a plurality of sensors to determine the response of the subject.
US10926088B2
A portable electronic pulse stimulator with integrated Ultrasound and TENS/EMS includes a unit and a electrode pad. The unit includes IC board and housing; the IC board has an Ultrasound output module and a TENS/EMS output module; The electrode pad has Ultrasound therapy head and TENS/EMS electrode. The invention can add the heating function and the heating intensity can be adjusted if needed. At the same time, this invention can add the remote control function, meaning the electronic pulse stimulator can both receive and send data. The unit can work independently and is portable.
US10926084B1
Some implementations provide a method for modulating excitable tissue in a body of a patient, the method including: placing a wireless implantable stimulator device at a target site in the patient's body, the stimulator device including one or more electrodes; reconfiguring the wireless implantable stimulator device to form an enclosure that substantially surrounds the excitable tissue at the target site with the electrodes on the inside of the enclosure and facing the nerve; and causing electrical impulses to be delivered to the electrodes on the wireless implantable stimulator device such that neural modulation is applied to the excitable tissue substantially surrounded by the enclosure.
US10926083B2
Apparatus and methods for treating back pain are provided, in which an implantable stimulator is configured to communicate with an external control system, the implantable stimulator providing a neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy designed to cause muscle contraction to rehabilitate the muscle, restore neural drive and restore spinal stability; the implantable stimulator further including one or more of a number of additional therapeutic modalities, including a module that provides analgesic stimulation; a module that monitors muscle performance and adjusts the muscle stimulation regime; and/or a module that provides longer term pain relief by selectively and repeatedly ablating nerve fibers. In an alternative embodiment, a standalone implantable RF ablation system is described.
US10926069B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided for the treatment of edema. In one aspect a method for implanting an indwelling catheter within a vein of a patient is provided. The catheter can extend from a position upstream of at least one outflow port of a duct of the lymph system to a terminal position downstream of the at least one outflow port. In use, a first restriction can be created within the vein proximal to a distal region of the catheter. The first restriction can define a localized low pressure zone distal of the restriction and within a portion of the vein housing the catheter. The low pressure zone can be adjacent to the at least one outflow port to enable fluid to pass from the at least one lymph duct outflow port into the vein.
US10926067B2
Systems and methods for controlling fill media in a balloon catheter are disclosed. The system comprises a catheter having an inflatable balloon, a reservoir for fill media, and a first conduit for delivering fill media from the reservoir to the balloon. The system includes a second conduit for returning fill media from the balloon to the reservoir and a pump configured to circulate fill media through the conduits. The system also includes a valve assembly configured for placement in at least three positions. In the first position, fill media is delivered from the reservoir to the balloon to inflate the balloon. In the second position, fill media is drawn out of the balloon and returned to the reservoir. In the third position, fill media circulates through the conduits between the pump and the balloon and is prevented from flowing back to the reservoir.
US10926064B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure comprise occlusion and drug delivery devices and methods. One aspect of the disclosure comprises a drug delivery device comprising an inner expansion member and an outer drug delivery component. Another aspect of the disclosure comprises bioabsorbable, lumen-occluding implants.
US10926053B2
Described here are closed-circuit breathing devices and methods for their use. In general, the closed-circuit breathing device is configured to achieve a steady-state equilibrium, whereby therapeutic gas is introduced into the breathing circuit in small, controlled volumes until a steady state concentration of the therapeutic gas is reached. During this time, the closed-circuit breathing device is operated in a true closed circuit, such that the therapeutic gas is not lost to the atmosphere. Safety measures are built into the closed-circuit breathing device so that a hypoxic mixture is not delivered to the subject. The therapeutic gas may be xenon.
US10926047B2
A therapeutic vaporizer inhalation bag attachment system with an integrated valve includes a body having a lumen extending between the two openings of the body, a bag coupling, and a valve positioned within the lumen. A first end of the body may include a mouthpiece and the second end of the body may include bag coupling to attach an inhalation bag. The body may include a plurality of cooling ribs extending in parallel with the lumen along an outer surface of a sidewall of the body. The valve may be a duck-bill valve configured to move between a first position which allows flow of vapor through the lumen in a first direction extending from the first opening to the second opening, and a second position which prevents substantial flow of vapor through the lumen in a second direction from the second opening to the first opening, the valve having two flaps extending within the lumen inwardly from an inner sidewall of the body
US10926033B2
An injector can include an ignition device having a partition member which forms a first space to store a gunpowder and which is formed of a prescribed rigid material such that the partition member is breached based on a rise in pressure of the first space when the gunpowder is burned. The injector can also include a case including a base section fixed on a side of the ignition device. The case can be arranged in a space inside the injector main body so as to cover the ignition device. The case can define a second space with the partition member of the ignition device and encapsulate, inside the second space, a combustion product of the gunpowder. When the gunpowder burns in the ignition device and pressure inside the second space rises, a part of the case extends so as to approach a prescribed end section.
US10926031B2
The present disclosure describes a closed-loop fluid resuscitation and/or cardiovascular drug administration system that uses continuous measurements and adaptive control architecture. The adaptive control architecture uses a function approximator to identify unknown dynamics and physiological parameters of a patient to compute appropriate infusion rates and to regulate the endpoint of resuscitation.
US10926025B2
Devices and methods for filling a medicament cartridge of a pump, including a user-wearable, ambulatory infusion pump. A device for supporting a medicament cartridge can comprise a body portion resembling a tray, with recesses disposed therein to support one or more of a cartridge body, cartridge tubing, interconnect fitting, and vial adapter. The recesses of the tray may be shaped to correspond to that component intended to be placed in its respective recess so to provide a visual indication to a user how to couple and align the various components necessary to fill the cartridge.
US10926022B2
An apparatus and method of detecting an interchangeable tip of a handpiece of an ocular surgical system is disclosed. The interchangeable tip of the system includes an irrigation port that receives fluid flowing from an irrigation source and an aspiration port that removes or aspirates fluid and/or materials from the surgical field, in particular a patient's eye, through use of an aspiration source or pump. The method comprises attaching the interchangeable tip to the handpiece, introducing fluid flow into the system and determining the fluid flow rate of fluid flow in the system, determining the pressure of fluid flowing into the interchangeable tip, determining the pressure of fluid flowing out of the interchangeable tip and comparing the flow rate and pressure information to known flow rate and pressure readings of known types of interchangeable tips to determine the type of interchangeable tip being used.
US10926003B2
A textile graft includes a tubular wall disposed between a first open end and an opposed second open end and having an inner surface and an opposed outer surface. The tubular wall includes a textile construction of one or more filaments or yarns, the textile construction by itself being permeable to liquid. A portion of the inner surface of the tubular wall includes a coating of a substantially water-soluble material thereon. The outer surface includes a coating of a substantially water-insoluble elastomeric sealant disposed thereon. The tubular wall having the coating of the substantially water-insoluble elastomeric sealant is, after curing thereof, substantially impermeable to liquid.
US10925995B2
To provide an absorbent body and an absorbent article having excellent deodorization effect. The present invention provides an absorber comprising, a crosslinked polymer mainly composed of acrylic acid and having carboxyl groups thereof being at least partially neutralized as a water-absorbent resin powder, and an antibacterial cationic surfactant, wherein the antibacterial cationic surfactant is a compound neutralized with an acid having an acid dissociation constant pKa in water at 25 degrees centigrade in a range from 3.0 to 5.5.
US10925992B2
An air freshening device is provided. The device includes a water-based fragrance emitter including water, a water absorbing polymer and a fragrance composition. The fragrance composition includes from about 3% to about 70% by weight of at least one fragrance ingredient exhibiting a standard equilibrium headspace concentration (HSi0) below about 100 μg/L. The water-based fragrance emitter provides a working signal and an end of life signal upon evaporation. The air freshening device is a warming device.
US10925987B2
Various implementations of the invention are directed toward a sanitizing door handle and/or components of such sanitizing door handle. Some implementations of the invention are directed toward a manual sanitizing door handle while some implementations of the invention are directed toward an auto-sanitizing door handle. According to some implementations of the invention, a sanitizing fluid is dispensed directly onto an exterior surface of the sanitizing door handle in connection with an operation of the door handle to sanitize the door handle. According to some implementations of the invention, a sanitizing fluid is dispensed directly onto a user's hand(s) in connection with an operation of the door handle to sanitize the user's hand(s).
US10925982B2
An assembly for sterilizing and depyrogenating containers includes a feeding station, a heating station, and a cooling station. The stations are passed through by a conveyor of containers. The cooling station includes a main unit coupled without discontinuities to the heating station and at least one interchangeable air treatment module. The main unit includes at least one inlet aperture connected without interruptions to an air diffuser arranged above at least a portion of the conveyor, and at least one outlet port. Each module has at least one supply hose with shape and dimensions complementary to those of the at least one inlet aperture in order to be detachably coupled thereto, and at least one suction channel with shape and dimensions complementary to those of the at least one outlet port in order to be detachably coupled thereto.
US10925981B2
The present invention provides a hexa-lactoside-triazanonane triacetic acid (NOTA) derivative, a method for radiolabeling a hexa-lactoside positron emission tomography (PET) imaging agent for a liver receptor with Ga-68, and a hexa-lactoside PET imaging agent for a liver receptor. The hexa-lactoside-NOTA derivative is a conjugate of six chains of lactose with NOTA obtained by conjugating hexa-lactoside to a chelating agent p-thiocyanate-benzyl-triazanonane diacetic acid-glutamic acid in the presence of triethyl amine/dimethyl formamide as a solvent. The radiolabeling method comprises labeling with Ga-68 at room temperature. According to the present invention, the labeling effect is stable, the labeling efficiency of the labeled product is greater than 95%, the labeled product is highly stable and the radiochemical purity is still greater than 90% after 4 hours.
US10925978B2
The present invention provides a novel liquid composition in the form of an emulsion or microemulsion for rectal administration comprising at least one dye, at least one emulsifier, and at least one physiologically acceptable excipient, and its use in a diagnostic endoscopic procedure of sigmoid colon and/or rectum. Preferably, said diagnostic endoscopic procedure of sigmoid colon and/or rectum is an anoscopy, a proctoscopy, a rectoscopy and/or a sigmoidoscopy.
US10925975B2
In various embodiments novel biodegradable acid-activated acid releasing nanoparticles (acNPs) are provided that are used as a targeted strategy to manipulate lysosomal acidity and autophagy. These acNPs based, in certain embodiments, on fluorinated polyesters are degraded at pH 6.0 (pH reported in dysfunctional lysosomes), and release component acids that further lower the lysosomal pH, and thereby increasing autophagic flux and cellular function of hepatocytes under LT. The acNPs can serve as a therapeutic in restoring liver-diseases.
US10925971B2
Provided herein are methods of treating prolactin receptor positive breast cancer using an antibody drug conjugate (ADC) comprising an anti-PRLR antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof conjugated to a cytotoxic agent. In certain embodiments, the anti-PRLR antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof is conjugated to maytansinoid. In certain embodiments, the method of treating PRLR positive breast cancer includes administering the ADC in combination with one or more chemotherapeutic agents.
US10925968B2
Provided herein are cell penetrating compounds having the Formula I: where, generally, each T is a thiol reactive group (e.g., a phosphorothioate), each L is a linker (e.g., a linear alkyl), and Y is a biologic (e.g., an antibody). Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions including the cell penetrating compounds, and methods of delivering the compound into a cell.
US10925956B2
Compositions, vaccines and methods using a combination of adenovirus vectors and MVA vectors for inducing protective immunity against a Marburg virus infection are described.
US10925954B2
The present invention describes an efficient vaccine against a Chlamydia trachomatis (Ct). The vaccine is based on recombinant fusion molecules that are capable of generating a high titered neutralizing antibody response that is protective against various Ct serovars. Our invention furthermore describe the combination of these antibody promoting fragments with Ct antigens that are targets for T cells with the aim to provide a vaccine that activate both arms of the immune system.
US10925948B2
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.
US10925941B2
The invention is directed to T cell epitopes wherein said epitopes comprises a peptide or polypeptide chain comprising at least a portion of an immunoglobulin constant or variable region. The invention also relates to methods of using and methods of making the epitopes of the invention.
US10925936B2
The present invention aims to provide a vaccine pharmaceutical composition universally usable for induction of cellular immunity against various antigens and exerting a high cellular immunity inducing effect. The present invention relates to a vaccine pharmaceutical composition for inducing cellular immunity, containing: an antigen; and a first cellular immunity induction promoter that is a bisphosphonate.
US10925934B2
A spray dried myrosinase/ascorbate mixture is formed from the steps comprising: providing a source of myrosinase, adding ascorbate to the source of myrosinase, heating the source of myrosinase to a temperature of about 104° F. (about 40° C.) or higher, and spray drying the myrosinase/ascorbate mixture. The spray dried myrosinase/ascorbate mixture may be used to prepare isothiocyanates. The spray dried myrosinase/ascorbate mixture may also be mixed with glucoraphanin and used in an activated tablet or capsule.
US10925933B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of preventing rheumatoid arthritis comprising administering a polynucleotide encoding Ssu72.
US10925929B2
The invention describes a method to modulate melanosome maturation process in melanocytes. Further, it describes a method to reversibly alter the process of pigmentation in the human epidermal skin. The method targets melanosome maturation and its transfer to keratinocytes, which are key processes involved in the pigmentation for its potential use in predictable and controlled regulation of pigmentation in human skin.
US10925924B2
Disclosed is a dry-powder peptide medicament with a non-typical concentration of carbohydrate excipient, as well as said medicament for use in treatment or prevention of a disease or condition, as well as methods for manufacturing said medicament.
US10925923B2
The present invention provides a peptide having anti-inflammatory activity, composed of an amino acid sequence of a sequence listing of SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2 or SEQ ID NO: 3. The peptide inhibits the expression of inflammatory cytokines and inhibits the proliferation of inflammatory cells, so as to resultantly exhibit anti-inflammatory activity, thereby being useful in the prevention or treatment of inflammatory diseases.
US10925922B2
A natural peptide comprising a cellular growth promoting fragment of a protein selected from SEQ ID NOs: 1 to 13, and a composition comprising a plurality of growth promoting peptides, is described. Also disclosed is the use of the peptides and compositions in prevention of ageing of human skin, treatment of diseases or conditions characterised by damaged epithelial cells or tissue such as colon cancer and peripheral inflammatory disorders, and wound treatment. Specific pea and rice protein derived peptides are described in SEQ ID NOs: 15 to 505, and 546 to 704.
US10925916B2
The present invention is directed to films made with edible polymers and containing a portion of finely ground olive leaf powder (OLP) suitable for preparing a hot or cold beverage and delivering an unexpectedly powerful quantity of natural anti-oxidant in the form of polyphenols.
US10925911B2
Compositions and methods include a synergistically effective combination of glycerol and Phyllanthus emblica extract for increasing muscle volume in response to an exercise stimulus of the corresponding muscle or muscle region.
US10925910B2
A novel treatment for topical inflammatory conditions such as acne, eczema, shingles, insect bites, and hives is provided, consisting of the application of a herbal cream or ointment which incorporates grounded PawPaw Seeds in a granular form. The cream preferably contains one or more thickeners, a bio-adhesive agent such as petroleum jelly such that the cream can stick to the area to be treated.
US10925901B2
This document provides methods and materials relating to platelet lysates. For example, methods and materials for using platelet lysate compositions to grow adult stem cells, to differentiate adult stem cells, to grow primary cell cultures, to grow tumor stem cells, and to identify effective growth factors are provided.
US10925899B2
The present invention relates to a composition for the synthesis of ATP as an energy supplementation. The composition comprises a plant extract or a plant fraction suitable to produce ATP upon exposure to light. The present invention also relates to the isolation of such plant extract and to its use in energy drinks.
US10925895B2
The composition includes a chemical depilatory that may be used in a method of destroying cancer and/or tumor cells and removing the resulting debris from the body. The composition includes thioglycolate and is directly applied to the cancer and/or tumor target cells to interrupt and disable their functioning. This method is unique because it enables the composition to affect the cancer and/or tumor cells without being transported by a carrier through the body to them. This anti-cancer and anti-tumor treatment not only targets the abnormal cells, but also eradicates the microorganisms in the tissue at the target site, which prevents the abnormal growth from recurring due to the presence of residual microorganisms that may trigger formation of dysplastic cells.
US10925894B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising chlorine dioxide useful in the treatment of active infections of the eye, as well as prophylaxis and treatment of such infections. The invention also relates to uses of compositions including effective amounts of chlorine dioxide in the eye to obtain benefit without detrimentally affecting the eye.
US10925893B2
Disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition for treating hypercholesterolemia. The pharmaceutical composition includes a polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof as active ingredients. The polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer is formed by copolymerization of the following two parts: a selectively oxidized polysaccharide with 2,3-dialdehyde, and a polyamine with an amino functional group; the polyamine with an amino functional group and the selectively oxidized polysaccharide with 2,3-dialdehyde can form a net structure by means of covalent crosslinking, resulting in a hydrogel with an amino functional group or a granular polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer, wherein the amino functional group in the hydrogel with an amino functional group or the granular polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer can be protonated so as to form a cationic copolymer of a three-dimensional network structure having a protonated site, and the nitrogen content of the cationic copolymer and the nitrogen content of the polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer are above 12.3 wt %, and both the cationic copolymer and the polysaccharide-polyamine copolymer are water-insoluble.
US10925886B2
The present embodiments relate to methods for the prevention and treatment of inflammatory conditions such as alcoholic liver disease (ALD). More specifically the present embodiments relate to the prevention and treatment of ALD through the administration of an Retinoic Acid Receptor (RAR) agonist. Some embodiments relate to use of tazarotene in the prevention and treatment of alcohol-induced liver injury, alcohol-related liver disease, fatty liver disease, hepatic steatosis, alcoholic hepatitis or alcoholic cirrhosis.
US10925884B2
Disclosed herein is a novel use of HSD3B1 in disease diagnosis. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, the mRNA or protein level of HSD3B1 may serve as an indicator for diagnosing hepatocellular carcinoma. Also disclosed herein are methods for treating hepatocellular carcinoma by use of HSD3B1 inhibitor.
US10925880B2
The present invention relates to combinations of at least two components, component A and component B, component A being an inhibitor of PI3K kinase, and component B being venetoclax or palbociclib. Another aspect of the present invention relates to the use of such combinations as described herein for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment or prophylaxis of a disease, particurlarly for the treatment or prophylaxis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (hereinafter abbreviated to “NHL”), particularly 1st line, 2nd line, relapsed, refractory, indolent or aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL), in particular follicular lymphoma (hereinafter abbreviated to “FL”), chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (hereinafter abbreviated to “CLL”), marginal zone lymphoma (hereinafter abbreviated to “MZL”), splenic marginal zone lymphoma (hereinafter abbreviated to “SMZL”), diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (hereinafter abbreviated to “DLBCL”), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), transformed lymphoma (hereinafter abbreviated to “TL”), or peripheral T-cell lymphoma (hereinafter abbreviated to “PTCL”).
US10925878B2
This invention is in the area of improved compounds for and methods of treating selected RB-positive cancers and other Rb-positive abnormal cellular proliferative disorders while minimizing the deleterious effects on healthy cells, for example healthy Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Progenitor Cells (HSPCs), associated with current treatment modalities. In one aspect, improved treatment of select RB-positive cancers is disclosed using specific compounds disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, the compounds described herein act as highly selective and, in certain embodiments, short, transiently-acting cyclin-dependent kinase 4/6 (CDK 4/6) inhibitors when administered to subjects.
US10925874B2
Substituted pyrazolopyrimidines and dihydropyrazolopyrimidines and related compounds, their methods of manufacture, compositions containing these compounds, and methods of use of these compounds in treating lysosomal storage disorders such as Gaucher disease are described herein. The compounds are of general Formula (I) in which variables R1-R7 and X are described in the application.
US10925869B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for treating pulmonary vascular disease in a subject comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a YAP/TAZ inhibiting composition and/or a GLS1 inhibiting composition.
US10925865B2
The invention provides compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The compounds, compositions, methods and kits of the invention are useful for the treatment of pain, cough, itch, and neurogenic inflammation.
US10925859B2
Compounds of formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, or hydrates thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula I, and methods of using the compounds, salts, solvates, or hydrates and the compositions in the treatment of various disorders associated with CRM1 activity.
US10925858B2
The present disclosure provides methods for the treatment of neurological deficits by the administration of GSNO or GSNO reductase inhibitor. Further provided herein are methods of treating autoimmune diseases by administering GSNO or GSNO reductase inhibitor.
US10925856B2
The current methods and compositions relate to treatment of atrial fibrillation with bucindolol in patients, including patients with heart failure, after being determined to be homozygous Arg389 in the β1 adrenergic receptor gene.
US10925852B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for treatment of a disease, disorder, or condition, such as a proliferative disease, disorder, or condition. One aspect provides a composition including a therapeutic agent and a substrate. Another aspect provides methods for treating a disease, disorder, or condition.
US10925850B2
The invention is directed to microbial oils containing omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids comprising docosahexaenoic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, and optionally docosapentaenoic acid and dosage forms containing such oils.
US10925848B2
An object of the present invention is to find a novel pharmaceutical that has an excellent tryptophanase inhibitory effect, and suppresses worsening of renal function to preserve the kidney by reducing production of indoxyl sulfate in the blood. Provided is a pharmaceutical composition containing, as an active ingredient, a compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. In the formula (I), R1 and R2 are the same or different, and represent a C1-C6 alkyl group, a halogeno C1-C6 alkyl group or a C3-C6 cycloalkyl group; n represents 0, 1 or 2; each X represents a C1-C6 alkyl group, a C3-C6 cycloalkyl group, a halogen atom or the like; and Y represents a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 alkoxy group, a C3-C6 cycloalkoxy group or a halogeno C1-C6 alkoxy group.
US10925844B2
Oral pharmaceutical compositions of sodium oxybate having improved pharmacokinetic properties when administered less than two hours after eating are provided, and therapeutic uses thereof.
US10925843B2
Ketogenic compositions including beta-hydroxybutyrate (beta-hydroxybutyrate) and acetoacetate are formulated to induce, promote, or sustain ketosis in a mammal. The combined beta-hydroxybutyrate/acetoacetate compositions include an amount of acetoacetate that limits the reduction in available NAD+ in a subject without causing the formation of excess acetone in the bloodstream. In some aspects a composition for promoting and/or sustaining ketosis in a mammal contains a dietetically or pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and a beta-hydroxybutyrate/acetoacetate mixture of about 5% to about 45% acetoacetate by weight of the mixture and about 55% to about 95% beta-hydroxybutyrate by weight of the mixture.
US10925840B2
This disclosure concerns the discovery of the use of fenoterol and (R,R)- and (R,S)-fenoterol analogues for the treatment of a tumor expressing a β2-adrenergic receptor, such as a primary brain tumor, including a glioblastoma or astrocytoma expressing a β2-adrenergic receptor. In one example, the method includes administering to a subject a therapeutically effective amount of fenoterol, a specific fenoterol analogue or a combination thereof to reduce one or more symptoms associated with the tumor, thereby treating the tumor in the subject.
US10925839B2
The present invention pertains to a composition for treating joint diseases and a kit including the same, and the purpose of the present invention is to provide a composition for treating joint diseases which can be used in patients with joint diseases, and a kit which includes the same. Specifically provided is a composition for treating joint diseases that obtains higher efficacy than prior preparations by means of a composition for treating joint diseases which includes a modified hyaluronic acid having a group derived from an anti-inflammatory compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the modified hyaluronic acid, and which is targeted at patients with human joint diseases who have a BMI of 25 kg/m2 or higher.
US10925837B2
Methods for the formulation of biodegradable microparticles for delivery of protein drugs, such as botulinum toxin, have been developed. The methods include the steps of precipitating and washing proteins with organic solvent to remove water prior to dispersing in polymer-dissolved organic solvent to prevent exposure to water/solvent interfaces and maintain bioactivity of the protein drugs and fabrication of microparticles by either template or emulsion method. Biodegradable microparticles, formed of one or more biodegradable polymers having entrapped in the polymer one or more protein agents, such as botulinum toxin, are also provided. Precipitated botulinum toxin and botulinum toxin-loaded microparticles can also be formulated into thermogels or crosslinked hydrogels. The stability of the protein within these microparticles, as well as the controlled release of the entrapped agents, provides for sustained efficacy of the agents.
US10925836B2
The invention discloses a double-layer tablet, wherein one layer has hole in which the ingredients of the other layer are filled; the number of said hole is 1-3, the diameters of the holes are 1-10 mm. Each layer of the double-layer tablet includes the active ingredients and the adjuvant materials and can be the rapid-release layer or sustained-release layer respectively. The preparation method: Preparing respectively a component I and a component II, both of them containing the active ingredients and the pharmaceutical excipients, and preparing the tablet having holes from component I; Forming the double-layer tablet composed of the component I layer and the component II layer after pressing said tablet having holes with the component II together; and filling the component II into the holes during compressing. It is proved by tests that the double-layer table in the invention is featured with high physical stability, hard breaking during transportation and storage, approximately constant release of medicine and usefulness of keeping stable plasma concentration of the medicine in the patient; thus, the effectiveness and safety of the medicine taken by the patient are improved greatly.
US10925835B2
Provided herein is a celecoxib and amlodipine composition and method of making the same. The composition contains granules containing celecoxib. The amlodipine is incorporated into the composition as an extragranulate.
US10925833B2
Extended release pyridostigmine dosage forms, suitable for maintaining stable plasma concentrations with reduced or minimized initial burst release/dose dumping of pyridostigmine, are provided. The dosage forms include matrix tablets, gastroretentive tablets, and pellets, the latter being suitable for dosing in capsules, tablets, and sachets, as well as for sprinkling on foodstuffs. The disclosure also provides methods for improving patient compliance by administering once-a-day extended release pyridostigmine bromide dosage forms that provide a superior controlled drug release.
US10925816B2
The present invention relates to: a composition for transdermal delivery, comprising 1) a nanoemulsion comprising an active ingredient, saturated lecithin, phytosteryl/behenyl/octyldodecyl lauroyl glutamate, a polyol, and water, and 2) a modified layered double hydroxide; and a preparation method therefor.
US10925815B2
The present patent application relates to a composition for topical application in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion comprising an oily phase dispersed in an aqueous phase, characterized in that it comprises at least one noncrosslinked amphiphilic polymer, the globules of the said emulsion exhibiting a mean size ranging from 15 to 500 microns and the oily phase being present in an amount of less than 35% by weight, with respect to the total weight of the composition.
US10925812B2
Provided is a polyether-based urethane foam for impregnating a cosmetic composition. The polyether-based urethane foam has excellent touch feel, portability and stability.
US10925800B2
Systems and methods for affecting metabolism, such as the treatment of metabolic syndrome are disclosed. A method for treating metabolic syndrome can include one or more of the steps including identifying a region of the patient comprising glabrous tissue; positioning the region of the patient comprising glabrous tissue into an enclosed chamber; adjusting the relative humidity of the enclosed chamber sufficient to create a physiologic metabolic effect; and activating a convection fan within the chamber to promote heat transfer from the glabrous tissue. The method need not involve altering the temperature within the enclosed chamber.
US10925792B2
A tissue retention belt for maintaining tissue in a position that permits access to a body portion of a patient for a medical procedure includes a first anchor zone, a second anchor zone, and a tension zone. The tension zone extends between the first anchor zone and the second anchor zone and defines a tension axis that extends in a direction of loading to be applied to retained tissue. The tension zone may include an auxiliary anchor zone that includes a removable non-adhesive and an adhesive surface configured to adhere to a patient's skin and provide auxiliary anchoring for maintaining tissue in position.
US10925789B2
A method of positioning an occupant (98) of a bed includes identifying (204) the presence of a discrepancy between an existing occupant position and a target occupant position, and establishing (206) an elevation gradient having a direction, magnitude and position compatible with moving the occupant from the existing occupant position to the target position. In one variant of the method the step of establishing an elevation gradient is one substep of a preordained sequence of bladder inflations and deflations. In another variant, the method includes determining (210) if the discrepancy has been corrected and responding to any noncorrection of the discrepancy.
US10925765B2
Dry eye treatment apparatus and methods are described herein which generally comprise a patch or strip affixed to the skin of the upper and/or lower eyelids to deliver heat or other forms of energy, pressure, drugs, moisture, etc. (alone or in combination) to the one or more meibomian glands contained within the underlying skin. The treatment strip or strips include one or more strips configured to adhere to an underlying region of skin in proximity to one or both eyes of a subject such that the one or more strips allow for the subject to blink naturally without restriction from the one or more patches. Moreover, the one or more strips may be configured to emit energy to the underlying region of skin and where the one or more strips are shaped to follow a location of one or more meibomiam glands contained within the underlying region of skin.
US10925756B2
The present disclosure provides collapsible medical devices that are formed from a braided tubular member configured to allow the braided tubular member to be terminated into one or more marker bands while maintaining an open lumen from a proximal end to a distal end. The collapsible medical device including the braided tubular member can be easily pulled down into a delivery sheath or other delivery device so that it is suitable for use with a number of delivery devices. The marker bands, which provide one or more attachment points for a medical device/delivery system, are positioned at one or more locations on the braid such that the braid is fixed and cannot unravel, thus preventing entanglement between individual braid wires and malformation of the device.
US10925755B2
An osseointegratable prosthetic device suitable for implantation via a one-step surgical process includes a threaded insertion end, an externally accessible tool interface end, and an intermediately arranged scaffold portion defining recesses that permit ingrowth of skeletal tissue. Such recesses may include multiple longitudinal fins as well as transverse ribs, which may embody or be coated with porous material to promote bone ingrowth. A split flange portion includes discontinuous portions and may permit pretensioning of the device. The device may be fabricated as a unitary body structure from thermoplastic materials using techniques such as fused filament fabrication (a form of 3D printing). The osseointegratable prosthetic device enables one-step surgical implantation without requiring separately implantable fixture/sleeve and abutment portions according to conventional osseointegratable prosthetics. Methods for fabricating an osseointegratable prosthetic device are further provided.
US10925753B2
Bi-directional fixating/locking transvertebral body screw/intervertebral cage stand-alone constructs
A bi-directional fixating transvertebral (BDFT) screw/cage apparatus is provided. The BDFT apparatus includes an intervertebral cage including a plurality of internal angled screw guides, a plurality of screw members, and a cage indentation adjacent to the screw guides that independently or supplemented by other screw locking mechanisms prevents the screw members from pulling out of the internal angled screw guides. The internal angled screw guides orient a first screw member superiorly and a second screw member inferiorly. The intervertebral cage is adapted for posterior lumbar intervertebral placement, anterior lumbar intervertebral placement, anterio-lateral thoracic intervertebral placement, or anterior cervical intervertebral placement.
US10925751B2
A vertically expandable intervertebral cage, deployment devices, and methods for using the same. The intervertebral cage can include a circuitous body at least partially enclosing an interior volume. The intervertebral cage can also include a front panel which can be formed into a wedge for facilitating implantation of the intervertebral cage into an intervertebral space. The intervertebral cage can be converted from an undeployed configuration, wherein the height of the intervertebral cage is reduced, to a deployed configuration, wherein the height of the intervertebral cage is increased to support end plates of the vertebrae. The intervertebral cage can be converted from the undeployed configuration to a deployed configuration by using a deployment device such as an implantation device and a guide wire. The deployment device can be used to impart a force upon the cage.
US10925748B2
An improved cage that has an anchoring system and method of use thereof. The anchoring system has movable/expandable jaw portions that can expand vertically (i.e., upward and downward relative to the respective superior and inferior surfaces of the cage) so that the cage can be more securely implanted in position. The superior and inferior expandable portions of the anchoring system move vertically by the rotation of one or more spindles that is incorporated in the jaw mechanism (and/or by the rotation of a lead screw that is incorporated in the cage). In some embodiments, the medical implant (such as a cage) is itself non-expandable (i.e., the height of the medical implant does not change). In other embodiments, the medical implant (such as a cage) can be expanded independently of the anchoring system.
US10925747B2
A fusion cage may include an upper endplate directly hinged to a lower endplate. The fusion cage may be adjustable to provide various angles between the endplates. An insert may be coupled between the endplates to lock the endplates at a selected angle. Fasteners may extend through the fusion cage into adjacent bone portions. An instrument may couple to an endplate so that the hinged-together endplates may be inserted between bone portions. The instrument may be used to adjust the angle between the endplates and to couple the insert between the endplates.
US10925746B2
A surgical implant for a wrist bone fabricated on a patient-specific basis is based on a combination of the patient's own anatomy and an anatomical ideal from a database of scan data, and provides a patient-specific implant that minimizes spacing tolerance between adjacent bones to allow native cooperation between tightly spaced wrist bones. The three lower skeletal structures in the human wrist, including the trapezium, lunate and scaphoid bones, share a close, integrated geometry with the adjacent arm bones (radius, ulna) and remaining wrist bones. In contrast to conventional approaches that rely on reshaped connective tissue or generically shaped replacements, a patient-specific prosthetic restores the original geometry and spacing between wrist bones, allowing individual bone replacement without removal or fusing to adjacent bones, thus restoring a natural range of movement.
US10925744B2
Arthroplasty components include an articular surface and a bone-facing surface. The bone-facing surface includes a concave arrangement of planar surfaces which converge as they approach a middle portion of the articular surface. Instruments and implantation methods are also disclosed.
US10925738B2
The disclosure includes methods and systems for making orthopedic connections where there is unique adjustability to the connection. Illustratively, one embodiment provides a connecting assembly for connecting a plurality of orthopedic components. Such connecting assemblies can include a first orthopedic component that provides a female bore. Additionally, the assembly can include a second orthopedic component that can be or include a male-type connecting member that is positionable in the bore of the first orthopedic component. In one preferred form, the male-type connecting member will be a quasi-spherical member. The quasi-spherical member can include a textured outer surface, e.g., for contacting one or more walls or surfaces in the bore in a fashion that removably locks or helps to removably lock or fix the quasi-spherical member in the bore.
US10925716B2
A method and device for securing a tissue graft within a bone passage includes providing a graft fixation device that houses a closed loop having both braided and non-braided portions. A tissue graft is looped through the closed loop at the non-braided portion to attach the tissue graft to the graft fixation device. The graft fixation device is passed through the bone passage and seated against the surface of the bone to secure the tissue graft within the bone passage.
US10925710B2
Medical devices and related method for improving blood flow to regions of a patient are described herein. Some medical devices may include a first graft portion, a second graft portion, and a catheter portion disposed between the first graft portion and the second graft portion. The medical device may be implanted into a patient to establish a non-natural flow path.
US10925708B2
Systems, devices and methods are presented for embolic protection. In some embodiments, a device for implantation in a patient's vessel containing a fluid flow is provided which comprises proximal and distal ends, an undeployed, substantially linear state, and a deployed, spring-like (helical) state comprising windings. When the device is deployed, the line segment connecting the proximal and distal ends is approximately perpendicular to the majority of the windings and to the fluid flow. In some embodiments, a delivery device for the monofilament device is provided. The delivery device comprises a needle having a lumen, a sharp distal end, and a pusher slidable within the needle. A method for deploying the monofilament device using the delivery device is provided.
US10925704B2
An interproximal articulation holder (10) has an arm (12) having a handle (11) at one end and an oppositely disposed holding head (16). The holding head is part of a marking portion (13) which also includes a piece of articulation film (18) having a generally rectangular shaped exposed area (18″) extending beyond the holding head (16). The arm or holding head may include a score or score line (19) which enables the arm or head to be manually bent at an angle. This arm may also include forming notches (20) to aid in the bending process. The handle, arm and holding head may be formed of two or more outer layers of stock paper (21) laminated together with an inner layer of the wax coated articulation film positioned or sandwiched between the stock paper layers.
US10925682B2
Surgical systems and methods are provided for controlling actuation and movement of various surgical devices.
US10925681B2
A robot arm and method for using the robot arm. Embodiments may be directed to an apparatus comprising: a robot arm; an end effector coupled at a distal end of the robot arm and configured to hold a surgical tool; a plurality of motors operable to move the robot arm; and an activation assembly operable to send a move signal allowing an operator to move the robot arm.
US10925673B2
Systems and methods for positioning a cut guide using navigation-based techniques are discussed. For example, a system for use in an orthopedic surgery on a target bone can comprise a cut guide adjustably positionable onto the target bone via two or more coupling receptacles created on the target bone. The coupling receptacles can include one or more guide members and a plurality of landing members. The system also includes an input interface that can receive a target bone representation, and a model receiver module that can receive a generic post-coupling bone model. The target bone representation can include a data set representing two or more landing sites of the target bone, and the generic post-coupling bone model can include a data set representing a bone having two or more coupling receptacles each sized, shaped or otherwise configured to receive and secure the respective coupling feature of the landing members. The system can include a navigation-based guide coupling preparation system that can generate a plan for positioning the cut guide onto or conforming to the target bone. The system can further include a display module that provides presentations of the coupling between the target bone and the cut guide.
US10925672B2
[Object] To provide an ablation system capable of suppressing heat damages to the lumen intima. [Solution] An ablation system 10 has an ablation device 11 in which a balloon 21 is provided on the distal end side of a shaft 22 and an in-side tube 27 causing a fluid to flow into the balloon 21, the internal space of the shaft 22 causing a fluid to flow out of the balloon 21, and an optical fiber 29 guiding laser light into the balloon 21 are individually provided along the shaft 22, a laser light generating unit 12 emitting laser light to the optical fiber 29, and a fluid returning unit 13 returning a fluid into the internal space of the balloon 21. The ablation device 11 has a reflector 33 reflecting laser light emitted from the optical fiber 29 in the balloon 21, in which the reflector 33 is movable along the axial direction 191 in the balloon 21 and is rotatable in the axial direction 101 as the axis line.
US10925671B2
The present disclosure provides, according to some embodiments, methods and systems for selectively reducing, blocking or inhibiting at least part of the neural activity in an organ of a subject. In preferred embodiments, the method and system are used for selectively blocking at least part of the neural activity in a duodenum of a subject in need thereof. According to some embodiments, the selective blocking occurs through use of laser radiation. According to some embodiments, the selective blocking comprises causing damage to at least part of sensory nerves located within a target area while maintaining functional activity of tissue surrounding the sensory nerves. According to some embodiments, the sensory nerves include neurons configured to transmit signals triggered by food passing through the duodenum, such as, but not limited to, neurohormonal signals.
US10925654B2
Disclosed herein is a cannulated tool through which a cable is passable. The cannulated tool comprises a body. The cannulated tool also comprises a screw driving feature, rotatable relative to the body. The cannulated tool further comprises an anti-rotation feature, rotatable relative to the screw driving feature. The cannulated tool additionally comprises a cable tensioning feature, configured to tension the cable when passed through the cannulated tool.
US10925653B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods for bone fusion are disclosed. In particular, a fixation screw assembly is provided that comprises a bone engagement portion including a shaft and a head member. The assembly also includes a flexible washer member that can be operably attached and secured around the head member of the bone engagement portion. The washer member is polyaxial relative to the bone engagement portion, such that it can assume a variety of angles. The washer member can help prevent back out of the bone engagement portion when the bone engagement portion is implanted into a bone member. The design of the fixation screw assembly can be used in different fusion procedures, including fusion of the sacroiliac joint.
US10925649B2
An articulating rod inserter is configured for use in delivering a fixation rod to an orthopedic fixation system through a cannula or tower. The articulating rod inserter is releasably coupled to a rod and can move the rod from a generally aligned configuration, wherein the longitudinal axes of the rod and rod inserter are generally aligned, to an angled configuration, wherein the longitudinal axis of the rod is at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the rod inserter. The rod is inserted into the patient through a first tower and then articulated to a second tower such that the rod extends between two or more fixation devices.
US10925648B2
A vertebral fixation plate system and a method for its use in a surgical procedure to fuse adjacent spinal vertebrae. A mounting member is attached to the vertebral fixation plate so that the fixation plate can move with respect to the mounting member through a range of available positions. The mounting member can be attached to a spinal interbody fusion device installed in place of a removed spinal disc, thus also loosely fastening the vertebral fixation plate to the fusion device. A fastener can tighten the vertebral fixation plate to the mounting member and establish a location of the vertebral fixation plate with respect to the vertebrae to be fused. Confronting surfaces of the mounting member and the vertebral fixation plate cooperate to keep the vertebral fixation plate in a desired location while it is fastened to the vertebrae being fused.
US10925647B2
A closure for an open headed medical implant, such as a bone screw. The closure having a cylindrical body with an axis of rotation and also having a radially outer surface with a thread or other guide and advancement structure thereon. The body having a plurality of tool mating structures that communicate with a bottom surface of the body and that are parallel to but spaced from the axis of rotation.
US10925625B2
The devices and methods described herein relate to jointless construction of complex structures. Such devices have applicability in through-out the body, including clearing of blockages within body lumens, such as the vasculature, by addressing the frictional resistance on the obstruction prior to attempting to translate and/or mobilize the obstruction within the body lumen.
US10925624B2
A retrieval medical device for entrapping and retaining an object located in a body for its extraction therefrom is described. The device includes a basket-filter constituted by a plurality of filaments extending from the proximal end towards the distal end. The filaments are bound together in the vicinity of the proximal end to form a plurality of main branches. Each main branch includes at least two filaments. The filaments are entangled together in the vicinity of the distal end. Each main branch has a ramification point at which it ramifies into at least two single filaments extending from the ramification point towards the basket distal end of the basket-filter. One of the single filaments extends in the form of a right spiral, whereas another single filament extends in the form of a left spiral. The filaments extending from the ramification points interlace with each other, thereby forming a mesh between the branching point and the basket proximal end having density greater than 5.1 crossover points per inch.
US10925617B2
A tourniquet includes a strap formed of a flexible material and shaped as a long, thin and generally flat body having a first surface and an opposed second surface, and an array of ridges extending transversely, substantially along most of the first surface. The tourniquet head includes an insertion mouth and within the mouth a flexible support and a plurality of teeth formed on the flexible support. The flexible support and the plurality of teeth providing an insertion channel in the tourniquet head for tightly receiving a free insertion end of the strap in a manner that enables the strap to be threaded through the insertion mouth with the plurality of teeth in the head being lockable on the ridges on the strap in a manner that enables a leading end of said strap to be ratcheted through the mouth in a locking direction only. A release lever enables the flexible support in the mouth to be pulled away from the ridges on the strap to allow for temporary disengaging of the teeth in the head from the ridges on the strap, to enable gradual and controlled releasing of tourniquet tension being applied on a body part to which the tourniquet has been mounted.
US10925615B2
A recapturable external LAA exclusion clip system includes a clip comprising first and second clip struts, at least one of the struts having a connector interface comprising a first portion of a lock, and a delivery device comprising a handle and an end effector. The handle comprises jaw and lock controls. The end effector is connected to the handle and comprises a clevis and first and second jaws. The jaws are connected to the clevis and operatively connected to the jaw control to actively articulate at least one of the jaws with respect to the other. At least one of the jaws has a connector comprising a second portion of the lock operatively connected to the lock control to removably lock with the first portion of the lock. The first and second portions of the lock have a locked state and are configured to unlock the locked state upon actuation of the lock control.
US10925607B2
A cartridge assembly for selective connection to a surgical stapling apparatus includes a body portion, a tissue contact surface defining staple retention slots, staples, a collar assembly and a staple sheath. Each of the staples is received in a respective one of the staple retention slots of the tissue contact surface. The collar assembly is movably mounted to the body portion. The staple sheath is coupled to the collar assembly and positioned to cover the staple retention slots. The staple sheath is selectively movable relative to the tissue contact surface.
US10925601B2
Various embodiments of a surgical end effector are provided. The end effector can include upper and lower jaws, and an anvil assembly configured to be releasably coupled to the upper and/or lower jaws. The anvil assembly can include an anvil plate that mates and aligns with the jaw, and staple pockets that align with staple cavities formed in the cartridge for formed staples fired from the cartridge. An adjunct material can be releasably secured to either the cartridge or anvil assembly, such as with one or more sutures.
US10925600B2
A surgical instrument and method of controlling the surgical instrument are disclosed. The surgical instrument includes a housing and an elongated shaft that extends distally from the housing and defines a first longitudinal axis. The surgical instrument also includes a firing rod disposed in the elongated shaft and a drive mechanism disposed at least partially within the housing. The drive mechanism mechanically cooperates with the firing rod to move the firing rod. A motion sensor senses a change in the electric field (e.g., capacitance, impedance, or admittance) between the firing rod and the elongated shaft. The measurement unit determines a parameter of the motion of the firing rod, such as the position, speed, and direction of the firing rod, based on the sensed change in the electric field. A controller uses the measured parameter of the motion of the firing rod to control the drive mechanism.
US10925596B2
A wound closure system and a method of closing a wound are disclosed. The wound closure system includes a plurality of skin anchors mechanically attached to external skin tissue around a periphery of a wound, a line extending between the skin anchors, the line slidably engaged with each skin anchor, a biasing member that provides tension on the line to draw all of the skin anchors toward the wound and a negative pressure wound dressing apparatus adapted to be used in conjunction with the wound closure system. The method of closing a wound includes the steps of attaching a plurality of skin anchors to external skin around a periphery of a wound, extending a line between the skin anchors around substantially the entire periphery of the wound, providing tension to the line to draw the skin anchors toward the wound, and applying a negative pressure to the wound.
US10925594B2
A method of forming an access opening through a psoas muscle to a patient's spine includes laterally inserting a stimulating dilator into the psoas muscle. The stimulating dilator has a stimulation channel formed in an outer surface thereof. An electrical pulse is transmitted into the stimulating dilator to locate a position of a nerve in the patient's psoas muscle. The stimulating dilator is laterally inserted through the psoas muscle and toward the patient's spine in a way that avoids the nerve. A stimulating probe is inserted into the stimulation channel along the outer surface of the stimulating dilator while transmitting an electrical pulse into the stimulating probe to verify the position of the nerve.
US10925579B2
Described herein are systems and methods for tracking a target tissue during therapy delivery. A system for identifying an anatomical structure and tracking the motion of the anatomical structure using imaging before and during delivery of a therapy to a patient includes an imaging module and a therapy module. In some cases, the imaging module is configured to identify a region of the anatomical structure in an image, and the therapy module is configured to deliver the therapy to a target tissue. A method for imaging during delivery of a therapy includes acquiring an image, identifying a region of an anatomical structure, tracking the region of the anatomical structure, integrating the tracking, generating a unique template library, determining if a pre-existing template matches the results or if the results should be updated as a new template, and delivering the therapy to the target tissue.
US10925576B2
An apparatus, system and methods that comprise adding a removable or detachable carrier containing a camera and illumination to a TEE probe, thereby allowing the user to view the placement of the probe and minimize or reduce the risk of esophageal and pharyngeal complications during the positioning of the TEE probe into the patient's esophagus. The reduction or minimization of complications occurs by allowing the cardiologist direct visualization of pharyngeal and esophageal structures during intubation. This device and procedure eliminate any “blind procedure”, whereby direct visualization of the pharyngeal structures and esophagus present a possible solution to these mechanical complications. Once the TEE probe has been properly positioned in the esophagus, the carrier is removed from the esophagus. The removable or detachable camera of the present disclosure can be used in other industries.
US10925564B2
A system includes a scanner configured to generate scan data of a patient volume or area, a processor configured to implement control operations, the control operations being directed to acquisition of the scan data or to processing of the scan data, and a monitoring system including a range imaging camera positioned for a field of view such that the monitoring system is configured to capture spatial data indicative of movement of an object spaced from the scanner. The processor is configured to implement an adjustment in the control operations based on the spatial data.
US10925563B2
The present disclosure relates to an X-ray imaging apparatus. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes a first column connected to a main body, a second column connected to the first column and provided to be movable relative to the first column, an arm connected to the second column and slidably provided along the second column, and a weight compensator provided to compensate for the weight of the second column and the arm, wherein the weight compensator, the second column and the arm are connected by a wire, and the second column is provided with an elastic member connected to the arm and providing an elastic force such that the arm is moved by a uniform force regardless of the position of the second column.
US10925561B2
A portable digital radiography apparatus includes a frame including a base, a radiography panel configured to be accommodated on the frame, a computer configured to be accommodated on the frame, and a charging system disposed in the base, the charging system being connectable to the radiography panel and the computer and configured to charge both the radiography panel and the computer when the radiography panel and the computer are accommodated on the frame. The frame, the radiography panel, the computer, and the charging system are transportable as an integral unit when the radiography panel and the computer are accommodated on the frame.
US10925556B2
The present invention relates to a modulation of X-ray radiation for the purposes of imaging an object of interest. For the modulation, the X-ray radiation provided by an X-ray source (12) is in part totally reflected by a mirror (20). Thus, an X-ray radiation at an object receiving space (16) is formed by an unreflected X-ray radiation (24) and a reflected X-ray radiation (26). The mirror (20) is displaceable by an actuator (28), such that the intensity of the reflected X-ray radiation (26) can be adjusted, in particular to a density of the object to be imaged.
US10925547B2
A system for monitoring a physiological condition of a user includes a first measuring apparatus for personal use, a second measuring apparatus for use by medical professionals, and a server. The first measuring apparatus measures a first physiological parameter of the user. The second measuring apparatus measures a second physiological parameter of the user. The server receives the first and second physiological parameters measured by the first and second measuring apparatuses. The measured values of the first and second physiological parameters are associated with a disease condition, a health condition, a nutrient intake condition, a fitness condition or an exercise condition of the user.
US10925543B2
Provided are implantable and bioresorbable medical devices comprising a bioresorbable substrate and an electronic circuit supported by the bioresorbable substrate. The electronic circuit comprises a membrane of silicon having a thickness less than or equal to 5 μm and an array of dissolvable electrodes, wherein the dissolvable electrodes are formed from the membrane of silicon. The electronic circuit is configured to conformally contact a biological tissue and electrically interface with biological tissue during use. The silicon may be highly doped to provide the requisite characteristics for electrically interfacing with biological tissue, and may be further used to form other components of the electronic circuit, including back-plane transistors electrically connected to the electrode array.
US10925540B2
A garment can be manufactured by bonding an adhesive to a first layer of fabric and a second layer of fabric. Holes are cut into each layer of fabric to accommodate the integration of sensors and a processing unit mount. Conductive thread embroidered onto a support layer is bonded to the adhesive of the second layer of fabric. The support layer is removed such that the conductive thread remains bonded to the adhesive. The layers of fabric are bonded together such that the conductive thread is coupled between the two layers of adhesive. A back plate is added to the layers of fabric to provide structural support for the mount. The conductive thread is exposed within each hole, and the mount and sensors can be coupled within the holes such that an electrical connection is established between the mount and at least one sensor via the conductive thread.
US10925537B2
The present disclosure provides alert implants that comprise a medical device and an implantable reporting processor (IRP), where one example of such a medical device includes a component for a total knee arthroplasty (TKA) such as a tibial extension, a femoral component for hip replacements, a breast implant, a distal rod for arm or leg breakage repair, a scoliosis rod, a dynamic hip screw, a spinal interbody spacer, and tooling and methods that may be used to form the alert implant, and uses of such alert implants in the health maintenance of patients who receive the implant.
US10925533B2
A system and method of determining human performance capacity, and of determining the utility of a given biomedical intervention and/or neurotechnology device to characterize, to predict, and to influence human performance capacity, via analysis and interpretation of psychophysiological biomarkers of cognitive workload and functioning, assistive-technology/external support dependence, and compensatory behavior during performance of ecologically-valid standardized work samples.
US10925529B2
Detecting postoperative complications in a patient uses a substrate made of biocompatible or biodegradable material. An adhesive layer adheres the substrate to patient tissue, surgical tool, or medical device. A biosensor at the substrate detects or measures an analyte in the patient's body. The biosensor may be on the surface of the substrate or within a microchannel in the substrate. A separation or isolation structure may be provided to separate or isolate the analyte from other analytes prior to the biosensor. A microcontroller is disposed on the substrate and connected to the biosensor and to a wireless communications interface also disposed on the substrate. The microcontroller measures a signal from the biosensor and may perform an analysis on the measured signal. Measured data or data resulting from the analysis is transmitted through the wireless communications interface to a transdermal patch or other remote device for storage and display.
US10925526B2
A heating oximeter includes a heat insulation portion, a heat generation portion including a resistor generating heat by energization, a first temperature detector including a first temperature sensor detecting a temperature of the heat generation portion, an oxygen saturation acquisition assembly including light emitting elements and a light receiving element, and acquiring oxygen saturation in blood optically, and a third temperature detector including a third temperature sensor detecting a temperature of a living body. The heating oximeter is provided by stacking the third temperature detector, the oxygen saturation acquisition assembly, the first temperature detector, the heat generation portion, and the heat insulation portion in this order.
US10925522B2
A method for dynamic analysis of a physiological parameter of a user includes: generating a first event label corresponding to a first measurement value of the physiological parameter measured at a first time point; generating a second event label corresponding to a second measurement value of the physiological parameter measured at a second time point; calculating a time difference between the first and second time points; calculating a measurement value difference between the first and second measurement values when a time difference between the first and second time points is smaller than a time length threshold; and providing an analysis outcome based on the first and second event labels and the measurement value difference.
US10925514B2
A CO2 monitoring system provides oxygen (O2) to a subject's mask with known characteristics. The CO2 monitoring system receives, from the mask, gas samples including exhaled CO2 diluted by O2. The CO2 monitoring system uses an adaptive noise canceller to cancel the diluting O2 by using the known characteristics of the O2 provided to the mask, the result of which process is restoration of the original concentration level of the CO2 as exhaled by the subject into the mask.
US10925513B2
Systems, apparatus, and methods related to modeling, monitoring, and/or managing metabolism of a subject include measuring a respiratory quotient (RQ) level in a subject and/or optimizing and executing a nonlinear feedback model to model energy substrate utilization in the subject based on at least one of a macronutrient composition and caloric value of food consumed by the subject, an intensity and duration of activity by the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of glycogen storage in the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of de novo lipogenesis in the subject, a quality and duration of sleep by the subject, and/or an RQ level in the subject.
US10925508B2
A computer implemented method and system for declaring arrhythmias in cardiac activity are provided. The method and system are under control of one or more processors that are configured with specific executable instructions. The method and system obtain far field cardiac activity (CA) signals for a series of beats and builds an N-dimensional data set from data values for features of interest from the CA signals. The method and system utilize a manifold structure to map the N-dimensional data set, through nonlinear dimensional reduction, onto an M-dimensional data set and declares an atrial fibrillation (AFL) episode based on a relation between the M-dimensional data set and one or more AFL classification criteria.
US10925506B2
A catheter includes a tip electrode with a shell and a support member to provide a plenum chamber. The support member is formed with a U-shaped passage for a safety line to wrap around and secure the support member (with the shell affixed thereto) to the catheter. Additional passages are formed in the support member to accommodate components such as irrigation tubing, lead wires and a thermocouple wire pair. A method of manufacture provides distal installation and/or anchoring of the safety line, lead wire and thermocouple wire pair in the support member prior to sealing the support member and mounting the shell.
US10925505B2
Apparatus and method are provided to collect and analyze phonocardiogram (PCG) an electrocardiogram (ECG) waveforms. In one novel aspect, the PCG and ECG waveforms are collected from wearable devices. In one embodiment, the wearable device collects heartbeat waveforms by attaching the device to the patient for a long period and sends the collected waveforms to a receiver through a wireless network. In one embodiment, an acoustic seal layer is attached to the wearable device to reduce the body movement noises and environmental noises. In another novel aspect, an analysis method compares received patient's current PCG/ECG waveform with historic data. In one embodiment, the historic data are stored in a cloud-based database.
US10925499B2
Systems and methods including a device having integrated sensor arrays constructed and configured to measure and analyze multiple biosignatures concurrently in real time and a mobile application to control the device, process data, and transmit data wirelessly via at least one network to at least one remote computing device for analyzing the multiple biosignatures and cross-correlation with at least one external factor resulting in the creation of personal and situation profiles for continued on-going real time monitoring, refinement, alerting, and action recommendations.
US10925490B2
Techniques for use with an implantable medical device (IMD) reduce how often a first receiver of the IMD wakes up a second receiver thereof to reduce power consumption. A received message and/or a channel over which messages can be received is/are examined, and a value is adjusted based on results thereof. After being adjusted, the value is compared to a first threshold if the IMD is in a normal state, or compared to a second threshold if the IMD is in a noise state. If in the normal state, there is a determination whether to stay in the normal state or switch to the noise state. If in the noise state, there is a determination whether to stay in the noise state or switch to the normal state. At least the second receiver is temporarily put to sleep, if the IMD is maintained in or switched to the noise state.
US10925489B2
A medical system and method of communicating between a telemetry controller and medical devices is provided. Coupling coefficients between a primary coil of the telemetry controller and secondary coils of the medical devices differ from each other. A primary carrier signal is applied to the primary coil, thereby respectively inducing secondary carrier signals on the secondary coils. An amplitude of the secondary carrier signal is measured on each of the secondary coils. The envelope of each secondary carrier signal is modulated in accordance with data, thereby inducing modulation of the envelope of the primary carrier signal for the implanted medical devices. The secondary carrier signal envelopes are modulated based on the measured amplitudes of the respective secondary carrier signals.
US10925488B2
The present patent refers to improvements introduced in electromedical equipment, applied to automated triage of newborn babies with purpose to detect possible congenital heart defects by means of little heart test, through dedicated software (DS) implanted in memory (1-G), georeference block (1-M), pendrive (3), external HD (4), energy and supply assembly (E) provided with DC02215V J4 connector, cable and power supply, plug (P) positioned at the rear panel of the apparatus (1), internal and external connections (C) with magnets arranged into two rows at the rear part of the apparatus (1), of “C”-shape metallic base (2) with two front flanges (2-A), aiming to increase the number of users, increase flexibility of test protocol and change the usability in order to minimize errors, bringing advantages of higher testing speed, improved interface with user, better measurement quality, lower cost, higher usage versatility, and lighter weight and smaller size of equipment.
US10925487B2
A pressure-sensing device includes a device frame, a flexible membrane, a pressure sensor, and device electronics. The device frame includes a base surface that rests on a supporting structure and a frame attachment region located opposite to the base surface such that the frame attachment region is raised from the supporting structure when the base surface is resting on the supporting structure. The device frame also includes a seating surface. The flexible membrane is attached to the frame attachment region such that the device frame and the flexible membrane enclose a pressure chamber. The seating surface extends outward around the flexible membrane and the flexible membrane protrudes above the seating surface. The pressure sensor is configured to generate a pressure signal. The device electronics are configured to determine the pressure in the pressure chamber based on the pressure signal.
US10925486B2
A wide field fundus camera is disclosed to implement multiple illumination beam projectors and to capture multiple retinal images at various viewing angles to facilitate wide field retinal examination. The wide field fundus camera contemplates an ultra-wide field lens that can provide edge to edge imaging of the entire retina at a single alignment. It also contemplates configuration of said multiple illumination beam projectors to provide visualization of retina and Purkinje reflections simultaneously to facilitate determination of proper camera alignment with the eye. It further contemplates control of multiple illumination beam projectors in a programmable manner to capture said multiple retinal images. It further contemplates a real-time algorithm to reduce said reflected and scattered light haze in said retinal images. It further contemplates automated montage of said multiple retinal images into a single wide field FOV retinal montage and automated removal reflected and scattered light haze from said retinal montage.
US10925485B2
For reducing a time utilized in an AO process, provided is a deformable mirror system, including: a deformable mirror capable of changing a shape of a reflecting surface by a deformation amount in accordance with an input signal; a light wavefront measurement apparatus configured to measure a light wavefront shape of reflected light from the deformable mirror; a conversion factor calculation apparatus configured to calculate a conversion factor used in obtaining the input signal from a variation in light wavefront shape of the reflected light with respect to a change in input signal; a shape difference calculation apparatus configured to calculate a shape difference between the light wavefront shape measured by the light wavefront measurement apparatus and a light wavefront shape calculated from the input signal; and a conversion factor update unit configured to update the conversion factor in accordance with the calculated shape difference.
US10925483B2
An optical coherence tomographic device configured to acquire a tomographic image of a subjected eye is disclosed herein. The optical coherence tomographic device may include a light source of wavelength sweeping type; and a measurement optical system configured to irradiate the subjected eye with light outputted from the light source, where D/S×λ>1.61 may be satisfied, with a diameter of the light outputted from the light source at an incident position to the subjected eye is D, a wavelength swept frequency of the light source is S, and a center wavelength of the light outputted from the light source is λ.
US10925480B2
Methods of applying OCT angiography are disclosed. In particular, methods of detecting, visualizing and measuring the extent of retinal neovascularization are disclosed. Further disclosed are methods measuring retinal nonperfusion area and choriocapillaris defect area.
US10925474B2
The present disclosure is a device and method associated with the delivery of medical devices in the pericardial space using a minimally invasive approach with direct visualization. More specifically, the device can be used to deliver permanent pacing, defibrillation and cardiac resynchronization leads, as well as leadless pacemakers for cardiac rhythm management to the epicardial surface of the heart. A subxiphoid procedure is proposed as a minimally invasive alternative to thoracotomy, while the delivery tool incorporates a camera for direct visualization of the procedure. The tool also incorporates a steerable catheter to provide selective control of the placement and orientation of the medical device in the pericardial space.
US10925462B2
A dispensing device (1) for a dishwashing machine, the dispensing device (1) including: a body (2) configured to be mounted to a door of the dishwashing machine; a receptacle (3) formed in the body (2) to receive a quantity of a washing or rinsing agent; a movable lid (5) associated with the receptacle (3) and displaceable in a manner constrained to the body (2) against the action of a spring (8) from an open position into a closed position, where it opens and closes the receptacle (3), respectively; a gasket (6) arranged on the lid and a sealing projection (4) arranged on the body, the gasket having a sealing surface (6c) engaged by the sealing projection (4) when the lid (5) is in closed position, in such a way as to provide a seal around the receptacle (3); and a latching apparatus (11, 13) provided for locking the lid (5) in the closed position and operable to release the lid (5) from the closed position. The sealing surface (6c) of the gasket (6) has a curved cross-sectional profile over the entire length of the gasket (6), having a convexity facing towards the sealing projection (4).
US10925461B2
A dishwasher includes a tub, a spray arm, a sump, a pump body including a partition that partitions the pump body into a first chamber and a second chamber, a communication hole defined in the partition, a pump channel that connects the sump to the first chamber, an arm channel that connects the spray arm to an interior of the second chamber, an impeller located in the second chamber and configured to rotate to supply water to the arm channel, a heating unit configured to heat water stored in the first chamber, a steam channel that connects the first chamber to the tub, and a channel controller configured to, based on rotation of the impeller, supply water that passes through at least one of the sump, the pump channel, the second chamber, or the arm channel to the steam channel to close the steam channel.
US10925455B1
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing including an upright handle assembly and a base mounted to the upright handle assembly and adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus is further provided with a fluid delivery system comprising a fluid dispenser configured to dispense fluid to a brushroll and at least one fluid delivery channel forming a portion of a fluid delivery pathway. The fluid delivery channel can extend adjacent to a portion of the suction nozzle assembly. An interference wiper interfaces with a portion of the brushroll to remove excess liquid from the brushroll.
US10925453B2
The present disclosure relates to a cleaner according to one embodiment, which includes a main body, a grip unit provided on the main body to be gripped by a user, a pressure sensor unit provided on the grip unit to detect pressure applied by the user to a part of an outer surface of the grip unit, a driving unit provided at a lower portion of the main body to move the main body, and a controller to control the driving unit based on the detected pressure.
US10925447B2
A surface cleaning apparatus including a body defining an agitation chamber, an agitator partially disposed within the agitation chamber and configured to rotate about a pivot axis, and a debrider at least partially disposed within the agitation chamber. The agitator includes an elongated body having a first and a second end, a sidewall extending radially outward from the elongated body extending between the first and the second ends, and a plurality of bristles extending radially outward from the elongated body. The plurality of bristles are arranged in at least one row adjacent to the sidewall. The debrider includes a plurality of teeth configured to contact a portion of the sidewall as the agitator rotates about the pivot axis.
US10925438B1
A blender blade formed of titanium or titanium alloy is described herein. The blender blade comprises a central portion and one or more blade wings extending therefrom. Each blade wing comprises a leading edge, wherein the leading edge is work hardened to cause the leading edge to have a first hardness which is harder than a second hardness of the central portion. The central portion is in an annealed condition. The first hardness is in a range of about 40-50 HRC, the second hardness is in a range of about 20-30 HRC. Subsequent to work hardening, the leading edge can undergo nitriding and/or layer deposition.
US10925432B2
A device (1) for preparing a beverage on the basis of interaction between a beverage extract and an extracting fluid, particularly a beverage having a crema layer, comprises a brewing chamber (10) for accommodating a quantity of the beverage extract, having an inlet (11) for receiving the extracting fluid and an outlet (12) for discharging the beverage. Furthermore, the device (1) comprises restricting means (60) which are movable between an activated position for realizing a restriction (61) in the outlet (12) of the brewing chamber (10) and an inactivated position for minimizing the restriction (61) in the outlet (12) of the brewing chamber (10), and also actuator means (70) for controlling the position of the restricting means (60) in relation to an actual state of pumping means (30) as present in the device (1) for realizing a flow of the extracting fluid.
US10925426B2
An artificial Christmas tree includes a central trunk broken into at least two separate portions including a fixed trunk portion and at least one rotating trunk portion. The fixed trunk extends up from an underlying base. Rotating trunks rotatably attach at midpoints thereof at least indirectly to an upper end of the fixed trunk. Limbs are pivotably attached to the rotating trunks with optional lights coupled thereto. These limbs pivot between a perpendicular orientation extending from the rotating trunks and a collapsed configuration closer to a centerline of the rotating trunks. The rotating trunks can be pivoted from a first collapsed configuration with a first end above a second end to a deployed configuration with the second end above the first end. During pivoting, the limbs attached to the rotating trunk transition between a collapsed to a deployed configuration automatically. A wheeled base and cover further facilitate storage and deployment.
US10925425B2
A protective storage system comprising: i) a container configured to receive and hold a delivered item; ii) a lid coupled to the container and configured to cover an opening of the container; and ii) a base on which the container is securely mounted. The base is configured to be securely connected to a structure. The protective storage system further comprises iv) a temperature control system for heating or cooling the delivered item; and v) a control module for controlling the opening and closing of the lid and for providing a user remote access and control capabilities.
US10925422B2
Systems are provided for storing and serving a food product. The systems can include a base portion, a top portion, and a mechanism for raising and lowering the food product relative to the base portion, and are configured to prevent spillage and/or leakage of any portion of the food product during storage and consumption of the food product.
US10925419B2
An inflatable body pillow and pillow case kit for portability includes an inflatable body pillow and a pillow case. The inflatable body pillow comprises a principal chamber and a pair of side chambers coupled to the principal chamber. A plurality of vents is coupled to the principal chamber and allows air to flow between the principal chamber and the pair of side chambers. A valve is coupled to the principal chamber through the bottom end and is configured to allow a user to inflate and alternatively deflate the principal chamber and the pair of side chambers. The pillow case comprises a case body having an open bottom edge to receive the inflatable body pillow.
US10925414B2
A security device and base for a mobile device. The security device includes a body, at least two sliding arms coupled to the body, and a leveling plate coupled to the body and configured to receive the mobile device.
US10925412B2
A wall panel system including a first wall panel, the first panel including at least a first panel hook portion. The system also including a second wall panel having a different configuration than the first wall panel. The second panel includes at least a second panel hook portion and a third panel hook portion opposing the second panel hook portion. The first wall panel is configured to engage with the second wall panel to create a wall panel assembly.
US10925408B2
The present invention relates to a portable body support and, more particularly, a body support providing functions of preventing the body from sliding down from an inclined support and also completely relieving load on the neck supporting the head at a face support part of the body support when the body support, such as a folding table or a portable temporary bed, is obliquely set up on the floor and used in a prone position so as to be useable for activities such as reading, thereby ensuring an effect of providing a technical configuration for not generating neck pain at all. As to the technical configuration, provided is the portable body support for coupling a face support mask and a pelvis support saddle to each other by using hinges, bolts and the like and constructing the coupled mask and saddle. When reading for a long time in a prone state by using the portable body support, comprising the mask and the saddle, of the present invention, neck pain, whole body fatigue, and the like are not generated at all, and an advantage of maintaining, for a long time, mental strength and posture to concentrate conveniently on reading in a prone state is guaranteed.
US10925405B2
A solar charged beach chair assembly includes a beach chair that is comprised of a fluid impermeable material. Thus, the beach chair can be employed at a beach or other environment with water. The beach chair includes a pair of arm rests and a back rest portion, and each of the arm rests has a storage well therein. A pair of doors is each hingedly coupled to a respective one of the arm rests. Each of the doors is aligned with the storage well in the respective arm rest for closing the storage well. A plurality of charge ports is each recessed into a respective one of the arm rests. Each of the charge ports can have an electronic device plugged therein. A power supply is provided and the power supply is coupled to the beach chair. Each of the light emitters, the speakers and the charge ports is electrically coupled to the power supply.
US10925393B2
A bracket device includes a bracket and a fastening member. The fastening member is pivoted to the bracket by a shaft member. The bracket includes a first structure and the fastening member includes a second structure. When the fastening member is located at a position, the first structure is in cooperation with the second structure, so as to prevent the fastening member from moving along an axis direction of the shaft member.
US10925385B2
An outer elastomeric layer forms a nonogonal-shaped hollow tube for a finger toothbrush to be used by an adult caregiver to brush a child's teeth. The toothbrush has a first, rigid portion with a rigid inner lining configured to receive a middle phalange of the caregiver's finger and a second, flexible portion configured to receive a distal phalange of the caregiver's finger. The rigid inner lining may further comprise extensions and depressions to spread the pressure from a child's bite. The second, flexible portion may allow for better tactile response when the toothbrush is in the mouth of a child.
US10925378B2
The present invention discloses a tool for applying cosmetics for an eyelash used for applying cosmetics to an eyelash. The tool for applying the cosmetics for the eyelash according to the present invention includes: a container in which a cosmetic is received; a cover coupled to the container; a base tongs part installed on the cover; a brush tongs part hinge-coupled to the base tongs part to be gathered or spread with the base tongs part; a knob installed on the base tongs part and disposed to be protruded outside the cover; an elastic member elastically supported between the base tongs part and the cover and producing an elastic force in a direction where the base tongs part and the brush tongs part are gathered; a tightening ring producing an elastic force in a direction where the base tongs part and the brush tongs part are gathered while enclosing the base tongs part and the brush tongs part; a cosmetics receiving part extending on the base tongs part to provide a receiving groove part along a length direction; and a brush part coupled to the brush tongs part and close to the cosmetics receiving part.
US10925374B2
The present invention relates to a cosmetic product having an impregnation member with the outer surface thereof molten, in which a first impregnation member is embossed and engraved on the top surface thereof by compressing the first impregnation member onto a heated, embossed and engraved metal mold and then melting the first impregnation member, and an open cell structure of the top surface of the first impregnation member is molten to be transformed into an open cell structure having a size of ½ or less. As such, when a user presses cosmetic contents with a puff for use, the impregnation member prevents the excessive smearing and waste of the cosmetic contents on the puff, and the cosmetic contents can be uniformly and thinly smeared on the puff, and a second impregnation member, which is coupled to the lower surface of the first impregnation member, maintains an open cell structure.
US10925372B2
A dispensing brush assembly containing and selectively dispensing a hair care product includes a brush that is selectively manipulated thereby facilitating the brush to groom hair. The brush has a reservoir therein to contain a fluid. A plunger unit is movably coupled to the brush and the plunger unit is selectively manipulated. The plunger unit is in fluid communication with the reservoir to selectively urge the fluid outwardly from the brush. In this way the fluid may be urged onto the hair to enhance grooming.
US10925370B1
An apparatus for styling hair is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a handle comprising a motor. The apparatus further comprises a comb head coupled to the handle. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of bristles coupled to the comb head. Each of the bristles comprises a bristle head provided in a honeycomb shape to receive hair. Each of the bristles rotate when the motor is operated to twist and braid the hair.
US10925366B2
A method for manufacturing a case for a mobile device with a screen, includes using a band having a layer of flexible polymer as an insert mold or in a dual injection process, for applying discrete discontinuous and unconnected damping material on the layer of the flexible polymer of the band. The damping material is softer than the flexible polymer and has a plurality of integrally formed protrusions projecting inwardly from a substantial portion of the inner periphery of the band to engage with the mobile device. The protrusions are arranged such that, in use there is substantially no contact between the band and the device other than through the protrusions.
US10925353B1
A bungee bead apparatus includes a bead and elastic cord with first and second ends fixedly secured in proximity to, or in contact with, each other at one end of the bead to form a loop. A circumferential recess formed between first and second sides of the bead extends from the bead's first end to its second end, having a cross-sectional height and width to receive the loop of the elastic cord therethrough. The orifice extends at an acute angle, positioned midway between the bead's first and second sides, and begins at the bead's first end in proximity to the first side, and transects the circumferential recess at its second end. The circumferential recess is annular with a depth of about one-half the diameter of the cylindrical elastic cord to receive only a portion therein. The recess and orifice permit two (or more) such apparatus to be linked together.
US10925352B2
A button assembly includes a top assembly, an attachment body, and a resilient member. The top assembly includes a cap and a locking ring defining a receiving area, and the locking ring includes a top protrusion extending into the receiving area. The attachment body includes a locking feature that includes a body protrusion and a notched portion. The resilient member is located between the cap and the attachment body such that the cap is movable toward the attachment body. In some examples, the top assembly is selectively engageable with the attachment body by aligning the top protrusion of the locking ring with the notched portion of the locking feature, pushing the top assembly toward the attachment body, and rotating the top assembly relative to the attachment body such that the top protrusion of the locking ring is aligned with the body protrusion of the locking feature.
US10925343B2
An article of footwear includes a sole structure and an upper coupled with the sole structure. The upper has a first side portion, a second side portion separated from the first side portion by a throat opening, and a closure for selectively coupling the first side portion to the second side portion. The closure includes a closure panel and a plurality of laces each extending between a respective first end and a respective second end. The first end of each of the plurality of laces is directly secured to the first side portion of the upper and the second end of each of the plurality of laces is directly secured to the unitary closure panel. A selective and reusable fastener is further provided to couple the closure panel to the second side panel of the upper.
US10925342B2
Various helmet communication, entertainment, and safety techniques are enabled. For instance, a method comprises receiving, by a helmet user-interface system comprising a processor, an output from a sensor, determining, by the helmet user-interface system, whether the output comprises gesture information representative of a gesture, in response to the determining and based on a condition being determined to be satisfied, identifying, by the helmet user-interface system, a gesture type associated with the gesture information, and executing, by the helmet user-interface system, a function associated with the gesture type.
US10925341B2
A decorative headgear simulating the appearance of a racing helmet is disclosed. It is in the form of a sheet of thin flexible material. The sheet is shaped and configured with a back panel (BP), a right panel (RP), a left panel (LP), a top panel (TP), a front panel (FP), and a chin cover (CC), all of which are adapted for inter-connection to form the helmet. The sheet has several pre-made lines in the sheet forming in whole or in part the headgear removable from the sheet, and wherein the sheet of thin flexible material has several pre-made fold lines in the sheet, said fold lines oriented to form said sheet into a container to hold other articles.
US10925336B2
A glove that is less prone to slip on the hand, and/or that provides for better tactile sensation, and/or that provides a better outer grip. The glove has an outer surface, an inner surface, and one or more of: ridges, an inner grip material, and one or more sensory windows at places where greater tactile sensation is desired. The inner grip material friction with the skin and/or is tacky to help maintain the glove in position on the hand. The glove may also include an outer material and/or throwing grip material.
US10925335B2
Elastomeric articles, such as gloves, made from more than one layer, are provided. The gloves can include a first (grip side) layer in which a first colorant is compounded or integrated and a second (donning side) layer in which a second colorant is compounded or integrated. Alternatively, the gloves can include a translucent first layer and a second layer in which a colorant is compounded or integrated. Either arrangement can enable a breach of the first layer to be more easily detected, either due to the high level of contrast between the first layer and the second when a first colorant and a second colorant are utilized, or due to the translucence of the first layer as compared to the donning side layer, where the intensity of the second layer is increased upon a breach of the translucent first layer.
US10925334B1
The present invention relates to handwear or a glove to be worn on a user's hand. More particularly, the present invention relates to methods, systems, devices, and mechanisms for securing handwear or a glove to a user's hand. Even more particularly, the present invention relates to methods, systems, devices and mechanisms to create a custom fit of the handwear or glove to the user's hand in multiple dimensions or directions. The invention further relates to various types of fasteners and configurations adapted to create a multiple-dimension or multiple-direction custom fit securing the handwear or glove to the user's hand.
US10925331B2
A garment (10) including an inflatable protective device (11). The device (11) includes at least one inflatable bag (12), an inflator unit (14), sensors (17, 18), and a control unit (19). The bag (12) for moving between a rest condition, wherein it is deflated, and an operating condition, wherein it is inflated. The inflator unit (14) for inflating the bag (12). The sensors (17, 18) for monitoring the user's body for shocks or unexpected movements. The control unit (19) for processing the data provided by the sensors (17, 18) and for activating the inflator unit (14) if, on the basis of the data received by the sensors (17, 18), a danger situation is identified. The garment (10) provided with a display unit (22) which includes an alphanumeric and/or graphical visual display (24) for providing the user with messages and/or symbols about the internal status of the device (11).
US10925328B1
An upper torso article of clothing having a skirt with a body, and inner and outer edges. Extending from the inner edge are first and second joining edges that have a common vertex. A belt has first and second belt edges, an exterior face, an interior face, and belt fasteners. A section of the belt is fixed to the first and second joining edges. The skirt is joined to the interior face at the section respectively, whereby the first belt edge is fixed to the first and second joining edges, and the second belt edge is fixed to the skirt. The belt has first and second belt ends. The first belt end extends from the inner edge a first predetermined distance, the second belt end extends from the inner edge a second predetermined distance, and the first and second predetermined distances are not equal.
US10925321B2
The invention discloses a heating device and an electronic cigarette applying the heating device. The electronic cigarette comprises a battery component, the battery component is provided with a installing chamber having an opening, the heating device comprises a heating base and a hollow sleeve, the sleeve is detachably mounted on the heating base and encircles receiving space for receiving the tobacco product together with the heating base, when the heating device is mounted in the installing chamber, the heating base is electrically connected to the battery component, and the battery component drives the heating base to heat the tobacco product received in the receiving space. The technical solution of the invention is effective for facilitating the user to clean the heating device.
US10925320B2
The present disclosure discloses an electronic cigarette, comprising an atomizer and a battery assembly which is provided with a main control board, wherein the atomizer comprises a top cover, a base, a light-transmitting sleeve and anatomizing assembly received in the light-transmitting sleeve, wherein the light-transmitting sleeve is connected with the top cover and the base and forms an oil storing chamber with the atomizing assembly, and the atomizing assembly is provided with an atomizing chamber, and is provided with at least one oil guiding port communicated with the oil storing chamber; the top cover comprises a cover body, a mouthpiece and a aerosol outlet pipe, wherein the cover body is provided with an oil injecting hole and an air inlet chamber, the aerosol outlet pipe is at least partially received in the air inlet chamber.
US10925319B2
A vaporization device is provided having a plurality of pens each having a battery, a mouthpiece, and a ventilated end. A vaporization device is also provided which is disposable having a plurality of pens, each having a vaporization chamber containing a coil, a battery, a PCB, a sensor, and a tank containing e-liquid for vaporization in the pen vaporization chamber through the coil of the pen to create a vaporization product which is mixed in a vapor port of the device through which a plurality of vaporization products are delivered to a user through the mouthpiece of the device in a single vaporization event.
US10925317B2
An electronic smoking device (210, 310, 410) has two portions (12, 13) wherein one of the portions (12, 13) comprises a cavity (240, 340, 440) for a liquid reservoir (234, 334, 434). The portions (12, 13) can be moved with respect to each other, by a movement and a respective counter movement, at least between an insertion configuration and a closed cavity configuration. In the insertion configuration a liquid reservoir (234, 334, 434) can be inserted into the cavity (340, 440). In a closed cavity configuration, the cavity (240, 340, 440) is closed by the other portion and a liquid reservoir opening element (70) of said one or the other portion opens the housed liquid reservoir (234, 334, 434).
US10925315B2
An electrically operated aerosol-generating system configured to detect an adverse conditions, such as a dry heater or an unauthorized type of heater, is provided, including an electric heater including at least one heating element configured to heat an aerosol-forming substrate, a power supply, and electric circuitry connected to the electric heater and to the power supply and comprising a memory, the electric circuitry being configured to determine the adverse condition when a ratio between an initial electrical resistance of the electric heater and a change in electrical resistance from the initial resistance is greater than a maximum threshold value stored in the memory or is less than a minimum threshold value stored in the memory, and to limit power supplied to the electric heater, or to provide an indication to a user, if there is the adverse condition.
US10925311B2
There is provided a filter for a smoking article, the filter including a filter segment of filter material and a flow restrictor. The flow restrictor is embedded in the filter segment and surrounded on all sides by the filter material. A cross sectional dimension of the flow restrictor measured perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the filter is between about 60% and about 95% of the diameter of the filter segment. There is also provided a smoking article including such a filter.
US10925310B2
A breakable capsule such as a seamless breakable capsule useful in a smoking article or a smokeless tobacco product includes an outer shell formed of a cross-linked agar matrix including at least one filler, and an inner core surrounded by the outer shell which comprises a liquid or gel based composition of a flavorant and/or non-flavorant. The cross-linked agar matrix is reinforced with carboxymethyl cellulose that is dispersed throughout the agar matrix so as to fill empty spaces in the agar matrix and inhibit the composition from passing through the empty spaces of the agar matrix.
US10925309B2
A tobacco lozenge includes a body configured to be wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a matrix including a soluble fiber in an amount greater than or equal to 60 weight percent of the body, tobacco plant tissue dispersed in the matrix, and an additive dispersed in the matrix.
US10925303B2
A sweetened, non-fat Allium-based flavoring material, which can be caramelized, compositions comprising the flavoring material, and processes to produce the flavoring material.
US10925301B2
A process for producing noodle strips in which a dough sheet is slit into noodle strips using a rotary slitting device comprising at least a pair of cutting blade rolls, scraping members and air flow supply means. The dough sheet is passed through the cutting blade rolls, to thereby slit the dough sheet into noodle strips; the noodle strips are peeled off from the cutting blade rolls using the scraping members, to thereby separate into upper and lower noodle strip bundles; and air flow is supplied to the slit noodle strips from the air flow supply means. There is provided a process capable of stably realizing generally straight noodle strips with no strong longitudinal waves even in a mass production line.
US10925290B2
Methods of reducing surface microbial contamination of a poultry carcass comprising subjecting the poultry carcass which has previously been scalded and de-feathered to hot water of between 50° C. and 95° C. for between 1 second and 120 seconds; and related apparatus.
US10925279B2
The invention provides aqueous pesticidal concentrates comprising at least one colloidal solid, a dispersed emulsion phase comprising at least one substantially water-insoluble pesticidally active ingredient, which is either itself an oily liquid comprising the oil phase, is a solid but is dissolved in an oily liquid present in the oil phase, is a solid and is dispersed within the oil phase or is present as a colloidal solid adsorbed to the liquid-liquid interface between the continuous aqueous phase and the dispersed oil phase and at least one Ostwald ripening inhibitor.
US10925278B1
A stabilized, collapsible platform having at least two stages, each adjustable with respect to the other along a support column. In an illustrative embodiment, the platform may be adjusted along the support column with each stage moving independently of the other and secured in place to stabilize the platform against movement with respect to the support column.
US10925259B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for a climbing apparatus for pet training and exercise. The climbing apparatus for exercising or training pets may include, for example, a first ramp directly coupled to a second ramp at a coupling point located at a peak of a hill, the first ramp and the second ramp having an angle of incline that is substantially similar, thereby forming a substantially symmetrical and triangular structure. The first ramp and the second ramp can include supports projecting from a surface of the first ramp and the second ramp to facilitate navigation of a path that comprises an incline of the first ramp and a decline of the second ramp. In addition, the supports can render the apparatus free-standing and portable.
US10925258B1
A bone holding device for an animal comprises an apparatus designed to removably secure a chewable comestible such as a bone between to support posts having two (2) support bases. The securement apparatus is size adjustable and secured between the two (2) support posts by a metallic bar.
US10925257B2
A remote canine training devices includes: a speaker including a speaker controller and an antennas in electronic communication with the speaker controller; a remote including a controller, one or more memory modules in electronic communication with the controller, an antenna in electronic communication with the controller, a user input module in electronic communication with the controller for receiving handler commands, and computer readable instructions stored on the one or more memory modules and executable by the controller to transmit a command to the collar based on user input received on the user input module. When a user input is received on the user input module, the remote transmits a command stored on the one or more memory modules to the speaker and the speaker emits an audible command adjacent a canine wearing the speaker corresponding to the user input received on the remote.
US10925254B2
An animal tethering assembly for a pet includes a rod, which has a first end that is pointed. A handle is coupled to a second end of the rod and. A bar is coupled to and extends bidirectionally from the rod to define a lower segment of the rod. The bar is configured to position a foot of a user to apply a force to the rod to drive the lower segment of the rod into a substrate. A first terminus of a lead is coupled to the rod proximate to the bar, positioning a second terminus of the lead to couple to a collar that is coupled to an animal. A pair of hooks is coupled singly to the rod proximate to the first terminus of the lead and the second end of the rod. The hooks are positioned to loopedly position the lead to stow the lead.
US10925253B2
A method for recycling plastic and manufacturing filler involves collecting discarded plastic articles, and grinding/shredding the articles up together without substantive sorting out of the articles by plastic type, color, etc. The plastic articles are shredded into shredded plastic particles which are used as filler for various consumer products, such as weight training equipment and cushions. For products requiring additional weight, higher-density shredded recycled plastic particles are added to the filler for increased weight. For products requiring less weight and/or buoyancy, lower-density recycled plastic particles and/or foam is added to the filler for decreased weight/density. Weight training bags, pet training devices, cushions pillows, flotation devices, ski racks, and other products may be formed using the filler.
US10925252B2
A cheese moulding device with an enhanced level of hygiene. The invention relates to a cheese moulding device (100) comprising: —at least one moulding drum (1) comprising a lower portion comprising a base (3) delimiting an open enclosure shaped to receive at least one cheese mould (13), —at least one mobile plate (12) configured to support the at least one cheese mould (13), the mobile plate (12) being shaped to seal the lower portion of the moulding drum (1) in a first so-called sealing position and to allow access to said cheese mould (13) in a second so-called retracted position, —at least one washing circuit configured to clean said moulding device (100), said washing circuit comprising at least one section of circuit (15) opening into the lower portion of the moulding drum (1), characterised in that the moulding device (100) further comprises at least one protective casing (4) positioned between the base (3) of the moulding cylinder (1) and the mobile plate (12), said protective casing (4) delimiting an enclosure that is sealed relative to the outside of the moulding device (100).
US10925251B1
A Petunia plant designated KLEPH18370 is disclosed. Embodiments include seeds of Petunia KLEPH18370, plants of Petunia KLEPH18370, to plant parts of Petunia KLEPH18370, and methods for producing a plant by crossing Petunia KLEPH18370 with itself or with another variety. Embodiments also relate to Petunia varieties, breeding varieties, plant parts, and cells derived from Petunia KLEPH18370, methods for producing other Petunia lines or plant parts derived from Petunia KLEPH18370, and the Petunia plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid Petunia seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing Petunia KLEPH18370 with another Petunia variety or another plant type.
US10925244B1
A soybean cultivar designated 88212722 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 88212722, to the plants of soybean cultivar 88212722, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 88212722, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 88212722. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88212722. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 88212722, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 88212722 with another soybean cultivar.
US10925241B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072974. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072974. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072974 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072974 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10925237B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073288. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073288. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073288 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073288 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10925233B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV447929. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV447929, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV447929 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV447929 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV447929.
US10925232B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV456829. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV456829, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV456829 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV456829 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV456829.
US10925231B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV794818. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV794818, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV794818 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV794818 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV794818.
US10925227B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV775716. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV775716, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV775716 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV775716 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV775716.
US10925226B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH978587. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH978587, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH978587 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH978587.
US10925225B1
A rice cultivar designated S-202 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of rice cultivar S-202, to the plants of rice S-202 and to methods for producing a rice plant produced by crossing the cultivar S-202 with itself or another rice variety. The invention further relates to methods for producing a rice plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic rice plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to rice cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from rice cultivar S-202, to methods for producing other rice cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from rice cultivar S-202 and to the rice plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid rice seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar S-202 with another rice cultivar.
US10925210B2
A work vehicle for managing lawn while traveling includes a positioning module for outputting positioning data, a self-vehicle position calculation section for calculating a self-vehicle position based on the positioning data, an activity determination device for determining activity of the lawn, and a lawn condition information generation section configured to generate lawn condition information by correlating the activity with the self-vehicle position as a determination point of the activity.
US10925207B2
An agricultural implement system that includes a mount system that couples to a row unit. The mount system supports a depth adjustment system that adjusts a depth of an opener relative to a soil surface. The mount system includes a plate that couples to the row unit in a plurality of positions to change an orientation of the depth adjustment system relative to the row unit.
US10932399B1
Examples include a method of forming an electromagnetic shielding material, the method including: applying a magnetic field to a precursor material that includes first ferromagnetic particles embedded within a first portion of a matrix material and second ferromagnetic particles embedded within a second portion of the matrix material, thereby causing the first ferromagnetic particles and the second ferromagnetic particles to move such that longitudinal axes of the first ferromagnetic particles and the second ferromagnetic particles become more aligned with the magnetic field; thereafter forcing the first portion of the matrix material through a filter, thereby moving the first ferromagnetic particles from the first portion of the matrix material into the second portion of the matrix material; and curing the second portion of the matrix material to form the electromagnetic shielding material. Additional examples include an electromagnetic shielding material and an apparatus for forming an electromagnetic shielding material.
US10932392B2
A heat transfer system includes a heat source, a first heat exchanger coupled to the heat source to remove heat from the heat source, and a second heat exchanger coupled to the first heat exchanger to remove heat from the first heat exchanger. The heat transfer system also includes a thermal doubler coupled to the second heat exchanger to remove heat from the second heat exchanger, a first heat pipe coupled to the thermal doubler to remove heat from the thermal doubler, and a second heat pipe coupled to the first heat pipe to remove heat from the first heat pipe.
US10932388B1
A modular edge power system is provided. The modular edge power system includes a housing having a rack adapted to mount compute devices and a direct current power bus within the housing. Multiple power distribution units are adapted to be removably coupled to the direct current power bus at a position within the housing and outside of the rack. Each power distribution unit is configured to distribute electrical power received from the direct current power bus to one or more compute devices mounted in the rack. Each power distribution unit may convert the electrical power from a first power level to a second power level.
US10932376B2
A display device includes a display module and a cover member disposed below the display module. The cover member includes a first upper plate disposed below the display module, a second upper plate disposed below the display module and spaced a first distance apart from the first upper plate in a first direction, a first attachment layer attached to a bottom surface of the first upper plate, a second attachment layer attached to a bottom surface of the second upper plate and spaced a second distance, which is greater than the first distance, apart from the first attachment layer in the first direction, a first lower plate attached to a bottom surface of the first attachment layer, and a second lower plate attached to a bottom surface of the second attachment layer.
US10932368B1
A substrate-embedded electronic component includes a first core layer, a first through-portion penetrating the first core layer, a first electronic component disposed in the first through-portion, an encapsulant disposed in at least a portion of the first through-portion, and covering at least a portion of the first electronic component, a second core layer disposed on the encapsulant, and a first through-via penetrating the second core layer, wherein the first through-via is connected to the first electronic component.
US10932362B2
A circuit board according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first metal layer; an insulating layer disposed on the first metal layer and comprising boron nitride agglomerate particles coated with a resin; and a second metal layer disposed on the insulating layer, wherein: one of both surfaces of the first metal layer, on which the insulating layer is disposed, is in at least partial contact with one surface of the insulating layer; one of both surfaces of the second metal layer, on which the insulating layer is disposed, is in at least partial contact with the other surface of the insulating layer; a plurality of grooves are formed on a surface which is one of both surfaces of at least one of the first metal layer and the second metal layer and which has the insulating layer disposed thereon; at least some of the particles are arranged in at least some of the plurality of grooves; the width (W) of at least one of the plurality of grooves is 1 to 1.8 times D50 of the particles; and a ratio (D/W) of the depth (D) to the width (W) of at least one of the plurality of grooves is 0.2 to 0.3.
US10932353B2
The impedance of an antenna is reduced and gaps generated between electrodes constituting a capacitance element and a dielectric body are eliminated. An antenna (3) for generating inductively coupled plasma P includes at least two conductor elements (31), an insulation element (32) that is arranged between the mutually adjacent conductor elements (31) and insulates the conductor elements (31), and a capacitance element (33) that is connected electrically to and in series with the mutually adjacent conductor elements (31). The capacitance element (33) is configured from a first electrode (33A) electrically connected to one of the mutually adjacent conductor elements (21), a second electrode (33B) electrically connected to the other of the mutually adjacent conductor elements (21), and a liquid dielectric body filling the space between the first electrode (33A) and the second electrode (33B).
US10932352B2
A flat pad structure, designed to generate a dielectric barrier discharge plasma on a contact side (109) of said pad structure, comprises a flat electrode arrangement (112) which is embedded in a flat dielectric (102), can be supplied with high-voltage signals and is shielded on all sides against an unimpeded current flow; said pad structure has better stability and can be better adapted to elongate treatment areas because a width of the structure extends in a longitudinal direction (L) and in the longitudinal direction (L) the structure has a plurality of identically structured portions (101), each with a dielectric portion in the width of the pad structure and each with at least one electrode portion; the electrode portions of said portions (101) adjoin one another in the longitudinal direction (L) and form an electrode arrangement (112) extending over the entire length such that, in order to reduce the size of the contact surface in the longitudinal direction (L), at least one portion (101) can be separated from an adjacent portion (101) at a predetermined separation line (103) extending transverse to the longitudinal direction (L) and such that in the remaining portion (101) the predetermined separation line (103) is covered by an insulating component (116).
US10932351B2
The invention relates to an electrode array for a dielectrically impeded plasma treatment of a surface of an electrically conductive body used as a counter electrode, comprising a flexible planar electrode (1) and a dielectric (2) of a planar flexible material, which by way of a layer (3) preventing a direct current flow shields the electrode (1) from the surface to be treated. By way of a structure having projections, the dielectric (2) can rest upon the surface to be treated, wherein air spaces for forming the plasma are formed in between the projections. The producibility in particular is improved in that the structure is a lattice structure (6) of adjoining walls (7, 8) that limit a plurality of chambers (9) forming the air spaces, and in that the chambers (9) have a bottom-side closure through the layer (3) of the dielectric (2) preventing the direct current flow and have a face that is open to the surface to be treated, the contact surface of which face consists of end edges (10) of the walls (7, 8) of the lattice structure (6) on the surface to be treated.
US10932339B2
An LED-based light includes one or more LEDs, a sensor arranged to detect a brightness level in an area resulting from the combination of light emitted by the LEDs with light from at least one ambient light source other than the LEDs, and operable to output a signal corresponding to the detected brightness level, a controller operable to regulate an amount of power provided to the LEDs in response to the signal, a light transmitting housing for the LEDs, the sensor and the controller and a connector shaped for connection with a light socket disposed at an end of the housing.
US10932337B2
A function disabler system includes a personal electronic device having at least one component such as a camera, and a processor having pulsed light communication software enabling receipt and transmission of pulsed light communication signals. The processor additionally includes a hosting customer software application, where the personal electronic device receives at least one pulsed light communication signal within a designated area and the pulsed light communication signal includes an instruction signal which instructs the hosting customer software application to disable the at least one component when the personal electronic device is positioned in the designated area.
US10932329B2
A user interface for an induction heating cooker, a method of controlling the same and an induction heating cooker thereof are provided. The user interface, if a drag touch signal of a drag touch from one position to another position on a display unit is sensed, is configured to change power levels of all of coils in operation to a predetermined reference power level and displays the changed power level. The induction heating cooker is configured to supply the coils with a power corresponding to the reference power level, thereby controlling all of the coils with one drag touch and enabling enhanced security while in a rapid manner.
US10932325B2
A system is disclosed for additively manufacturing a composite structure. The system may include a print head configured to receive a continuous reinforcement, and at least one of a matrix jet and a matrix bath configured to wet the continuous reinforcement with a liquid matrix during passage through the print head. The system may also include a coating mechanism configured to dispense at least one of metallic and ceramic particles onto the wetted continuous reinforcement during passage through the print head, and at least one cure enhancer configured to at least one of cure the liquid matrix and cause the at least one of metallic and ceramic particles to coalesce around the continuous reinforcement. The system may further include a support configured to move the print head in multiple dimensions during discharging.
US10932324B2
The present invention relates to a flange assembly for holding a heating device to a fluid container of an appliance accommodating a fluid to be heated, in particular a domestic appliance, comprising a flange unit arranged for being mounted to an opening of the fluid container by at least one fixing unit and having a non-sealing and a sealing and attachment position, wherein the flange unit is reversibly moveable from the non-sealing to the sealing and attachment position by means of the fixing unit for being configured to engage the opening of the fluid container in the sealing and attachment position, wherein the flange unit comprises a sealing element and a tensioning element, wherein the sealing element and the tensioning element are moveable relative to each other in an axial direction by means of the fixing unit such that the sealing element and the tensioning element can be pressed against each other, wherein the sealing element and the tensioning element are, in the sealing and attachment position, arranged to provide a sealing in a sealing direction perpendicular to the axial direction, wherein the sealing element and/or the tensioning element of the flange unit comprise at least one tapered portion, wherein the tapered portion is arranged such that the relative movement of the sealing element and the tensioning element in the axial direction causes a predefined displacement of the tapered portion in the sealing direction. The invention further relates to a heating system including the flange assembly according to the present invention.
US10932313B2
The present disclosure relates to the communications field, and disclose a wireless connection switching method and a terminal. A specific solution is as follows: A first terminal establishes a first wireless connection to a second terminal. When the first terminal needs to establish a second wireless connection to the second terminal, the first terminal negotiates, with the second terminal by using the first wireless connection, information required for establishing the second wireless connection. Subsequently, the first terminal can establish the second wireless connection to the second terminal based on the negotiated information required for establishing the second wireless connection.
US10932310B2
Provided is a communication device including a contactless communication unit that conducts contactless communication, a wireless communication unit that conducts wireless communication, and a control unit that, in a case in which the contactless communication unit detects another communication device, controls activation start of a first communication mode of the wireless communication unit, and controls a connection process for the wireless communication between the contactless communication unit and the other communication device.
US10932303B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for user equipment (UE) to transceive signals related to packet data network (PDN) connection in a wireless communication system, the method for transceiving signals related to PDN connection comprising: a step of checking 3GPP PS Data Off Exempt services; a step in which UE determines whether or not to create PDN connection, based on the type of PDN connection the UE wants to create and the result of checking the 3GPP PS Data Off Exempt services; and a step of transmitting a PDN connection request if the UE decides to create the PDN connection.
US10932299B2
A random access preamble sequence generation method and user equipment are provided. The method includes the following: when receiving first notification signaling sent by a base station, determining, by UE, to calculate a cyclic shift value by using a first solution; obtaining a first logical root sequence number, and determining a root sequence based on the first logical root sequence number; and generating a random access preamble sequence based on the root sequence and the cyclic shift value, where the first solution is a solution of calculating the cyclic shift value when a Doppler shift of the UE is less than a first preset value and greater than a second preset value, the first preset value is less than twice of a physical random access channel (PRACH) subcarrier spacing, the second preset value is greater than the PRACH subcarrier spacing.
US10932297B2
A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network comprising the terminal device and a base station. The wireless telecommunications network supports a random access procedure comprising an exchange of random access procedure messages between the terminal device and the base station. At least one of the random access procedure messages is a variable size uplink message. The method comprises: receiving from the base station an instruction to perform the random access procedure, wherein the instruction to perform the random access procedure comprises an indication of a message size to be used by the terminal device for the variable size uplink message during the random access procedure; and performing the random access procedure by exchanging random access procedure messages with the base station, including transmitting the uplink message of variable size with a size corresponding to the indicated message size received from the base station.
US10932294B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting uplink data in a spectrum sharing wireless communication system wherein, in order to enhance uplink transmission efficiency in an LTE-U service, clear channel assessment (CCA) is performed on a user terminal so as to consider the hidden node problem, and channel occupation based on an uplink signal of another terminal is considered, wherein applied are: a method for generating and transmitting a random backoff counter value at a base station so that all terminals can equally use a channel connection parameter needed for transmitting an uplink subframe in an unlicensed band; and a downlink controlling method for scheduling an uplink multi-subframe.
US10932291B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a network node 110 of a wireless communication network 100 for communicating at an unlicensed frequency spectrum with a wireless device 121 having a device identity. The network node 110 sends an access grant to the wireless device according to the device identity, granting the wireless device access to an uplink communication channel of the unlicensed frequency spectrum. The network node also receives data from the wireless device 121, on the granted uplink communication channel, the data comprising information on the identity of the wireless device 121, thus enabling the network node 110 to detect whether the wireless device that was granted access on the uplink communication channel is the same wireless device as the wireless device from which the data comprising the information on the uplink communication channel was subsequently received. Embodiments of the network node 110 are also described. Embodiments herein also relate to a wireless device 121 for communicating with a network node 110 of the wireless communication network 100 at an unlicensed frequency spectrum and a method therein.
US10932288B2
Embodiments herein relate e.g. to a method performed by a radio network node (12) for handling communication between wireless devices over a sidelink in a wireless communication network. The radio network node receives from a wireless device (10) of the wireless devices, an indication in a buffer status report, wherein the indication indicates one or more QoS requirements or characteristics of a packet in a buffer associated to the buffer status report, wherein the one or more QoS requirements or characteristics comprise at least one of: reliability, latency, and data rate; and wherein the indication is associated with a logical channel. The radio network node handles the communication of the wireless device taking the received indication into account.
US10932282B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to determining scheduling and transmission timeline for communicating in a shared communication medium are provided. A first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, scheduling information during a first time period of a first transmission opportunity (TXOP) of a first network operating entity in a shared communication medium, the scheduling information indicating an offset time period relative to the first time period. The first wireless communication device communicates, with the second wireless communication device, a communication signal during a second TXOP subsequent to the first TXOP based on the offset time period.
US10932280B2
Provided are a wireless device and a wireless communication method in a wireless communication network comprising multiple wireless devices capable of communicating with each other directly, the wireless device comprising: a processing circuitry operative to multiplex data with a scheduling assignment message, into transmission information; and a transmitter operative to transmit the transmission information in a scheduling assignment period, to another wireless device in the wireless communication network, wherein the scheduling assignment message is used for indicating data transmission resource in the scheduling assignment period or in a previous scheduling assignment period.
US10932277B2
A network node operates in accordance with a first (system standard) latency requirement comprising a first latency and receives a message from a wireless device, indicating that the device is adapted to transmit data associated with a second latency requirement comprising a second latency that is lower than the first latency. The network node selects a configuration for the device from a plurality of configurations, where each configuration is associated with a respective group of wireless devices adapted to transmit data associated with the second latency requirement. Each of the configurations comprises a respective radio resource for potential transmission by the devices of the respective group, and the selection is based on a probability of interference between the potential transmissions by the devices of the group associated with the selected configuration. The network node transmits configuration information to the device regarding the radio resource of the selected configuration.
US10932274B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present disclosure discloses a method for operating a user equipment (UE), including: determining a type of numerology of physical resources to receive control signals and data from at least two types of multicarrier parameter numerology; and receiving the control signals and the data on the physical resources according to the determined type of numerology. The present disclosure further discloses a corresponding apparatus. By applying the technical solution disclosed in the present disclosure, it is possible to make full use of physical resources that have different characteristics.
US10932268B2
An apparatus for establishing communication between a base station and different generation terminals includes a multi-protocol stack capable of processing user traffic received from different generation terminals. The apparatus also includes a common physical layer that receives user traffic from different generation terminals and identifies the generation of the terminal sending the user traffic. The user traffic is then processed and routed based on the terminal generation. Traffic can be prioritized across current and legacy terminal types based on a variety of factors.
US10932257B2
Provided is a data transmission method, comprising: a terminal device receiving a first DCI and a second DCI; said first DCI being used for scheduling said terminal device to receive a first PDSCH which the first TTI is used to transmit on a target carrier, and said second DCI being used for scheduling said terminal device to receive a second PDSCH which the second TTI is used to transmit on a target carrier, the first TTI being smaller than the second TTI and the time resources of the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH at least partially overlapping; determining the priority relationship between the first DCI and the second DCI; according to said priority relationship, receiving the first PDSCH or the second PDSCH on the target carrier. In the method provided by the embodiments of the present invention, it is possible to dynamically support a plurality of TTIs on the same carrier and perform data transmission, and the terminal device determines the priority of the transmission channels on a carrier; the method satisfies the requirements of a delay and also takes compatibility with the current system into account.
US10932256B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to wireless communications by a user equipment (UE), comprising, identifying resources in a narrowband region, the narrowband region spanning no more than a single resource block in a transmission time interval (TTI) and communicating with a base station using the identified resources.
US10932255B2
Example resource indication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes determining a resource used by a terminal to send an uplink control signal by a base station. The base station sends indication information to the terminal, where the indication information is used to indicate the resource or a target parameter. The target parameter includes at least one of parameters used by the terminal to determine the resource. The described methods are applicable to the field of communications technologies.
US10932246B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and devices for dynamically determining a transmission location of an Uplink (UL) DeModulation Reference Signal (DMRS), including: receiving, by a terminal, a DownLink (DL) control channel; and determining, by the terminal, the transmission location of the UL DMRS according to the DL control channel.
US10932239B2
The present disclosure discloses: an uplink data transmission method for a terminal; and a device supporting same. More specifically, the present disclosure discloses: a method for transmitting uplink data from a terminal to a base station through a non-licensed band in a wireless communication system supporting the non-licensed band; and a device supporting same.
US10932234B2
A method for operating a transmission-reception point (TRP) includes determining a first cycle of backhaul communications modes for the TRP, each backhaul communications mode of the first cycle is associated with a different time period and prompts the TRP to either transmit or receive using a subset of communications beams available to the TRP during an associated time period, wherein the communications beams used by the TRP and neighboring TRPs of the TRP in each associated time period are selected to prevent mutual interference, and wherein at least one backhaul communications mode of the first cycle prompts the TRP to either transmit or receive using all of the communications beams available to the TRP, determining a backhaul frame configuration for the TRP in accordance with the first cycle, the backhaul frame configuration specifying an arrangement of subframes of a frame used for backhaul communications.
US10932229B2
A method and apparatus may be configured to support coordinated orthogonal block-based resource allocation (COBRA) operations. An access point (AP) may be configured to indicate to a plurality of stations (STA)s that it may support COBRA. Each WTRU may be configured to indicate to the AP that it can support COBRA as well. The AP may be configured to transmit a COBRA controller information element (IE) comprising a plurality of fields to each of the WTRUs. Each WTRU may be configured to transmit a COBRA controllee IE comprising a plurality of fields. STA grouping management, group maintenance, channel access, beamforming, sounding and frequency and synchronization procedures are also described.
US10932225B2
A method for paging, an access network device and a terminal device are provided. The method includes: an access network device receives movement information of a terminal device sent by the terminal device; the access network device determines, according to the movement information, a target paging area where the access network device initiates paging to the terminal device; and the access network device sends the target paging area to the terminal device.
US10932223B2
Signal load due to ping-pong of a wireless device between a wireless local area network (WLAN) access point (AP) and a cellular base station is reduced. The wireless device operates in a geographic region with signal coverage from more than one radio access technology (RAT) type of cellular serving cell as well as potentially coverage from the AP. An IP address used for incoming calls and the RAT serving the wireless device are part of a context. In some instances, when the wireless device changes context from the AP to a cellular base station and back to the AP (“ping-pong”), the context changes and a new IP address may be obtained via network signaling. Ping-pong is reduced by determining a quality estimate of cellular signals that relies on cell measurements from a mix of cellular base stations, where the mix of cellular base stations supports different cellular RATs.
US10932215B2
A data transmission control method and apparatus, and a terminal are disclosed. The method includes: performing, by a master terminal, a timing negotiation with respective slave terminals to obtain timings allocated to the respective slave terminals; sending, upon completion of timing allocation, interactive data by means of broadcasting, the interactive data being sent to the slave terminals; receiving responses of the respective slave terminals to the received interactive data according to the allocated corresponding timings; and acknowledging, using the received responses, completion of transmission of the interactive data to the slave terminals. The data transmission control method and apparatus and the terminal can be used to improve data transmission efficiency and channel utilization.
US10932214B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters of a secondary cell, of a first timing advance group, with a secondary physical uplink control channel. A random access response is received in a first subframe. The random access response comprises a timing advance associated with the first timing advance group. Transmission of transport blocks is started via the first timing advance group on or before a second subframe that is four subframes after the first subframe. Transmission of valid channel state information is started via the secondary cell on or after a third subframe that is six subframes after the first subframe.
US10932209B2
A method for wireless communication, a terminal device and a network device are provided. The method for wireless communication includes: a terminal device receives a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB), here, the SSB comprises Primary Synchronization Signal (PSS), Secondary Synchronization Signal (SSS), and Physical Broadcasting Channel (PBCH); here, the SSB comprises four consecutive symbols in time domain, which are symbol S0, symbol S1, symbol S2 and symbol S3 in sequence; and the PSS is transmitted on the symbol S0, the SSS is transmitted on the symbol S2, and the PBCH is transmitted on the symbol S1, the symbol S2 and the symbol S3.
US10932206B2
This application provides a reference signal sending and receiving method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: determining, by a network device, a transmit power used to transmit a reference signal, where the transmit power is related to a quantity of ports carried on an RE occupied by the reference signal; and sending, by the network device, the reference signal based on the transmit power.
US10932203B2
A method and apparatus are provided for transmitting power headroom information by a terminal in a mobile communication system. The method includes receiving, by the terminal, information on an allocated uplink transmission resource; determining whether a path loss has changed more than a threshold, after transmitting last power headroom information, when the terminal has the allocated uplink transmission resource; if the path loss has changed more than the threshold when the terminal has the allocated uplink transmission resource, determining a transmission of the power headroom information; and transmitting an uplink packet including the power headroom information using the allocated uplink transmission resource. The power headroom information is obtained based on a difference between a maximum transmission power of the terminal and a transmission power of the terminal.
US10932200B2
This application provides an uplink control method and apparatus. The method includes: measuring, by first UE, a first signal on a first time-frequency resource, to obtain a measurement result, where the first signal is a signal formed by superposing second signals sent by at least one second UE on a second time-frequency resource, and a time-domain resource of the first time-frequency resource belongs to a first time-domain resource unit; and controlling, by the first UE, power of uplink data on the first time-domain resource unit based on the measurement result. According to the uplink power control method and apparatus provided in this application, UE-to-UE cross interference can be reduced.
US10932199B2
A method and a terminal for uplink power control are disclosed. The method comprising: determining the uplink transmit power by a terminal according to a transmission scenario in which the terminal belongs. In embodiments of present disclosure, uplink transmit power is determined by a terminal for uplink transmission, wherein a scheme of uplink power control is achieved.
US10932194B2
The present invention discloses a communications device and a method and an apparatus for reducing power consumption of a communications device. The method includes: determining a minimum supply voltage that is for a WiFi power amplification circuit at an actual transmit power and that meets a WiFi communication rate; and providing a working voltage to the WiFi power amplification circuit to transmit data, where the working voltage is a voltage that is not lower than the minimum supply voltage and that is lower than a maximum supply voltage. According to the foregoing disclosed content, in the present invention, a supply voltage for a WiFi power amplifier in a communications device can be dynamically adjusted according to a transmit power required by the communications device to send data, so as to reduce power consumption of a communications system.
US10932193B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to generating a wake up receiver (WUR) transmit waveform. A device may determine one or more symbols bit sequence of a wake up receiver (WUR) frame to be sent to a first station device capable of decoding the bit sequence. The device may determine a first symbol of the one or more symbols, wherein the first symbol is associated with an ON state. The device may determine a second symbol of the one or more symbols, wherein the second symbol is associated with the ON state. The device may generate a first on-off keying (OOK) waveform associated with the first symbol. The device may generate a second OOK waveform associated with the second symbol, wherein the second OOK waveform is different from the first OOK waveform. The device may cause to send the WUR frame to the first station device based on the first OOK waveform and the second OOK waveform.
US10932189B2
A method for enhanced power consumption management of a user equipment using a mobile communication network and a radio access technology. The user equipment is provided with priority information regarding at least one of the mobile communication network and the radio access technology. The method includes performing, by the user equipment in case that the priority information indicates a sufficiently low priority of at least one of the mobile communication network used by the user equipment and the radio access technology used by the user equipment, a network selection procedure to find a higher priority mobile communication network after a time interval has elapsed. The user equipment includes an entity realizing the functionality of a subscriber identity module that includes time interval related information such that the time interval depends on the time interval related information.
US10932186B2
Systems and methods for multiple network mode selection devices in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a multiple network mode selection device includes a processor, a radio module connected to the processor, and network determination process storage connected to the processor and configured to store one or more network determination processes, wherein the processor is configured to connect to a first network using the radio module, execute a network determination process selected from the one or more network determination process, reprogram the radio module in response to the executed network determination process, and connect to a second network using the radio module, where the second network is separate from the first network.
US10932183B1
Technology for selective feature announcement by an access point device in a network is described. In one embodiment, the access point device sends a wireless beacon to a plurality of client devices seeking to connect to the mesh network and receives a probe request message from a first client device of the plurality of client devices. The access point device determines, at least partially using information obtained from the probe request message and using other information not present in the probe request message, a category of the first client device and determines that the category of the first client device is incompatible with a certain feature offered by the access point device. The access point device sends a probe response message to the first client device omitting an indication of the certain feature, while the certain feature remains enabled for at least one other client device of the plurality of client devices.
US10932179B2
A method and apparatus for supporting A-MSDU data transfer in an A-MPDU system includes sending capability information from a first network device, receiving onto the first network device an A-MPDU frame that includes A-MSDU data, and sending an acknowledgment from the first network device. A bit field in the capability information indicates if inclusion of A-MSDU data in an A-MPDU payload is supported. The first network device is a wireless station (STA). The first network device is part of a peer-to-peer network. The A-MSDU is in a data enabled immediate response context. A bit field in the capability information indicates if receiving an A-MPDU frame including A-MSDU data carried in a QoS Data frame without a block acknowledgment agreement is supported.
US10932172B2
Provided is a method for controlling a handover from a first base station to a second base station by a user equipment that performs radio communication over a communication channel formed by aggregating a plurality of component carriers, wherein scheduling information on each component carrier is transmitted to the user equipment according to either of a straight scheduling method and a cross scheduling method, and the method includes at the first base station, commanding first the user equipment to perform a handover from the first base station to the second base station on a second component carrier to be operated according to the straight scheduling method in the second base station, when it is determined that a handover on a first component carrier following the cross scheduling method is to be executed.
US10932171B2
The present application relates to the field of information technologies, and discloses an access point switching method and apparatus, to avoid interruption of another communication service that needs to be performed with an AE by using an M2M platform, thereby improving user experience. According to the present invention, after an access point for the AE is switched from the M2M platform to the M2M gateway, the AE can receive communication services corresponding to the M2M platform and the M2M gateway.
US10932160B2
There is provided adaptive traffic processing in a communications network. Traffic flows from real-life traffic are detected, rules are applied to detected traffic flows, machine-learning based clustering of the detected traffic flows is performed, at least one new traffic rule is generated on the basis of one or more generated traffic clusters, the generated rules are simulated for obtaining a result indicating behavioural effect in the traffic of the communications network, the result is evaluated against one or more performance criteria of the communications network and the generated rules are applied if the performance criteria of the communications network have been met.
US10932155B2
In the present invention, data generated from a source unit are distributed to at least one bandwidth; the data distributed to the respective bandwidths are encoded in order to perform an error correction; the encoded data are distributed to at least one antenna; a subcarrier is allocated to the data distributed to the respective antennas, and an inverse Fourier transform is performed; a short preamble and a first long preamble corresponding to the subcarrier are generated; a signal symbol is generated according to a data transmit mode; and a frame is generated by adding a second long preamble between the signal symbol and a data field for the purpose of estimating a channel of a subcarrier which is not used.
US10932150B2
Layer 2 structures and procedures may be used for beam management in new radio networks. In a first example, a new radio layer 2 structure may be used to facilitate beam management at the medium access control sublayer. In a second example, new radio feedback mechanisms may be signaled between peer medium access control entities and used to assist with beam management. In a third example, new radio beam management procedures may include new radio beam training, new radio beam alignment, new radio beam tracking, or new radio beam configuration. In a fourth example, new radio connection control procedure may include new radio initial access or new radio mobility management.
US10932137B2
A network management apparatus, a method and an apparatus in a wireless communication system. The network management apparatus includes: a network area dividing unit, configured to divide the coverage area of network signals into multiple sub-areas according to the transmission characteristics of a network node; a network node locating unit, configured to determine the sub-area in which the network node locates in the coverage area of network signals according to the geographical location information of the network node; and a wireless network resource management unit, configured to construct wireless network resource management information according to the sub-area in which the network node locates. According to embodiments, rapid dynamic network programming and reasonable wireless network resource allocation can be realized.
US10932133B2
A service data transmission method includes: determining, by an access network device, first information of service data to be sent by a terminal, where the first information includes at least one of a service type and a priority; then receiving, by the access network device, the service data sent by the terminal by using a non-access stratum signaling message; and sending, by the access network device, the service data and the first information to a gateway, so that the gateway charges the service data based on the first information after receiving the service data and the first information.
US10932127B2
Systems and methods for making local decisions regarding the trustworthiness of V2V communications are provided. According to one embodiment, a vehicle information packet is received by a vehicle connectivity subsystem of a connected car and is indicative of an attribute of a source from which the packet was received. The source purportedly represents a neighboring vehicle in proximity to the connected car. A trustworthiness value for the packet is determined based on the source and coherence of the packet with local information maintained by the connected car. The trustworthiness value is indicative of a likelihood that the source represents a neighboring vehicle in proximity to the connected car from which communications are to be trusted. An action to be taken by the vehicle connectivity subsystem is determined with respect to the source or the packet based on the trustworthiness value. The determined action taken by the vehicle connectivity subsystem.
US10932126B2
A method for unlocking a SIM card includes: determining, by a mobile terminal, whether a currently inserted SIM card belongs to a preset SIM card in compliance with a specific operator; controlling the mobile terminal to access a network normally if yes; detecting lock information of an IMSI corresponding to the SIM card if no; limiting the SIM card to access the network when the lock information of the IMSI exists and a lock type of the IMSI is a lock state; and controlling the mobile terminal to access the network normally when the lock information of the IMSI exists and the lock type of the IMSI is an unlock state. A mobile terminal is also provided.
US10932123B2
A service provider server may receive a request for temporary wireless data service for a user device. The service provider server may determine user information associated with a user account of the user device based on the request for the temporary wireless data service. The service provider server may generate a profile for the temporary wireless data service based on the user information associated with the user account. The service provider server may provide provisioning information based on the profile for the temporary wireless data service to the user device to activate access to the temporary wireless data service. The service provider server may authenticate, after providing the provisioning information, the user device for use of the temporary wireless data service based on the provisioning information and the profile.
US10932118B1
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are set forth for providing digital and non-digital content to a segment of a population that is identified using geolocation data and other activity data. In some implementations, non-digital content is delivered via postal mail to a segment of a population according to whether the segment of the population viewed certain content before, during, or after visiting a particular geographic location. In other implementations, digital content, such as phone calls or voice messages, can be delivered to a segment of a population according whether the segment of the population is present or has recently been present at a particular location and previously viewed certain content associated with the location. Segmenting populations in this way can conserve computational resources and materials that might otherwise be wasted on serving a larger population that may have less of an interest in the content.
US10932115B2
In accordance with various embodiments, an electron beam evaporator can comprise the following: a tubular target; an electron beam gun for producing at least one vapor source on a removal surface of the tubular target by means of an electron beam; wherein the removal surface is a ring-shaped axial end surface or a surface of the tubular target that extends conically or in a curved fashion from the free end edge.
US10932106B2
A method enables automated remote control of a remote device from a local device connected to the remote device over a network. The method includes executing a set of one or more commands on the remote device by invoking a macro on the local device. Invoking the macro causes the local device to send said the set of commands over the network to the remote device.
US10932097B2
Systems and methods described herein provide routing determinations for MT-SMS-over-NAS in core networks that support 5G and legacy systems. A network device stores routing priority data for multiple short message service (SMS) delivery methods in the core network. The network device receives, from a first network element, a delivery request for a mobile-terminated (MT) SMS message directed to an end device and sends, in response, a query to a second network element. The query requests a short message service function (SMSF) address for an SMSF in the core network with which the end device is registered. The network device receives a response to the query and selects, based on the response and the stored routing priority data, an SMS delivery method for the MT SMS message. The network device sends, to a third network element, routing instructions for the MT SMS message based on the selected SMS delivery method.
US10932088B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media for report identification and power control for ranging in a wireless network are disclosed. An apparatus of a responding station (RSTA) is disclosed, where the apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to perform ranging with a initiating stations (ISTAs) and maintain a separate sounding dialogue token for each of the ISTAs and transmit a corresponding sounding dialogue token for a ISTA in a trigger frame for ranging and sounding or a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame, and in a responding to initiating location measurement report. Apparatuses of RSTAs and ISTAS are disclosed that perform power control management during non-trigger-based ranging.
US10932084B2
Systems, methods and devices for location-based services are disclosed in the present invention. A multiplicity of network devices, a database, and a server platform in network-based communication. The database stores a space-network model binding IP addresses and physical locations. The server platform is operable to generate at least one geofence in the space-network model and specify entitlements for the location-based services within the at least one geofence. The at least one geofence and specific entitlement are stored to the database. The multiplicity of network devices is configured to learn the space-network model and the at least one geofence and perform tasks based on the entitlements specified for the location-based services within the at least one geofence.
US10932082B2
A system and method of modifying a binaural signal using headtracking information. The system calculates a delay, a first filter response, and a second filter response, and applies these to the left and right components of the binaural signal according to the headtracking information. The system may also apply headtracking to parametric binaural signals. In this manner, headtracking may be applied to pre-rendered binaural audio.
US10932080B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to repositioning a location of an acoustic sweet spot for a multi-speaker system. One example provides a computing system configured to receive first location data regarding a first location of an object in a space as determined from data acquired by a first image sensor having a fixed location within the space, send a notification to an audio-providing device regarding the first location of the object as determined from the data acquired by the first image sensor, receive second location data regarding a second location of the object in the space as determined by a second sensor, the second location being outside of a view of the first image sensor, and based on receiving the second location data, send a notification to the audio-providing device regarding the second location of the object as determined by the second sensor.
US10932078B2
A method for creating an output soundfield signal from an input soundfield signal, the method including the steps of: (a) forming at least one delayed signals from the input soundfield signal, (b) for each of the delayed signals, creating an acoustically transformed delayed signal, by an acoustic transformation process, and (c) combining together the acoustically transformed delayed signals and the input soundfield signal to produce the output soundfield signal.
US10932074B2
A detachable smart speaker system and a control method thereof are disclosed. The detachable smart speaker system includes a core device and a pairing device. The core device includes a microphone array, a CPU, a wireless communication module, a core bridge element and a database. The microphone array, the core bridge element and the database are connected to the CPU. The database includes plural audio parameter sets. The pairing device includes a speaker, a microcontroller unit, a pairing bridge element, and an identification code. The speaker and the pairing bridge element are connected to the microcontroller unit, respectively. The pairing device is detachably connected to the core device through the pairing bridge element, and a corresponding audio parameter set is to be selected from the audio parameter sets of the database according to the identification code. The core device controls the pairing device according to the corresponding audio parameter set.
US10932073B2
A method and a system for measuring a total sound pressure level of noise, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a time domain digital signal of a sound pressure signal of the noise; obtaining a frequency domain signal of the sound pressure signal according to the time domain digital signal of the sound pressure signal; obtaining a sound pressure effective value of the sound pressure signal based on the frequency domain signal and according to Parseval's theorem; and converting the sound pressure effective value into the total sound pressure level of the noise.
US10932071B2
Methods and systems are described for transferring programming information to a hearing instrument. Such programming information may include hearing loss compensation parameters and/or other information pertaining to device operation. In one embodiment, each of a pair of hearing instruments prescribed and configured for a particular hearing loss contains the necessary information for operation on either the left or right ear. The data from one hearing instrument may then be transferred to the other hearing instrument by means of wireless communication. In other embodiments, programming information is transferred wirelessly by an external device connected to a database.
US10932069B2
Acoustic valves include a housing having an acoustic inlet, an acoustic outlet, and an acoustic passage between the inlet and the outlet. An electrical coil is disposed in the housing and configured to generate a magnetic field when energized by an actuation signal. A spring is coupled to an armature movably disposed in the housing between a first surface and a second surface. The valve has a first stable state wherein the armature is positioned against one surface when the electrical coil is not energized, and the valve has a second stable state wherein the armature is positioned against the other surface when the electrical coil is not energized. The armature is movable between the first and second states when the electrical coil is energized, wherein the acoustic passage is more obstructed when the armature is in one state than when the armature is in the other state.
US10932068B2
An auditory prosthesis can be powered by an on-board battery that is placed into a receptacle in the auditory prosthesis. When longer battery life is desired, a recipient can selectively utilize a discrete power supply to power the auditory prosthesis. The discrete power supply provides power to the auditory prosthesis and, in certain embodiments, has a longer life than the on-board battery. The discrete power supply includes an adapter having a form factor that mates with the battery receptacle on the auditory prosthesis.
US10932064B2
The present invention provides a condenser microphone, comprising a substrate, and a back plate and a vibrating diaphragm which are arranged on the substrate; the back plate is arranged on the upper side and/or the lower side of the vibrating diaphragm; and the vibrating diaphragm is provided with a protruding layer or a corrugated membrane structure layer. With the above invention, the area of the vibrating diaphragm and the capacitance at the lateral side of the condenser microphone can be increased, so as to achieve the effect of improving the sensitivity of the condenser microphone.
US10932054B2
The present disclosure provides a sound device which includes a vibration system, a magnetic circuit system, and a basket that accommodates the vibration system and the magnetic circuit system. The vibration system includes a diaphragm and a voice coil that drives the diaphragm to vibrate. The fixing portion includes a first fixing portion fixed to the upper surface and extending to an edge of the upper surface and a second fixing portion extending from the first fixing portion and along the outer side surface. The second fixing portion in a continuous ring shape is around an end of the outer side surface close to the upper surface in a sealing manner, and a thickness of the second fixing portion is increasing in a direction away from the upper surface.
US10932050B2
A micro-speaker includes a vibration unit including a diaphragm assembly and a voice coil assembly, a magnetic circuit unit including a yoke including a voice coil bobbin and a voice coil affixed to the voice coil bobbin, and a magnet provided on the yoke, and a holder including a holder bottom wall abutting against the yoke, a holder sidewall extending from a side of the holder bottom wall close to the magnet along a direction facing away from the yoke and forming a magnetic gap with the magnet in which the voice coil is disposed, and a magnetism shielding wall formed by extending from a side of the holder sidewall facing away from the yoke while being bent towards the voice coil, a side of the magnetism shielding wall facing away from the diaphragm being provided with a hollow annular magnetic conductive sheet spaced apart from the voice coil.
US10932048B2
The present disclosure provides a speaker, including a housing, and a vibration unit and a magnetic circuit unit that are received in the housing. The vibration unit includes a voice coil and a flexible circuit board electrically connected to the voice coil. An adhesive layer is provided at a position where the flexible circuit board is connected to the voice coil. The speaker of the disclosure is provided with an adhesive layer at a position where the flexible circuit board is connected with the voice coil, thereby making it possible to increase the adhesive force of the voice coil and the flexible circuit board using the provided adhesive layer, reduce risk of reliable separation, increase the service life of the speaker, reduce the maintenance cost of the speaker, and increase the economic benefits.
US10932047B2
The present invention provides a sound generator having a permeable isolation assembly including a permeable damper, two gums attached to the opposite ends of the permeable damper and PET layer located between two gums. The presence of the PET layer improves the hardness of the permeable damper so as to form adsorption when the permeable isolation component is automatically attached, which is convenient for automatic attachment of the permeable isolation assembly and further improves production efficiency and product qualification rate.
US10932044B2
A speaker includes a holder and a vibration unit and a magnetic circuit unit fixed and held at the holder. The vibration unit includes: a first diaphragm and an elastic support located at an end of the voice coil facing away from the first diaphragm and elastically supporting the voice coil. The elastic support includes a flexible circuit board and a second diaphragm fixed and held at one side of the flexible circuit board facing away from the voice coil. The flexible circuit board is sandwiched between the voice coil and the second diaphragm and includes an upper surface fixed to the voice coil and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface. The second diaphragm is fixed to the lower surface by a binder, and the lower surface is recessed towards the upper surface to form a binder accommodation groove.
US10932040B2
A lighting system includes a first lighting fixture that includes a first microphone and a first transmitter. The first transmitter is configured to transmit a first digital audio stream generated based on a sound. The lighting system further includes a second lighting fixture that includes a second microphone and a second transmitter. The second transmitter is configured to transmit a second digital audio stream generated based on the sound, where the sound is received by the first microphone and by the second microphone. The lighting system also includes a central processor that can process the first digital audio stream and the second digital audio stream to identify the sound.
US10932035B2
The present invention provides a sound generator having a permeable isolation assembly including a permeable damper and a back gum attached to the permeable damper. The permeable damper can completely cover two through holes for leakage, two through holes can be covered at the same time with back gum pasted only once, which effectively improves production and assembly efficiency. The permeable isolation assembly includes a permeable damper and a back gum attached to one side of the permeable damper adjacent to the bottom wall. The permeable damper comprises a body part and a pair of extension parts extending from both ends of the body part respectively. The back gum includes a primary body, and a pair of branch bodies extending from two ends of the primary body and attached to the extension parts respectively.
US10932030B2
Headphones include a first microphone configured to receive ambient sound at an outside of an external auditory canal of a user; a second microphone configured to receive sound inside the external auditory canal; a speaker configured to output sound toward the external auditory canal; a determiner configured to determine whether or not wind noise has occurred by comparing a first signal based on the sound received the first microphone with a second signal based on the sound received by the second microphone; and a processor configured to output, to the speaker, a signal obtained by adding an input signal to the first signal when the determiner determines that wind noise has not occurred.
US10932027B2
A wearable audio device including a magnetic device and a docking or parking magnet that has opposed first and second sides and produces a magnetic field, wherein the flux of the magnetic field from the first side has a greater magnitude than the flux of the magnetic field from the second side, and wherein the second side is closer to the magnetic device than is the first side.
US10932026B2
The invention relates to a broadband electrodynamic transducer for headphones, said transducer comprising: —a magnetic motor designed to generate a magnetic field; —a coil that is disposed in the air gap of the magnetic motor and can move translationally under the effect of the magnetic field; and —a membrane that is connected to the coil in such a way as to convert the translational movement of the coil into an acoustic wave; —the transducer comprising a self-supporting coil that is glued to the membrane, the membrane having a Young's modulus of more than 40 GPa.
US10932024B2
A loudspeaker system and method of utilizing and/or installing thereof. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a loudspeaker system that may be conveniently integrated with a power distribution network of a premises.
US10932022B2
The present invention provides a speaker box, including a main body having a plurality of sound holes; and a dustproof mesh adhered to an outer side of the main body for covering the sound hole. The dustproof mesh includes an air-permeable mesh plate covering the sound holes, and a first bonding layer adhered between the air-permeable mesh plate and the main body. The first bonding layer includes a sound transmission holes corresponding to the sound holes and being covered by the air-permeable mesh plate. The speaker box further includes a second bonding layer, including an accommodation hole correspondingly accommodating the air-permeable mesh plate and the first bonding layer. The dustproof mesh has an orthographic projection at the outer side of the main body not overlapping an orthographic projection of the second bonding layer at the outer side of the main body.
US10932020B2
The present invention provides a sound generator. The sound generator of the present disclosure is characterized in that the front cover hollows to form the glue slot which is around and communicated with the positioning holes. After being filled into the glue slot, the glue flows into the gap between the melting point posts and the positioning holes for filling. Therefore the horizontal sway of the front cover is reduced and even avoided, and then the front cover is fixed stably. At the same time, with the gap, the glue can flow to the position between the frame and the front cover, which increases the fixing strength and stability between the front cover and the frame with the melting points as well as the tensile property of the front cover, and therefore the acoustic stability of the sound generator is further optimized.
US10932015B2
There is provided herein a system and method for automatic configuration of data routings for use with electronic data such as phone calls, faxes, etc. In the preferred embodiment, when more than one carrier might potentially terminate the transmission, the carriers are ordered based on some screening criterion (e.g., transmission price). Data transmissions are then assigned to the carriers based on the sorting order, with the second place and lower carriers (e.g., the higher priced carriers) not being selected unless the first carrier cannot complete the transaction. The switch instructions necessary to implement this scheme are generated automatically.
US10932013B2
Systems and methods are described herein for causing to be provided reminders during consumption of a content item. The system detects subjects and the associations among them that are referenced in the content item and generates metadata with information about the associations. The metadata is used to determine, during later content item consumption, if at least one criterion for providing a reminder of the association is satisfied. For example, a criterion that at least two months must pass before a reminder is given regarding the relationship between characters in a video game is satisfied when a video game player has not been shown information about the relationship in three months. Accordingly, the system causes to be displayed the reminder of the association when the at least criterion is satisfied.
US10932006B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can cause a content item to be presented through a display screen of the computing device, the presentation of the content item beginning at a first time position. A determination is made that a user operating the computing device has adjusted the presentation of the content item to correspond to a second time position. A thumbnail preview that corresponds to the second time position is obtained from a composite preview video associated with the content item.
US10932005B2
A system (100) for enabling a user to select media content in an entertainment environment, comprising a remote control device (110) having a set of user-activated keys and a speech activation circuit adapted to enable a speech signal; a speech engine (160) comprising a speech recognizer (170); an application wrapper (180) configured to recognize substantive meaning in the speech signal; and a media content controller (190) configured to select media content. Every function that can be executed by activation of the user-activated keys can also be executed by the speech engine (160) in response to the recognized substantive meaning.
US10932002B2
A method of identifying media content presented on a display device includes determining a selected input source providing a video signal to the display device, and then selecting a first set of content identification rules when it is determined that the selected input source is a first input source, and selecting a second set of content identification rules when it is determined that the selected input source is a second input source. The method further comprises applying the selected first set or second set of content identification rules to the video signal in order to generate content identification data for the media content presented on the display device. Application of the content identification rules includes waiting for a trigger event and applying an algorithm to one or more frames of the video signal following the trigger event.
US10931991B2
The disclosure provides methods and systems for skipping unwanted portions of media content based on a crowdsourcing feedback model. The media content may include television programming content, video content, and audio content. The unwanted portions of media content include, for example, television commercials, opening and closing credits. An exemplary crowdsourcing feedback model involves receiving and processing a plurality of user seek information records. These records include time markers of the media content indicating when the users started and stopped fast forwarding or when the users started and stopped moving a scrub bar to jump from one portion of the content to another. When collected, the user seek information records are used to train a machine-learning system to calculate start and stop times of unwanted portions of media content. Once the start and stop times are calculated, user devices are enabled to automatically skip these unwanted portions.
US10931987B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to reduce signature matching uncertainty in media monitoring systems are disclosed. Disclosed example apparatus are to compare first neighborhoods of monitored signatures representative of monitored media with second neighborhoods of reference signatures representative of respective reference media to determine a first sequence of matching results for an observation period, the first and second neighborhoods to have respective sizes that span a first number of signatures. Disclosed example apparatus are also to select whether to output the first or a second sequence of matching results for the observation period based on whether a discontinuity is detected in the first sequence of matching results, the second sequence of matching results to be determined from comparisons of third neighborhoods of monitored signatures with fourth neighborhoods of reference signatures, the third and fourth neighborhoods to have respective sizes that span a second larger number of signatures.
US10931978B2
Systems and methods for presenting media content in an aircraft are provided. A first video display unit is communicatively coupled to a personal electronic device for obtaining therefrom a request to present the media content. A wireless access point is communicatively coupled to the first video display unit for receiving from the first video display unit a first command to query the personal electronic device for media presentation parameters, and the wireless access point is communicatively coupled to the personal electronic device for obtaining the media presentation parameters therefrom. A second video display unit is communicatively coupled to the first video display unit via the wireless access point. The wireless access point is configured for issuing a second command to at least one of the first and second video display units to cause the media content to be presented according to the media presentation parameters.
US10931976B1
In an embodiment described herein, a method for face-speech bridging by cycle video/audio reconstruction is described. The method comprises encoding audio data and video data via a mutual autoencoders that comprise an audio autoencoder and a video autoencoder, wherein the mutual autoencoders share a common space with corresponding embeddings derived by each of the audio autoencoder and the video autoencoder. Additionally, the method comprises substituting embeddings from a non-corrupted modality for corresponding corrupted embeddings in a corrupted modality in real-time based at least in part on corrupted audio data or corrupted video data. The method also comprises synthesizing reconstructed audio data and reconstructed video data based on, at least in part, the substituted embeddings.
US10931975B2
An endpoint device outputs frames of test media during a testing procedure. Each frame of test media includes a test pattern. A test module coupled to the endpoint device samples the test pattern and transmits sample data to a media test engine. The media test engine decodes a binary number from the test pattern and then converts the binary number to an integer value that is associated with the corresponding frame. The media test engine then analyzes sequences of these integer values to identify playback errors associated with the endpoint device.
US10931960B2
A method or coding image information, according to the present invention, comprises the steps of: binarizing according to different techniques, index values of forward prediction, backward prediction, and bidirectional prediction, depending on whether the bidirectional prediction is applied when inter-predicting a current block; and entropy coding a binarized codeword, wherein whether to apply the bidirectional prediction when inter-predicting the current block can be determined on the basis of the size of the current block. As a result, provided are a method for binarizing an inter-prediction direction of a prediction unit having a specific size, and an apparatus using same.
US10931956B2
Methods and systems for light field image encoding and decoding are disclosed. According to some embodiments, scene metadata and input light field images associated with a scene are received. A first encoding operation is performed on the scene metadata and input light field images to generate reference images, reference disparity information, and an order of reference views. A second encoding operation is performed based on the reference images and reference disparity information to output light field encoded data. The light field encoded data includes the encoded reference images, the encoded reference disparity information, and the order of reference views. The light field encoded data is transmitted.
US10931954B2
A media device includes a processor to calculate a value of an objective function for each sequence of modes of a plurality of sequences of modes, based on at least statistical data of a plurality of modes. The plurality of sequences of modes corresponds to different combinations of modes from the plurality of modes. The plurality of modes corresponds to a plurality of encoding operations executed. The processor selects a sequence of modes from the plurality of sequences of modes based on a value of the objective function associated with the sequence of modes. The modes in the selected sequence of modes are less than the plurality of modes and represents an optimal encoding scheme executable to encode an input image block.
US10931952B2
A multi-codec encoder includes a first partitioning unit and a second partitioning unit configured to receive first data and second data, respectively. Sequential frames of image data are alternately classified into the first data and the second data. The multi-codec encoder further includes a motion estimation module configured to generate motion estimation information, based on the first data and reference data, a first codec configured to encode the first data with the motion estimation information, and a second codec configured to encode the second data with the motion estimation information.
US10931944B2
The present invention relates to an image processing device and method that enable generation of a highly precise prediction image using a small amount of control information. A motion compensation circuit specifies a macroblock corresponding to a prediction image in part of reference frames using a motion vector supplied from a prediction mode determination circuit, reads an image thereof from a frame memory, and extracts it as a motion compensation image. A motion prediction circuit reads, from a frame memory, at least one or more of the remaining reference frames, performs motion prediction of the motion compensation image supplied from the motion compensation circuit in each frame, reads an image of a macroblock that matches or is similar to the motion compensation image from the frame memory, and extracts it as a motion compensation image.
US10931935B2
The present disclosure provides a structured light projection module comprising: a Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser (VCSEL) array light source that includes a semiconductor substrate and at least two VCSEL sub-arrays arranged thereon. The at least two VCSEL sub-arrays include VCSEL light sources. The structured light projection module further includes a diffractive optical element (DOE) that includes at least two DOE sub-units. The DOE sub-units are respectively corresponding to the VCSEL sub-arrays and configured to project multiple copies of light beams emitted by the corresponding at least two VCSEL sub-arrays.
US10931934B2
A watercraft may include a safety system having an imaging component and a control component. The control component may modify the operation of the watercraft based on images from the imaging component. The imaging component may include a thermal imaging component and a non-thermal imaging component. The watercraft may include more than one imaging component disposed around the periphery of the watercraft to monitor a volume surrounding the watercraft for objects in the water such as debris, a person, and/or dock structures. Operating the watercraft based on the images may include operating propulsion and/or steering systems of the watercraft based on a detected object. The control component may operate the propulsion and/or steering systems to disable a propeller when a swimmer is detected, to avoid detected debris, and/or to perform or assist in performing docking maneuvers. The imaging components may include compact thermal imaging modules mounted on or within the hull of the watercraft.
US10931930B2
The techniques described herein relate to methods, apparatus, and computer readable media configured to decode video data. Video data includes video content, overlay content, and overlay metadata that is specified separate from the video content and overlay content. The overlay content is determined to be associated with the video content based on the overlay metadata. The overlay content is overlaid onto the video content in the region of the video content.
US10931925B2
The present invention relates to a monitoring camera having an autofocusing function based on a composite filtering robust against a change in visibility status and a video monitoring system employing the same. The present invention comprises: a hardware filter for blocking one of a visible light band and an infrared light band and allowing the other thereof to pass therethrough; and a software filter for filtering a color image or a black-and-white image generated by an image signal processor (ISP) by removing, from the color image or the black-and-white image, a factor reducing a visibility distance at the front side of a lens part, wherein the filtering band of the hardware filter and whether to perform filtering by the software filter are controlled according to a filtering level corresponding to a current visibility status at the front side of the lens part among a plurality of filtering levels. Therefore, the present invention can provide an image which is always clear enough to enable a target object to be identified regardless of a visibility status at the front of a monitoring camera, and an accurate autofocusing function can be provided constantly regardless of the visibility status in front of the monitoring camera by performing autofocusing using analysis of an image provided through stepwise composite filtering.
US10931924B2
To correct aberrations in the image plane of a camera while modifying selected, modifiable camera settings that influence aberrations quickly and simply, a plurality of features with different known feature positions is provided in space. For each selected, modifiable camera setting influencing the aberration, at least two defined setting specifications are provided for modifying respective camera settings. For each setting specification, the camera captures the plurality of features. The camera determines positions of features in the image plane. Via a known mathematical method, a connection between different known feature positions in space and corresponding image positions in the image plane of the camera is determined. For each of the setting specifications of the selected modifiable camera settings, correction parameters of at least one mathematical correction model are determined for correcting the aberration. The at least one correction model is stored in the camera together with the determined correction parameters.
US10931920B2
Traditional approaches to automated monitoring using a pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) video security system involve the use of programmed patterns/preset tours. In contrast, a camera tour is configured based on operation of a surveillance system during a period of active operation by a user. The configuration accounts for frequency of given views and other measures to provide an automated tour. The automated tour is displayed when the system is not under active control, and can be updated during further periods of active control.
US10931917B2
A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
US10931912B2
A computer-implemented method includes: storing, by a computing device, pixel-based classification rules in a memory of a computing device; storing, by the computing device, video uploading rules that identify a subset of a plurality of cameras implemented within a vehicle for which video should be uploaded in the memory of the computing device; detecting, by the computing device, satisfaction of video upload event criteria based on video or image data from at least one of the plurality of cameras and vehicle information comprising one of vehicle sensor information and vehicle diagnostic information; determining, by the computing device, a subset of the plurality of cameras based on the detecting the satisfaction of the video upload event criteria; and uploading, by the computing device, video captured by only the subset of the plurality of cameras to a video storage server.
US10931908B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a first A/D converter circuit and a second A/D converter circuit per column. The first A/D converter circuit performs a first A/D conversion that (i) refines, using a first comparator, a range including a potential of an analog signal through a binary search, and (ii) generates, based on a result of the binary search, a first digital signal being a high-order portion of the digital signal. The second A/D converter circuit performs a second A/D conversion that generates a second digital signal being a low-order portion that is a remainder of the digital signal by measuring a time required for an output of the second comparator to be inverted, the second comparator comparing a quantitative relationship between the analog signal refined and a ramp signal.
US10931907B2
An image sensor includes: a photoelectric conversion unit that photoelectrically converts incident light and generates a charge; and an A/D conversion unit that converts the analog signal generated due to charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit into a digital signal, wherein: the A/D conversion unit includes a comparison unit that compares the analog signal with a reference signal and a first circuit layer including a first capacitor for generating the reference signal and a second circuit layer laminated to the first circuit layer and including with a second capacitor for generating the reference signal.
US10931895B2
An image processing device (10) is provided with: an estimation unit (11) for estimating, by using image data and a spectral sensitivity characteristic of a color image sensor in a wavelength range from visible light to near-infrared light, a spectral distribution characteristic of an incident light incident on the color image sensor, based on a model expressing the spectral distribution characteristic of the incident light, the image data including one or more color channels and acquired by capturing, using the color image sensor, the incident light including visible light and near-infrared light; and a generation unit (12) for generating, using the estimated spectral distribution characteristic of the incident light and the spectral sensitivity characteristic of the color image sensor, visible light image data configured only from information representing the visible light and near-infrared light image data configured only from information representing the near-infrared light.
US10931889B1
A system and method for providing landscape (horizontal) and portrait (vertical) oriented images of a common scene on separate feeds with independent image controls includes a movable horizontal camera configured to provide a horizontal image on a horizontal image feed, a movable vertical camera configured to provide a vertical image on a vertical image feed, the horizontal and vertical cameras configured to be aligned along a camera axis and mounted to a common support, the horizontal and vertical cameras configured to view the common scene and to provide separate horizontal and vertical image feeds simultaneously, the cameras being independently controlled such that a given camera is moved when a tracked subject exceeds a control range threshold for that camera image, independent of the subject location in the other camera image. In some embodiments, a single high resolution image may be used with independently-controlled horizontal and vertical extracted images.
US10931888B2
An image processing device includes a transfer function input unit to which each of transfer functions of a plurality of imaging-systems is input, a calculation unit that calculates a target resolution value which is a target value of recovery processing that recovers a plurality of captured images to be output from each of the plurality of the imaging-systems based on each of the input transfer functions and a predetermined criterion, a recovery filter generation unit that generates a recovery filter used for the recovery processing with respect to each of the plurality of imaging-systems based on each of the transfer functions of the plurality of imaging-systems and a target resolution value, and a recovered image generation unit that performs the recovery processing with respect to the captured images acquired from the plurality of imaging-systems by using the recovery filter generated for each of the plurality of imaging-systems to generate recovered images.
US10931882B2
A first imaging unit according to the present embodiment has a plurality of imaging units arranged such that capturing ranges partially overlap with each other and generates a combined image in which images captured by the plurality of imaging units are connected and combined to each other by a combining processing unit. A second imaging unit according to the present embodiment captures a part of a capturing range of the first imaging unit. A control unit according to the present embodiment controls exposure levels of the plurality of imaging units based on at least one of a state of the second imaging unit and information included in an image captured by the second imaging unit.
US10931875B2
One aspect of the present disclosure is an image processing device performing image stabilization of frame images shot by an imaging device. This device is provided with an acquiring unit, an image generating unit and a cropping unit. The acquiring unit acquires the plurality of frame images. The image generating unit stitches, among the plurality of frame images acquired by the acquiring unit, a first frame image and a second frame image, the second frame image being one frame image among several frames before and after the first frame image, to generate a composite image larger than a size of the first frame image and the second frame image. The cropping unit sets a cropping region to the composite image and outputs an image in the cropping region as an output frame image.
US10931865B2
Provided are an imaging device, an imaging device main body, and a focusing control method of an imaging device capable of adjusting a focus with high accuracy by appropriately supporting the focus adjustment in a manual manner. An image sensor movement driver (220) that moves an image sensor (210) along an optical axis (L), and an image sensor movement controller (250a) that controls the movement of the image sensor (210) by controlling the image sensor movement driver (220) are provided. In a case where a subject is focused, the image sensor movement controller (250a) starts the tracking, and controls the movement of the image sensor (210) such that a focusing state is maintained based on a defocus amount detected by the phase difference AF processing unit (132).
US10931861B2
A method and apparatus for a panning camera using multiple lenses having a common planar image plane. An imaging device is positioned across said image plane sampling a section each time. The sampled plane is an imaging representation of a very large angular scenery and it is sampled and displayed piece by piece by the imaging device. An instantaneous image of a said section is displayed or stored by a computing device. Installation of two or more said panning camera with an offset distance in between will be the basis of fast 3D measurement of scenery around the installed cameras. As the imaging device advances across said image plane it will pass across fields of view of multiple lenses. The present invention relates to high resolution very wide field of view panning camera without moving the external camera casing. Said imaging device could be a CCD, CMOS, FLIR or other imaging camera device.
US10931845B2
A reading device including a position reference member having a reference pattern having a line extending along a first direction of the position reference member, the position reference member movable in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; a reader including a plurality of sensor chips arranged along the first direction, each of the sensor chips having a length defined by a plurality of pixels; and circuitry. The circuitry is configured to detect the reference pattern of the position reference member using the reader; determine coordinates of at least two sensor chips in the second direction, based on the detected reference pattern of the position reference member; and correct a position of a reading target in the second direction based on the coordinates determined for the at least two sensor chips of the reader in the second direction.
US10931843B2
A multi feed detection device includes a position detector that detects a position of paper being transported, a multi feed detector that is disposed on a downstream side of the position detector in a paper transport direction and detects multi feed of the paper being transported, and a control section that performs control such that multi feed detection by the multi feed detector is stopped when a leading end of paper being transported next to paper, on which multi feed detection is executed by the multi feed detector, is detected by the position detector.
US10931842B1
An example method performed by a computing device may involve receiving print job data representing a print job to be carried out by a printer to produce at least one copy of a media product. The method may also involve using a condition set to select, from a plurality of trays of the printer that are each configured for supplying media units, a set of one or more trays for use in carrying out the print job. The condition set may include a first condition that the set of trays includes a particular tray that is holding enough media units for supplying a total number of media units required to complete the print job. The method may also involve in response to using the condition set to select the set of trays, controlling the printer to carry out the print job using the set of trays.
US10931841B2
A sheet conveying apparatus includes first and second drive sources, first and second driving units, each including a respective first or second roller to convey a sheet, an operating unit, and a switching unit to switch a state of the sheet conveying apparatus between a first state in which the first driving unit and the second driving unit are not connected to each other and a second state in which the first driving unit and the second driving unit are connected to each other. A first drive source driving force drives the first driving unit. A second drive source driving force drives the second driving unit. The operating unit rotates when manually operated. In the second state, operating unit rotation is transmitted to the first driving unit to rotate the first roller, and operating unit rotation is transmitted to the second driving unit to rotate the second roller.
US10931835B1
A print media scanning system enables the rapid acquisition of books, magazines, papers and so on into a digital library. The media is placed on an inclined surface where is held in place and the pages to be scanned are secured by braces. A scanning head is suspended above the media and is adjustable with respect to the media. The data from the scanning head is transferred to a digital library.
US10931830B2
In a system in which a wireless access network and another network are connected to each other, an accurate fee is charged in a case where data held in an application server disposed in the wireless access network is used. The application server holds an application and data relating to the application. A usage mode information generating unit generates usage mode information which is information relating to a usage mode when the wireless terminal uses the held data. A network data usage amount measuring unit measures a network data usage amount when the wireless terminal uses data on another network via a wireless access network connected to the wireless terminal. A fee charging unit charges a fee on the basis of the measured network data usage amount and charge a fee on a basis of the generated usage mode information.
US10931826B1
Agents are grouped into skill groups based on the skills of each agent. Simulation are performed for a contact center with multiple queues, where agents from the skill groups are assigned to the queues based on the skills of the skill groups and the skills of the queues. After running the simulations, for each skill group and for each interval, the time each agent spent working using each associated skill is determined, and an average time for each skill is calculated for each interval. The average times are used to create a skill group weight for the skill group for each interval. Later, when the schedule engine is determining an agent placement for one or more intervals, the skill group weights for the intervals are used to calculate a score for the queues based on different agent placements. The placement with the best score (e.g., lowest) is implemented.
US10931825B2
A computer system routes contact center interactions. Interactions between contact center agents and contact center queries that are received at a contact center are monitored. A ranking model is trained according to the categories of the contact center queries and the interaction scores of each handled query using machine learning. The ranking model is tested according to various metrics to ensure that the ranking model ranks the agents according to one or more selected business outcomes. A net score may be determined for each contact center agent for each query category based on a predicted interaction score and one or more non-interaction features. Incoming queries may then be routed to an appropriate contact center agent based on the category of the incoming query. Embodiments may further include a method and program product for routing contact center interactions in substantially the same manner described above.
US10931821B2
A device may receive voice call data indicating that a voice call has been initiated between a first device and an interactive voice response device. The device may obtain, based on the voice call data, a user account identifier identifying a user account and obtain, based on the user account identifier, user account data including user authentication data. The device may receive user input provided by the first device during the voice call and determine, based on the user authentication data, that the user input fails to authenticate a user associated with the user account. The device may receive data indicating that the voice call has terminated and identify, based on the user input failing to authenticate the user, a second device. The device may perform an action based on the second device and the voice call data.
US10931818B1
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing prevention of foreign initiated fraudulent or unauthorized use of calling service. In various embodiments, a computing system might receive, from a first user device associated with an originating party, a request to access a first account of a calling system and an access code. Based on a determination that the received access code is valid, the computing system might determine whether the first user device associated with the originating party is located in a foreign country. If so, the computing system might determine whether a database contains a configurable flag indicating that international access is not allowed for the first account. If so, the computing system might initiate one or more first actions. If not, the computing system might provide the first user device with access to the first account of the calling system.
US10931809B2
A host mobile device and a mobile device cover for use with the host mobile device are configured to select a light pattern and one or more light pattern parameters. The host mobile device runs a mobile application that provides a graphical preview of the selected light pattern on the mobile device cover according to the one or more light parameters. In addition, the mobile application provides a preview of a notification by causing the mobile device cover to display the selected light pattern on the lights and/or screens of the mobile device cover.
US10931807B2
The invention relates to, among others, a network device (10, 11, 12) for an intercom network (13) for permitting an audio communication, in particular a duplex audio communication with other users (14a, 14b, 14c, 14d, 14e, 14f) of the intercom network, comprising a housing (33) and a communication module (20a, 20b) arranged therein or thereon, with which a radio link can be established for the transmission of audio signals to another user, wherein the radio link is subject to the DECT protocol. The speciality, among others, consists in that the network device (10, 11, 12) comprises a means (21) for preventing or reducing multipath interferences.
US10931801B2
A button assembly includes a pressing element, a tray, and a locking structure fastened between the pressing element and the tray. One side surface of the pressing element is recessed inward to form an accommodating space. The pressing element opens at least one first upper fixing hole. A bottom surface of the pressing element is recessed upward to form a first accommodating slot. The first accommodating slot opens at least one first opening. The tray of which one side is connected with the pressing element. The one side of the tray has a base portion mounted in the accommodating space. The base portion opens at least one second opening. A bottom surface of a peripheral wall of the at least one second opening is recessed upward to form at least one locking slot. The locking structure includes at least one locking element and an elastic arm.
US10931796B2
The techniques described herein describe diffusing packets through multipath inter-data center networks to identify faulty network apparatuses therein. In an implementation, a method of diffusing packets through a multipath inter-data center network to identify a faulty network apparatus in a source data center is disclosed. The method includes diffusing packets through various paths of a network fabric. Diffusing the packets includes sending out bursts of packets with varying packet header parameters to a set of machines in one or more target data centers. The method further include monitoring packet drops from the bursts of packets, issuing tracerts for each of the packet drops to identify corresponding failed routes, and triangulating the failed routes to identify the faulty network apparatus.
US10931792B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US10931791B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for processing a request. A specific embodiment of the method includes: receiving a request; determining a type of the request or an object name indicated by the request; acquiring, after determining that a current time is after a validity deadline of locally stored first request control information, the number of control servers in a preset control server set; determining, from the control server set, a target control server based on the acquired number and any one of: the type of the request, the object name indicated by the request; and forwarding the request to the target control server.
US10931788B2
A System Solution offers a Business Entity a way to update a Native Application Client by directly downloading a new version of the Application Client from an Application Server bypassing the Application Store. A Native Application Client is updated while the current Native Application Client is running on the Client Device. A Native Application Client is divided into a Native Layer which runs directly on the Operating System of the Client Device and a Dynamic Layer that runs on the Native Layer. The System Solution automatically generates Application Clients, Application Servers, and Dashboards. The Business Entity uses the generated Dashboards to modify the Dynamic Layer by generating a new Dynamic Layer and making it available for download to the Client Device. The Navigation Parameters can be set in the Dynamic Layer allowing the Business Entity to change the application flow of the Native Application Client.
US10931787B2
A method of forwarding information base synchronization for a network switch stacking system includes transmitting by at least one slave network switch at least one change event to a master network switch, generating by the master network switch a change confirmation to the at least one slave network switch when a master forwarding information base is determined to be necessarily updated by the master network switch according to the at least one change event, and updating by the at least one slave network switch at least one slave forwarding information base according to the change confirmation, wherein the at least one change event includes at least one of a new learn event, a port move event, a regular port aging out event, a logic aggregation update aging time event.
US10931785B2
This document describes a content delivery acceleration system including a communication interface configured to communicate with a remote device over a wireless network; a cache; and a controller configured to perform operations including: pre-computing one or more evaluation results for a webpage associated with a selectable network reference of a webpage, caching the one or more pre-computed evaluation results; retrieving, from the cache, the one or more pre-computed evaluation results; and pre-loading of one or more content tags for the one or more digital component slots, with the one or more content tags being preloaded with uniform resource locators (URLs) from which to load the digital components represented in the pre-computed evaluation results.
US10931781B2
A method and system for automatically updating a cache is provided. The method includes receiving by a database server from a mobile device, a request for modifying data within the database server. A Web service retrieves the request. The data is determined to be currently available within the database server and the request is transmitted to an analytics component of the database server. The analytics component determines if the data should be updated for use in an additional mobile device.
US10931779B2
A method for data processing is provided. The method may include: preprocessing initial data to obtain preprocessed data; storing the preprocessed data; receiving a data request made through an application, the data request including information relating to a storage path of contents that are requested; in response to the data request, determining, by a nearby proxy of a first proxy cluster in a first region, whether the contents requested in the data request are cached locally; and in response to a determination that the contents are cached locally, providing, by the nearby proxy, the contents to the application; or in response to a determination that the contents are not cached locally, acquiring, by the nearby proxy, the contents based on the information relating to the storage path of the contents; and providing, by the nearby proxy, the contents to the application.
US10931776B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for data fetching in a networked computing environment. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request from an analytical node for a set of data for a defined job, and identifying in networked storage a subset of the data for the job. The subset of data is loaded to the analytical node based on the sequence in which the data are projected to be accessed in the job. In an embodiment, the request includes a specification for the job, and the specification is analyzed to identify the subset of data. In one embodiment, the subset of data is identified by identifying another job having a relationship to the defined job, and identifying the data used for that other job. In an embodiment, the networked computing environment is a cloud computing environment, and the defined job is an analytics job.
US10931770B2
A system for notifying of arrival at a subway station and providing station information by using integrated smartphone positioning includes: a providing system 11 connected to a user terminal 12 through a network; and the user terminal including a current location identifying module 21, a path generating module 22, a boarding identifying module 23, an advertisement providing module 24, a stop station guidance module 25, and a sensor unit 27 having a plurality of sensors. The providing system 11 includes a sensing pattern information DB 31 storing information repeatedly sensed by the plurality of sensors at a predetermined location. The current location identifying module 21 determines the current location of the user terminal 12. The stop station guidance module 25 provides, to the user terminal 12, information about a nonstop station and about arrival at an arrival station on a real-time basis.
US10931767B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method, system and program product for prioritizing social media posts and recommending action(s) to a user for the prioritized of social media posts. The computer-implemented method includes monitoring, by the data processing system, interaction(s) of a user on social media accounts of the user, receiving, by the data processing system, input from the user including information about the user and goal(s) of the user with respect to the social media accounts, learning, by the data processing system, additional information about the user, and cognitively analyzing, by the data processing system, the interaction(s) of the user, the input from the user and the additional information about the user to derive preference(s) of the user regarding the social media accounts, the preference(s) including topic(s) of relevance to the user. The computer-implemented method further includes cognitively prioritizing, by the data processing system, social media post(s) from among the social media accounts based on the topic(s) of relevance and the user preference(s), the cognitively prioritizing resulting in prioritized social media posts, and cognitively recommending action(s) to the user based on the prioritized social media posts, the topic(s) of relevance and the user preference(s).
US10931761B2
A graph of combinations of entities and parameters corresponding to the combinations of entities may be stored as two tables. The first table may comprise a table that includes all entity combinations, as well as each parameter that corresponds to the entity combinations. Each entity combination may additionally be parseable, such that each entity combination may be parsed to allow for identification of each entity included within a given entity combination. The second table may include an entity combination node corresponding to (and linked to) each entity combination stored within the first table. Each given entity combination node of the second table may then be linked within the second table to each nearest neighbor node of the given node to thereby allow for identifying each entity combination within the first table that includes a particular relevant entity (or set of entities).
US10931759B2
Methods and systems for establishing a moderated communication channel. One system includes an electronic computing device including a network interface configured to receive and transmit communications between a communication device and a plurality of network-connectable devices. The electronic computing device further includes an electronic processor configured to establish a first communication channel between the communication device and a first network-connectable device over which the electronic computing device receives a first data feed relating to a public safety incident from the first network-connectable device. The electronic processor is further configured to receive and queue a second data feed from a second network-connectable device. The electronic processor is further configured to determine that the second data feed relates to the public safety incident, and in response to this determination, establish a moderated communication channel between the communication device, the first network-connectable device, and the second network-connectable device.
US10931758B2
Sensor data is received from a physical environment sensor. A component region associated with at least a portion of the sensor data is identified. A physical environment has been defined to include a plurality of component regions. Context information associated with the identified component region is obtained. The context information is utilized in association with a prediction model.
US10931757B2
A system contains a network testing engine that sends test data along different paths of a network between a source and a destination, wherein each path contains a plurality of network nodes, and receives, in response to sending the test data, response data about the paths. The system further contains a network path characteristics engine that determines characteristics of each path based on the response data, and a delivery parameters engine that receives a request for delivery of a data load from the source to the destination and determines, based on the request, delivery parameters. Furthermore, the system contains the source and a path selection engine that determines a selected path of the different paths based on the characteristics of the paths and the delivery parameters, and sends the selected data path to the source, which sends the data load along the selected path to the destination.
US10931756B2
A method begins by sending, by a user computing device of a storage network, a read request regarding data to a host computing device of the storage network in accordance with a transport layer protocol, where the read request includes data retrieval information associated the data. The method continues with determining, by the host computing device, a storage entity of the storage network that is storing the data based on the data retrieval information. The method continues with sending, by the host computing device, socket information and data retrieval information to the storage entity. The method continues with sending, by the storage entity, the data directly to the user computing device in accordance with the socket information and using the session identifier.
US10931749B2
Methods and systems for finding a migration target include building a constrained, layered graph from a catalog of possible configuration combinations and a distance function for each layer in the graph; and determining an available path through the graph, said path having a minimum overall distance from a source instance, by performing an optimized search that selectively evaluates available paths through the graph based on cumulative distances of paths through the graph from the source instance.
US10931746B2
Content downloads can be managed. For example, intermediary software can receive a first request to download content from a remote server. The intermediary software can receive the first request from content requesting software. The first request can be formed according to a first protocol. The intermediary software can intercept the first request to prevent the first request from being communicated to the remote server. The intermediary software can generate a second request based on the first request and according to a second protocol that is different from the first protocol and that is usable with a peer-to-peer network. The intermediary software can then transmit the second request to the peer-to-peer network to cause the content to be downloaded from the peer-to-peer network.
US10931740B2
In response to receiving an indication from a client device experiencing a network connectivity error, a grouping of target client devices is identified for purposes of executing a distributed network diagnostic, the grouping being identified based on one or more configuration settings associated with client devices. The client devices in the identified grouping retrieve and execute an instruction. Data generated upon executing the instruction is received from each client device over a device management channel. The data is aggregated and trend data is generated. An instruction is sent to the client device experiencing the network connectivity error, wherein the instruction mitigates the network connectivity error.
US10931739B2
This disclosure relates to method and system for generating strategy and roadmap for end-to-end information technology (IT) infrastructure cloud implementation. The method may include receiving natural language inputs from stakeholders with respect to a current IT infrastructure and a future IT infrastructure cloud implementation, receiving machine acquired data points from data centers, labelling human semantic data points in the natural language inputs and the machine acquired data points into labelled data points, mapping patterns in the labelled data points to a cloud implementation R-lane models, classifying a problem domain into classes of a cloud strategy based on at least one of the cloud implementation R-lane models, determining an implementable solution using at least one of a search, a backtracking, or a constraint propagation model to business constrains that are identified based on the classes, and generating an output artifact based on the implementable solution using a belief-desire-intention model.
US10931738B2
A system and method for the management of client computing device DNS queries and subsequent resource requests within a content delivery network service provider domain are provided. The management of the DNS queries can include the selection of computing devices corresponding to various Point of Presence locations for processing DNS queries. Additionally, the management of the content requests can include the selection of computing devices corresponding to resource cache components corresponding to various Point of Presence locations for providing requested content. The selection of the computing devices can incorporate logic related to geographic criteria, performance threshold criteria, testing criteria, and the like.
US10931727B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the intercept and manipulation of content requested by a client device. The methods, systems, and apparatuses described herein enable the interception and redirection of packets based upon a set of rules. Intercepted packets may be redirected away from an origin server and may be forwarded to a splicing device. The splicing device may establish a session with a corresponding origin server, and retrieve content that is requested by the intercepted packet. In embodiments, the splicing device may identify alternate content that is associated with the intercepted packet and/or content that is further associated with a device or subscriber associated with the packet. One or more segments of the requested content, or the entirety of the requested content may be replaced with the alternate content, and the modified content may be output to the client device requesting the content.
US10931723B2
Disclosed is a method for establishing a communication session. First, the communication session is initiated by a server. Next, a first connection request is generated for a voice call between a first WebRTC device and a second WebRTC device over a WebRTC gateway device. A second connection request including an identifier of first WebRTC device is generated towards a connection management server. Next, an inquiry to the connection management server by the second WebRTC device is generated for determining if a connection request is received from the first WebRTC device, and in that case the communication session including both the first connection for the voice call and a second connection is established.
US10931712B2
A method and associated circuits protect data stored in a secure data circuit of a telecommunication device equipped with a near-field communication (NFC) router, a microcontroller, and the secure data circuit. In the method, each message received with the NFC router is parsed to retrieve a communication pipe identifier and an instruction code. The communication pipe identifier and the instruction code are compared to corresponding information in a filter table. Instruction codes of particular messages that attempt to modify a communication pipe by reassigning one end of the communication pipe from the port of the NFC router to a different circuit are acted upon. These messages are blocked from reaching the secure data circuit when the instruction code is not authorized in the filter table, and these messages are permitted when the instruction code is authorized in the filter table.
US10931711B2
Disclosed are a system of defending against a DDoS attack based on an SDN and a method thereof. According to the present invention, when the HTTP Request message suspected for the attack arrives at the web server, the web server sends the HTTP Request message to the SDN controller located in the network, and the SDN controller determines the DDoS attack instead of the web server which is the attack target and blocks the traffic from the attacker through the nodes on the network according to the determination result of the SDN controller. Thereby, the traffic suspected as the DDoS attack that exhausts available connection resources of the web server is input to the SDN controller instead of the web server. Thereby the web server can be protected from the DDoS attack and the maintenance of the normal operation of the web server can be secured.
US10931710B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and device for defending against website attacks. The method includes obtaining a traffic threshold value corresponding to a target IP address, determining whether real-time visitor traffic for the target IP address exceeds the traffic threshold value, and handling visitor traffic for the target IP address based at least in part on whether the real-time visitor traffic for the target IP address exceeds the traffic threshold value, wherein the handling incoming visitor traffic for the target IP address based at least in part on whether the real-time visitor traffic for the target IP address exceeds the traffic threshold value includes, in the event that the real-time visitor traffic for the target IP address exceeds the traffic threshold value, configuring a blackhole route for the target IP address, and redirecting the incoming visitor traffic for the target IP address to the blackhole route.
US10931706B2
A method for detecting and/or identifying a cyber-attack on a network can include segmenting the network using a segmentation method with machine learning to generate one or more network segments; assigning a score to a data point within each network segment based on a presence or absence of an identified anomalous behavior of the data point; analyzing network data flow, via behavioral modeling, to provide a context for characterizing the anomalous behavior; combining, via a reinforcement learning agent, outputs of the segmentation method with behavioral modelling and assigned score to detect and/or identify a cyber-attack; providing one or more alerts to an analyst; receiving an analyst assessment of an effectiveness of the detection and/or identification; and providing the analyst assessment as feedback to the reinforcement learning agent.
US10931703B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are related to a method, apparatus, and system for generating scores for the security threat coverage in a client network based on collected network environment data, comprising: determining a client device list; creating a client-specific threat matrix based on the client device list and a general threat matrix; and determining one or more security threat coverage scores for the client network based on the client-specific threat matrix.
US10931696B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for dynamically detecting and/or mitigating threats in communications systems. Exemplary methods and apparatus of the present invention allow for a combination of automated and operator controlled responses to threats. While an operator is provided an opportunity to provide input on how to respond to a threat, after one or more threats of a given type are identified, the system will automatically take corrective action without waiting for operator input and/or in the absence of operator input following notification of a threat.
US10931695B2
An entity can disseminate nonces by introducing them into various aspects of network traffic, and then listening for them, thereby detecting eavesdroppers on the Internet. A nonce may be numeric, alphanumeric, or otherwise; nonces are contextually appropriate to how they are disseminated. Preferably, a nonce is disseminated by incorporating it into some aspect of network traffic. For example, a nonce can be placed in a network identifier such as an IP address or domain name label. Correlating the circumstances under which the nonce was disseminated and under which it was observed to “propagate”, intelligence about who is eavesdropping on what portions of the Internet can be derived. Such intelligence can be put to many uses, including reporting on eavesdroppers, routing traffic around eavesdroppers, developing reputation scores, and adopting enhanced obfuscation/privacy/security techniques.
US10931694B2
A processing pipeline for supporting advanced analytics for network monitoring and information management as well as specific analytics for particular use cases. The processing pipeline 500 takes in system data (502) and pre-processes (504) the system data. The system data (502) may include any of the types of data described above including text log files, and categorical data from various sources. The illustrated processing pipeline 500 includes two branches; a data modeling branch (506) where a model is developed for the data and a data evaluation branch (508) where the developed model is leveraged to evaluate live data. For certain event detection use cases, the output of the data evaluation branch (508) includes a score (510) (e.g., a threat level score) and context information for evaluating the threat.
US10931692B1
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives information regarding a network anomaly detected by an anomaly detector deployed in the network. The device identifies the detected network anomaly as a false positive based on the information regarding the network anomaly. The device generates an output filter for the anomaly detector, in response to identifying the detected network anomaly as a false positive. The output filter is configured to filter an output of the anomaly detector associated with the false positive. The device causes the generated output filter to be installed at the anomaly detector.
US10931686B1
A method to facilitate detection of automated attacks on a web service is disclosed. Some embodiments of the method can include binding a session identifier to a user session with the web service. The method can further include receiving a plurality of web requests during the user session that include the session identifier. The plurality of web requests can then be processed with a set of automation detection heuristics to identify session attributes associated with the session identifier during the user session. The method can further include detecting that the session identifier is associated with an automated attack when at least one of the session attributes associated with the session identifier exceeds a threshold amount.
US10931683B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in secure content access, distribution and download and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic token-based secure content streaming.
US10931675B2
A computing device, including one or more output devices and a processor. The processor may be configured to download a web application. The web application may include an authorization certificate and a metadata file that includes an identifier of at least one local application program interface (API) of the computing device that is not included in an API whitelist of a web host application program. The processor may determine, based on the authorization certificate and the metadata file, that the web application is authorized to access the at least one local API. The processor may execute the web application at the web host application program. Executing the web application may include utilizing the at least one local API. The processor may convey at least one output of the web application for output at the one or more output devices.
US10931663B2
Two-factor authentication is processed on a transaction terminal before access is provided to a secure resource of the transaction terminal. A first factor authentication is performed to authenticate an identifier and a credential of a user. A unique challenge is sent, in response to a successful first factor authentication, to a secure device interfaced to the transaction terminal. A one-time unique signed response is received from the secure device in response to the unique challenge and a user action that depresses a button on the secure device. The one-time unique signed response is compared against what is expected from the secure device. When the comparison is successful, a user identity for the user is set, a security role is set for the user identity, and the user is granted access to the secure resource with the set security role.
US10931661B2
SSL/TLS certificate filtering devices, systems and processes may filter packets based on risk associated with each packet. A risk score may be determined for each packet based on associated threats and risks. Risk scores may be determined based on certificates, certificate authorities, and/or end users associated with each packet. The certificates may be scored and/or categorized by threats and risk.
US10931655B2
An apparatus and method for supporting bidirectional communication using unidirectional communication. The apparatus for supporting bidirectional communication using unidirectional communication includes an internal network module for performing bidirectional communication with an internal network and communicating with an external network module depending on a communication mode, the external network module for performing bidirectional communication with an external network and communicating with the internal network module depending on the communication mode, and a communication control module for controlling, of first unidirectional communication from the internal network module to the external network module and second unidirectional communication from the external network module to the internal network module, the second unidirectional communication, thus controlling a communication function corresponding to the communication mode, wherein the communication mode includes a unidirectional communication mode, a conditional bidirectional communication mode, and a bidirectional communication mode.
US10931649B2
A communication network encrypts a first portion of a transaction associated with point-to-point communications using a point-to-point encryption key. A second portion of the transaction associated with end-to-end communications is encrypted using an end-to-end encryption key.
US10931640B2
Methods and systems for managing computer network traffic are provided. A computer implemented method includes tunneling network traffic between a first network and a second network using a data storage system that is shared by the first network and the second network.
US10931637B2
Techniques for outbound/inbound lateral traffic punting based upon process risk are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for outbound/inbound lateral traffic punting based upon process risk includes receiving, at a network device on an enterprise network, process identification (ID) information from an endpoint (EP) agent executed on an EP device, in which the process ID information identifies a process that is associated with an outbound or inbound network session on the EP device on the enterprise network, and the EP agent selected the network session for punting to the network device for inspection; monitoring network communications associated with the network session at the network device to identify an application identification (APP ID) for the network session; and performing an action based on a security policy using the process ID information and the APP ID.
US10931623B2
Provided herein is an electronic message management platform that enables management and execution of electronic message campaigns while appropriately managing challenges presented by spam filters, black lists, and domain blocking technologies, and that includes elements for managing an electronic message campaign based on dynamic conditions, quality measures, engagement factors, and other measures, factors and conditions, including a rate of negative delivery events and a rate of negative engagement events.
US10931614B2
A method and system of adjusting a content of an electronic communication are provided. An electronic communication sent from a first entity to a second entity is received and its content determined. The electronic communication is assigned to a collaboration group based on the determined content. One or more downstream collaboration entities in the collaboration group are identified. For each identified collaboration entity, one or more electronic communication parameters are determined. The electronic communication is adjusted for compliance with the electronic communication parameters of the identified collaboration entities.
US10931610B2
The present invention discloses a method, a device, a user terminal and an electronic device for sharing an online image. The method includes: in response to a user's request for sharing an online image, obtaining a local resource of the online image to be shared; generating a sharing setting interface for the user to set editing the image and then sharing the online image, or directly sharing the online image. According to the present invention, a user is allowed to directly edit an online image and then share it with other users without the need of certain cumbersome operations, so as to enhance the user experience.
US10931609B2
A system and method for reducing conflict between parties that must communicate with each other are disclosed. In its most basic form, the invention is embodied in a system comprising the steps of: pairing users with system-specific unique address (e.g. e-mail address or text message destination number); receiving each electronic message and edit it as necessary in order to eliminate inflammatory or inappropriate language; and sending the edited electronic message to the intended recipient user, optionally with a copy of the edited electronic message also sent to the sending user.
US10931607B2
In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for matching user tone to digital assistant response types and tones while assisting with meeting scheduling are presented. An electronic message may be received by a digital assistant service. The digital assistant service may detect an intent to schedule a meeting and identify an urgency level associated with the message. The digital assistant may respond to the scheduling user with a message having a tone corresponding to the identified urgency level. The digital assistant may also perform a follow-up action for scheduling the meeting in a manner consistent with the urgency level of the scheduling user. For example, the digital assistant may attempt to schedule the meeting in a higher priority manner if there is a high urgency associated with the message, and a lower priority manner if there is a low urgency associated with the message.
US10931601B2
The disclosure provides a data transmission method and apparatus, and the method comprises: identifying that to-be-transmitted data comprises target data to be broadcast; and transmitting the target data to a plurality of network connection management devices coupled to network access devices, so that the plurality of network connection management devices may obtain data that needs to be broadcast directly from the network access devices without having to synchronize across the plurality of network connection management devices.
US10931578B2
A data processing method, a related device, and a system are provided. The method executed by a first network device includes receiving PDH frame data; loading the PDH frame data and a stuffing bit into a virtual container to obtain the virtual container that includes the PDH frame data, where the stuffing bit in the virtual container carries information about a clock frequency difference between a clock frequency of the Ethernet and a clock frequency of the PDH frame data; and performing virtual-container PWE3 encapsulation on the virtual container to obtain a virtual-container PWE3 packet. In at least some embodiments, difficulty in recovering the clock frequency of the PDH frame data when the PDH frame data is transmitted in the Ethernet is reduced, clock frequency jitters and drifts caused by the clock frequency recovery are reduced, and user experience is improved.
US10931565B2
In an embodiment, a method for a VRF and multi-service insertion on edge gateways is described. In an embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a rule configuration. Based on, at least in part, the rule configuration, a rule table is created. The rule table comprises rule data records, wherein a rule data record comprises packet attributes and a redirection identifier. A policy configuration comprising policy records is obtained. Each policy record comprises a redirection identifier, a next_hop, and an address pair for interfaces. A mapping between VRF identifiers and address pairs is generated. Based on, at least in part, the mapping and the policy configuration, a policy table is generated. The policy table comprises table records, wherein a table record comprises a redirection identifier, a next_hop, and an address pair. The rule and policy tables are used to redirect a packet from an edge gateway to a service virtual machine.
US10931561B2
A computing device dynamically excludes/includes traffic from/in a secure tunnel based on the domain name of the destination of the traffic. The computing device establishes a secure tunnel from the computing device, and receives a request to access a remote resource at a domain name. The computing device resolves the domain name at a domain name server and receives a resolved network address associated with the domain name. The computing device determines whether to send the request inside the secure tunnel or outside the secure tunnel by comparing the domain name to a split tunneling policy. Based on the comparison with the split tunneling policy, the computing device sends the request to the resolved network address either outside the secure tunnel or inside the secure tunnel.
US10931550B2
Out-of-band management techniques for networking fabrics are described. In an example embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a packet-switched network interface to deconstruct a packet received via an out-of-band management network and control circuitry to execute an out-of-band management agent, and the out-of-band management agent may be operative to identify a configuration command comprised in the received packet and control an optical circuit-switched network interface based on the configuration command. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10931541B2
A device supporting content delivery is configured to run at least one content delivery (CD) service of a plurality of CD services. The plurality of CD services include dynamically configurable log information.
US10931540B2
Various embodiments relate generally to data science and data analysis, computer software and systems, and wired and wireless network communications to interface among repositories of disparate data and computing machine-based entities configured to access, track, and/or analyze data, and, more specifically, to a computing and data storage platform to implement computerized tools to continuously (or nearly continuously) sense data describing functional states of remote computing devices and/or user interfaces configured to service electronic messages, according to at least some examples. For example, a method may include receiving a stream of data representing states of user interfaces, analyzing the states of the user interfaces, identifying activity data, identifying a state of an application, detecting an action and classifying a subset of activity data based on the action, and generating data representing a state of an application configured to interact with a digital conversation.
US10931539B2
A first node associated with a first site indicator is selected in a computer-generated graphical user interface. An expanded view of a first tab depicting a first set of nodes is presented. The first node represents a first internetworking device at the first physical site. A second node associated with a second site indicator is selected. An expanded view of a second tab depicting a second set of nodes is presented. The second node represents a second internetworking device at the second physical site external to the first physical site. A path route between the first node and the second node, intersecting nodes connecting the first node and the second node, additional nodes immediately adjacent to the intersecting nodes are determined. The path route, intersecting nodes, and additional nodes are displayed in the first tab and the second tab.
US10931532B2
A computer system includes a processor, a memory, a data collector, a relationships analyzer, and a topological map generator. The data collector retrieves performance data in a specific set of performance categories for computing resources in a computing system for a time interval. The relationships analyzer, for each computing resource-to-computing resource pair in the computing system, performs a correlation analysis of the respective behavior values of the computing resources in the pair, and identifies the computing resource-to-computing resource pairs that have correlation values exceeding a pre-determined threshold level as having performance interdependencies. The topological map generator prepares an undirected graph of the computing resources that have performance interdependencies, and displays the undirected graph as a topographic map of the computing resources in the computing system.
US10931531B2
A first information handling system may determine a first bandwidth of a first connection between the first information handling system and a client information handling system. The first information handling system may also determine a second bandwidth of a second connection between a second information handling system and the client information handling system. The first information handling system may determine that the first bandwidth is greater than the second bandwidth. Based on the determination, the first information handling system may be designated as a VRRP master node based. Based on the designation as the VRRP master node, the first information handling system may control VRRP operation of the first and second information handling systems.
US10931525B2
A Network Functions Virtualisation Management and Orchestration system, NFV-MANO, for managing resources in a Network Function Virtualisation Infrastructure, NFVI, has elements (NFVO, VNFM) for orchestrating and managing virtual resources to provide a network service and has an allocation element (VIM) for managing an allocation of physical resources for the virtual resources. One of the elements for orchestrating (NFVO, VNFM), obtains (210) information about which of the virtual resources could be affected by a planned adjustment of the allocation, and determines an impact (220) of the planned adjustment on a network service, based on this information. An indication based on the impact on the network service is sent (230) to the allocation element (VIM), which implements the planned allocation according to the indication. This can help enable a better trade off between allocation efficiency and quality of network service.
US10931524B1
A system for managing moderator and audience audio captured by personal mobile devices and broadcast by a public address system in the same venue is disclosed. In various aspects, the system includes a wireless network hub. The wireless network hub transmits and receives wireless data from a plurality of personal mobile devices. A network manager component manages communications of the personal mobile devices with the wireless network hub. The network manager uses measured dynamic network parameters and determines conditions for maintaining voice stream quality according to configurable rules.
US10931523B2
Example methods and systems for a network management entity to perform configuration change monitoring. One example method may comprise receiving a request to monitor a datapath to which a configuration change is applicable. The datapath may include multiple network elements. The method may also comprise instructing the first host to inject, at a first network element, one or more trace packets for transmission along the datapath to a second network element. The method may further comprise: obtaining state information associated with the configuration change, and detecting that an operating condition associated with the datapath is affected by the configuration change based on the state information.
US10931521B2
An SDN (Software Defined Networking) system with auto-deployment switches and a method for auto-deploying the switches in said SDN system are proposed. The method includes: actively sending a configuration message out by a controller, with said configuration message having an IP (Internet Protocol) address of the controller and a plurality of parameters; receiving the configuration message by a switch; and building a connection between the switch and the controller according to the IP address of the controller and the plurality of parameters.
US10931520B2
A network node (200) a wireless device (202) and methods therein, for configuring a wireless link (204) to be used for controlling a process at a wireless device (202) involving communication of control signals and feedback signals over the wireless link (204). The network node (200) sends a request message (2:2) to the wireless device (202) comprising a request for performance requirements of the wireless link (204) needed for the communication of control signals and feedback signals. The wireless device (202) determines (2:3) the performance requirements based on at least one of: 1) characteristics of the process, and 2) requirements for how the process is controlled. The wireless device (202) then sends (2:4) a response message comprising the performance requirements to the network node (200) which configures (2:5) the wireless link (204) so that the performance requirements of the wireless link are fulfilled. The process can thereby be properly controlled by the network node (200) by sending the control signals (2:7a) to the wireless device (202) and receiving the feedback signals (2:7b) from the wireless device (202) over the configured wireless link (204).
US10931495B2
A broadcast signal receiver includes a tuner for tuning a broadcast signal, a reference signal detector for detecting pilots from the tuned broadcast signal, a de-framer for de-framing a signal frame of the broadcast signal and deriving service data based on a number of carriers of the signal frame, and a decoder for performing error correction process on the derived service data.
US10931491B2
An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame corresponding to a time interleaver supporting a plurality of operation modes are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal at different power levels; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver, the time interleaver uses one of time interleaver groups, and the time interleaver performs the interleaving by using one of a plurality of operation modes.
US10931485B2
An adaptive equalization circuit includes: a first filter configure to perform filtering on an input signal based on a tap coefficient; an applying circuit configured to apply, to the signal, noise outside a band of the signal; and a controller configured to set, for the first filter, the tap coefficient that compensates for transmission line characteristics of the signal, based on the signal to which the noise is applied by the applying circuit.
US10931478B2
Systems and methods for virtual network implementation and management based on a peer-to-peer metadata exchange are disclosed. Metadata pertaining to a flow traversing a virtual network overlaying an underlying network is generated in accordance with actions executed to send data packets via the underlying network relative to the virtual network. The metadata is encapsulated in one or more control packets sent to a set of nodes of the underlying network. Each node of the set of nodes maintains a copy of the metadata received in the one or more control packets in a local data store. The metadata is accessed via the local data store when needed to process packets of the flow.
US10931472B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system for adapting a pool pump for wireless communication. In some embodiments, a system for adapting a pool pump with a serial communication port for communication with a user via a remote server, an internet connection, and internet enabled device is provided, the system comprising: a wireless gateway device connected to a router; and a wireless adapter connected to the serial communication port, comprising: a gateway node; a transceiver; and a processor programmed to: establish a wireless connection with the wireless gateway; receive a first message from the pool pump; cause the gateway node to modify the first message; cause the first modified message to be transmitted to the remote server via the wireless gateway; receive a second message from the remote server; modify the second message for output to the pool pump; and transmit the second modified message to the pool pump.
US10931464B2
A communication system is provided, including a plurality of terminal devices and a root certification authority. Each of the plurality of terminal devices includes a certification authority key generation unit, a certification authority public key certificate acquisition unit that acquires a certification authority public key certificate, a certification authority key storage unit, a transmission unit, and a verification unit that verifies the certification authority public key certificate with a root certification authority public key certificate, and verifies a user in a case where the verification succeeds. The root certification authority includes a root certification authority key storage unit, a communication unit, and a certification authority public key certificate generation unit that generates the certification authority public key certificate by encrypting the certification authority public key with the root certification authority secret key. The communication unit transmits the certification authority public key certificate to a terminal device.
US10931450B1
A method of encryption key management in a storage system having a plurality of nodes and more than one key manager, performed by the storage system, is provided. The method includes setting, in a first atomic operation to a distributed store of the plurality of nodes, a version identifier to a new value, and writing shards of a key encryption key, to node-specific memory of the plurality of nodes. The method includes committing the shards of the key encryption key by updating, in a second atomic operation, a set of version identifiers in the distributed store including a current version identifier, responsive to finding no change to the new value of the version identifier.
US10931444B2
Some embodiments relate to a data processing method comprising selecting a key from a plurality of previously stored keys, depending on at least on predefined criterion relating to at least one current value of at least one given repository. Other embodiments relate to a reception method comprising receiving second data obtained by applying, to first obtained data, a first cryptographic function using a key selected from a plurality of previously stored keys, depending on at least one predefined criterion relating to a current value of at least one given repository and for obtaining the first data by applying, to the second received data, a second cryptographic function using a second key associated with the selected key. Further embodiments relate to a processing device and a reception device that respectively implement the processing method and the reception method.
US10931443B2
A computer-implemented method manages cryptographic objects in a hierarchical key management system including a hardware security module (HSM), which institutes a key hierarchy extending from a ground level l0. Clients interact with the HSM to obtain cryptographic objects. A request is received from one of the clients for an object at a given level ln of the hierarchy (above the ground level l0). A binary representation of the object is accessed as a primary bit pattern p0, at the HSM and said pattern is scrambled via a bitwise XOR operation. The latter operates, on the one hand, on the primary bit pattern p0 and, on the other hand, on a control bit pattern pc that is a binary representation of an access code of the same length as said primary bit pattern p0. The pattern pc is obtained based on that given level ln of the hierarchy.
US10931432B2
A base station that switches between uplink periods and downlink periods in a time division manner and performs communication, the base station includes a memory; processor circuitry coupled to the memory, wherein the processor circuitry is configured to: notify of allocation information indicating a combination of resources for time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL) or downlink (DL) configuration at a predetermined interval; and generate control information indicating cancelation of transmission of a downlink signal, wherein the canceled transmission is configured to be performed by using one of the resources designated by the allocation information, and wherein the processor circuitry is further configured to transmit the generated control information.
US10931430B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to uplink preemption in certain systems, such as new radio (NR) systems, supporting carrier aggregation (CA) and/or multi-connectivity modes. A method for wireless communication, that can be performed by a user equipment (UE), generally includes receiving a resource assignment scheduling the UE for uplink transmission. The UE receives an indication to preempt uplink transmission on a portion of the assigned resources and determines whether to transmit on the remaining assigned resources. A method that can be performed by a base station (BS) generally includes receiving an indication from one or more UEs indicating, for each of a plurality of band combinations, a capability of the UE to transmit on a band when transmission on another band in the band combination is preempted and scheduling the one or more UEs for uplink transmission based on the indication.
US10931429B2
One or more nodes transmit CSI-RS symbols in a set of N CSI-RS elements, each CSI-RS element in the set corresponding to at least one resource element in a time-frequency grid of resource elements. The nodes select, from the N CSI-RS elements, a first set of CSI-RS elements to be measured by a first wireless device, the first set comprising one or several of the N CSI-RS elements. The nodes also transmit, to the first wireless device, a message comprising a first K-bit indicator identifying the first set of CSI-RS elements, wherein K
US10931427B2
A network node receives a first signal in a first grant-free transmission from a client device, wherein the first signal comprises data having a first redundancy version and having a corresponding first transmission attempt number, in a first resource unit; determines an identity of the client device based on the first signal, establishes that a data decoding error associated with the first grant-free transmission has occurred if the data in the first signal cannot be decoded correctly; receives a second signal in a second transmission from the client device, wherein the second signal comprises the data having a second redundancy version and having a corresponding second transmission attempt number, in a second resource unit; and establishes that a data decoding error associated with the second transmission has occurred if the data in the second signal cannot be decoded correctly.
US10931426B2
In certain embodiments, a method includes, by a first mobile device, obtaining a data packet and determining, from a first set of resources, control resources for transmitting scheduling information associated with the data packet. The control resources include a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH). The method includes determining, by the first mobile device from a second set of resources, acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) resources associated with the data packet and related to the control resources. The scheduling information includes transmission information for transmitting the data packet and an indication of the ACK/NACK resources. The method includes transmitting, by the first mobile device to a second mobile device, the scheduling information on the control resources and the data packet on a set of resources indicated by the transmission information and listening, by the first mobile device, for an ACK/NACK transmitted by the second mobile device on the ACK/NACK resources.
US10931423B2
A method of operating a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network comprising the terminal device and a plurality of base stations arranged into groups of one or more base stations supporting communications over different areas. The method including establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with an initially selected base station and entering an RRC connected mode of operation with respect to the initially selected base station and suspending the RRC connection with the initially selected base station and entering an RRC suspended mode of operation. The method includes subsequently transmitting a message to request a resumed RRC connection to a subsequently selected base station, wherein the subsequently selected base station is selected in accordance with a cell (re)selection procedure for the terminal device performed while in the RRC suspended mode of operation.
US10931417B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatus, system and method of communicating a transmission according to a symbol block structure and Guard Interval (GI) scheme. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless station to generate a plurality of Single Carrier (SC) blocks according to a SC block structure corresponding to a GI type of a plurality of GI types, a SC block of the plurality of SC blocks including a GI followed by a data block, the GI including a Golay sequence having a length based at least on the GI type, a length of the data block is based at least on the GI type; and to transmit a SC transmission over a millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequency band based on the plurality of SC blocks.
US10931402B2
Secure distributed storage and transmission of electronic content is provided over at least one communication network. At least one data file is received and parsed into a plurality of segments, wherein each one of the segments has a respective size. Thereafter, each of the plurality of segments is divided into a plurality of slices, wherein each one of the slices has a respective size. A plurality of data chunks are encoded, each data chunk comprising a portion of at least two of the slices, wherein no portion comprises an entire slice. The data chunks are packaged with at least metadata, and each of the packages is assigned to respective remote storage nodes. Each of the packages is transmitted to the respectively assigned remote storage node.
US10931401B2
A likelihood generation device includes a similarity detection unit, a likelihood table reference unit, and a similarity processing unit. The similarity detection unit receives a modulation scheme selection signal and a received value, detects a likelihood similarity between information bits included in the received value based on the modulation scheme selection signal, and outputs a likelihood selection signal that specifies likelihood data to be searched for and an operation selection signal that specifies an operation on the likelihood data. The likelihood table reference unit registers, as likelihood data, a small region different from other small regions in the likelihood distribution indicating the likelihood of the information bits, and extracts likelihood data based on the likelihood selection signal from the likelihood table. The similarity processing unit obtains the entire likelihood distribution by performing an operation designated by the operation selection signal on the extracted likelihood data.
US10931396B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an aggregate MPDU and a response frame thereto and a wireless communication terminal using the same, and more particularly, to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for setting various formats of the aggregate MPDU and the response frame thereto and performing an efficient data communication by using the same. To this end, provided are a wireless communication terminal including: a processor; and a communication unit, wherein the processor receives an aggregate MPDU (A-MPDU) consisting of one or more MAC protocol data units (MPDUs), determines a format of a response frame for the received A-MPDU, and transmits a response frame of the determined format, wherein the format of the response frame for the A-MPDU is determined based on at least one of the number of traffic IDs (TIDs) soliciting an immediate response in MPDU(s) successfully received in the A-MPDU and MPDU delimiter information of the A-MPDU and a wireless communication method using the same.
US10931393B2
An intelligence-defind optical tunnel network system includes a first tier network and a second tier network. The first tier network includes multiple pods, any one of which includes multiple Optical Add-Drop Sub-systems (OADS) configured to transmit data between corresponding servers through ToR switches. The second tier network includes multiple Optical Switch Interconnect Sub-systems (OSIS). Any two of the OSISs transmit a corresponding lateral optical signal via a first line correspondingly. Any two adjacent OSISs are coupled to the OADSs in the same pod of the first tier via multiple optical paths respectively.
US10931392B2
Embodiments provide a service processing method and apparatus. According to the service processing method, a number of code blocks of a client service may be mapped to a FlexE subslot, and a FlexE subslot overhead is generated, so that the client service mapped to the FlexE subslot and the FlexE subslot overhead are sent through a physical channel, and a low-rate service is carried. Compared with carrying a low-rate service by directly using an entire FlexE slot, carrying the client service by using a number of FlexE subslots into which the FlexE slot is divided can improve bandwidth utilization.
US10931389B2
Disclosed herein are a method of operating a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting the same. According to an embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, a signal to interference noise ratio (SINR) report may be configured for the terminal, and an SINR report reported to the base station by the terminal based on the configuration may be calculated differently based on configuration of an interference measurement resource for the terminal.
US10931386B2
A method of transmitting information is provided. The method is performed at a system for information transfer. The method includes obtaining a first symbol, in a predefined set of symbols, for transmission; determining a first frequency band, in a first set of frequency bands associated with the predefined set of symbols, that is associated with the first symbol; and transmitting a first signal pulse having a first frequency in the first frequency band. The method includes, after transmitting the first signal pulse, transmitting a control signal associating a second set of frequency bands with the predefined set of symbols. The second set of frequency bands is distinct from the first set of frequency bands. The method includes, after transmitting the control signal, obtaining a second symbol, in the predefined set of symbols, for transmission; determining a second frequency band, in the second set of frequency bands, associated with the second symbol; and transmitting a second signal pulse having a frequency in the second frequency band.
US10931384B1
A closed loop transmitter (Tx) calibration system is disclosed. The closed loop Tx calibration system comprises a transmitter circuit configured to generate a Tx output signal at a Tx output frequency based on a Tx local oscillator (LO) signal. The closed loop Tx calibration system further comprises a loop back (LPBK) receiver circuit coupled to the transmitter circuit and configured to downconvert the Tx output signal at the Tx output frequency to form an LPBK baseband signal at an LPBK intermediate frequency (IF), based on an LPBK LO signal. In some embodiments, the LPBK IF frequency is different from zero. In some embodiments, the closed loop Tx calibration system further comprises an LO generation circuit configured to generate the Tx LO signal and the LPBK LO signal from a single phase locked loop (PLL) source, based on utilizing a digital to time converter (DTC) circuit.
US10931383B2
A system for enhancing isolation in coexisting time-division duplexed (TDD) transceivers includes: a blocker canceller that transforms a transmit signal of a TDD transceiver into a blocker cancellation signal configured to remove transmit-band interference in a receive signal; a first filter that filters the blocker cancellation signal; a second filter that filters the transmit signal; and a transmit-noise canceller that transforms the filtered transmit signal into a transmit noise cancellation signal configured to remove receive-band interference in the receive signal.
US10931381B2
In optical receivers, cancelling the DC component of the incoming current is a key to increasing the receiver's effectiveness, and therefore increase the channel capacity. Ideally, the receiver includes a DC cancellation circuit for removing the DC component; however, in differential receivers an offset may be created between the output voltage components caused by the various amplifiers. Accordingly, an offset cancellation circuit is required to determine the offset and to modify the DC cancellation circuit accordingly.
US10931370B2
A method is presented for determining an offset frequency of a frequency comb. The method includes: generating a beam of light with a waveform that repeats regularly in the time domain and exhibits a frequency comb in the frequency domain; directing the beam of light towards a point of incidence on a material; and detecting oscillation of a photocurrent in the material that is caused by the beam of light. Of note, the beam of light has an optical bandwidth that includes light propagating at a first frequency and at a second frequency, where the first frequency is less than the second frequency and the ratio of the second frequency to the first frequency is n:m, where n=m+i, m is an integer greater than one, and n and i are positive integers. Additionally, the material has a band gap and the band gap is not more than n times the first frequency.
US10931363B2
A relay device is provided with a detection unit, a reply unit, and a transmission unit. The detection unit detects an inability to connect to a wide-area information communication network in a case in which the relay device is multiplexed with another relay device. In a case in which the detection unit detects the inability to connect to the wide-area information communication network, when a request searching for a replacement partner is received from another relay device, the reply unit replies to the other relay device with information indicating that the relay device itself is a replacement candidate. The transmission unit transmits information set in the relay device itself to the other relay device.
US10931361B2
The present specification provides a method for transmitting and receiving channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a resource block from a base station based on a first spatial Quasi-Co location (QCL) related parameter related to reception of the resource block including at least one control channel, wherein when the resource block and the CSI-RS are configured on the same symbol, the first spatial QCL related parameter and a second spatial QCL related parameter configured for reception of the CSI-RS are equally configured; configuring a beam for receiving the CSI-RS based on the second spatial QCL related parameter; and receiving the CSI-RS from the base station through the configured beam. The present specification has an effect that a UE, in which a less number of Rx chains are implemented, can receive multiple CSI-RSs.
US10931354B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE receives, from a base station, a trigger for reporting M CSI reports, M being an integer greater than 0. The UE determines that P processing units are available for calculation of CSI reports, each of the P processing units indicating a predetermined amount of computing power of the UE. The UE selects N CSI reports from the M CSI reports in accordance with a predetermined rule, N being a maximum integer that allows total processing units assigned for calculation of the N CSI reports to be smaller than or equal to the P processing units. The UE updates the N CSI reports.
US10931350B2
Devices, systems and methods for collaborative wireless communication in a wireless network are described. One example method includes performing, by a first node of a plurality of nodes, a communication with at least a second node of the plurality of nodes, receiving, by the first node from a destination node of the plurality of nodes, a probe, computing, based on the probe, a phase of a strongest tap of a channel estimate between the first node and the destination node, computing a phase correction based on the phase of the strongest tap and a phase difference between a first phase of the first node and a second phase of a reference node, wherein the phase difference is based on the communication, and transmitting, to the destination node, a message with the phase correction.
US10931347B2
Linearizing Power Amplifiers' Outputs in Multi-Antenna System There is provided power efficient and simple structure for linearizing power amplifiers' outputs in multi-antenna beamforming systems. Beamforming factors are obtained for controlling transmission beams of the antennas in an analogue/hybrid beamforming system. At least one power amplifier model is determined on the basis of the power amplifiers' outputs and the beamforming factors. Predistortion parameters, for feeding a predistorted signal to power amplifiers for linearizing the power amplifiers' outputs, are determined such that after the operating parameters of the power amplifiers have been adjusted, errors in power amplifiers' outputs are reduced.
US10931342B2
For converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system and supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT), a channel state information (CSI) acquisition method includes transmitting CSI configuration information to a terminal, selecting a beam for transmitting a beamformed CSI reference signal (BF-CSI-RS) to the terminal, transmitting the BF-CSI-RS to the terminal using the selected beam, and notifying the terminal of a beamforming update. A base station for acquiring CSI in a mobile communication system includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals, and a controller configured to control the transceiver to transmit CSI configuration information to a terminal, to select a beam for transmitting a BF-CSI-RS to the terminal, to transmit the BF-CSI-RS to the terminal using the selected beam, and to notify the terminal of a beamforming update.
US10931341B2
Channel state information extraction method and MIMO receiver using QR decomposition and MMIB metric
The present invention relates to a CSI extraction method in a MIMO receiver used in a wireless communication system, the method including: obtaining an effective channel matrix by matrix multiplication of a precoding matrix and a channel estimation value obtained through a CSI-RS; calculating an upper and a lower bound of a minimum distance for each layer through QR decomposition for the effective channel matrix; and mapping the upper and the lower bound of the minimum distance for each layer to each codeword, and extracting a mean mutual information per bit (MMIB) metric that is a transmission capacity per unit frequency for each codeword. According to the present invention, QR decomposition and a MMIB metric are used to obtain the minimum distance for each layer without a multidimensional search process, whereby the CSI is extracted with fewer operations than the conventional method when the MIMO transmission order is high.
US10931340B2
A method for a channel state information (CSI) feedback comprises receiving CSI feedback configuration information for the CSI feedback including a spatial channel information indicator based on a linear combination (LC) codebook, wherein the spatial channel information comprises at least one of a downlink channel matrix, a covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix, or at least one eigenvector of the covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix; deriving the spatial channel information indicator using the LC codebook that indicates a weighted linear combination of a plurality of basis vectors or a plurality of basis matrices as a representation of at least one of a downlink channel matrix, a covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix, or at least one eigenvector of the covariance matrix of the downlink channel matrix; and transmitting over an uplink channel, the CSI feedback including the spatial channel information indicator.
US10931333B2
The present disclosure relates to electronic devices, methods, and storage medium for wireless communication system. Various embodiments are described with respect to beam management. In one embodiment, an electronic device for a base station side in a wireless communication system can comprise a processing circuitry configured to repetitively transmit a synchronization signal (SS) to a terminal device by using different transmit (TX) beams based on a TX beam configuration; the SS can indicate information of the TX beam used to transmit the SS. The processing circuitry can be configured to obtain feedback from the terminal device; the feedback can comprise information of the TX beam for being used in TX beam management.
US10931328B2
Upstream (US) funneling noise suppression may be provided. First, a signal comprising a plurality of mini-slots in a two dimensional time frequency space may be received by a funneling noise suppressor. Next, the power level in each of the plurality of mini-slots may be determined. The received signal may then be outputted. Outputting the received signal may comprises outputting the received signal with mini-slots muted in the received signal that have a power level less than a predetermined threshold.
US10931326B2
Casing assemblies and a mobile terminal are provided. A casing assembly includes: a rear casing and a wearproof assembly. The rear casing includes an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface, and the rear casing defines a mounting hole through the outer surface and the inner surface. The wearproof assembly includes a coupling member and a decorative member. The coupling member is coupled to the rear casing passing through the mounting hole, and defines a recess at a side of the coupling member opposite the inner surface. The decorative member is embedded in the recess. The coupling member and the decorative member protrude from the outer surface.
US10931323B2
In an embodiment, an electronic device may include a housing including a hinge module, a first housing, and second housing. The first and second housings are rotatably coupled to each other via the hinge module to be in a folded state or an unfolded state. The electronic device may further include a flexible display, at least one conductive pattern disposed in the first housing, at least one conductor disposed at a position in the second housing corresponding to the at least one conductive pattern such that the at least one conductor is capacitively coupled to the conductive pattern when the electronic device is in the folded state, and a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the at least one conductive pattern in the first housing. Other embodiments are also possible.
US10931317B2
Techniques are provided for providing Doppler correction. In particular, embodiments may provide re-banding circuitry having a reference clock, a mixer, and a compensation circuitry for re-banding and for Doppler correction. The compensation circuitry may be configured to adjust a reference frequency of the reference clock based on signals received from a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver. The mixer may be configured to translate communication signals in a first frequency band to a second frequency band based at least in part on the adjusted reference frequency of the reference clock.
