US10960339B2
An air filter unit for an air intake of an air handling or HVAC system includes a grate configured to support a plurality of spaced apart filters at a top side thereof, whereby air is drawn through the grate and then sequentially through the filters into the air intake. The air filter unit may include a filter indicator which provides a visual indication of the air filters, such as based upon the pressure differential on either side of the air filters.
US10960332B2
A water extractor includes a plurality of layers of low pressure zones and a plurality of channels of high pressure zones. The low pressure zone layers alternate, in a radial direction, with the high pressure zone channels. At least one of the low pressure zones is configured to enable a flow to enter, from at least one high pressure zone, to at least one low pressure zone.
US10960331B2
A cell-capturing filter that filters out cells includes a metallic porous film having a plurality of through holes that extend through a first main surface and a second main surface, which are opposite to each other. The metallic porous film includes a filtering portion including the plurality of through holes, and a frame portion disposed to surround an outer periphery of the filtering portion. In the filtering portion, a first film thickness of the metallic porous film at a center of the filtering portion is smaller than a second film thickness of the metallic porous film at a portion located closer to the frame portion than the center of the filtering portion.
US10960327B2
The filter element of a filter has an internal face, an external face, a filtering mesh, two concentric circular inner and outer edges between which the filtering mesh extends, and radial ribs provided on the internal face. The radial ribs extend between the concentric edges and are distributed circumferentially in order to form sectors on the internal face. The filter element is configured to be assembled against a corresponding filter element so that the internal face faces the corresponding filter element. At least some of the sectors have a reinforcing rib connecting a radial rib to the outer edge, the reinforcing rib having a portion that is inclined, when viewed in the radial plane, with respect to the radial rib and to the outer edge.
US10960323B1
A system and method for extracting botanical herbal oil is disclosed. The method includes washing plant material with liquid solvent forming a solvent-oil extract solution, pumping the solvent-oil extract solution to an atomizer, pumping vapor solvent to the atomizer, atomizing the solvent-oil extract solution with vapor solvent forming an atomized mixture, and vaporizing the atomized mixture to isolate the botanical herbal oil from the mixture. The system includes a first pressure vessel to chill a solvent, a second pressure vessel to wash plant material with liquid solvent forming a solvent-oil extract solution, an atomizer to mix the solvent-oil extract solution with vapor solvent forming an atomized mixture, a liquid transfer pump to pump the solvent-oil extract solution to the atomizer, a vapor transfer pump to pump the vapor solvent to the atomizer, and a vaporizer to vaporize the atomized mixture and isolate the botanical herbal oil.
US10960320B2
A device for replaying audio data including data sets of separately readable ordered data sequences to be replayed and including a loudspeaker or a loudspeaker connection, a sensor that can detect within a region of its surroundings a property or a change in a property of the surroundings, a control unit that can drive the loudspeaker or the loudspeaker connection for replaying audio data, where the control unit, in response to a select signal from the sensor, generates a command to jump to a next one of the separately readable ordered data sequences to be replayed.
US10960310B2
A highly attractive program, a computer apparatus, a program execution method, and a system that allow a user to experience a virtual world full of the realistic feeling are provided. Provided is a program to be executed on a computer apparatus capable of communicating or connecting with a projector that projects a projection image onto a projected surface, the program causing the computer apparatus to function as: a specific point position changer that changes a position of a specific point for specifying the projection image to be projected onto the projected surface; and a transmitter that transmits an image in accordance with the position of the specific point to a projector as the projection image.
US10960307B2
A controller is provided. A controller body to be held by a user, the controller body includes an input mechanism for receiving control inputs, an accelerometer for detecting translational or rotational movement of the controller body, and a vibrational device for providing vibration. The controller further includes a light for tracking by a camera, a voice input device and a wireless communication module. The wireless communication module communicates data between the controller and a computer for driving interaction with the video game. The data communicated between the controller and the computer includes control inputs and voice inputs from the voice input device.
US10960298B2
A system and method are disclosed for providing input to a software application such as a gaming application. The inputs may be received from one or both of a hand-held controller and a NUI system accepting gestural inputs. In an example, a gesture and controller API receives skeletal pose data from the NUI system and converts that data to Boolean or floating point data. In this way, data from both the controller and the NUI system may be exposed to the software application as easily consumable data in the same format.
US10960284B2
The present invention relates to a divot-detecting golf swing mat and, more particularly, to a divot-detecting golf swing mat characterized by comprising: a hitting mat (110) having artificial turf (111) formed on the upper side thereof such that a golf ball (B) can be seated thereon; a divot-detecting sensor array portion (120) installed beneath the hitting mat (110) so as to measure hitting of a club head (H), which is transferred through the hitting mat (110), through sensors arranged in an array type; a control portion (130) for calculating information regarding hitting of the club head (H) sensed by the divot-detecting sensor array portion (120); a golf ball position designating portion (150) installed on a side surface of the rear side of the hitting mat (110) so as to designate the position of the golf ball (B); and a display portion (140) for displaying the information regarding hitting of the club head (H) and the position of the golf ball (B).
US10960283B2
A system that wirelessly integrates actual game equipment with a computer and the internet to allow players remotely located from one another to play a competitive real or simulated game of golf. An individual player may opt to play solo or practice to improve basic golfing techniques. The system includes smart golf clubs, a golf ball receptacle, and a golf club motion sensing devices, all containing circuits, contact and or noncontact motion sensors coupled with signal processing and radio frequency transmitter circuitry to wirelessly communicate game performance information to a remote receiver-computer. The computer displays player information and visually simulates and controls a game between one or more local players or via the internet having similar equipment and remotely located from each other. Standard golf clubs may be retrofitted with the sensors and associated circuitry to convert such clubs into “smart clubs” for use with the system. The system employs specially developed computer software to process player performance data, control game play, communicate game information between players, generate and control visual simulations, and display player performance information and dynamic motion parameters.
US10960282B2
A pool includes a main pool body defining an inner cavity, and a pillar within the inner cavity which cooperates with the main pool body to define an annular lane therebetween. The pillar provides the pool greater functionality that extends beyond the scope of the traditional pool, such as by enabling a separate pool, a platform, or other structures to coexist with the annular lane within the inner cavity. Further, a flow generating device may be provided to generate a circulating water flow within the pool that moves around the annular lane.
US10960278B2
Embodiments of putter golf club heads with an elastomer is enclosed herein. Other embodiments and methods may be described and claimed.
US10960277B2
An iron-type golf club head has a hosel portion, a heel portion, a sole portion, a toe portion, a topline portion, and a striking face including a center face location. A toe side topline-to-sole contour of the striking face is more lofted than a center face topline-to-sole contour of the striking face, a heel side topline-to-sole contour of the striking face is less lofted than the center face topline-to-sole contour, a topline side toe-to-heel contour of the striking face is more open than a center face toe-to-heel contour of the striking face, and a sole side toe-to-heel contour of the striking face is more closed than the center face toe-to-heel contour. The toe side topline-to-sole contour, the center face topline-to-sole contour, the heel side topline-to-sole contour, the topline side toe-to-heel contour, the center face toe-to-heel contour, and the sole side toe-to-heel contour are straight line contours.
US10960258B2
An exercise machine component comprises a cable connection base adapted to attach to an end of a cable, a chamber adapted to receive a key through an opening of the chamber, a biasing mechanism within the chamber, and a receiving groove within the chamber wherein the biasing mechanism biases the key against the receiving groove so that the key is securely fixed within the chamber.
US10960254B2
In one embodiment a fitness device is disclosed. The fitness device may include a central handle having a body with a central aperture through the body. The device may also include a first end cap having a ring removably coupled to the central handle at a first location and a second end cap having a ring removably coupled to the central handle at a second location, opposite the first location.
US10960252B2
A climbing wall defines vertical, transverse (horizontally in-and-out, toward-and-away-from wall) and lateral (horizontally sideways) directions, mutually orthogonal. A surface treatment simulates rock by texture, holds, or both. A line (rope, cable) extends from a belay anchor, spaced away from the wall, to a climber at the wall. Line distance is controlled to eliminate slack to start, and continuously if the wall is increasingly steep and possibly curving sideways (laterally). When climbing ends, the climber swings transversely (and, optionally, laterally sideways) away from the wall in a pendulum fall, swinging (oscillating) about the belay anchor for multiple cycles and clear of contact with the wall. The fall may be intentional (the climber releasing a grip on the wall), accidental (falling from own weight), or due to line tension initiated by an automated timer or operator intervention.
US10960242B2
A fall protection device includes a frame, a rotatable member, a safety belt, a braking plate, and at least one braking part, wherein a side surface of the frame has at least one stopper protruding therefrom. A stopper integrally protrudes from two adjacent side walls of a hole as a monolithic unit and extends in an arc shape. The rotatable member is rotatably and pivotally disposed on the frame. The safety belt winds around the rotatable member. The braking plate is coaxially connected to the rotatable member, whereby the braking plate rotates coaxially along with the rotatable member. The braking part is pivotally connected to an inner surface of the braking plate. When the braking plate rotates, the braking part is driven to pivot from a restoring position to a locking position to abut against the stopper, thereby to restrict the rotatable member from rotating.
US10960233B2
Methods of treating a subject suffering from a disease or a disorder associated with hyperproliferating cells. The method includes non-invasively administering to the subject ultrasound at a low intensity in a dose effective to selectively prevent the growth of the hyperproliferating cells or to eliminate the hyperproliferating cells in the subject, while substantially not affecting the cell viability of normal cells of the subject. The low intensity is pre-determined to be lower than a cavitational threshold intensity for a selected frequency.
US10960231B2
A radiation therapy system includes an accelerator and beam transport system that generates a beam of particles. The accelerator and beam transport system guides the beam on a path and into a nozzle that is operable for aiming the beam toward an object. The nozzle includes a scanning magnet operable for steering the beam toward different locations within the object, and also includes a beam energy adjuster configured to adjust the beam by, for example, placing different thicknesses of material in the path of the beam to affect the energies of the particles in the beam.
US10960229B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and a method. The system may include a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus configured to acquire MRI data with respect to a region of interest (ROI) and a therapeutic apparatus configured to apply therapeutic radiation to at least one portion of the ROI. The MRI apparatus may include a plurality of main magnetic coils arranged coaxially along an axis, a plurality of shielding magnetic coils arranged coaxially along the axis, and a cryostat in which the plurality of main magnetic coils and the plurality of shielding magnetic coils are arranged.
US10960224B2
A device adapted to deliver red/NIR light through an eyelid of a patient, the device comprising: a) a nose bridge, b) a first orbital rim adapted to encircle a first eye, wherein the first orbital rim is attached to the bridge, and c) a red/NIR LED attached to the rim.
US10960223B2
An apparatus for obtaining an anti-tumour immunologic response by thermotherapy of a treatment lesion covering at least a portion of a tumour is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a heating probe comprising an optical fiber and a cooling catheter. The optical fiber is inserted in the cooling catheter. Further the heating probe has a light emitting area, and the heating probe is interstitially insertable into the tumour of the treatment lesion. The heat probe is internally cooled by a fluid circulating in said catheter. The apparatus further comprises a first thermal sensor member having at least one sensor area. The first thermal sensor member is positionable at a distance from said boundary. The apparatus also comprises a control unit for controlling a power output of said light source based on a measured first temperature.
US10960221B2
In some examples, an ambulatory medical device is provided. The ambulatory medical device includes at least one sensor configured to acquire data descriptive of the patient, one or more processors in communication with the at least one sensor, a patient care component executable by the one or more processors, and a limited functionality component executable by the one or more processors. The patient care component is configured to perform one or more primary operations of the ambulatory medical device at least in part by accessing the data descriptive of the patient. The limited functionality component is configured to exchange information with a communication device and to not affect the one or more primary operations of the ambulatory medical device.
US10960220B2
A wearable cardioverter defibrillator system includes a support structure that a patient can wear. The system also includes electrodes that contact the patient, and define two or more channels from which ECG signals are sensed. A processor may evaluate the channels by analyzing their respective ECG signals, to determine which contains less noise than the other(s). The analysis can be by extracting statistics from the ECG signals, optionally after first processing them, and then by comparing these statistics. These statistics may include tall peak counts, amplitudes of peaks compared to historical peak amplitudes, signal baseline shift, dwell time near a baseline, narrow peak counts, zero crossings counts, determined heart rates, and so on. Once the less noisy signal is identified, its channel can be followed preferentially or to the exclusion of other channels, for continuing monitoring and/or determining whether to shock the patient.
US10960217B2
Disclosed herein is a delivery system for delivering a leadless pacemaker. The delivery system may include a catheter, which may be a guide catheter. The catheter includes a distal end, a proximal end opposite the distal end, a lumen extending between the distal end and the proximal end, and a locking hub operably coupled to the proximal end. The locking hub includes a lumen segment of the lumen. In one implementation, self-biasing of the lumen segment places the lumen segment out of alignment with a rest of the lumen. Deflecting the lumen segment against the self-biasing of the lumen segment places the lumen segment in coaxial alignment with the rest of the lumen. In another implementation, self-biasing of the lumen segment reduces an inner diameter of the lumen segment and actuation of the locking hub expands the inner diameter.
US10960210B2
An Example of a system for providing a patient with pain management may include a sleep monitoring circuit, a pain relief device, and a control circuit. The sleep monitoring circuit may be configured to sense one or more sleep signals from the patient and to determine a sleep state of the patient using the one or more sleep signals. The one or more sleep signals may include one or more physiological signals corresponding to the sleep state of the patient. The pain relief device may be configured to deliver one or more pain relief therapies. The control circuit may be configured to control the delivery of the one or more pain relief therapies using therapy parameters and to adjust the therapy parameters based on the determined sleep state.
US10960209B2
Modulation of neural signaling of a branch of the GSN supplying the adrenal gland can regulate the secretion of signaling molecules from the adrenal medulla. In particular, epinephrine, norepinephrine and enkephalin release can be independently regulated.
US10960203B2
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a system that can modulate the intensity of a neural stimulation signal over time. A pulse generator can be configured to generate a stimulation signal for application to neural tissue of an individual and modulate a parameter related to intensity of a pattern of pulses of the stimulation signal over time. An electrode can be coupled to the pulse generator and configured to apply the stimulation signal to the neural tissue. A population of axons in the neural tissue can be recruited with each pulse of the stimulation signal.
US10960186B2
A valve actuator that moves in a catheter assembly between a first position where a valve is closed and a second position where the valve is open, the valve actuator including a shaft portion at a distal end of the valve actuator that is configured to pierce the valve, a mating portion at a proximal end of the valve actuator that is configured to engage a Luer device, a diameter reduction region that connects the shaft portion and the mating portion, and a plurality of windows that extend through the valve actuator for flushing fluid, the plurality of windows being disposed in the diameter reduction region, wherein each of the plurality of windows does not extend a full length of the diameter reduction region.
US10960184B2
A catheter housing device for securing a catheter and needle assembly to a patient. The device can include a cover, an IV/catheter lock, a hub, and one or more fastening straps. The device can replace conventional devices and techniques for securing a catheter and needle to a patient that utilize adhesive materials and/or methods, which are ill-equipped to solve complications including infection/contamination of the insertion site, irritation/damage to the vein or insertion site due to inappropriate angling of the catheter/needle, etc. The devices and methods disclosed herein can provide catheter/needle securement and optimal inclination, a hermetically sealed chamber to resist infection and/or contamination, inert gas or soothing anesthetic vapor drugs in and around the device, and various skin-contacting layers and structures that promote ventilation and patient comfort in and around the insertion site.
US10960182B2
The disclosure provides a flexible, narrow medical device (such as a micro-catheter or a guidewire) that is controllably moved and steered through lumens of a body. The medical device may include an electrically-actuatable bendable portion at a distal end, which may be provided by a polymer electrolyte layer, electrodes distributed about the polymer electrolyte layer, and electrical conduits coupled to the electrodes, such that the polymer electrolyte layer deforms asymmetrically in response to an electrical signal through one or more conduits. The disclosure further includes a controller for moving the device into and out of bodily lumens and for applying the electrical signal for steering the device. The device further includes methods of preparing the polymer electrolyte layer in tubular shape.
US10960179B2
An applicator device for applying an agent to a target site with a malleable tip that can be cut to length with a pair of nursing dressing scissors or similar type of scissors and a malleable tip with a formable tube that that can be cut to length with a pair of nursing dressing scissors or similar type of scissors. The malleable tip is configured for passage of fluid therethrough and includes a malleable member. The malleable member is made of a soft metal that is strong enough to retain the shape of the tip after is has been bend into configuration, but soft and weak enough to be easily cut with a pair of nursing dressing scissors or the like.
US10960178B2
An actuated telescoping system for navigation within a vascular lumen and thrombectomy of a thrombus. The system includes a tubular catheter member having an open distal end defining a catheter lumen, a vacuum source, a rotational drive system, a flexible shaft having a channel coupled to the rotational drive system for rotational movement in response thereto, and an optional guidewire selectively inserted at least partially within the flexible shaft. The flexible shaft is at least partially disposed within the tubular catheter member configured for uncoupled rotational and translational motion therein and to optionally define a corkscrew motion in response to rotational driving force by the drive system that results in formation of hydrodynamic vortices within the catheter lumen. The telescoping system can be capable of reversibly transitioning between navigation and thrombectomy modes by differentially disposing and actuating the components and enable faster, more efficient and simpler removal of thromboembolic material.
US10960174B2
A system and method of monitoring the health of a person. The system comprises at least one sensor capable of measuring at least one physiological signal generated by the autonomic nervous system of the person for providing measurement data, and a data processing system which is configured to store a reference indicator, to receive measurement data from the sensor during a plurality of consecutive health-maintenance sessions in order to collect a plurality of measurement data sets corresponding to said health-maintenance sessions, to determine at last one health indicator based on the measurement data sets, said at least one health indicator being sensitive to physiological state of or changes in the autonomic nervous system, and to compare the at least one health indicator with said reference indicator. Objective information on autonomic nervous system related dysfunctions is retrieved which allows for systematic treatment to the person.
US10960171B2
A pressure regulating device for use with a breathing assistance and/or resuscitation apparatus, which conveys gases along a gases pathway to a patient, includes a mounting for connecting the pressure regulating device to a first outlet in fluid communication with the gases pathway. The mounting holds a valve member that selectively blocks, at least in part, the first outlet. A control member can be manipulated to adjust a property of the valve member. The valve member at least partially blocks the first outlet when the pressure of gases in the pathway is below a selected level, and allows at least a portion of the gases to flow out of the first outlet when the pressure of said gases is above the selected level. The property includes a selected level of pressure whereby manipulation of the control member adjusts the level of pressure between a maximum level and a minimum level.
US10960169B2
Methods and systems for delivering a pharmaceutical gas to a patient. The methods and systems provide a known desired quantity of the pharmaceutical gas to the patient independent of the respiratory pattern of the patient over a plurality of breaths every nth breath, where n is greater than or equal to 1. The pharmaceutical gases include CO and NO, both of which are provided as a concentration in a carrier gas. The gas control system determines the delivery of the pharmaceutical gas to the patient to result in the known desired quantity (e.g. in molecules, milligrams or other quantified units) of the pharmaceutical gas being delivered. Upon completion of that known desired quantity of pharmaceutical gas over a plurality of breaths, the system can either terminate, continue, activate and alarm, etc.
US10960166B2
The present invention relates to an arrangement (1) comprising a switchable connection (2) and a gas flow reversing element (3), e.g. according to WO 2008/113752 A1, which is suitable for using a gas supply (4), in particular oxygen, which is at excess pressure in order to selectively generate a gas stream (5) from or to a line connection (6) which can be connected, in particular via a lumen (7), to an airway of a patient (8); wherein the switchable connection (2) is arranged at the branching piece (10) or at the line connection (6) and switchably connects at least one second line (15) to the first line (13), wherein the switchable connection (2) has at least two switching positions (16, 17), wherein (1) in the first switching position (16) the first line (13) is open and the second line (15) is closed, such that the gas flow (5) through the connection (2) can flow in both directions along the first line (13); (2) in the second switching position (17), if the switchable connection (2) is arranged at the branching piece (10), the second line (15) is fluidically connected, via the connection (2), to the line connection (6) and in particular to the lumen (7) or, if the switchable connection (2) is arranged at the line connection (6), the second line (15) is connected to the lumen (7).
US10960164B2
A vent assembly for use with a respiratory mask of the type used in CPAP treatment includes a porous disk portion that is attached to a biasing member such that the disk portion is maintained in a substantially sealed position against a main vent to minimize airflow through at least one side vent of the vent assembly. Debris build-up on the disk portion can cause the biasing member to deflect to provide an additional path for airflow through the at least one side vent. In another embodiment, the vent assembly can also include an anti-asphyxia feature to provide an airflow path from the environment to the user. An oxygen diverter valve may be disposed between the breathing apparatus flow generator and an oxygen injection port.
US10960153B2
A nasal mask has a flexible bottom edge portion and side portions. A delivery device includes a holding chamber coupled to the nasal mask. A method of delivering an inhalable substance includes positioning a nose of a user in a cavity of the nasal mask, inhaling through the nose, and orally soothing the user with a soothing device.
US10960147B2
A flexible medical needle for extended indwelling periods is provided. The medical needle apparatus includes a spine body and a flexible shaft portion. The spine body has a length between a first end, comprising a piercing tip, and a second end. The flexible shaft portion may be disposed on at least a portion of the spine body, forming a needle shaft having a passage along a portion of the length of the spine body. The spine body may also be coiled forming an axial passage within the spine body. In this latter embodiment, the flexible shaft portion surrounds the spine body. In each embodiment, the spine body is configured to facilitate bending, allowing for the medical needle to remain indwelling with reduced discomfort.
US10960142B2
A detent mechanism for controlling translation between two components in a longitudinal direction includes a resilient beam on one of the components and a rhomboid ramp member on the other component. The resilient beam is essentially straight when relaxed and has a first beam head and is arranged to interact in a ramped engagement with respectively one of two ramps. Each ramp is on one longitudinal side of the rhomboid ramp member such that application of a translative force between the components in one longitudinal direction with the first beam head engaged to one of the ramps in a first state deflects the resilient beam in one transversal direction and such that application of a translative force between the components in the other longitudinal direction with the first beam head engaged to the other one of the ramps deflects the resilient beam in the other transversal direction.
US10960124B2
Dialysis machines and methods for heating dialysate before delivery into a dialysis patient (e.g., peritoneal dialysis machines) may comprise a dialysis machine including one or more internal cooling components configured to expel heated air from the dialysis machine. A receptacle may be configured to receive one or more containers of dialysate. The one or more containers of dialysate may be positionable relative to the expelled heated air of the dialysis machine. The expelled heated air may be flowable around the one or more containers of dialysate to increase a temperature of the dialysate. The receptacle may include a stand for positioning the dialysis machine such that the expelled heated air is directed around the one or more containers of dialysate.
US10960117B2
A catheter device having a catheter (24) in which a rotating shaft (25) which is made at least partially from a magnetic material is arranged, and a separating device which contains an annular body (27) surrounding the rotating shaft and having a cavity containing a magnetic body (13′), the magnetic body being arranged downstream from a point at which the shaft (25) exits the catheter (24) which it surrounds with respect to the direction of flow of the fluid through the catheter.
US10960115B2
A manual breast pump is disclosed. The manual breast pump comprises a breast cup configured to engage with a mother's breast and a reservoir at a base of the breast cup configured to collect milk extracted from the mother's breast. The reservoir is defined by a wall. The wall comprises a varying thickness from a top of the reservoir toward a bottom of the reservoir.
US10960113B2
This disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for preventing the onset and progression of POI. In one example, a fan-like polyurethane heat-sealed bilayer that surrounds a plurality of wedge-shaped foam strips that join at a collecting foam portion, is subjected to negative pressure provided through silicone tubing which is sealed to the perforated collecting foam portion. Such negative pressure applied for approximately 48 to 72 hours after closure of the abdomen, helps prevent POI which in turn enhances patient recovery, and reduces the length of their hospital stay.
US10960111B2
A fluid flow controller includes a first body portion defining a receiving surface, a second body portion, and a fluid transfer device. The second body portion includes a controller engagement member, and is configured to couple to the first body portion such that the controller engagement member faces and is spaced from an engagement point of the receiving surface. The controller engagement member is configured to be adjusted from a first distance to a second distance closer to the engagement point than the first distance based on a force applied by a foot pedal apparatus. The fluid transfer device defines a flow channel configured to be adjusted from defining a first cross sectional area to a second, lesser cross sectional area while the controller engagement member is in contact with the first fluid transfer device and adjusted towards the second distance in response to the applied force.
US10960107B2
A collagen matrix, granulate blend, and process for making and using a collagen matrix or granulate blend including collagen and particles or granules of a biphasic calcium phosphate/hydroxyapatite (CAP/HAP) bone substitute material comprising a sintered CAP core and a closed epitactically grown layer of nanocrystalline HAP deposited on the external surface of the sintered CAP core, whereby the epitactically grown nanocrystals have the same size and morphology as human bone mineral, wherein the closed epitactically grown layer of nanocrystalline HAP deposited on the external surface of the sintered CAP core has a homogeneous coarse external surface comprising flat crystal platelets.
US10960106B2
A tissue repair material includes gelatin granules, and the tissue repair material exhibits a water absorptivity of 800% by mass or more, and a residual ratio of 60% by mass or less after three hours of decomposition treatment using 1 mol/L hydrochloric acid. A block-shaped tissue repair material includes gelatin, and the block-shaped tissue repair material exhibits a water absorptivity of 800% by mass or more, and a residual ratio of 60% by mass or less after three hours of decomposition treatment using 1 mol/L hydrochloric acid.
US10960096B2
Gas-permeable devices which absorb VOC and pollutants and/or are biocidal, containing molded parts or consisting of molded parts, containing materials or consisting of materials on the basis of wood, biodegradable fibers, biodegradable films and/or separated manure, containing geometrically regular and/or irregular, free and/or aggregated and/or agglomerated carbon nanoparticles, carbon microparticles and/or carbon macroparticles. Carbon is selected from the group consisting of biocarbons, biochar, charcoal, screening residues of charcoal, wood ash, activated carbons, hard coal, animal charcoal, carbons from animal waste, pyrogenic carbon having different degrees of pyrolysis, functionalized carbons, pretreated carbons, washed carbons, and extracted carbons.
US10960094B1
A disinfection system is provided. The disinfection system may utilize ultraviolet light and/or ozone for disinfection of infected tissue. For example the system may involve an endoscopic ultraviolet light to disinfect lung tissue. In another aspect, the system may involve a ventilator which provides ozone in small doses to disinfect the tissue. Combinations and variations are further disclosed.
US10960090B2
A general illumination lighting system and/or at least one targeted surface illumination lighting system. The general illumination lighting system including a general illuminating light source configured to generate light toward one or more surfaces or materials to inactivate one or more pathogens on the one or more surfaces or materials. The at least one targeted surface illumination lighting system including one or more targeted surface illuminating light sources that are integrated into or coupled to a plurality of devices, equipment, or fixtures. The one or more targeted surface illuminating light sources configured to generate targeted light toward one or more surfaces of the devices, equipment, or fixtures to inactivate one or more pathogens on the one or more surfaces. The light from the general illuminating light source and the one or more targeted surface illuminating light source including an inactivating portion having wavelengths in a range of 280 to 380 nanometers.
US10960087B2
The present invention provides compounds and methods for the treatment of diabetic retinopathy. In particular, LFA-1 antagonists are described herein to be used in the treatment of diabetic retinopathy. One aspect of the invention provides for diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy and administration of a LFA-1 antagonist, after the patient is diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy.
US10960086B2
An aptamer platform capable of efficiently delivering and silencing one, two or more genes in vivo or in vitro is provided. Methods of using the aptamer compositions for selectively targeting cells to down-regulate the expression of multiple genes are also provided.
US10960076B2
The present disclosure describes a gummy dosage form including: an amino acid in an amount of about 20% by weight or greater; a hydrophilic bulking agent; and a hydrophilic long-chain polymer, wherein at least a portion of the hydrophilic long-chain polymer comprises low methoxyl pectin. The gummy dosage forms can further include additives such as flavorants, fiber, and pH-adjusters. The disclosure further comprises methods for preparing such gummy dosage forms, wherein a hydrophilic bulking agent, a hydrophilic long-chain polymer, and water are combined to give a mixture and heated to give a hydrocolloid system in the form of a slurry; mixing an amino acid with the slurry; and setting the resulting mixture to give the gummy dosage form.
US10960074B2
A process for treating glaucoma whereby the treatment can be accomplished by the use of medication or by surgery, or both, in order to control or prevent the occurrence of glaucoma. The optic nerve is aligned within and between two distinct pressurized spaces and within the dural sheath, the intraocular space and the intracranial space having an intraocular pressure (IOP) and an intracranial pressure (ICP), respectively. Medicine can be administered to raise the intracranial pressure in order to reach a desirable lower translaminar pressure difference across these two pressurized spaces which are separated by the lamina cribrosa in order to treat glaucoma. An alternate closely related mode of the treatment process is the implanting of a shunt substantially between the intraocular space and the intracranial space in order to beneficially equalize pressure differentials across the intraocular space and the intracranial space.
US10960066B2
Provided is a method of treating or preventing pneumococcal disease. Also provided is a method of diagnosing pneumococcal disease.
US10960060B1
A method for treating arrhythmia in a patient in need thereof comprises administering botulinum toxin to the patient. Botulinum toxin may be administered by subcutaneous or intradermal injection. The subcutaneous or intradermal injection may be administered to and/or around the vicinity of a trigeminal nerve, a cervical nerve, a thoracic nerve, a lumbar nerve, and/or a sacral nerve of the patient.
US10960058B2
Polypeptides comprising at least one carboxy-terminal peptide (CTP) of chorionic gonadotropin attached to the carboxy terminus but not to the amino terminus of a coagulation factor and polynucleotides encoding the same are disclosed. Pharmaceutical compositions and pharmaceutical formulations comprising the polypeptides and polynucleotides of the disclosure and methods of using and producing same are also disclosed.
US10960055B2
Undue scarring of healing wounds is decreased and/or the relapse rate of wounds is lowered by applying a composition that includes hemoglobin to the wound area. At least 40% of the hemoglobin in the composition is provided in CO-charged form.
US10960049B2
The present invention includes compositions and methods for treating diseases or disorders associated with pathological calcification or pathological ossification. In certain embodiments, the diseases or disorders are selected from the group consisting of Generalized Arterial Calcification of Infancy (GACI), Idiopathic Infantile Arterial Calcification (IIAC), Ossification of the Posterior Longitudinal Ligament (OPLL), hypophosphatemic rickets, osteoarthritis, calcification of atherosclerotic plaques, PXE, hereditary and non-hereditary forms of osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, hardening of the arteries occurring with aging, calciphylaxis resulting from end stage renal disease and progeria.
US10960043B1
A nutritious fruit juice supplement with the major components coming from Passiflora edulis and Galium aparine, which contain several compounds including flavonoids, phenolic compounds, alkaloids, cyanogenic compounds, glycosides, vitamins A and C, riboflaurniacin, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, copper, terpenoid compounds, and protein. The innovating processing techniques increase the activity of antioxidant and anti-cancer properties already found in the fruit juice from P. edulis and G. aparine and create new compounds that should have additional antioxidant and anti-cancer properties.
US10960041B2
A method for alleviating ultraviolet damage includes administering to a subject in need thereof a composition containing an ethyl acetate-extracted product of Sedum formosanum. The ethyl acetate-extracted product of Sedum formosanum is prepared by a process including the steps of (a) extracting Sedum formosanum with a solution of monohydric alcohol to obtain a alcohol-extracted product from Sedum formosanum; (b) partitioning the alcohol-extracted product with water and n-hexane to obtain an aqueous layer and a n-hexane layer; and (c) partitioning the aqueous layer obtained in step (b) with ethyl acetate, followed by collecting an ethyl acetate layer thus formed to obtain the ethyl acetate-extracted product of Sedum formosanum.
US10960038B2
In an embodiment, a nutritional supplement composition is provided. The nutritional supplement composition is provided including a combination of 100 mg of avocado oil, 15 mg of zeaxanthin of a five percent concentration and 20 mg marigold extract from the tagetes erecta strain. The nutritional supplement is in the form of a compound known as OPTILUMINE™.
US10960037B2
A method of treating neurological condition in a subject by administration of a neuroprotective composition of a mixture of two or more triterpenes. Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, stroke or Parkinson's disease are treated by administering a therapeutically effective amount of the neuroprotective composition to a subject.
US10960035B2
Polar extracts of Erodium plants are disclosed as well as pharmaceutical compositions and cosmetic compositions comprising same. Uses of the polar extracts are also disclosed.
US10960029B2
Devices and methods for extraction and processing of substantia gelatinea funiculi umbilicalis (Wharton's Jelly) from an umbilical cord. Isolated pluripotent cell compositions and methods of using the same are also provided.
US10960026B2
A system for preparing a serum includes a containment device, a cage positioned inside the containment device, a cap attachable to the containment device and configured to cover the cage, an inlet port configured to introduce an autologous fluid into the containment device, and an outlet port configured to remove a serum from the containment device.
US10960005B2
Methods are provided for the treatment of relapsed and/or refractory solid tumors (including neuroendocrine carcinomas (NEC)) and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) and the like, using substituted heterocyclic derivative compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds useful for the inhibition of lysine specific demethylase-1 (LSD-1).
US10959999B2
The invention generally relates to solid forms of berberine ursodeoxycholate, and to pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of preparation and therapeutic use thereof. In particular, the invention relates to solid forms of berberine ursodeoxycholate and pharmaceutical compositions thereof useful in treating and/or preventing various diseases or disorders, including metabolic disorders, heart diseases, neurodegenerative diseases and liver diseases.
US10959997B2
The present invention provides an agent for treating or preventing a disease, a disorder or a condition of a corneal endothelium, said agent comprising a corneal endothelial cell and a myosin II-specific inhibitor. More specifically, the myosin II-specific inhibitor is blebbistatin. The disease, the disorder or the condition is typically a disorder associated with Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy or corneal endothelial dysfunction (bullous keratopathy). Also provided is a method for treating or preventing a corneal endothelial disease, said method comprising a step of administering an effective amount of a myosin II-specific inhibitor together with a corneal endothelial cell to a subject.
US10959994B2
The present disclosure reports solid forms of ((S)-5-((1-(6-chloro-2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinolin-3-yl)ethyl)amino)-1-methyl-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyridine-2-carbonitrile.
US10959983B2
Topical formulations comprising soft glycopyrrolates are useful for treating excessive sweating conditions in subjects, such as humans suffering from hyperhidrosis. Preferably, at least one soft anticholinergic agent is provided in an effective amount or concentration in an anhydrous formulation that can inhibit excessive perspiration resulting from a condition such as hyperhidrosis.
US10959981B2
The present invention relates to a composition for, inter alia, preventing or treating a climacteric disease, or preventing or improving a climacteric skin symptom comprising a soybean extract comprising coumestrol as an active ingredient, and more specifically relates to a composition for, inter alia, preventing or treating a climacteric disease, or preventing or improving a climacteric skin symptom comprising a germinated and fermented soybean extract comprising coumestrol as an active ingredient.
US10959979B2
Compounds capable of, or usable in, killing cancer cells, and/or modulating a biological activity of a chemokine, and/or inhibiting a kinase, and/or treating diseases and disorders associated with a biological activity of a chemokine and/or cell migration, and/or treating disease and disorders such as cancer and inflammatory diseases and disorders, are provided herein. The compounds are listed in Tables 2, 4 and 5, and/or are represented by Formulae I, IV, V and VI, as defined in the specification. Methods utilizing these compounds are also provided.
US10959975B1
A composition includes a microemulsion. The microemulsion includes an aqueous phase, an oil phase, and a surface-active agent. The aqueous phase includes water and at least one polyol. The oil phase includes a therapeutically effective amount of tolnaftate and a carrier including Jojoba oil. The microemulsion includes a disperse phase having a particle size of 50 nm or less. A method for making a composition includes forming a first mixture by combining water and at least one polyol; forming a second mixture by combining Jojoba oil, a surface-active agent, and a therapeutically effective amount of tolnaftate; and combining and mixing the first mixture and the second mixture to form a microemulsion. A method of using a composition includes applying the composition to a site of treatment.
US10959964B2
The present invention relates to ambroxol hydrochloride for the treatment of acute pharyngitis, wherein ambroxol hydrochloride as a sprayable composition comprising up to 30 mg/ml ambroxol hydrochloride is administered locally in a dose of 1 to 20 mg.
US10959957B2
The disclosed are shelf-stable beta-hydroxyisovaleric acid containing soft gel compositions and methods for making such compositions. In certain aspects, disclosed compositions comprise a plant-based capsule shell and a liquid formulation comprising beta-hydroxyisovaleric acid and at least one excipient, wherein the soft gel capsule is shelf-stable. In certain aspects, the excipient is selected from selected from choline salt, betaine, phosphatidylcholine, alpha-glycerophosphocholine, carnitine, adenosine 5′-triphosphate, or a combination thereof.
US10959945B2
The composition is a hydrogel which may be used to deliver therapeutics vaginally. The hydrogel may include a glycosaminoglycan. The glycosaminoglycan may include multiple thiol groups. The composition may also include a molecule that includes at least two thiol reactive sites. The composition may include a mucoadhesive agent as well as a therapeutic agent. The composition may deliver the therapeutic at a pH that is optimal for the vaginal environment, namely between about 3.5 and 5.0.
US10959939B2
The present invention relates to novel liquid protein formulations, particularly arginine-free liquid pharmaceutical compositions of etanercept. The invention employs particular combinations and classes of buffer systems, tonicifiers, and sugar stabilisers, optionally alongside polar ionisable amino acids (e.g. aspartic acid, glutamic acid, histidine, and lysine), to afford a viable and storable drug product.
US10959938B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising, in at least one pharmaceutically acceptable support or vehicle, a combination of (3S,3S′)4,4′-disulfanediylbis(3-aminobutane 1-sulfonic acid) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof and a second active ingredient selected from the group consisting of angiotensin I converting enzyme inhibitors and angiotensin II receptor type I antagonists. Said composition is particularly useful for the treatment of hypertension and related diseases and conditions.
US10959935B2
The invention relates to a hair dyeing process comprising at least one pigment, at least one additional component selected from cross linking agents and/or plasticizers and at least one block polymer comprising: a first block with a glass transition temperature (Tg) of greater than or equal to 40° C. derived from a monomer CH2═C(R1)—COOR2 in which R1=H or methyl, R2=C4 to C12 cycloalkyl group; and a second block with a glass transition temperature (Tg) of less than or equal to 20° C. derived from a vinylphosphonic acid and from a monomer CH2=C(R1)—COOR3 in which R1=H or methyl, R3=linear or branched C1 to C6 unsubstituted alkyl group, with the exception of a tert-butyl group or a methoxyethyl group.
US10959922B2
Oral compositions containing a carrier, a cationic antimicrobial compound, and a silica and/or silicate material are disclosed. These compositions can provide a controlled release of the antimicrobial compound.
US10959920B2
An oil-in-water type emulsion cosmetic exhibits a high-level sunscreen effect and has a low viscosity and a high stability and is easy to use. The oil-in-water type emulsion cosmetic includes (A) an agar microgel, (B) one or more kinds of powders selected from (b1) a clay mineral powder and (b2) a highly oil-absorbing spherical powder, (C) a polyoxyethylene-hardened castor oil having an HLB value of 10-17; (D) an oil-soluble UV absorber, (E) 0.01-0.13 mass % of an (acrylate/alkyl acrylate (C10-30)) cross polymer, and (F) 0-0.5 mass % of a UV scattering agent, and is characterized in that the viscosity at 25° C. is not higher than 10,000 mPa·s.
US10959909B2
A liver cancer metastasis therapeutic device, comprising: a base plate, a prone support, an abdomen massager, a medicated gauze, a sprocket bracket, a transmission shaft, a sprocket, a chain, rotary plates, pedals, a handwheel bracket, handwheels, and an adjustable speed motor. The prone support is fixedly installed on the middle of the base plate, and the abdomen massager covered with the medicated gauze is installed on the prone support. The sprocket bracket is fixedly installed on the base plate and is provided with the transmission shaft and the sprocket, the rotary plates are fixed on two ends of the transmission shaft, and the sprocket is configured to cooperate with the chain for transmission; the handwheel bracket is fixed on two sides of a front center of base plate, and is provided with the handwheels.
US10959905B2
A radio communication device comprising a planar body arranged to be inserted into a gap portion between one or more construction components, wherein the planar body includes a radio communication chip and an antenna arrangement arranged to substantially radiate radio communication signals from the radio communication chip in a direction away from the gap portion.
US10959903B2
A system for coupling a user to a support apparatus includes a harness for the user, a hoist, and frame. The harness and the hoist have co-operable attachment means for releasably coupling the harness to the hoist. The frame is configured to receive the user, where the harness and the frame have co-operable attachment means for releasably coupling the harness to the frame.
US10959895B2
Systems, devices and methods are described for mounting medical equipment on IV poles, bed rails and other supporting structures in medical facilities including operating rooms and critical care sections. A system including a mounting hanger and corresponding equipment housing is disclosed that allows quick mounting and dismounting of equipment from a supporting structure. The novel structural design of mounting hanger including a symmetrical t-slot feature and a plunger lock allows a piece of equipment to be mounted on a supporting structure in multiple orientations as per the requirement which allows a user to optimize the placement of equipment in the medical environment.
US10959890B2
A patient movement, repositioning and transport device, including a substantially rectangular sheet, a continuous pattern of woven reinforcing members within the rectangular sheet, and a plurality of handles.
US10959889B2
An absorbent pant is provided with a containment system defined by a wearing-facing surface of the absorbent pant. The containment system comprises at least one of the following: a pleated section comprising a plurality of pleats; a channeled section comprising a plurality of alternating ridges and channels; and/or a bubbled section comprising a plurality of hemispherical-shaped bubbles aligned in a plurality of rows.
US10959888B2
Asymmetrical absorbent articles having printed regions to facilitate individual placement of the absorbent article are described.
US10959874B2
A method and apparatus for the amelioration of sleep apnea and other obstructive breathing disorders in a patient includes a collar configured to encircle the patient's neck, and a jaw-engagement mechanism carried by the collar. The jaw-engagement mechanism includes a pad configured to contact the underside of the patient's lower jaw in the area of the anterior triangle behind the mandibular symphysis and to be received in a small hollow of the patient's jaw. In use, the pad can apply force against a surface of the patient's lower jaw in order to push it forwardly and upwardly. The pad preferably is secured to a movable post that can be positioned such that a desired amount of force is applied to the patient's lower jaw.
US10959869B2
An example introducer is disclosed. An example introducer sheath includes a tubular member including a first layer and a second layer and a stent disposed between the first layer and the second layer of the tubular member. The stent includes an outer surface and an inner surface. Additionally, the stent is configured to shift from a first configuration to a second expanded configuration and the outer surface of the stent contacts the first layer of the tubular member in the second expanded configuration.
US10959858B2
An insertion instrument for inserting an implant in an intervertebral space is provided. The instrument includes a housing with an inner shaft with a device holder on the distal end and a locking lever on a shaft pin on the proximate end. The device holder has a gripping surface that engages the implant through an actuating mechanism through the locking lever. The instrument is operable to insert the implant into a vertebral space through impaction and is extracted without disturbing the placement of the implant.
US10959850B2
An implant having a porous layer and a molding method thereof includes: a substrate having a bone contact surface being in part in direct contact with a bone of a patient; a porous layer having a void inside; a connecting layer disposed between the bone contact surface and the porous layer to attach the bone contact surface to the porous layer; and a rib detachably coupled to the porous layer, wherein the connecting layer includes at least one constituent component identical to one of constituent components in the bone contact surface to be integrated into the porous layer and the bone contact surface, thereby firmly attaching the porous layer to the bone contact surface. Accordingly, bonding of dissimilar metals is facilitated by inducing the attachment of the bone contact surface of the implant to the porous layer having a void inside, formed by dissimilar metals, through the connecting layer including at least one constituent component identical to one of constituent components of the bone contact surface.
US10959849B2
A device for percutaneous venous valve repair generally including a catheter and a retractable and extendable member for deploying an object that affixes a portion of a venous valve leaflet to an adjacent vein wall. A related method for percutaneous venous valve repair is revealed to include percutaneously inserting a device as described herein into a peripheral vasculature of a living subject so as to affix at least a portion of a leaflet of a venous valve to an adjacent vein wall.
US10959848B2
A pair of paddles are moved laterally away from one another in an exemplary method of repairing a native valve of a patient during a non-open-heart procedure. After the paddles are moved laterally away from one another, first and second gripping members are moved from an open position to a closed position to grasp valve leaflets. The paddles are then moved laterally toward one another. A cam can be used to move the paddles away from one another.
US10959842B2
Described embodiments are directed toward centrally-opening leaflet prosthetic valves having a frame and a leaflet construct. Leaflet frame attachments for prosthetic valves include the leaflet construct being at least partially coupled to a frame outer side by a looped structure.
US10959835B2
Medical kits and methods for performing small incision DLEK include a corneal transplantation donor tissue graft formed into an implantable and compact rolled configuration using the flexible substrate.
US10959834B2
A tear shaping structure or structures that shape a tear film of an eye thereby enabling a desired refractive effect. The tear shaping structure includes a supporting structure supporting a plurality of capillary action members, the capillary action members being spaced apart and arranged in such a way as to create a desired refractive lens effect by shaping the tear film of an eye.
US10959833B2
Improved prostheses comprising a tissue expander and a graft material are disclosed herein. Also disclosed are methods of making prostheses and methods of treatment using the prostheses.
US10959825B2
An intravascular implant and methods of using the implant within the vasculature of the body, for example near a vascular aneurysm, are disclosed. A method of treating an aneurysm includes positioning a vascular graft comprising a tubular channel having a first end and a second end in a blood vessel, securing the vascular graft in place with an expandable anchoring member, and filling a seal cuff on the vascular graft, wherein the seal cuff extends radially outward beyond an exterior surface of the vascular graft, wherein the seal cuff comprises a first seal portion and a second seal portion and wherein the first seal portion is separated from the second seal portion by a first gap and a second gap along a circumference of the seal cuff.
US10959822B2
The present invention relates to devices for treating or managing fecal or bowel incontinence and methods employing them. In an embodiment, such a device can form a seal with at least a portion of the bowel to prevent unwanted discharge of fecal matter from the rectum.
US10959819B2
An oral irrigator contains: a body, a water tank and a detachable jet tip which are both in connection with the body, a power device and a control device Which are both accommodated in the body. The power device is configured to deliver water from the water tank to the detachable jet tip. The power device includes a first outlet defined thereon and configured to discharge the water, a delivery tube connecting with the first outlet, and a first seal element configured to stop water flowing into the body from the power device so that the water discharges out of the first outlet.
US10959816B2
A method of designing a patient-specific prosthesis for a current patient includes receiving scan data of a mouth of the current patient to identify conditions at a location at which the patient-specific prosthesis is to be placed on a dental implant, and determining at least two clinical factors for the current patient. The method further includes identifying a desired outcome for soft tissue for the current patient at the location, and accessing a database having soft-tissue-outcome information for each of a plurality of previous patients. The database further includes clinical-factor information for each of the plurality of previous patients. Based on the soft-tissue-outcome information and the clinical-factor information for at least one of the plurality of previous patients being related to the current patient's desired outcome and the current patient's at least two clinical factors, the method includes developing a design for the patient-specific prosthesis for the current patient.
US10959813B1
A tissue level one-time abutment system for use in a dental zone to reduce a chair time, the system comprising: an abutment supporting a superstructure, the abutment comprising: an implant; a healing cap mechanically fixed to the implant by a threaded bolt extending axially through the healing cap and secured into a matching tapped socket in the implant; and a driving tool having a cross sectional shape matching an axial depression in the healing cap and the driving tool attached to the threaded bolt and having a detachable connection to the threaded bolt; wherein the abutment is configured to be inserted in an initial procedure, with the healing cap retained in place upon the implant, following the initial procedure.
US10959808B2
The invention provides a unitary cordless dental drive apparatus in a first embodiment having a handpiece with a cantilever arm 18 extending outward and positioned to allow a dental nose cone 26 to be connected. An activating switch 20 is located at the free end of the cantilever arm 18 in a position that is convenient for manipulation by a user. In a second embodiment, a contactor 22 is mounted below the cantilever arm 18′ to contact the nose cone 26′ when pressed. In a third embodiment, a standard dental office foot pedal 90 is connected to a wireless transmitter 80 for sending a signal to a receiver 92 located within the handpiece 70 for activating the handpiece 70.
US10959802B1
A tissue marking device enables the deployment of a hook to mark a location within a breast. The deployment is performed by inserting a needle in tissue until it arrives at a target location and pressing on the end of a rod that embeds the hook in the tissue. A thread is attached to the hook and is left exposed to facilitate locating the hook.
US10959796B2
The disclosed technology is directed to a medical instrument comprises a first pulley configured to be rotatable about a rotational shaft. A transmitting member having a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is disposed along an outer circumferential surface of the first pulley and the second end portion extends tangentially to the first pulley and away from the first pulley. The transmitting member being capable of rotating the first pulley upon being actuated to move forwardly or rearwardly in longitudinal directions thereof. A dislodgement guard is disposed on at least one side of the first pulley along a direction in which the rotational shaft extends with respect to the second end portion of the transmitting member for preventing the transmitting member from being dislodged off the first pulley.
US10959793B2
A surgical instrument support arm of a teleoperated patient side cart may include a first arm portion including a first connector end and a second a second arm portion including a second connector end. The second arm portion may be removably connectable to the first arm portion via mating engagement of the first and second connector ends. The first and second connector ends may each include complementary mechanical connections and complementary electrical connections. At least one of the electrical connections of the first and second connector ends may include electrical shielding to protect against electrical interference in a position in which the electrical connections are matingly engaged. The electrical shielding may be configured to axially compress when the electrical connections of the first and second connector ends are matingly engaged.
US10959791B2
A method of using a robotic guidance system for performing surgery on a spine is provided. The method includes utilizing a computerized tomographic scan image of a location on a spinal column of a patient, such that the computerized tomographic scan image is connected to a computer and visible on a monitor connected to the computer. The method also includes attaching a coupling component to the spinal column of the patient, coupling a marker to the coupling component, and imaging, with a fluoroscope, the view of the spinal column of the patient, wherein the fluoroscope image is transmitted to the computer and visible on the monitor and the at marker is clearly visible in the fluoroscope image. The method also includes positioning a cannula, with a robotic mechanism, to a first position relative to a vertebra in the spinal column of the patient, drilling a passage through the cannula into bone of the vertebra in the spinal column of the patient, inserting a guidewire through the cannula into the passage in the bone of the vertebra in the spinal column of the patient, and positioning a screw into the bone of the vertebra in the spinal column of the patient.
US10959784B2
A medical system includes a shaft, an inflatable balloon, a radial array of ultrasound transducers and a processor. The shaft is configured for insertion into a body of a patient. The inflatable balloon is coupled to a distal end of the shaft and configured to perform a treatment to surrounding anatomy. The ultrasound transducers are distributed circumferentially around the distal end of the shaft inside the balloon, and configured to transmit ultrasound waves at respective radial directions and receive respective ultrasound reflections. The processor is configured to estimate and output to a user, based on the ultrasound reflections received from the ultrasound transducers, an extent of mechanical contact between the balloon and the surrounding anatomy.
US10959779B2
Systems and methods are provided in which local tissue diagnostic measurements are correlated with archival local tissue diagnostic data from prior tissue analyses to supplement diagnostic measurements with tissue analysis data from prior tissue analyses having similar local tissue diagnostic data. The tissue analysis data may include information such as pathology data, outcome data, and diagnosis data. The archived local tissue diagnostic data and the tissue analysis data may be stored in a database, and employed for a wide variety of methods, involving preoperative, intraoperative, and/or postoperative phases of a medical procedure. Methods and systems are also provided for displaying, on a medical image shown in a user interface, hyperlinked reference markers associated with tissue analyses, where the reference markers are shown at locations corresponding to local tissue analyses, and where associated diagnostic data and/or tissue analysis may be viewed by selecting a given reference marker.
US10959774B2
An injectate delivery device for expanding tissue is provided. The injectate delivery device comprises: at least one fluid delivery tube comprising a proximal end, a distal end and a lumen therebetween; at least one fluid delivery element in fluid communication with the at least one fluid delivery tube lumen; a radially expanding element comprising the at least one fluid delivery element; a supply of vacuum constructed and arranged to cause tissue to tend toward the at least one fluid delivery element; and at least one control constructed and arranged to perform a function. The at least one control can be constructed and arranged to expand the radially expandable element and activate the supply of vacuum. Systems and method of injectate delivery are also provided.
US10959771B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are presented for a single surgical instrument configured for grasping tissue, performing sealing procedures using electrosurgical or ultrasonic energy, suctioning fluid, and providing irrigation. An end effector of the surgical instrument may include multiple members arranged in various configurations to collectively perform the aforementioned functions. The suction and irrigation elements may comprise one or more fluid paths configured to deliver fluid to or evacuate fluid from a surgical field. In this way, a user, such as a clinician or surgeon, may rely on a single surgical instrument to perform these tasks typical in surgery while having an extra hand available and so as to not need to divert his or her concentration away from the surgical site in order to access multiple devices. Further, the timing for performing each of the functions may be made quicker, due to not needing to switch using multiple devices.
US10959758B2
The present invention generally relates to bone implants. More specifically, the present invention relates to bone implants used for the fixation or fusion of the sacroiliac joint and/or the spine. For example, a system for fusing or stabilizing a plurality of bones is provided. The system includes an implant structure having stem portion and a head portion, the stem portion having a rectilinear cross sectional area. A tulip or saddle structure can be attached to the head portion, and a rod can be secured within the tulip or saddle structure.
US10959757B2
A kit having instructions for use for performing uterine lavage in a female patient includes a uterine lavage catheter configured for insertion into a woman's uterus to remove viable blastocysts from the uterus, and one or more first containers having a sufficient dosage amount of a GnRH antagonist to cause desynchronization of the endometrium of the patient prior to, during and/or following recovery of viable blastocysts from the uterus.
US10959754B2
An access system for endoscopic operations includes of a trocar, a cover that is fittable on the trocar and at least one spreading element having a retaining portion and an effector portion, wherein the access system has, between the trocar and the cover in the fitted state, a receiving region for the retaining portion of the at least one spreading element. Furthermore, the access system can include an extraction bag which is expanded by the effector portion of the at least one spreading element.
US10959753B2
A cannula fixation device for insertion at a surgical incision includes a sleeve having a passage configured to receive a cannula, and a clamp configured to rotatably couple the cannula to the sleeve and to maintain an axial position of the cannula relative to the sleeve.
US10959748B2
An ultrasonic instrument comprises an ultrasonic transducer, an acoustic waveguide, and an ultrasonic blade. The blade includes a pair of obliquely extending edges. The obliquely extending edges diverge away from the longitudinal axis of the waveguide and away from each other along respective paths extending distally in relation to the waveguide. A distal portion of the blade is wider than a proximal portion of the blade along a plane. The blade further includes a curved distal edge and several laterally presented surfaces. The laterally presented surfaces may provide combinations of concave and convex curvatures. The laterally presented surfaces may be angled and/or curved along one or more orthogonal planes associated with the longitudinal axis of the waveguide.
US10959736B2
An atrial appendage occlusion apparatus including an inflatable body defining a compression region that is sized and shaped to receive an atrial appendage and a self-sealing valve associated with the inflatable body.
US10959733B2
A surgical anvil assembly for use with a circular stapling instrument includes an anvil center rod defining a longitudinal axis and an anvil head pivotally coupled to the anvil center rod and movable between a first operative condition and a second tilted condition. The anvil assembly further includes a locking assembly configured to selectively lock the anvil head in each of the first and second conditions.
US10959727B2
A surgical tool assembly. A surgical end effector is movably coupled to a shaft assembly by an articulation joint that is configured to facilitate selective articulation of the surgical end effector relative to the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly includes a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The distal end portion is operably coupled to the articulation joint. An elongate notch is provided in the distal end portion and is located on one lateral side of a shaft axis that is defined by the shaft assembly. The shaft assembly may be configured to prevent the distal end portion from buckling when an axial actuation motion is applied to the proximal end.
US10959715B2
The present disclosure describes medical devices comprising a bio-corrodible stent member and a graft member. The bio-corrodible stent member can comprise a metal applied directly to the graft member via a vapor deposition process, such as a chemical or physical vapor deposition process.
US10959708B2
The present invention provides for a system, method, and device for analyzing, localizing and/or identifying tissue types. The method includes analyzing, localizing and/or identifying one or more tissue samples, characterized in that the method comprises: (a) generating gaseous tissue particles from a site in the one or more tissue samples, (b) transporting the gaseous tissue particles from the site to an analyser, (c) using the analyser for generating tissue-related data based on the gaseous tissue particles, and (d) analyzing, localizing and/or identifying the one or more tissue samples based on the tissue-related data. The invention can either be used in close conjunction with a surgical procedure, when one or more surgical tools are an integrated part of ionization, or as a separate mass spectrometric probe for the analysis of one or more tissue parts.
US10959699B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a laser catheter that includes a catheter body, a light guide, and a distal tip that extends beyond the exit aperture of the light guide. In some embodiments, an imaging device is disposed on the distal tip such that the imaging device is distal relative to the exit aperture of the light guide. In some embodiments, the imaging device can be gated to record images during and or slightly beyond periods when the laser catheter is not activated.
US10959692B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray tube (1), an FPD (2), a holding unit (4) that holds the X-ray tube and the FPD, which face each other, a table (3) on which a subject is placed, and a control unit (5) that controls the movement of the holding unit so as to control an X-ray irradiation direction of the X-ray tube and an X-ray detection direction of the FPD in an interlocking response with a relative position of the table to the X-ray tube and the FPD or based on an operation during X-ray imaging, when the X-ray imaging apparatus performs the X-ray imaging while relatively moving the table with respect to the X-ray tube and the FPD.
US10959690B2
A long length radiographic imaging system uses a plurality of overlapped radiographic detectors each comprising a housing having stepped housing edges at opposite sides of each detector. The stepped housing edges mate with each other to easily form overlapped aligned detectors for simultaneously capturing a long length radiographic image of a subject in a single exposure of the x-ray source.
US10959679B2
In a noncontact self-injection-locked sensor, a self-injection-locked oscillating integrated antenna is designed to radiate a signal to a subject and be injection-locked by a reflect signal reflected from the subject. Owing to the reflect signal is phase-modulated by vital signs of the subject, a demodulator is provided to demodulate an injection-locked signal of the self-injection-locked oscillating integrated antenna to obtain a vital signal of the subject.
US10959675B2
Apparatus and methods related to an underbody support for supporting a body of a being, such as during surgery to prevent contact pressure injuries. In certain embodiments, the underbody support may include one or more inflatable chambers enclosing a volume. At least one of the inflatable chambers may include one or more compression sensitive switches for monitoring the volume of the inflatable chamber, and the one or more compression sensitive switches may be located within the inflatable chamber. In some embodiments the one or more compression sensitive switches are sized to close when the said inflatable chamber is deflated to a desired residual volume.
US10959667B2
Disclosed herein are an intelligent sleep system, and a client system and a cloud system thereof, wherein the client system comprises a multi-dimensional data acquisition module (101), a local data processing module (102), a client system communication module (103), and a driving execution module (104); and the cloud system comprises a cloud side communication module (201), a data management module (202), and a data mining module (203).
US10959666B2
An activity detector worn on or in the vicinity of the waist detects hip-joint actions of the user, by using a proximity sensor in the activity detector to sense the separation between the activity detector housing and a body target linked by the hip joint. For example, when the housing of an activity detector adjacent to the lower abdomen incorporates one or more sensing plates of a capacitive proximity sensor, flexion, extension, abduction, or adduction of the hip joint can be detected as the separation between the sensing plates and the lower abdomen changes. Besides the lower abdomen, alternative body targets include the thigh, buttocks, etc. Besides capacitive proximity sensors, alternative proximity sensors include active infrared proximity sensors, imaging sensors, etc. The activity detector can also incorporate an accelerometer to obtain additional movement and orientation data, which can be combined with the separation data to detect more complex activities.
US10959664B2
The present disclosure provides apparatuses and methods for measuring capacitance as an indication of susceptibility to the formation of a diabetic foot ulcer.
US10959652B2
A pulse oximeter may reduce power consumption in the absence of overriding conditions. Various sampling mechanisms may be used individually or in combination. Various parameters may be monitored to trigger or override a reduced power consumption state. In this manner, a pulse oximeter can lower power consumption without sacrificing performance during, for example, high noise conditions or oxygen desaturations.
US10959649B2
Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for determining a user's stride length and monitoring various aspects of the user's activities. An apparatus worn or carried by the user may determine and track when a user takes a step and, based at least in part on user-specific information, determine an estimated stride length of the user associated with a respective step rate or step rate range. The apparatus may further monitor the physical location, speed, or pace of the user during an activity and, in conjunction with step count information, determine a verified stride length for the user associated with a respective step rate or step rate range. The estimated and verified stride length determinations may be stored and used to determine one or more aspects of a user's subsequent activities, including but not limited to pace, speed, and calorie expenditure information, even when physical location information is unavailable.
US10959639B2
An EEG monitoring apparatus (2) adapted to be carried continuously by a person being monitored comprises means adapted for measuring at least one EEG signal from the person carrying the apparatus and a signal processing means for analysing said at least one EEG signal and adapted to identify or predict predetermined biological incidents in said person based on said analysis. The EEG monitoring apparatus (2) further comprises a decision means adapted to decide when information is to be presented to said person and a message selection means for selecting a voice message providing said person with information, as well as an acoustic transducer adapted for presenting the selected voice message to the person. The invention also provides a method for presenting voice messages.
US10959638B2
Systems and methods can be used to determine conduction velocity and generate one or more conduction velocity and/or pattern maps to facilitate identification of arrhythmogenic mechanisms.
US10959631B2
A neural interfacing device is disclosed. The neural interfacing device may include at least one microneedle electrode. The microneedle electrode may have one or more microneedles. The one or more microneedles may be shaped and positioned such that when the neural interfacing device is applied to a nerve, the one or more microneedles penetrate a nerve epineurium without any portion of the microneedle electrode penetrating any nerve axon beyond a depth of 500 micrometers.
US10959629B2
An Integrated CardioRespiratory (ICR) System is provided for continuous Stroke Volume (SV) measurement using a wearable device comprising a plurality of acoustic sensors. The ICR system performs signal processing computations to characterize cardiac acoustic signals that are generated by cardiac hemodynamic flow, cardiac valve, and tissue motion, and may use advanced machine learning methods to provide accurate computation of SV.
US10959622B2
Methods, devices, and systems for determining an estimated pulse wave velocity of an artery of a subject. Embodiment methods may include applying a series of counter pressures, measuring a first parameter related to pulse wave velocity, estimating a second parameter in a model, and determining the estimated pulse wave velocity. The counter pressures may be applied at a set location on the subject over the artery with a pressure device. Each of the counter pressures may be different from one another, applied at the set location, and between zero and a diastolic pressure of the subject. The first parameter may be measured when each of the series of counter pressures is applied. The model may establish a relationship of the first parameter measured to each of the series of counter pressures. The estimated pulse wave velocity may be determined based on the second parameter estimated in the model.
US10959619B2
A biological information measuring apparatus, a method of acquiring biological information, and a biological information measuring band are provided. The biological information measuring apparatus may emit light beams in a direction, which is actively or passively adjusted, to a region of interest inside a target object, detect the light beams returning from the target object along trajectories different from one another, and select an optimum light beam among the detected light beams.
US10959616B2
A non-invasive blood pressure monitor has a blood pressure cuff and a wireless blood pressure determination unit. The wireless blood pressure determination unit automatically determines the fastest method for measuring blood pressure of a patient based on an initial blood pressure measurement made while inflating the cuff.
US10959614B2
To provide an ophthalmologic device and a pupil state measuring method capable of securing accuracy of a measurement result of objective measurement and effective for investigating the cause of an error during objective measurement. A pupil state measuring method according to the present invention includes: an ocular characteristic measuring step of objectively measuring an ocular characteristic of a subject eye of a subject; an imaging step of substantially simultaneously imaging an anterior ocular segment of the subject eye from different directions using at least two imaging units in measuring the ocular characteristic; a measuring step of analyzing at least one image of images taken by the at least two imaging units to measure a pupil state of the subject eye; and a step of performing the imaging step and the measuring step in measuring the ocular characteristic.
US10959610B1
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to providing an effective and reliable approach for cleaning an exposed surface of an imaging element (e.g., a lens) of apparatuses including but not limited to medical imaging instruments such as endoscopes and laparoscopes and the like. In the case of medical imaging instruments, cleaning apparatuses configured in accordance with embodiments the present invention can be cleaned while the distal end portion of the endoscope is in vivo. Such apparatuses have a cleaning member incorporated therein (e.g., a resilient polymeric wiper, a sponge, an absorbent pad or the like) that is used for cleaning the exposed surface of the imaging element. The apparatus is preferably adapted for being mounted on the imaging apparatus but can also be entirely or partially integral with one or more components of the imaging apparatus or system of which it is a component.
US10959606B2
The image acquisition unit acquires an image captured by an endoscope. The extraction unit extracts a blood vessel of an observation target. The index value calculation unit calculates a plurality of blood vessel index values based on the blood vessel. The determination unit determines whether each of the plurality of blood vessel index values is a normal value or an abnormal value. The color information setting unit sets color information for an abnormal index value, which is the blood vessel index value determined to be the abnormal value by the determination unit, or sets color information for a normal index value, which is the blood vessel index value determined to be the normal value by the determination unit. The image generation unit generates an emphasized image, in which the blood vessel is emphasized, based on the color information.
US10959596B2
A dishwasher having a tub and spray arm assembly for a dishwasher having a spray arm assembly for spraying wash liquid in the tub. The spray arm assembly has spray arm inlet, a bearing assembly with a bearing body that defines a through passage with a bearing inlet and a bearing outlet fluidly coupled to the spray arm inlet. The spray arm assembly also has a liquid supply conduit with a supply outlet fluidly coupled to the bearing inlet, a seal positioned between the bearing body and the liquid supply conduit; and a deflector provided within the supply outlet to effectively divide the supply outlet into at least two portions. At least one of the two portions faces upstream and defining an effective cross-sectional area confronting the bearing inlet that is less than or equal to the cross-sectional area of the bearing inlet. The deflector is also aligned with the bearing inlet and defines a turn in the supply outlet for directing liquid into the bearing inlet.
US10959595B2
A debris collection device for sweeping up residual grain in a bin includes a plate, a plurality of bristles, and a stick. The plate is elongated rectangularly shaped and comprises a first section, which is planar, and second section, which is curved. The bristles are coupled to and extend from a lower face of the plate. The stick is coupled to and extends from an upper face of the plate. The stick is configured to be grasped in hands of a user, positioning the user to urge the bristles that are positioned on the first section across a first surface with the bristles positioned on the second section configured to contact a second surface that is positioned substantially perpendicular to the first surface to collect debris that is positioned on the first surface.
US10959594B2
A vacuum cleaner is provided with a dispensing system for applying a treating agent stored on the vacuum cleaner to the surface to be cleaned. The dispensing system can include at least one container for storing a supply of treating agent and a dispenser for dispensing the treating agent to the surface to be cleaned. The dispensing system uses filtered working exhaust air to blow treating agent off the treating agent dispenser.
US10959581B2
Described and recited herein are example embodiments and implementations of a paper product dispenser by which the paper product may be dampened or moistened as it unrolls, based on at least the angle at which the paper product is unrolled.
US10959561B2
Embodiments provided herein address these and other issues by providing a coffee filter support device that, when positioned placed at least partly in a coffee basket, provides a contact surface that prevents the coffee filter from collapsing inward during the brewing process. In one embodiment, the coffee filter support device has a frustoconical shape defined by a first aperture and a second aperture smaller than the first aperture.
US10959556B1
Tray utensils of identical dimensions are stacked into an assembly and wrapped within a transparent package displaying a visual image of a tray utensil holding within a tray receptacle a standard beverage can upright generally vertically while the tray is oriented generally horizontally and used to hold selected hors d'oeuvres.
US10959552B2
An insulating container can be configured to retain a volume of liquid, and include a canister having a first inner wall having a first end having an opening extending into an internal reservoir, and a second outer wall forming an outer shell. The opening can be sealed by a spout adapter, the spout adapter having an internal passageway extending between the internal reservoir and a spout opening, which may be smaller than the opening of the canister. The spout opening may be sealed with an upper cap that has a magnetic top surface. The upper cap may be selectively coupled to seal the spout opening, or may be magnetically coupled to a magnetic docking surface of a docking structure on the spout adapter.
US10959534B2
A head elevation apparatus configured to be positioned under a mattress may include a base panel and a top panel positioned on the base panel. The top panel may include a center panel hingedly coupled to the base panel. An upper flap may be hingedly coupled to the center panel. A lower flap may be hingedly coupled to the center panel.
US10959531B2
An enclosure for installation on a bed. The enclosure includes an enclosure-frame, an attachment-bracket, a foldable-board and a canopy. In some embodiments, the enclosure includes a power-supply, vents, fans, speakers and lights. The enclosure is useful for providing a user with a peaceful night sleep by preventing external noises and light from disrupting the user.
US10959526B2
The present disclosure discloses a folding chair comprising a seat plate, a back plate, two front legs, and two rear legs. Each of the two front legs is connected with a joint. The joint is disposed between the back plate and the seat plate, and the joint extends rearward to form an extension portion. A rear end of the extension portion is rotatably connected to a top end of a corresponding one of the two rear legs, and a barrier extends from a rear edge of each of the two front legs or a front edge of each of the two rear legs. When the folding chair is folded, the barrier separates each of the two front legs from a corresponding one of the two rear legs and provides an accommodation space for fingers between each of the two front legs and the corresponding one of the two rear legs.
US10959525B2
A chair including a swivel assembly. The chair can include three or more arms pivotally connected to the swivel assembly and selectively moveable between an open position and closed position. The chair can also an arm lock disposed on top of the swivel assembly, where the arm lock is selectively moveable between a locked position and unlocked position. The chair can also include a seat removably connected to a distal end of each arm.
US10959520B2
A cabinet drawer is configured to fully extend from within a cabinet case, tilting downward and outward when fully extended to allow personnel to access items located at the rear of the drawer. Mating channels and slots in the drawer and associated support structure allow for full movement of the drawer, while preventing its disengagement from the cabinet. The inclusion of a downward tiltable drawer provides easy access to the contents of the drawer, regardless of its height.
US10959506B2
A bag assembly has a primary storage chamber and a carrying structure, and the carrying structure having a panel and a shoulder strap extending from the panel. The strap and the panel are seamlessly integrated. The primary storage chamber is a first three dimensional (3D) knit structure having a first material or combination of materials and the carrying structure is a second 3D knit structure having a second material or combination of materials. The primary storage chamber is fixed to the panel of the carrying structure to form the bag assembly. Also provided is a bag assembly in which the primary storage chamber is a first 3D knit structure having a first knit pattern and the carrying structure is a second 3D knit structure having a second knit pattern. Also provided is a method for customizing locations of 3D knit features based on user dimensions.
US10959498B2
A wrist-worn device having the form of a continuous loop. The device comprises a plurality of elongate links, each link comprising at least one magnet, the links being connected to form a chain with neighbouring links being pivotable with respect to one another about a pivot axis that is substantially radial with respect to said loop. The magnets of neighbouring links have a respective positioning and polarity to provide an attractive force between the pair of neighbouring links when the pair of neighbouring links are in a side-by-side arrangement, whereby the chain of links has a first configuration in which the links are retained by the attractive force in the side-by-side arrangement, and a second configuration of greater length than the first configuration.
US10959495B2
A secure zipper that can be used for enclosures that prevents manipulation of the zipper pulls when the enclosure is in a closed state, other than by use of the pull tabs of the zipper pulls, by use of a security barrier placed along side the zipper proximate to the end of the zipper.
US10959490B1
A footwear sole apparatus which has a base member and at least one insert (principal insert and/or heel insert) as well as one or more fail-safe interconnectivity mechanisms, comprised of a configuration to fit or replace the sole or partial sole of a pair or pairs of footwear. The base member is either pre-attached to a new shoe(s) or fitted onto the sole of an existing shoe(s). The base member can be attached to the insert(s), having one or more fail-safe mechanisms to enhance interconnectivity of the base member and insert(s).
US10959488B2
Sole structures (e.g., midsoles and/or outsoles) and articles of footwear include heel-supporting areas and/or forefoot-supporting areas that include a central area (e.g., a central recessed area) and a plurality of surrounding rings. Additionally or alternatively, the sole structures (e.g., midsoles and/or outsoles) may include bands of material defined by recessed grooves to provide a bumpstop type impact-force attenuating structure.
US10959486B2
The pivotable footwear including a front portion, a heel portion, a flexible sole defining a channel extending across the flexible sole, a shoe upper attached to the flexible sole, and a lockable hinge mechanism disposed within the channel. The lockable hinge has an unlocked position wherein the heel portion of said footwear is free to pivot about the channel relative to the front portion of the footwear, and a locked position wherein the heel portion of the footwear is locked into position relative to the front portion of said footwear. The lockable hinge mechanism is electronically actuated and battery operated and controlled to move between the locked position and the unlocked position by actuation of an electronic remote control. That is, actuation of the electronic remote control causes the hinge to move the footwear to an open, foot insertion position and a wearable locked position.
US10959482B2
A shoe cover for covering a shoe to present the look like the wearer is wearing a different pair of shoes. The shoe cover includes an upper piece configured to cover the shoe of a wearer, the upper piece sized to cover a specific shoe without being attached to the shoe while the shoe is worn. The shoe cover includes a sole piece coupled to a bottom of the upper piece and configured to grip surfaces as the wearer uses the shoe cover and a gripping insert secured within the cavity created of the upper piece to guard against slippage of the cover on the shoe with the intent of ensuring the safety of the wearer.
US10959478B2
A head and facial protection system comprising a helmet and an attachable eye protection, said helmet comprising an inner and outer surface, a core between the inner and outer surfaces, a first and a second forehead mount, and a left and right post; wherein the eye protection secures to the first and second forehead mounts and the left and right posts to enable adjustment of the attachable eye protection.
US10959476B2
Cushioning elements for apparel may include a pair of material layers and a pad component that is located between and secured to the material layers. At least one surface of the pad component includes a plurality of elongate grooves. In addition, a plurality of elongate voids extend through the pad component.
US10959471B2
A turban has an outer shell forming an enclosed interior space with an interior perimeter. At least one sleeve, which is open at its ends, is formed within the interior space along the interior perimeter. A malleable wire is threaded through the open ends of the at least one sleeve such that the wire extends around the interior perimeter of the outer shell, the wire having two ends bound together. The turban may be wrapped around the head of a user, for example as a fashion accessory, while being held in place by the wire.
US10959469B2
A device protecting the plantar padding of a foot that includes a cushion including a viscoelastic material that is configured to be held against the skin of the plantar region and to cover all of the metatarsal heads and the metatarsophalangeal joints of the foot, and an elastic band attached to the cushion along two opposing transverse edges and by a tab configured to pass between the big toe and the adjacent toe of the foot. The band has a width configured to entirely cover side bulges formed by the metatarsophalangeal joints of the small and big toes. A portion of the band configured for contacting the top of the foot includes tacky elements on both sides thereof, which prevent the protective device from sliding on the skin when the device is placed on the foot and inside a sock surrounding the foot.
US10959468B2
The present invention provides a vest assembly, for wearing around a body of a user performing physical activity. The vest assembly includes a front plate and a rear plate each having a perimeter that includes a plurality of slits. The slits allow for insertion of a plurality of straps. A slit of the front plate tensions one of the straps together with a corresponding slit of the rear plate to fit the vest assembly around the body of the user.
US10959463B2
An aerosol-forming article for use in an electrically heated aerosol-generating device is provided, the aerosol-forming article including a mouthpiece, an aerosol-forming substrate, and a plurality of magnetic particles including a magnetic material having a Curie temperature of between 60 degrees Celsius and 200 degrees Celsius. An electrically heated aerosol-generating device for receiving the aerosol-forming article is also provided, the device including a heater element configured to heat the aerosol-forming article, an inductor, and a controller configured to measure an inductance of the inductor and to control a supply of electrical current to the heater element in response to the measured inductance.
US10959462B2
The e-vaping device includes a housing, a vaporizing heater within the housing, and a reservoir configured to contain a pre-vapor formulation. At least one ejector is in fluid communication with the reservoir. The at least one ejector is configured to eject droplets of the pre-vapor formulation towards the vaporizing heater. The vaporizing heater is configured to vaporize at least some of the droplets. The method operates the e-vaping device.
US10959450B2
Disclosed is a food composition relieving the symptoms of various kinds of viral diseases or diseases suspected to be viral diseases. The food composition according to the present invention contains coix, xylitol, vitamin C, manuka honey, frankincense, myrrh and propolis in the form of powders, liquid or extract.
US10959448B2
This invention provides a method and device for disinfecting any products, materials or environment as any complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors that can include gases, liquids and solids like soil or artificial plant growing media or animals and plants comprising the step of treating them with one or more infrared lights of LED emitters.
US10959440B2
A tubular, seamless, water vapour permeable, smokable, biaxially draw-oriented and partially or completely heat-set food casing is provided having at least two layers based on thermoplastic polymers. At least one layer A, which does not form the inside layer, comprises a blend of aliphatic (co)polyamide and at least one hydrophilic polymer, while the inside layer I comprises a blend of aliphatic or isocyclic (co)polyamide and a block copolymer selected from polyether-amide, polyether-ester and polyether-urethane. The casing is produced by a tubular-film blowing process or a process with biaxial tubular-film draw-orientation. The casing is envisaged more particularly as synthetic sausage casing, especially for smoked raw sausage, such as salami.
US10959438B2
A precision baking system includes a baking vessel that defines a vertical direction. The baking vessel includes a base wall and at least one sidewall. An aperture is formed in one of the base wall and the sidewall. The precision baking system also includes a temperature probe. The temperature probe includes a tip and a temperature sensor within the tip. The temperature probe is sized to extend through the aperture such that the tip of the temperature probe is spaced from the base wall and the sidewall of the baking vessel when the temperature probe is fully inserted into the baking vessel through the aperture.
US10959436B2
The invention relates to an algal composition in the form of an aqueous suspension. More particularly the invention relates to aqueous suspension composition including one or more algae selected from green algae, red algae, golden algae, brown algae, golden-brown algae, blue algae, blue-green algae or their species in the range of 0.1%-65% by weight with one or more surfactants in the range of 0.1%-50% by weight; with one or more structuring agent in the range of 0.01%-5% by weight, where the composition has a particle size range of from 0.1 micron to 60 microns. Furthermore, the invention relates to a process of preparing the algal composition comprising at least one alga and at least one agrochemically acceptable excipient in the form of an aqueous suspension. The invention further relates to a method of treating the plants, seeds, crops, plant propagation material, locus, parts thereof or the soil with the algal composition in the form of aqueous suspension.
US10959433B2
This disclosure relates to sporicidal compositions and uses thereof. The sporicidal compositions include one or more cationic steroidal antimicrobials (CSAs). The sporicidal compositions may be applied to an object to kill or deactivate bacterial spores contacting the sporicidal composition. The object may be a food product, food processing equipment, industrial equipment, or healthcare facility objects. The sporicidal composition may be administered to a subject that has, is suspected to have, or is at risk for an infection associated with spore-forming bacteria.
US10959430B2
Compositions and methods for repelling coleopterans. The compositions contain a substrate and an anti-aggregation pheromone intermixed within the substrate. The pheromone may be verbenone, methyl salycylate, wintergreen oil, or combinations thereof.
US10959423B2
The present invention relates to a product and method for cell preservation, such as cell banking of any type of cells for subsequent scientific or medical use. More closely, the invention relates to a product and a method for cryopreservation of cells using vacuum tubes provided with freeze media/cryopreservation liquid.
US10959420B1
A scavenging animal deterring feeder assembly may include a feeder support stand having an elevated stand platform and a stand fence having a plurality of spaced-apart, upward-standing fence spikes carried by the stand platform. A feed-dispensing wildlife feeder may be supported by the stand platform of the feeder support stand and at least partially enclosed by the stand fence. Accordingly, the stand fence deters a wild hog or other scavenging animal from landing its front paws onto the stand platform and collapsing the stand platform in an attempt to access the animal feed in the wildlife feeder.
US10959419B2
A method for controlling Aurelia spp. blooms in harbors includes: designing different sites at equal intervals in an area in spring, collecting ephyrae of Aurelia spp. with an I-type trawl net for zooplankton from bottom to surface, determining whether polyps of Aurelia spp. inhabit in the vicinity of the sites; seeking large floating substrates that the polyps attach to using scuba diving in the determined habitats of the polyps; dragging the substrates to a shore base and scraping off all organisms attached to bottom surfaces of the substrates in a physical manner, then air drying the substrates for 7 days or more; and applying an antifouling paint on the bottom surfaces of the dried substrates followed by drying, then returning the substrates back to their original sites in the sea to control the bloom of Aurelia spp. in the area.
US10959417B2
A fishing line guide device for preventing snags and fish loss includes a rod and a cylinder. The cylinder is coupled to a bottom of the rod so that the cylinder is perpendicular to the rod. The rod is configured to be grasped in hands of a user, positioning the user to position the cylinder on a fishing line between a fishing pole and a hooked fish. The user is positioned to guide the line away from an obstruction as a fisherman reels in the line with the line sliding over the cylinder.
US10959411B2
Bottom grading apparatuses for aquaculture systems are disclosed herein. An example system includes a vessel filled with water that receives fish, the vessel having a bottom surface with drain; a plenum in fluid communication with the vessel; a multiway valve in fluid communication with the plenum, a mortality pipe, and a grading pipe; and a mortality container in fluid communication with the mortality pipe and the vessel, wherein the fish can re-enter the vessel through the mortality container and deceased fish remain in the mortality container, wherein when the multiway valve is closed to the mortality pipe, the fish will divert through the grading pipe.
US10959400B2
The temporary pet kennel is an apparatus that serves as a temporary housing and a bed for a pet. The temporary pet kennel includes an elongated enclosure, a cushion, a plurality of fasteners, and at least one ventilation hole. The elongated enclosure further includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion, together, enclose the pet. The cushion is contained within the second portion which supports and comforts the pet which rests on the cushion. The plurality of fasteners secures the first portion to the second portion so that the pet remains within the elongated enclosure until the user purposefully disengages the plurality of fasteners. The at least one ventilation hole allows the pet within the elongated enclosure to properly breathe. The apparatus further includes a support plate and a stand which provide storage within the elongated enclosure.
US10959386B2
The present disclosure provides melon plants exhibiting tolerance to cucurbit yellow stunt disorder virus (CYSDV) and lacking negative traits associated with CYSDV tolerance such as increased fruit size and reduced fruit set. Such plants may comprise novel introgressed genomic regions associated with disease tolerance. In certain aspects, compositions, including novel polymorphic markers and methods for producing, breeding, identifying, and selecting plants or germplasm with a disease tolerance phenotype are provided.
US10959383B2
A distributed sensor grid may be used to monitor the growth conditions of plants in an agricultural environment. In one example, a distributed sensor grid may include sensors that are arranged as a grid defined by a vertical axis and a first horizontal axis. The sensors may each be coupled to a cable and/or a port that provides operating power and/or network communications access. In some implementations, a plurality of lighting fixtures disposed in the agricultural environment may be configured to provide the power and network communications access to one or more sensors, thus alleviating use of excess cabling for connectivity and simplifying installation. The sensors may be correspondingly disposed within the vicinity of respective lighting fixtures to monitor growth conditions for a portion of the agricultural environment. The sensors used may also be packaged as an integrated sensor assembly, further simplifying installation and deployment.
US10959380B2
A sieve for a cleaning system of an agricultural harvester includes: a sieve frame defining a top side; adjustable louvers carried by the sieve frame and defining apertures; an adjustment bar coupled to the adjustable louvers such that displacement of the adjustment bar changes a size of at least some of the apertures; and an adjustment assembly. The adjustment assembly includes: an adjustment arm coupled to the adjustment bar and pivotable relative to the sieve frame such that pivoting of the adjustment arm about a pivot axis displaces the adjustment bar. The adjustment arm carries a locking pin. A shaft is disposed on the top side and coupled to the adjustment arm. Displacement of the shaft from a first position to a second position causes a corresponding displacement of the locking pin from a locking position to an adjustment position.
US10959375B1
A catcher bag for ground tending machine such as a power lawn mower. The catcher bag is constructed of biodegradable perforated paper and replaces an O.E.M. fabric catcher bag. The disclosed catcher bag can mount on a variety of O.E.M. catcher bag frames of O.E.M. rear discharge lawn mowers, and greatly eases the effort of collecting and disposing of lawn clippings and leaf debris by eliminating labor-intensive, cumbersome, and often messy/dusty steps in transferring debris from a fabric catcher bag into a standard paper lawn refuse disposal bag.
US10959368B2
A sowing element for precision pneumatic seed drills. The sowing element includes a conduit for transporting the seed with an initial portion which is proximal to a device for isolating the seed, an intermediate portion which extends in continuation of the initial portion, and a terminal portion for dispensing the seed; and a pneumatic accelerator which is arranged along the conduit for transporting the seed. The pneumatic accelerator is positioned between the intermediate portion and the terminal portion of the conduit for transporting the seed.
US10966361B2
A dedicated correction value related to the mounting position of an upper surface recognition component with a characteristic section on an upper surface thereof is memorized in correction value folder 43a of an HDD, and when performing mounting work of mounting the upper surface recognition component on a board, a position deviation amount of the characteristic section is acquired based on an image of the upper surface of the upper surface recognition component captured by a mark camera, and the component is mounted at the mounting position based on the acquired position deviation amount and the dedicated correction value. Accordingly, it is possible to mount the specific component at a corrected mounting position such that the position of the characteristic section is appropriate, thereby improving mounting accuracy for the upper surface recognition component.
US10966355B2
An electric power conversion apparatus includes a channel case in which a cooling water channel is formed; a double side cooling semiconductor module that has an upper and lower arms series circuit of an inverter circuit; a capacitor module; a direct current connector; and an alternate current connector. The semiconductor module includes first and second heat dissipation metals whose outer surfaces are heat dissipation surfaces, the upper and lower arms series circuit is disposed tightly between the first heat dissipation metal and the second heat dissipation metal, and the semiconductor module further includes a direct current positive terminal, a direct current negative terminal, and an alternate current terminal which protrude to outside. The channel case is provided with the cooling water channel which extends from a cooling water inlet to a cooling water outlet, and a first opening which opens into the cooling water channel.
US10966351B2
The present invention provides a heat dissipation device including a baseplate, one or more heat pipes in thermal communication with the baseplate, where the one or more heat pipes has one or more internal cavities, one or more vapor chambers coupled to the one or more heat pipes, where the one or more vapor chambers has one or more internal cavities, where the one or more internal cavities of the one or more heat pipes and the one or more internal cavities of the one or more the vapor chambers are contiguous, where the one or more vapor chambers extends from the one or more heat pipes, and heat conducting fins coupled to the one or more vapor chambers, where the one or more heat conducting fins extends from the one or more vapor chambers.
US10966343B2
A structure can include a body having a first surface and a second opposing surface. The three-dimensional structure can include the body defining a first pattern of first cavities extending into the body from the first surface and the body defining a second pattern of second cavities extending into the body from the second surface. One or more first cavities can eccentrically intersect with one or more second cavities to define a pattern of apertures in the body.
US10966341B2
A lightweight and low-cost electromagnetic pulse (EMP) protection rack includes a front door, a rear door disposed to face the front door, a left outer wall disposed between the front door and the rear door, a right outer wall disposed to face the left outer wall, a top outer wall positioned on top parts of the front door, the rear door, the left outer wall, and the right outer wall, a bottom outer wall disposed to face the top outer wall, and a main frame disposed to connect, into a single unit, the front door, the rear door, the left outer wall, the right outer wall, the top outer wall and the bottom outer wall, wherein at least one of the front door and the rear door is implemented as a roller blind having a shielding member.
US10966339B1
A data storage module includes one or more carrier circuit board assemblies mounted in a rack. An array of removable solid state data storage devices (such as USB thumb drives or SD cards) is coupled to the circuit board assemblies. A data storage controller is coupled to the solid state data storage devices in the array. The data storage controller stripes data across at least two of the solid state data storage devices.
US10966337B2
An electrical converter having pluggable converter components includes a first electronic assembly having electronic parts an assembly carrier, a housing chassis and a housing cover, wherein at least one of the electronic parts is a power semiconductor switch having a wide band gap and made of GaN or of InGaN. The power semiconductor switch is operated with a reverse bias of at least 400 V and at a clock frequency of at least 40 kHz during operation of the electrical converter. The first electronic assembly is mechanically plugged into the assembly carrier by connecting elements, and the first electronic assembly together with the assembly carrier is mechanically plugged and locked by further connecting elements to the housing chassis or to the housing cover using corresponding locking elements on the housing chassis or to the housing cover, respectively.
US10966331B2
The present specification discloses systems, devices, and methods provide a mounting system which includes rail and a bracket which is selectively secured to the rail. The bracket is selectively and/or automatically locked to the rail when positioned on the rail, and may be removed from the rail by activating one or more buttons or actuators. The disclosed mounting systems, devices, and methods enable a device to be protected from impact and moisture exposure, enable a device to be securely mounted on a base, and/or enable a device to be quickly secured and removed from a base.
US10966321B2
System-in-package structures and methods of assembly are described. In an embodiment, a system-in-package includes opposing circuit boards, each including mounted components overlapping the mounted components of the opposing circuit board. A gap between the opposing circuit boards may be filled with a molding material, that additionally encapsulates the overlapping mounted components. In some embodiments, the opposing circuit boards are stacked on one another using one or more interposers that may provide mechanical or electrical connection.
US10966319B2
A system for interconnecting electronic boards, which is intended to be incorporated into a computer cabinet, and a computer cabinet including such a system, to be used for interconnecting electronic boards in computer cabinets placed particularly in data centres or computer rooms, where the system has a front wall and a rear wall each having an external face and an internal face, the external face of the front wall including at least one front connection intended to allow the connection of an electronic board, the front connection being linked to one or more front connection cables on the side of the internal face of the front wall, where the front and rear walls are temporarily rigidly connected via the respective internal faces thereof by a fixing means to form a casing inside which the connection cables are placed.
US10966316B2
A wiring film is provided between a cloth and an electronic component, wherein the wiring film has a wiring layer including an extensible film and wirings provided along the extensible film inside or on an outer surface of the extensible film and at least a part of the wirings is exposed from a first surface of the wiring layer that faces the electronic component.
US10966312B1
An apparatus includes a substrate and an electronic circuit comprising a plurality of conductive tracts forming a printed litz line on the substrate for distributing a signal therebetween in order to increase effective conductance relative to a single conductive line not divided into tracts. The plurality of conductive tracts may be formed by printing a pattern on the substrate and removing portions of the pattern to leave the plurality of conductive tracts. The removing portions of the pattern may be performed by a removal process such as laser cutting, milling, etching, or masking. For example, the removal may be performed by applying ultrashort laser pulses. The printing may be performed by a jetting process, a spray process, an extrusion process, a dispensing process, and/or other types of processes for applying materials.
US10966310B1
An apparatus for generating a highly energetic plasma employs a low-energy neutral beam injected into a magnetically contained mirror plasma to produce plasma ions boosted in energy to fusion levels by a coordinated radiofrequency field.
US10966299B2
A method for controlling an amount of power delivered to an electrical load may include controlling an average magnitude of a load current towards a target load current that ranges from a maximum rated current to a minimum rated current in a normal mode, and controlling the average magnitude of the load current below the minimum rated current in a burst mode. The burst mode may include at least one burst mode period that comprises a first time period associated with an active state and a second time period associated with an inactive state. During the burst mode, the method may include regulating a peak magnitude of the load current towards the minimum rated current during the active state, and stopping the generation of at least one drive signal during the inactive state to control the average magnitude of the load current to be less than the minimum rated current.
US10966285B2
A safety switch device connects a heating unit for at least one battery cell of a high-voltage battery of a motor vehicle to a power supply connection that provides a heating current for the heating unit. The device includes: a first controllable switching element arranged in a heating current transmission path, which is designed to receive a control signal supplied by a unit external to the high-voltage battery via a signal transmission path of the safety switch device and to generate heating current transmission between the heating unit and the power supply connection according to the received control signal; a separating unit arranged in the heating current transmission path, for interrupting the heating current transmission in the event of failure of the first switching element; and a transmission unit arranged in the signal transmission path, which is designed to transmit the control signal potential-free to the first switching element, for the galvanic separation of the high-voltage battery and the unit.
US10966283B2
Technology for a user equipment (UE) using a self-contained time division duplex (TDD) subframe to communicate with an eNodeB within a wireless communication network is disclosed. The UE can determine, at the UE, an advanced physical uplink control channel (xPUCCH) resource index to designate one or more physical resources for transmission of the xPUCCH, wherein the one or more physical resources are multiplexed using at least one or more of frequency division multiplexing (FDM), code division multiplexing (CDM), or combination thereof. The UE can signal a transceiver of the UE to transmit to the eNodeB up link control information (UCI) using the one or more physical resources designated by the xPUCCH resource index.
US10966271B2
A technique includes determining, by a user device, a first preferred downlink beam, sending, by the user device to a base station, an indication of the first preferred downlink beam, receiving, by the user device from the base station, a temporary configuration information at least for use in reporting an updated or second preferred downlink beam, detecting that the user device has not received a connection response message from the base station indicating that a connection has been established between the user device and the base station, determining, by the user device, a second preferred downlink beam, sending, by the user device to a base station in response to the detecting and based at least in part on the temporary configuration information, an indication of the second preferred downlink beam to the base station, and receiving, via the second preferred downlink beam, a connection response message from the base station.
US10966266B2
Disclosed herein is a first wireless communication node comprising a first communication module that includes a first baseband unit configured to handle baseband processing for the first communication module, a first RF unit configured to define a frequency range of radio signals for the first communication module, and a first antenna unit configured to generate a first extremely-narrow beam that facilitates exchange of radio signals with at least one other wireless communication node. The first wireless communication node may also comprise a second communication module that includes a second baseband unit configured to handle baseband processing for the second communication module, a second RF unit configured to define a frequency range of radio signals for the second communication module, and a second antenna unit configured to generate a second extremely-narrow beam that facilitates exchange of radio signals with at least one other wireless communication node.
US10966263B2
A UE operating in a RAN may be configured to receive new radio, NR, radio resource control, RRC, messages from a secondary network node. The NR RRC messages may each contain a number that the secondary network node added to the NR RRC messages to indicate their respective order in a sequence which the NR RRC messages were sent by the secondary network node. The NR RRC messages may each contain parameters that the UE uses to configure its communications through a NR interface with the secondary network node. The UE may send NR RRC complete messages toward the secondary network node responsive to receipt of the NR RRC messages, wherein the NR RRC complete messages each contain an indication of the NR RRC message that was received. The UE may control the sending of the NR RRC complete messages to indicate to the secondary network node whether the NR RRC messages are received in an order that is the same as the sequence.
US10966255B2
An access method, a terminal device, and a base station are provided. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device at a current moment, that a preset condition for a link exception is met, and determining that the current moment is within a preconfigured time window; selecting, by the terminal device, one access resource from at least two preconfigured access resources as a target access resource; and sending, by the terminal device, an access signal to the base station by using a time-frequency resource in the target access resource.
US10966250B2
Method for indicating and determining listen-before-talk parameters, base station and user equipment
Provided are a method used for indicating and determining a parameter value of Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) parameters, a base station and a user equipment, the method including: determining a parameter value of LBT parameters, the LBT parameters including an LBT type, an LBT priority, and a start position of a physical uplink shared channel PUSCH; determining an index for carrying out joint indication of the LBT parameters on the basis of a subset of a full set which is formed by combining possible parameter values of each LBT parameter; generating downlink control information including the index; and sending the downlink control information to a user equipment.
US10966242B2
Techniques are described for wireless communication. A first method includes transmitting a first signal to indicate accessing a first channel in a radio frequency spectrum band, and transmitting information with the first signal in the radio frequency spectrum band. A second method includes winning contention to access a radio frequency spectrum band, and after the winning contention to access the radio frequency spectrum band, transmitting a first signal to align a starting point of a second signal with a reference boundary associated with the radio frequency spectrum band. A third method includes winning contention to access a radio frequency spectrum band during a first frame period, the first frame selected from a plurality of different frame periods, and transmitting a signal at a periodicity during one or more subframes of the first frame period for each of the plurality of different frame periods.
US10966237B2
A terminal apparatus transmits capability information. The capability information includes a first capability parameter, a second capability parameter, and a third capability parameter. The first capability parameter indicates whether the terminal apparatus supports Semi-Persistent Scheduling in a primary cell. The second capability parameter indicates whether the terminal apparatus supports skipping of uplink transmission corresponding to a grant configured for a primary cell in a case that there is no available data for transmission in a buffer of the terminal apparatus. The third capability parameter indicates whether the terminal apparatus supports Semi-Persistent Scheduling in an LAA secondary cell, and whether the terminal apparatus supports skipping of uplink transmission corresponding to a grant configured for an LAA secondary cell in a case that there is no available data for transmission in the buffer of the terminal apparatus.
US10966236B2
An apparatus of a base station, system and method. The apparatus includes a memory and processing circuitry configured to: determine a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) on a first component carrier; encode a first signal to be transmitted on the PDCCH, the first signal including downlink control information (DCI) on resources for a second signal to be transmitted on a second component carrier, wherein the DCI is based on a predetermined numerology, and wherein respective numerologies of the first component carrier and the second component carrier are different from one another. The processing circuitry is further to cause transmission of the first signal on the PDCCH, wherein a receiver of the second signal is to process the second signal based on the control information in the first signal.
US10966214B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device includes a transmitter configured to transmit a first frame including information to specify a plurality of frequency components; and controlling circuitry configured to determine whether a second frame is received via each of the plurality of frequency components. The transmitter is configured to transmit a third frame including first information concerning a first value range which is used to determine whether to respond to the first frame, the first value range being dependent on a number of frequency components via which the second frame has been received.
US10966211B2
A method for receiving resource allocation information by a user equipment in a wireless communication system, the method comprising receiving, from a base station, control information including downlink resource allocation information and an indicator indicating downlink resource allocation for the user equipment operating in Full Duplex Radio (FDR) mode, wherein the downlink resource allocation information indicates at least one first Resource Block Group (RBG) index, each of the at least one RBG index corresponding to a plurality of non-contiguous Physical Resource Block (PRB) indexes in a frequency domain, and receiving, from the base station, downlink data based on the downlink resource allocation information and based on the indicator.
US10966207B1
Radio circuitry controls wireless transmit power to User Equipment (UEs). The radio circuitry receives wireless signals generated using different Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) constellation sizes. The circuitry converts the wireless signals into data symbols and converts the data symbols into uplink data. The radio circuitry determines when average symbol error is excessive for a set of QAM constellation sizes. The radio circuitry determines when the UEs are concentrated in an inner coverage range. When both the average symbol error is excessive and the UEs are concentrated in the inner range, the radio circuitry reduces transmit power and transmits wireless signals to the UEs at the reduced transmit power. When the average symbol error is no longer excessive or when the UEs are no longer concentrated in the inner range, the radio circuitry increases transmit power and transmits wireless signals to the UEs at the increased power level.
US10966203B2
A radio communication apparatus capable of alleviating a burden in setting a transmission format and suppressing increases in the scale of the apparatus. In this apparatus, space multiplexing adaptability detection section detects space multiplexing transmission adaptability for divided bands obtained by dividing a communication band to which Ns subcarrier signals belong in multicarrier transmission and to which a plurality of subcarrier signals belong, and outputs the detection results. Transmission format setting section sets a transmission format when carrying out radio transmission based on the detection results from space multiplexing adaptability detection section.
US10966202B2
Some example embodiments include methods of operating a wireless communication device supporting carrier aggregation, the methods include allocating a memory of a plurality of memories to each of a plurality of component carriers based on a memory allocation priority; determining a demodulation priority for each of the plurality of component carriers based on one of a size of each memory allocated to each of the plurality of component carriers, and the memory allocation priority; and demodulating signals received via the plurality of component carriers based on the demodulation priority.
US10966199B2
A base station divides a subframe into a downlink time duration for downlink, an uplink time duration for uplink, and a guard period between the downlink time duration and the uplink time duration. The base station transmits a downlink control channel including information on a downlink packet duration allocated for downlink transmission of a terminal and information on an uplink packet duration allocated for uplink transmission of the terminal to the terminal in the downlink time duration.
US10966192B2
Disclosed in the present application is a method by which a terminal, set by a first uplink carrier, receives downlink control information from a base station in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: receiving setting information of a second uplink carrier through an upper layer; receiving, from the base station, the downlink control information for transmission of an uplink signal through the first uplink carrier or the second uplink carrier; and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink signal on the basis of the downlink control information, wherein the last bit of padding bits of the downlink control information is indicator information indicating either the first uplink carrier or the second uplink carrier.
US10966190B2
The present application discloses a method for enabling a terminal to transceive a signal with a base station in a TDD (Time Division Duplex) communications system. Specifically, the method includes the steps of: receiving reference sub-frame set information through the system information and active sub-frame set information through dynamic signaling; receiving an uplink grant for transmitting an uplink signal in a downlink sub-frame defined in the active sub-frame set information; judging the effectiveness of a particular uplink sub-frame for transmitting the uplink signal commanded by the uplink grant; and transmitting the uplink signal to the base station if the particular uplink sub-frame is effective.
US10966184B2
To enable a reduction in the effect of backhauling on wireless communications in the case of carrier aggregation, provided herein is a communication control device that acquires information about a terminal device that uses one component carrier of a macro cell as a primary component carrier, sets one or more component carriers of a small cell partially or fully overlapping with the macro cell as an additional component carrier to be used additionally by the terminal device, and sets one component carrier among the one or more component carriers as a special component carrier on which the terminal device is able to transmit uplink control information on an uplink control channel, wherein the uplink control information includes at least one of an acknowledgement (ACK) and a negative acknowledgement (NACK) regarding reception of a downlink signal, an uplink scheduling request, or periodically reported channel state information.
US10966177B2
Embodiments of this application provide a communication method including: determining, by a terminal device in a first state, that a paging area of the terminal device is changed; sending, by the terminal device, a first message to a first access network device, where the first message is used to notify the first access network device that the paging area of the terminal device is changed; receiving, by the terminal device, a second message sent by the first access network device based on the first message; determining, by the terminal device based on the second message, a to-be-entered state of the terminal device; and when the terminal device determines that the terminal device needs to be in a second state, entering, by the terminal device, the second state based on a stored connection context information.
US10966174B2
Infrastructure equipment for transmitting data to and receiving data from a mobile device on a communications network is described. The infrastructure equipment comprising: transmitter circuitry configured to transmit the data to the mobile device; and controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry to transmit a first position reference signal in a first subframe and a second position reference signal in a second subframe, wherein the second position reference signal is a time adjusted version of the first position reference signal, the amount of time adjustment being determined by the sample time at which the mobile device samples the position reference signal.
US10966170B1
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating and querying an index associated with targeted communications. A method may include receiving candidate identifiers, rates of targeted communication, and traits associated with the candidate identifiers. A method may include generating a candidate index including one or more dimensions associated with candidate traits. A method may include receiving a query associated with desired candidate traits, determining if one or more candidates appear in the dimensions associated with the desired traits, and intersecting the dimensions to determine if one or more candidates appear in all of the dimensions associated with the desired candidate traits. A method may include generating a result set based on the results of an intersecting computation. A method may include removing candidates from the result set and transmitting targeted communications on behalf of or to the candidates remaining on the result set.
US10966149B2
A display device includes a display; a memory storing at least one instruction; a communicator configured to communicate with a mobile device via a BLE communication network; and a controller including a processor configured to execute the at least one instruction stored in the memory. The processor is further configured to execute the at least one instruction to manage BLE identification information when the BLE identification information for identifying the mobile device connected via the BLE communication network is received from the mobile device during a normal mode in which an ambient service is being executed, and the communicator is further configured to, based on the BLE identification information received from the mobile device after a sleep mode is started, determine whether to wake up the controller based on whether information corresponding to the BLE identification information is stored in the communicator.
US10966148B2
An information processing apparatus includes a selection unit and a communication unit. If there exist plural access points capable of conducting a communication using a predetermined transmission method among transmission methods by which the information processing apparatus is capable of conducting a wireless communication, the selection unit selects an access point having a high communication quality. The communication unit is configured to conduct a communication with the access point selected by the selection unit.
US10966143B2
Some methods for detecting and avoiding radio interference in a wireless sensor network can include an access point device periodically transmitting a beacon message to a plurality of IoT enabled devices via a radio channel, upon receipt of the beacon message, an IoT enabled device attempting to decode the beacon message, the IoT enabled device measuring and storing a signal strength of a successfully decoded beacon message as signal strength data in a memory of the IoT enabled device, the IoT enabled device increasing a missed beacon counter stored in the memory of the IoT enabled device responsive to a beacon message that cannot be decoded, each of the plurality of IoT enabled devices periodically transmitting stored data to the access point device, and the access point device using the received data to identify an interference source, or an interference issue or a fading issue on the radio channel.
US10966138B2
Techniques for routing data in a wireless communication network including a hybrid of infrastructure wireless local area network (WLAN) and neighbor awareness networking (NAN). A subscription is identified between a first NAN device in a first NAN cluster in the network and a second NAN device in a second NAN cluster in the network. The first NAN cluster includes at least one NAN device not included in the second NAN cluster. A first path is generated between the first NAN device and the second NAN device. The first path includes a first network access point (AP) in the network. Data is transmitted from the first NAN device to the second NAN device using the first path comprising the first AP.
US10966128B2
Embodiments herein relate to a method performed by a wireless device, for handling a mobility procedure in a communication network. The communication network comprises a first network and a second network. The first network is associated with a core network node and a first RAN node. The second network is associated with a second RAN node. The first RAN node and the second RAN node each support a set of cells. The first and the second network comprise partitioned sets of functionalities, wherein a first set of functionalities belongs to a first network slice supporting the wireless device. The wireless device is associated with the first network and the first network slice in a first cell of the first RAN node. The network slices and corresponding network slice identities are uncoordinated between the first and the second network. The wireless device receives, from the core network node, a message comprising an indication of combinations of networks and network slices equivalent to the first network slice. The wireless device determines a cell from the second set of cells supported by the second RAN node, which cell supports an equivalent of the first slice, based on the indication received from the core network node.
US10966119B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. More specifically, the present invention relates to a method and a device for transmitting a contention-based PUSCH in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: receiving information for configuring a CB grant for transmitting a uplink data from the eNB; triggering a BSR when the uplink data is received from an upper layer; triggering a SR due to the triggered BSR and preparing transmission of the uplink data using the CB grant at a same time; transmitting the uplink data using the CB grant while the triggered SR is pending; monitoring an ACK indication from the eNB in response to the transmission of the uplink data; and canceling the pending BSR and SR if the UE receives the ACK indication from the eNB while the triggered SR is pending.
US10966115B2
A network device implements a control node that receives an indication of a session associated with a user equipment (UE), wherein the network device is connected to a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, and the LTE network is interconnected with a Next Generation (Next Gen) Network. The control node determines one or more parameters associated with at least one of: a relative traffic loading of the LTE network and the Next Gen Network, a quantity of first cells within the LTE network and a quantity of second cells within the Next Gen Network, a movement status of the UE, a quantity of data associated with the session, or a latency sensitivity of the session. The control node causes the session to be selectively routed to the UE via either the LTE network or the Next Gen Network, or via both the LTE network and the Next Gen Network, based on the one or more determined parameters.
US10966114B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes receiving radio access network (RAN) assistance information from a first network system; evaluating conditions for a traffic steering between the first network system and a second network system by comparing the RAN assistance information only with a quality of a primary cell (PCell) among serving cells of the first network system; and performing the traffic steering from the first network system to the second network system based on that the conditions for the traffic steering are met on the PCell.
US10966112B2
A data distribution system, that includes a source router; destination routers; and a gateway; wherein the source router is arranged to receive multiple data streams and wirelessly transmit the multiple data streams over multiple source router output wireless communication links towards the destination routers; wherein the destination routers are arranged to wirelessly receive the multiple data streams over destination routers input wireless links and to transmit the multiple data streams to the gateway; and wherein the gateway is arranged to reconstruct the multiple data streams and output the multiple data streams over one or more gateway output links.
US10966099B2
Various communication systems may benefit from determining a venue value index before deploying wireless communication in the area. A method may include identifying the one or more wireless coverage issues within an area. The method may also include receiving data demand information for the area having the identified one or more wireless coverage issues. In addition, the method may include receiving or determining a total cost of ownership. The total cost of ownership may include a cost of fixing the one or more wireless coverage issues within the area. Further, the method may include calculating a venue value index of the area based on at least one of the total cost of ownership, the data demand information, or an average spectrum efficiency. The method may in addition include performing at least one network administrative task based on the venue value index.
US10966097B2
A method is implemented by a network device for determining parameter values for a base station of a cellular network. The base station operates in a wireless band that is shared with one or more wireless access points. The parameter values are determined to optimize network performance while ensuring fair coexistence between the base station and the one or more wireless access points. The method includes obtaining proximity information for the one or more wireless access points relative to the base station, obtaining activity information for the one or more wireless access points, and determining parameter values for the base station based on the proximity information and the activity information.
US10966095B2
A vehicle network intrusion detection device, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The vehicle network intrusion detection device includes a processor that records a receive timestamp of a controller area network (CAN) message for each CAN ID, calculates a residual, which is a difference between a real receive timestamp and an average receive timestamp of the CAN message, using the recorded receive timestamp, and determines whether there is a vehicle network intrusion based on the residual and a storage storing at least one of the CAN message receive timestamp, the residual, or the result of detecting the intrusion.
US10966092B2
In accordance with some embodiments, an apparatus for privacy protection is provided. The apparatus includes a housing arranged to hold a personal communication device and a peripheral interface supported by the housing, where the peripheral interface is connectable to a supplemental functional device. The apparatus further includes a local communication device coupled to the peripheral interface and supported by the housing, where the local communication device includes a personal communication device interface modem operable to provide a communication channel between the peripheral interface and the personal communication device. The apparatus further includes a controller coupled to the peripheral interface and the local communication device, where the controller is operable to manage the communication channel between the supplemental functional device and the personal communication device.
US10966091B1
Apparatus, systems and methods for agile network isolation through use of packet level non-repudiation (PLNR) are provided. Using a fast cryptography to verify that incoming packets are undeniably being received from the identified source, real-time attack notifications can be independently verified and shared among the network devices to remove compromised nodes from the network. The ability to collaborate among nodes without trust may be achieved via PLNR, to share attack notifications in real-time may be achieved via Telling Attack Layer (TATL), and to establish the identity of an attack in a permanent and binding way may be achieved via DISCOvery (DISCO).
US10966076B2
Disclosed herein is a first portable electronic device for facilitating a proximity based interaction with at least one second portable electronic device. The first portable electronic device may include at least one first sensor device configured to generate at least one first sensor data, a first transceiver configured for communicating with at least one second transceiver associated with the at least one second portable electronic device, a first processor configured for detecting at least one proximity based event based on the at least one first sensor data from the at least one first sensor device, and generating a combined digital asset using a first digital asset and at least one second digital asset based on the detecting, and a memory device configured for storing the combined digital asset and the first digital asset.
US10966072B2
In a 6G network, microservices can be utilized in the absence of a core network. For example, after a mobile device has authenticated, through its carrier network, with a transport service layer, microservices can be allocated to the mobile device without having to be transmitted via the core network. Thus, removing the core network from the process can generate a direct line of microservices from the transport layer to the end-user. Furthermore, additional microservices and/or resources can be access through a microservices library. Consequently, packets can be securely transmitted be a wireless network facilitating sending packet profile data from one to many node devices in anticipation of the packet traversing the various node devices.
US10966066B1
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for internet-enabled data for transparent application consumption over unstructured supplementary service data are disclosed. One method includes generating, by an application, IP (internet protocol) packets, encapsulating, by a proxy interface, the IP packets into protocol data units (PDUs), generating frames of data for facilitating communication through a wireless link, wherein the frames include data slots and control information slots, identifying, by the base station, unused control information slots of the frames of data, scheduling transmission of a stream of the PDUs over the unused control information slots for a full-time duration of the unused control information slots, inserting the PDUs into one or more of the scheduled control information slots of the frames of data as specified by the scheduling, and transmitting, by the computing device, the frames of data through the wireless link to the base station on the scheduled control information slots.
US10966063B2
A communications device is disclosed. The communications device comprises a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive data representing a message provided by a caller, determine at least an attribute of the message based on the received data, generate one or more options based on the attribute of the message, and present the one or more options to the caller to prompt the caller to take an additional action related to the message.
US10966062B1
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for improving establishment and broadcasting of communication among mobile computing devices. For example, a method comprises determining a first user accesses a mobile application on a first mobile device of the first user; determining a second user accesses the mobile application on a second mobile device of the second user; selecting the first user and the second user for participating in an audio conversation based on at least first user information associated with the first user and second user information associated with the second user; and initiating the audio conversation between the first user and the second user, wherein the audio conversation is broadcasted to a third user who accesses the mobile application on a third mobile device of the third user.
US10966057B2
A position identifying device calculates a plurality of estimated lines with base points at the monitoring devices and with radii equal to estimated distances from the monitoring devices to the wireless communication device, based on a transmission signal of a wireless communication device in a target area acquired from each of monitoring devices disposed around the target area, and, when first intersections of a standard estimated line with a base point at a standard monitoring device, and reference estimated lines with base points at reference monitoring devices, are located farther from the standard monitoring device than a virtual standard line connecting two of the reference monitoring devices, identifies, as a position of the wireless communication device, an inside of a first area inside the first intersections and second intersections of the virtual standard line and the reference estimated lines.
US10966051B2
The present application discloses systems and methods for performing location-based actions. The methods may include obtaining, by an electronic device, location information associated with the electronic device with respect to a reference location. The methods may further include determining, by the electronic device, whether the location information changes from a first status to a second status. The methods may further include performing, by the electronic device, a predetermined action upon determining that the location information changes from the first status to the second status. The location information may relate to a speed, a direction, an acceleration, a geographic location of the electronic device, and/or a distance between the electronic device and the reference location.
US10966050B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for virtual boundary enforcement using network filters may include (i) applying a network filter to network traffic associated with a target computing device, (ii) analyzing data generated by the network filter, (iii) identifying, based on an analysis of the data, a potential violation of a virtual boundary associated with the target computing device, and (iv) in response to identifying the potential violation, performing a security action to enforce the virtual boundary associated with the target computing device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10966048B2
Methods, systems comprising one or more computer systems including a combination of hardware and software, and computer program products provide at a first mobile device a user interface, the user interface displaying indications of a plurality of computer applications available for installation on the first mobile device and the user interface enabling selection by a user of the first mobile device of one or more of the computer applications for installation on the first mobile device. The method, system, and computer program product store, in a database associated with a user account, an inventory of the one or more of the computer applications selected by the user of the first mobile device, receive an indication from the first mobile device that program data associated with a first one of the computer applications included in the inventory may be stored on a second mobile device, and receive an identifier corresponding to the user account from the second mobile device. After receiving the indication from the first mobile device and receiving the identifier from the second mobile device, the program data associated with the first one of the computer applications is transmitted to the second mobile device so long as the first one of the computer applications is compatible with and installed on the second mobile device.
US10966044B2
A system, computer-implemented method, and tangible computer-readable media for media playback. The method includes receiving a request from a user to play a media asset, detecting capabilities of the playback device, detecting playback environment acoustic characteristics, optimizing media playback settings for the playback device and the playback environment characteristics, preparing the media asset for playback on the playback device, and transferring the prepared media asset to the playback device for playback. The method can further transfer optimized playback settings to the playback device. Media asset preparation can be based at least in part on the optimized playback settings. A playback profile can store environment characteristics and playback device capabilities. The method continuously detects changes in the playback environment characteristics, and optimizes media playback settings when detected changes exceed a threshold.
US10966039B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for digitally transmitting audio that is converted from analog audio received from analog media pickup devices in a live performance venue by a stage box to a base unit over off-the-shelf twisted pair cable while sending pre-amplification control signals and power over the cable to the stage box. Audio for the performance venue is remotely managed from a virtual audio engineering mixing board that wirelessly communicates audio control commands to the stage box from a handheld computing device.
US10966037B2
The present disclosure relates to an RF antenna adapted to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance of the RF antenna, the RF antenna comprising: an electrically conductive antenna element having a feed for electrically connecting to an RF transmitter and/or an RF receiver; an electronic component adapted to receive and/or provide one or more electric signals from/to an electronic circuit within a second frequency range not overlapping the first frequency range; and one or more electric leads electrically connected to lead the one or more electric signals between the electronic component and the electronic circuit, each of the one or more electric leads being electrically connected to the electronic circuit through a respective inductor adapted to reflect and/or attenuate signals within the first frequency range and pass signals within the second frequency range.
US10966035B2
An embodiment of a hearing assistance device comprises a housing, a power source, a radio circuit, an antenna and a transmission line. The radio circuit is within the housing and electrically connected to the power source. The antenna has an aperture, and the radio circuit is at least substantially within the aperture. The transmission line electrically connects to the antenna to the radio circuit. Various antenna embodiments include a flex circuit antenna.
US10966032B2
An input signal is provided with a low microphone noise in a hearing apparatus. The microphone noise in the input signal of the hearing apparatus is reduced, by the input signal being filtered by a Wiener filter, if a noise power determined at the input signal is smaller than a predetermined limit value. The Wiener filter is however deactivated, if the noise power is greater than the limit value or equal to the limit value.
US10966024B2
A sound source localization device includes: a sound receiving unit that includes two or more microphones; and a sound source localization unit that transforms a sound signal received by each of the microphones into a frequency domain, models a steering vector through Fourier series expansion of an N-th (here, N is an integer equal to or larger than “1”) order for the transformed sound signal of the frequency domain for each of the microphones, calculates a steering vector of an arbitrary angle using the modeled steering vector, and performs localization of a sound source using the calculated steering vector of the arbitrary angle.
US10966015B2
At least one embodiment is directed to a method for automatically activating ambient sound pass-through in an earphone in response to a detected keyword in the ambient sound field of the earphone user, the steps of the method comprising at least receiving at least one ambient sound microphone (ASM) signal; receiving at least one audio content (AC) signal; and comparing the ASM signal to a keyword and if the ASM signal matches a keyword then an AC gain is created.
US10965992B2
Example methods and systems for displaying actionable elements over playing content, such as video content, are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems identify video content currently playing within a display environment provided by a playback device, and display an actionable element within the display environment provided by the playback device that is based on the identified video content and includes one or more user-selectable options to perform an action associated with the identified video content. Further, in some example embodiments, the methods and systems may perform an action (e.g., present supplemental content and/or information) in response to a selection of one or more of the user-selectable options.
US10965991B2
Example methods and systems for displaying actionable elements over playing content, such as video content, are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems identify video content currently playing within a display environment provided by a playback device, and display an actionable element within the display environment provided by the playback device that is based on the identified video content and includes one or more user-selectable options to perform an action associated with the identified video content. Further, in some example embodiments, the methods and systems may perform an action (e.g., present supplemental content and/or information) in response to a selection of one or more of the user-selectable options.
US10965986B2
Systems and methods are described herein for selecting content providers based on performance scores of the respective content providers. The system monitors the performance of a content provider, where the performance is based on the quality of service for receiving a media content item from the content provider. Based on the monitored performance, the system may determine if an adequate performance is not achievable. In response to determining that an adequate performance is not achievable, the system compares the performance of the content provider to the performance of a second content provider and provides, on the user device, the media content item from the second content provider.
US10965983B2
Various arrangements for generating thumbnail images for video content as the video content is being received are presented. A television receiver may first receive video content. A thumbnail generation process may be woken from a sleep state based on a predefined time period elapsing. The received video content may be monitored for a next-received I-frame. A thumbnail image may be created from the I-frame and may be mapped to a timestamp. The thumbnail generation process may then be caused to enter the sleep state for the predefined time period.
US10965982B2
A method and apparatus for synchronously playing an image and an audio are provided. The method comprises: acquiring a play service request sent by a broadcast terminal; acquiring play image data and audio data corresponding to the play service request, the play image data being divided into a plurality of groups based on played content; and sending the play image data, the audio data, and information for determining a first corresponding relationship between each of the groups and an attribute of the audio data to the broadcast terminal, to enable the broadcast terminal to perform synchronization on the play image data and the audio data correspondingly to synchronously play the play image data and the audio data. Establishing the corresponding relationship between the audio data and the played content of each of the groups enables the broadcast terminal to accurately synchronize the played audio content and the displayed play image.
US10965977B2
A method provides content decisions for a personalized channel that is to be deliverable to a prescribed set of client devices as a linear channel streaming adaptive bit rate (ABR) video. In the method, a request is received for a resolution to a decision point in an ABR manifest of a linear video stream for a content asset to be inserted in the linear video stream at a specified time. The linear video stream is to be presented on the personalized channel. Responsive to the request, a network location is provided for accessing a specified content asset to be inserted in the linear video stream at the specified time.
US10965976B2
Methods, systems, and related products that provide enhanced personalized media content experiences. Past media content consumption is inferred based on requests for media content selection associated with a time or period of time in the past. The requests are fulfilled by selecting one or more media content items from the inferred media content consumption.
US10965975B2
A wearable apparatus is provided for identifying a person in an environment of a user of the wearable apparatus based on non-facial information. The wearable apparatus includes a wearable image sensor configured to capture a plurality of images from the environment of the user, and a processing device programmed to analyze a first image of the plurality of images to determine that a face appears in the first image. The processing device also analyzes a second image of the plurality of images to identify an item of non-facial information appearing in the second image that was captured within a time period including a time when the first image is captured. The processing device also determines identification information of a person associated with the face based on the item of non-facial information.
US10965974B2
It is disclosed a system comprising a display characteristics evaluation unit configured to evaluate display characteristics of a display of an electronic device, a media access unit configured to receive a source media file from a media storage, and a display-dependent processing unit configured to perform, based on the display characteristics, a display-dependent processing of the source media file to obtain a display-dependent media file.
US10965973B2
A content management apparatus manages a content display schedule specifying a time frame for displaying content on a display device. The content management apparatus can reserve to-be-displayed content in an available time frame of the content display schedule. At this time, it is determined whether an attribute of the to-be-reserved content overlaps an attribute of other content in a time frame before or after the time frame where the content is reserved. When the two attributes do not overlap each other, reservation of the content is acceptable.
US10965970B2
An apparatus, method, system, and computer-readable medium are provided for enhancing the quality of content. A determination may be made that a portion of the content received using a base feed or bitrate completed early. In response to that determination, an attempt may be made to download that portion of the content using a differential bitrate or feed corresponding to a higher quality. Another determination may be made whether the differential bitrate or feed download completed early, and if so, then the differential bitrate or feed may be used as a new base bitrate or feed for downloading additional portions of the content. The differential bitrate or feed download may also provide for a secondary playback of the content at higher quality.
US10965945B2
An original input video file is encoded using a machine learning approach. The encoder performs a detailed video analysis and selection of encoding parameters that using a machine learning algorithm improves over time. The encoding process is done using a multi-pass approach. During a first pass, the entire video file is scanned to extract video property information that does not require in-depth analyses. The extracted data is then entered into an encoding engine, which uses artificial intelligence to produce optimized encoder settings. The video file is into a set of time-based chunks and, in a second pass, the encoding parameters for each chunk are set and distributed to encoding nodes for parallel processing. These encoder instances probe-encode each chunk determine the level of complexity for the chunk and to derive chunk-specific encoding parameters. Following completion of the second pass, the results of both passes are then merged to obtain the necessary information for the encoder to achieve the best possible result.
US10965938B2
A method and an apparatus for encoding a video are disclosed. For at least one block from a picture of said video, a first rate-distortion optimization is performed (602) for determining for a first splitting mode of said block into at least one first subblock, coding parameters of said at least one first subblock. At least one second rate-distortion optimization is performed (609) for determining for at least one second splitting mode of said block into at least one second subblock, coding parameters of said at least one second subblock. A best splitting mode for coding said block is determined (613) according to at least said first rate-distortion optimization and said second rate-distortion optimization, and said block is encoded (616) according to said best splitting mode. While performing (609) said at least one second rate-distortion optimization and when said at least one second subblock is located at a same position in the picture as said at least one first subblock and said at least one second subblock has a same width and same height as said at least one first subblock, at least one coding parameter of said at least one first subblock determined during said first rate-distortion optimization is used (605) for determining said coding parameters for said at least one second subblock.
US10965928B2
A method for 360 video data processing based on multiple viewpoints performed by a 360 video receiving apparatus according to the present invention comprises the steps of: acquiring, from received video signals, image information for pictures of multiple viewpoints-based 360 videos and metadata for the multiple viewpoints-based 360 videos, wherein the metadata includes multiple viewpoint information; decoding an image of a first viewport of a first viewpoint on the basis of the metadata and the image information; rendering the image of the first viewport into a 3D space; decoding an image of a second viewport of a second viewpoint on the basis of the metadata and the image information; deriving, in a case in which the hotspot in the first viewport is selected, the second viewport in the second viewpoint connected through a hotspot on the basis of the multiple viewpoint information; and rendering the image of the second viewport into the 3D space.
US10965920B2
A drive device includes a housing in which a gas is sealed, wherein density of the gas is lower than density of air, a driven object housed inside the housing, a driver configured to drive the driven object, a current detector configured to detect a value of a current flowing into the driver, and a determinator configured to determine a concentration of the gas inside the housing based on the value of the current detected.
US10965909B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image data obtainer that obtains image data of an image that captures a plurality of conference participants, a face image detector that detects a face image of each of the plurality of conference participants from the image data obtained by the image data obtainer, an image organizer that extracts a detected face image and reorganizes detected face images into one image, a feeling estimator that estimates a feeling of each conference participant based on the detected face image, and a display mode changer that changes a display mode of the face image of each conference participant based on the estimated feeling.
US10965903B2
Methods and systems for signal proxying and modification relating to security and/or automation systems are described. In one embodiments, the methods include receiving, at a proxy device, a data signal transmitted from a first device, receiving a request for the data signal from at least one of two or more other devices, and transmitting the data signal to each of the two or more other devices based at least in part on the received request.
US10965901B2
An object of the present invention is to realize an imaging device and recording control system in which the usability thereof can be improved dramatically. In an imaging device configured to output imaging data that is obtained as a result of imaging of an object, and a recording control system, the imaging device comprises a control means for recognizing a controlled state of an external recording device when a communication is enabled with the recording device through a communication means conforming to a predetermined transmission method and an input means for allowing the recording device to execute an application needed for a recording operation obtained by controlling the recording device, and the recording device records the imaging data obtained through the communication means when the application is executed by means of the input means.
US10965899B1
Method system and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for integrating a display device with a connected-home monitoring system. The method including receiving, by the source programming interrupt unit and from a monitoring unit of a property monitoring system, a source programming interrupt message that was (i) generated by the monitoring unit and (ii) includes instructions for the source programming interrupt unit to modify source programming received by a source programming unit, obtaining, by the source programming interrupt unit, image data that depicts a portion of the property that is associated an event detected by the monitoring unit, modifying, by the source programming interrupt unit, source programming received by the source programming unit to include the image data, and providing, by the source programming interrupt unit, the modified source programming to the display device for output on the display of the display device.
US10965898B2
One or more embodiments of the present application disclose a backlight source control method of a display device, the display device and a storage medium. The method includes: determining a display subregion corresponding to a backlight source to be turned off; determining a first backlight source brightness value of an adjacent display subregion of the display subregion corresponding to the backlight source to be turned off; lowering the first backlight source brightness value to obtain a second backlight source brightness value; and setting the backlight source brightness value corresponding to the adjacent display subregion to be the second backlight source brightness value.
US10965888B1
Systems and methods are provided for presenting subtitles. The systems and methods include accessing, by a user device, a video discovery graphical user interface that includes a plurality of videos; receiving a user input that gradually reduces volume of the user device; determining that the volume of the user device has gradually been reduced by the user input until a mute state has been reached in which audio output of the user device is disabled; and in response to determining that the volume of the user device has gradually been reduced until the mute state has been reached, automatically causing subtitles of a first video of the plurality of videos to be displayed during playback of the first video.
US10965885B2
A clothes and accessories fitting method, a display system and a computer-readable recording medium thereof are provided, where the method is applicable to a display system having an image capturing device and a screen and includes the following steps. Images of a user wearing a first apparel appearing in front of the screen are continuously or intermittently captured by using the image capturing device. When a first image of the user in a particular pose is determined to be included in the images, the first image is shot by using the image capturing device. A foreground region and a background region in the first image are segmented, and the background region is processed to generate a processed background region. A first preview image is generated according to the foreground region and the processed background region and displayed on the screen.
US10965881B2
Disclosed are a mobile terminal and controlling method thereof. The present invention includes a sensing unit, a camera, a display unit, and a controller configured to launch a camera application, wherein the controller is further configured to execute a splice mode on the camera application, wherein the splice mode is a mode for outputting a preview image region and a splice region to the display unit by partitioning, and wherein the controller is further configured to output a preview image currently shot through the camera to the preview image region and recommend a splice image outputted to the splice region based on the outputted preview image.
US10965876B2
An imaging system includes: a transmitter that is attached to an object and wirelessly transmits a positioning signal; a positioning device that determines the position of the object based on the positioning signal; an imaging device that images the object in a variable direction and at a variable magnification; and a control device. The control device calculates a direction and a distance from the imaging device to the object based on the position of the object, and sets a first direction and a first magnification on the imaging device based on the calculated direction and distance. Then, the control device sets a second direction and a second magnification on the imaging device based on imaging data generated by imaging the object, the imaging data being generated by the imaging device on which the first direction and the first magnification are set.
US10965875B2
A method includes, at an electronic gimbal device having one or more processors and memory storing instructions for execution by the one or more processors, receiving a user-provided query, determining a gimbal response to the user-provided query in response to receiving the user-provided query, and controlling the electronic gimbal device to indicate the determined gimbal response.
US10965871B2
An electronic device is disclosed. Moreover, various embodiment found through the disclosure are possible. An electronic device may include a lens assembly including, one or more lenses, an image sensor, an image stabilizer, and a processor. The lens assembly may be arranged to from a first angle between an optical axis of at least some lenses of the one or more lenses, and a surface of the image sensor. The processor may be configured to change an angle of the lens assembly through the image stabilizer in response to shaking of the electronic device, obtain an image through the image sensor, in a state that the angle of the lens assembly is changed, correct, based at least on the first angle and a second angle corresponding to the changed angle of the lens assembly, at least a portion of the image, which is distorted, by the second angle, and display the corrected image through a display electrically connected with the electronic device.
US10965870B2
An image capturing module having multiple lenses, in which primary driving magnets of auto-focus module equipped in a first lens module and a second lens module will not cover an adjacent surface located between these two lens modules in the same time. A relatively smaller magnet is used to be the auxiliary driving magnet of optical image stabilization (OIS) module equipped in the first lens module and the second lens module. By using the aforementioned configuration of the primary and auxiliary driving magnets, interference of magnetic fields is minimized, and thus the distance between the first and second lens modules can be decreased, and the space of mobile phone having the image capturing module is saved. Moreover, such configuration can be used on the image capturing module having many lens modules.
US10965864B2
Embodiments generate panoramic image data with variable zoom settings. Embodiments display for a camera lens a two-dimensional representation of a geographic area encompassing a geographic location of the camera and other geographic areas within a field of view of the lens. Embodiments determine geographic coordinate points for the geographic areas and capture panorama photograph data in response to rotation of the camera while dynamically changing a zoom setting of the lens to match distances from the camera lens to the geographic coordinate points determined for each of the different locations.
US10965862B2
An interface is provided for navigating among views in a multi-camera environment. In addition to providing improved ease of use, such an interface also provides an overview of the scene represented by the captured video, by virtue of the positioning of various user interface elements representing different camera views. The navigation interface includes a number of selectable user interface elements, arranged in a fashion that approximates the physical positions of the cameras. Tapping or clicking on one of the elements causes a main window to display a current view from a corresponding camera or video feed. The navigation interface can be implemented, for example, in a live video capture system, or in a post-production system.
US10965856B1
In various embodiments, cameras and mobile platforms are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a mobile platform is provided that includes a body and a camera disposed on the body. The camera includes one or more image sensors, and one or more lens assemblies. The one or more lens assemblies are configured with respect to the one or more image sensors, that at least one image plane from the one or more image sensors is tilted to form a non-zero angle with at least one equivalent lens plane from the one or more lens assemblies, transferring the image focal plane to be parallel to the movement direction of the mobile platform in which the camera is installed. The use of multiple image sensors or lens assemblies in certain embodiments increases camera angle of view.
US10965842B2
An anti-dazzle imaging camera is provided that includes a photorefractive crystal that is wavelength-agnostic. The photorefractive crystal is configured to receive an optical beam. When the optical beam includes no laser, the photorefractive crystal is configured to pass the optical beam unchanged to an imaging detector. When the optical beam includes a laser, the photorefractive crystal is configured to attenuate the laser to generate a modified optical beam and to pass the modified optical beam to the imaging detector.
US10965818B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a set of computing servers configured to provide a respective set of virtual servers for each of a plurality of accounts. The set of virtual servers for at least one of the accounts includes a voice-over-IP (VoIP) server. The apparatus also includes a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the set of computing servers. For each of the plurality of accounts, the processing circuit provides a graphical user interface (GUI) including a mechanism for an authorized user of the account to select options for reporting usage of the respective set of virtual servers. The processing circuit also monitors use of the respective set of virtual servers for the account and generates invoices for use of the respective set of virtual servers according to the selected options.
US10965815B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus that includes an acquisition unit and a generation control unit. The acquisition unit acquires input information including at least one of an image or audio of a first user. The generation control unit controls, on the basis of request information including a request to output information including at least one of an image or audio and the acquired input information, generation of output information related to the first user to be output by a terminal of a second user who is a communication partner of the first user.
US10965809B2
A method may include receiving an indication of a call from a caller who is not a participant in a sender-controlled media (SCM) platform to a recipient who is a participant, using caller ID information of the call to gather content pertaining to the caller (e.g., from data stores of the platform and public number search information), generating a recipient SCM data structure, delivering and presenting the recipient SCM data structure on a device of the recipient, generating a sender SCM data structure, and delivering the sender SCM data structure to a call-originating device of the caller. In another aspect, a method may include monitoring a call in-process status, and, upon detection that a call has terminated, activating a post-call application that causes a screen update for a device that includes at least one of a call to action by the call-participant and informational content pertinent to the call.
US10965805B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems determining contextual awareness for a mobile device and adjusting settings based on the contextual awareness determination. A method for determining an environmental context for a mobile device includes capturing, by one or more non-intrusive sensors on a mobile device, sensor data associated with the one or more non-intrusive sensors, where global positioning system sensor data is unavailable, generating, by the mobile device, a sensor data attribute from each captured sensor data, determining, by the mobile device, an environmental context for the mobile device from the sensor data attribute, and adjusting, by the mobile device, settings on the mobile device based on the determined environmental context.
US10965804B2
Method and apparatus of acquiring information regarding applications for display on a user interface
An approach is provided for acquiring information regarding installed applications on a user equipment. A request for information is received regarding one or more applications installed on user equipment in a category of applications. The request includes a respective unique identifier for the one or more applications. And, a transmission of the information is initiated including an icon corresponding to the one or more applications compiled using the respective unique identifier for the one or more applications.
US10965803B2
A vibration alerting mobile terminal configured to adjust an amplitude parameter and a frequency parameter of a vibration alerting mode, to implement diverse vibration alerting modes to meet vibration requirements of the mobile terminal in different environments. The terminal provides for: displaying a first interface, wherein the first interface includes an amplitude adjustment control, a frequency adjustment control, and a vibration mode adjustment control; responding to an adjustment operation for at least one of the amplitude adjustment control, the frequency adjustment control, and the vibration mode adjustment control; generating a first vibration alerting mode; and alerting a user according to the first vibration alerting mode.
US10965800B2
An interaction method in a call and a device, where the method includes displaying a voice assistant icon on a call screen of the wearable device when a phone number of a communication peer device is a service number converting received voice information into a dual tone multi frequency (DTMF) tone when the voice assistant icon is activated, and sending the DTMF tone to the communication peer device. Therefore, in a process of making or answering a service call using the wearable device, under a specific trigger condition, voice information of a user is converted into a DTMF tone to be sent to the communication peer device. In this way, when the user needs to enter a digit or a symbol in a call process, it can be ensured that the user enters correct information, and user experience is improved.
US10965796B2
The present invention relates to a three-stage foldable mobile terminal having a flexible display, and can provide a mobile terminal comprising: a body portion which comprises first to third bodies rotatably connected to each other and which implements a first state in which the first to third bodies are arranged side by side in one direction and a second state in which the first to third bodies overlap each other by the at least one hinge unit, respectively; and a flexible display unit which is mounted on the body portion, wherein the body portion comprises: a main circuit board which is disposed on the first body; a flexible circuit board which electrically connects the first and second bodies in the first state; and a connection member which is disposed on the second body so that the main circuit board and the third body are electrically connected to each other in the second state.
US10965790B2
A method provides for a first networking node in a first network access to a second network by a mobile communication device including the steps: by a first gateway in the first network, extracting payload data and header information from a first data packet originating from the first networking node and addressed to a second networking node in the second network, and sending the extracted payload and header information as payload of a second data packet to the mobile communication device; and, by the mobile communication device, receiving the second data packet, retrieving therefrom the extracted payload and header information, and sending the extracted payload and header information as payload of a third data packet to the second gateway; and, by the second gateway, receiving the third data packet, retrieving therefrom the first data packet and forwarding the first data packet further to the second networking node.
US10965784B2
Systems and methods disclosed provided a virtual reality experience, including: a set of motorized pads for coupling to feet of a user; a means of communication between the set of motorized pads and a computing environment operating a virtual reality headset; such that the set of motorized pads are configured to provide pressure on a user's feet as an avatar within a virtual environment traverses the environment. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser virtual reality experience. Systems and methods disclosed further provide a multiuser experience including generation of a common environment viewable in the virtual reality headsets; and recording a tour including audio data as the first user describes the common environment.
US10965782B2
A method includes: processing, by a processing device of a services coordination platform, a request from an application in relation to one or more of a plurality of leaderboard platforms to identify a leaderboard platform capable of executing a leaderboard service associated with the request, wherein the request comprises transaction parameters in a first format; formatting, by the services coordination platform, the transaction parameters into a second format, wherein the transaction parameters in the first format are incompatible with the leaderboard platform, and the transaction parameters in the second format are compatible with the leaderboard platform; providing, by the services coordination platform, the transaction parameters in the second format to the leaderboard platform; receiving, by the services coordination platform, a transaction outcome from the leaderboard platform with respect to the leaderboard service; and providing, by the services coordination platform, the transaction outcome to the application.
US10965780B2
An apparatus for decoding and rendering or otherwise processing, manipulating, or outputting a variety of digital data is provided. The apparatus may include a browser engine configured to receive first encoded digital data. The apparatus may include a browser extension configured to intercept the first encoded digital data transmitted in response to a first request from the browser engine. The browser extension may be configured to intercept a first decoder written in a platform-independent syntax for decoding at least a portion of the first encoded digital data. The browser extension may be configured to point the browser engine to one or more local storage locations of the first encoded digital data and the first decoder.
US10965775B2
Systems and computer program products may rank one user's connections in an electronic social network. The computer system may include a processor and a memory. The computer system may additionally include a program comprising a plurality of instructions stored in memory that are executed by the processor to identify one user's connections with other users in an electronic social network, and analyze a plurality of data sources for electronic communications between the one user and the other users. The program may additionally include a plurality of instructions stored in memory that are executed by the processor to calculate for each of the other users the probability that the one user will communicate with that other user based on the analyzed plurality of data sources, and rank the one user's connections with the other users based on the calculated probabilities.
US10965770B1
Systems and methods of task implementation are extended as provided herein and target the web crawling process through a step of submitting a request by a customer to a web crawler. The systems and methods allow a more complex request for a web crawler to be defined in order to receive more specific data. In one aspect, a method for data extraction and gathering from a Network by a Service provider infrastructure include the following steps: checking the parameters of a request received from a User's Device, adjusting the request parameters according to pre-established Scraping logic, selecting a Proxy according to the criteria of the pre-established Scraping logic, sending the adjusted request to the Target through the selected Proxy, checking metadata received from the Target, and forwarding the data to the User's device.
US10965769B2
The disclosed subject matter includes, an airborne data library onboard an airborne platform, configured for automatic management of situation awareness data (SAD), the airborne data library comprising an onboard data management system; the on-board data management system comprises a data management unit and an onboard data-repository; the data management unit being operatively connectible to at least one computer processor and configured to: establish a communication link with at least one situation awareness data (SAD) source; obtain situation awareness data from the at least one SAD source; process the SAD based on data management logic being accessible to the data management unit.
US10965759B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for automatically provisioning at least one new IoT device to at least one IoT gateway via a wireless network, comprising: dynamically receiving at least one new device model of at least one new IoT device at an onboarding server. Upon successfully connecting with the at least one IoT gateway, the onboarding server dynamically pushes the at least one new device model to the IoT gateway. Subsequently, when a new first IoT device tries to connect with the at least one IoT gateway, the IoT gateway processes the received registration request to identify a device model associated with the first IoT device, and thereafter provisions a connection with the first IoT device.
US10965757B2
In some examples, a vehicle includes a plurality of network controllers, a WI-FI wireless local area network (WLAN) over which at least a first network controller and a second network controller of the plurality of network controllers are to communicate, wherein a link between the first network controller and the second network controller through the WI-FI WLAN is a synchronized link.
US10965754B2
Cache data analysis for enterprise content management systems is described. A content category is identified based on content provided by a cache server associated with an enterprise content management system. A determination is made whether content associated with the content category is cached by the cache server. The content associated with the content category is requested by the cache server if the content associated with the content category is not cached by the cache server. The content associated with the content category is cached by the cache server.
US10965751B2
A storage array includes a first controller, memory, and one or more storage devices. Each of the storage devices comprises a second controller and a nonvolatile memory. The first controller receives a command and data from a host connected to the storage array and transmits a response or data to the host. When a write command, write data, and size information of the write data are received from the host, the first controller sends the received data to the second controller. The second controller determines a write address indicating a memory region of the nonvolatile memory in which the write data are to be written, based on the write command and the size information, writes the write data in the memory region associated with the write address, and transmits the write address to the first controller. The first controller further transfers the write address to the host.
US10965746B2
A device collects presence information and other interaction information from an application viewing a content item synchronized with a content management system. The interaction information indicates interactions of a device with respect to a content item, and includes presence information obtained from a native application such as whether the content item is being viewed by the user on a user interface element or the user interface element is modifying the content item. A presence management module receives presence events indicating possible change of presence with respect to a user interface window associated with a process and a synchronized content item. Such presence events include a change in focus of a user interface element indicating that a user is viewing the content item, and changes to a content item indicating a user is editing the content item.
US10965735B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for facilitating information and expertise distribution via a communication network. A method at a first computing device may include receiving a request for information from a second computing device, determining at least one third computing device based on an analysis of the request for information, communicating the request for information to the determined at least one third computing device, receiving a response corresponding to the request for information from the determined at least one third computing device, adjusting a credit level of a user associated with the determined at least one third computing device based on the received response, and communicating the response to the second computing device. The credit level of the user may indicate one or more credits earned by the user.
US10965732B2
A system is described to create and transmit a streamable ZIP file container. The streamable ZIP file container contains stream metadata, files, and a central directory. The stream metadata, files, and central directory can be saved in a contiguous stream without any intervening bytes. When the streamable ZIP file container is read by a client device that supports streamable ZIP file containers, the client device can exit the data stream without receiving the central directory. Interruptions during transmission of the ZIP file container can be resumed.
US10965731B2
A technology is disclosed by which, when plural content data are successively transmitted from a server apparatus to a reproduction apparatus through a client apparatus, if the transmission is interrupted, the transmission of the content data can be resumed from the point at which the transmission is interrupted. The transfer device includes a storage section for storing a transmission object list including content identification information corresponding to plural content data to be transmitted from a server apparatus to a reproduction apparatus connected to a client apparatus through the client apparatus. A reception section successively receives the content data from the server apparatus. A transmission section successively transfers the successively received content data to the reproduction apparatus. A control section deletes, every time content data is transferred, the corresponding content identification information from the transmission object list stored in the storage section.
US10965729B2
The present disclosure generally relates to streaming of media and, more specifically, to live streaming of media. The present disclosure relates, in particular, to live streaming of media for low-latency applications such as gaming applications (e.g., live casino gaming applications). The disclosure, among other things, describes a method of live streaming of media for low-latency applications, wherein the media streams are broadcasted (220) from a first device (e.g., a Media Streaming Provider Server System (140)) to one or several second devices (e.g., user game devices (110) for use in a live casino gaming application) over a WebRTC data channel.
US10965728B2
A method and system of aggregating and converting data in a vehicle network is provided. An example method includes receiving a plurality of streams of sensor data over two or more Camera Serial Interface (CSI). The method further includes rearranging the plurality of streams of sensor data into an aggregate stream. The method further includes packetizing the aggregate stream by arranging transmission format bits at appropriate bit positions of the aggregate stream to form a packet data stream. The method further includes transmitting the packet data stream over a vehicle on-board packet data link.
US10965719B2
In some implementations, a telecommunications network can include a core network device. The core network device can receive from a session-originating device an initiation request of a communication session, the initiation request including information of a destination and information of media capabilities. The core network device can determine network-location information of the destination, retrieve from a capability registry modification information corresponding to the network-location information, and modify the information of the media capabilities based at least in part on the modification information. The core network device can transmit the initiation request including the modified information of the media capabilities to another core network device corresponding to the network-location information. The core network device can also determine that the information of the one or more media capabilities does not correspond to the retrieved capability information and transmit a session-failure indication to the session-originating device.
US10965717B2
A security manager configured to generate a plurality of learned security policies and provide at least one learned security policy and a security agent to a client machine for enforcement of the at least one learned security policy by the security agent on the client machine. The security manager configured to receive alerts from the security agent indicating anomalous behavior on the client machine.
US10965711B2
Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth. In this manner, threat detection based on complex interactions of computing objects can be characterized in a platform independent manner and pre-processed on endpoints without requiring significant communications overhead with a remote threat management facility.
US10965708B2
Discloses are systems, methods and computer readable mediums for automated verifications of potential vulnerabilities of one or more sites or code utilizing one or more neural networks. The systems, methods and computer readable mediums can transmit one or more scan operations to one or more sites, receive one or more responses to the one or more scan operations, tokenize the one or more responses, transmit to one or more neural networks the one or more tokenized responses, receive from the one or more neural networks verification of the one or more tokenized responses, and determine one or more confidences of the one or more verified responses.
US10965706B2
A computing device determines a peer group identifier and supplements netflow records with the peer group identifier. An authentication event block object is received that was sent to a first source window. The authentication event block object includes a user identifier, an IP address, and a peer group identifier. Members of the peer group are identified based on an expected network activity behavior. The user identifier and the peer group identifier are stored in association with the IP address in a cache. A netflow event block object sent to the first source window is received that includes a netflow packet IP address. Netflow data is parsed from the netflow event block object into a netflow record. When the stored IP address matches the netflow packet IP address, the netflow record is supplemented with the user identifier and the peer group identifier. The supplemented netflow record is output to summary data.
US10965701B2
A threat actor identification system that obtains domain data for a set of domains, generates domain clusters, determines whether the domain clusters are associated with threat actors, and presents domain data for the clusters that are associated with threat actors to brand owners that are associated with the threat actors. The clusters may be generated based on similarities in web page content, domain registration information, and/or domain infrastructure information. For each cluster, a clustering engine determines whether the cluster is associated with a threat actor, and for clusters that are associated with threat actors, corresponding domain information is stored for presentation to brand owners to whom the threat actor poses a threat.
US10965699B2
Approaches provide for monitoring attempted network activity such as network port connections and corresponding payloads of network data obtained by a network device and, based on the attempted connections and/or payloads, identifying malicious network activity in real time. For example, network activity obtained from a plurality of network devices in a service provider environment can be monitored to attempt to detect compliance with appropriate standards and/or any of a variety of resource usage guidelines (e.g., network behavioral standards or other such rules, guidelines, or network behavior tests) based at least in part on network port connection activity with respect to at least one network device. If it is determined that network activity is not in compliance with the usage guidelines, or other such network behavior test, the system can take one or more remedial actions, which can include generating a notification identifying the malicious network activity.
US10965693B2
Methods and systems, including devices, which allow for the rapid detection of malware and other threats, such as malicious intrusions and attacks, are disclosed. These methods and systems, including devices, detect malware and other threats by detecting and analyzing lateral movement of the malware and other threats, once having entered a network, such as an enterprise network.
US10965688B2
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein relate to managing transactions in a distributed content transaction system.
US10965681B2
The mobile device stores a plurality of communication profiles comprising one or more local communication profiles and a global communication profile. The mobile device determines local access requirements for connecting to a local cellular network operator and determines whether the plurality of communication profiles comprises a local communication profile that satisfies the local access requirements. When the plurality of communication profiles does not comprise a local communication profile that satisfies the local access requirements: the mobile device connects to a global cellular network operator using the global communication profile; receives, from the global cellular network operator, a new local communication profile that satisfies the local access requirements and connects to the local cellular network operator using the new local communication profile. Subsequently, the mobile device communicates with another device via the local cellular network operator as if the mobile device was a local mobile device.
US10965670B2
A biometric authentication system may include a centralized database including stored biometric signature information for authenticating a user of one or more external systems. The biometric authentication system may extract data attributes from a biometric signature of the user and compare them to the stored biometric signature information in the database. The biometric authentication system may identify user identifier information associated with a signature key stored of the stored biometric signature information that matches the data attributes to authenticate the user to access secure information.
US10965669B2
An MFP (communication apparatus) accepts, as an operation for making an electronic data transmission destination setting, an operation using a local UI (LUI) or a remote UI (RUI). The MFP, in accordance with an accepted operation, logs in to an LDAP server (server apparatus), and performs obtainment processing for obtaining a transmission destination from the server. If logging in to the LDAP server in accordance with an operation using the LUI in the obtainment processing, the MFP uses authentication information stored in an HDD, and if logging in to the LDAP server in accordance with an operation using the RUI, the MFP does not use authentication information stored in the HDD.
US10965658B2
In a networked environment, a client side application executed on a client device may transmit a request to an authorization service for access to a resource. The authorization service may authenticate the user of client device and/or the client device based on user credentials and/or a device identifier. In response to authenticating the user and/or the client device, the authorization service may send to the client side application a request for confirmation that the client device complies with a distribution rule associated with the resource, where the distribution rule requires a specific application or specific type of application to be installed, enabled and/or executing on the client device as a prerequisite to accessing the resource. If the client device complies with the distribution rule, the client side application accesses the resource. Accessing the resource may include receiving an authorization credential required for access to the resource.
US10965652B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a method performed by an apparatus. In the method, a message including a plurality of encrypted payload information items is generated. Each of the plurality of encrypted payload information items is decryptable with a respective decryption key of a plurality of decryption keys. The message is to at least one recipient.
US10965645B2
A method for a computer or microchip with one or more inner hardware-based access barriers or firewalls that establish one or more private units disconnected from a public unit or units having connection to the public Internet and one or more of the private units have a connection to one or more non-Internet-connected private networks for private network control of the configuration of the computer or microchip using active hardware configuration, including field programmable gate arrays (FPGA). The hardware-based access barriers include a single out-only bus and/or another in-only bus with a single on/off switch.
US10965644B2
A network switch provides an in-vehicle network, and includes a switch IC having multiple ports and a microcomputer. The switch IC includes: L2 and L3 receivers; first and second memories for storing MAC address and routing tables, respectively; and L2 and L3 processors. The L2 receiver determines whether a destination MAC address in a frame is a network switch address. The L2 processor determines a port corresponding to the destination MAC address based on the MAC address table when the destination MAC address is not the network switch address. The L3 receiver determines whether a transmission source IP address is registered in the routing table when the destination MAC address is the network switch address. The L3 processor determines an output port and another destination MAC address of a forwarding destination based on the routing table and a destination IP address when the transmission source IP address is registered.
US10965643B2
A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to select to use an access point name (APN) table to be received from a wireless access network and attach to the wireless access network. The processor may be further configured to execute the instructions to receive a Protocol Configuration Options (PCO) message from the wireless access network; retrieve the APN table from the received PCO message; select an APN from the retrieved APN table; and connect to a packet data network associated with the selected APN via the wireless access network using the selected APN.
US10965634B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for enhancing a plurality of electronic communication systems for a plurality of users include, for example, providing data regarding at least one project, and linking the data regarding the at least one project with the plurality of electronic communication systems regarding the plurality of electronic communications for the plurality of users.
US10965624B2
The techniques disclosed herein improve existing communication systems by automatically generating auto-response notices when a message to a user is related to a group with which the user is no longer a member. For example, after changing groups within a company, the user may still receive numerous messages related to the former group. Messages intended for this user may then be identified as related to a group with which the user is no longer associated based on the identity of the sender, other recipients of the message, the contents of the message, and a message context. The system may present an auto-response notice to the sender while the message is being drafted and before it has been sent. The auto-response notice alerts the sender of the changed group affiliation of the user.
US10965616B2
Systems and methods for non-stop computing in a virtualization fabric are disclosed. One system includes a computing fabric comprising a plurality of host platforms, the plurality of host platforms including at least a first host platform and a second host platform communicatively connected to the first host platform. The system also includes an interconnect service partitions residing on the first host platform. The system includes a plurality of guest partitions distributed across the plurality of host platforms. The system further includes a DNS server instance managed by at least one of the plurality of interconnect service partitions and defining at least one zone, the at least one zone including one or more partitions from among the plurality of guest partitions distributed across the plurality of host platforms.
US10965613B2
Techniques are described that allow each host in a multi-host system to throttle its bandwidth between multiple data nodes without the need to coordinate with the other hosts. Specifically, techniques are described in which a limit is applied to the amount of sent-but-not-acknowledged data a given host may have. If the host has reached the limit, the host must wait for acknowledgements before sending more data. In one embodiment, the limit is enforced using a token-based bandwidth control. Embodiments are described in which the limit on sent-but-not-acknowledged data varies dynamically based on system conditions. Specifically, each host may monitor its aggregate latency, and increase the limit when latency is low (indicating low-congestion conditions), and decrease the limit when latency is high (indicating high-congestion conditions).
US10965602B2
Examples include a computing system having a load balancer circuitry to assign data units to destinations using a hash function having a plurality of hash bins, each hash bin being associated with a destination. The computing system includes a hash adjuster to assign a destination to each of the plurality of hash bins, sample assignment of data units to hash bins by the load balancer circuitry over a sample window, analyze the sampled assignments, and reassign destinations to the hash bins based at least in part on the analyzed sampled assignments. This results in increased system performance in processing of the data units by the load balancer.
US10965596B2
In an embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes: storing, in at least one hardware module of a network device having a plurality of ports, attributes for at least one access control list and associated actions that cause network packets received at one of the plurality of ports that match the attributes for the at least one access control list, to be directed into a service chain that includes at least a first network processing application specified according to a port and a second network processing application specified according to an internet protocol (IP) address; and directing a received network packet that matches the attributes for the at least one access control list into the service chain.
US10965590B2
This application discloses a packet processing method and an LSR. The method includes: receiving, by an Ingress LSR of a first MPLS tunnel, a first notification packet that is based on an IGP, where the first notification packet includes an ELC flag, which is used to indicate that the first Egress LSR has ELC; after learning from the first notification packet that the first Egress LSR has ELC, inserting a label into a first packet, to generate a second packet, where the label forms an MPLS label stack, which includes, from bottom to top, a first EL, a first ELI, and a first TL; and sending the second packet to the first Egress LSR through the first MPLS tunnel. According to the solutions of this invention, a Transit LSR of the first MPLS tunnel may perform load balancing when forwarding the second packet.
US10965581B2
A method and network node for obtaining a target transmission path, where the method includes obtaining, by a first network node in a network domain, topology information of a plurality of network nodes on each path between an ingress node and an egress node that are in the network domain, obtaining, by the first network node, a transmission delay of each path according to the topology information, where the transmission delay of each path includes a sum of physical link delays between all network nodes on each path and node residence times of all the network nodes on each path, and determining, by the first network node, the target transmission path according to the transmission delay of each path.
US10965574B2
A method of building a set of traceable messages through a network of nodes is provided, the method comprising receiving message information corresponding to a first message, the message information comprising a first source identifier and a first destination identifier and determining whether the source identifier is associated with a set of previous messages, whereby when the first source identifier is associated with a set of previous messages, the method comprises identifying the first message as also belonging to the set of previous messages and when the first source identifier is not associated with a set of previous messages, the method comprises identifying the first message as belonging to a new set of messages, the method further comprising associating the first destination identifier with the set of messages to which the first message belongs, such that if a second message is sent from that destination, the second message will be identified as belonging to that set of messages.
US10965567B2
The present invention aims to prevent degradation of printing performance and also respond to a connection request. To do so, there is provided a controlling method for an image forming apparatus, comprising: determining whether or not a connection destination is a connection destination periodically transmitting a situation inquiry after transmitting data; and controlling to continue connection to the connection destination in a case where it is determined that the connection destination is the connection destination periodically transmitting the situation inquiry, and controlling to disconnect the connection to the connection destination in a case where it is determined that the connection destination is not the connection destination periodically transmitting the situation inquiry.
US10965561B2
A network security monitoring and correlation system for providing a three-dimensional visualization of network traffic overlaid with security alerts and other relevant discrete data. The system may comprise an application server communicably linked to a client. The server functions to retrieve network traffic metadata and relevant discrete data associated with individual computer hosts and connections in the monitored network, process the network traffic data by building a graph data structure, and then embedding within the graph data structure one or more layers of additional information about the individual computer hosts and connections derived from the discrete data. The client functions to produce a three-dimensional visualization of the network environment by parsing the graph data structure received from the server and then spawning computer hosts and connections in the 3-D environment. The client will then add the overlay information to the appropriate hosts or connections, with the overlay information preferably being represented within the 3-D environment as a particular color, shape, size, position, or a changing dynamic value.
US10965552B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and an apparatus for managing a virtualized network function, and relate to the field of virtualization technologies, so as to improve work efficiency and resource usage. The method provided in the embodiments of the present application includes: allocating a resource to and configuring deployment specific parameters for a to-be-instantiated virtualized network function (VNF) to obtain a semi-instantiated VNF; and storing information of the semi-instantiated VNF, where the information of the semi-instantiated VNF includes an identifier of the semi-instantiated VNF, resource information of the semi-instantiated VNF, and deployment specific parameters of the semi-instantiated VNF.
US10965549B2
Costs associated with deploying a streaming query according to one or more resiliency strategies given a particular service level agreement (SLA) specification are modeled to enable selection and/or recommendation of a particular resiliency strategy. A baseline cost model represents costs associated with deploying the streaming query non-resiliently. For each of any number of resiliency strategies, a resiliency model represents additional costs associated with deploying the streaming query according to a particular resiliency strategy.
US10965548B2
Embodiments of the invention provide systems, computer program products, and methods for a network operational decisional engine (NODE) to allow individual users to set resource distribution constraints on various accounts over a number of different networks. By providing a centralized user interface and storing and tracking user configuration and account data, the invention recognizes and filters resource distribution requests based on operational decisions as specified by users in order to provide increased control over the authorization or denial of resource distribution requests. The NODE provides the ability to proactively control resource distribution constraints before requests for resource distribution are initiated, and allows for tailored operational decisions to be easily implemented based on a wide range of user-defined criteria.
US10965547B1
The present disclosure relates to managing activity taken with respect to cloud-based software services. A platform manages data objects processed by software services and/or those entities that initiate processing events. The platform uses identifiers such as, for example, a persistent identifier (PID) to track processing events. The platform implements rules and/or permissions related to the managed data objects and/or managed entities to determine whether processing events are in compliance. The platform may update database records, send alerts, send data graphs, or provide a real-time stream related to the managed data objects and/or managed entities. In addition, embodiments involve determining whether a PID-associated managed data object has been modified during processing to generate an additional version of the PID-associated managed data object and, if an object version is present, processing the additional version of the PID-associated managed data object to generate an integrated first PID-associated managed data object.
US10965546B2
Installing on a node of a computer network, an agent of a network system. The installed agent receives a network task via the network. The network task involves a second node of the network. The receiving agent generates a probe implementing the task and targeted to the second node. Either the receiving agent or the generated probe generates a command for the second node. The command is related to the probe and can be in the form of a data link layer protocol data unit for network operations, administration, and maintenance (OAM). The agent or node that generates the command communicates the command to the second node. The second node executes the communicated command. The second node communicates an acknowledgment of the executed command to the first node.
US10965542B2
A management method includes executing an acquisition process, estimation process, comparison process, and output process. The acquisition process acquires; an actual measurement value of the first traffic, and accesses a memory storing a model for estimation of second traffic in accordance with the first traffic. The estimation process includes obtaining, for each of the plurality of communication apparatuses, an estimation value of the second traffic by inputting the actual measurement value of the first traffic per unit time into the model. The comparison process includes comparing, for each of the communication apparatuses, an estimation value of the second traffic and a given value with each other. The output process includes outputting an alert in accordance with a result of the comparison process.
US10965538B2
Systems and methods for characterizing networks are disclosed. In several embodiments, a network analyzer applies a network analysis to a network that replaces components of the network in a model of the network with equivalent or bounding models. The network analyzer can then characterize the simplified model of the network and an assessment can be made concerning the accuracy of the characterization of the network.
US10965525B1
A portable data center is configured to be transported with installed computing devices between a first location and a second location. A tethered networking device of the portable data center can be deployed to provide a consistent interface for connecting computing devices at a first location with computing devices of the portable data center. Large quantities of data stored in the computing devices at the first location can be transferred to computing devices of the portable data center and the portable data center storing the transferred data can be transported to a second location where the stored data is transferred from the portable data center to one or more computing devices at the second location.
US10965518B1
Technologies are provided for correlating alert messages using correlation domains. Alert messages can be received that are related to computer network components. The alert messages can be partitioned using separate correlation domains and analyzed by separate alert processors. When an alert message is received, it can be analyzed to determine a correlation domain with which the alert message is associated. The alert message can then be correlated with other alert messages associated with the correlation domain, and alert messages that are not associated with the correlation domain can be ignored. Groups of alert messages associated with different correlation domains can be correlated independently by different alert processors. Events generated by an alert processor can include correlation domain information. Events associated with different correlation domains can be handled differently.
US10965516B2
In one embodiment, a service that monitors a network detects a plurality of anomalies in the network. The service uses data regarding the detected anomalies as input to one or more machine learning models. The service maps, using a conceptual space, outputs of the one or more machine learning models to symbols. The service applies a symbolic reasoning engine to the symbols, to rank the anomalies. The service sends an alert for a particular one of the detected anomalies to a user interface, based on its corresponding rank.
US10965511B2
A system for determining a communication mode utilized by a transmitting node to transmit a data packet in a mesh network is provided. For example, a receiving node operates in a base communication mode to detect a pilot prefix of a data packet. The pilot prefix contains a signal with a predetermined frequency. In response to determining that the pilot prefix is detected, the receiving node detects a communication mode used to transmit the data packet based on preamble signals that are contained in a preamble of the data packet and are received after the detected pilot prefix. Once the communication mode is detected, the receiving node receives and processes the remaining portion of the data packet using the detected communication mode.
US10965509B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for receiving a reference signal of a first vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) device for V2V communication in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the present invention comprises the steps of: receiving a reference signal configuration defined for the offset correction of a center frequency for V2V communication; and decoding a reference signal defined according to the reference signal configuration in a specific resource region, wherein the reference signal configuration is set such that a time interval between orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDM) symbol indexes, to which the reference signal is allocated, has a pre-defined size.
US10965504B2
A method for generating a pulse-position-modulated signal. The signal includes a temporal succession of waveforms among Ns waveforms obtained by time shift that is an integer multiple of an elementary time duration Tc. The method includes the following steps executed for a k rank symbol among Ns symbols: obtaining, a set of N modulation coefficients cl(k), a modulation coefficient of index n, cn(k), being expressed as the product of a reference modulation coefficient cn(r) coming from the Fourier series decomposition of a reference waveform associated with a symbol of rank r multiplied by a phase shift term the argument of which is proportional to n; and generating M temporal samples of a k-th waveform carrying the symbol of rank k by Fourier transformation of said set of N modulation coefficients cl(k).
US10965503B2
Aspects directed towards wake-up signal (WUS) scrambling sequence design are disclosed. In one example, a time-based scrambling sequence that facilitates a phase shift in time may be generated according to a time parameter associated with a WUS or a paging occasion (PO). A scrambled WUS may be generated by multiplying a WUS base sequence by the time-based scrambling sequence, and subsequently transmitted to at least one scheduled entity. In another example, a scrambled WUS may be received from a scheduling entity. A time-based scrambling sequence associated with the WUS may be identified in which the time-based scrambling sequence facilitates a phase shift in time and corresponds to a time parameter associated with a WUS or a PO. The WUS may be descrambled according to the time-based scrambling sequence. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US10965502B2
Multipath filters are provided herein. In certain configurations, a multipath filter includes multiple filter paths or circuit branches that are electrically connected in parallel with one another between an input terminal and an output terminal. The input terminal receives an input signal, and each filter circuit branch includes a double-in double-switched (DIDS) downconverter that downconverts the input signal with two different clock signal phases to generate a downconverted signal. Each filter circuit branch further includes a filter network that generates a filtered signal by filtering the downconverted signal and an upconverter that upconverts the filtered signal to generate a branch output signal. Additionally, the branch output signals from the filter circuit branches are combined to generate an output signal at the output terminal.
US10965499B2
Disclosed are a signal transmission method and a base station, the signal transmission method comprising: generating a PTRS used for estimating phase noise in a downlink signal; transmitting, to a terminal, at least one form among information indicating whether the PTRS is transmitted by means of downlink signaling, and information indicating an antenna port of the PTRS; and transmitting the PTRS to the terminal in accordance with the information transmitted thereto.
US10965497B1
Traffic is processed in a virtualised environment comprising: (i) a physical underlay network; (ii) a first overlay network (an overlay of the physical underlay network and associated with a first set of network addresses, IP1); (iii) a second overlay network (an overlay of the first overlay network and associated with a second set of network addresses, IP2); and (iv) virtualised applications each having an execution environment and being associated with at least one network address in each of the first and second sets of network addresses, IP1 and IP2. In the execution environment of a first virtualised application: (i) traffic communicated from the first virtualised application to the first overlay network is encapsulated; and/or (ii) traffic communicated from the first overlay network to the first virtualised application is decapsulated. Tenant separation processing is performed outside the execution environments of the virtualised applications.
US10965496B2
A logical router includes disaggregated network elements that function as a single router and that are not coupled to a common backplane. The logical router includes spine elements and leaf elements implementing a network fabric with front panel ports being defined by leaf elements. Control plane elements program the spine units and leaf to function a logical router. The control plane may define operating system interfaces mapped to front panel ports of the leaf elements and referenced by tags associated with packets traversing the logical router. Redundancy and checkpoints may be implemented for a route database implemented by the control plane elements. The logical router may include a standalone fabric and may implement label tables that are used to label packets according to egress port and path through the fabric.
US10965494B2
A respective VPN routing table for each of a plurality of VPNs can be stored on a client device. The client device can access a first VPN routing table and, using the first VPN routing table, establish a first VPN tunnel to a first VPN. The first VPN can be a first subnetwork assigned a particular network prefix. While the first VPN tunnel is currently active, the client device can access a second VPN routing table and, using the second VPN routing table, establish a second VPN tunnel to the second VPN. The second VPN can be a second subnetwork assigned the same particular network prefix as the first subnetwork. While the first VPN tunnel and the second VPN tunnel are simultaneously active, the client device can communicate data to remote devices in the first VPN and the second VPN using the particular network prefix for both.
US10965487B1
A system and method to monitor individual appliance performance. A monitor module is provided for aggregating data from a plurality of appliances wherein the module includes. Included in the monitor device is a gateway device configured to capture operational data relating to each of the plurality of appliances and an analyzing device configured to determine individual operational characteristics for each of the appliances from analysis of the captured operational data. A notification device is further provided which is configured to provide information to a user regarding the determined operational characteristics for each of the appliances.
US10965478B2
A system and method for efficiently disconnecting links in a communication fabric. A computing system includes a fabric for routing traffic among one or more agents and a memory controller for system memory. The fabric includes multiple hierarchical clusters with a split topology where the data links are physically separated from the control links. When the controller in an intermediate cluster or agent determines local resources are idle, the controller sends separate requests for link disconnect on each of the upstream control and data links. When a single acknowledgment of link disconnect is received, the controller does not proceed with any link disconnect. Rather, the controller waits until an acknowledgment of link disconnect is received for each of the upstream control and data links. If local resources remain idle, the controller sends confirmation upstream and performs a link disconnect for each of the upstream control and data links.
US10965475B2
Systems and methods of generating a security key for an integrated circuit device include generating a plurality of key bits with a physically unclonable function (PUF) generator. Unstable bits of the plurality of key bits are identified, and a security key is generated based on the plurality of key bits, wherein the security key excludes the identified unstable bits.
US10965468B2
An external biometric reader and verification device for providing access control to a computing device, and associated methods, are disclosed. The external reader can store and verify biometrics under the control of the computing device and send identity verification messages to the computing device. One disclosed device includes a biometric reader communicatively connected to an external secure microcontroller. The external secure microcontroller stores a set of biometric data and a signing key. The signing key can be injected by a device manufacturer in a controlled key injection room in a manufacturing facility and can be used to sign a certificate. An operating system of the computing device can be programmed to send a request for the certificate, receive the certificate, and predicate control of access to the operating system using the verification messages on verification of the certificate.
US10965453B2
A method and system for encryption and decryption. The system includes a user computing device, a root secret server, and a backend server. The root secret server has a root secret code, and when receiving a fingerprint of the user computing device, calculates a device secret code for that device using the fingerprint. When sensitive data needs to be encrypted, the user computing device calculates a data key for the data based on the device secret code and the data information, and encrypts the data. The backend server retrieves the root secret code from the root secret server, and in response to receiving the encrypted data, retrieves data information and calculates the data key to decrypt the data. Similarly, the backend server can encrypt data and the user computing device can decrypt data. The root secret code, the device code, and the data key form a three level encryption mechanism.
US10965450B2
A system and method for securing communication across an in-vehicle bus, includes establishing a connection between a gateway in a vehicle and the in-vehicle bus; generating a session key at the gateway within the vehicle; transmitting a public key certificate and ephemeral key to the gateway and an electronic control unit of the vehicle; generating a shared secret at the gateway and the electronic control unit, respectively; encrypting the session key with the shared secret at the gateway; receiving the encrypted session key through the in-vehicle bus at the electronic control unit; and decrypting the encrypted session key based on the shared secret generated at the electronic control unit.
US10965446B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for blockchain-based automated user matching are described herein. In some arrangements, a node within a decentralized peer-to-peer (e.g., P2P) network may receive match parameters from one or more computing devices associated with supply side entities and demand side entities. The node may execute one or more artificial intelligence algorithms to match the supply side entities with the demand side entities based on the received match parameters. In some instances, the artificial intelligence algorithms may be stored in a smart contract on a blockchain and the matching may be performed through execution of the smart contract by nodes of the decentralized P2P network.
US10965442B2
A receiver is provided that includes a time-to-digital converter for converting a phase difference between a clock signal and a received data signal into a phase-difference digital code. The receiver also includes a logic circuit that controls a programmable delay line to delay the clock signal into a delayed clock signal by a delay that is responsive to a difference between the phase-difference code and a unit interval for the clock signal. The delayed clock signal clocks a flip-flop to register the received data signal.
US10965440B1
A receiver circuit includes a clock lane propagating a clock signal. A self-sampled clock applies a delayed version of the clock signal to the clock signal and compensation logic controls an amount of delay of the delayed version of the clock, based on a reference voltage offset (difference) between the receiver and a transmitter. The delayed version of the clock is centered on one unit interval of the clock. An offset correction is computed as a global offset value based on a clock duty cycle error, combined with a local offset value for each data lane, and is applied to data receiver front ends.
US10965438B1
A signal receiving circuit, a memory storage device and a signal receiving method are provided. The signal receiving circuit includes an equalizer module, a clock and data recovery (CDR) circuit and a controller. The equalizer module is configured to receive a first signal and compensate the first signal to generate a second signal. The CDR circuit is configured to perform a phase locking on the second signal. The controller is configured to open or close a signal pattern filter of the CDR circuit according to the second signal, wherein the signal pattern filter is configured to filter a signal having a specific pattern in the second signal.
US10965435B2
The disclosure relates to a transmission device, comprising: a processor configured: to generate a multicarrier signal based on a combination of data symbols and reference symbols, wherein the multicarrier signal comprises a first plurality of inband subcarriers and a second plurality of out-of band (OOB) subcarriers, and to precode the multicarrier signal based on a mapping function with respect to the first plurality of inband subcarriers and the second plurality of out-of band subcarriers, wherein the mapping function is configured to mitigate the OOB subcarriers.
US10965432B2
Methods and devices enable a fine synchronization related to a data transmission on a physical channel. A fine timing reference signal is occasionally transmitted to the data transmission recipient using one of time-frequency resources in a recipient-specific pattern.
US10965430B2
A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for transmitting a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) ACK/NACK signal in a narrowband Internet of things (NB-IoT) communication. The method may comprise a step of modulating at least one of a first and a second HARQ ACK/NACK signal by two HARQ processes. The step of modulating may comprise a step of mapping at least one of the first and the second HARQ ACK/NACK signal onto a constellation having a quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) form. The first HARQ ACK/NACK signal may be a signal generated by a first HARQ process for a first downlink data through a first narrowband physical downlink shared channel (NPDSCH). The second HARQ ACK/NACK signal may be a signal generated by a second HARQ process for a second downlink data through a second NPDSCH.
US10965426B2
A method for reporting channel state in a wireless communication system according to one embodiment of the present invention, the method being implemented by a terminal, comprises: a step for receiving an aperiodic channel state information (CSI) reporting request from a base station; and a step for calculating aperiodic CSI corresponding to the aperiodic CSI reporting request and transmitting the calculated aperiodic CSI to the base station via an uplink shared channel, wherein if the number of component carriers or CSI processes for the terminal exceeds a specific value, only uplink control information including the aperiodic CSI can be transmitted through the uplink shared channel under specific conditions.
US10965421B2
According to the present invention, a method of transmitting and receiving an uplink phase tracking reference signal between a user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication and an apparatus supporting the same are disclosed. According to an example applicable to the present invention, a user equipment can transmit an uplink PT-RS to a base station using the actual number of PT-RS ports which is determined based on the maximum uplink phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) ports received from the base station and a precoding matrix set to the UE.
US10965416B2
This application provides a data transmission method and an apparatus. The method includes: sending, by a first device, first indication information, where the first indication information is used to indicate a time-frequency resource of a first reference signal, and the first reference signal is used to perform channel estimation on retransmitted data of first data; and sending, by the first device, the retransmitted data.
US10965409B2
A communications device comprising receiver circuitry, transmitter circuitry and controller circuitry controlling the transmitter circuitry and the receiver circuitry to receive data in accordance with an automatic repeat request (ARQ) type protocol in which the data is received as a plurality of encoded data packets encoded with an error correction code and the transmitter circuitry transmits a feedback signal depending on whether each of the data encoded packets is estimated as having been decoded successfully by the receiver circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured to evaluate a quality measure of each encoded data packet and in response to the evaluated quality measure to transmit an early indication of the feedback signal to the wireless communications network, before the encoded data packet has been decoded by the error correction decoder.
US10965403B2
A system can include a server and a device having a power source with a limited life span. The server receives data from the device and identifies a gap in the data from the device that indicates that at least a portion of the data from the device is missing. The server uses a gap reconciliation profile associated with the device to control the server to collect the missing data from the device. The server can generate a signal to request the missing data from the device based on the gap reconciliation profile and transmit the signal to the device to collect the missing data based on the gap reconciliation profile. A parameter of the gap reconciliation profile can be used to control generating or transmitting of the signal, which can preserve the limited life span of the power source of the device.
US10965399B2
Method and apparatus for transmission and reception with polar codes are provided to support up to 16 permutations or transformation mappings. For example, 16 versions of copies able to be soft-combined for PBCH or any other data channel or control channel are suggested if the mother code length is 256 or 512 or 1024. With the new design, up to 16 different versions can be used to soft combined to improve the performance. Some sequences are provided as examples to support 16 different permutation patterns. The inverse of these sequences also have the feature to support 16 different permutation patterns.
US10965392B2
A method for providing a network tap supporting time sensitive network standards includes scanning, by an active network tap, received frames on a network port of the active network tap to identify timing synchronization messages of targeted message types. The method further includes identifying a timing synchronization message of the targeted message type. The method further includes modifying a timing value in the timing synchronization message to account for delay introduced by the active network tap. The method further includes forwarding the timing synchronization message with the modifying timing value to a destination time sensitive network node via an egress network port of the active network tap.
US10965385B1
The present disclosure relates to a method of reducing a noise induced signal drift. The method comprises: receiving an input signal; recording a waveform of the input signal; and determining an antiderivative of the waveform by optimizing a derivative of the antiderivative to be determined and an absolute deviation of the antiderivative to be determined. Further, the present disclosure relates to a test instrument for analyzing an input signal.
US10965384B2
The invention relates to a method for suppressing an interference signal during detection of a chirp signal from an input signal (X), comprising the following steps: a. recording the input signal (X); b. calculating an output signal (R1) as a correlation from the recorded input signal (X) and a chirp reference signal (CR) by means of a correlator (30); c. calculating a magnitude (XB) of the input signal (X) from the input signal (X); d. calculating a magnitude (R1B) of the output signal (R1) from the output signal (R1); e. calculating a phase difference (P) between the input signal (X) and the output signal (R1); f. calculating a synthesized interference signal (R2) from the magnitude (XB) of the input signal (X), the magnitude (R1B) of the output signal (R1) and the phase difference (P) by means of a rotator (60); g. calculating a residual signal (DR) as the difference between the output signal (R1) and the synthesized interference signal (R2). The invention relates to a system (10) for suppressing an interference signal during detection of a chirp signal by means of the method according to the invention.
US10965382B1
An oscillator for use in pulse communication of pulse signals with a startup latency and a pulse oscillation signal (such as for use in a transmitter for OOK pulse communication with pulse modulation). The oscillator includes an LC resonator having a tank impedance, and including a high-side node (Vp), and a low-side node Vn, and having a tank voltage corresponding to [Vp-Vn]. A pulse startup circuit, includes a PMOS transistor with a source connected to a supply voltage VDD, and a drain connected through a resistance R to the Vp node (where R is significantly larger than the tank impedance), and connected to an attenuation capacitance, in parallel with the resistance R. The PMOS control terminal is coupled to receive a kick start pulse to initiate a pulse signal. the oscillator can include high-side and low-side pulse startup circuits.
US10965381B2
A underwater communication device communicates data with another underwater communication device having another first coil and another second coil in water. The underwater communication device includes a first coil configured to transmit the data to and from the other first coil via a magnetic field, a second coil configured to transmit the data to and from the other second coil via a magnetic field, a supply unit configured to supply the data to the first coil and the second coil, a first capacitor connected to the first coil and forming a first resonance circuit that resonates with the first coil at a first resonance frequency, and a second capacitor connected to the second coil and forming a second resonance circuit that resonates with the second coil at a second resonance frequency that is different from the first resonance frequency.
US10965376B2
A cover for an electronic circuit package, including: a body having an opening extending therethrough; a first element located in the opening and having a surface continuing planar or rounded shapes of a surface of the cover; and a second element of connection of the first element to the body.
US10965373B1
Systems and methods are provided for controlling one or more optical amplifiers of a C+L band photonic line system of a telecommunications network in which C-band signals and L-band signals may be transmitted. In one implementation, a control device may include a processing device and a memory device configured to store a traffic managing module for controlling C-band and the L-band traffic in the photonic line system. The traffic managing module, when executed, may be configured to cause the processing device to calculate a gain correction profile based on a difference between a saved baseline transmission profile and a measured transmission profile of a surviving band of a photonic line system when another band of the photonic line system is missing or impacted. The traffic managing module is configured to apply the gain correction profile to a respective optical amplifier of the photonic line system to compensate for the difference.
US10965372B2
The function of each component of an optical transmission device is as follows. The wavelength selecting means has a means for selecting an optical signal, and a means for outputting a signal after adjusting the signal level. The optical amplifying means amplifies the wavelength multiplexed signal having the adjusted signal level. The measuring means measures the spectrum of the amplified wavelength multiplexed signal. The setting means sets a spectrum shape, which serves as a reference of the wavelength multiplexed signal to be outputted to the transmission line, as output spectrum setting information. The control means compares the measured spectrum with the output spectrum setting information and determines the attenuation amount when adjusting the signal level for each wavelength of the wavelength multiplexed signal in the wavelength selecting means. The wavelength selecting means adjusts the signal level on the basis of the determined attenuation amount.
US10965371B2
A method, transceiver, and system for monitoring performance of a fiber optic-based communication network and, in particular to determining contributing linear and nonlinear noise components, is disclosed. The method includes computing fast bit error rate of a received optical signal at a sampling time interval that is less than or equal to 100 microseconds (μsecs), generating, over a time period, a bit error rate distribution data associated with the computed fast bit error rate, applying statistical measurements to the bit error rate distribution data to extract statistical attribute data of the bit error rate distribution data, processing the extracted statistical attribute data to separately determine nonlinear noise components and linear noise components that contribute to total noise levels, and changing a launch power associated with an optical signal to be transmitted in accordance with separately determined nonlinear noise components and linear noise components.
US10965357B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a first node and a base station for wireless communication. A first node transmits K1 first-type reference signal(s), and operates a first radio signal and a second radio signal; the K1 first-type reference signal(s) is(are) transmitted by K1 first-type antenna port set(s) respectively, a target antenna port set is a first-type antenna port set in the K1 first-type antenna port set(s); a first antenna port set and a second antenna port set are respectively used for transmitting the first radio signal and the second radio signal. The disclosure makes it practical for the first node to simultaneously operate radio signals transmitted from different transmitters in beamforming scenarios by connecting a first antenna port set and a second antenna port set with a target antenna port set, thereby improving the reception and transmission efficiency and the entire performance of the system.
US10965354B2
Provided is a precoding method for generating, from a plurality of baseband signals, a plurality of precoded signals to be transmitted over the same frequency bandwidth at the same time, including the steps of selecting a matrix F[i] from among N matrices, which define precoding performed on the plurality of baseband signals, while switching between the N matrices, i being an integer from 0 to N−1, and N being an integer at least two, generating a first precoded signal z1 and a second precoded signal z2, generating a first encoded block and a second encoded block using a predetermined error correction block encoding method, generating a baseband signal with M symbols from the first encoded block and a baseband signal with M symbols the second encoded block, and precoding a combination of the generated baseband signals to generate a precoded signal having M slots.
US10965348B2
A method of reducing peak to average power ratio of uplink transmission includes, assigning a slice of transmission resource to uplink transmission from a user equipment, where all resource elements in the slice have a same Doppler value, mapping data to the slice, performing orthogonal time frequency space transformation to generate time-frequency domain data and processing the time-frequency domain data for transmission.
US10965338B2
A transmitter module for a broadband data transmission system for radio communications, comprising at least one polyphase FFT filter bank and a hopping processor is described. The at least one polyphase FFT filter bank is established as a synthesis polyphase FFT filter bank, wherein the at least one polyphase FFT filter bank comprises several filter units, wherein the transmitter module is configured to receive an input signal comprising a symbol sequence, wherein the transmitter module is configured to generate and transmit a transmission signal based on the received input signal by a frequency hopping technique, and wherein the hopping processor is configured to adjust a transmission frequency of the transmission signal. Moreover, a receiver module for a broadband data transmission system and a data transmission system are described.
US10965336B2
An apparatus that facilitates one-handed use of a mobile device has a finger brace configured to brace a user's finger on each of two opposed sides of the point where it is coupled to a flexible member. The flexible member extends through a hole in the back portion of the mobile device's case and is anchored to an interior surface of the back portion of the case. The flexible member's length is such that two fingers of the user's hand can press against the finger brace to brace the mobile device when the two fingers are between the finger brace and the case.
US10965327B2
A terminal includes: a first baseband processor, a second baseband processor, a first radio frequency chip, a second radio frequency chip, a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, and a fourth antenna. The first baseband processor is connected to the first antenna and the second antenna by using the first radio frequency chip. The first radio frequency chip is connected to the first antenna to form a first channel, and is connected to the second antenna to form a second channel. The second baseband processor is connected to the third antenna and the fourth antenna by using the second radio frequency chip. The second radio frequency chip is connected to the third antenna to form a third channel, and is connected to the fourth antenna to form a fourth channel.
US10965320B2
The present technique relates to a transmission apparatus, a transmission method, a reception apparatus, and a reception method that can ensure favorable communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. LDPC coding is performed based on a check matrix of an LDPC code with a code length N of 69120 bits and a code rate r of 2/16, 3/16, or 4/16. The check matrix includes a matrix A with M1 rows and K columns, where M1 represents a predetermined value, and K=N×r represents an information length of the LDPC code, a matrix B with M1 rows and M1 columns in a dual diagonal structure, a matrix Z with M1 rows and N−K−M1 columns that is a zero matrix, a matrix C with N−K−M1 rows and K+M1 columns, and a matrix D with N−K−M1 rows and N−K−M1 columns that is an identity matrix. The matrix A and the matrix C are represented by a check matrix initial value table. The check matrix initial value table is a table indicating positions of elements of 1 in the matrix A and the matrix C on a basis of 360 columns and is a predetermined table. The present technique can be applied to, for example, data transmission using the LDPC code.
US10965315B2
An example method of compressing a data set includes determining whether individual values from a data set correspond to a first category or a second category of values. Based on one of the values corresponding to the first category, the value is added to a compressed data set. Based on one of the values corresponding to the second category, the value is excluded from the compressed data set, and a statistical distribution of values of the second category is updated based on the value. During a first phase, the determining is performed for a plurality of values from a first portion of the data set based on comparison of the values to criteria. During a second phase, the determining is performed for a plurality of values from a second portion of the data set based on the statistical distribution.
US10965314B2
The present invention discloses a compensation table compression method, a display manufacturing apparatus, and a memory. The method includes: obtaining a reference frame compensation table and a current frame compensation table; dividing the reference frame compensation table and the current frame compensation table into a plurality of coding blocks, wherein each coding block is separately processed by using multiple prediction modes to obtain a residual coding block in the corresponding prediction mode; and compressing the residual coding block. By using the above method, the invention can save resources, reduce costs, and improve work efficiency.
US10965302B1
Digital to analog conversion generates an analog output corresponding to a digital input by controlling unit elements or cells using data bits of the digital input. The unit elements or cells individually make a contribution to the analog output. Due to process, voltage, and temperature variations, the unit elements or cells may have mismatches. The mismatches can degrade the quality of the analog output. To extract the mismatches, a transparent dither can be used. The mismatches can be extracted by observing the analog output, and performing a cross-correlation of the observed output with the dither. Once extracted, the unit elements or cells can be adjusted accordingly to reduce the mismatches.
US10965300B1
Described herein are apparatus and methods for a high bandwidth under-sampled successive approximation register (SAR) analog to digital converter (ADC) (SAR ADC) with non-linearity minimization. A method includes sampling, by a sampling switch triggered by a sampling clock in the SAR ADC, an input signal, determining, by a comparator in the SAR ADC, a value for a bit based on comparing the sampled input signal to a reference signal provided by a reference digital-to-analog (DAC) in the SAR ADC, wherein the input signal and the reference signal propagate through substantially similar input paths, resampling, by the sampling switch, the input signal for each successive bit, determining, by the comparator, a value for each successive bit based on comparing the resampled input signal and a reference signal for each successive bit, and outputting, by a digital controller, a digital result after determining a value for a last bit by the comparator.
US10965299B1
A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a current array having a plurality of unit cells in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, an arbitrary switch box and processing circuitry configured to randomly select a subset of rows among the plurality of rows based on a plurality of first row selection signals, the subset of rows including first unit cells among the plurality of unit cells, randomly select one row among the plurality of rows based on a plurality of second row selection signals, select a subset of columns among the plurality of columns based on column selection signals, second unit cells among the plurality of unit cells being included in both the one row and the subset of columns, and generate an analog output signal corresponding to a digital input signal based on the first unit cells and the second unit cells.
US10965286B2
The invention relates to a remote-control system (1) comprising: a pushbutton (8) that can be pressed by a user for inputting information in that the user applies a pressure in a direction (18); a sensor magnet (23) arranged on the underside of the pushbutton (8), when viewed in the pressure application direction (18); and an armature magnet (27) arranged below the pushbutton (8), when viewed in the pressure application direction (18), and fixed relative to the pushbutton (8), wherein the magnetic poles (39, 41) of the sensor magnet (23) and of the armature magnet (27) are arranged in such a way that the pushbutton (8) is pressed by the sensor magnet (23) away from the armature magnet (27), against the pressure application direction (18).
US10965282B2
A power switching cell, and associated multi-level converter, include an input port capable of receiving a switching control signal, an input transistor linked by the gate to the input port, and by the source to a reference voltage, a self-biasing circuit comprising a self-biasing transistor linked by the gate to the drain of the input transistor, and a resistor connected in parallel between the gate and the source of the self-biasing transistor, and in series between the drain of the input transistor and the source of the self-biasing transistor, a power transistor, linked by the gate to the source of the self-biasing transistor and by the drain to a power supply voltage, and an isolating transistor linked by the gate and by the source to the gate and to the source of the power transistor, and by the drain to the output port of the cell.
US10965272B2
A filter comprises a series unit comprising a plurality of series resonators, a shunt unit comprising a plurality of shunt resonators, connected between the plurality of series resonators and a ground, and a correction unit comprising an inductor unit connected between both ends of at least one of a set of series resonators of the plurality of series resonators and a set of shunt resonators of the plurality of shunt resonators, and an impedance unit connected between the inductor unit and a ground.
US10965264B2
A bias circuit generates a bias current to an RF power amplifier used for transmitting RF signals, and the amount of the bias current supplied to the RF power amplifier can be configured in multiple modes through transistor switches that are controlled by mode control signals, so that the bias current supplied to the RF power amplifier can be adjusted according to the required power level of the transmitting RF signals. In addition, the bias current can be turned off by another transistor switch that is controlled by a power control signal for saving power while the RF power amplifier is not transmitting RF signals.
US10965250B1
This document presents an oscillator circuit and method. The oscillator circuit has a crystal to generate an oscillating voltage signal, a load capacitor coupled to the crystal, a capacitive element, and a switching circuit. The switching circuit alternately connects the capacitive element to the load capacitor and disconnects the capacitive element from the load capacitor. The presented oscillator circuit shows the advantages of a lower power consumption and a smaller circuit area.
US10965247B2
An apparatus for facilitating a measurement of characteristics of a photovoltaic cell. The apparatus includes an input port for coupling to a photovoltaic cell and an output port for coupling to a measurement equipment. The apparatus is configured to couple a first resistor across positive and negative inputs of the input port and a second resistor between the negative input and ground when the input port is not selected or inactive, and decouple the first and second resistors from the input port when the input port is selected and active. The apparatus couples the positive input of the input port to the output port when the input port is selected but inactive or selected and active. The resistors protect the photovoltaic cell from adverse consequences due to incident ambient light. Examples of multiple port versions of the apparatus are also disclosed.
US10965242B2
A photovoltaic apparatus includes: a power generation part; an angle changeable mechanism configured to support the power generation part so as to be able to change an elevation of the power generation part; a post configured to support the power generation part and the angle changeable mechanism; and a hinge mechanism configured to support the post so as to be able to change an angle of the post relative to an installation surface for the photovoltaic apparatus.
US10965239B2
A power conversion device including: a first and second multi-phase inverters (MPI1,MPI2) to receive a DC voltage (Vdc) and convert into AC voltages (Vacs), when fc represents a frequency of a PWM signal output from each of the MPI1 and the MPI2, fr represents a lower limit frequency defined by noise regulation of the power conversion device, an absolute value of a differential voltage being a difference between: a first average voltage, which is an average value of first voltage commands of respective phases as command values for the Vacs of MPI1; and a second average voltage, which is an average value of second voltage commands of respective phases as command values for the Vacs of MPI2, is set equal to or less than k2·fc/fr·Vdc [V] (k2 is an odd number equal to or more than one), to reduce noise in a frequency band defined by noise regulation.
US10965231B2
A control for a multi-shaft turbine engine system using electrical machines seeks optimal system performance while accommodating hard and soft component limits. To accommodate the component limits, the control may generate a number of possible operating point options reflecting potential trade-offs in performance, lifing, efficiency, or other objectives.
US10965230B2
A brushless DC motor driver for driving a brushless DC motor which comprises at least one coil wherein the control unit is adapted for applying a PWM driving signal to the at least one coil of the brushless DC motor such that a current through the at least one coil is always bigger than a pre-defined undercurrent limit.
US10965229B2
A power adapter is provided to supply electric power from an alternating current from an alternating current (AC) power supply to a powered apparatus. It includes a switchable capacitor circuit housed within a housing and including a switchable capacitor switchably coupled across the AC power supply and a H-bridge circuit including four switches. An OFF-state of the four switches creates a charging path for the switchable capacitor, an ON-state of a first pair of the four switches creates a discharge path for the switchable capacitor during a positive half cycle of the alternating current, and an ON-state of a second pair of the four switches creates a discharge path for the switchable capacitor during a negative half cycle of the alternating current.
US10965222B2
A power supply includes: a rectifier circuit which has a plurality of rectifier switching elements, and separately extracts a positive voltage and a negative voltage for every phase from a primary power source of three-phase alternating current, respectively; a smoothing circuit which has a pair of smoothing capacitors connected in series to each other to be charged by the rectifier circuit, and a plurality of smoothing inductors respectively arranged between the rectifier circuit and the smoothing capacitors; a inverter circuit which has a plurality of inverter switching elements and inverts output of the smoothing circuit into alternating current; and a control circuit which controls switching of the plurality of rectifier switching elements so that output voltage of the smoothing circuit becomes a desired voltage, and electrical current flowing to each phase of the rectifier circuit becomes a desired electrical current.
US10965221B1
A multi-level switched capacitor boost inverter includes a series connection of a two-switched capacitor circuit, a source module and at least one one-switched capacitor circuit. Level-shifted pulse width modulation is used to apply gate pulses to the switches. The multi-level switched capacitor boost inverter uses only three capacitors and a single DC voltage source to generate thirteen voltage levels at load terminals with a voltage gain of three. The capacitors of the two-switched capacitor circuit are self-balancing. Additional one-switched capacitor circuits can be added in series with the inverter. Each additional one-switched capacitor circuit increases the number of levels and increases the gain by one.
US10965206B2
A switch controller performs first sleep operation, to which a transition from normal operation is made when a light load is detected, and second sleep operation, to which a transition is made after the first sleep operation. In the first sleep operation, a coil current is passed via a body diode of any of a plurality of transistors that is off to an input voltage side or to an output voltage side. In the second sleep operation, a current path from at least one of first and second connection nodes to ground is formed.
US10965197B2
This invention relates to a method for composing a sleeve assembly suitable for use in containment purposes in high-speed machine that are subjected to high operational temperatures. The method has the steps of providing a composite sleeve and winding at least two layers of woven fabric on top of the composite sleeve and each other, where the woven fabric is impregnated with a thermoset resin. The method additionally has the step of optionally winding a perforated layer on top of an outermost layer of the layers of woven fabric to remove excess resin when the woven fabric is wound over the composite sleeve. The method also includes the steps of wrapping an absorption layer over the composite sleeve for absorbing the excess resin, curing the thermoset resin, and removing the absorption layer and the perforated layer after the curing.
US10965193B2
A motor includes a shaft centered on a center axis oriented in a vertical direction, a bearing rotatably supporting the shaft, an armature disposed radially outward of the bearing, a bracket to which the bearing and the armature are fixed, and a covered cylindrical rotor connected to the shaft. The rotor includes a disk-shaped rotor lid portion connected to the shaft, and a rotor side wall portion extending downward from an outer edge of the rotor lid portion. The shaft is made of metal. The rotor lid portion and the rotor side wall portion are made of resin. The rotor lid portion and the shaft are an integrally molded article.
US10965189B2
An actuator unit includes a support plate having a first side and a second side; an electric motor with terminal lugs and a motor shaft; a motor mounting pocket on the first side, the motor mounting pocket accommodating the electric motor; mounting projections on the first side, the mounting projections including a plurality of clamping pockets; a PC-board insertion slot on the first side; a motor shaft passage from the first side to the second side; the motor shaft of the electric motor projecting from the first side through the shaft passage to the second side and carrying a pinion; a multistage reduction gear arranged on the second side and meshing with the pinion; and a plurality of conductor stampings fixed in the clamping pockets and connected with the terminal lugs of the electric motor.
US10965187B2
A motor-transmission arrangement for an adjusting device for adjusting two components adjustable relative to each other can include a planetary gear system having a planetary carrier, a planetary gear with planetary gear toothing and which is rotatably mounted in the planetary carrier and with a ring gear with an internal toothing which engages with the planetary gear toothing. An electric motor can have a motor shaft which can be rotated about a motor shaft axis, which shaft interacts with the planetary gear system, and a housing which is closed with first and second housing covers in which the motor shaft is mounted via a first bearing section and a second bearing section.
US10965184B2
A rotary electric machine of the present invention includes: a stator; a rotor placed on an inner diameter side of the stator through an air gap and fixed to a rotating shaft; a stator frame supporting the stator; a casing storing the stator and the rotor; an outer fan fixed to the rotating shaft; a heat exchanger installed above the casing for heat exchange between outside air taken through the outer fan and internal air to remove heat; and an outer fan duct installed on an end portion of the casing in an axial direction, provided with the outer fan in an inside of the outer fan duct, and formed with a ventilation path through which the outside air is delivered to the heat exchanger. A plate-shaped member has at least a curved surface portion. The plate-shaped member forms the ventilation path of the outer fan duct.
US10965182B2
A drive unit for a hybrid module includes a housing assembly and an electric motor including a stator and a rotor. The stator is fixed to the housing assembly. The drive unit further includes an assembly configured for rotatably connecting the rotor to an internal combustion engine The assembly includes a shaft configured for connecting to the internal combustion engine, a rear ball bearing on the shaft and a bearing housing on an outer race of the rear ball bearing. The bearing housing axially abuts the rear ball bearing so the rear ball bearing limits rearward axial movement of the bearing housing relative to the shaft. In other words, axial thrust from the bearing housing is transferred to the shaft by the axial load carrying capacity of the ball bearing.
US10965179B2
A stator assembly includes a stator that drives a rotor rotatable about a central axis extending in a vertical direction, a cover that accommodates the stator, a filling portion that fills a space between the cover and the stator. The cover includes a tubular portion that extends in an axial direction and covers a radially side portion of the stator opposing the rotor in a radial direction, a lid portion that covers an axially upper end portion of the stator, and a cover stepped portion that is provided on a first radial side with respect to the tubular portion. The cover stepped portion comes in contact with the axially upper end portion of the stator and is positioned on an axially lower side with respect to an axially upper end portion of the tubular portion.
US10965178B2
An electric machine includes a stator core defining slots and a hairpin winding path disposed in the slots. The winding path includes first and second hairpins having legs with same slot spans and twist with same slot spans. The hairpins are installed in the core such that one of the twists of the first hairpin crisscrosses with one of the twists of the second hairpin. A reverse jumper joins the twists that crisscross.
US10965176B2
An example motor includes: a rotor with a plurality of alternate polarity permanent magnets; and a stator forming a like number of poles. The stator forms one or more biasing features concentrating magnetic flux at at least one location. In some examples, the stator has an interior surface unbroken by locating features, and the stator has one or more openings that form the one or more biasing features.
US10965170B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a first transmitter configured to transmit a first wireless signal of power feeding, to a first terminal; a second transmitter configured to transmit a second wireless signal of power feeding, to the first terminal and controlling circuitry configured to control both the first transmitter and the second transmitter to transmit simultaneously at least a part of the first wireless signal from the first transmitter to the first terminal and the second wireless signal from the second transmitter to the first terminal.
US10965169B2
A wireless power transmitter includes: a power supply configured to supply a driving power; a first power transmitter including first bridge switching elements forming a first bridge circuit, and configured to receive the driving power to transmit a first power, wherein a magnitude of a first input voltage applied to the first bridge circuit is determined by a duty of at least one of the first bridge switching elements; a second power transmitter including second bridge switching elements forming a second bridge circuit, and configured to receive the driving power to transmit a second power, wherein a magnitude of a second input voltage applied to the second bridge circuit is determined by a duty of at least one of the second bridge switching elements; and a controller configured to output first and second power transmitting control signals respectively controlling the first bridge switching elements and the second bridge switching elements.
US10965160B2
A method and a device are described for obtaining power intended to supply a consuming appliance from a conductor traversed by a primary electrical current, in which a core of magnetic material and a conductive solenoid wound about the core are positioned in a position remote from the conductor to obtain a secondary current in the solenoid from a magnetic field flux generated in the solenoid by the conductor, core and solenoid. The conductive solenoid is connected to the consuming appliance by a circuit adapted to convert the secondary current into a power intended to supply the consuming appliance through a related voltage and output current.
US10965152B2
An uninterruptible power supply adapted to be connected between an AC line and a load, comprising a battery system, an inverter, and a transformer, and a controller. The battery system stores battery power. The inverter is operatively connected to the battery system. The transformer is operatively connected to the AC line, the load, and an inverter winding operatively connected to the inverter. The controller controls the inverter to supply power to the primary winding using battery power stored in the battery system based on a cost value indicative of reduction of life of the battery system.
US10965149B2
An electrical power restoration system for a circuit assembly having a circuit breaker, an electrical load and a circuit conditioner, includes a circuit controller that is positioned along the circuit assembly between the circuit breaker and the electrical load. The circuit controller is electrically connected to and selectively controls activation and/or deactivation of the circuit conditioner. The circuit conditioner is positioned along the circuit assembly between the circuit controller and the electrical load. The electrical power restoration system can further include a first hot conductor that selectively conducts AC power from the circuit breaker to the circuit controller. The circuit controller monitors a current passing through the first hot conductor to determine whether the current passing through the first hot conductor is at or above a predetermined threshold level. The circuit conditioner can include an uninterruptible power supply that selectively provides alternative AC power to the electrical load.
US10965144B2
An apparatus and a method for controlling wireless charging are provided. A wireless charging mode is performed. In response to the performance of the wireless charging mode, an input sensing condition of the touch screen is changed from a first condition to a second condition different from the first condition.
US10965141B2
A vehicle charging apparatus includes: an AC/DC converter configured to variably output a DC link voltage; and a DC/DC converter electrically connected to the AC/DC converter and configured to acquire an output voltage by conversion of the DC link voltage outputted by the AC/DC converter and transmit the acquired output voltage to a battery. The AC/DC converter includes: a first switch element configured to adjust a power factor of the AC/DC converter according to an operation of the first switch element, and a second switch element configured to increase the DC link voltage outputted by the AC/DC converter according to the operation of the first switch element.
US10965133B2
A battery pack system for use in connecting a battery pack to a battery pack receiving member of a machine so that the battery pack is operable to supply a suitable amount of power to the machine for operation of the machine via an electrical circuit path that is configurable for electrically connecting the battery pack to the machine, the system including: a first electrical connector member disposed along a first region of the electrical circuit path; and a second electrical connector member; wherein, responsive to the battery pack being connected to the battery pack receiving member of the machine, the second electrical connector member is configured for movement relative to the first electrical connector member to cooperatively form a first configuration which electrically closes the electrical circuit path via which the suitable amount of power is able to be supplied from the battery pack to the machine; and wherein, responsive to the battery pack being disconnected from the battery pack receiving member of the machine, the second electrical connector member is configured for movement relative to the first electrical connector member to cooperatively form a second configuration which electrically opens the electrical circuit path via which the suitable amount of power is not able to be supplied from the battery pack to the machine.
US10965131B2
A charging protection device comprises a universal serial bus (USB) interface, a resistance circuit, a detection circuit and a control circuit. The universal serial bus interface includes a configuration channel. The resistance circuit includes a pull-down resistor coupled between the configuration channel and a ground GND. The detection circuit is configured to detect an abnormal charging condition. The detection circuit generates an abnormal signal when the abnormal charging condition occurs. The control circuit is coupled to the detection circuit and configured to change a voltage value on the pull-down resistor to be out of a preset voltage range according to the abnormal signal.
US10965122B2
An information processing apparatus includes a fan, a plurality of power supply units, and a reception unit. The plurality of power supply units supplies power to the fan. The reception unit receives, from the fan, a signal indicating a state of the fan. At least one of the plurality of power supply units that supplies power to the fan also supplies power to the reception unit.
US10965121B2
An integrated component for protecting against temporary power surges comprises a first conductive lead and a second conductive lead, each of which mounted on an electrical circuit; a gas discharge tube; a thermally protected varistor and a thermal fuse. The thermally protected varistor comprises a varistor body, a first varistor electrode and a second varistor electrode that are positioned on either side of the varistor body. The varistor body rises in temperature when the voltage imposed between the first and the second varistor electrodes exceeds a voltage threshold. An electrical connection is made via the thermal fuse.
US10965107B2
A wiring harness system and installation method is provided for customizing a truck chassis to a provide quick and easy addition and repair of electrical features on a completed heavy-duty truck body. The system and method add the existing wires of the chassis, without the need for cutting or disconnecting anything on the chassis. A primary harness connects to the body builder plug and upfitter plug of the chassis and extends along the frame rails to the rear of the truck. One or more extension harnesses can be plugged into the connectors on the primary harness, with various electrical features of the truck body being plugged into the extension harnesses or the primary harness.
US10965104B2
A spark plug capable of avoiding a discharge member bonded to a base material from peeling off easily is provided. The spark plug includes: a first electrode including a base material and a discharge member having at least a portion thereof bonded to the base material with a diffusing layer interposed therebetween; and a second electrode facing the discharge member with a spark gap interposed therebetween. The base material contains 50 mass % or more of Ni, 8 mass % or more and 40 mass % or less of Cr, 0.05 mass % or more and 2 mass % or less of Si, 0.01 mass % or more and 2 mass % or less of Al, 0.01 mass % or more and 2 mass % or less of Mn, 0.01 mass % or more and 0.1 mass % or less of C, and 0.001 mass % or more and 0.04 mass % or less of Fe.
US10965095B2
An optical amplification system includes: a first amplification module configured to amplify at least a conventional band (C band) optical signal; a second amplification module configured to amplify a longer wavelength band (L band) optical signal; an attenuator configured to attenuate at least the C band optical signal to obtain a first optical signal and a second optical signal, where the attenuator is further configured to output the first optical signal to the second amplification module and output the second optical signal to a wavelength division multiplexing module, which is configured to combine and output the C band optical signal and the L band optical signal.
US10965093B2
Methods and systems enabling the real-time monitoring of a light-induced procedure in a biological medium, and/or the acquisition of information related to this biological medium are provided. In some implementations, the light beam used for the procedure is modulated at a modulation frequency selected in view of the photoacoustic frequency response associated with the procedure. The photoacoustic feedback signal from the medium during the procedure is then monitored. This monitoring may involve filtering the photoacoustic feedback signal around the selected feedback modulation frequency. Ratiometric comparisons of the contribution of different frequencies to the photoacoustic feedback signal are also considered.
US10965089B2
A laser device, including multiple laser modules, includes a plurality of drive power units that drive the laser modules, a plurality of output detection units that detect laser outputs from the laser modules, and output detected values as first output signals, a coupled output detection unit that detects a total laser output after coupling of a plurality of the laser outputs, and outputs a detected value as a second output signal, a computing unit that sets multiple output correction factors for correspondingly controlling the laser modules using the plurality of first output signals and the second output signal, and a control unit that controls the plurality of drive power units using the multiple output correction factors. The multiple output correction factors are each set to allow the total laser output to be maintained at a constant value.
US10965085B2
A laser chamber may include a first discharge electrode, a second discharge electrode, a fan making a laser gas flow through a discharge space between the first and second discharge electrodes, a first insulating member disposed on upstream side and downstream side of the first discharge electrode in the laser gas flow, a first metal damper member disposed on upstream side of the second discharge electrode and a second insulating member disposed on downstream side of the second discharge electrode in the laser gas flow, and a second metal damper member disposed on downstream side of the second insulating member in the laser gas flow. In a boundary portion between the second metal damper member and the second insulating member, a first discharge space side surface of the second metal damper member may be located further toward the opposite side to the discharge space than a second discharge space side surface of the second insulating member. A first corner formed by the first surface and a first side surface of the second metal damper member, the first side surface being on the side of the second insulating member, may be in contact with a second side surface of the second insulating member, the second side surface being on the side of the second metal damper member.
US10965054B2
For example, the provision of a cable connector where a cable holder can maintain the position of a member where the cable holder is mounted, before and after the mounting. The cable connector includes a housing and paired cable holders. One end of a cable can be mounted in each of the paired cable holders. Each of the paired cable holders includes a cantilevered arm portion extending in a mounting direction of the cable holder on the housing. At least part of the arm portion can come face to face with part of the housing in a direction along a lead-out direction of the cable from the cable holder, at the time and after the mounting of the cable holder on the housing.
US10965047B2
Embodiments may relate to a connector. The connector may include a plurality of connector pins that are to communicatively couple an element of a printed circuit board (PCB) with an element of an electronic device when the element of the PCB and the element of the electronic device are coupled with the connector. The connector may also include an active circuit that is communicatively coupled with a pin of the plurality of pins. The active circuit may be configured to match an impedance of the element of the PCB with an impedance of the element of the electronic device. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US10965043B2
A set screw for connecting conductors with electrical terminals, such as a terminal block of a load panel includes a screw body and a screw face. The screw face fits inside the screw body and is movable along the axis of the screw body. An elastically deformable member, such as a coil spring or set of spring washers is disposed between the screw body and the screw face. The elastically deformable member compresses in response to force exerted between the screw body and screw face. An indicator bar is connected with the screw face and moves along the axis of the screw body along with the screw face in response to the compressive force. The proximal end of the indicator bar extends proximal of the screw body and includes one or more indicia that show the deformation of the elastically deformable member.
US10965041B2
A horn-type of electromagnetic dual polarized antenna, having an asymmetric radiation pattern is provided. More specifically, the radiation pattern in the azimuth plane will have a wider beam width while the radiation pattern in the elevation plane will have a narrower beam width, and the radiation patterns for the horizontal and vertical polarizations are substantially equal.
US10965033B2
Disclosed is an adaptive-spacing antenna system and a method for designing an adaptive-spacing antenna system. The antenna system and design method are operative to provide a configuration layout that reduces both the amount of material required to manufacture the antenna and the obtrusiveness caused by the antenna, while providing more flexibility for installation and a variety of options for aesthetic applications. The adaptive-spacing antenna comprises one or a combination of more than one set of straight-linear and curvilinear elements forming an adaptively-spaced grid or mesh structure. The system and method are particularly suitable for reducing the antenna weight, cost, and obtrusiveness during operation.
US10965025B2
Disclosed is a self-calibration method and apparatus for an array antenna system. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a correction method of an array antenna system includes: deriving, at a first time, a correction factor Ri,j for a path connecting an i-th (i is an integer equal to or greater than one and equal to or less than m) transmission antenna and a j-th (j is an integer equal to or greater than one and equal to or less than n) reception antenna; deriving, at a second time, a calibration factor {circumflex over (Q)}i,j for the path connecting the i-th transmission antenna and the j-th reception antenna; and performing, based on the {circumflex over (Q)}i,j, calibration on the path connecting the i-th transmission antenna and the j-th reception antenna.
US10965023B2
A beamforming system includes a plurality of channelizers and a channel switching module in signal communication with the channelizers. Each channelizer is configured to receive a respective input radio frequency signal and to generate a plurality of respective channels in response to downsampling the respective input radio frequency signal. The channel switching module includes a channel combining circuit configured to selectively combine a common channel generated by each channelizer to form at least one steered analog beam.
US10965020B2
In an antenna device, an isolation structure between antenna elements includes: a conductor on a surface of a dielectric substrate; and a plurality of via conductors that penetrate the dielectric substrate and electrically connect the conductor to the ground conductor. A value of (d1×2+h1)/(λ1/√εr) falls within a range from 0.40 to 0.60, where the dielectric substrate has a dielectric constant εr, a signal transmitted from the antenna element has a wavelength λ1 (mm), each via conductor has a height h1 (mm), and the conductor protrudes with a length d1 (mm) toward the antenna element.
US10965017B2
A radome may include a core and an outer dielectric constant (ODC) adaptation component overlying an outer surface of the core. The radome may have an effective dielectric constant variation profile from an outer surface of the ODC adaptation component, through the ODC adaptation component to an outer surface of the core. The effective dielectric constant variation profile of the ODC adaptation component may be a continuous monotonic function DC(ot), where DC(ot) is the dielectric constant of the ODC adaptation component at the value ot, where ot is a ratio OTL/OTT, OTL is a location within the ODC variation component measured from the outer surface of the ODC variation component, and OTT is the total thickness of the ODC adaptation.
US10965011B2
A high frequency antenna carrier in vehicle roof cross member is provided. The antenna carrier is configured to extend width-wise across a vehicle roof to provide structural support for the vehicle roof. The antenna carrier has a lower surface, and a plurality of sidewalls that meet at a common upper flange that mates in a face-to-face relationship with the vehicle roof. The sidewalls may be provided with apertures to facilitate a strong signal passage to and from the high frequency antenna through the carrier. The lower surface of the antenna carrier may be provided with apertures that are aligned with the antennas to improve signal strength.
US10965006B2
A back cover includes: a back cover body, an antenna structure, a first hand-held part, and a second hand-held part arranged apart from the first hand-held part. The antenna structure includes a first part whose first side is separated from one end of the back cover body by a first slit, a second part separated from a second side of the first part by a second slit, and a third part for connecting the first and second parts. The first hand-held part extends to the second part from the back cover body and separated from a third side of the first part by a third slit. The second hand-held part extends to the second part from the back cover body and separated from a fourth side of the first part by a fourth slit, where the back cover body and the antenna structure are made of a metal material.
US10965005B2
A communication device includes a nonconductive housing, a cable, an antenna structure, and a signal source. The nonconductive housing has a hollow structure. The cable is coupled to the signal source. The cable includes a signaling conductor and a grounding conductor. The antenna structure includes an antenna body and an enclosed radiation element. The antenna body is coupled to the signaling conductor. The antenna body is disposed outside the nonconductive housing. The enclosed radiation element is coupled to the grounding conductor. The enclosed radiation element is disposed inside the nonconductive housing.
US10965002B2
An antenna with a radiation emitter/receiver, a base and a mount system capable of rotating the radiation emitter/receiver in relation to the base around at least three axes, where a controller may ensure that the emitter/receiver is directed in a first direction in relation to the base while portions of the mount system rotate so as to prevent bearings of the mount system to deteriorate.
US10965000B2
An antenna mounting system configured to be attached to the structure of a communications tower and to connect with additional mounting systems located adjacent on the tower. The system is secured to the tower structure via a multi piece clamp configured to attach to tower elements of varying sizes and shapes and which may be joined together with one or more adjacent mounting systems. Single piece side frames with X shaped central bracing are attached to the mounting clamp and further attached to multiple face members. The face members are used to attach members which serve as the ultimate mounting points for antenna equipment as well as members to brace the mounting system to the tower structure or an adjacent mounting system. The system further incorporates a dedicated anchor point for fall arrest equipment used by tower technicians.
US10964996B2
Bidirectional detection is performed with a suppressed increase in return loss at an output terminal. A bidirectional coupler includes a detection port, a main line connected to a first port and a second port, a sub-line, a termination circuit, a switch circuit that switches each of one end and another end of the sub-line to the termination circuit or the detection port, and a matching network disposed between the switch circuit and the detection port and including at least one of a first variable capacitor, a first variable inductor, or a first variable resistor. In a first mode for detecting a first signal, the switch circuit connects the one end of the sub-line to the detection port, and connects the other end of the sub-line to the termination circuit.
US10964992B2
There is disclosed in one example an electromagnetic wave launcher apparatus, including: an interface to an electromagnetic waveguide; a first launcher configured to launch a high-frequency electromagnetic signal onto a first cross-sectional portion of the waveguide; and a second launcher configured to launch a lower-frequency electromagnetic signal onto a second cross-sectional portion of the waveguide.
US10964987B2
The application provides a separator and an energy storage device. The separator comprises: a porous substrate; and a porous layer arranged on a surface of the porous substrate, wherein the porous layer comprises inorganic particles and a binder, and a ratio of Dv90 of the inorganic particles to the thickness of the porous layer is in a range from 0.3 to 3.0. Excellent adhesion exists between the separator and the electrode according to the present application, which ensures that the energy storage device has good safety performance. Moreover, the rate performance and cycle performance of the energy storage device can be greatly improved due to the existence of inorganic particles in the separator.
US10964985B2
A battery module housing having a rectangular tube structure and method for forming the battery module housing is provided. The battery module housing includes a first side plate and a second side plate, the first and second side plates having target portions at upper and lower ends thereof, respectively, and spacers vertically protruding from the target portions; and a top plate and a bottom plate disposed upper and lower portions of the first and second side plates, respectively, each of the top and bottom plates having flyer portions supported on the spacers of the first and second side plates. The flyer portions of the top and bottom plates are joined to the target portions by means of electromagnetic pulse welding such that outer portions of the flyer portions contact the target portions and inner portions of the flyer portions are separated from the target portions by a gap.
US10964971B2
A battery casing including a container configured to house an electrode assembly, wherein the container includes a bottom wall and a plurality of side walls, the bottom wall and the plurality of side walls are integrated to define an open side opposite to the bottom wall and to define a space for housing the electrode assembly, at least one of the bottom wall and plurality of the side walls includes a composite including a thermotropic liquid crystal polymer and a nanoclay dispersed in the thermotropic liquid crystal polymer, wherein the main chain of the thermotropic liquid crystal polymer includes an aromatic oxycarbonyl repeating unit and an alkylene moiety-containing repeating unit, and at least a portion of the nanoclay is present in an exfoliated state, and an X-ray diffraction pattern of the composite does not exhibit an intrinsic peak corresponding to the nanoclay.
US10964962B2
A method for diagnosing a water-containing state of a fuel cell stack includes steps of: applying an alternating current (AC) signal having a predetermined frequency to the fuel cell stack to calculate each of an electrolyte membrane impedance, an anode impedance, and a cathode impedance from an output voltage and an output current of the fuel cell stack corresponding to the AC signal; and diagnosing the water-containing state of the fuel cell stack on the basis of the electrolyte membrane impedance, the anode impedance, and the cathode impedance.
US10964951B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery, comprising a cathode, an anode, and a porous separator or electrolyte disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the anode comprises: (a) an anode active layer containing a layer of lithium or lithium alloy, in a form of a foil, coating, or multiple particles aggregated together, as an anode active material; and (b) a thin layer of a high-elasticity polymer, disposed between the anode active layer and the porous separator or electrolyte; the polymer having a recoverable tensile strain from 2% to 1,500%, a lithium ion conductivity no less than 10−6 S/cm (typically up to 5×10−2 S/cm) at room temperature, and a thickness from 1 nm to 10 μm, wherein the high-elasticity polymer contains a polyrotaxane network having a rotaxane structure or a polyrotaxane structure at a crosslink point of the polyrotaxane network.
US10964947B2
Provided is a binder composition for a secondary battery electrode that, when used in production of a slurry composition for a secondary battery electrode, enables favorable dispersion of an electrode active material and a conductive material in high concentration while ensuring coatability. The binder composition for a secondary battery electrode contains a binder. The binder includes a copolymer that includes an alkylene structural unit and a nitrile group-containing monomer unit, and that has a Mooney viscosity (ML1+4, 100° C.) of at least 50 and not more than 200.
US10964946B2
The present invention relates to an anode active material including natural graphite and mosaic coke-based artificial graphite, and a lithium secondary battery including the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, an anode active material including natural graphite and mosaic coke-based artificial graphite is used, when applied to a lithium secondary battery, intercalation and deintercalation of lithium ions is more facilitated and conductivity of an electrode is improved even if no or little conductive material is used. Furthermore, the increase in conductivity can lead to not only a further improvement in rate performance of a lithium secondary battery but also a reduction in interfacial resistance.
US10964937B2
A negative active material including an active material core; and a polymer layer disposed on a surface of the active material core, wherein the polymer layer includes a third polymer including a cross-linked product of a first polymer and a second polymer, wherein the first polymer is at least one of polyamic acid, polyimide, or a combination thereof, and includes a first functional group; and the second polymer is water-soluble and includes a second functional group, and wherein the first polymer and the second polymer are cross-linked by an ester bond that is formed through at least one reaction starting from the first functional group and the second functional group, and at least one of the first polymer and the second polymer further includes a halogen group.
US10964934B2
A laminate type battery includes a power generating element and an outer casing body. The power generating element is formed by electrically laminating in series a plurality of single battery layers in which a single battery layer is formed by sequentially laminating a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, an electrolyte layer, a negative electrode active material layer, and a negative electrode current collector. The power generating element is disposed inside the outer casing body. At least one of the positive electrode current collector or the negative electrode current collector includes a resin layer having conductivity. The single battery layer including the resin layer is electrically connected to an adjacent single battery layer via at least one resistance reduction layer.
US10964933B2
The present disclosure relates to an electrode plate processing device. The electrode plate processing device includes: an electrode plate cutting mechanism having a cutting position; and an electrode plate rolling mechanism, through which an electrode plate passes. The electrode plate rolling mechanism includes a first roller and a second roller. The first roller has a vacuum adsorption zone for adsorbing a waste edge of the electrode plate. The cutting position is provided in upstream of the vacuum adsorption zone along a conveying direction of the electrode plate processing device.
US10964923B2
A prismatic secondary battery includes an electrode body including a positive-electrode sheet and a negative-electrode sheet, a prismatic exterior body that accommodates the electrode body, a sealing plate that seals an opening of the prismatic exterior body, and a negative terminal electrically connected to the negative-electrode sheet. The prismatic secondary battery is arranged such that the sealing plate extends in the vertical direction during use of the prismatic secondary battery. The positive-electrode sheet is electrically connected to the sealing plate. The sealing plate has a recessed portion on an outer surface and a terminal insertion hole formed in the recessed portion. The negative terminal is inserted in the terminal insertion hole. An outer insulating member is disposed between the negative terminal and the sealing plate. The sealing plate has a first groove extending to an end of the recessed portion in the longitudinal direction of the sealing plate.
US10964917B2
The present disclosure provides a display module and a method for preparing the same. The display module includes a display panel and a light-concentrating layer arranged on a light-exiting surface of the display panel, in which the light-concentrating layer includes a plurality of light-concentrating units for concentrating light from the light-exiting surface.
US10964916B2
Direct pixel-by-pixel phase engineering in a SLM is an effective method for the holographic fabrication of graded photonic super-quasi-crystals with desired disorder and graded photonic super-crystals with rectangular unit-cells. Multiple levels of filling fractions of dielectric in the crystal have been created in the graded regions. Fabrication of these graded photonic super-crystals and super-quasi-crystals with small feature size is possible, using a laser projection system consisting of integrated spatial light modulator and reflective optical element.
US10964907B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, in particular to a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes a display substrate and an encapsulation layer for encapsulating the display substrate. The encapsulation layer includes at least one inorganic composite film layer, and each inorganic composite film layer includes an inorganic matrix and an inorganic filler. The inorganic matrix includes a plurality of grains spaced apart by gaps, and the inorganic filler is capable of enclosing each grain and being filled in a gap between every two adjacent grains.
US10964904B2
This invention relates to the development of heterocyclic materials for use as red, green, and blue phosphorescent materials in OLED devices. The materials are based in part on a pair of aromatic or psuedoaromatic rings bonded to one another and complexed to a transition metal. Azaborinane, borazine, and related aromatic structures including boron may be incorporated as fused rings, as pendant groups, or as bridging groups to tune color and improve chemical stability. Desirable structures may be selected by being determined computationally to have appropriate triplet energies for use as blue emitters and to possess sufficient chemical stability for use in devices.
US10964896B2
Provided are: a light-emitting layer for a perovskite light-emitting device; a method for manufacturing the same; and a perovskite light-emitting device using the same. The method of the present invention for manufacturing a light-emitting layer for a halide perovskite light-emitting device comprises a step of forming a first nanoparticle thin film by coating, on a member for coating a light-emitting layer, a solution comprising halide perovskite nanoparticles including a perovskite nanocrystal structure. Thereby, a nanoparticle light emitter has therein a halide perovskite having a crystal structure in which FCC and BCC are combined; and can show high color purity. In addition, it is possible to improve the luminescence efficiency and luminance of a device by making perovskite as nanoparticles and then introducing the same into a light-emitting layer.
US10964893B2
The present invention discloses organic azacyclophane compounds with two substituted triazine, pyridine, pyrimidine or pyrazine rings. These materials may serve as hosts, charge transporting and blocking materials and may improve OLED performance.
US10964886B2
The present disclosure relates to the fabrication of spin transfer torque memory devices, wherein a magnetic tunnel junction of the spin transfer torque memory device is formed with Heusler alloys as the fixed and free magnetic layers and a tunnel barrier layer disposed between and abutting the fixed Heusler magnetic layer and the free Heusler magnetic layer, wherein the tunnel barrier layer is lattice matched to the free Heusler magnetic layer. In one embodiment, the tunnel barrier layer may be a strontium titanate layer.
US10964884B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a stacked structure including a first magnetic layer having a variable magnetization direction, a second magnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction, and a nonmagnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the second magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer includes a first surface in contact with the nonmagnetic layer and a second surface on an opposite side to the first surface, a diameter of the second surface of the first magnetic layer is less than a diameter of the first surface of the first magnetic layer and is 10 nm or more, and a ratio of a height of the first magnetic layer to the diameter of the second surface of the first magnetic layer is 0.9 or more.
US10964872B2
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions comprising a CaMnO3 ceramic. In a further aspect, the disclosed thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions can dramatically increase the energy conversion efficiency of thermoelectric through a combination of modifying the chemistry of precursor materials, and simultaneously introducing a metal oxide liquid phase during sintering. In a further aspect, the present disclosure pertains to thermoelectric ceramic oxide compositions comprising a metal doped CaMnO3 having with a metal oxide grain boundary phase; wherein the metal is selected from group 13, group 14, group 15, group 16, or a rare earth element. In a still further aspect, the disclosure relates to methods for making the thermoelectric ceramic oxide materials. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US10964854B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes: a package substrate having a mounting surface on which a first circuit pattern and a second circuit pattern are disposed; a semiconductor LED chip mounted on the mounting surface, having a first surface which faces the mounting surface and on which a first electrode and a second electrode are disposed, a second surface opposing the first surface, and side surfaces located between the first surface and the second surface, the first electrode and the second electrode being connected to the first circuit pattern and the second circuit pattern, respectively; a wavelength conversion film disposed on the second surface; and a side surface inclined portion disposed on the side surfaces of the semiconductor LED chip, providing inclined surfaces, and including a light-transmitting resin containing a wavelength conversion material.
US10964852B2
A light emitting diode (LED) module includes: a flexible substrate having a first surface on which a circuit pattern is disposed, and a second surface opposite the first surface; a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) chips mounted on the first surface of the flexible substrate, and electrically connected to the circuit pattern; an insulating reflective layer disposed on the first surface of the flexible substrate, and covering a portion of the circuit pattern; first and second connection terminals disposed at both ends of the flexible substrate, and connected to the circuit pattern; and a wavelength conversion layer covering the plurality of LED chips and surrounding the flexible substrate in a cross-sectional view.
US10964850B2
A lighting device is provided comprising at least one light-emitting element comprising a light-emitting surface configured to emit light; and a light-guiding sheet at least partially covering the light-emitting surface and comprising at least one cavity forming a passage for light emitted from the light-emitting surface. Thereby, at least one lateral surface limiting the at least one cavity is configured to reflect light emitted from the light-emitting surface. Further, a size of an opening of the at least one cavity facing the light-emitting surface is smaller than an area of the light-emitting surface.
US10964848B2
A light emitting device comprises a detector circuit and a light emitting diode (LED) die. The LED die includes a semiconductor stack grown on a substrate. The LED includes an emitter segment formed from one segment of the semiconductor stack. The LED die includes a photosensor segment formed from another segment of the semiconductor stack. The LED die includes a segmentation layer formed between the emitter segment and the photosensor segment. The segmentation layer electrically isolates the emitter segment from the photosensor segment. The LED die includes first electrodes configured to provide power to energize the emitter segment. The LED die includes second electrodes configured to send the current to the detector circuit. The detector circuit is configured to convert the current to a signal which provides operational feedback with respect to the emitter segment.
US10964847B2
A light-emitting element comprises a light-emitting semiconductor stack comprising a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, and a light-emitting layer between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer; a reflective layer formed on the light-emitting semiconductor stack; a barrier layer formed on the reflective stack; a protection layer formed on the barrier layer, comprising a first through hole and a second through hole; a first height balancer filled in the first through hole and formed on the protection layer; a second height balancer filled in the second through hole and formed on the protection layer; and a conductive contact layer comprising a first conductive part formed on the first height balancer and a second conductive part formed on the second height balancer.
US10964840B2
Photodiode structures and methods of manufacture are disclosed. The method includes forming a waveguide structure in a dielectric layer. The method further includes forming a Ge material in proximity to the waveguide structure in a back end of the line (BEOL) metal layer. The method further includes crystallizing the Ge material into a crystalline Ge structure by a low temperature annealing process with a metal layer in contact with the Ge material.
US10964838B2
The present disclosure discloses a display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a display panel, and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a black matrix disposed on the base substrate, and a switching unit and an optical detection unit that are disposed at a side of the black matrix away from the base substrate. The optical detection unit is electrically connected to the switching unit, and an orthographic projection of at least one of the switching unit and the optical detection unit on the base substrate is located in an orthographic projection of the black matrix on the base substrate. Since the orthographic projection of at least one of the switching unit and the optical detection unit on the base substrate is located in the orthographic projection of the black matrix on the base substrate, the aperture ratio of the display substrate may increase.
US10964831B2
A solar cell module comprises a plate-like first protector having translucency, a second protector, a solar cell element, first to third sealers, and first and second wiring members. The solar cell element is located between the first protector and the second protector. The first sealer covers the solar cell element from a side of the first protector between the first protector and the solar cell element. The second sealer covers the solar cell element from a side of the second protector between the solar cell element and the second protector. The third sealer covers the second sealer from a side of the second protector between the second sealer and the second protector. The first wiring member is electrically connected to the solar cell element and passes through the second sealer. The second wiring member is connected to the first wiring member between the second sealer and the second protector.
US10964824B2
A device and method for manufacturing a two-dimensional electrostrictive field effect transistor having a substrate, a source, a drain, and a channel disposed between the source and the drain. The channel is a two-dimensional layered material and a gate proximate the channel. The gate has a column of an electrostrictive or piezoelectric or ferroelectric material, wherein an electrical input to the gate produces an elongation of the column that applies a force or mechanical stress on the channel and reduces a bandgap of two-dimensional material such that the two-dimensional electrostrictive field effect transistor operates with a subthreshold slope that is less than 60 mV/decade.
US10964823B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming same are provided. One form of the method includes: providing a substrate including a device unit area, where at least two fins are formed on the substrate, a channel structure layer is formed on the fins, which includes a first channel structure layer located on at least one fin, a second channel structure layer located on at least one fin, and a third channel structure layer located on at least one fin, the first channel structure layer includes multiple channel laminates, each channel laminate includes a first sacrificial layer and a first channel layer; forming a dummy gate structure across the channel structure layer; forming a source-drain doping layer on two sides of the dummy gate structure; and forming a gate structure at positions of the dummy gate structure and the first sacrificial layer.
US10964822B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate arranged on the substrate, a dielectric arranged on the gate, a channel arranged on the dielectric, a source electrically coupled to the channel, and a drain electrically coupled to the channel. Each of the gate, dielectric, channel, source, and drain includes a corresponding mixture of hafnium dioxide (HfCte) and zinc oxide (ZnO) layers and at least two of the gate, dielectric, channel, source, and drain comprise different mixtures of the hafnium dioxide and zinc oxide layers.
US10964817B2
A device with improved device performance, and method of manufacturing the same, are disclosed. An exemplary device includes a group III-V compound semiconductor substrate that includes a surface having a (110) crystallographic orientation, and a gate stack disposed over the group III-V compound semiconductor substrate. The gate stack includes a high-k dielectric layer disposed on the surface having the (110) crystallographic orientation, and a gate electrode disposed over the high-k dielectric layer.
US10964815B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate disposed over the substrate, a source/drain disposed in the substrate at two sides of the gate, and an insulating layer disposed over sidewalls of the gate and at least a portion of a surface of the source/drain. In some embodiments, the insulating layer includes a first side facing the gate or the source, and includes a second side opposite to the first side. The insulating layer includes dopants, and a concentration of the dopants is reduced from the second side to the first side of the insulating layer.
US10964814B2
Semiconductor structures and methods for forming a semiconductor structure are provided. An active semiconductor region is disposed in a substrate. A gate is formed over the substrate. Source and drain regions of a transistor are formed in the active semiconductor region on opposite sides of the gate. The drain region has a first width, and the source region has a second width that is not equal to the first width.
US10964810B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method may be performed by forming a source region and a drain region within a substrate. A gate structure is formed over the substrate and between the source region and the drain region. One or more dielectric layers are formed over the gate structure, and a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer is formed over the one or more dielectric layers. The first ILD layer laterally surrounds the gate structure. The first ILD layer is etched to define contact openings and a field plate opening. The contact openings and the field plate opening are filled with a conductive material.
US10964807B2
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a single crystal layer, a plurality of first transistors and at least one metal layer, where the at least one metal layer overlays the single crystal layer and includes interconnects between the first transistors forming control circuits; a second level overlaying the at least one metal layer, the second level including a plurality of second transistors; a third level overlaying the second level, the third level including a plurality of third transistors; and polysilicon pillars, where the second level includes a plurality of first memory cells, the first memory cells each including at least one of the second transistors, where the third level includes a plurality of second memory cells, the second memory cells each including at least one of the third transistors, where at least one of the second memory cells is at least partially atop of the control circuits.
US10964804B2
A semiconductor structure includes: a channel layer; an active layer over the channel layer, wherein the active layer is configured to form a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) to be formed in the channel layer along an interface between the channel layer and the active layer; a gate electrode over a top surface of the active layer; and a source/drain electrode over the top surface of the active layer; wherein the active layer includes a first layer and a second layer sequentially disposed therein from the top surface to a bottom surface of the active layer, and the first layer possesses a higher aluminum (Al) atom concentration compared to the second layer. An HEMT structure and an associated method are also disclosed.
US10964798B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The semiconductor device includes semiconductor wires disposed over a substrate, a source/drain epitaxial layer in contact with the semiconductor wires, a gate dielectric layer disposed on and wrapping around each channel region of the semiconductor wires, a gate electrode layer disposed on the gate dielectric layer and wrapping around the each channel region, and dielectric spacers disposed in recesses formed toward the source/drain epitaxial layer.
US10964797B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming same, the forming method including: providing a base, where a dummy gate structure is formed on the base, an interlayer dielectric layer is formed on the base the dummy gate structure exposes, and the interlayer dielectric layer exposes the top of the dummy gate structure; forming an isolation structure in the interlayer dielectric layer between adjacent dummy gate structures, where the isolation structure further extends into the base; after forming the isolation structure, removing the dummy gate structure and forming a gate opening in the interlayer dielectric layer; filling a gate electrode material into the gate opening, where the gate electrode material further covers the top of the interlayer dielectric layer; and performing at least one polishing treatment to remove the gate electrode material above the top of the interlayer dielectric layer and retaining the gate electrode material in the gate opening as a gate electrode layer, where the step of the polishing treatment includes: performing first polishing treatment using a metal polishing liquid; and performing second polishing treatment using deionized water. With the second polishing performance, the probability of forming a residue of the gate electrode material on the top surface of the interlayer dielectric layer is reduced, thereby improving device performance.
US10964792B1
The structure of a semiconductor device with dual metal capped via contact structures and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. A method of fabricating the semiconductor device includes forming a source/drain (S/D) region and a gate structure on a fin structure, forming S/D and gate contact structures on the S/D region and the gate structure, respectively, forming first and second via contact structures on the S/D and gate contact structures, respectively, and forming first and second interconnect structures on the first and second via contact structures, respectively. The forming of the first and second via contact structures includes forming a first via contact plug interposed between first top and bottom metal capping layers and a second via contact plug interposed between second top and bottom metal capping layers, respectively.
US10964791B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. The semiconductor device may include a substrate including a first active pattern, the first active pattern vertically protruding from a top surface of the substrate, a first source/drain pattern filling a first recess, which is formed in an upper portion of the first active pattern, a first metal silicide layer on the first source/drain pattern, the first metal silicide layer including a first portion and a second portion, which are located on a first surface of the first source/drain pattern, and a first contact in contact with the second portion of the first metal silicide layer. A thickness of the first portion may be different from a thickness of the second portion.
US10964782B2
A semiconductor device including a device isolation region is provided. The semiconductor device includes first active regions disposed on a substrate, and an isolation region between the active regions. The isolation region includes a first portion formed of a first insulating material, and a second portion formed of a second insulating material, having different characteristics from those of the first insulating material. The first portion is closer to the first active regions than the second portion. The second portion has a bottom surface having a height different from that of a bottom surface of the first portion.
US10964778B2
In a described example, an integrated circuit includes a capacitor first plate; a dielectric stack over the capacitor first plate comprising silicon nitride and silicon dioxide with a capacitance quadratic voltage coefficient less than 0.5 ppm/V2; and a capacitor second plate over the dielectric stack.
US10964774B2
The present disclosure discloses a backplane for an organic light emitting display device, a method for fabricating the same, and an organic light emitting display apparatus. The backplane includes a substrate on which a wiring structure and a thin film transistor are provided, wherein the wiring structure includes an initializing voltage input line which is provided in the same layer and made of the same material as electrodes of the thin film transistor.
US10964771B2
A display panel including a substrate including a display area surrounding an opening area and a non-display area between the opening area and the display area; a plurality of display elements on the display area; a plurality of scan lines extending in a first direction and detouring around an edge of the opening area; a plurality of data lines extending in a second direction that intersects with the first direction, the plurality of data lines detouring around the edge of the opening area; and a plurality of emission control lines extending in the first direction and detouring around the edge of the opening area.
US10964770B2
A flexible display is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes at least one first pattern including a plurality of display elements configured to display an image and extending in a first direction. The display device also includes at least one second pattern extending in a second direction and overlapping at least a portion of the first pattern. The second pattern has a curved shape in the first direction and the second direction crosses the first direction. The first and second patterns form at least one cavity region defining a space therebetween and the first and second patterns form a mesh structure.
