US10974049B1
The present invention relates to methods for remotely and intelligently tuning movement disorder of therapy systems. The present invention still further provides methods of quantifying movement disorders for the treatment of patients who exhibit symptoms of such movement disorders including, but not limited to, Parkinson's disease and Parkinsonism, Dystonia, Chorea, and Huntington's disease, Ataxia, Tremor and Essential Tremor, Tourette syndrome, stroke, and the like. The present invention yet further relates to methods of remotely and intelligently or automatically tuning a therapy device using objective quantified movement disorder symptom data to determine the therapy setting or parameters to be transmitted and provided to the subject via his or her therapy device. The present invention also provides treatment and tuning intelligently, automatically and remotely, allowing for home monitoring of subjects.
US10974048B2
According to an embodiment, a cochlear implant system is disclosed. The system includes an input unit, a filterbank, a processing unit and an implant. The input unit is configured to provide a first electrical signal from a first sound source and a second electrical signal from a second sound source. The filterbank is configured to filter the first electrical signal into a plurality of first band limited signals and the second electrical signal into a plurality of second band limited signals. The processing unit is configured to generate a primary pulse pattern based on a first band selected from the plurality of first band limited signals and to generate a secondary pulse pattern based on a second band selected from the plurality of second band limited signals, the first band and the second band being defined by same or substantially overlapping frequency ranges and the implant is configured to receive the primary pulse pattern and the secondary pulse pattern from the processing unit. The primary pulse pattern is configured to stimulate a cochlea of a user of the cochlear implant system during a first time slot, and the secondary pulse pattern is configured to stimulate the cochlea of the user of the cochlear implant system during a second time slot. The first time slot and the second time slot are sequential time slots.
US10974045B1
A method and system for delivering a molecule to a specific area of a tissue by controlling temperature and impedance is presented. The method is generally comprised of applying heat to a biological structure, such as cells or tissues, to heat the biological structure to a preset temperature after which at least one electroporation pulse is administered to the biological structure. Impedance is measured as a feedback control mechanism after each pulse and pulse parameters are adjusted accordingly until desired impedance is reached. The system generally comprises an electroporation system capable of generating at least one pulse, measuring impedance and measuring temperature.
US10974037B2
The present invention regards an applicator device for the preparation and application of at least one medical substance, preferably a coloured liquid, comprising: a hollow chamber having a hosting end and an opposite distal end in communication with means for contact with the patient; a cartridge slidingly inserted into said hollow chamber, containing at least one first medical substance, and having a first end external to the hollow chamber, and a second end completely inserted into the hollow chamber; a breaking means positioned at the distal end, capable of establishing a fluid communication between the internal of the cartridge and the means for contact with the patient; said second end being sealed by a filled double layer closure system containing at least one second substance, preferably coloured, mixable and/or soluble with the first medical substance contained in the cartridge.
US10974017B2
A device and method for sensory training and assessment are provided. The device includes a plurality of haptic drivers connected to a processing circuitry, wherein the plurality of haptic drivers are configured be secured to a body of a user to create vibrotactile stimuli; a feedback interface configured to receive feedback from the user in response to the vibrotactile stimuli; and a memory configured to store therein a sensory training program, wherein the sensory training program includes instructions for the haptic drivers to create the vibrotactile stimuli based on a selected sensory training program.
US10974016B1
A humidification canister for humidifying a breathing gas, the humidification canister includes a fluid supply configured to supply a fluid and a first gas flow path in fluid communication with the fluid supply. A first gas flow path is configured to humidify the breathing gas with the fluid. A second gas flow path at least partially surrounds the first gas flow path. A method of insulating a breathing gas in a humidification canister using a gas is also disclosed.
US10974010B2
A mask system for delivery of respiratory therapy to a patient includes a nares portion and a mouth portion and an inlet conduit connected to at least one of the nares portion and the mouth portion to deliver the pressurized, breathable gas. The mask system is adapted to selectively utilize the nares portion and/or the mouth portion in a first mode utilizing both the nares portion and the mouth portion, and in a second mode utilizing the nares portion and not utilizing the mouth portion.
US10974009B2
A patient interface for delivering breathable gas to a patient includes a sealing portion including a nose tip engagement portion adapted to form a seal with the patient's nose tip, an upper lip engagement portion adapted to form a seal with the patient's upper lip and/or base of the patient's nares, and nostril engagement flaps adapted to form a seal with the patient's nares. The nose tip engagement portion, the upper lip engagement portion, and the nostril engagement flaps are all structured to extend or curve outwardly from a supporting wall defining an air path.
US10974003B2
The specification describes an artificial resuscitation bag (5) having (i) a deformable bag (54) with a gas inlet (54A) and a gas outlet (54B), (ii) a pneumatic control valve (50) comprising an exhaust port (50c) adapted for controlling the flow of gas exiting to the atmosphere through said exhaust port (50c), and (iii) a monitoring module (60), operably connected to the pneumatic control valve (50) and having an absolute pressure sensor (60d) for measuring at least an absolute pressure (Pabs) in the inner compartment (50f) of the pneumatic control valve (50) and for transmitting at least an absolute pressure signal to a central processing unit (60c) and an ambient pressure sensor (60b) for measuring at least an atmospheric pressure (Patm) and for transmitting at least an atmospheric pressure signal to the central processing unit (60c).
US10973979B2
A blood glucose control system is configured to modify therapy provided to a subject. The system can cause first therapy to be delivered by the blood glucose control system to a subject during a first therapy period. The first therapy can be delivered based at least in part on a first value of a control parameter used by a control algorithm to generate a dose control signal. The system can determine a first effect corresponding at least in part to the first therapy and autonomously generate a second value of the control parameter. The system can cause second therapy to be delivered by the blood glucose control system to the subject during a second therapy period, wherein the second therapy is delivered based at least in part on the second value of the control parameter.
US10973978B2
A fluid flow regulator of a fluid delivery system that can adjust a flow rate of a liquid drug dispensed from a liquid drug container to a user is provided. The fluid flow regulator can be coupled to an end of the liquid drug container. The fluid flow regulator can include a compliance plate and a flow channel selector plate having a fluid flow channel. The flow channel selector plate can be rotated relative to the compliance plate and the liquid drug container to expose a selected portion of the fluid flow channel to openings in the compliance plate that are in fluid communication with the liquid drug stored in the liquid drug container. The selected portion of the fluid flow channel can correspond to a corresponding flow resistance of the liquid drug through the fluid flow channel, thereby regulating the flow of the liquid drug to the user.
US10973976B2
The invention relates to a control device suitable for suggesting control instructions to the patient in order to facilitate the use thereof.
US10973960B2
An aspiration device is described, including a bulb aspirator including a bulb body, a first collar and tip, the bulb body includes an upper portion configured for receiving one end of the first collar and lower portion configured for receiving in a first configuration a stop and in a second different configuration a second collar associated with a suction tube, the tip is configured for insertion into a passageway; the stop being configured for detachable connection to the lower portion of the bulb body when in the first configuration; and the suction tube including the second collar, a tube portion and an adaptor, the second collar is disposed at a first end of the suction tube and being adapted to be coupled to the lower portion of the bulb body, the adaptor is configured to adapt to a human mouth to enable suction to be applied at the adaptor.
US10973955B2
The invention provides methods and polymer compositions for treating retinal detachment and other ocular disorders, where the methods employ polymer compositions that can form a hydrogel in the eye of a subject. The hydrogel is formed by reaction of (i) a nucleo-functional polymer that is a biocompatible polymer containing a plurality of thio-functional groups —R1—SH wherein R1 is an ester-containing linker, such as a thiolated poly(vinyl alcohol) polymer and (ii) an electro-functional polymer that is a biocompatible polymer containing at least one thiol-reactive group, such as a poly(ethylene glycol) polymer containing alpha-beta unsaturated ester groups.
US10973954B2
The invention provides methods and polymer compositions for treating retinal detachment and other ocular disorders, where the methods employ polymer compositions that can form a hydrogel in the eye of a subject. The hydrogel is formed by reaction of (i) a nucleo-functional polymer that is a biocompatible polymer containing a plurality of thio-functional groups —R1—SH wherein R1 is an ester-containing linker, such as a thiolated poly(vinyl alcohol) polymer and (ii) an electro-functional polymer that is a biocompatible polymer containing at least one thiol-reactive group, such as a poly(ethylene glycol) polymer containing alpha-beta unsaturated ester groups.
US10973950B2
Polar hydrophobic ionic materials and, in particular, polar hydrophobic ionic polyurethanes having a minimum ratio of hydrophobic and anionic components to the remainder of the polymer components are provided that exhibit reduced IgG Fab exposure.
US10973949B2
The invention provides a particulate composition adapted for forming a bone graft substitute cement upon mixing with an aqueous solution, comprising i) a calcium sulfate hemihydrate powder, wherein the calcium sulfate hemihydrate is present at a concentration of at least about 50 weight percent based on the total weight of the particulate composition; ii) a monocalcium phosphate monohydrate powder; iii) a non-porous β-tricalcium phosphate powder; and iv) a porous β-tricalcium phosphate powder. Bone graft substitute cements made therefrom, a bone graft substitute kit comprising the particulate composition, methods of making and using the particulate composition, and articles made from the bone graft substitute cement are also provided.
US10973947B2
A mixture of honey solution and a surgical adhesive, typically a cyanoacrylate adhesive is described. The adhesive and honey solution are mixed and applied to a cut or wound prior to the cure of the mixture. The adhesive mixture, which retains the strength of the unadulterated adhesive significantly reduces the growth of bacteria in the vicinity of the associated closed cut or wound, has applicability in both human and veterinary medicine.
US10973941B2
The present invention provides a soybean based non-toxic, non-hazardous, user and environmentally friendly odor trapping composition matter as a toilet spray. This product not only limits the undesired smell from defecation and releases a desirable smell, but also has potential antimicrobial properties to sanitize the toilet bowl.
US10973933B2
Disclosed herein are nanoparticles for diagnosis or treatment of tumors. The nanoparticles include: (a) a core including a Prussian blue dye; and (b) a shell obtained by partially or completely coating a surface of the Prussian blue core with albumin, thereby diagnosing a tumor by a nuclear magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and a near-infrared fluorescence imaging apparatus and necrotizing a tumor by a combined photothermal-photodynamic effect.
US10973929B2
A suspension useful for AAV9-mediated intrathecal/intracisternal and/or systemic delivery of an expression cassette containing a hIDUA gene is provided herein. Also provided are methods and kits containing these vectors and compositions useful for treating MPSI and the symptoms associated with Hurler, Hurler-Scheie and Scheie syndromes.
US10973927B2
Provided are DNA-coated nanoparticles (DNA-NPS), superparamagnetic nanoparticles (DNA-SPNs), and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanopa rticles (DNA-SPIONs) as efficient imaging agents for targeting and imaging atherosclerotic lesions and treating atherosclerotic disease. The DNA-NS, DNA-SPNs, and DNA-SPIONs can enter macrophage cells via the Class A scavenger receptor (SR-A)-mediated pathways and can be used to specifically target atheroscleortic plaques.
US10973919B2
The invention relates to a vitamin preparation, especially for application to the skin, containing a physiologically effective amount of vitamin B12 or another precursor of coenzyme B12, a polysorbate as well as customary carrier substances for the formation of a gel matrix.
US10973916B2
A bispecific antibody that simultaneously targets humanized p185 and VEGF, consisting of the four peptide chains: two identical antibody light chains that are the light chains of the antibody that identify the epitope or antigen of p185, and two identical antibody heavy chains that have the amino acid sequence of a recombinant antibody from N- to C-terminus, a light chain sequence of the antibody that recognizes the p185 epitope or the antigen; a constant heavy chain region; a flexible short peptide sequence; and either a single-stranded variable region sequence (ScFv) of anti-VEGF antibody which recognizes the VEGF epitope or antigen, or a receptor domain sequence that binds to VEGF. The bispecific antibody has the ability to bind p185 and VEGF at the same time, inhibits the proliferation of tumor cells, and promotes the expression of IFN-γ by T lymphocytes; it may be applied as anti-tumor antibody drug.
US10973909B1
The disclosure relates to polypeptides, vaccines and pharmaceutical compositions that find use in the prevention or treatment of Coronaviridae or SARS-CoV-2 infection. The disclosure also relates to methods of treating or preventing Coronaviridae or SARS-CoV-2 infection in an individual. The polypeptides and vaccines comprise T cell and/or B cell epitopes that are immunogenic in a high percentage of individuals in the human population.
US10973905B2
The present disclosure provides a method of inducing a cross-protective immune response in a subject against a pathogen, such as influenza, comprising administering a first unique pathogen antigen to the subject; and administering a second unique pathogen antigen 3-52 weeks after a); wherein the second unique pathogen antigen and the first unique pathogen antigen are immunologically distinct but share conserved sites that are not normally immunogenic for antibodies. Also disclosed herein are assays for detecting cross-protective antibodies, methods of generating novel cross-protective antibodies. Further provided are novel antibodies against influenza.
US10973901B2
Provided herein are prokaryotic cells proficient to produce glycoconjugates in vivo, as well as methods for generating these cell and methods of using these cells to produce glycoconjugates. The compositions of the mentioned glycoconjugates as well as their different uses are also included.
US10973898B2
The present invention is directed to a method of treating poultry hatchlings in a hatchling tray. The method comprises of providing a soft gel form capable of being dispensed through a spray nozzle, providing a spray dispensing apparatus, the apparatus being capable of delivering a predetermined volume of the gel as a plurality of small beadlets through a plurality of nozzles, placing the hatchling tray containing the hatchlings beneath the nozzles of the dispensing apparatus, dispensing the predetermined volume of the soft gel containing the therapeutic agent as small beadlets into the hatchling tray and allowing the hatchlings to consume the beadlets. The present invention is also directed to a dispensing apparatus for dispensing a therapeutic agent in a soft gel into a hatchling tray of poultry hatchlings.
US10973897B2
The present specification discloses Trypanosoma antigens, immunogenic compositions and medicaments comprising such Trypanosoma antigens, methods and uses for such Trypanosoma antigens and immunogenic compositions for treating a Trypanosoma-based disease.
US10973893B2
The present invention provides a universal, yet adaptable, anti-tag chimeric antigen receptor (AT-CAR) system which provides T cells with the ability and specificity to recognize and kill target cells, such as tumor cells, that have been marked by tagged antibodies. As an example, αFITC-CAR-expressing T cells have been developed that specifically recognize various human cancer cells when those cells are bound by cancer-reactive FITC-labeled antibodies. The activation of αFITC-CAR-expressing T cells is shown to induce efficient target lysis, T cell proliferation, and cytokine/chemokine production. The system can be used to treating subjects having cancer.
US10973891B2
The present invention relates to a contact activation system inhibitor, preferably a C1INH, for use in the treatment and/or prevention of remote ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), comprising administering the contact activation system inhibitory to an individual.
US10973888B2
The present invention provides engineered human alpha-galactosidase polypeptides and compositions thereof. The engineered human alpha-galactosidase polypeptides have been optimized to provide improved stability under both acidic (pH<4.5) and basic (pH>7) conditions. The invention also relates to the use of the compositions comprising the engineered human alpha-galactosidase polypeptides for therapeutic purposes.
US10973858B2
A nerve growth promoter and an antioxidant containing a degradation product obtained by degrading a composition containing a hyaluronic acid and a protein with a protease. A would treatment agent containing an ethyl acetate extract of a degradation product obtained by degrading a composition containing a hyaluronic acid and a protein with a protease.
US10973855B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for treating, screening and diagnosing macular degeneration in a subject. This is a new pathway found which is the only one known to be involved in development of the human macula. Manipulation and control of this pathway will allow rebuilding and/or repair of the macula, making new and improved better maculae.
US10973844B2
The invention is directed to transcription activator-like effector nuclease (TALEN)-mediated DNA editing of disease-causing mutations in the context of the human genome and human cells to treat patients with compromised genetic disorders.
US10973841B2
Described herein are methods and compositions for the treatment of skin conditions associated the dysbiosis. Further described herein is the use of metabolites for treatment of dysregulated microbiota in a subject. Such metabolites can be produced by microorganisms present in a higher abundance in the skin of healthy subjects as compared to the skin of a subject having dysbiosis of the skin. In addition, compositions and methods provided herein describe the use of metabolites as part of a combination therapy.
US10973839B2
A new class of pseudo-trisaccharide aminoglycosides having an alkyl group at the 5″ position, exhibiting efficient stop codon mutation readthrough activity, low cytotoxicity and high selectivity towards eukaryotic translation systems are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and uses thereof in the treatment of genetic disorders, as well as processes of preparing these aminoglycosides. The disclosed aminoglycosides can be represented by the general formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1 is selected from the group consisting of alkyl, cycloalkyl and aryl; and all other variables and features are as described in the specification.
US10973833B2
The present disclosure is drawn to pharmaceutical compositions and oral dosage capsules containing testosterone undecanoate, as well as related methods. The capsule includes a capsule shell and a capsule fill. The capsule fill can include a solubilizer and about 14 wt % to about 35 wt % testosterone undecanoate based on the total capsule fill. The oral dosage capsule is such that when a single oral administration to a male subject of one or more capsules with a total testosterone undecanoate daily dose of about 350 mg to about 650 mg it provides a ratio of serum testosterone Cmax to serum testosterone Cave of about 2.7 or less. In yet another embodiment, a method for providing a serum concentration of testosterone within a target serum testosterone concentration Cave range for a male subject is provided.
US10973825B2
Disclosed herein, in part, are methods of treating neurological disorders, e.g., schizophrenia and major depressive disorder, comprising administering an effective amount of a disclosed heterocyclic compound. Pharmaceutical compositions and methods of making heteroaromatic compounds are provided. The compounds are contemplated to modulate the NMDA receptor.
US10973811B1
Novel pharmaceutical compositions including cocaine hydrochloride and methods of treating patients using those pharmaceutical compositions are described.
US10973808B2
A bowel cleansing composition includes as a first cleansing ingredient, a specific sugar alcohol such as xylitol, sorbitol, etc., as a second cleansing ingredient glycerol, erythritol, threitol, arabitol, ribitol, mannitol, galactitol, fucitol, iditol, inositol, volemitol, isomalt, maltitol, lactitol, maltotriitol, maltotetraitol, and polyglycitol, as a second cleansing ingredient ascorbic acid or a mixture of ascorbic acid and a salt of ascorbic acid, as a third cleansing ingredient picosulfate, and an aqueous solvent, wherein the concentration of the first cleansing ingredient is 10 g/L to 500 g/L based on the total composition, the concentration of the second cleansing ingredient is 15 g/L to 500 g/L based on the total composition, the concentration of the third cleansing ingredient is 1 mg/L to 100 mg/L based on the total composition, and the volume of the aqueous solvent is 0.1 L to 1.0 L.
US10973807B2
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing a pyrrolo-fused six-membered heterocyclic compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound. Specifically, the invention provides a pharmaceutical composition containing 5-(2-diethylamino-ethyl)-2-(5-fluoro-2-oxo-1,2-dihydro-indol-3-ylidene-methyl)-3-methyl-1,5,6,7-tetrahydro-pyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridin-4-one or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and at least one water soluble filler. The pharmaceutical composition of the invention features a rapid dissolution and good stability.
US10973805B2
The invention relates to modulators of Embryonic Ectoderm Development (EED) and/or Polycomb Repressive Complex 2 (PRC2) useful in the treatment of disorders and diseases associated with EEC and PRC2, being macrocyclic azolopyridine derivatives and compositions thereof of Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, prodrug, solvate, hydrate, enantiomer, isomer, or tautomer thereof, wherein X1, X2, X3, A1, A2, Y, R1, R2, R3, and R4 are as described herein.
US10973799B2
Provided herein is a pharmaceutical composition comprising an isoflavonoid derivative and a cyclodextrin. Also provided herein are methods of treating cancer, sensitizing cancer cells, and inducing apoptosis in cancer cells by administering such compositions. In specific instances, provided herein are intravenous compositions and therapies.
US10973796B2
The present disclosure provides methods for treating and/or preventing cardiovascular-related disease and, in particular, a method of blood lipid therapy comprising administering to a subject in need thereof a pharmaceutical composition comprising eicosapentaenoic acid or a derivative thereof. In some embodiments, the method comprises lowering high sensitivity CRP (hs-CRP) levels in a subject including, for example, a subject with a HbA1c value of about 5.00%-8.50% or at least about 6.8%.
US10973793B2
This disclosure provides methods of using compositions comprising amino acid entities to reduce fat infiltration in muscle, particularly under conditions of muscle atrophy. The disclosure also provides methods for enhancing muscle function by reducing fat infiltration in the muscle comprising administering an effective amount of the compositions to a subject in need thereof.
US10973790B2
Provided herein are fixed-dose combination formulations of a pharmaceutically effective amount of eflornithine together with a pharmaceutically effective amount of sulindac. Also provided are methods of use and of methods of manufacture of these formulations.
US10973788B2
A method of treating cancer is disclosed comprising administering to a patient in need of such treatment a RXR agonist at a level below the RAR activating threshold and at or above the RXR effective dose.
US10973778B2
Methods of making safe extracts of Curcuma longa L. are provided. The processes provided include methods that use an extraction solvent that is at least substantially non-toxic and useful also as a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier in liquid dosage forms. The processes can produce a significantly higher yield from a single extraction than the state-of-the-art processes. For example, liquid dosage forms can be produced directly from the extraction process without requiring removal of the extraction solvent, reducing complexity and cost of processing over the state-of-the-art. Methods of making microemulsions and nanoemulsions are also provided to enhance the bioavailability and stability of the extracts.
US10973775B2
Bacteria-responsive core-shell nanofibers and a process for the preparation thereof are described. The nanofibers release of an antibacterial agent in response to the presence of bacteria. The core of the nanofiber comprises a biocompatible polymer together with an antibacterial agent such as a quaternary ammonium compound, for example benzyl dimethyl tetradecyl ammonium chloride (BTAC). Surrounding the core is shell comprised of a bacterially degradable polymer, which is susceptible to break-down by bacterial enzymes such as lipase, or to acidic pH conditions. The shell may comprise, for example, polycaprolactone (PCL) and poly(ethylene succinate) (PES). The nanofibers may be incorporated into wound dressings.
US10973773B2
The disclosure provides compositions comprising dactinomycin, formulated for delivery by nanoparticle, and methods for treating a myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) or cancer, for example, NPM1-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML), by administration of the compositions of the disclosure.
US10973771B2
The invention relates to a method for making composite active particles for use in a pharmaceutical composition for pulmonary administration, the method comprising a milling step in which particles of active material are milled in the presence of particles of an additive material which is suitable for the promotion of the dispersal of the composite active particles upon actuation of an inhaler. The invention also relates to compositions for inhalation prepared by the method.
US10973770B2
Polymeric particles are provided for use in therapeutic and/or diagnostic procedures. The particles include poly[bis(trifluoroethoxy)phosphazene and/or a derivative thereof which may be present throughout the particles or within an outer coating of the particles. The particles may also include a core having a hydrogel formed from an acrylic-based polymer. Such particles may be provided to a user in specific selected sizes to allow for selective embolization of certain sized blood vessels or localized treatment with an active component agent in specific clinical uses. Particles of the present invention may further be provided as color-coded microspheres or nanospheres to allow ready identification of the sized particles in use. Such color-coded microspheres or nanospheres may further be provided in like color-coded delivery or containment devices to enhance user identification and provide visual confirmation of the use of a specifically desired size of microspheres or nanospheres.
US10973756B2
Sand is an irritant to people and animals. The application of the sand remover powder mixture consisting of 40% montmorillonite and 60% Maranta arundinacea and rubbed/wiped removes sand from effected areas of skin and hair on humans and animals better together than in their individual natural state. In some embodiments sand remover powder can contain fragrance. Sand remover powder and rubbing/wiping can be used to remove residue from hair. Sand remover powder can be used as a body powder. Some sand remover powder embodiments can be ingested.
US10973747B2
The present invention relates to a method of coloring keratin fibers, especially human hair, which delivers intensive, long lasting, brilliant colors and provides improved grey coverage. Kit therefore is disclosed as well. The method of colouring hair involves treating hair prior to colouring with an alkaline reducing agent.
US10973743B2
Provided are skin care compositions that are useful as SPF and UV absorption boosters in formulations containing inorganic metal oxides. The compositions comprise (a) 0.1 to 20 weight % inorganic metal oxide particles, based on the weight of the composition, (b) 0.1 to 15 weight % copolymer particles dispersed in an aqueous medium, wherein the copolymer particles comprise polymerized units derived from (i) 0.1 to 20 weight % of phosphorus acid monomers, and (ii) 80 to 99.9 weight % of comonomers, and (c) a dermatologically acceptable carrier. Also provided are methods of protecting skin from UVA and UVB damage comprising topically administering such compositions to the skin, and methods of boosting the SPF or UV absorption of a sunscreen composition containing inorganic metal oxide particles comprising including such copolymer particles in the composition.
US10973734B2
In some embodiments, a system may include an inner wearable harness including a flexible vest. The system may include at least one engine which when activated apply an oscillation force. The at least one engine is positioned after the vest has been positioned on the subject on different areas of the inner wearable harness to allow selective placement of engines on and/or adjacent areas of the subject's chest such that the oscillation force is applied to at least one treatment area. The oscillation force may mobilize, during use, at least some secretions in an airway within the subject substantially adjacent the treatment area. The system may include a flexible and elastic outer harness worn, during use, on a torso of a subject which when activated provides a compressive force to adjust the oscillation force applied by at least some of the at least one engine to the treatment area.
US10973731B2
An adjustable massage apparatus, whose massage effect is based on the suction effect created in association with the treatment head, the treatment head of the apparatus including a surface which comes in contact with the skin, a frame, and in connection with this surface a low-pressure chamber and a low-pressure hose in connection with the low-pressure chamber for created low-pressure suction in order to lift the skin tissue. The apparatus is mainly characterized in that a valve is arranged in connection with the low-pressure hose for adjusting the low-pressure suction created in the low-pressure chamber so that the pressure in the low-pressure chamber is oscillating between an upper limit and a lower limit.
US10973725B2
A chair includes a seat (2) and also includes a pair of thigh support elements (17) pivotal n a generally downwardly direction about front pivot axes (20) from a first state forming with a central seat element (15) a substantially common plane, to a second downwardly extending state. The elements (17) are also pivotal about second pivot axes in a generally rearwardly direction for urging the user's thighs away from each other for stretching the adductor muscles. Foot support members (49) extend transversely and sidewardly on respective opposite sides of the chair (1) from a support element (46) for supporting the foot during a stretching exercise with the corresponding thigh of the subject extending downwardly from the seat (14) and the lower leg extending from the knee in a upwardly inclined direction to the foot support member (49) for stretching the quadriceps and the hip flexor muscles of the subject.
US10973723B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a dental treatment machine for children. The dental treatment machine may include a base, a cushion and a backrest, where the vertical distance between the base and the cushion, the angle between respective planes of the cushion and the backrest, as well as the horizontal distance between the cushion and the backrest are selectively adjustable according to a child's figure. Preferably, the vertical distance adjustment between the cushion and the base is about 350-730 mm, the angle adjustment between the backrest and the cushion is about 0°˜68°, and the distance adjustment between the backrest and the cushion is about 0˜50 mm.
US10973713B2
A method for controlling a powered wheelchair is disclosed. The method may comprise receiving first information from at least one user sensor coupled to a user of the wheelchair, said first information indicating the movement of the user; receiving second information from a reference sensor coupled to the wheelchair, said second information indicating the movement of the wheelchair; using the first information and the second information to prepare at least one instruction to move the wheelchair; and using the at least one instruction to move the wheelchair.
US10973712B2
IFAK assemblies may include an outer shell having a first outer shell end, a second outer shell end, an outer shell interior extending between the first outer shell end and the second outer shell end, a first shell opening at the first outer shell end and a second shell opening at the second outer shell end. An interior sleeve may be removably deployed in the outer shell interior of the outer shell. The interior sleeve may be selectively removable from a selected one of the first shell opening and the second shell opening. A plurality of first aid items may be carried by the interior sleeve. A left tourniquet sleeve may be carried by a first side of the outer shell. The left tourniquet sleeve may have a left sleeve interior configured to contain at least one left tourniquet and a left tourniquet retrieval opening corresponding in position to the first outer shell end of the outer shell. At least one left sleeve compression hand may be provided in the left tourniquet sleeve. A right tourniquet sleeve may be carried by a second side of the outer shell opposite the first side. The right tourniquet sleeve may have a right sleeve interior configured to contain at least one right tourniquet and a right tourniquet retrieval opening corresponding in position to the second outer shell end of the outer shell. At least one right sleeve compression band may be provided in the right tourniquet sleeve.
US10973701B2
A moisture management apparatus monitors an area for moisture events and wirelessly transmits moisture-related information to one or more notification devices. An embodiment of the moisture management apparatus includes a substrate and one or more sensors supported by the substrate. The sensor(s) emit wireless signals indicative of the moisture-related information. A sensor event communication system forwards the sensor signals to another device, such as a notification device. The sensor event communication system may monitor other types of patient events. Portions of the moisture management apparatus and/or the moisture event communication system may be embodied in a patient support apparatus, such as a bed.
US10973697B2
One example embodiment includes a pre-cut strip of kinesiology tape. The pre-cut strip of kinesiology tape includes a fabric. The fabric includes a weave of fibers, where the fibers include an elastic fiber covered by a covering material. The fabric also includes a first end and a second end, where the second end is opposite the first end. The fabric further includes one or more rounded corners. The pre-cut strip of kinesiology tape also includes a longitudinal cut in the fabric. The longitudinal cut passes through at least a portion of the fabric and extends from the first end to a pre-determined distance from the second end. The pre-cut strip of kinesiology tape also includes adhesive on a first surface of the fabric, where the adhesive is configured to adhere the fabric to a human body.
US10973693B2
A device and method for treating a wound of a patient with negative pressure is provided. The device comprises a pump chamber that has at least one moveable side of the chamber. The moveable side moves between an intake stroke and an exhaust stroke upon application of an electrical potential. Fluid is drawn into the pump chamber during the intake stroke and expelled from the pump chamber during the exhaust stroke. The pump system may have a magnetic or a piezoelectric element that drives the movement of the pump chamber side.
US10973692B2
A viscoelastic wound closure dressing. The dressing can include a viscoelastic backing having a first major surface configured to face skin when in use, a first end, a second end, and a middle section located between the first end and the second end. The wound closure dressing can further include a skin-contact adhesive on the first major surface of the viscoelastic backing adjacent the first end and the second end. A majority of the first major surface of the middle section can be free of the skin-contact adhesive. The viscoelastic backing can recover, at room temperature: (i) no more than 40% of its deformation after 10 seconds, after being strained to 50% elongation for 30 minutes, and (ii) at least 70% of its deformation after 48 hours, after being strained to 50% elongation for 30 minutes.
US10973690B2
The present disclosure discloses a goggle device and a spectacle frame thereof. The spectacle frame includes a buckling structure arranged on an end portion thereof. The buckling structure has an accommodating space and an entrance in spatial communication with the accommodating space. The buckling structure includes a cantilever arranged in the accommodating space and a retaining wall that is arranged in the accommodating space and is spaced apart from the cantilever. A free end portion of the cantilever is arranged adjacent to the entrance, and the cantilever is rotatable between a lock position and an unlock position. When the cantilever is at the lock position, the free end portion shields the entrance. When the cantilever is rotated to the unlock position by an external force, the free end portion does not shield the entrance, and the cantilever is deformed to store an elastic force.
US10973688B2
Eye suction loss and corneal applanation detection in ophthalmic docking system using optical signal
An ophthalmic laser surgical system uses a confocal detector assembly to continuously detect a confocal signal during laser treatment, and based on the confocal signal, detects in real time a loss of tissue contact with the patient interface (PI) output surface. The detection is partly based on the change of reflectivity at the PI output surface when the optical interface changes from a lens-tissue interface to a lens-air interface. The behavior of the confocal signal upon loss of tissue contact is dependent on the treatment laser scan pattern being performed at the time of tissue contact loss. Thus, different confocal signal analysis algorithms are applied to detect tissue contact loss during different scans, such as the bed cut and side cut for a corneal flap. The real time confocal signal may also be used during eye docking to detect the establishment of tissue contact with the PI output surface.
US10973686B2
This disclosure relates to methods for treatment or prevention of retinal vascular disease by photocoagulation. More specifically, this disclosure relates to an improved technique for the placement of retinal burns so as to prevent the development of hypoxia and progression of ischemia in retinal tissue, including the macula. The methods can also be employed to prevent potential ischemic tissue damage in diabetic, pre-diabetic or other patients with ischemic retinal vascular disease, or those at risk of ischemic retinal vascular disease.
US10973685B2
A system for determining a vision treatment for an eye of a patient is provided which includes a memory and a processor, in communication with the memory, configured to receive a first treatment target corresponding to a first target shape of a surface of the eye, obtain a periphery modification function (PMF), determine a second treatment target corresponding to a second target shape of the surface of the eye by multiplying, for each of a plurality of points on the surface of the eye, the PMF by the first treatment target, and scale the second treatment target using a scaling factor such that values of the second treatment target are scaled to be greater at a mid-periphery of the eye and scaled to be lower at a far-periphery of the eye. A treatment parameter of a treatment applied to the surface of the eye is controlled by the scaled second treatment target.
US10973672B2
A compression belt encircles a selected portion of a patient's body to provide temporary compression. The compression belt comprises an elongated belt body having first and second free ends free, a tensioning cord, a handle attached to the end of the tensioning cord, closing mechanism providing a mechanical advantage, a one-way tension mechanism and a selective release mechanism. Pulling the handle causes the closing mechanism to pull the first and second free ends closer together to compress the patient's body and engage the one-way tension mechanism that maintains compression even in the absence of continued pulling of the handle, unless the selective release mechanism is activated to release the compression. A buffer made of compressible material can be attached to the underside of the belt body to provide inward pressure when the belt is tightened. The belt body can further include a respiratory expansion panel that elongates elastically under tension.
US10973671B2
A foot assistive device for improving drop foot gait comprises an assistive device body and an elastic module. The assistive device body comprises a foot support base and a brace. The foot support base is movably connected to the brace. The elastic module connects the foot support base to the brace. The elastic module has a spring, a preset support included angle is formed between the foot support base and the brace under an elastic force of the spring. The support included angle is not larger than 90°. Thereby, when the foot is raised up, the foot support base is unlikely to drop excessively due to the foot weight, the drop foot gait is improved effectively.
US10973662B2
A system for reshaping a valve annulus includes an elongate template having a length along a longitudinal axis and at least one concavity in a generally lateral direction along said length. The pre-shaped template is positioned against at least a region of an inner peripheral wall of the valve annulus, and at least one anchor on the template is advanced into a lateral wall of the valve annulus to reposition at least one segment of the region of the inner peripheral wall of the valve annulus into said concavity. In this way, a peripheral length of the valve annulus can be foreshortened and/or reshaped to improve coaption of the valve leaflets and/or to eliminate or decrease regurgitation of a valve.
US10973658B2
A system for use during surgical procedures. The system includes an implant and an inserter. The implant has a faceted post that rotates, ribs adapted to receive impact from an instrument to help position the implant, and stops. The inserter has a sleeve, into and from which a hook retracts and extends and on which a tab is disposed, and a pair of catches. The hook and tab combine to lock the post into position and to release the post so that the post can rotate. The engagements between the hook and the post and between the tab and the post permit rotation of the implant in situ. The stops and catches define an articulation range for the implant relative to a longitudinal axis of the inserter. A related method of using the system is also provided.
US10973648B1
Methods and apparatus for providing correction of one or more maladies or conditions of the spinal column of a living being. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes an implantable device configured to be selectively adjustable in one or more portions thereof so as to permit correction of asymmetries or irregularities of the spinal column via insertion into one or more affected intervertebral disc spaces. In one variant, the implantable device includes upper and lower host elements which are hinged or can pivot relative to one another, and an insertable distraction mechanism which is adjustable to enable one side or the other of the implantable device to alter height. In another variant, both sides of the implantable device can be adjusted for height via the host elements and one or more pivots or hinges. In one implementation, the distraction mechanism is adjustable from multiple approaches into the disc space.
US10973644B2
An implant system includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion. The first portion includes a hydrogel. The second portion includes a porous material and the hydrogel in pores of the porous material. The third portion includes the porous material. The first portion is free of the porous material. The third portion is free of the hydrogel. Methods of making and using the implant system.
US10973638B2
Embodiments of a leaflet clip device and method of reducing regurgitation through a native heart valve are disclosed. A leaflet clip device can include an elongated clipping member having a first end portion and a second end portion and a tensioning mechanism coupled to the clipping member. The leaflet clip device can further include one or more tensioning members disposed within a lumen of the clipping member, wherein the one or more tensioning members are operatively connected to the tensioning mechanism to transform the clipping member from a delivery configuration to an implantation configuration.
US10973637B2
Apparatus is provided for repairing a cardiac valve, the apparatus can include a flexible annuloplasty structure having a sleeve with an elongated tubular side wall and a distal tip. A first tissue anchor can passing through the distal tip of the sleeve, and a second tissue anchor can pass through a section of the tubular side wall. The first and second tissue anchors can extend in a substantially same direction. A longitudinal portion of the tubular side wall can be disposed between the first and second tissue anchors, and have a first lateral part opposite a second lateral part and closer to the first and second tissue anchors than the second lateral part is to the first and second tissue anchors. The second lateral part can have a degree of tension that is larger than a degree of tension of the first lateral part.
US10973633B2
This invention discloses a valved stent for implantation at a dysfunctional or diseased atrioventricular valvular annulus. The valved stent is expandable from a collapsed shape to an expanded shape for minimally invasive delivery and has a low profile at the atrial or superior aspect to achieve improved hemodynamics and offers the capability to fabricate replacement valves having large diameters, The invention also includes a delivery apparatus uniquely designed for implantation of the valved stent and offering the potential for controlled and precise placement of the valved stent at the atrioventricular annulus. The invention also includes methods for use of the above devices and for treating diseased atrioventricular valves.
US10973632B2
A transcatheter, percutaneously implantable, prosthetic heart valve is provided that comprises a lattice frame and two or more integrated cusp and leaflet folded structures attached to the lattice frame. The two or more integrated cusp and leaflet folded structures each comprise a flat sheet of biocompatible membrane that is folded to include a substantially conical shape according to a flat folding pattern. The substantially conical shape is further formed by joining apposing sides of the substantially conical shape along a seam. The two or more integrated cusp and leaflet folded structures are each attached along their respective seams to the lattice frame in a direction substantially parallel to an axis of the lattice frame. Embodiments of valves described herein have application within the entire vascular system.
US10973621B2
Graft compression and sizing tubes, methods of graft sizing and compression using such graft tubes, and kits of graft tubes are disclosed. A graft tube aids in graft preparation for a surgery by quickly and consistently compressing a graft to a desired diameter and measuring the length of the graft.
US10973620B2
In a biomimetic artificial muscle module, a biomimetic artificial muscle assembly having the biomimetic artificial muscle module, and a method of controlling the biomimetic artificial muscle module, the biomimetic artificial muscle module includes an operating part, an elastic part, a driving part, a locking part and first and second sensors. The operating part contracts or relaxes along a longitudinal direction. The elastic part is connected to a first end of the operating part, and behaves elastically behave according to an external force. The driving part is connected to a second end of the operating part, and drives the operating part to be contracted or relaxed. The locking part selectively blocks a length of the operating part from being changed. The first and second sensors respectively sense the elastic part and the operating part.
US10973619B2
A tethered vena cava filter configured for temporary prophylaxis of pulmonary embolism.
US10973614B2
Expansion screw for orthodontics, comprising at least one stem (1) with at least a threaded portion (10) extending along the longitudinal extension of the stem (1), at least one receiving body (3) adapted for receiving said threaded portion (10) and provided with a complementarily threaded hole allowing said threaded portion (10) to be screwed therein, guide means (2) allowing said at least one receiving body (3) to be moved, actuation means (11, 12) for actuating said stem (1). The hole (31) of said at least one receiving body (3) has a longitudinal extension substantially corresponding to that of the threaded portion (10) of said at least one stem (1). The receiving body (3) is a technopolymer receiving body and the stem (1) is embedded in the technopolymer of the receiving body when the expansion screw (100) is made.
US10973609B2
A dental crown removal apparatus is provided, including a handle for placement in an operator's hand, an elongated post projecting along a first axis, the post being connected for reciprocal motion with respect to the handle, a motor in the handle for moving the post, a tool adapter connected with the post opposite the handle, the tool adapter having an extension arm extending away from the handle with a pivot arm connected with the extension arm and spaced from the handle, and first and second opposing jaws having claw ends spring biased together, the first and second jaws having independent and unitary pivotal connection with the pivot arm.
US10973608B2
Embodiments disclose a disposable protective assembly apparatus for a dental syringe body of a dental syringe. The apparatus is a combination of a disposable syringe tip and a disposable protective sleeve, the sleeve being pre-attached to the syringe tip, and the sleeve being in a pre-folded position to be quickly and easily slid over the dental syringe prior to a dental operation.
US10973603B2
An apparatus includes a body and a dilation catheter operatively coupled with the body and configured to translate between proximal and distal positions. The dilation catheter includes a dilation member configured to dilate an anatomical passageway when the dilation catheter is in the distal position. A guide catheter is coupled to the body and defines a longitudinal axis. The guide catheter is selectively positionable in a plurality of rotational orientations about the longitudinal axis relative to the body, and is configured to guide the dilation catheter therethrough between the proximal and distal positions. The apparatus further includes at least one illuminating indicator feature configured to emit light to facilitate positioning of the guide catheter in one or more of the rotational orientations.
US10973586B2
Tip confirmation systems and related methods are disclosed. A method of determining one or more properties of a catheter in a patient comprises advancing a catheter in vasculature of a patient, the catheter coupled to at least one radiation source and at least one detector, transmitting source electromagnetic radiation from the at least one radiation source out of the catheter proximate a distal tip thereof, measuring an intensity of backscattered electromagnetic radiation from the at least one radiation source with the at least one detector, and providing a signal indicative of a location of the distal tip within the vasculature based, at least in part, on the measured intensity of the backscattered electromagnetic radiation. Related systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10973583B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for to determining a blood supply and blood demand. One method includes receiving a patient-specific model of vessel geometry of at least a portion of a coronary artery, wherein the model is based on patient-specific image data of at least a portion of a patient's heart having myocardium; determining a coronary blood supply based on the patient-specific model; determining at least a portion of the myocardium corresponding to the coronary artery; determining a myocardial blood demand based on either a mass or a volume of the portion of the myocardium, or based on perfusion imaging of the portion of the myocardium; and determining a relationship between the coronary blood supply and the myocardial blood demand.
US10973580B2
A method of preparing a surgical plan comprises video capturing a range of motion of an anatomic joint of a patient to obtain a range of motion video, registering the range of motion video to two-dimensional images of a skeleton of the patient, identifying potential impingement and stability issues in the anatomic joint based on the range of motion video, templating a prosthetic implant on two-dimensional images of the anatomic joint using the identified potential impingement and stability issues of the anatomic joint to obtain position and orientation data, and electronically saving the position and orientation data of the prosthetic implant for use with a surgical navigation system. A system for planning and performing a surgical procedure comprises a motion capture system, an x-ray system, an electronic modeling system, and a surgical navigation system.
US10973570B2
A catheter and catheter system can use energy tailored for remodeling and/or removal of target material proximate to a body lumen, often of stenotic material or tissue in the luminal wall of a blood vessel of a patient. An elongate flexible catheter body with a radially expendable structure may have a plurality of electrodes or other electrosurgical energy delivery surfaces to radically engage the luminal wall when the structure expands. Feedback using one or parameters of voltage, current, power, temperature, impedance magnitude, impedance phase angle, and frequency may be used to selectively control the delivery of energy.
US10973569B2
An electrosurgical instrument includes a jaw member having an electrically conductive tissue sealing plate configured to operably couple to a source of electrosurgical energy for treating tissue. A polydimethylsiloxane coating having a thickness in the range of from about 35 nm to about 85 nm is disposed on the tissue sealing plate.
US10973557B2
A spinal rod extension system includes a rod portion of a spinal rod extension and a connector portion connected to the rod portion. The connector portion is configured for insertion through a screw head of an existing pedicle screw that is used to secure an existing spinal rod. The spinal rod extension system also includes a screw head connector configured to mount to the screw head of the existing pedicle screw to secure the connector portion to the existing spinal rod. The screw head connector includes a first end wall and a second end wall that are connected to one another by a pair of cross connectors.
US10973555B2
A pivotal bone anchor assembly includes a receiver having upright arms defining an channel for receiving an elongate rod and an axial bore extending downward from the channel to a bottom opening, and a shank having an anchor portion and an integral upper portion that is positionable in the axial bore with the shank extending downward through the bottom opening. The upright arms include break-off extensions and outer horizontally extending tool engagement grooves. The assembly further includes an insert positionable within the axial bore and into an overlapping engagement with a downward-facing abutment surface that is configured to inhibit movement of the insert.
US10973553B2
A modular pedicle screw assembly has a multi-part cam lock structure for fixing a threaded shank to a head subassembly. A modular pedicle screw assembly provides capture and release of a spherical end of a threaded shank by a head through rotation of closures radially disposed in an internal chamber of the head. Geometry of the closures cooperate with geometry of the internal chamber, providing a selective cam action between the closures and the internal chamber to increase and decrease size of an opening formed by the closures. Closure rotation produces an open state where the spherical end of the threaded shank can pass through the closures, releasing the spherical end of the threaded shank from the head, and a closed state where the spherical end of the threaded shank cannot pass through the closures thereby capturing the spherical end of the threaded shank in the head.
US10973546B1
Disclosed herein are sealing devices and methods configured for improving sealing functionality with an engaged extension member of an apparatus. More specifically, disclosed herein are methods configured for improving insufflation gas containment in relation to trocars (and/or other related type of devices) that are used for enabling a surgical instrument such, for example, a laparoscope, to gain access to an abdominal cavity (or other body cavity). By providing for such improved insufflation gas containment, sealing devices as disclosed herein are particularly advantageous, desirable and useful in view of long-standing reasons for limiting insufflation gas leakage and in view of newly recognized reasons stemming from outbreak of COVID-19 disease for limiting insufflation gas leakage.
US10973544B2
An adapter assembly for connecting a loading unit to a handle assembly is provided. The adapter assembly includes a sleeve, a trocar assembly releasably securable with the sleeve, and a retaining mechanism configured to releasably secure the trocar assembly within the sleeve and to facilitate cleaning and sterilizing of the adapter assembly.
US10973538B2
A system that breaks calcium in a liquid includes a catheter including first and second electrodes arranged to receive there-across a high electrical voltage at an initial low current. The high electrical voltage causes an electrical arc to form across the electrodes creating a gas bubble within the liquid, a high current to flow through the electrodes, and a mechanical shock wave. A power source provides the electrodes with the high electrical voltage at the initial current and terminates the high electrical voltage in response to the high current flow through the electrodes.
US10973531B2
A rongeur includes a device body having a first arm and a second arm slidably coupled to the first arm. A handle operatively coupled to the first arm and the second arm is configured to move the second arm along a length of the first arm in a first direction and an opposing second direction. A tip assembly is removably coupled to a distal end of the device body. The tip assembly includes a first tip and a second tip slidably coupled to the first tip. A locking mechanism is configured to removably couple the first tip to the first arm and removably couple the second tip to the second arm. The second tip is movable with respect to the first tip from an open position toward a closed position as the second arm moves in the first direction.
US10973530B2
An alignment guide includes a main body sized and shaped to contact the proximal end of a tibia, and a retaining guide coupled to the main body. The retaining guide includes guide surfaces and is adjustable relative to the main body such that an operator can intra-operatively adjust the position of the guide surfaces relative to the main body to capture the anterior and posterior cruciate ligament between the guide surfaces.
US10973525B2
A device for use with a uterine tamponade apparatus, such as the Bakri® postpartum hemorrhage balloon, is disclosed. The device comprises an anchor for deployment within the vagina to securely retain the balloon in its proper position within the uterine cavity, allowing the balloon to function as intended for the control and management of postpartum hemorrhage and uterine bleeding. Methods of use of the vaginal anchor are also disclosed.
US10973523B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to medical devices, methods, and systems for delivering a medical device to a target site. In one embodiment, a medical device includes a proximal lobe and a distal lobe, at least one of the proximal lobe or the distal lobe configured to receive a delivery device therethrough. The medical device also includes a central engagement member disposed between the proximal lobe and the distal lobe, the central engagement member configured to be engaged by a delivery device for facilitating deployment of the proximal and distal lobes at the target site.
US10973521B2
A surgical instrument and method for forming a plurality of staples in tissue of a patient includes a body having a firing mechanism, a shaft assembly, an end effector with an anvil, and a cartridge received within the end effector that is operatively connected to the firing mechanism. The cartridge includes a cartridge housing having a plurality of staple slots, a plurality of staples respectively positioned within the plurality of staple slots, and a driver assembly. The driver assembly has a plurality of drivers respectively supporting the plurality of staples within the plurality of staple slots. The firing mechanism is configured to selectively move the plurality of drivers distally toward the anvil for forming the plurality of staples therebetween. At least one driver of the plurality of drivers has a variable distal height relative to at least another driver of the plurality of drivers in a predetermined variable height pattern.
US10973502B2
A vessel access and closure assist system is used for accessing a vessel to perform a vascular intervention. The system facilitates the delivery of a vessel closure device onto a blood vessel for closing an opening in the wall of the blood vessel. The vessel access and closure assist system includes a procedural introducer sheath that directly couples to a vessel closure device delivery sheath such that the procedural introducer sheath does not have to be exchanged with the vessel closure device delivery sheath.
US10973494B2
Flex circuits and methods for ultrasound transducers are provided herein. In at least one embodiment, an ultrasound device includes a plurality of transducer elements and a flex circuit. The flex circuit includes an insulating layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. A plurality of first conductive pads is included on the first surface of the insulating layer, and each of the first conductive pads is electrically coupled to a respective transducer element. A plurality of second conductive pads are included on the second surface of the insulating layer, and each of the second conductive pads is electrically coupled to a respective first conductive pad and the respective transducer element.
US10973486B2
Presented herein are systems and methods that provide for automated analysis of three-dimensional (3D) medical images of a subject in order to automatically identify specific 3D volumes within the 3D images that correspond to specific organs and/or tissue. In certain embodiments, the accurate identification of one or more such volumes can be used to determine quantitative metrics that measure uptake of radiopharmaceuticals in particular organs and/or tissue regions. These uptake metrics can be used to assess disease state in a subject, determine a prognosis for a subject, and/or determine efficacy of a treatment modality.
US10973485B1
A method for improved 3D imaging of a volume is disclosed. The application discussed is improved assessment of complex 3D structures including breast microcalcifications and incorporation of geo-registered tools. The 3D imaging is displayed on a geo-registered head display unit.
US10973480B2
In example embodiments, a CT imaging system is provided comprising opposing x-ray generation and x-ray detector assemblies and a motion mechanism configured for simultaneously rotationally orbiting the x-ray generation and x-ray detector assemblies around a patient's anatomy along a main axis of rotation of the imaging system while rotationally oscillating the x-ray generation and x-ray detector assemblies about a spinning oscillation axis which is perpendicular to both the main axis of rotation and to a transmission axis extending between the x ray generation and detector assemblies. Further improvements related to a patient support platform and a biopsy attachment are also described herein.
US10973479B2
According to one embodiment, an X-ray diagnosis apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an input interface, a holding mechanism, an X-ray detector, a display, and processing circuitry. The X-ray tube is configured to radiate X-rays. The input interface is configured to receive an input manual operation of designating at least a direction. The holding mechanism is configured to hold the X-ray tube, and to move the X-ray tube in accordance with the input manual operation, the X-ray tube radiating X-rays during the moving. The X-ray detector is configured to detect X-rays radiated from the X-ray tube and passing through an object, the X-ray detector generating X-ray image data based on the detected X-rays. The display is configured to subsequently display an X-ray image based on the X-ray image data.
US10973451B2
Embodiments can include a nerve mapping and monitoring system that can include a multi-polar stimulation unit, an electrical connector, an instrument having a grid array, where the grid array can comprise a plurality of electrodes, where each of the plurality of electrodes can be configured to be stimulated by the multi-polar stimulation unit, a recording element, where the recording element can be configured to detect a muscle response elicited by the grid array, and a computer, where the computer can be configured to monitor the muscle response elicited by the grid array such that neural structures can be identified and avoided.
US10973450B2
To objectively grasp a stress state of a user and to prevent a mental disorder of the user, the following steps are performed: acquiring, via a network, biogas information at multiple timings and time information corresponding to each of the multiple timings, wherein the biogas information represents a concentration of heptadecane of a user acquired by a sensor that detects heptadecane discharged from a skin surface of the user; obtaining reference information representing an upper limit of a normal range of the concentration of heptadecane per unit period of time, using a memory storing the reference information representing the upper limit of the normal range; determining a stress time period during which a concentration of the heptadecane of the user is more than the upper limit of the normal range, based on the acquired biological gas information; and outputting time period information indicating the determined stress time period to an information terminal of the user, to display the stress time period indicated by the time period information on a display of the information terminal.
US10973443B2
An analyte monitor includes a sensor, a sensor control unit, and a display unit. The sensor control unit typically has a housing adapted for placement on skin and is adapted to receive a portion of an electrochemical sensor. The sensor control unit also includes two or more conductive contacts disposed on the housing and configured for coupling to two or more contact pads on the sensor. A transmitter is disposed in the housing and coupled to the plurality of conductive contacts for transmitting data obtained using the sensor. The display unit has a receiver for receiving data transmitted by the transmitter of the sensor control unit and a display coupled to the receiver for displaying an indication of a level of an analyte, such as blood glucose. An inserter having a retractable introducer is provided for subcutaneously implanting the sensor in a predictable and reliable fashion.
US10973439B2
This disclosure relates to systems, media, and methods for providing near-instantaneous feedback from real-time motion sensor data. In an embodiment, the system may perform operations including loading at least one target motion trigger. Disclosed embodiments may receive real-time sensor data from the first motion sensor detachably fixed to a user. Additionally, disclosed embodiments may include calculating a motion profile based on the real-time sensor data, the motion profile describing a multi-dimensional representation of acceleration of a motion performed by the user. Disclosed embodiments may also include comparing the at least one target motion trigger to the calculated motion profile to determine if the motion performed by the user corresponds to the target motion. Further, disclose embodiments may include transmitting, based on the comparison, an instruction to provide an alert to a user.
US10973435B2
An ultra-low field pre-pulse Magnetic Resonance Imaging (PMRI) system for a head includes RF coils defining a bore for head access, a pre-pulse coil outside the RF coils, and a coil assembly including a main magnetic field coil and gradient coils outside the pre-pulse coil. The PMRI system includes a first cylindrical shield concentric with the RF coils and made from conductive materials. The first cylindrical shield partially encloses the RF coils and inside the pre-pulse coil for shielding the RF coils from environmental electromagnetic disturbances.
US10973434B2
A system and method is provided for acquiring flow encoded data from a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes acquiring flow encoded (FE) data with alternating encoding polarities and along two of three orthogonal directions through the subject over at least two cycles of the flow within the subject; and separating the FE data into directional FE datasets using a temporal filter that separates the FE data based on temporal modulation of the FE directions caused by the alternating encoding polarities extending over the at least two cycles of the flow within the subject that shift the Fourier spectrum of velocity waveforms corresponding to the FE data. The method also includes using the directional FE datasets to generate an image of the subject showing flow within the subject caused by the at least two cycles of flow within the subject.
US10973428B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a device for measuring a physiological characteristic of a first subject, the device comprising a first electrode for contacting a part of the body of the first subject; a second electrode for contacting a part of the body of a second subject; and a control unit for obtaining an electrocardiogram, ECG, signal using the electrodes and for processing the ECG signal to determine a measurement of a physiological characteristic of the first subject; wherein the signal comprises a first ECG signal component relating to the first subject and a second ECG signal component relating to the second subject, and the control unit is configured to process the ECG signal obtained from the electrodes to extract the first ECG signal component relating to the first subject and to process the first ECG signal component to determine a measurement of the physiological characteristic of the first subject.
US10973425B2
The present invention describes vertically stacked and hermetically sealed implantable pressure sensor devices for measuring a physiological signal. The implantable device comprises multiple layers, including a first wafer having a pressure sensor configured to measure the physiological signal and a second wafer having at least a digitizing integrated circuit. The first wafer is vertically stacked or disposed over the second wafer so as to form a hermetic seal. The device may include one or more additional layers adapted for energy storage and transfer, such as a third layer having a super-capacitor and a fourth layer having a thin film battery.
US10973424B2
A charging method using an electrode of a biometric sensor, and an electronic device using the same. A wearable electronic device includes a housing, at least one electrode exposed outwards from one surface of the housing, a battery provided inside the housing, a charger circuit connected electrically to the battery, at least one sensor, a switch configured to connect the charger circuit or the at least one sensor to the at least one electrode, and a processor connected electrically to the charger circuit, the at least one sensor, and the switch. The processor is configured to determine whether the wearable electronic device is coupled to a body, based on a signal acquired through the at least one sensor, and control the switch to connect the charger circuit or the at least one sensor to the at least one electrode in correspondence with a result of the determination.
US10973423B2
Processing PPG data using a device can include determining a quality estimate for a segment of PPG data and, in response to determining that the quality estimate exceeds a quality threshold, filtering the segment of the PPG data based upon an estimate of periodicity of the segment of the PPG data. A health marker can be determined for the segment of PPG data. The health marker can be validated based upon a prior determination of the health marker from PPG data. In response to the validation, the health marker can be output.
US10973421B2
The present disclosure relates to the conversion of biometric data to meaningful heath risk indications. According to one aspect, there is provided a method of determining a health risk indicator for a user by: obtaining heart rate data for the user recorded over a monitoring period of at least one day; processing said heart rate data in dependence on biometric data for the user to determine an aggregate heartbeat value for the user over said monitoring period; and determining said health risk indicator in dependence on said aggregate heartbeat value.
US10973419B2
An intravascular pressure sensor assembly is disclosed herein that is produced in part using photolithography and DRIE solid-state device production processes. Using DRIE production processes facilitates a number of features that could not be readily incorporated in sensor chips fabricated using mechanical saws. In accordance with a first feature, sensor chips are created with non-rectangular outlines. The sensor chip includes a widened portion that substantially abuts an inner wall of a sensor housing, and a cantilevered portion that is relatively narrow in relation to the widened portion. The non-rectangular outline of the sensor chip is formed using photolithography in combination with DRIE processing. In accordance with another feature, the sensor chip is positioned width-wise in the housing, thereby reducing a required length for the housing. In accordance with yet another feature, the sensor chip comprises one or more cutouts for receiving signal wires for connection to signal lead lines on the sensor chip. The outline of the sensor chip and the cutouts are formed using photolithography in combination with DRIE processing.
US10973413B2
Advanced compression garments and their methods of use, including garments with compression applying straps, and associated sensors that are able to sense the compression applied to an underlying body tissue by the straps. Pressure and/or temperature information from the sensors may be conveyed to a wearer of the garment and/or to another party.
US10973405B2
Systems and methods for long working distance optical coherence tomography (OCT). According to an aspect, an OCT system includes a reference arm. Further, the OCT system includes a sample arm operably connected to the reference arm. The sample arm includes a scanner configured to scan an optical beam. The sample arm also includes an objective positioned a predetermined distance from the scanner, configured to receive the optical beam, and to direct the optical beam to an object positioned at about the predetermined distance from the scanner for imaging of the object.
US10973403B1
A hinge construction hingably connects a first member and a second member which are rotatable about an axis of rotation having an axial direction. A first bearing structure comprises first and second support structures having cylinder surface segment shaped first and second bearing surfaces at a radial distance from the axis of rotation, and configured to slidingly engage each other. Second and third bearing structures comprise third, fourth, fifth and sixth support structures having third, fourth, fifth and sixth bearing surfaces, the third and fourth bearing surfaces, and the fifth and sixth bearing surfaces configured to slidingly engage each other to absorb a force having a force component in the axial direction. A fourth bearing structure comprises seventh and eighth support structures having cylinder surface segment shaped seventh and eighth bearing surfaces at a radial distance from the axis of rotation, and configured to slidingly engage each other.
US10973401B2
Disclosed is a video laryngoscope having a body, an insertion section extending from the body generally parallel to a median plane of the laryngoscope extending through the body, and a display screen assembly extending from the body generally perpendicular to the median plane, the body comprising a grip portion intermediate the display screen assembly and the insertion section. The display screen assembly, comprising a display screen, extends laterally from the body and the inner edge of the display screen falls within the lateral extent of the body. The grip portion is also of a minimum size to allow an adult to grip the laryngoscope, the hand abutting the screen assembly.
US10973397B2
Computerized information acquisition and processing apparatus. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a video apparatus with image capture and digitization capability, and multiple wireless interfaces for accomplishing various purposes, including e.g., streaming the digitized video data to another device for viewing and/or storage thereon. In one variant, one of the wireless interfaces is a short range passive RFID-based interface which generates replies to interrogation signals, the replies including user-specific information.
US10973394B2
An endoscope includes a scope provided with a hard portion at a distal end of a long flexible portion having flexibility; an image capturing portion housed in the hard portion and having an image sensor; a transmission cable inserted into the scope and conductively connected to the image sensor at a distal end via a substrate, and a voltage conversion device mounted on the substrate and outputting a constant voltage to the image sensor with respect to a input voltage input to the transmission cable.
US10973393B2
A micro-endoscope and method of making the same includes a mounting housing, a camera module received within the mounting housing, and an encapsulation material interposed between the camera module and the mounting housing for fixedly mounting the camera module within the mounting housing and/or inhibiting the passage of light between the camera module and the mounting housing. The micro-endoscope further includes a light guide having the mounting housing received therein.
US10973390B2
An endoscope includes an insertion portion having a light source portion configured to emit illuminating light therefrom when inserted into a body cavity. An imaging portion is configured to capture an image in the body cavity. A transmission portion configured to transmit the image captured by the imaging portion. A battery is configured to supply electric power needed for endoscopic observation. A power control portion is configured to selectively control a supply of electric power to all of the light source portion, the imaging portion, and the transmission portion in a standby mode in which power consumption is reduced compared with a normal operation mode in which a supply of electric power is performed from the battery to all of the light source portion, the imaging portion, and the transmission portion.
US10973389B2
A basket for an appliance such as a dish washing appliance. A rack may be positionable between a stowed position and a deployed position. The rack may include a secondary rack positionable between a stowed position and a deployed position relative to the rack. The secondary rack may include the basket. The basket may be positionable to one or more walls of the dishwasher tub between a stowed position and a deployed position. The basket may be removable from one or more racks and/or the one or more walls of the dishwasher tub.
US10973388B1
A dust mop frame that includes an elongate body member having a first elongate face and an opposed second elongate face. The elongate body member includes a central body region and at least one projection. The at least one projection has a first region that is connected to the planar central body region, a central region extending angularly outward from the first region at an orientation parallel to the longitudinal axis and an outer terminal edge. The outer terminal edge of the projection is oriented upward relative to the second elongate face of the central body region when the dust mop frame is in the use position. The dust mop also includes at least one handle attachment member connected to the first elongate face; and at least one mop head bundle attachment mechanism connected to the second elongate face.
US10973387B2
A cleaning device and method of cleaning are provided. The cleaning device includes a power source and a pump in selective electrical communication with the power source. A storage container is provided. A valve assembly is disposed in the storage container and in fluid communication with the pump, the valve assembly being configured to selectively flow cleaning fluid from a first portion and a second portion of the storage container. A cleaning element having a spray nozzle is in fluid communication with the pump.
US10973386B2
Systems including a resealable container and pre-moistened wipes packaged therein, the wipes including one or more characteristics correlated to desired properties, such as high durability, mileage, cleaning composition retention, efficacy, or the like are described. Pulp substrates typically include an anionic charge, which can result in binding or retention of a cationic biocide such as a quaternary ammonium compound while the remainder of the composition is released from the wipe (e.g., through squeezing, wiping or other compression). The present wipes may be specifically tailored to provide efficacy against Staphylococcus aureus population within 10 seconds to about 5 minutes, to include particular pore size distribution characteristics, and/or to include a mileage absorbency/desorbency factor (“MABDF”) value that is greater than 50. High MABDF values are indicative of good handfeel characteristics, improved more uniform dosing of composition loaded in the wipe, good microefficacy characteristics, and the like.
US10973383B1
A surface cleaning apparatus adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned. The surface cleaning apparatus can dock within a storage tray and charge a power supply. Electrical contacts on the surface cleaning apparatus and the storage tray can be shielded when the surface cleaning apparatus is not docked within the storage tray. Furthermore, the storage tray can include a reservoir for a self-cleaning mode.
US10973379B2
An agitator is provided for a surface cleaning apparatus, the agitator including a dowel. The dowel defines an axis of rotation. A plurality of disks extends radially from the dowel to a scalloped peripheral edge. The scalloped peripheral edge includes a series of curved recesses, the series of curved recesses extending inwardly toward the dowel.
US10973375B2
Apparatus is provided for manufacturing a wipe in a three dimensional form out of an essentially flat piece of material. The apparatus produces a blank (12) of essentially flat planar form with a pleat folded on each side. The folded blanks are fed by a conveyor belt (21) to an opening station (22). The opening station comprises a pair of movable pinch rollers (34, 35) which selectively grab individual blanks from the conveyor belt and feed them via belts (32, 33) to a pair of counter-rotating drums (30, 31). The blanks are ejected from the drums, which partially opens them up in the process. The partially open blanks are fed onto a shaped former (37), where the final process of forming the wipe into its chosen three dimensional form is completed.
US10973374B1
A skin cleanser includes a surface, such as a silicone surface, with at least one textured portion for transmitting vibrational tapping to the skin. The skin cleanser includes at least one oscillating motor for generating the tapping motion to the skin. The textured portion includes touch-points or a wave that transmit the tapping motion to skin in contact with the textured portions. The touch-points may include thicker and thinner formations of the touch-points to provide firmer or softer vibrations to the skin. The touch-points are within about 0.5 to 2.5 mm in diameter. One configuration includes multiple oscillating motors configured to provide different vibration frequencies at around 50-300 Hertz and operable simultaneously.
US10973367B2
A cookware set includes a pot, a lid configured to fit on and cover the pot in a first position, and a support attached to an upper surface of the lid and disposed at the edge of the lid and configured to support the lid in a substantially vertical position on a rim of the pot in a second position. The support has a base and two wings extending from the base, each of the two wings disposed on an opposite end of the base and having a bent portion bent inward toward the base to define a two-piece channel defined by an upper surface of the base and inner surfaces of the wings. The channel is configured to receive a rim of the pot in the second position.
US10973356B2
The present invention relates to a shade suspension apparatus. The shade suspension apparatus has the effects of obviating the inconvenience of a worker of having to climb to a shade to perform a replacement work when replacing the shade, etc., and preventing a safety accident which may occur when the worker performs the replacement work on a pedestal.
US10973355B2
Disclosed is an artificial tree having a plurality of electrified tree sections that couple together to provide power and/or command signals to devices connected thereto. One or more tree sections may have a trunk portion, one or more electrical connectors having a plurality of terminals, branches, a light string, and an electrical distribution system located at least partially within the trunk portion. A first tree section may be configured to couple to a second tree section such that an electrical connector of the first tree section is in electrical connection with an electrical connector of the second tree section, thereby mechanically and electrically connecting the first tree section to the second tree section such that power and/or the control data are transmitted to the second tree section. Further, each trunk segment may include an axial electrical connector that permits adjacent trunk segments to connect in a plurality of radial orientations relative to each other.
US10973354B1
An illuminable decoration comprises at least two trunk sections, each trunk section includes a hollow tube and a cable assembly coupled to each trunk section. Each cable assembly comprises a first modular electrical connector end that has an inner socket and an outer plug that circumscribes the inner socket. Further, each cable assembly comprises a second modular electrical connector end that has an inner plug and an outer socket that circumscribes the inner plug. A first electrical wire electrically couples between the inner socket of the first modular electrical connector and the inner plug of the second modular electrical connector. Also, a second electrical wire electrically couples between the outer plug of the first modular electrical connector and the outer socket of the second modular electrical connector. When two trunk sections are assembled together end-to-end, the trunk sections are mechanically and electrically coupled to form a modular electrical distribution system.
US10973352B1
Embodiments of a reusable straw caddy include a hand-held container and dispenser for a plurality of cleaned straight reusable drinking straws. The caddy provides top and bottom portions interlocked once the bottom portion has been filled with cleaned straws. Embodiments provide top portion windows or a translucent top portion giving the user a quick count on how many cleaned straws remain in the caddy as cleaned straws are dispensed. Embodiments of the reusable straw caddy can be manufactured by three-dimensional printing or injection molding.
US10973348B2
A single serve beverage cup, including for wine, is disclosed having a base, a bowl, a seal and a cover. The container may also include an outer package and an inner package. There is also disclosed a single serve beverage cup having a cavity for receiving a miniature liquor bottle for making a cocktail.
US10973346B1
A method of pillow customization includes analyzing shapes associated with people through the use of sensors to create analytical data; receiving photos from a subject user through a first computing device and a server; determining a firmness of a mattress of the subject user based on the photos; determining body measurements of the subject based on the photos through one or more algorithms and a second computing device; providing the subject user with a pillow diagram, the pillow diagram having one or more zones, each of the one or more zones being customizable in firmness; receiving one or more subject user inputted selections through the first computing device; and designing a pillow based on the firmness of the mattress, the body measurements, and the one or more subject user inputted characteristics, the pillow being customized to the subject user.
US10973345B1
A comfortable inflatable pillow, manufactured to be affordably priced, designed to withstand the weather challenges associated with beaches, and other outdoor settings, by utilizing soft fabric that wicks away water and sheds sand, that has an attached pouch that can be filled with sand, or other weighted objects, to prevent the pillow from being blown around in windy conditions, that contains an internal pocket that can accommodate a tailor-made cooling and heating gel pack for hot or cold external temperatures, and that provides an optional incline position for added comfort when reading or surveying the landscape.
US10973344B2
A bedding system uses a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based machine vision to makes adjustments for comfort and/or support. The machine vision process identities a body position by using a trained CNN that receives a pressure image and identifies a body position. The body position may be determined by classifying the pressure image into a predetermined body position classification. The machine vision process includes at least one trained CNN that determines joint locations. The machine vision tracks pressure accumulated at joints over time.
US10973324B2
A frame corner member includes an elongated hollow extrusion having a central corner portion and two leg portions extending from the central portion. Each leg portion includes an inner side wall spaced from and parallel to an outer side wall, and merging with the central portion. An outer end wall joins the inner and outer side walls, which each include an inner surface facing the inner surface of the other side wall. An opening through the outer end wall defines a space between the inner and outer side walls adjacent one end of the extrusion for receiving one end of one of frame side members and end members. At least one of the inner surfaces in the space has discrete surface features adapted to grip and retain the one end of one of the side members and end members in the space when received through the opening.
US10973323B2
A securing device (1) for securing a front panel of a drawer to a drawer frame, having a holding element (2) for securing to the front panel and a closing element (3) for securing to the drawer frame. A spring (44) is operatively connected to the closure (50). The closure (50) is implemented for exposing a holding region of the holding element (2) in an open rotational position of the closure (50), and for blocking the holding region in a closed position of the closure (50). A transmission element (60) is hinged to the closure by a rotating/sliding connection on the closure side spaced apart from the rotary axis of the closure. A rotating/sliding connection on the opener side having a first bearing element (64) is disposed on the transmission element (60) opposite the rotating/sliding connection on the closure side. The rotating/sliding connection on the opener side produces a connection to a displaceably supported opener (70). The rotating/sliding connection on the opener side comprises a first and a second control curve (92, 93) in which the first bearing element (64) is guided, and the two control curves (92, 93) intersect. The transmission element (60) is preferably implemented having a plurality of parts and comprises a plurality of lever arms (60.1, 60.2). The transmission element (60) is particularly preferably implemented as a toggle lever.
US10973318B1
An adaptor for facilitating mounting of a shelf divider for pivoting around an axis perpendicular to uniformly spaced apart wires of a shelf include a frame having side members that are fixedly spaced apart, an axle extending between the side members on which a shelf divider can be pivotably mounted, and snap-fit connectors configured to releasably secure the adaptor onto spaced apart parallel wires of a wire shelf.
US10973315B2
A device stand includes a support in which a platform is rotatably mounted, the rotatable mounting allowing the platform to spin by rotating rapidly or twirling about an axis. The platform is typically a circular or rounded disk and is constructed and arranged to support a device, such as a smartphone, allowing the device to spin with the spinning platform.
US10973312B2
An application element and an applicator comprising pluralities of said application elements on a molded support is provided for applying a product such as a cosmetic, a medicinal or a care product. At least one application element of the applicator includes a base portion and at least one thin projection. The thin projection includes at least one surface and wherein the at least one outer surface flushes with at least a portion of an outer surface of the base portion.
US10973306B1
A firefighter backpack assembly for transporting equipment for wildfire fighting includes a panel that is wearable on a user's back and a pair of shoulder straps each being coupled to the panel for wearing over a respective one of the user's shoulders. A tool bag is coupled to the panel to carry tools thereby facilitating hands-free transportation of the tools when the user wears the panel. A pair of belts is each coupled to the panel to secure a chainsaw to the panel thereby facilitating hands-free transportation of the chainsaw. A storage pouch is suspended from the tool bag to contain a fire shelter.
US10973292B1
A combination bag workbench is provided herein. The combination bag workbench may include a rectangular bottom portion, a pair of wheels, and four legs rotatably coupled to the bottom portion. The bottom portion may include a length, a width, a pair of lengthwise sides defined parallel to the length, and a pair of widthwise sides defined parallel to the width. The pairs of lengthwise and widthwise sides define corners of the bottom portion. The pair of wheels may be coupled to the bottom portion along one widthwise side of the pair widthwise sides. Each leg may be coupled adjacent to a respective corner of the bottom portion. The four legs are configurable in a retracted position or an extended position associated with at least one of the legs extending beyond at least one of a nearest respective lengthwise side or a nearest respective widthwise side.
US10973290B1
A virtually seamless, flexible, and shape-retaining bag and a method of manufacturing such a bag is disclosed. The bag is formed from two complimentary three-dimensional custom shaped halves of molded flexible foam. A single and continuous piece of material, fabric, or textile is bonded or otherwise joined over the exterior of each half. The entire outer material covering each half is free of seams, stitching, or other joining of two separate pieces material. The complimentary and exposed edges of the two halves are joined about a hinge and fastener, whereby opening the fastener allows the two halves to separate about the hinge, and closing the fastener secures the first half to the complimentary second half of the bag.
US10973287B2
A piece of eyelash jewelry is disclosed, having a jewelry substrate, which has a first magnetic means with a first holding surface, and having a fastening part, which has a second magnetic means with a polarity that is opposite from that of the first means and has a second holding surface, the two magnetic means of the jewelry substrate and fastening part being embodied such that by means of magnetic interaction, they clamp at least one eyelash that can be placed between their opposing holding surfaces in order to thus fasten the piece of eyelash jewelry to the eyelashes. In order to increase the reliability of the piece of eyelash jewelry, it is proposed that the jewelry substrate have a flange, which protrudes from the first holding surface and thus forms a stop for the fastening part.
US10973286B2
A necklace chain entangling preventer apparatus and related method of use and production for preventing necklace chains from entangling when simultaneously worn by a user thereof, comprising a first entangling preventer half and a second entangling preventer half, each the entangling preventer half comprising: a substantially flat rigid body plate; a plate-half attachment facilitator permanently affixed to the body plate; a plurality of N substantially rigid necklace chain threading hooks permanently affixed to the body plate; a plurality of N necklace chain threading retainers permanently affixed to the body plate; the plate-half attachment facilitators affixed to their respective rigid body plates with opposite mating configurations; and a plurality of N necklace chain threading retainers, selected from the necklace retainer group consisting of: a malleable material retainer, a pivot retainer, a pole retainer, and an opposite plate inverted hook passively-engaged retainer.
US10973272B2
A garment worn by a wearer has an impact absorbing material comprising arrays of various hexagonal or other deformable polygonal-shaped structures positioned between an exterior surface and an interior surface. When force is applied to the exterior surface, the structures of the impact absorbing materials deform (e.g., buckle) in a desired manner, reducing the force received by the interior surface.
US10973267B1
A protective face guard apparatus includes a transparent shield, head strap and temperature measuring mechanism. The shield has top, side and bottom edges, and the head strap is connected with the shield. Preferably, the shield has an arcuate configuration. The temperature measuring mechanism includes a temperature indicator that is connected with the shield or head strap such that when the face guard is worn on the head of an individual and the temperature measuring mechanism measures a temperature of the individual, the indicator displays an indication of the temperature. Preferably, the head strap includes a flexible portion having a generally semicircular or circular configuration.
US10973258B2
A system, a method, a device, and a computer program for detecting, monitoring and logging smoking activity related data. The device can comprise a housing, a power supply located within the housing, an atomizer electrically coupled to the power supply, a liquid solution fluidly coupled to the atomizer, and a data logging device configured to be located within the housing and that can comprise a microcontroller, a memory, and a data interface. The data logging device can be configured to detect, monitor, and log smoking activity data, and a data logging device that can comprise a microcontroller, a memory, and a data interface. The data logging device can be configured to detect, monitor, and log smoking activity data.
US10973254B2
A controls stage, a hopper stage, and a pneumatic stage are arranged to govern the movement of particulate additives from a hopper through a receptacle that communicates with a delivery tube with the particles exiting the delivery tube via an outlet and contacting products or commodities such as food products. Embodiments include those wherein the use of air flow through the delivery tube is responsible for ushering particulate additives out of the delivery tube, with or without a secondary air flow to facilitate movement of particulate additives into the delivery tube, and a notched disc controlling the opening and closing of a valve to allow or restrict particulates from passing, wherein the size and quantity of notches affects the frequency at which particulate additives move from the hopper into the delivery tube.
US10973249B2
The invention shows a food casing comprising a hose casing and cover plates terminally attached thereto in a liquid tight manner, which cover plates cover the terminal cross-sectional openings of the hose casing. At least one of the cover plates has a filling opening comprising a check valve, which is passable for food mass filled in the hose casing and blocks against the leakage of food mass out of the hose casing.
US10973235B2
A gripper installation for simultaneously gripping a plurality of elongate flexible items, in particular sausages, having a plurality of gripper portions that are disposed so as to be mutually parallel, wherein each gripper portion has two mutually spaced-apart finger pairs, wherein the fingers of each finger pair grip the item at opposite sides and for gripping an item are capable of being simultaneously converged, wherein the gripper portions are capable of being simultaneously activated.
US10973234B2
In a device and a method for separating at least one sausage (3.1-3.4) from another sausage (3.2-3.4), from a strand of sausage (2) in the region of a setting region (4) formed between the sausage (3.1-3) with two setting points (7.1, 7.2).4) and the sausage strand (2), wherein the setting region (4) is at least partially wrapped by a cord (6) and this is continued from one sausage to the other for setting, at least one setting region (4) and the cord in this setting region should be assigned an automatically operating cutting device (11, 11.1) for simultaneously cutting the cord and setting region.
US10973231B2
Water-dispersible plant growth regulating compositions in concentrated suspended particle form, and more particularly to growth regulating compositions comprising a cytokinin, a surfactant, an anti-foam agent, a buffering system, an anti-freeze agent, and an anti-settling system, dispersed in water.
US10973228B2
[Problem] The object is to obtain cosmetics which do not show primary skin irritation or sensitization, and do not impart any unpleasant sensation such as sharp pain or prickly sensation when employed as a cosmetic, with the lowest possible inclusion of preservative/fungicide. [Solution] Antimicrobial low-irritant cosmetics characterized in that they contain one or two or more tropolone derivative(s) and one or two or more polyhydric alcohol(s) in quantities which have an anti-microbial effect and low skin irritancy.
US10973208B2
An inoculation system for a bee hive having a hive opening includes (a) a body mountable to the hive intermediate the hive opening and an outside environment external the hive, (b) a bee pathway in the body for providing passage between the hive opening and the outside environment when the body is mounted to the hive, (c) a removable cartridge installed in the body and having a cartridge chamber storing an inoculum, and (d) an automatic inoculum dispenser in the body. The dispenser is operable to controllably dispense the inoculum from the cartridge chamber into the bee pathway to dust bees passing through the bee pathway with the inoculum.
US10973202B2
A disposable animal cage which can be used in a ventilated or static caging rack system includes a cage top and a cage base. Any corner or edge present in the interior of the cage base or the cage top that is accessible to an animal that can be contained in the cage is defined by surfaces having a conical section which is non-circular to prevent gnawing of the cage. The cage top can include a water housing mount pocket. The water housing mount pocket can have a conical shape to prevent an animal from gnawing the water housing mount pocket and a container received in the water housing mount pocket. A feed tray can be attached beneath a filter in a ceiling of the cage top to prevent an animal from gnawing the filter.
US10973199B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01072341. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01072341. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01072341 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01072341 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10973196B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01073237. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01073237. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01073237 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01073237 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10973186B2
An aeroponics system is provided which includes a rack with multiple shelves thereon and with a tray accommodated on each shelf. Light modules are located above each shelf. Each tray has a hood with openings therein leading into a hollow chamber and above a base which includes spray heads therein. Water from a reservoir upon the rack is pumped to each of the spray heads to provide a spray within the hollow chambers. Plant cuttings are placed passing through the openings in the hood so that lower portions of the cuttings can receive the spray (and nutrients added into the reservoir) for propagation of the plant cuttings.
US10973181B2
The present invention provides a telescopic jacking stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine, including a chassis, a locking-type reel, a sprinkling irrigation apparatus, and a stepwise driving apparatus. A locking channel in a circumferential direction is disposed on the locking-type reel. The stepwise driving apparatus includes a lifting cylinder, an upper caliper, and a lower caliper, and the upper caliper and the lower caliper are clamped to be mounted on the locking channel. Pressurized water is used in the telescopic jacking stepwise rollback-type reel sprinkling irrigation machine to drive the lifting cylinder to realize periodic lifting motion of the piston rod, so as to drive the upper caliper to move up and down to be engaged with the locking channel of the locking-type reel intermittently, thereby driving the locking-type reel to roll back intermittently to automatically reel in a sprinkling irrigation PE hose.
US10973167B2
A traveling control section of a traveling vehicle is configured to effect a normal operation to control an output of an engine when a vehicle speed is below a set vehicle speed, such that the engine output may correspond to an operation amount of an accelerator operating tool and to effect an output suppressing operation when the vehicle speed is equals to or more than the set vehicle speed, such that the vehicle speed may stay below the set vehicle speed, irrespectively of the operation amount of the accelerator operating tool. A fuel ratio in an air-fuel ratio in the output suppressing operation is set smaller than a fuel ratio in an air-fuel ratio in the normal operation.
US10980161B2
A CPU of a management computer, when a work allocation processing routine is started, first, acquires a specified accuracy of each mounter, then acquires required accuracies of component types for components from a first to a last component to be mounted on a single board. Next, the CPU of the management computer performs allocation of mounting work of components from the first to the last component, and then ends the routine. Specifically, the CPU, for each component, allocates the mounting work of a given component to a mounter with a specified accuracy that satisfies the required accuracy for that component type.
US10980149B2
The present disclosure provides a thermal superconductive finned heat sink and an electrical equipment cabinet. The thermal superconductive finned heat sink includes: a base plate; a plurality of thermal superconductive fins inserted into the surface of the base plate; the thermal superconductive fin has a composite plate structure, a thermal superconductive channel line is formed in the thermal superconductive fin, the thermal superconductive channel line is a closed channel line, and is filled with heat-transfer working medium; the thermal superconductive fin has a U-shaped plate structure, including a flat plate main body and sides which bend relative to the flat plate main body; the projection area of the plurality of thermal superconductive fins, onto the plane where the base plate is located, is greater than the area of the base plate.
US10980120B2
There is provided a compact printed circuit board. The compact printed circuit board has a flexible rigid printed circuit board connector with a rigid printed circuit board attached at each end of the connector. The printed circuit board can then be folded into a compact, overlying configuration. As such, the compact printed circuit board has a smaller footprint than a standard rectangular printed circuit board, while maintaining the same or having increased micro-electronics and functionality. The compact configuration allows the folded printed circuit board to be integrated with a solenoid used in the control of a valve or sprinkler of an irrigation system.
US10980118B2
Flexible circuit film including flexible films facing each other with wirings arranged there between
A flexible circuit film including a first flexible film, a second flexible film facing the first flexible film, and a plurality of wirings arranged between the first flexible film and the second flexible film. Each of the wirings has a first portion extending in a second direction from a first terminal portion to a first connection part, a second portion extending in a first direction different from the second direction from the first connection part to a second connection part, and a third portion extending in a direction opposite to the second direction from the second connection part to a second terminal portion.
US10980114B2
A printed circuit board according to one embodiment of the present invention is a printed circuit board including a plate-shaped or a sheet-shaped insulating material having a penetrating hole, and a metal plating layer layered on both surfaces of the insulating material and an inner peripheral surface of the insulating material, wherein an inner diameter of the penetrating hole monotonically decreases from a top surface of the insulating material toward a back surface, and wherein the inner diameter of the penetrating hole at a center in a thickness direction of the insulating material is smaller than an average of an opening diameter on the top side and an opening diameter on the back side.
US10980112B2
A multilayer wiring board includes first and second insulating layers, a first conductive wiring layer on the first insulating layer, a second conductive wiring layer on a surface of the second insulating layer facing the first insulating layer, an interlayer connection conductor including an intermetallic compound and penetrating through the first insulating layer to interconnect the first and second conductive wiring layers, a first intermetallic compound layer between the first conductive wiring layer and the interlayer connection conductor, and a second intermetallic compound layer between the second conductive wiring layer and the interlayer connection conductor, wherein the intermetallic compounds in the first and second intermetallic compound layers have a composition different from that of the intermetallic compound in the interlayer connection conductor, and the first intermetallic compound layer is located at a level different from a level of an interface between the first conductive wiring layer and the first insulating layer.
US10980111B2
A circuit board and a display device are disclosed. The circuit board includes an insulating layer and a metal foil layer. The metal foil layer is disposed on a surface of the insulating layer. The insulating layer comprises the graphene. The insulating layer comprises a glass felt semicured layer and a glass cloth semicured layer. The glass felt semicured layer and the glass cloth semicured layer are stacked. The glass felt semicured layer includes a glass felt layer and a high thermal conductive adhesive layer covering a surface of the glass felt layer. The glass cloth semicured layer comprises a glass cloth layer and the high thermal conductive adhesive layer covering a surface of the glass cloth layer. The high thermal conductive adhesive layer comprises the graphene, and the glass felt semicured layer and the glass cloth semicured layer also comprise the graphene.
US10980105B2
The present invention relates to a carrier (2) with a passive cooling function for a semiconductor component (3), having a main body (6) with a top side (7) and a bottom side (8) and at least one electrical component (13, 13a, 13b) that is embedded in the main body (6), wherein the carrier (2) has a first thermal via (14), which extends from the top side (7) of the main body (6) to the at least one electrical component (13, 13a, 13b), wherein the carrier (2) has a second thermal via (15), which extends from the at least one electrical component (13, 13a, 13b) to the bottom side (8) of the main body (6), and wherein the at least one embedded electrical component (13, 13a, 13b) is electrically contacted by the first and the second thermal via (14, 15).
US10980101B2
An atmospheric pressure plasma generating device includes a nozzle block in which fourth gas passages from which plasma gas is emitted are formed, is covered by cover, and a through-hole is formed in the cover such that the leading end of the fourth gas passage is positioned on the inside. Heated gas is supplied inside the cover and is emitted from the through-hole of the cover, and plasma gas is emitted so as to penetrate the heated gas. By the plasma gas being surrounded by the heated gas in this manner, deactivation of the plasma gas is prevented. A distance between the leading end of the fourth gas passage and an opening of the through-hole at an outer wall of the cover is set from 0 to 2 mm in an emission direction of the plasma gas.
US10980100B2
A system includes a laser source operable to provide a laser beam, a laser amplifier having a gain medium operable to provide energy to the laser beam when the laser beam passes through the laser amplifier, and a residual gain monitor operable to provide a probe beam and operable to derive a residual gain of the laser amplifier from the probe beam when the probe beam passes through the laser amplifier while being offset from the laser beam in time or in path.
US10980085B2
A hub device of a network receives data from edge devices and generates a local result. The hub device also sends the data to a remote provider network and receives a result from the remote provider network, wherein the result is based on the data received from the edge devices. The hub device then generates a response based on the local result or the received result. The hub device may determine to correct the local result based on the result received from the remote provider network, and generate the response based on the corrected result. The hub device may generate an initial response before receiving the result from the provider network. For example, the hub device may determine that the confidence level for the local result is above the threshold level and in response, generate the initial response based on the local result.
US10980079B2
A method, apparatus, and system for data transmission, applicable to the UE, comprising: the UE transmitting the uplink interface message to the MME through the base station; the uplink interface message includes instructions to switch data transmission modes, wherein the data transmission modes comprise the Control Plane (CP) mode, the User Plane (UP) mode, and/or the Long-Term Evolution (LTE) mode; the UE receiving the downlink Radio Resource Control (RRC) message transmitted by the base station, wherein, the downlink RRC message includes instructions to switch data transmission modes; the UE switching data transmission modes based on the data transmission mode-switch instructions, and using the data transmission mode after switching to implement data transmission.
US10980075B2
Exemplary embodiments include methods and/or procedures performed by a first network node (1460) in a radio access network, RAN, the first network node (1460) being in communication with a second network node (1460b) configured with a different radio access technology, RAT, than the first network node (1460). Such exemplary embodiments include determining (1210) one or more radio resource management (RRM) identifiers associated with at least one of the following: a user equipment, UE, served by the first network node; a subscriber associated with the UE; and a group of UEs served by the first network node. Exemplary embodiments also include esending (1220) a request for the second network node to establish dual connectivity, as a secondary node, SN, with the UE, wherein the request comprises information relating to the one or more RRM identifiers. Some embodiments can include managing (1230) the UE's access to resources provided by the RAN based on one or more policies associated with the one or more RRM identifiers, while the information relating to the one or more RRM identifiers can map to one or more further policies for managing UE access to resources provided by a RAN including the second network node.
US10980071B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a session management method, an access management function device, and a session management device. The method carried out by an access and mobility management network element includes: obtaining subscription data of a terminal in a first communications network and subscription data of the terminal in a second communications network, where the subscription data of the terminal in the first communications network includes a DNN, and the subscription data of the terminal in the second communications network includes an APN corresponding to the DNN; allocating a bearer identifier to a bearer in a PDN connection corresponding to the APN; receiving a flow identifier that is of a flow in a PDU session corresponding to the DNN and that is sent by a session management network element; and sending the bearer identifier and the flow identifier to the terminal.
US10980069B2
A system includes a router including a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive a wireless request from a first computing device to initiate a connection mode for a wireless network. The instructions are further executable to join a second computing device to the wireless network under the connection mode. wherein the connection mode allows the second device to join the wireless network without input of a password stored prior to the wireless request.
US10980063B2
A communication device including a transmitting unit configured to perform transmission processing of a first signal, a receiving unit configured to perform reception processing of a second signal which responds to the first signal in a predetermined period determined by a time point of the transmission processing, and a determining unit configured to perform determination as to whether or not at least part of the first signal is correctly received at a transmission destination device on the basis of information acquired in process of the reception processing.
US10980030B2
A polarization stream architecture is described. A transmitter may implement a reverse polarization stream to shape a first source signal in a first signal space to a first target signal in a second signal space. The reverse polarization stream is implemented as a cascade of reverse polarization steps. Each reverse polarization step includes a shuffle function, a split function, a scaling function and an offset function. Machine-learning techniques may be used to implement the scaling function and the offset function. A receiver may implement a polarization stream to recover the source signal.
US10980020B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method whereby a first terminal performs transmission or reception in a subframe in a wireless communication system, the subframe-type-related transmission/reception method comprising the steps of: determining to which a first subframe belongs among a plurality of subframe types; and performing either uplink transmission or downlink reception in an uplink resource or a downlink resource which is determined based on the determined type, wherein to which of the plurality of subframe types the first subframe belongs is indicated in each of K (K>1) subframes from the Lth (L>0) subframe in front of the first subframe, and each of the K subframes indicates to which of the plurality of subframe types K subframes from the Lth subframe therebehind belong. The first terminal is included in an autonomous vehicle.
US10980018B2
A method and a device for controlling an access on the basis of a common resource in a communication system. An operating method of a terminal in a communication system includes: receiving configuration information of a common resource from a first base station among the plurality of base stations; receiving common information from the first base station through the common resource indicated by the configuration information; and performing a random access procedure with a second base station among the plurality of base stations by using the common information. Therefore, the performance of the communication system can be improved.
US10980016B2
A method for receiving downlink control information by a terminal in a wireless communication system may include receiving control channel element (CCE) configuration information from a base station; determining multiple control channel candidates, each of which has one or more CCEs, on the basis of the CCE configuration information; and blind-detecting downlink control information through the multiple control channel candidates, wherein: each of the one or more CCEs includes multiple resource element groups (REGs), and the number of data resource elements (REs) for carrying the downlink control information is independently determined for each REG; and the CCE configuration information indicates whether each CCE has a fixed number of REGs or a fixed number of data REs. The UE is capable of communicating with at least one of another UE, a UE related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.
US10980002B2
In one embodiment, a method in a user equipment (UE) includes receiving broadcasted system information from a network node. The broadcasted system information may include explicit configuration information for a communications channel. The method further includes determining a configuration of the communications channel based, at least in part, on the explicit configuration information. The explicit configuration information may be used by the user equipment to override default channel configuration information. The method may further include receiving data over the communications channel.
US10980000B2
It is aimed to provide a mobility management device that can normally provide a UE with a notification of an incoming voice call made when ISR is activated and when a mobile communication device is moving from a location registration area under control of an MME to a location registration area under control of an SGSN. A mobility management device (10) makes an ISR feature operate in collaboration with an SGSN (20). It is assumed that a location registration area (60) managed by the mobility management device (10) exists within a location registration area (50) managed by the SGSN (20), and an incoming voice call is made to a mobile communication device (30) during when the mobile communication device (30) is moving out of the location registration area (60). The mobility management device (10) includes an incoming voice call control unit (11) that, in the above case, sends a response message indicating that the mobile communication device (30) is moving to a switching device (40) and, when an incoming voice call message is sent again from the switching device (40) to a switching device (40) after the lapse of a specified period of time, performs call attempt to the mobile communication device (30).
US10979992B2
The present disclosure provide a transmission method and a device, which relate to the technical field of communications and reduce overhead and improve work efficiency in an application of cooperative transmission in aspects of synchronization, sharing of information such as data and the like, obtaining of channel information and data transmission. Meanwhile application scenarios may also be extended. The method specifically includes: obtaining, by an access point AP, a parameter value, wherein the parameter value is a frequency difference between a crystal oscillator frequency of the AP and a reference crystal oscillator frequency of a reference AP or a delay difference of the AP with respect to the reference AP; compensating, by the AP, a phase difference or a time difference according to the parameter value when both of the AP and the reference AP send data. The present disclosure is applied to an application of a cooperative transmission.
US10979985B2
A relay device configured to communicate with a terminal device of the network and with a base station of the network. The relay device comprises transmitter circuitry, receiver circuitry and controller circuitry. The controller circuitry is configured in combination with at least the transmitter circuitry: to select a maximum transmission power to be used by the terminal device for communicating with the relay device, wherein the identified maximum transmission power is based on link information relating to one or both of the link between the relay device and the base station and the link between the relay device and the terminal; to notify the communication device of the selected maximum transmission power for the terminal to select an actual transmission power and to transmit signals to the relay device at a power that is no more than the maximum transmission power.
US10979979B1
Wireless communications systems and methods related to SSB measurements are provided. A wireless communication device determines a first measurement for a first synchronization signal block (SSB) and further determines a measurement cycle frequency for performing a SSB measurement based on the first measurement. The wireless communication device performs the SSB measurement based on the measurement cycle frequency.
US10979975B2
Various solutions for maintaining a radio resource control (RRC) connection with respect to user equipment and network apparatus in mobile communications are described. An apparatus may establish an RRC connection with a network node. The apparatus may transmit a layer 2 packet to maintain the RRC connection after a period of time without data transmission. The apparatus may transmit uplink data via the RRC connection without re-establishing the RRC connection.
US10979971B2
The present invention is machine-to-machine (M2M) mobile platform that has a controller that can communicate with RFID tags and receives RFID information into a mobile vehicle foreign network with an all-in-one mobile solution and also communicates with a home network having a computer server. The present invention provides an integrated command and communication platform to support communications by cell phone, WiFi, GPS, RFID controller, vehicle information controller, and real-time integration to optimize performance of the remote tracking network. With the use of the present invention, fleet services, mobile inventory, and asset tracking can be efficiently organized and conducted across a fleet vehicles, a multitude of remote tracking devices, and geographically around the world.
US10979970B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a network channel allocation method and apparatus. In one embodiment, a network channel allocation method includes determining, by a terminal, a candidate network channel based on a network request of a first application. The candidate network channel is a network channel on which a communications link port is allowed to be established. The method further includes allocating, by the terminal, a target network channel from the candidate network channel to the first application according to an attribute of the first application. The attribute comprises whether an application has a specified network channel, whether an application is a foreground application, an application priority level, or whether an application has a restricted network channel.
US10979964B2
A communication apparatus having a direct wireless communication function includes a generation unit configured to generate a first two-dimensional code including an address of the communication apparatus and an SSID corresponding to the direct wireless communication function, and a second two-dimensional code including the address of the communication apparatus and not including the SSID corresponding to the direct wireless communication function, and an output unit configured to output the first two-dimensional code and the second two-dimensional code.
US10979962B2
A system and method for dynamic communication of wireless devices in a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system is provided. Aspects include receiving a mapping of a location comprising a plurality of zones having a plurality of devices in each zone, broadcasting a discovery signal to the plurality of devices in each zone, receiving a response signal from one or more devices in each zone, the response signal comprising a signal strength, analyzing the signal strength of each response signal to identify a master zone device based on the signal strength, and configuring the master zone device in each zone to broadcast a second discovery signal to the plurality of devices in a respective zone, the second discovery signal having instructions comprising a configuration for the each of the plurality of devices in the zone to broadcast device data to the respective master zone device.
US10979961B2
In some embodiments, a method includes receiving, at a first wireless device of a plurality of wireless devices, a data packet including an indication of a source of the data packet. In response to the first wireless device being associated with the source of the data packet, whether the first wireless device is a local repeater can be determined based on at least one of a random number or a number of wireless devices of the plurality of wireless devices. In response to the first wireless device being determined to be a local repeater, the first wireless device can be caused to be configured as a local repeater such that the first wireless device sends the data packet to at least one remaining wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices.
US10979957B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for assessing a radio link quality using resources corresponding to bandwidth parts. One method includes receiving first information including a plurality of reference signal resource sets for a plurality of bandwidth parts. Each reference signal resource set of the plurality of reference signal resource sets corresponds to a bandwidth part of the plurality of bandwidth parts. The method includes receiving a plurality of spatial quasi-co-location information corresponding to a plurality of reference signal resources of the plurality of reference signal resource sets. The method includes assessing a radio link quality based on the plurality of spatial quasi-co-location information.
US10979953B2
The present invention relates to a method for offloading traffic by means of wireless LAN in a mobile communications system and apparatus therefor, and more particularly to a method for a terminal to offload traffic at a bearer level, and to a base station communicating with the terminal. The method for a terminal to offload traffic according to the present invention includes the steps of: while performing a data communication with a base station through a bearer of a first communications network, receiving from the base station an offloading command for offloading a part of traffic to a second communications network; transmitting a report of the offloading to the base station in response to the offloading command; and performing a data communication of the partial traffic with an accessible AP through a bearer of the second communications network without releasing the bearer of the first communications network.
US10979949B2
A terminal apparatus receives a first measurement configuration from a first base station apparatus via a first SRB and receives a second measurement configuration from a second base station apparatus via a second SRB, and transmits via the first SRB a first measurement result for the first measurement configuration configured from the first base station apparatus via the first SRB and transmits via the second SRB a second measurement result for the second measurement configuration configured from the second base station apparatus via the second SRB.
US10979939B2
An accessory device may dynamically determine to transition a cellular connection between mobile-initiated communication only (MICO) mode and non-MICO mode based on a variety of factors. The accessory device may be configured to communicate through a non-cellular network in addition to the cellular network. The accessory device may transition from MICO to non-MICO mode based on one or more of: loss of the non-cellular connection; location of the accessory device; a call, data, or SMS request failure over the non-cellular network; or other factors.
US10979937B2
[Object] To enable the wireless communication that is being performed already to be continued in the secondary system. [Solution] Provided is a communication control device including: a recognizing unit configured to recognize a handover of a wireless communication device, the handover enabling the wireless communication device to communicate wirelessly through a frequency channel for a primary system in a secondary system that secondarily utilizes the frequency channel; and a control unit configured to control the handover of the wireless communication device.
US10979935B2
A method (100) of controlling traffic flows in a radio communications network, the method comprising steps of: receiving (102) at a remote node a plurality of traffic flows transmitted from a plurality of radio units; buffering (104) the traffic flows in a common buffer of the remote node; and causing (106) a control signal to be sent to a baseband unit when a fill level of the common buffer is predicted to go above a maximum fill level within a pre-set time interval, wherein the control signal is configured to cause an adjustment of a radio resource allocation of one of the plurality of radio units to cause a reduction in a data rate of the traffic flow transmitted from said radio unit.
US10979932B2
A method comprises operating in an idle user state; determining to exit the idle user state and enter an active user state; obtaining cell loads of cells; calculating association functions based on the cell loads; determining, from among the association functions, a first association function with a maximum value; selecting a first cell associated with the first association function as a target cell; and entering the active user state by connecting to the first cell.
US10979931B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present disclosure includes one or more antennas, one or more communication circuits electrically connected to at least one of the one or more antennas, a processor electrically connected to the one or more communication circuits or included in the one or more communication circuits, and a memory electrically connected to the processor. The memory can store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to identify a status of a network connected to the electronic device, to determine a communication scheme corresponding to the network status among a plurality of communication schemes which provide a tethering service, to broadcast a signal which comprises information for identifying the electronic device, using the determined communication scheme, and, based on at least part of a signal received from an external electronic device, to establish a connection with the external electronic device for the tethering service.
US10979919B2
A beam failure recovery method in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The beam failure recovery method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, configuration information about a candidate beam reference signal (RS) set, if RS received power (RSRP) values for all of candidate beam RSs and RSRP values for all of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) connected to a physical random access channel (PRACH) do not exceed a threshold, selecting a CSI-RS within the candidate beam RS set and a beam RS for the BFR among all the SSBs, and transmitting a PRACH preamble to the base station via a PRACH resource connected to the beam RS.
US10979913B2
Adapting wireless network coverage areas according to beam parameters corresponding to predetermined radio cluster models is disclosed. The disclosed subject matter can enable determining cluster models corresponding to historic use of a wireless network, e.g., based on historical KPIs, etc., from UEs, RAN devices, antennas, and other sources. The cluster models can correspond to beam parameters. The cluster model of the cluster models can be selected based on a current KPI value, e.g., a real-time or near real-time wireless network measurement, e.g., from a UE, RAN device, antenna, etc. Beam parameters corresponding to the selected cluster model can be communicated to a RAN device which can generate a corresponding radio beam. In an aspect, this can provide wireless connectivity to clusters of devices in the area of the radio beam, wherein the devices of the clusters can, in some embodiments, share same or similar wireless network demands.
US10979911B2
According to one configuration, a wireless communication system includes antenna hardware, radio communication hardware, and a controller. The controller defines wireless sectors of coverage and configures them dynamically depending on network conditions. The radio communication hardware is coupled to the antenna hardware. The antenna hardware includes multiple antenna elements to wirelessly communicate in a network environment. During operation, the controller generates configuration settings to control a configuration of the radio communication hardware and the antenna hardware. The controller applies the configuration settings to the radio communication hardware to define corresponding wireless coverage provided by one or more software defined sectors in multiple base stations in a network environment. The one or more instantiated base stations (as indicated by the configuration settings) provide multiple communication devices in the network environment access to a remote network such as the Internet.
US10979907B2
The disclosed implementations include a method performed by a system on a telecommunications network. The system can store an indication of an association between a user device and a service plan, communicate a message to the user device, and receive an indication that a single-action input was received at the user device on the telecommunications network. The single-action input is in response to the message presented on the user device. In response to receiving the indication, the system can obtain an identifier of the user device to identify the service plan of the user device and determine whether the user device can redeem the third-party service. If the user or user device is eligible, the third-party service is automatically provisioned for the user device.
US10979901B2
Provided are an electronic device and a method for processing data in the electronic device. The electronic device may receive server registration time-related information—that is, information related to a time when at least one beacon device becomes registered in a server, and decrypt at least one beacon signal received from the at least one beacon device based on the received server registration time-related information.
US10979899B2
The present disclosure relates to a data communication method and system. The method includes: a first terminal continuously generating a communication carrier signal; sending by the first terminal a communication data signal carrying a data packet to be processed, beginning to record the first number of pulses when the first terminal completes sending the data packet to be processed; receiving by the second terminal the communication data signal, beginning to record the second number of pulses when the second terminal completes receiving the data packet to be processed, generating a response data packet sending, by the second terminal, the response data packet to the first terminal when detecting that the second number reaches a pulse number threshold N; and allowing, by the first terminal, to begin receiving the response data packet when detecting that the first number is within a threshold range.
US10979898B1
In one embodiment, a method by a stage device includes receiving from a client device a first randomized client address to be used during a pairing session; sending to the client device a first randomized stage address to be used during the pairing session; communicating with the client device using the first randomized client address and the first randomized stage address to establish at least one common randomization parameter; periodically generating, based on the at least one common randomization parameter, a second randomized client address and a second randomized stage address; and communicating with the client device in a paired communication session using the second randomized client address and the second randomized stage address.
US10979894B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for a first device setting the address of a second device through a Bluetooth mesh network wherein a setting message for setting the address is transmitted to the second device, and a first status message is received from the second device as a response to the setting message, the first status message comprising status information indicating whether the setting of the address was successful, and the setting message comprises at least one among an address field comprising an address value to be used by the second device in the Bluetooth mesh network or a first identifier indicating a request or no request for a response to the setting message.
US10979888B2
A dynamic recovery system for a network comprising: an orchestrator, the orchestrator communicates with at least one mobility management entity in the network to monitor at least one of a key performance and a key capacity indicator; the orchestrator upon detecting that the at least one the key performance and key capacity indicator is above an operator configured threshold: instantiates at least one virtual mobility management entity, disables a communications profile towards the mobility management entity, and provides a communications profile toward at least one virtual mobility management entity.
US10979887B2
Embodiments of the application provide an access method, including: obtaining, by a network device, first information, where the first information is used to indicate a slice/service type (SST) of a slice that is allowed to be accessed by a terminal device and a radio access technology (RAT) type that is allowed to be used when the terminal device accesses the slice that is allowed to be accessed; obtaining, by the network device, second information, where the second information is used to indicate an SST of a slice connected to an access and mobility management function (AMF) device and a RAT type supported by the slice connected to the AMF device; and selecting, by the network device based on the first information and the second information, a first AMF device that serves the terminal device.
US10979885B1
Network hardware devices organized in a wireless mesh network (WMN). A first mesh network device performs a three-stage discovery protocol; in a first stage, a discovery scan uses a first radio to find a set of neighbor devices in proximity; in a second stage, a discovery locate probe process is performed on a secondary discovery channel that is from a same frequency band group as a first DFS channel; in a third stage, a CAC is performed via the first DFS channel and, after the CAC, a neighbor peering request is sent and a neighbor peering response is received from a second mesh network device via a second radio. The neighbor peering response confirms establishment of a first communication channel between the second radio of the first mesh network device and a radio of the second mesh network device over the first DFS channel.
US10979874B2
The described technology is generally directed towards a multi-connectivity (three or more simultaneous communication links) framework in a wireless communication network, including aspects and components that support the operation of New Radio vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services. Aspects of the framework include initial access and V2X establishment, local manager selection, sidelink and cellular resource configuration, mobility and measurements (and reporting), group communication and vehicular platooning support, and V2X configuration and local manager association.
US10979872B2
A client-server system and a blockchain method for calculating whether a time-crucial shipment is located according to an expectation comprising a client device adapted for being adhered to or placed within a time-crucial package shipment; and a remote special purpose computer server comprising a transit plan schedule database based on pickup time and location stored in memory, the remote special purpose computer server being programmed to calculate a location of the client device based on data accessed from a Wi-Fi access point location database, the transmitted identification data, and the transmitted signal strength data, and compare the calculated location to an expected location based on common carrier schedule transit plan pickup time and delivery location received from third party database sources.
US10979870B1
In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing devices, receiving, from a client system of a user, a request for event recommendations for the user; accessing information indicating a geographic location associated with the user; accessing a geographic map comprising multiple map tiles, each map tile defining a geographic area within the map; identifying a first map tile of the multiple map tiles associated with the user based on the geographic location associated with the user; and determining a social tile associated with the first map tile, wherein the social tile comprises the first map tile and one or more second map tiles of the multiple map tiles, wherein the first map tile and the one or more second map tiles are clustered into the social tile based on one or more items of prior attendee information corresponding to one or more prior events.
US10979868B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a system for transmitting an uplink signal between a plurality of carriers, user equipment, and a base station, so that channel reciprocity can be effectively utilized. In some implementations, the method includes receiving indication signaling sent by a base station; and transmitting an uplink signal in a target subframe of a corresponding target carrier based on the indication signaling.
US10979865B2
A network node, a device and methods therein are provided for handling of devices based on group membership. The method performed by the network node comprises obtaining of information indicating a group membership and further indicating reachable gateways of a set of devices. The method further comprises initiating a command to a number of devices out of the set of devices belonging to the same group, G1, to connect to one of the indicated gateways, gateway W, selected for the number of devices based on group membership.
US10979861B2
An information transmission system includes a communication connection device and a server. The communication connection device includes a use determination unit, a first communicator, a second communicator, and a communication control unit. The use determination unit determines whether a movable object is in use. The second communicator communicates with the server for a larger volume of data than the first communicator at a time, or communicates with the server more frequently than the first communicator. The communication control unit causes the second communicator to transmit, selectively from transmission information, specific transmission information including predefined movable object information to the server when the use determination unit determines that the movable object is not in use and the second communicator is enabled to communicate with a communication base station.
US10979858B2
A position information providing apparatus includes: a posting information acquisition part that acquires, from a social media service, posting information having a posting date and time and a posted text that has been posted by a user and that includes a word related to a behavior; a vehicle information acquisition part that acquires vehicle information, including travel history information, based on a vehicle ID associated with a user ID of the acquired posting information; and a position information providing part that provides the posting information with position information related to a posting, based on the acquired posting information and travel history information.
US10979850B1
Methods described herein relate to identifying a context of a client, and more particularly, to identifying a context of a client while maintaining data privacy and anonymity. Methods may include: providing a machine learning model to a client; receiving a state vector from the client; determining, based on using the state vector as input to the machine learning model, a representative location of the client; and providing, to the client, location-related services or information based on the representative location of the client. The representative location of the client may include a context vector. The context vector may include an indication of a count of points-of-interest for a respective category of a plurality of categories of points-of-interest. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also provided.
US10979848B1
A method for identifying an entity device using device signature of the entity device and location signature of a location. The method includes generating device signature for the entity device based on device and connection attributes and user agent strings obtained from independently controlled data sources, generating location signature for the location based on latitude-longitude pair, shape or size of the location, and connection attributes of devices connecting from the location, receiving location data streams from the entity device, generating a cohort of device signatures for the location, generating indexed data stream for the location using combination of the location signature and the cohort of device signatures, building set of rules or machine learning model based on indexed data stream, assigning unique generated identifier for entity device, and identifying, the entity device using the unique generated identifier from selected data stream that does not include device identifier of the entity device.
US10979842B2
An exemplary audio processing system accesses audio stream data representative of a plurality of virtual sounds that virtually originate within an extended reality world and include real-time captured speech originating from a speaking user experiencing the extended reality world and a prerecorded or synthesized sound originating from a real audio source. The audio processing system also accesses acoustic propagation data representative of characteristics that affect propagation within the extended reality world of the virtual sounds to a listening avatar. As the virtual sounds propagate to the listening avatar, the audio processing system renders, based on the audio stream data and the acoustic propagation data, a composite binaural audio stream that represents simulated reproductions of the virtual sounds. The simulated reproductions of the virtual sounds are customized to account for the characteristics that affect the propagation of the virtual sounds to the listening avatar. Corresponding systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10979840B2
The invention provides a method for manufacturing a MEMS microphone. The method comprises steps of: preparing a base; forming a first diaphragm on a first surface of the base; preparing a back plate; forming a first gap between the first diaphragm and the back plate; preparing a second diaphragm opposite to the first diaphragm; forming a second gap between the second diaphragm and the back plate; preparing electrodes on the second diaphragm; forming a back cavity by etching a second surface of the base opposite to the first surface.
US10979839B2
A sound pickup method obtains a correlation between a first sound pickup signal of a directional first microphone and a second sound pickup signal of a non-directional second microphone, and performs level control of the first sound pickup signal or the second sound pickup signal according to a calculation result of the correlation.
US10979828B2
Various embodiments are directed to an ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer. The device includes an enclosure configured to be supported by or in an ear of the wearer. Electronic circuitry is disposed in the enclosure and includes a wireless transceiver. An antenna is situated in or on the enclosure and coupled to the wireless transceiver. The antenna includes a first antenna element, a second antenna element, and a chip antenna operably coupled to the first and second antenna elements.
US10979807B2
An electronic device comprising: a microphone array including at least three microphones; and at least one processor configured to: identify a kind of an application that is executed; activate one or more of the microphones in the array based on each microphone's respective position within the electronic device and the type of the application; and capture audio using the activated microphones.
US10979806B1
An audio system having a depth capturing device and a microphone array to respectively detect a point cloud and a local sound field, is described. The point cloud includes points corresponding to objects in a source space, and the local sound field includes sounds received in respective directions from the source space. The audio system includes one or more processors to generate a global sound field based on distances to the points and directions of the sounds. The global sound field includes virtual sound sources emitting respective sounds at respective points. A speaker can render the virtual sound sources to a user in a virtual space that corresponds to the source space.
US10979804B2
The waterproof and dustproof speaker system includes a base with four base sides defining a base internal space. The base internal space can accommodate various items. A passive acoustical radiator is mounted in two opposing sides. A lid is hinged to the base and includes lid sides defining a lid internal space and two speakers mounted in the lid. The lid also accommodates electronics for receiving audio program signals and driving the speakers. When the lid is closed onto the base, the internal space is sealed against the intrusion of water and dust. The waterproof speaker system is weighted and balanced so that waterproof speaker system floats upright in water with the lid uppermost.
US10979799B2
The present invention provides a speaker box, which includes a housing with an accommodating space and a sound unit accommodated in the housing. The sound unit divides the accommodating space into a front cavity and a rear cavity. The housing is provided with a sound hole, the front cavity is communicated with the sound hole, the housing is provided with a baffle wall corresponding to the rear cavity, an air-permeable isolating member corresponding to the baffle wall is provided in the rear cavity, the baffle wall is matched with the air-permeable isolating member to separate a part from the rear cavity to form an independent cavity, and a sound absorbing material is filled in the independent cavity. The air-permeable isolating member is provided with a protrusion portion extending outwardly towards a direction away from the independent cavity.
US10979797B2
A headphone or other wire holder including an elongated central body and a pair of forked portions, one on each end of the central body. Each forked portion may include two tines. The central body may define a retention channel running along a length of the central body between the forked portion. The retention channel may be configured to receive and secure a length of a wire, such as a headphone cable.
US10979794B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a housing comprising a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction, the first surface comprising an at least partially transparent part and at least one opening formed adjacent to the at least partially transparent part; a camera positioned inside the housing, the camera comprising an image sensor facing in the first direction through the at least partially transparent part of the housing; and an acoustic component arranged between the first surface and the second surface, the acoustic component comprising a vibration plate configured to generate a sound such that the same moves in at least one direction selected from the first and second directions, a first passage formed in a third direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction such that the generated sound passes through the same, and a second passage formed along a fourth direction that is different from the third direction so as to connect the first passage and the at least one opening; a wireless communication circuit positioned inside the housing and electrically connected to the acoustic component so as to provide the acoustic component with a signal regarding the sound; a display exposed through the first surface and positioned adjacent to the camera; and a processor positioned inside the housing and electrically connected to the camera, the acoustic component, the wireless communication circuit, and the display. Various other embodiments are also possible.
US10979792B2
A wireless sound-emitting device includes a housing adapted to be coupled to a wall at a source of electric power, a loudspeaker positioned at a periphery of the housing, a control module outputting an electric audio signal to the at least one loudspeaker, and a wireless communications module in electrical communication with the control module. The loudspeaker emits acoustic signals in a direction parallel to the wall, when the housing is coupled to the wall, with the acoustic signals reflecting off the wall. The device may produce a sound masking noise or play a sound recorded on an internal memory. The device may include an electric plug or be adapted to replace an electric outlet faceplate. The device may have electric pass-through outlets and may be powered by the source of electric power. The device may be controlled remotely, for example via an Internet of Things (IoT) platform.
US10979789B1
Wavelength-based random access in an optical communications network for a wireless communications system (WCS) is disclosed. An optical network unit(s) (ONU(s)) is configured to generate a random access signal comprising an unsolicited buffer occupancy (BO) report to request uplink allocation as soon as the ONU(s) receives a non-periodic uplink data burst. The ONU(s) then sends an optical random access signal including the unsolicited BO report to an optical line terminator (OLT) based on a random access wavelength, which is so determined not to cause any interference with a downlink optical communications signal(s) and an uplink optical communications signal(s) being regularly communicated between the OLT and the ONU(s). As a result, it is possible to reduce access delay at the ONU(s) for sending the non-periodic uplink data burst without requiring frequent polling from the OLT, thus helping to reduce signaling overhead and improve throughput of the optical communications network.
US10979785B2
A media playback apparatus and a method for synchronously reproducing video and audio on a web browser are provided. In the media playback apparatus, audio is buffered to be outputted at a time point at which video is outputted, thereby synchronizing the outputs of video and audio. The media playback apparatus may output the video in synchronization with the audio even when video and audio are decoded by different decoders. Therefore, it is possible to implement a decoder separately from a decoder embedded in a web browser in a non-plug-in environment, thereby reducing the dependency on the codec format of the media.
US10979780B2
The present technology relates to a receiving device, a receiving method, a transmission device, and a transmission method for operation of various services. The receiving device acquires trigger information for providing various functions, the trigger information containing type information indicating the type of trigger information and channel information indicating a series for each function provided by the trigger information. The receiving device performs processing corresponding to each function on the basis of the trigger information identified by the type information and the channel information. The present technology is applicable to a television receiver being able to receive a digital broadcast signal, for example.
US10979770B2
The user can respond to a media segment wherein the media segment may be associated with a schedulable event. Software on the device can then schedule the event into an electronic calendar system, and/or may use data associated with the media segment. At the appropriate time, the electronic calendar system may notify the user of the scheduled broadcast and/or event.
US10979768B2
Apparatus and methods for downloading selected multimedia content and applications. In one embodiment, the apparatus and methods enable various options or functionalities for programming content over a home network. A web-based user interface on a consumer device controls a set-top box (STB) over a local home network is utilized. An initial process connects the consumer device to an application server for the necessary web software. After discovery of both the consumer device and the STB on the local home network, an initial page of the application is loaded and the application calls the web services on the STB via the home network to retrieve data and control the STB with a compatible web browser on the consumer device.
US10979765B2
A technique is described for improved issue reporting by a receiving device such as a set-top boxes for satellite and cable television services. In an example embodiment, the receiving device generates an issue report based on internal operational logs, captured screens and/or video of a visual output, and a recording of the user's voice that includes a description of the issue they are experiencing. This issue report can be generated as an object file that can then be transmitted, via a communications network, to an issue reporting platform for processing, for example, by a technical support representative or an automated troubleshooting system.
US10979764B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to correct misattributions of media impressions are disclosed. An example method includes obtaining first demographic-based impressions via a beacon transmitted in response to access to content by a first set of panelists, obtaining, from a database proprietor, second demographic-based impressions of the content on a second set of persons, forming a pseudo-inverse matrix determined based in part on the first impressions, and having a truncated value and a damped value to form third demographic-based impressions of the content on the second set of persons based on the second impressions, and computing at least partially corrected demographic-based impressions values by multiplying a vector of database proprietor impression data by the pseudo-inverse matrix.
US10979760B2
A method causes a display device to simultaneously display at least the following: a video depicting an item in a scene and a tag in a first position on the video. The tag is associated with the item depicted in the video. The tag includes text information associated with the item depicted in the video. The method also causes the tag to undergo motion relative to at least a portion of the video scene from the first position to a second position different from the first position, while causing the display device to display the video and the tag on the video.
US10979759B2
An analysis method, device and storage medium of an moov box is provided. The method includes acquiring binary data corresponding to the moov box in binary data of the media file based on a location of the moov box in a media file; sequentially analyzing binary data with a standard length in obtained binary data corresponding to ancc moov box header to obtain a box type of a sub-box in the moov box and a length of box data of the sub-box; and invoking a parser with a type corresponding the box type of the sub-box, sequentially analyzing binary data corresponding to a length of the box data in unanalyzed data to obtain media information represented by the box data.
US10979749B2
Example embodiments provide systems and methods for crowdsourced skipping of media content portions. In an example method, a plurality of content tags are received from a plurality of media content devices over a communication network. Each of the plurality of content tags may designate a location within a media content item. The content tags are processed to generate aggregated content tags for the media content item. The aggregated content tags may designate one or more portions of the media content item for modified playback. The aggregated content tags for the media content item are transmitted over the communication network to a first media content device separate from the plurality of media content devices.
US10979744B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a low-latency approach for local or remote application streaming that reaches high FPS targets without overloading the available streaming bandwidth, for example, by limiting the bit rate to the same value that is used by traditional 60 FPS streaming solutions. A client device and server device cooperate to actively monitor and control a video stream to maintain an acceptable balance between latency and video quality by adjusting the frequency or resolution when necessary to improve the streaming experience. When the server device captures and transmits frames at a higher rate, the software stack executing on the client device is able to display frames with less delay, even on a display device limited to 60 Hz, thereby achieving additional latency reduction.
US10979735B2
According to the present invention, an image encoding/decoding method comprises the steps of: performing an intra prediction on a current block so as to generate a prediction block; performing filtering on a filtering target pixel in the prediction block on the basis of the intra prediction mode of the current block so as to generate a final prediction block; and generating a reconstructed block on the basis of a reconstructed differential block corresponding to the current block and on the final prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.
US10979711B2
A method for encoding video is disclosed wherein information representative of pixels in an image frame is received, and a spatial statistical measure of said information is calculated for groups of neighbouring pixels to form a group value for each group of pixels. A set of available quantization steps is determined comprising a first predetermined quantization step. For a first group of neighbouring pixels, the method comprises: for each available quantization step calculating a remainder after division of the group value of the first group of pixels by the respective available quantization step. The quantization step of the set that results in the smallest remainder is selected as selected quantization step. The first group of pixels is encoded using the selected quantization step. A method of encoding differences between image frames is also disclosed, as well as encoding systems.
US10979708B2
The present invention relates to efficient signaling of an intra prediction mode for predicting a current block in intra prediction coding. According to an aspect of the present invention, a video encoding apparatus divides dozens of intra modes into groups, selects a group to which an actual intra mode of the current block to be encoded belongs, and signals a value corresponding to the group. The video decoding apparatus acquires information on the group to which the actual intra mode of the current block belongs from a bit-stream and then evaluates intra modes belonging to the group to select a final intra mode.
US10979707B2
A method and apparatus of video coding using adaptive Inter prediction are disclosed. A selected Inter prediction process is determined, wherein the selected Inter prediction process selects an Inter prediction filter from multiple Inter prediction filters for the current block depending on first pixel data comprising neighbouring reconstructed pixels (NRP) of the current block. The selected Inter prediction process may be further determined depending on extra motion compensated pixels (EMCP) around a motion-compensated reference block corresponding to the current block. Distortion between the NRP and EMCP can be used to determine the selected Inter prediction filter. The distortion can be calculated using a sum of absolute differences or squared differences between the NRP and the EMCP.
US10979702B2
The present disclosure relates to an image encoding apparatus that makes it possible to improve the encoding speed while maintaining the image quality. A statistical information calculation unit supplies calculated statistical information to a table selection unit. Further, a picture type of an image from a screen rearrangement buffer and a quantization parameter Qp from a rate control unit are supplied to the table selection unit. The table selection unit determines a mode table to be used from a plurality of mode tables stored in a table storage unit on the basis of the statistical information and the picture type. For example, the table selection unit selects the mode table according to whether the statistical information is larger or smaller than a predetermined threshold. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus that performs encoding.
US10979697B2
A method for post processing and displaying a three-dimensional angiography image data set of a blood vessel tree of a patient, wherein two-dimensional display images are rendered from the angiography image data set and displayed, wherein two display images are rendered from the angiography image data set using viewing directions forming an angle suited for stereoscopic perception of the display images and both display images are simultaneously displayed on a display screen in a display presentation that causes each display image to be viewed by one eye of a person viewing the display screen.
US10979695B2
Parallax views of objects are used to generate 3D depth maps of the objects using time of flight (TOF) information. In this way, the deleterious effects of multipath interference can be reduced to improve 3D depth map accuracy without using computationally intensive algorithms.
US10979690B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) receiving a first 2D frame depicting an evolving 3D scene and elements in the evolving 3D scene, (2) receiving a second 2D frame depicting the evolving 3D scene and the elements, (3) deriving 2D motion vectors from the first 2D frame and the second 2D frame that each include an estimated offset from coordinates of an element in the first 2D frame to coordinates of the element in the second 2D frame, (4) receiving depth information for the evolving 3D scene, (5) using the 2D motion vectors and the depth information to extrapolate a synthetic 2D frame, and (6) displaying the synthetic 2D frame to a user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10979678B1
The present disclosure describes structural inspection devices, methods, and systems. One inspection device includes a pole, a sensor coupled to an end of the pole and configured to capture a multispectral image of a roof, and a number of attachments coupled to the pole and configured to stabilize the pole.
US10979676B1
Described are systems and methods that enable users to virtually experience an environment at a destination location from their own user device, control their experience and even interact with others that are physically located within the environment. Likewise, the user's experience may even be improved with the inclusion of enhancements that are presented to the user as the user experiences the environment. User's may interact with the enhancements to obtain additional enhancements, interact with others physically located within the environment, interact with and direct a guide that is physically located within the environment, and receive near real-time video and audio that is transmitted from a guide device located within the environment.
US10979668B2
Audio/video (A/V) recording and communication devices in network communication with additional cameras in accordance with various embodiments of the present disclosure are provided. In one embodiment, an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device is provided comprising: a first camera configured to capture image data at a first resolution; a communication module; and a processing module operatively connected to the first camera and the communication module, wherein the processing module is in network communication with a backend server, the processing module comprising: a processor; and a camera application that configures the processor to: maintain the first camera in a low-power state; receive a power-up command signal from the backend server based on an output signal from a second camera; power up the first camera in response to the power-up command signal; and capture image data using the first camera in response to the power-up command signal.
US10979666B2
An asymmetric video conferencing system comprises a panoramic video conferencing device in a first location and a head mounted video conferencing device in a second location. The panoramic video conferencing device acquires panoramic images of multiple participants via a 360 degree camera, identifies a face or other region of interest (ROI) in the panoramic images, and captures video data of the ROI. To reduce bandwidth utilized, the ROI video data is transmitted to the head mounted video conferencing device used by a remote participant, who can command alternative views and audio from the first location. Images and audio of the remote participant can be transmitted to the first location for viewing and hearing by the multiple participants, enabling virtual face-to-face discussions. A method implementing the system is also disclosed herein.
US10979661B2
An analog-to-digital conversion circuit includes a first comparator, a second comparator and a counter circuit. The first comparator compares an analog signal with a ramp signal. The second comparator compares the analog signal with the ramp signal plus a predetermined offset. When a signal level of the ramp signal is less than a signal level of the analog signal, the counter circuit counts a number of clock cycles of a first clock signal to generate a first portion of a digital signal. When the signal level of the ramp signal plus the predetermined offset is greater than the signal level of the analog signal, the counter circuit counts a number of clock cycles of a second clock signal to generate a second portion of the digital signal. A frequency of the first clock signal is less than a frequency of the second clock signal.
US10979660B2
An imaging apparatus includes a) an image sensor having a pixel unit with a plurality of pixels, a first memory unit, and a first rearrangement circuit; b) an information processing unit having a second memory unit, a second rearrangement circuit, and a control unit for simultaneously reading out a plurality of rows of image signals from the pixel unit, making the first rearrangement circuit rearrange image signals and then making the second rearrangement circuit rearrange image signals rearranged by the first rearrangement circuit to restore an order of the two-dimensional arrangement of the pixels in the pixel unit.
US10979659B2
An image sensor includes a unit pixel, a first compensation circuit generating a first compensation voltage signal to compensate for horizontal noise corresponding to a variation in an input signal of a horizontal line coupled to the column line, a second compensation circuit generating a second compensation voltage signal to compensate for power noise corresponding to a variation in a power supply voltage, and a readout circuit including a first transistor, having a gate connected to an output terminal of the first compensation circuit, and a second transistor, connected to the first transistor in parallel, having a gate connected to an output terminal of the second compensation circuit, the readout circuit being configured to calibrate at least one of an output signal of the unit pixel and a ramp voltage signal, output by a ramp generator, using the first compensation voltage signal and the second compensation voltage signal.
US10979656B2
An imaging device including a condenser lens and an image sensor is provided. The image sensor is configured to sense light penetrating the condenser lens and includes a pixel matrix, an opaque layer, a plurality of microlenses and an infrared filter layer. The pixel matrix includes a plurality of infrared pixels, a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels. The opaque layer covers upon a first region of the first pixels and a second region of the second pixels, wherein the first region and the second region are mirror-symmetrically arranged in a first direction. The plurality of microlenses is arranged upon the pixel matrix. The infrared filter layer covers upon the infrared pixels.
US10979651B2
An imaging system includes a first optical module including a first image sensor, a second optical module comprising a second image sensor, and an image processor. The first optical module has a first focal length range. The second optical module has a second focal length range. The first focal length range and the second focal length range are different. The image processor is configured to receive image data for a first image from the first optical module and/or image data for a second image from the second optical module and generate data to show the first image and/or the second image within a display.
US10979648B2
A method and a stereoscopic apparatus configured to determine an exposure time period for capturing images. The apparatus comprises at least one image capturing device for capturing pairs of images; a processor configured to: calculate a texture-signal-to-noise ratio (TSNR) metric based on information derived from a pair of captured images; calculate an image saturation metric based on that pair of captured images; calculate a value for an exposure duration that will be implemented by the at least one image capturing device when another pair of images are captured; provide the value of the calculated exposure time period to each at least one image capturing device; and wherein the at least one image capturing device is configured to capture at least one image of the target while implementing each the respective calculated value of the exposure time period provided to the corresponding one of the at least one image capturing device.
US10979646B2
Systems, methods, and devices for fluorescence imaging with a minimal area image sensor are disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation, wherein the pixel array comprises active pixels and optical black pixels. The system includes a black clamp circuit providing offset control for data generated by the pixel array and a controller comprising a processor in electrical communication with the image sensor and the emitter. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 795 nm to about 815 nm.
US10979645B2
A video capturing device may include a video calibrator connected to one or more fixed cameras and a PTZ camera. The video calibrator may receive a first image captured by the one or more fixed cameras and a second image acquired by performing image capturing while moving the PTZ camera, search an image area matched with the first image within a reference window which is specified in the second image according to a default value associated with an aiming direction of the fixed camera, and output information associated with the searched image area.
US10979635B2
Wide-angle optical functionality is beneficial for imaging and image projection devices. Conventionally, wide-angle operation is attained by a complicated assembly of optical elements. Recent advances have led to meta-surface lenses or meta-lenses, which are ultra-thin planar lenses with nanoantennas that control the phase, amplitude, and/or polarization of light. Here, we present a meta-lens capable of diffraction-limited focusing and imaging over an unprecedented >170° angular field of view (FOV). The lens is integrated on a one-piece flat substrate and includes an aperture on one side and a single meta-surface on the other side. The meta-surface corrects third-order Seidel aberrations, including coma, astigmatism, and field curvature. The meta-lens has a planar focal plane, which enables considerably simplified system architectures for imaging and projection. The meta-lens design is generic and can be readily adapted to different meta-atom geometries and wavelength ranges to meet diverse application demands.
US10979634B2
An image capture assembly includes a first optical module, a first image sensor, a second optical module, a second image sensor, and a data processing circuit. The first optical module captures an image in a first field-of-view and projects the image on the first image sensor, such that the first image sensor generates a first image frame. The second optical module captures another image in a second field-of-view and projects the another image on the second image sensor, such that the second image sensor generates a second image frame. The data processing circuit merges the first image frame and the second image frame in a longitudinal direction, to generate a combined image frame. The vertical resolution and the horizontal resolution of the combined image are configured in accordance with an aspect ratio of a display screen.
US10979630B2
Techniques are disclosed to control a camera device such that memory contention and power consumption is reduced during video processing routines, generally referred to herein as media tasks. In particular, a workload scheduler is implemented in a camera HAL and is configured to dispatch captured image frames in an alternating manner between competing media tasks such that the processing of those image frames is performed sequentially, and thus, eliminates or otherwise mitigates memory contention. To this end, techniques variously disclosed herein can be used to enable low-cost, low-memory configured devices to perform concurrent media tasks on captured high-definition video at high framerates, without an undesirable decrease in performance and an increase in power consumption.
US10979625B2
A method for editing an image based on artificial intelligence and an artificial intelligence device are disclosed. In the method for editing an image based on artificial intelligence, a recommended photographic composition is created by applying an image acquired by a camera to a pre-trained composition recommendation model, and the image is corrected based on the created recommended photographic composition, whereby it is possible to capture and edit an image at the same time without the trouble of correcting the image after capturing it. One or more of an artificial intelligence device of the present disclosure can be associated with artificial intelligence modules, drones (unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, devices related to 5G service, etc.
US10979623B2
The present invention is directed to implementing at least one of speed-up of detection processing and reduction of misdetection. An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image, a first setting unit configured to set a plurality of detection areas of an object for the captured image, a second setting unit configured to set a condition for detecting an object on a first detection area and a second detection area set by the first setting unit, wherein the condition includes a detection size in the captured image, and a detection unit configured to detect an object satisfying the detection size set by the second setting unit from the plurality of detection areas set by the first setting unit.
US10979616B2
Implementations generally relate to communication between a lens assembly and a camera. In some implementations, a method includes establishing electronic communication between a lens assembly and a camera, wherein the lens assembly is removably attached to the camera. The method further includes exchanging capability information between the lens assembly and the camera, wherein the capability information includes one or more functional features. The method further includes matching one or more of the functional features that both the lens assembly has and that the camera has. The method further includes enabling the lens assembly and the camera to cooperate in providing functional features based at least in part on the matching of one or more of the functional features.
US10979610B2
The present invention provides a camera module, a molding photosensitive assembly thereof, a manufacturing method, and an electronic device, the molding photosensitive assembly comprises a lens, a photosensitive element, a circuit board, a molding base, and a supporting element, the photosensitive element being arranged on the circuit board, the molding base being formed into an integral structure with the lens, the supporting element, the photosensitive element, and the circuit board by means of a molding process, and the camera module and the molding photosensitive assembly thereof being capable of reducing stain sensitivity and shortening the distance of the lens plane above a light through hole of the lens to the photosensitive plane of the photosensitive element.
US10979602B2
A control device acts as a reference color converter that converts inputted image data into reference image data of a color space, a prospective medium color converter that converts the inputted image data into output image data for reproducing the image with a plurality of color materials, and generates comparative output image data of the color space, by converting the color space of the output image data, a color difference calculator that compares colors between the reference image data and the comparative output image data, and calculates a specific color difference corresponding to a predetermined cumulative relative frequency, an image forming cost calculator that calculates the image forming cost, and a sheet selection supporter that extracts the prospective image forming medium that provides the specific color difference smaller than a predetermined threshold, and displays the prospective image forming medium in different appearances according to the image forming cost.
US10979600B2
A method of printing comprises executing an output settings calibration procedure, the procedure comprising: depositing, by one or more printing elements, ink onto a first substrate according to respective output settings. The procedure further comprises measuring, by a sensor, an actual color value of the ink deposited onto the first substrate at each of a plurality of locations. The procedure further comprises determining a difference between the actual color value and a target color value for each of the plurality of locations and determining adjusted respective output settings for each of the plurality of locations based on the determined difference. The method further comprises depositing, by the one or more printing elements, ink onto a second substrate according to the adjusted respective output settings.
US10979595B2
Embodiment of systems and methods for the sending, delivery or receiving of faxes are disclosed herein. In particular, certain embodiments include a fax connector that may be deployed at users' sites, and a fax registration system that may be deployed remotely from these users' site. The fax connector can be accessed at a user's site over a computer based network in order to perform functions associated with faxing, including sending, receiving and obtaining status on faxes. The fax connector deployed at a sending user's site communicates with the fax registration system to obtain destination data associated with a recipient user's fax connector and transmits the fax to the destination fax connector over the computer based network based on the destination data obtained from the registration system. The fax can then be presented to the recipient at the recipient user's site.
US10979593B2
An output method for receiving output data that is associated with acquired identification information from a server and outputting an image based on the output data from an image forming apparatus is provided. The output method includes: accepting posting of a message from a terminal to a messaging service; sending attachment data to the server when the message includes the attachment data; and issuing identification information that is associated with output data based on the attachment data when the attachment data is in a format that can be accepted for registration.
US10979587B2
A recording apparatus includes a reverse path for reversing a surface of a medium, a second medium transport path for guiding the medium on which recording has been performed to the reverse path, a third medium transport path which is positioned vertically below the second medium transport path and guides the medium on which recording has been performed to the reverse path, in which a first path forming portion that forms the reverse path, a second path forming portion that forms a part of an upper side of the second medium transport path, and a third path forming portion that forms a part of an upper side of the third medium transport path are constituted to be attachable and detachable as a unit body, and a part of the second medium transport path and a part of the third medium transport path are exposed by removing the unit body.
US10979583B2
An information processing apparatus that makes it easy to recognize which operating button corresponds to a displayed context menu. The context menu is for giving an instruction to execute a function corresponding to an operating button displayed on a display unit and is displayed when a predetermined operation on the operating button by a user is detected. The context menu is displayed at a predetermined display position set in advance with respect to a detected position at which the predetermined operation is detected on the display unit. Based on the detected position, the predetermined display position is switched to a position at which a characteristic part which represents a function corresponding to the operating button is not hidden by the context menu.
US10979575B1
A method includes recording, at an electronic device utilizing a microphone of the electronic device, ambient noise of an environment the electronic device is disposed in; electronically analyzing, utilizing one or more processors, the recorded ambient noise of the environment to determine one or more frequency bands to avoid; dynamically adapting, based on the electronic analysis, an auditory alert to be played at the electronic device, such adaptation including frequency equalization adjustments based on the determination of one or more frequency bands to avoid; and playing, at the electronic device utilizing one or more speakers of the electronic device, the adapted auditory alert.
US10979566B2
Optimizing next step action based on agent availability for effective sales and marketing engagement
A system and method for establishing a communication with a customer by an agent, via one or more communication modes includes an agent computer and a second computer. The agent computer receives a batch notification identifying a batch of one or more customer records in the agent computer, for communication in the near future, wherein the one or more customer records is associated with one or more customers. The second computer provides the batch notification enabling the agent computer to identify the batch of one or more customer records. The system determines a next step action based on a prediction of availability of the agent to execute a communication attempt to communicate with the customer using a communication mode that requires the attendance of the agent.
US10979564B2
Initiating a conference call includes receiving a conference call request message from an initiating user specifying a plurality of other users and determining an availability of the other users to receive conference call invitations. A conference call is initiated between the initiating user and one or more of the other users that are determined to be available. The availability of one or more of the other users determined to be unavailable is monitored and interaction with a conference call invitation by one or more of the other users determined to be unavailable is enabled upon their monitored availability changing from unavailable to available. The interaction with the conference call invitation by the other users is conditioned on whether the conference call is still in progress.
US10979561B1
A telephony call connection process is provided which assumes that 100% of received calls have spoofed sources or contain otherwise untrustworthy caller-id (CID) information, and requires each caller to provide a prearranged personal identification number “PIN” (or secret code) associated with their caller-id (CID) in order to complete a connection. Additional mechanisms are provided to create and exchange the PIN (or secret code) in an environment in which the caller must first establish the ownership of the caller-id (CID) provided. The process described herein minimizes the risk of false positives and virtually eliminates the need for manual “screening” as is often required of the callee in similar systems. Furthermore, the process described herein is capable of operating entirely on the callee's equipment providing the same level of effectiveness entirely devoid of participation from any other switch or node in the call path or on the network.
US10979540B2
Methods and systems for connecting multiple platforms to a universal framework are disclosed. Data is received from a network device at an engine via a first protocol, wherein the data includes metadata. The metadata is converted from the first protocol to a plurality of protocols at the engine. The universal framework is provided at the engine to make the metadata available to external devices via the plurality of protocols.
US10979533B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.
US10979522B2
Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for data management in a reverse content data network (rCDN). A component of the rCDN may include a memory to hold content received from a first sensor device of a plurality of sensor devices of the rCDN and first attributes that describe properties of the content. The component may include processing circuitry to receive second content from a second sensor device of the plurality of sensor devices, the second content including a plurality of second attributes that describe properties of the second content, and forward, in response to a determination, based on the first and second attributes, that there is insufficient space to store the second content on the memory, the second content to a node of the rCDN that is fewer hops away from a backend cloud than the component.
US10979521B2
A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.
US10979518B2
An editor edits an arrangement of a plurality of pictograms in a display area, the pictograms corresponding to functions to be executed. A generator generates hysteresis information indicating a hysteresis of the edit. A first transmitter transmits display area information indicating the display area to other terminal apparatus. A receiver receives hysteresis information indicating a hysteresis of processing relating to the display area indicated by the display area information, the processing being performed in the other terminal apparatus. A display unit correlates and display the hysteresis information generated by the generator and the hysteresis information received by the receiver. A second transmitter transmits the hysteresis information generated by the generator and the hysteresis information received by the receiver to a terminal apparatus which has transmitted the display area information to the own apparatus.
US10979517B2
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives a request to geo-enrich data comprising a set of location data. The program further accesses shape data comprising a plurality of shapes associated with a plurality of geographical regions. The program also associates, for each location data in the set of location data, a shape in the plurality of shape with the location data.
US10979516B1
The disclosure herein describes using a monitoring tool and a management tool from a cloud native system to monitor and manage an application executing on a legacy system. Network addresses of services running in the application on the legacy systems are discovered. Based on the discovered addresses, a probe is configured for execution on the legacy system by a monitoring tool deployed on the legacy system to obtain metrics data associated with the services running on the legacy system, the metrics data representing execution loads of the application. A management tool deployed on the cloud native system receives the obtained metrics data. The management tool compares the metrics data to one or more performance thresholds associated with the application. Based on the comparison, the management tool adjusts a quantity of instances of the application running on the cloud native system, enabling the cloud native system to share the execution loads.
US10979515B1
A computer-implemented method for retrieving information from information services and providing it to a public application programming interface (API) includes receiving a first request data message using a core discovery agent, the request data message including at least one requested datum, for which a value is sought, and at least one known datum, for which a value is known; calling a resource locator to request a location of an information service that provides a value for the requested datum; calling a resource façade to contact the information service; transmitting a first information service message including the requested datum and known datum from the resource façade to the information service; receiving a second information service message from the information service including a value for the requested datum; and transmitting a resolved data message including the requested datum and its value from the core discovery agent to the public API.
US10979514B2
Flexible message transformation and delivery includes authenticating a message consumer for access to messages of a publisher, receiving from the consumer a service topology label identifying a service topology of a service of which the message consumer is a part, where the service topology label is used in controlling provision of messages to members of the service topology, identifying an authority label for the consumer, the authority label being associated with transformation(s) to apply to messages, and based on obtaining a message from the publisher for publishing to consumers that are members of the service topology: determining that the consumer is a member of the service topology, identifying the transformation(s) based on the identified authority label for the consumer; applying to the message the transformation(s) to obtain a transformed message, and providing the transformed message to the consumer.
US10979511B2
Methods and systems for selecting an existing connection from a connection pool. A connection is immediately decoupled from its client session when the client session is released by a user and made available to the same user or other users. Criteria are defined, applied and considered for either re-using an existing connection or creating a new connection.
US10979510B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for handling multi-pipe connections is provided. A primary pipe request for a connection between a client and a server is received. The connection includes a plurality of pipes between the client and the server. The primary pipe request includes a number corresponding to the amount of pipes required for the connection. A first response acknowledging the receipt of the primary pipe request is transmitted. The first response includes a token. A plurality of subsequent pipe requests are received for the connection between the client and the server. Each subsequent pipe request includes the token. A subsequent response to each subsequent pipe request is transmitted. A count of the number of pipe requests received is maintained. The established pipes are released after a period of time has elapsed when the number of pipe requests received doesn't reach the number of pipes required for the connection.
US10979509B2
A wireless communication method includes receiving a data transmission request. The wireless communication method also includes increasing a transmission bandwidth of an uplink based on the data transmission request. The wireless communication method also includes receiving data to be transmitted through the uplink. The uplink is a communication link through which an external device transmits data to an aircraft.
US10979506B2
A control system includes a controller configured to control communication between or among plural vehicle devices that control operation of a vehicle via a network that communicatively couples the vehicle devices. The controller also is configured to control the communication using a data distribution service (DDS) and with the network operating as a time sensitive network (TSN). The controller is configured to direct a first set of the vehicle devices to communicate using time sensitive communications, a different, second set of the vehicle devices to communicate using best effort communications, and a different, third set of the vehicle devices to communicate using rate constrained communications.
US10979498B2
Disclosed is a system for the provision and management of web resource including a node server configured to store a plurality of web resource usage profiles associated with one or more users, the node server comprises a local cache to store web resources; a switch server arranged in signal communication with the node server and configured to switch the provision of web resource between a first mode and a second mode; wherein the node server is connectable to at least one of a local and a global network; and wherein in the first mode the node server retrieves web resource from the local cache; and in the second mode the node server retrieves web resource from at least one of the local and the global network. A device in the form a node server and a method using the node server to provide and manage web resource are also disclosed.
US10979496B2
A system includes a plurality of servers, a control plane to determine a first partition of a plurality of devices and to determine a subset of the plurality of servers to assign as candidate servers for the first partition, and a common data store comprising a first stream and a second stream. The control plane is to store, in the first stream, a first message indicating the first partition, the candidate servers, the second stream, and a first message tag, the candidate servers elect a primary server of the first partition from the candidate servers using the first stream, and the elected primary server inserts read and write updates associated with the plurality of devices of the first partition into the second stream.
US10979490B1
Systems and methods are provided for a computer-implemented method of implementing an on-demand computing network environment. A network specification is received from a user. Resources from one or more resource providers are provisioned. The on-demand computing network is configured, where configuring comprises assigning a first provisioned resource as a hub device and assigning one or more second provisioned resources as rim devices, where a particular rim device comprises a bridge device, where the bridge device repackages data received from the on-demand computing network prior to forwarding that data such that the data received from the on-demand computing network appears to terminate at the bridge device to an observer viewing the data between the hub device and the bridge device.
US10979486B2
Some embodiments include transmitting a plurality of files from a server to a first client through a first communication link; and transmitting the plurality of files from the first client to a second client through a second communication link while transmitting at least one of the plurality of files from the server to the first client; wherein the second communication link has at least some bandwidth independent of the first communication link.
US10979477B1
Techniques are described for synchronizing video of a live event with separately generated metadata relating to the live event. Timing information representing a delay associated with the encoding and packaging pipeline is determined for each origin that produces a set of content streams, and then provided in the form of a synchronization offset in the client manifest for various streaming technologies. The client device requests the metadata, and synchronizes the metadata with content segments using timing information associated with each and the synchronization offset communicated in the manifest.
US10979476B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods suitable for verifying and compensating nodes for streaming multimedia. In particular, the present invention relates to systems and methods that utilize a blockchain to verify and compensate devices for computational resources contributions when streaming multimedia over a decentralized network.
US10979468B2
Techniques and a system are provided for protecting content (or media item) streamed over a network from unauthorized access. As an example, the streaming protection system generates statistics when a client requests a media item. The statistic may be generated based on various factors. The media item is divided into different portions, each portion requiring a different key to decrypt the portion so that it may be viewed by a user. Based on the generated statistic, the streaming protection system determines whether or not to allow the client access to the decryption key for a portion of the media item.
US10979466B2
A system and method for sharing presentations and other content is disclosed. In various exemplary embodiments, the system comprises a software program that enables a presenter to share content from a computer or other mobile device and to a number of different viewers, each of which has his or her own computer or mobile computing device that can display the presentation on the device. In yet other embodiments, the viewers of the presentation can communicate with the presenter via the computers or mobile computing devices.
US10979465B2
A cloud-based communication system for monitoring a collaboration session. Based on the monitoring, the system identifies a collaboration event that indicates desirability of a break or that a digression from a session topic has or is occurring. When a collaboration event is identified, a prompt is communicated to the facilitator of the collaboration session. The collaboration event may be defined in a variety of ways such as participant fatigue, participant distraction, or the like. The system provides the facilitator with actions to be initiated by the system (automatically or in response to facilitator/user input) to respond to an identified communication event. The actions include initiating a break, acting to avoid or reduce session digressions, and creating a highlight reel of the collaboration session, including a number of unique features enabling more efficient retrieval and/or review of data. A distracted or fatigued participant can be directed to access the highlight reel.
US10979460B2
The described technology provides a capability to perform in-session updates to entitlements associated with a user's access to content served by a web application. The content may be from one or more external servers. The technology provides for automatically detecting changes to entitlements, and without requiring a user of an active session to initiate a new session, updating entitlement data in a memory such that subsequent requests for data made by the client in the same active session are serviced using the updated entitlements.
US10979450B2
Provided is a system for blocking an external attack, which includes: a network file server; and a network file server (NFS) client installed in a user terminal or a service server and communication-connected with the network file server which is remotely positioned, and the network file server determines, when there is an access or opening request of a file stored in the network file server mounted in the user terminal or service server in a network drive format from the NFS client, whether at least one of the user information and the program information to request the access or opening is authorized and blocks the access to the file which is requested to be accessed or provides the file of which opening is requested to the NFS client only in a read only mode when the access or opening request is unauthorized according to a determination result.
US10979445B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to security management of devices using blockchain technology. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a smart contract for a device can be created. The smart contract can identify a plurality of parties including a device customer, a device manufacturer, and a vulnerability assessor. The smart contract can include an expected action to be performed by the device manufacturer responsive to a trigger event. In response to the trigger event being detected, the smart contract can be executed to cause the expected action to be performed by the device manufacturer.
US10979440B1
A method that involves receiving, from a host server in a serverless computing architecture, a list of functions comprising a deployed function on the host server, wherein the functions execute within a function as a service (FaaS) platform; receiving validation data for each of the functions; executing a validation process for each of the functions using the validation data; and generating a validation alert in response to the deployed function failing the validation process.
US10979438B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing, and enforcing policies on data security. A policy appliance includes a policy administration point, a policy decision point, a policy enforcement point and, optionally, an auditing module. The policy appliance can execute in a self-contained environment, e.g., a single virtual machine, a single physical machine, or a cluster of virtual machines or physical machines identically configured. The self-contained policy appliance can receive, manage, enforce and audit multiple policies that specify access privileges of multiple users on multiple databases. The databases can include heterogeneous databases that are configured separately and differently from one another. A single configuration of the policy appliance centralizes and unifies policy management of the heterogeneous database in the self-contained environment.
US10979437B2
Systems, devices, and techniques that can provide access control and/or identification of user devices.
US10979425B2
An augmented reality user device includes a display, a physical identification verification engine, a gesture confirmation engine, and in interface. The display overlays a virtual file document onto a tangible object. The physical identification verification engine receives biometric data for a witness and confirms the witness's identity. The display displays a gesture motion from the signor. The gesture capture engine captures a gesture motion from the witness. The gesture capture engine generates a witness digital signature based on the captured gesture motion from the witness. The gesture capture engine generates a witness transfer token, the witness transfer token comprising the witness digital signature based on the captured gesture from the witness and the witness identity confirmation token. The interface communicates the witness transfer token to a server.
US10979420B2
A method for authenticating a user by a verifier device. The method includes: receiving a password entered by a user and a first piece of context information entered by the user; calculating a current fingerprint, by applying a one-way function to the password and to the first piece of context information; and verifying that the current calculated fingerprint is equal to a reference fingerprint of a secret, calculated during a preceding authentication of the user, the authentication being successful when the current fingerprint is equal to the reference fingerprint.
US10979419B2
A method of device identification for enrollment and registration of an endpoint device that is connected to a gateway device. The method includes: sending an authenticated identity beacon with an endpoint device profile to a discovery service; generating, by the discovery service, a certificate request for the endpoint device from a privacy certificate authority; sending the certificate request for the endpoint device to an enrollment service; processing, by the enrollment service, the certificate request to translate the certificate request for a certificate authority, sending, by the enrollment service to the certificate authority, the translated certificate request; receiving, by the enrollment service, a certificate for the endpoint device issued by the certificate authority; processing, by the enrollment service, the received certificate for the endpoint device to translate the received certificate to represent a privacy certificate authority; and sending the certificate for the endpoint device to the discovery service.
US10979417B2
An electronic component includes a processor and a memory. The electronic component has a secure platform capable of storing at least one dual key pair and a corresponding digital signature. There is also a system including a host machine and an electronic component capable of being operated by the host machine. The electronic component has a processor, a memory, and a secure platform capable of storing at least one dual key pair and a corresponding digital signature. Another aspect describes a method, which includes reading a public key from an electronic component by a host machine, verifying the public key against a stored key in the host machine, digitally signing data using a private key from the electronic component, verifying the signed data against the stored key, and using the electronic component by the host machine only if the signed data and the public key are verified.
US10979408B2
A method of performing authentication and authorization in Proximity based Service (ProSe) communication by a requesting device which sends a request of a communication and a receiving device which receives the request from the requesting device, the method including deriving session keys Kpc and Kpi from an unique key Kp at the requesting and receiving devices, using the session keys Kpc and Kpi for ProSe communication setup and direct communication between the requesting and receiving devices, starting the direct communication with the requesting and receiving devices. The key Kpc is confidentiality key and the key Kpi is integrity protection key.
US10979399B2
A communication system utilizing unified gateways bridges communication gaps between data transmitters having differing transmission, security, data format, overhead restrictions and performance metrics by dynamically determining optimal data paths for the data being routed. The unified gateways can also dynamically alter data packages to upgrade/downgrade security standards, alter transmission networks, translate data to match recipient requirements and split/combine data to optimize data throughput using disparate systems.
US10979392B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to preventing unauthorized access to secure enterprise information systems using a multi-filtering and randomizing control system. A computing platform may receive, from a source user computing device, a request to pull source data from an enterprise system of record and may generate a transport pattern. Subsequently, the computing platform may generate and send one or more first configuration commands for the enterprise system of record based on the transport pattern. Then, the computing platform may generate and send one or more second configuration commands for a virtualization platform associated with the enterprise system of record based on the transport pattern. Thereafter, the computing platform may generate and send an initiation instruction command for the source user computing device based on the transport pattern, which may direct the source user computing device to send at least one request to at least one data filtering system.
US10979391B2
A cyber threat attenuation system. The system comprises a cyber threat data store, a plurality of sensor control points (SCPs), wherein at least one SCP is located in each local area network (LAN) segment of an enterprise network, and an analytics correlation system (ACS). Each SCP comprises a plurality of sensor applications that analyze data packets transported by the LAN segment in which the SCP is located and transmits a notification identifying the transmitting sensor, an identity of the source of the data packet, an identity of the destination of the data packet, and a notification reason to the data store. The ACS comprises an application that determines unusual data packet traffic in the enterprise network and transmits a notification comprising information about the unusual data packet traffic and an identity of a host computer associated with the unusual data packet traffic to the data store.
US10979390B2
A secure hub as a communication security apparatus includes a port that receives a packet from a device and transmits the packet to another device. The secure hub also includes a storage area that retains address authentication information containing pairs of a physical address and a logical address of one or more devices. The secure hub further includes a transfer processing unit that determines whether the pair of the physical address and the logical address of the device, and the pair of the another device, each match any pair of the one or more devices when the address authentication information contains the physical address or the logical address of the device and the another device contained in the packet, and discards the packet when the pair of the device and the pair of the another device do not match any of the pairs of the one or more devices.
US10979376B2
A system may detect multiple accesses of an engagement interface from a user. The multiple accesses may include a first group of accesses performed by a first device and a second group of accesses performed by a second device. Both the first device and the second device may correspond to the user. A message may be selected from a set of messages. Moreover, the message may correspond to the engagement interface. The system may identify the first group of accesses as having a greater amount of user interaction with the engagement interface than the second group of accesses. The system may then determine that the selected message has the greatest likelihood of being read on the first device. The selected message may be communicated to the first device based on the determination.
US10979370B2
A multi-profile chat system may receive a chat request comprising a user identifier and chat data. The system may process the chat data to determine a chat profile request, a request topic, and/or a request sentiment. The system may retrieve a user profile and/or a user chat record based on the user identifier. The system may determine a chat profile based on the chat profile request, the request topic, the request sentiment, the user profile, and/or the user chat record. The system may generate a chat response based on the chat request and the chat profile.
US10979366B1
Significantly optimized multi-stage networks, useful in wide target applications, with VLSI layouts using only horizontal and vertical hop wires to route large scale computational blocks having inlet and outlet links, and laid out in an integrated circuit device in a two-dimensional grid arrangement of partial multi-stage hierarchical networks are presented. The optimized multi-stage networks comprising partial multi-stage hierarchical networks employ one or more rings of stages of switches with inlet and outlet links of computational blocks connecting to rings from either left-hand side, or from right-hand side, or from both left-hand side and right-hand side and employ hop wires from outlet links of switches of a first stage of a first ring of a first partial multi-stage hierarchical network are connected to either inlet links of switches of the first or a second stage of the first or a second ring of the first or a second partial multi-stage hierarchical network.
US10979365B1
Various arrangements for increasing a transfer rate of a data transfer via satellite are presented. A satellite gateway may set an accelerated set of communication parameters that control communication between the satellite gateway and the satellite terminal via the satellite and between the satellite gateway and the content source to an accelerated transfer rate between the content source and the satellite terminal. A first set of data may be transferred from the content source to the satellite terminal using the set of communication parameters. After transferring the first set of data, the satellite gateway may adjust the initial set of communication parameters to an adjusted set of communication parameters. The adjusted transfer rate can be lower than the accelerated transfer rate.
US10979353B2
A packet processing block. The block comprises an input for receiving data in a packet header vector, the vector comprising data values representing information for a packet. The block also comprises circuitry for performing packet match operations in response to at least a portion of the packet header vector and data stored in a match table, and circuitry for performing one or more actions in response to a match detected by the circuitry for performing packet match operations and according to information stored in an action table. Each of said match table and said action table comprise one or more memories selected from a pool of unit memories, wherein each memory in the pool of unit memories is configurable to operate as either a match memory or an action memory.
US10979349B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe systems, devices, and methods for traffic steering in the mobile networks. Various embodiments may include a service steering and control function to route a service dataflow through one or more service enablers based on service steering and control rules. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US10979348B1
A communication node of a multi-node communication network is disclosed. The communication node includes a communication interface and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a data packet, via the communication interface, from a first additional communication node, the data packet including a broadcast address indicative of a clustering status of the first additional communication node. The controller is further configured to determine a clustering status of the communication node, the clustering status based on a relationship between a number of gateway nodes and a number of clusterhead nodes communicatively coupled to the communication node. The controller is further configured to transmit the data packet, via the communication interface, to at least a second additional communication node if the determined clustering status is a gateway clustering status or a clusterhead clustering status, the data packet including a broadcast address indicative of the clustering status of the communication node.
US10979335B2
An apparatus and method for the monitoring of performance metrics at links located within the communication network. A method may include discovering multiple paths across a plurality of nodes in a network between a user equipment and an endpoint. The method may also include deriving at the user equipment performance metrics of an edge located between two of the plurality of nodes. The performance metrics is derived based on performance of the two nodes bordering the edge. The two nodes are located within one of the multiple paths.
US10979332B2
A method of measuring available bandwidth of a radio frequency (RF) transmission link, said method comprising transmitting a train comprising a plurality of frames of the transmission link, receiving the train, measuring the time taken to receive the train, and estimating the available bandwidth by dividing the number of bits transmitted by the difference between the receiving time of the leading frame in the train and the receiving time of the last frame in the train.
US10979331B2
In some implementations, a computing system can reduce startup delays for presenting remote media items. For example, when a user requests media content from a media service, the computing system can include information about the first media item to be played in the initial startup messages to reduce the number of roundtrips needed between client and server devices to present the first media item. A media item can include an introductory asset. The introductory asset can be a portion of the full media item that can be decrypted with a local key or not encrypted at all so that a media client can receive and start presenting the introductory media asset quickly while the full media item is being processed by the media client. In some implementations, the system can remove leading silence from the media item so that the amount of delay perceived by the user is reduced.
US10979328B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for a network element that can be configured to receive a link monitoring message, determine one or more resources associated with the link monitoring message, determine a status of each of the one or more resources, and send a response that provides an indication of the status of each of the one or more resources. In an example, the link monitoring is part of a bidirectional forwarding detection packet.
US10979326B2
A device may monitor traffic or a data feed associated with a user equipment (UE). The traffic or the data feed may include a set of parameters related to a temporary interference to a beam of a respective set of beams associated with the UE, a user experience of a user of the UE, or a quality of a communication link between the UE and a base station (BS), of a set of network slices used by the UE, or of a quality of (QoS) profile associated with the UE. The device may perform a first analysis related to identifying the temporary interference, a second analysis related to determining the user experience, or a third analysis related to determining the quality. The device may perform one or more actions related to addressing the temporary interference, the user experience, or the quality.
US10979322B2
A monitoring device/module monitors a plurality of nodes in a data center network, and determines one or more latency distributions of response times for messages exchanged between pairs of nodes of the plurality of nodes. The network monitoring device determines a network topology, including one or more communication links interconnecting nodes of the plurality of nodes, consistent with the one or more latency distributions. The network monitoring device also determines a representative response time for each communication link based on the one or more latency distributions, and compares a current response time a message exchanged between one pair of nodes to the representative response time for the communication link interconnecting the one pair of nodes. The network monitoring device identifies a network anomaly when the current response time deviates from the representative response time for the communication link interconnecting the one pair of nodes by a threshold amount.
US10979320B2
A technique includes providing at least one service blueprint to orchestrate application programming interfaces to manage the lifecycle of at least one cloud service.
US10979319B2
A method provides operating information for a network having a set of computing entities (CPE) for performing functions on data; a set of connecting entities (CNE) for connecting users and performing functions on data; and a set of forwarding entities (SFE) for forwarding data between the CPE and CNE. CNE are assigned to the CPE. At least part of the functions performed by the CNE are split and offloaded to the assigned CPE for performing the part of functions. The method includes: determining: a) network information, including network topology information and network capability information of the network, b) entity location information, including network locations of the entities, and c) function splitting information, including possible configurable functions which can be split; and, based on the determined information of a)-c), jointly optimizing: routing between the network entities, assignments of the CNE to the CPE, and function splits.
US10979318B2
In certain embodiments, a Service Deployment Infrastructure (SDI) instance is disclosed. The SDI instance can intelligently allocate resources of a rack to one or more virtual machines as part of provisioning a requested service. The SDI instance can use machine-learning techniques to evaluate historical data associated with a requested service. The machine-learning techniques can be used to generate one or more models that simulate the possible configurations of sizes for virtual machines for a particular service. The one or more models can be accessed at runtime to fit virtual machines of a requested service into servers of a rack in a manner that minimizes unused resources with multi-dimensional constraints.
US10979317B2
A service registration method and usage method, and a related apparatus are used to reduce risks generated when a service of an AP-type service providing node cannot be registered and a CP-type service providing node provides a service since distributed characteristics of a service providing node are not distinguished in a network partition scenario. The method is: obtaining, by a registration service node, network partition information, and receiving a registration request of a service providing node, where the registration request carries a distributed characteristic of the service providing node, and the distributed characteristic meets both consistency and partition tolerance, or meets both availability and partition tolerance; and determining, by the registration service node according to the network partition information and the distributed characteristic of the service providing node, whether registration of a service provided by the service providing node is allowed.
US10979316B2
In general, the disclosure describes techniques for dynamic application service level agreement (SLA) metric generation, distribution, and intent-based Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) link selection. For instance, a network device may determine a metric associated with an application or application-group. The network device may send the metric to a controller, and in response may receive from the controller a recommended SLA metric associated with the application or application-group. The network device may also compute an intent-based SLA metric based on the recommended SLA metric, one or more characteristics of one or more links connected to the network device, and a user configured intent model that defines a tolerance level to apply the recommended SLA metric. The network device may select, based on the intent-based SLA metric, a path to send traffic from the application or application-group.
US10979313B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for browsing offline and queried content are presented herein. Specifically, embodiments may receive a request for content from a mobile application. Embodiments may also determine whether the requested content is in a cache associated with the mobile application. If it is determined that the content is not in the cache, embodiments may deliver the requested content to the mobile application.
US10979303B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for segmentation of maintenance on distributed systems are disclosed. A data set is partitioned according to a hash function into a plurality of segments. A maintenance activity is initiated on a first segment. During the maintenance activity, a first request to perform a first action on the data set is received. Based at least in part on determining that the first request is associated with the first segment using the hash function, the first action is performed using additional processing associated with the maintenance activity. During the maintenance activity, a second request to perform a second action on the data set is received. Based at least in part on determining that the second request is associated with a second segment using the hash function, the second action is performed without the additional processing associated with the maintenance activity.
US10979302B2
Meta behavioral analytics techniques include, at one or more network devices that are operatively coupled to a plurality of behavioral analytics systems associated with a network or system, monitoring data outputs of the plurality of behavioral analytics systems that are representative of activity in the network or system. The one or more network devices correlate the data outputs from two or more of the plurality of behavioral analytics systems that are dedicated to analyzing different subject matter domains. Additionally, based on the correlating, the one or more network devices detect a previously unidentified condition in (a) the network or system; or (b) one of the plurality of behavioral analytics systems.
US10979293B2
A service deployment method and a network functions acceleration platform are provided. The method includes: when an FPGA is powered on, loading, by the FPGA, an FPGA framework file, so that the FPGA includes M partial reconfigurable PR areas, a configuration module, and a data flow forwarding module; when receiving a service configuration instruction, generating, by a physical machine, a VM, and selecting at least one PR area from the M PR areas to establish a correspondence with the VM; performing, by a configuration module, service resource configuration on the selected PR area according to a PR configuration resource, so that the selected PR area has a service processing capability; adding, by the configuration module, a forwarding entry corresponding to the PR area in a forwarding flow table, so that the data flow forwarding module forwards a received network packet to the corresponding PR area.
US10979283B2
The present invention provides apparatuses, methods, computer programs, computer program products and computer-readable media regarding a distributed trace of network procedures for network elements in cloud deployment. The present invention comprises collecting, at a collecting entity, trace information elements for a plurality of network procedures from a plurality of network elements in a network, the trace information element including a trace sequence identifier and an index, the trace sequence identifier identifying a specific network procedure and the index identifying a particular event within the network procedure, in subsequent order for each network procedure based on the trace sequence identifier and the index, and restoring a flow of a network procedure based on the collected and arranged trace information elements for the network procedure.
US10979279B2
Method of clock synchronization in cloud computing. A plurality of physical computer assets are provided. The plurality of physical computer assets are linked together to form a virtualized computing cloud, the virtualized computing cloud having a centralized clock for coordinating the operation of the virtualized computing cloud; the virtualized computing cloud is logically partitioned into a plurality of virtualized logical server clouds, each of the virtualized logical server clouds having a local clock synchronized to the same centralized clock; a clock type from a clock palette is selected for at least one of the virtualized logical server clouds; the clock type is implemented in the at least one of the virtualized logical server clouds such that the clock type is synchronized to the at least one of the virtualized logical server clouds; and the centralized clock is disabled. The method may be performed on one or more computing devices.
US10979271B2
A method for waveform bandwidth compression (WBC) and a system configured to perform the method, which may include the steps of: processing information to produce an input sequence of real-valued amplitude signals; fitting a polynomial to the input sequence covering at least one transmission time interval; converting the polynomial to a transmission signal comprising a sum of sinusoids with continuously time-varying amplitudes; transmitting the transmission signal; and receiving the transmission signal as a time-amplitude sequence. This method may significantly improve the spectral efficiency of existing transmission systems, while at the same time requiring only minimal modification to traditional radio architecture design.
US10979268B2
A transmitting method includes: configuring a frame using a plurality of orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, by allocating a plurality of transmission data to a plurality of areas; and transmitting the frame. The plurality of areas are each identified by at least one time resource among resources and at least one frequency resource among frequency resources. The frame includes a first period in which a preamble is transmitted, and a second period in which the plurality of transmission data are transmitted by at least one of time division and frequency division. The second period includes a first area, and the first area includes a data symbol generated from first transmission data, a data symbol generated from second transmission data and subsequent to the data symbol generated from the first transmission data, and a dummy symbol subsequent to the data symbol generated from the second transmission data.
US10979265B2
A method and apparatus for determining a control resource set for system information in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives a configuration of control resource set (CORESET) for remaining system information (RMSI) via a synchronization signal (SS) block from a network, and determines the control resource set for the RMSI according to the configuration. The SS block may include a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). A time and frequency location of a common search space (CSS) for the RMSI may be aligned with the SS block by at least one of time division multiplexing (TDM) or frequency division multiplexing (FDM).
US10979256B2
A receiving circuit and method for increasing bandwidth are provided. The receiving circuit includes a linear equalizer circuit and a variable gain amplifier. The linear equalizer circuit includes a first negative impedance converter, to generate a first capacitance. The variable gain amplifier is coupled to the linear equalizer circuit. The variable gain amplifier includes a first-stage gain circuit and a feedback circuit. The first-stage gain circuit is coupled to the feedback circuit, and the feedback circuit generates a zero-point at the output end of the first-stage gain circuit.
US10979252B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a circuit comprising a transmitter. In at least some examples, the transmitter is configured to receive an input signal and a loss of signal indication signal. The transmitter is further configured to dynamically modify processing of the input signal based on the loss of signal indication signal. The transmitter modifies processing of the input signal based on the loss of signal indication signal by processing the input signal via a limiting driver signal path to generate an output signal when the loss of signal indication signal has a first value and processing the input signal via a linear driver signal path to generate the output signal when the loss of signal indication signal has a second value.
US10979249B1
A system and method for event-based content presentation, including: receiving a content presentation request to present a content item at an event where presentation of the content item can be captured. The content presentation request can include an event identifier identifying the event at which the content item is to be presented, and can further identify the content item to be displayed. The submitted content item can be presented on a content presentation device located at the event. Presentation of the content item can be captured and the resulting captured content presentation can be stored, broadcasted on a messaging platform, provided to the requesting user, etc.
US10979247B2
Computing devices and methods for transmitting and receiving optimized tunneling IP packets. At the entry point of a tunnel, an IP packet comprising at least one header is received. If data comprised in one of the at least one header of the received IP packet are redundant with data comprised in one or more tunneling header of a tunneling IP packet, then the redundant header is removed from the received IP packet. The tunneling IP packet encapsulating the received IP packet (with its redundant header removed) is transmitted. A header removal field is positioned in the tunneling IP packet to indicate the positive determination of redundancy. At the exit point of the tunnel, the tunneling IP packet is received. The header removal field and the one or more tunneling header of the tunneling IP packet are used for identifying the previous determination of redundancy and recreating the removed header.
US10979246B2
Example methods are provided for a host to perform multicast packet handling a software-defined networking (SDN) environment. One example method may comprise: in response to detecting, from a virtualized computing instance supported by the host, a request to join a first inner multicast group address, obtaining an outer multicast group address that is assigned to the first inner multicast group address and one or more second inner multicast group addresses; and generating and sending a request to join the outer multicast group address to one or more multicast-enabled network devices. In response to detecting an ingress encapsulated multicast packet that includes an outer header addressed to the outer multicast group address and an inner header addressed to the first inner multicast group address, the host may generate and send a decapsulated multicast packet to the virtualized computing instance that has joined the first inner multicast group address.
US10979235B2
The disclosed technology relates to a system configured to retrieve a content item from a first domain of a content management system, analyze the content item to identify a portion of the content item that references third-party code, retrieve the third-party code from a second domain of the content management system, and execute the third-party code in the portion of the content item.
US10979229B2
A computer system (100) for distributed shared execution of one or more shared processes, comprising: first program code for the one or more shared processes that comprises one or more shared code segments (142, 144, 146) shared between a first authorizing node (102) and a second authorizing node (104), wherein the one or more shared code segments (142, 144, 146) are executable by one or more executing nodes (102, 104, 106); a distributed ledger (152, 154, 156) that provides a record of valid code segments of the program code; and second program code comprising instructions that, when executed by the first and/or second authorizing nodes, validates that an anticipated execution result of the one or more shared code segments (142, 144, 146) satisfies shared authorization conditions and, if satisfied, authorizes the execution of the one or more shared code segments by the one or more executing nodes.
US10979214B2
A Secure Hash Algorithm 256 (SHA-256) expander operates over multiple cycles to convert 16 message words, M(t), into 64 working values, W(t), for input into a SHA-256 compressor. As the expander operates to produce W(t), it computes partial values of W(t) as soon as the necessary data operands are available in cycle time. Once computed, the partial values are retained and shifted and any unneeded original shift source values are discarded. When the shift register outputs finally arrive at the output, W(t) is already computed. The expander allows for one-write-port, one-read-port register files to be used in some integrated circuit embodiments. The expander also leads to improvements in adder delays, energy consumption, and area consumption when implemented as an integrated circuit.
US10979193B2
The present disclosure relates to signal transmission methods, network devices, and terminal devices. One example method includes sending, by a network device, N first reference signals to a terminal device, where N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, sending, by the network device, physical layer control signaling to the terminal device, where the physical layer control signaling is used to trigger the terminal device to send a channel quality measurement result of the N first reference signals to the network device, and is used to instruct the terminal device to send M second reference signals to the network device, and M is a positive integer greater than or equal to 1, receiving, by the network device, the channel quality measurement result from the terminal device, and receiving, by the network device, the M second reference signals from the terminal device.
US10979191B2
A method of a user equipment (UE) for configuring a phase noise reference signal (RS) in an advanced communication system. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information of the phase noise RS using a radio resource control (RRC) signal and downlink control information (DCI) through a hybrid signaling scheme including information of the phase noise RS; identifying an RS mapping pattern based on the configuration information of the phase noise RS signaled in the RRC and DCI through the hybrid signaling scheme; performing a channel estimation and phase tracking for a downlink channel in a scheduled bandwidth (BW) according to the identified RS mapping pattern; and receiving, from the BS, downlink data over the downlink channel in the scheduled BW.
US10979187B2
This application provides a reference signal transmission method and an apparatus, to resolve a prior-art problem of relatively high overheads of resources occupied by transmitted reference signals in a communications system. The method includes: configuring, by a transmitting device, one reference signal group corresponding to one port in the first time symbol, and configuring one reference signal corresponding to the port in each of time symbols except the first time symbol. This reduces overheads of resources occupied by transmitted reference signals in the communications system and improves service data transmission efficiency while ensuring that a receiving device can obtain a channel parameter of the port.
US10979184B2
A master application device comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central baseband processor, and a network management engine that manages operation of the master application device and end-user application devices. The master application device communicates data streams to the end-user devices utilizing one or more distributed transceivers selected from the plurality of distributed transceivers. The selected distributed transceivers are dynamically configured to switch between spatial diversity mode, frequency diversity mode, multiplexing mode and MIMO mode based on corresponding link quality and propagation environment. Digital signal processing needed for the selected distributed transceivers is performed by the central baseband processor. The network management engine continuously monitors communication environment information to configure beamforming settings and/or antenna arrangement for the selected distributed transceivers. Connection types, communication protocols, and/or transceiver operation modes are determined for the selected distributed transceivers. Resources are allocated to the selected distributed transceivers to continue subsequent data communication.
US10979182B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may be configured to include procedures to selectively release a portion of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) memory based on the priority of each component carrier of the first connection when performing a radio tune-away to a second connection. For example, the UE may determine the amount of memory space associated with the HARQ processes for the second connection and selectively release a portion of HARQ memory based on the priority of each component carrier of the first connection when the determined amount of memory space is greater than the empty space of the HARQ memory.
US10979181B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described for wireless communication, including for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback in a system that supports communications using transmission time intervals (TTIs) of different durations. A base station may identify a user equipment's (UE) capability to provide HARQ feedback for transmissions that use TTIs of a shorter duration relative to other TTIs supported in the system. The base station may select a HARQ timing mode based on the capability of the UE and may indicate the selected HARQ timing mode to the UE. The base station may then transmit one or more data transmissions to the UE using the reduced TTIs. The UE may respond with HARQ feedback based on the HARQ timing mode. The HARQ timing mode may be based on different response times based on the location of the data transmission within a TTI or relative to data transmission in other TTIs.
US10979177B2
System and method for identifying data corruption in a data transfer over an error-proof communication link, wherein additional structure checksums are formed to secure a data structure during transfer of the data structure, where representatives are associated with the data types, and the structure checksum is formed via the representatives to provide identification of data corruption in a data transfer over an error-proof communication link between a first automation component and a second automation component in industrial control engineering.
US10979174B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate an LDPC codeword including the input bits and parity bits to be transmitted in a current frame; a parity permutator configured to perform by group-wise interleaving a plurality of bit groups configuring the parity bits based on a group-wise interleaving pattern comprising a first pattern and a second pattern; a puncturer configured to puncture some of the parity-permutated parity bits; and an additional parity generator configured to select at least some of the punctured parity bits to generate additional parity bits to be transmitted in a previous frame of the current frame, based on the first pattern and the second pattern.
US10979171B2
Embodiments provide a data transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device. For achieving this, indication signaling indicating data transmission of one transport block can be sent. The indication signaling carries a status value indicating a quantity of coding block groups in the transport block. The status value further indicates at least one coding block group in the data transmission. The status value is represented by using a maximum of K+1 bits, and K is a maximum value of the quantity of coding block groups that can be included in the transport block. In various embodiments, a network device jointly indicates, by using the status value, the quantity of coding block groups in the transport block and the at least one coding block group included in the data transmission, so that a quantity of bits occupied by the indication signaling is reduced, thereby reducing signaling overheads.
US10979170B2
The present disclosure relate to configuration resource indication methods and apparatus. One example method includes receiving, by user equipment, configuration information from a network device, and determining, by the user equipment, a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) measurement resource and a sounding reference signal (SRS) measurement resource based on the configuration information.
US10979167B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for wavelength control of multiple independent laser sources to reduce relative wavelength drift between the different laser sources. According to some aspects, multiple laser wavelength control is provided using a multi-line source as a wavelength reference. According to other aspects, multiple laser wavelength control is provided using a single wavelength sensing device. The multiple independent laser sources could generate the constituent optical channels of a super-channel. Benefits could include reduced guard band width and increased spectral efficiency within the super-channel.
US10979152B1
A system for calibrating conformal ESAs includes a rotating platform (positioner) or multiple test probes, or both. Measurements are taken with different radiating elements at different azimuthal angles to the test probes and compared to a known profile to compute correction coefficients for angel and gain for each radiating element. Each radiating element is operated at full power and across a wide frequency spectrum to acquire measurements including coupling and allow calibration to be based on group delay over the frequency spectrum rather than phase delay.
US10979150B2
A method of testing a radio frequency (RF) integrated circuit includes: forming, performed by the RF integrated circuit, a test loop that passes through a first transceiver circuit, a first front-end circuit, and a second transceiver circuit, based on a test control signal transmitted from a test device; adjusting, performed by the RF integrated circuit, a shift degree of at least one phase shifter in the first front-end circuit, based on the test control circuit; and receiving, performed by the RF integrated circuit, a test input signal via the first transceiver circuit from the test device, and outputting, to the test device, the test input signal that has passed through the test loop, wherein the test input signal is output as a test output signal via the second transceiver circuit.
US10979137B2
Systems and methods for controlling satellites are provided. In one example embodiment, a computing system can obtain a request for image data. The request can be associated with a priority for acquiring the image data. The computing system can determine an availability of a plurality of satellites to acquire the image data based at least in part on the request. The computing system can select from among a plurality of communication pathways to transmit an image acquisition command to a satellite based at least in part on the request priority. The plurality of communication pathways can include a communication pathway via which the image acquisition command is indirectly communicated to the satellite via a geostationary satellite. The computing system can send the image acquisition command to the selected satellite via the selected communication pathway.
US10979134B2
Various antenna systems are presented that have independently steerable receive and transmit beams. The antenna system may include multiple antenna element systems. Each antenna element system may include multiple phase shifters that alter the phase of received signals and signals to be transmitted. Directions of a first transmit beam, a second transmit beam, a first receive beam, and a second receive beam may be steered independently using the phase shifters. Each antenna element system may include a polarization system.
US10979129B2
An active repeater device includes a primary sector and one or more secondary sectors, receives a first beam of input RF signals. A first set of analog baseband signals, are generated based on received first beam of input RF signals. The first set of analog baseband signals are converted to a first set of coded data signals and control information is extracted from the first set of coded data signals by decoding only a header portion of the first set of coded data signals without demodulation of data portion of the first set of coded data signals. Based on the extracted control information, the first set of coded data signals are transmitted as beams of output RF signals to remote user equipment. The transmission is independent of demodulation of the data portion within the active repeater device to reduce latency for transmission of the first set of coded data signals.
US10979118B1
A distributed beamforming system includes a platform terminal and a plurality of user terminals. The platform terminal includes an antenna array including a plurality of antenna elements. Each antenna element transmits a wide-area beam configured to encompass each of the plurality of user terminals. The platform terminal also includes one or more processors in electronic communication with the antenna array and a memory coupled to the one or more processors. The memory stores data into a database and program code that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes the platform terminal to receive an incoming signal and split the incoming signal into a plurality of individual wireless signals. Each individual wireless signal corresponds to one of the plurality of antenna elements of the antenna array. The system also transmits the plurality of individual wireless signals to the user terminal by the antenna array.
US10979115B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamically detecting and correcting the deactivation of beamforming from an antenna. One or more users are identified as present within a particular geographic area typically served by beamforming, and the average signal strength of the one or more user devices is monitored. If a threshold level of degradation of the average signal strength is detected, then a beamforming status is determined for one or more of the antennas serving the user device or devices. Based on the determination, corrective measures are taken and beamforming is reactivated.
US10979112B2
Precoding matrix computations for a large number of antenna arrays can be used to generate efficiencies within a wireless network. Utilizing network topology and context data in conjunction with known available network resources and mobile device measurements can facilitate gains in power and spectral efficiency and reduction in computation complexity posed by current procedures. To take advantage of multiple paths, the precoding matrix can be known at the radio units for each mobile device.
US10979110B2
A cooperative precoding method, applied in a communication system comprising a coordinating device and multiple serving stations, is provided. The cooperative precoding method includes the following steps: the coordinating device obtaining multiple carrier frequency offset (CFO) parameters of the serving stations with respect to a user device; generating multiple cooperative encoded sequences; assigning the cooperative encoded sequences to the serving stations, respectively, according to an order of the plurality of CFO parameters; and the plurality of serving stations transmitting the cooperative encoded sequences, respectively, to the user device. Each cooperative encoded sequence is transmitted over multiple subcarriers.
US10979109B2
A base station may transmit to a device an indication of codebook subset restriction (CBSR), which includes at least a restriction on a frequency basis. The device may receive the indication of CBSR, and may transmit to the base station channel state information (CSI) according to the received indication of CBSR. The indication of CBSR may also include a restriction on a spatial basis and restrict the device from reporting the CSI based on a subset of the frequency basis in addition to the spatial basis per configuration of the base station. The indication of CBSR may include a separately configured maximum allowed amplitude of a weighting coefficient for the spatial basis and the frequency basis, where the weighting coefficient is associated with a column vector of a precoding matrix used by the base station and the device. The number of frequency bases and the frequency compression units may be determined based on a number of different criteria, for example the number of antennas, the number of subbands, etc.
US10979098B2
Disclosed are a spread-spectrum decoding method for a transmitted signal and a display apparatus. The method comprises: acquiring a fixed input frequency of an input signal, and taking the fixed input frequency as a decoding frequency; performing a calculation according to the fixed input frequency to obtain a cycle number N of the input signal within a pre-set time range; determining whether, during the pre-set time range, the ratio of the number of cycles corresponding to the input frequency after the spread-spectrum processing, which is greater than or less than the decoding frequency, to the cycle number N is greater than or equal to a pre-set percentage; if so, adding a one stage pre-set adjustment frequency value to the decoding frequency or subtracting same from the decoding frequency so as to obtain a new decoding frequency; and taking the new decoding frequency as an updated decoding frequency.
US10979084B2
A base matrix is applied to an LDPC coder. The base matrix includes multiple parts, each including multiple of rows and columns, and containing integers, each representative of an identity matrix cyclically shifted in accordance with the integer or representative of an all-zero matrix. At least two of the multiple parts are configured such that their respective column-wise combinations of rows represents a same starting vector, cyclically shifted or interleaved, with zero or more but not all integers not indicative of the all-zero matrix of the same vector substituted by integers indicative of the all-zero matrix. The at least two of the multiple parts are not identical. The applied base matrix is used for one of encoding data using the LDPC coder or decoding data using the LDPC coder.
US10979080B2
The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method which can ensure high communication quality in data transmission using LDPC codes. In group-wise interleaving, an LDPC code having a code length N of 64800 bits and a coding rate r of 9/15 is interleaved in a unit of a bit group of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleaving, a sequence of bit groups of the LDPC code which has been subjected to the group-wise interleaving is returned to an original sequence. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a case in which data transmission is performed using LDPC codes.
US10979060B2
An oscillator is provided. The oscillator is configured for generating an output signal which is phase locked to an input signal. The oscillator comprises a controlled oscillator configured for generating the output signal based on an oscillator input signal. Moreover, the oscillator comprises a frequency divider configured for dividing the frequency of the output signal, resulting in a frequency divided feedback signal. Also, the oscillator comprises a phase detector, which is configured for generating an error signal based upon the frequency divided feedback signal and the input signal. Also, the oscillator comprises an error signal pulse train modulator configured for generating the oscillator input signal by performing a pulse train modulation of the error signal) or a signal derived from the error signal based on the input signal.
US10979054B1
A secure IC includes multiple functionally-equivalent combinational logic circuits, multiple sets of state-sampling components, and control circuitry. Each combinational logic circuit receives one or more inputs, and applies a combinational-logic operation to the one or more inputs so as to produce one or more outputs. Each set of state-sampling components includes one or more state-sampling components that samples one or more of the outputs of one of the combinational logic circuits and provides one or more of the sampled outputs as inputs to another of the combinational logic circuits. The control circuitry receives multiple sets of input data for processing by the combinational logic circuits, routes the sets of input data to the combinational logic circuits, extracts sets of output data from the combinational logic circuits, and outputs each set of output data in association with the respective set of input data.
US10979046B2
An interlock system for signaling a nurse call patient station is disclosed. The interlock system may include a first terminal and a second terminal. The first and second terminals may be configured to be connected to corresponding terminals of a signaling loop of a nurse call patient station. The interlock system may further include a connection circuit. The connection circuit may be configured to electrically connect the first terminal to the second terminal. The interlock system may also include a control circuit in communication with, but isolated from, the connection circuit. The control circuit may include a microcontroller. The control circuit may be isolated from the connection circuit by an isolation circuit. The control circuit may be configured to operate the connection circuit to connect or disconnect the first terminal from the second terminal.
US10979042B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for use in biasing and driving high voltage semiconductor devices using only low voltage transistors are described. The apparatus and method are adapted to control multiple high voltage semiconductor devices to enable high voltage power control, such as power amplifiers, power management and conversion (e.g. DC/DC) and other applications wherein a first voltage is large compared to the maximum voltage handling of the low voltage control transistors. According to an aspect, timing control of edges of a control signal to the high voltage semiconductor devices is provided by a basic edge delay circuit that includes a transistor, a current source and a capacitor. An inverter can be selectively coupled, via a switch, to an input and/or an output of the basic edge delay circuit to allow for timing control of a rising edge or a falling edge of the control signal.
US10979041B1
A system is provided. The system includes a semi-conductor device and a gate drive board. The gate drive board provides a voltage to the semi-conductor device. The system also includes a controller and a monitoring circuit. The controller drives the voltage provided by the gate drive board. The monitoring circuit is coupled to the gate drive board to monitor operations of the controller and the semi-conductor device.
US10979038B2
A method for in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signal generation is disclosed. The method may include a first stage receiving a differential input signal. The first stage may also generate first differential in-phase and quadrature output signals, which may be sent by the first stage to a second stage. The second stage may generate second differential in-phase and quadrature output signals, which may have amplitude and phase mismatches less than an amplitude and phase mismatches of the first differential output signals. The second stage may then output the second differential I/Q output signals.
US10979037B2
In described examples, a power interface subsystem includes power transistors, each having: a conduction path coupled between a battery terminal and an accessory terminal; and a control terminal. A differential amplifier has: a first input coupled to the battery terminal; a second input coupled to the accessory terminal; and an output node. An offset voltage source is coupled to cause an offset of a selected polarity at one of the inputs to the differential amplifier. The offset has a first polarity in a first operating mode and a second polarity in a second operating mode. Gate control circuitry is coupled to apply a control level at the control terminal(s) of selected one(s) of the power transistors responsive to a voltage at the output node, and to apply an off-state control level to the control terminal(s) of unselected one(s) of the power transistors.
US10979026B2
An RF circuit device using modified lattice, lattice, and ladder circuit topologies. The devices can include four resonator devices and four shunt resonator devices. In the ladder topology, the resonator devices are connected in series from an input port to an output port while shunt resonator devices are coupled the nodes between the resonator devices. In the lattice topology, a top and a bottom serial configurations each includes a pair of resonator devices that are coupled to differential input and output ports. A pair of shunt resonators is cross-coupled between each pair of a top serial configuration resonator and a bottom serial configuration resonator. The modified lattice topology adds baluns or inductor devices between top and bottom nodes of the top and bottom serial configurations of the lattice configuration. These topologies may be applied using single crystal or polycrystalline bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators.
US10979025B2
An RF circuit device using modified lattice, lattice, and ladder circuit topologies. The devices can include four resonator devices and four shunt resonator devices. In the ladder topology, the resonator devices are connected in series from an input port to an output port while shunt resonator devices are coupled the nodes between the resonator devices. In the lattice topology, a top and a bottom serial configurations each includes a pair of resonator devices that are coupled to differential input and output ports. A pair of shunt resonators is cross-coupled between each pair of a top serial configuration resonator and a bottom serial configuration resonator. The modified lattice topology adds baluns or inductor devices between top and bottom nodes of the top and bottom serial configurations of the lattice configuration. These topologies may be applied using single crystal or polycrystalline bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators.
US10979023B2
An RF circuit device using modified lattice, lattice, and ladder circuit topologies. The devices can include four resonator devices and four shunt resonator devices. In the ladder topology, the resonator devices are connected in series from an input port to an output port while shunt resonator devices are coupled the nodes between the resonator devices. In the lattice topology, a top and a bottom serial configurations each includes a pair of resonator devices that are coupled to differential input and output ports. A pair of shunt resonators is cross-coupled between each pair of a top serial configuration resonator and a bottom serial configuration resonator. The modified lattice topology adds baluns or inductor devices between top and bottom nodes of the top and bottom serial configurations of the lattice configuration. These topologies may be applied using single crystal or polycrystalline bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators.
US10979014B2
To improve the performance of the voltage filter. Rather than reducing an area of a region surrounded by a closed loop formed in a voltage filter 12A, an induced electromotive force generated in the voltage filter 12A itself is reduced by forming a pair of a closed loop CA and a closed loop CB in which the directions of the generated induced electromotive forces are opposite to each other by making a wiring 100 (anode wiring) intersect a wiring 200 (cathode wiring).
US10979009B2
An embodiment of an amplifier circuit includes first, second, and third amplifiers. The first and second amplifiers, each of which can be a respective operational amplifier or a respective transconductance amplifier, are configured to amplify a differential input signal with a non-inverting gain. And the third amplifier, which can be an operational amplifier or a transconductance amplifier, is configured to cause the first and second amplifiers to amplify a common-mode input signal with a gain that is less than unity. The third amplifier can also be configured to cause the first and second amplifiers to generate a common-mode output voltage that is substantially independent of the common-mode input voltage. Consequently, in addition to presenting a high input impedance and a low noise factor, such an amplifier circuit has a configurable common-mode output voltage and has a lower common-mode gain (e.g., less than unity, approaching zero) than other non-inverting differential amplifiers.
US10979008B2
A power amplifier includes a first amplifier configured to output a signal based on a difference between an input signal and a feedback signal; a second amplifier that amplifies the power of the signal output from the first amplifier and outputs the amplified signal; a first feedback circuit that feeds the signal output from the second amplifier back to the first amplifier; a third amplifier that amplifies the power of the signal output from the second amplifier and outputs the amplified signal; and a second feedback circuit that feeds the signal output from the third amplifier back to the first amplifier, in which the feedback signal is a signal obtained by combining an output signal of the first feedback circuit with an output signal of the second feedback circuit.
US10979006B2
A chopper-stabilized current feedback amplifier includes an input buffer having a non-inverting input and an inverting input. A first group of chopper circuits modulate current at the non-inverting and inverting inputs. The current feedback amplifier further includes a plurality of current mirrors coupled to the input buffer. A second group of chopper circuits modulate current in the current mirrors. The current feedback amplifier also includes phase detector circuitry coupled to the current mirrors and configured to detect a transition current in the current mirrors. The current feedback amplifier also includes a switched capacitor filter having an input coupled to the current mirrors. The switched capacitor filter is turned OFF responsive to the detection of the transition current by the phase detector circuitry. The current feedback amplifier also includes an output stage having an input coupled to the switched capacitor filter and is configured to produce an output signal.
US10978991B2
A panel connected body comprises: a plurality of thin panels arranged in a matrix of m rows and n columns; and a connection portion connecting the plurality of thin panels in a row direction and a column direction, wherein the panel connected body is foldable between adjacent thin panels of the plurality of thin panels. The connection portion has, alternately in the column direction, a first type row satisfying relationships D1≥2L and Dy≥Dy−1+2L and a second type row satisfying relationships Dn≥2L and Dy≥Dy+1+2L, where Dy is a length of the connection portion between thin panels P adjacent in the column direction at a yth column, and L is a thickness of each of the plurality of thin panels in a vertical direction.
US10978988B2
A selective emitter exhibiting heat resistance up to 1000° C., comprising a metal body, a first dielectric layer provided on one surface of the metal body, a composite layer provided on another surface of the first dielectric layer at an opposite side to the metal body side, and a second dielectric layer provided on another surface of the composite layer at an opposite side to the first dielectric layer, the composite layer being a layer provided with a metal or semiconductor dispersed in an oxide of the metal or the semiconductor.
US10978985B2
The control device includes: a unit for receiving, for a time period, phase voltage setpoints forming a setpoint vector in vector space; a unit for selecting at least N+1 states of the inverter which are associated, respectively, with at least N+1 predetermined vectors (M1 . . . M27) defining a volume in the vector space (Esp) containing the setpoint vector; a unit for controlling the inverter, over the time period, in order to place it successively in the selected states so that it substantially applies, on average over the time period, the phase voltage setpoints. The at least N+1 states of the inverter are selected from among groups of at least N+1 states of the inverter, the at least N+1 states of the inverter of at least one of the groups being associated, respectively, with at least N+1 predetermined vectors (M1 . . . M27), at least N of which are formed by predetermined zero-sum phase voltages and at least one of which is formed by predetermined nonzero-sum phase voltages.
US10978979B2
In this work, it is shown for the first time that the power and the impedance in a transformer circuit depend on the phase of the flux, hence the phase of the current. There is a phase change when the flux travels the magnetic core, and formulas for the effect of the phase change in the power and the impedance are derived. Therefore, the power factor can be adjusted so that the power is delivered more at the load than that, at the primary supplied by the source.
US10978972B2
An actuator controller that is capable of drivingly controlling an actuator, such as a motor, with a sufficient accuracy in spite of a simple configuration while preventing an incorrect detection of switching of a magnetic pole. The actuator controller drivingly controls an actuator having a driving element and a stator. A driver supplies an electric current to a coil provided in the stator so as to drive the driving element. A sensor detects a magnetic field of the driving element so as to detect a position of the driving element. A processor exclusively controls a timing at which the sensor detects the magnetic field and a timing at which the driver supplies the electric current to the coil.
US10978969B2
In order to enable safe deceleration of a transport unit of a long-stator linear motor, wherein in a normal mode a plurality of drive coils of the long-stator linear motor are energized in such a way that a magnetic field coupled to a transport unit is moved along a direction of motion in order to move the transport unit along the direction of motion, according to the invention a switching to a controlled short-circuit mode is performed during the braking operation of the transport unit, in which at least some of the drive coils are short-circuited at least over a first time interval in said mode.
US10978965B2
A triboelectric generator include at least two yarns, one of which has been infiltrated with a material having a positive triboelectric affinity and one of which has been infiltrated with a material having a negative triboelectric affinity. The at least two yarns are threaded through holes within a disk so that both of the yarns are disposed on both sides of the disk and pass through the holes within the disk. The at least two yarns are helically wrapped (or “coiled”) together on both sides of the disk. During uncoiling, the moving contact between the two yarns, infiltrated with materials having opposite triboelectric affinities, causes an electrical charge to develop. The generated electrical charge can be conducted away for use as electricity.
US10978962B2
A method includes detecting a voltage across a bulk capacitor of a power supply system, wherein the power supply system comprises a rectifier, a boost converter and a power converter, and wherein the bulk capacitor is between the boost converter and the power converter, activating the boost converter after the voltage across the bulk capacitor decreases and reaches a first voltage threshold and disabling the boost converter after the voltage across the bulk capacitor increases and reaches a second voltage threshold, wherein the second voltage threshold is greater than the first voltage threshold.
US10978960B2
In a power converter, modules are electrically interconnected by a busbar and joint members. Each joint member has a connecting portion formed on one side and a connecting portion formed on the other side, with respect to a bisector bisecting the width. The busbar has a connecting portion on one side with respect to a bisector bisecting the width. For a 200 V power supply specification, one end of each of two busbars is fixed to one joint member. For a 400 V power supply specification, one end of one busbar is fixed to one joint member.
US10978958B2
A half bridge switching cell includes two primary switching elements and a transformer with primary and secondary windings. Synchronized rectifiers correspond to the primary switching elements such that each of the synchronized rectifiers conducts when the corresponding primary switching element is not conducting. Each secondary winding is connected to one of the synchronous rectifiers and to a common connection and controlled current source. The primary switching elements conduct during offset times separated by a dead time. A magnetizing current flows through the secondary windings and synchronous rectifiers during the dead time. The magnetizing current flows into the primary winding when each of the synchronous rectifiers is turned off after the dead time, discharging a parasitic capacitance across the one of the primary switching elements when the corresponding synchronous rectifier is turned off, thereby creating a zero voltage switching condition at turn on for the primary switching elements.
US10978951B2
In a case where passivity-based control is applied to a plurality of circuits connected in parallel, a simpler target state is used. A switching power supply system includes: a plurality of switching power supply circuits connected in parallel to a load R; and a controller configured to switch each of the plurality of switching power supply circuits, through passivity-based control, by using a sum of currents that flow in the plurality of switching power supply circuits.
US10978950B2
Provided is multi-phase interleaving control in a power supply device. In power control by the power supply device where the dead beat control is applied to the multi-phase interleaving, combined current of the multi-phase current values is used as control current in the multi-phase control based on the multi-phase interleaving, thereby achieving control independent of the number of the detectors and the control system independent of the number of phases, and further, this control current is used to perform constant current control, so as to prevent overshooting and undershooting. The power supply device has multi-phase interleaving control that performs multi-phase control using a plurality of phase current values, provided with an LC chopper circuit constituting a step-down chopper circuit that operates according to the multi-phase control of multi-phase interleaving, and a controller for performing step response control according to the multi-phase control of the LC chopper circuit.
US10978947B2
An apparatus is disclosed for a single-inductor multiple-output (SIMO) power converter with a cross-regulation switch. An example apparatus includes a power source and a SIMO power converter. The SIMO power converter includes an input node coupled to the power source, a first node, a second node, a ground node, and an inductor coupled between the first node and the second node. The single-inductor multiple-output power converter also includes a first switch coupled between the input node and the first node, a second switch coupled between the first node and the ground node, and a cross-regulation switch coupled between the input node and the second node.
US10978943B2
A wind turbine power generating system and method includes a tower, a hub, a plurality of blades connected to the hub, and a rotor connected to the hub. A superconducting generator is coupled to the rotor and includes a plurality of superconductive coils. A nacelle is mounted atop the tower, with the superconducting generator housed within the nacelle. An automatic ramp-down system is configured with the superconducting coils and includes an automatically activated energy dump circuit for current withdrawn from the superconductive coils in a ramp-down process prior to a quench. The energy dump circuit includes one or more heat dissipating loads, wherein each of the heat dissipating loads is mounted in thermal communication with one of the tower or the nacelle that act a thermal heat sink for dispersing heat from the loads.
US10978942B2
A magnetically geared apparatus that includes a first rotor and a stator. The stator can include windings and a first plurality of permanent magnets, where the first plurality of permanent magnets are located between the windings and the first rotor. The stator can also include un-magnetized magnetisable material between circumferentially juxtaposed permanent magnets of the first plurality of permanent magnets.
US10978935B2
A switch power generating mechanism includes at least a first movable component, a second movable component, a first deforming component connected to the first movable component, and a power generator, wherein a pressing force is transmitted to the second movable component from the outside of the switch power generating mechanism to cause at least part of the first movable component and at least part of the second movable component to move in a connected manner and cause the first movable component to rotate by a fixed amount to deform the first deforming component by a fixed amount; and the deformation of the first deforming component is released once the first movable component has been caused to rotate by the fixed amount, and power generation is performed with power generated in the power generator due to the first movable component rotated by a fixed amount with the release from the deformation.
US10978926B2
A motor coil substrate includes a flexible insulating substrate having a cylindrical shape, wirings formed on a first surface of the flexible insulating substrate and a second surface of the flexible insulating substrate on the opposite side with respect to the first surface, and via conductors including copper plating penetrating through the flexible insulating substrate such that the via conductors are connecting the wirings formed on the first surface and the wirings formed on the second surface. The wirings and the via conductors form coils formed in spiral shapes, and the flexible insulating substrate is wound more than one turn in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical shape such that the first surface on an inner side of the cylindrical shape and the second surface on an outer side of the cylindrical shape oppose each other.
US10978923B2
An electric motor includes a stator and a rotor including a permanent magnet and an electromagnetic steel sheet. The electromagnetic steel sheet includes a magnet insertion hole, a first outer peripheral surface including an inter-pole part of the rotor, a second outer peripheral surface including a magnetic pole center part of the rotor, a first slit elongated in a circumferential direction of the rotor, and a first portion formed between the first slit and the magnet insertion hole. A distance from the first outer peripheral surface to the stator is larger than a distance from the second outer peripheral surface to the stator. The electric motor satisfies θa<θb, where θa is a first angle formed by a first line and a second line and θb is a second angle formed by a third line and the second line.
US10978919B2
An electric power transmission device as an aspect of the present invention includes a plurality of power transmitters configured to respectively generate magnetic fields. Phases of the respective magnetic fields are set such that the respective magnetic fields cancel out each other. The power transmitters sequentially shift frequencies of the respective magnetic fields to the same value at the same timing. A shift width of each of the frequencies for one-time shifting is limited by an upper limit value.
US10978913B2
A variable magnetic field in which a power-supplying coil and a power supplying resonator exist is generated only by the power-supplying coil. Power-supplying coils and each of which generates a variable magnetic field due to the supply of a variable current via a first current path on one coil end a side and a second current path on the other coil end side; resonance capacitors which are provided on the first current path and the second current path; and a power-supplying coil short-circuit mechanism which is able to cause at least one of the power-supplying coils and to function as a power supplying resonator by allowing the end portions and of the first current path and the second current path to short-circuit with each other are provided.
US10978912B2
An electronic device and method for wirelessly receiving power are provided. The electronic device includes a wired power interface; a power receiving circuit; and a control circuit configured to control the power receiving circuit to wirelessly receive power from a wireless power transmitting device; and provide the received power to an external electronic device through the wired power interface.
US10978909B2
A coil module includes: a coil formed by winding a coil wire; and an insulating member. The coil includes a first wound portion and a second wound portion, the first wound portion being formed to surround the winding axis, the second wound portion being formed at a position adjacent to the first wound portion on an outer perimeter side of the coil. The insulating member includes a first insulating portion configured to cover a perimeter surface of the first wound portion, and a second insulating portion configured to cover a perimeter surface of the second wound portion. A portion of a surface of the first insulating portion located on the outer perimeter side of the coil is in contact with a portion of a surface of the second insulating portion located on the winding axis side.
US10978908B2
Various examples are provided for wireless power charging for versatile receiver positions. In one example, a three dimensional array of transmitter coils is positioned around a charging area. A control circuit causes the array of transmitter coils to generate a magnetic field that charges a device with any position and orientation in the charging area.
US10978901B2
A wireless charging apparatus for use with an electronic gaming machine includes a button deck having a touchscreen video display, where the touchscreen video display is configured to display a touchscreen button at a first location. The wireless charging apparatus also includes a wireless charging device mounted within the button deck below the first location. The wireless charging device is configured to wirelessly charge a mobile communications device when the mobile communications device is positioned over the first location.
US10978900B2
Provided is an auxiliary battery capable of transmitting and receiving wireless power. The auxiliary battery capable of transmitting and receiving wireless power according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a battery; a wireless power transfer antenna which functions as an antenna for transmitting or receiving wireless power and is provided as a single antenna; and a circuit unit for controlling an operation of the wireless power transfer antenna, wherein the single antenna receives wireless power supplied from an external source so as to charge the battery, or wirelessly transmits power stored in the battery so as to charge a battery of the charge target.
US10978893B2
A system and method to disconnect a battery from a load circuit when the battery temperature is outside a selected high threshold or a low threshold. A plurality of temperature sensors are provided for sensing a high battery temperature and a low battery temperature. If the either the high temperature sensor or the low temperature sensor outputs an error signal, the battery is disconnected from the load circuits. The disconnection from the load circuits is carried out by disabling at least four different circuits, any one of which alone will disconnect the battery from the load circuits. These four circuits include a battery switch circuit, a power control circuit, a charge control logic circuit and a voltage regulator circuit. The plurality of temperature sensors provides a backup system in the event any one of the temperature sensors is defective.
US10978890B2
A network enabled portable charging station for it mobile electronic devices comprising a rectangular shaped housing, one or more removable battery packs, a main charging board, a plurality of interchangeable cord housing cartridges, a wireless speaker, and an adjustable faceplate. The plurality of cord housing cartridges comprising retractable charging cords, each of the retractable charging cords having a USB connector end for connecting to the charge and cell balancing circuit board, and a device connector end for connecting to a mobile electronic device. The faceplate is configured to be retractable or removable from the housing body, and with one or more USB ports for receiving a USB-enabled charging cord, and a plurality of charge ports.
US10978886B2
According to one embodiment, a BBU includes an array of battery cells, a DC/DC converter coupled to the battery cells, and a first switch logic coupled to the battery cells and the DC/DC converter. The first switch logic is configured to switch the BBU to operate between a first mode and a second mode. When operating in the first mode, the first switch logic causes the output voltage of the DC/DC converter to be provided to an external load. When operating in the second mode, the first switch logic causes the output voltage of the DC/DC converter to be coupled to an internal load for the purpose of determining the health of the battery cells.
US10978882B2
The present invention discloses a constant-current charging circuit, energy storage power source and constant-current charging method. The constant-current charging circuit includes a DC-DC converting circuit and a current-feedback circuit. A voltage output of the DC-DC converting circuit is a positive output of the constant-current charging circuit. A negative output of the DC-DC converting circuit is connected to a ground. The DC-DC converting circuit is connected to positive and negative terminals for a direct current voltage power supply. The current-feedback circuit includes first to third resistors and a reference voltage terminal. The reference voltage terminal is connected to the ground via the first to third resistors being connected in series. A connection point between the third resistor and the second resistor is a negative output of the constant-current charging circuit. A connection point between the first and second resistors is connected with a feedback terminal of the DC-DC converting circuit.
US10978875B2
An on-site ESS management device includes an editing part for selectively grouping a plurality of grid parts when a plurality of grid parts including at least one of a battery and a power converter connected to the battery are provided, a selection part for selecting a specific group, and a management part for managing the power input and output of each grid part included in the specific group.
US10978871B2
Provided is a power distribution system that includes a reconfigurable DC/DC power converter configured to be connected with an energy storage device at an input end for receiving an input voltage therefrom, and a power electronics building block having a primary bridge unit, a secondary bridge unit magnetically connected with the primary bridge unit, and an outer bridge unit at an output end and connected to an output of the secondary bridge unit, configured to output an output voltage.
US10978867B2
A system includes multiple protection modules. Each protection module includes monitoring terminals that monitor battery cells' status, an output terminal that outputs a protection signal if an abnormal condition in the cells is detected, a switching terminal that receives a switching signal, and detection circuitry that switches from a normal-working mode to a fast-test mode if receiving the switching signal, delays outputting the protection signal for a first time interval if the abnormal condition is detected in the normal-working mode, and delays outputting the protection signal for a second time interval, less than the first time interval, if the abnormal condition is detected in the fast-test mode. In the protection modules, the switching terminal of a first protection module and a monitoring terminal of the first protection module are coupled to a second protection module and receive a protection signal from the output terminal of the second protection module.
US10978864B2
The present invention relates to a circuit and an arrangement for breaking alternating current, the circuit comprising: an input arranged to receive an alternating current (AC); an output arranged to provide the alternating current (AC) to at least one electrical load; at least one controllable switch coupled between the input and the output; an impedance network (Z) coupled between the input and the output; and a transistor network (TN) comprising at least one transistor (TTN1; TTN2), the transistor network (TN) being arranged to control the at least one controllable switch, so as to control the breaking of the alternating current (AC) provided to the at least one electrical load, based on a value of at least one voltage (V1; V2) of at least one node of the impedance network (Z).
US10978860B1
The present invention is a portable hand tool for cutting the metal cladding of an electrical cable. The basic structure of the tool is a spring-loaded clamp comprising two opposing jaws which are biased toward closure by a torsion spring-loaded hinge mechanism. The upper jaw contains a rotating circular saw blade driven by a battery-powered electric motor, while the lower jaw contains a channel into which the cable is inserted. Application of manual pressure to the handle extensions of the two jaws has the dual effect of separating the jaws, so that the blade is raised away from contact with the cable cladding, and cutting off power to the motor, thereby stopping the blade rotation. With the blade raised and motionless, the operator can safely replace or re-position the cable in the lower jaw.
US10978854B2
In example implementations of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), the VCSEL includes a p-type distributed Bragg reflector (p-DBR) layer and a p-type ohmic (p-ohmic) contact layer adjacent to the p-DBR layer. The p-DBR layer may include an oxide aperture and the p-ohmic contact layer may have an opening that is aligned with the oxide aperture. The opening may be filled with a dielectric material. A metal layer may be coupled to the p-ohmic contact layer and encapsulate the dielectric material.
US10978851B2
Provided is a package for an optical device and an optical device module that can reduce or prevent damage occurrence in an optical fiber optically coupled to an optical device while ensuring a good airtightness. A package for an optical device includes a package main unit that accommodates an optical device; a pipe portion that is provided in the package main unit and through which an optical fiber optically coupled to the optical device is inserted; and a fixing portion that is provided in the package main unit and to which one end of the optical fiber is fixed, and the pipe portion includes a first pipe section having a base end fixed to the package main unit and a second pipe section joined to a tip of the first pipe section, having a higher thermal expansion coefficient than the first pipe section, to be sealed by a sealing material.
US10978850B2
A laser system, comprised of: a laser cavity; a gain medium a pump, a saturable absorber (SA); a first mirror and a second mirror; wherein a ratio of an area of the beam area within the SA to an area of the laser beam within the gain medium is greater than 1, and wherein the beam generates a gain medium radius spot on the gain medium and a saturable absorber radius spot on the saturable absorber such that a ratio between a saturable absorber radius spot on the saturable absorber and the gain medium radius spot on the gain medium is within a range of 1.7-7 is disclosed. A method for using the laser system e.g., for producing a pulsed energy is further disclosed.
US10978847B2
Implantable medical devices include elongated conductor bodies and related features including an attachment to the medical device at one end and a connector that receives a medical lead at the other end. The connector may have various features such as a modular design whereby the connector is constructed from a series of stacked contact modules. Other features of the connector include electrical contacts that are relatively thin conductors or the order of 0.040 inches or less and that may include radial protrusions to establish contact with the electrical connectors of the lead. Furthermore, electrical contacts may be mounted within the connector in a floating manner so that radial movement of the electrical contact may occur during lead insertion. Additional features include a feedthrough where conductors exposed beyond a housing of the implantable medical device make direct electrical connection to conductors present within the elongated body.
US10978841B2
Provided is a connector converter, comprising a shell a digital signal board, a power source board and a connecting wire, wherein the digital signal board and the power source board are respectively integrated with a digital circuit and a power source circuit, the digital signal board and the power source board are both provided in the shell and electrically connected to each other, an inner end of the connecting wire is electrically connected to the digital signal board, an outer end of the connecting wire extends out of the shell and is provided with an input interface, the digital signal board is provided with a plurality of output interfaces, and the shell is provided with an outer pocket. The digital signal board and the power source board are respectively integrated with the digital circuit and the power source circuit.
US10978839B2
A power distribution unit including an elongate housing and a power input penetrating said elongate housing. The power input can comprise a ground buss wire, a neutral buss wire and at least one line buss wire. A plurality of electrical outlets can be disposed along the housing. Each electrical outlet can comprise a receptacle and a plurality of spaced apart outlet pins protruding from the receptacle. The plurality of outlet pins can include a ground outlet pin receiving the ground buss wire, a neutral outlet pin receiving the neutral buss wire, and a line outlet pin receiving the line buss wire.
US10978837B2
An antenna unit that includes an antenna, at least one radio unit, and an interconnect that includes first and second mating connectors. The first connector is configured to be electrically and mechanically coupled to the antenna and the second connector is configured to be electrically and mechanically coupled to the at least one radio unit. The first connector has lead-in geometry, and radial and axial float for blind mating of the first and second mating connectors.
US10978833B2
An electromagnetic interference (EMI) grounding protection method for a connector assembly using a conductive housing. The method includes the steps of: conducting the EMI generated by a source towards a metallic braided shield, the metallic braided shield being secured and mounted onto the conductive housing by a metallic clamp; conducting the EMI from the metallic braided shield to the metallic clamp and to the conductive housing, the conductive plastic housing being mounted onto a metallic device by at least a metallic bolt and the bolt being accommodated within a corresponding metallic compression limiter; and thereafter, conducting the EMI: (1) from the conductive housing through the metallic compression limiters and through their respective bolts, and ultimately to the metallic device, and (2) from the conductive housing directly through conductive pads thereof, and ultimately to the metallic device.
US10978827B2
A diagnostic port connector for a vehicle that includes a locking mechanism is disclosed. The system can comprise a connector body, such as a male OBD-II connector. The connector can include a plurality of connector pins, with the pins capable of passing signals and messages from the vehicle's on board diagnostic system to a device in electrical communication with the connector. The connector can also include a connection retention component. The connection retention component can be configured to maintain a connection between male connectors and female connection ports by interfering with a protruding portion of the female connection port.
US10978821B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a rear base and a front tongue with two opposite surfaces, plural contacts secured to the insulative housing and exposed to the two opposite surfaces of the tongue, and a deep drawn sleeve having a front part of a first transverse dimension and a rear part of a second transverse dimension less than the first transverse dimension, wherein the rear part of the sleeve is mounted to the base of the insulative housing and has a notch, and the base of the insulative housing has a restraining rib engaging the notch.
US10978818B2
Embodiments describe an electronic device fastener including a base link bar, and a pair of corner retaining features coupled to the base link bar. Each corner retaining feature includes a base being formed of a planar structure and having a base top surface, a support rail extending from a portion of the base top surface and having a support rail top surface, a fastening feature defined by surfaces of the base and support rail and comprising vacant space extending through the base and at least a portion of the support rail, a guide wall extending from a portion of the support rail top surface, a retaining protrusion extending from the guide wall toward a center line of the electronic device fastener, and a stopper positioned beside the base link bar and at back ends of the base, the support rail, the guide wall, and the base link bar.
US10978816B2
A press-fit terminal includes: a pair of press fitting parts that are positioned facing each other in a direction (first orthogonal direction) orthogonal to an insertion direction into a through-hole of a substrate while an axial center along the insertion direction is interposed between the pair of press fitting parts and that are fitted by pressing into the through-hole in the insertion direction; and a compliant part positioned between the pair of press fitting parts and having an open hole that allows the pair of press fitting parts to deform inward in the orthogonal direction.
US10978815B2
A connection of a strand conductor to a connecting part, via an end of the strand conductor and a connecting part materially connected to the end of the strand conductor, wherein one end face of the end of the strand conductor is welded to the connecting part by means of ultrasound. A particularly good weld seam is achieved by first welding the end of the strand conductor to a sleeve using ultrasonic welding.
US10978809B2
A reflector includes a substrate, a plurality of reflector structures arranged on or in the substrate and configured to reflect an incident electromagnetic wave. The reflector further includes an electronic circuit that is arranged at, on or in the substrate and configured to control an antenna when the antenna is connected to the electronic circuit.
US10978804B2
A quadrifilar helical antenna for communicating in a plurality of different frequency bands comprises at least two ports. Each port is operationally coupled with a port-specific set of helical filars, the port-specific set of filars including at least one band-specific filar for each of said plurality of the different frequency bands. At least two of the band-specific filars, the band-specific filars belonging to different band-specific filars and different port-specific sets adjacent to each other, have mutual coupling between the ports, the mutual coupling resulting in a destructive phasing of the frequency bands between the at least two of the band-specific filars.
US10978797B2
An electronic device may be provided with a dielectric cover layer and a conductive layer on the dielectric cover layer. The conductive layer may define an opening. A dielectric spacer may be mounted to the cover layer within the opening. A substrate may be mounted to the spacer. Vertical conductive structures may extend from the conductive layer to the substrate and may laterally surround the spacer. A phased antenna array may be formed on the substrate and aligned with the opening. The cover layer may have a dielectric constant and thickness that are selected to form a quarter wave impedance transformer for the array at a wavelength of operation of the array. The spacer and the conductive structures may exhibit a cavity resonance at the wavelength. The array and the conductive structures may radiate radio-frequency signals at millimeter wave frequencies through the dielectric cover layer.
US10978795B2
An antenna structure includes a housing, a feed portion, a ground portion, a first radiator, and a second radiator. The housing includes a first radiating portion and a second radiating portion. The first radiator and the second radiator are both positioned in the housing. When the feed portion feeds current, the current flows through the first radiating portion and is grounded through the ground portion to activate a first operating mode. When the feed portion feeds current, the current is further coupled to the first radiator through the first radiating portion, and the first radiator activates a second operating mode. When the second radiator feeds current, the second radiator activates a third operating mode. When the second radiator feeds current, the current is further coupled to the second radiating portion through the second radiator, and the second radiating portion activates a fourth operating mode.
US10978794B2
An antenna device to be mounted to a vehicle roof, includes: a case unit having an accommodating space formed therein and having a radio wave permeability; and an antenna unit to be accommodated in the accommodating space, wherein the antenna unit has: a pair of capacitance loading elements facing across a plane, as a center, perpendicular to the vehicle roof at a predetermined interval and at a predetermined angle to each other; a coupling portion provided at a portion lower than an upper edge of the pair of the capacitance loading elements to conduct each of the pair of capacitance loading elements each other via each of the coupling portions; and a helical element electrically connected to the coupling portions.
US10978792B2
A radome assembly of an aircraft includes a shell having an elongated shape wherein the shell defines a first opening having a diameter of a first dimension and is positioned within a first end portion of the shell. The shell defines a second opening having an elongated shape which extends along a length of the shell and has a second dimension which is greater than the first dimension. First fastener extends through the first opening and is engaged with a first surface associated with a first structural element and resists movement of the shell and the first structural element relative to one another. Second fastener extends through the second opening and is engaged with a second surface associated with the first structural element such that the shell is moveable along the length of the shell relative to the first structural element.
US10978789B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing, a printed circuit board (PCB) in the housing, wherein the PCB includes a plurality of layers with one or more conductive and insulation layers, a first electrical component formed as at least a part of or in the housing, a second electrical component above or near the PCB in the housing, wherein the first and second electrical components are separated, and at least one electrical path extending from the first electrical component to the second electrical component, wherein at least a portion of the electrical path runs on or inside the PCB, wherein the PCB includes a region including a pattern of conductive vias, wherein each of the vias extends through at least part of the plurality of layers to contact at least one of the one or more conductive layers, and wherein the electrical path runs through the region without contacting the vias.
US10978782B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip and a redistribution layer structure. The redistribution layer structure is arranged to form an antenna transmitter structure and an antenna receiver structure over the semiconductor chip, wherein patterns of the antenna receiver structure are located at different levels of the redistribution layer structure, and at least one pattern of the antenna transmitter structure is at the same level of the topmost patterns of the antenna receiver structure.
US10978762B2
A battery pack provided with a battery core pack having a plurality of battery cells held by a holding part of a cell holder, and a case for accommodating the battery core pack. The cell holder has a peripheral wall part surrounding the holding part. A plurality of slits extending along the peripheral direction on an end surface of the peripheral wall part are provided to the peripheral wall part.
US10978758B2
A metal air battery system having a rotating anode/cathode assembly. The assembly is mounted in a housing system that provides a mechanism for loading of fresh metal anodes for the purpose of mechanical recharge of the battery. The anode and cathode are able to rotate at high speed for the purposes of producing local high centrifugal (g) forces on their respective surfaces for the purpose of wiping clean liquid electrolyte from their surface to provide for almost instantaneous shutdown of chemical reactions producing hydrogen gas and electric current. The anode and cathode are also rotated at slower speeds for the purpose of providing an even corrosion of the metal anode surface and the cathode rides on the liquid electrolyte using a dynamic and or static liquid bearing design. This liquid bearing provides a constant distance and therefore electrical resistance in the battery.
US10978755B2
A cooling system for a rechargeable energy system includes a plurality of bus bars, a cooling plate configured for cooling the plurality of bus bars and disposed in a thermally-conductive relationship with a portion of each of the plurality of bus bars, and an isolation component disposed between and in contact with the cooling plate and each of the plurality of bus bars. A rechargeable energy storage system and device are also described.
US10978753B2
Provided is a battery module. The battery module includes a lower cooling tube arranged in the lower cooling plate, an upper cooling tube arranged in the upper cooling plate, the upper cooling tube being connected to the lower cooling tube and arranged in a different plane than the lower cooling tube, and a branching portion connecting the lower cooling tube to the upper cooling tube, wherein the branching portion includes a lower connection tube connected to the lower cooling tube, an upper connection tube connected to the upper cooling tube, a lower connection housing arranged to surround an outer surface of the lower connection tube, and an upper connection housing arranged to surround an outer surface of the upper connection tube, the upper connection housing being coupled to the lower connection housing.
US10978750B2
Disclosed is a battery module comprising at least one battery cell and a cell monitoring unit which is connected in an electrically conducting manner to a flexible circuit board by at least one bonding wire and/or at least one bonding strip.
US10978743B1
A system and method for optimizing electrochemical cells including electrodes employing coordination compounds by mediating water content within a desired water content profile that includes sufficient coordinated water and reduces non-coordinated water below a desired target.
US10978740B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide an electrolyte solution of which electrolyte salt concentration is high and by which cycle characteristics hardly deteriorate and battery lifetime can be extended, and a lithium ion secondary battery which contains the above electrolyte solution. The electrolyte solution of the present invention comprises an electrolyte salt and a solvent, wherein a concentration of the electrolyte salt is more than 1.1 mol/L, the electrolyte salt contains a compound represented by the following formula (1): (XSO2) (FSO2)NLi (1) (wherein X is a fluorine atom, a C1-6 alkyl group or a C1-6 fluoroalkyl group), and the solvent contains a cyclic carbonate.
US10978738B2
Electrolyte solutions including additives or combinations of additives that provide low temperature performance and high temperature stability in lithium ion battery cells.
US10978733B2
The invention relates to non-aggregated carbon-coated silicon particles having average particle diameters d50 of 1 to 15 μm, which particles contain ≤10 wt % carbon and ≥90 wt % silicon, each based on the total weight of the carbon-coated silicon particles
US10978732B2
An integrated plate is configured with a positive electrode plate, a negative electrode plate, and a separator integrated in a card-like shape. The integrated plate comprising a storage part, a positive current collecting part, and a negative current collecting part is formed in an integrated plate manufacturing process. An electrode laminated body is manufactured in a piling process by piling a plurality of the integrated plates such that the storage parts, the positive and negative current collecting parts are overlapped together seen from upper position respectively The integrated plate manufacturing process includes a raising step of forming a raised part raised from other parts by partly bending or curving in at least a coinciding one of the positive current collecting part and the negative current collecting part for the plurality of the integrated plates, and the raised parts are overlapped one another seen from upper position in the piling process.
US10978721B2
A battery separator includes a polyolefin microporous membrane and a porous layer placed on at least one surface of the polyolefin microporous membrane. The polyolefin microporous membrane has a variation range of an F25 value in a longitudinal direction of 1 MPa or less. The F25 value indicates a value obtained by dividing a load value measured at 25% elongation of a specimen with use of a tensile tester by a cross-sectional area of the specimen. The porous layer contains a fluorine-based resin and an inorganic particle and has an average thickness T(ave) of 1 to 5 μm.
US10978718B2
A pyrolyzed MOF catalyst for in the carbon dioxide reduction reaction and methods of making the catalyst. The catalysts are composed of highly porous transition metal organic frameworks exhibiting large pores with regular distribution of transition metals within the structure.
US10978717B2
This invention relates to aqueous ink compositions comprising an aqueous solvent, particles comprising a metal or a metal compound or a mixture thereof, a dispersant, preferably selected from an electrostatic dispersant, a steric dispersant, an ionic dispersant, a non-ionic dispersant or a combination thereof, a polymeric binder and a non-ionic surfactant which may be used for 3D inkjet printing components, primarily for high-temperature electrochemical devices.
US10978713B2
An apparatus is provided according to embodiments of the present invention which includes a reaction chamber having a wall defining an interior of the reaction chamber and an exterior of the reaction chamber; exoelectrogenic bacteria disposed in the interior of the reaction chamber; an aqueous medium having a pH in the range of 3-9, inclusive, the aqueous medium including an organic substrate oxidizable by exoelectrogenic bacteria and the medium disposed in the interior of the reaction chamber. An inventive apparatus further includes an anode at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber; and a brush or mesh cathode including stainless steel, nickel or titanium, the cathode at least partially contained within the interior of the reaction chamber.
US10978704B2
An acidified metal oxide (“AMO”) material, preferably in monodisperse nanoparticulate form 20 nm or less in size, having a pH<7 when suspended in a 5 wt % aqueous solution and a Hammett function H0>−12, at least on its surface. The AMO material is useful in applications such as a battery electrode, catalyst, or photovoltaic component.
US10978702B2
A novel hybrid lithium-ion anode material based on coaxially coated Si shells on vertically aligned carbon nanofiber (CNF) arrays. The unique cup-stacking graphitic microstructure makes the bare vertically aligned CNF array an effective Li+ intercalation medium. Highly reversible Li+ intercalation and extraction were observed at high power rates. More importantly, the highly conductive and mechanically stable CNF core optionally supports a coaxially coated amorphous Si shell which has much higher theoretical specific capacity by forming fully lithiated alloy. Addition of surface effect dominant sites in close proximity to the intercalation medium results in a hybrid device that includes advantages of both batteries and capacitors.
US10978697B2
Disclosed are a negative active material for a rechargeable lithium battery and a rechargeable lithium battery including the same. The negative active material has an N/P ratio, which is a ratio of a maximum capacity per a unit area of a negative active material relative to maximum capacity per a unit area of a positive active material, ranging from about 1.5 to about 2. The negative active material includes a composite particle of silicon (Si) and carbon and crystalline carbon. A content of the Si is about 3 wt % to about 15 wt % based on a total weight of the negative active material.
US10978683B2
The present invention provides a method of manufacturing n battery cells (n≥2), each including a respective reference electrode for measuring a relative electrode potential, including: (i) manufacturing a reference cell composed of an electrolyte solution, the reference electrodes, and a lithium electrode; (ii) charging the reference cell; (iii) charging the reference cell to 40% to 60% of a capacity discharged in the process (ii), thereby performing formation on the reference electrodes; (iv) manufacturing the n battery cells, each of the battery cells including a respective one of the reference electrodes, an electrode assembly, the electrolyte solution and a battery case; and (v) in each of the battery cells, measuring a relative potential of the respective one of the reference electrodes and a positive electrode of the respective electrode assembly, and a relative potential of the respective one of the reference electrodes and a negative electrode of the respective electrode assembly.
US10978665B1
The present invention discloses a display panel and a display panel manufacturing method. The display panel includes: a substrate; a pixel definition layer including an auxiliary electrode and a pixel electrode layer disposed at an interval; electron transport layer; a cathode layer; organic layer; an OLED light emitting layer; an insulation column disposed on the auxiliary electrode; and a metal layer disposed on a first side of the insulation column; wherein the cathode layer is connected electrically to the auxiliary electrode through the metal layer.
US10978656B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a plurality of pixels on a substrate, the plurality of pixels having a red subpixel, a green subpixel, and a blue subpixel; an anode on the substrate; a first hole transfer layer on the anode; a first emission layer on the first hole transfer layer in the red subpixel, the green subpixel, and the blue subpixel; a first electron transfer layer on the first emission layer; an N-type charge generation layer on the first electron transfer layer; a second hole transfer layer on the N-type charge generation layer; a second emission layer on the second hole transfer layer in the red subpixel, the green subpixel, and the blue subpixel; a second electron transfer layer on the second emission layer; and a cathode on the second electron transfer layer,
US10978650B2
A light-emitting device is provided. The device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a hole transport region between the first electrode and the emission layer, and an electron transport region between the emission layer and the second electrode. The hole transport region may include a hole transport layer, which in turn includes a first perovskite compound [A1l][B1m][X1]n with a neutral defect. A hole concentration of the first perovskite compound may be from about 1.0×1016 to about 9×1018 cm−3 at about 25° C.
US10978645B2
Indolocarbazole tetraphenylene compounds are disclosed. These novel compounds contain tetraarylene or tetraheteroarylene which can be used as charge transporting materials, charge blocking materials, hosts or emitters in an organic electroluminescent device. These novel compounds offer better device performance than comparative compounds that don't contain a tetraarylene or tetraheteroarylene structure. Also disclosed are an electroluminescent device and a formulation.
US10978631B2
A method of producing a quantum circuit includes forming a mask on a substrate to cover a first portion of the substrate, implanting a second portion of the substrate with ions, and removing the mask, thereby providing a nanowire. The method further includes forming a first lead and a second lead, the first lead and the second lead each partially overlapping the nanowire. In operation, a portion of the nanowire between the first and second leads forms a quantum dot, thereby providing a quantum dot Josephson junction. The method further includes forming a third lead and a fourth lead, one of the third and fourth leads partially overlapping the nanowire, wherein the third lead is separated from the fourth lead by a dielectric layer, thereby providing a Dolan bridge Josephson junction. The nanowire is configured to connect the quantum dot Josephson junction and the Dolan bridge Josephson junction in series.
US10978620B2
Provided are a light emitting device and an illumination device. The light emitting device is provided with a light emitting element having a light emission peak wavelength in a wavelength range of 380 nm or more and 490 nm or less, a first fluorescent material which is excited by the light from the light emitting element to emit light having at least one light emission peak wavelength in a wavelength range of 580 nm or more and less than 680, and a second fluorescent material which is excited by the light from the light emitting element to emit light having at least one light emission peak wavelength in a wavelength range of 680 nm or more and 800 nm or less, wherein a ratio R/B of a photon flux R of red light in a wavelength range of 620 nm or more and less than 700 nm to a photon flux B of blue light in a wavelength range of 400 nm or more and 490 nm or less is more than 4 and 50 or less, a ratio R/Fr of the photon flux R to a photon flux Fr of far-red light in a wavelength range of 700 nm or more and 780 nm or less is 0.1 or more and 10 or less, and the second fluorescent material contains at least one fluorescent material selected from the group consisting of a first aluminate fluorescent material and a second aluminate fluorescent material.
US10978614B2
A light-emitting device includes an emission structure, a current block layer on the emission structure, a reflective layer on the current block layer, a protection layer that covers the reflective layer, and an electrode layer on the protection layer.
US10978611B2
A semiconductor structure can comprise a plurality of first semiconductor layers comprising wide bandgap semiconductor layers, a narrow bandgap semiconductor layer, and a chirp layer between the plurality of first semiconductor layers and the narrow bandgap semiconductor layer. The values of overlap integrals between different electron wavefunctions in a conduction band of the chirp layer can be less than 0.05 for intersubband transition energies greater than 1.0 eV, and/or the values of overlaps between electron wavefunctions and barrier centers in a conduction band of the chirp layer can be less than 0.3 nm−1, when the structure is biased at an operating potential. The chirp layer can comprise a short-period superlattice with alternating wide bandgap barrier layers and narrow bandgap well layers, wherein the thickness of the barrier layers, or the well layers, or the thickness of both the barrier and well layers changes throughout the chirp layer.
US10978605B2
Provided are a semiconductor photodiode which achieves a higher response rate in a state in which light receiving sensitivity is maintained. The semiconductor photodiode includes a p-type semiconductor contact layer, an n-type semiconductor contact layer, and a light absorption layer. The light absorption layer includes a first semiconductor absorption layer having a thickness Wd and a p-type second semiconductor absorption layer having a thickness Wp. The first semiconductor absorption layer and the second absorption layer are made of the same composition. The first semiconductor absorption layer is depleted, and the second semiconductor absorption layer maintains an electric charge neutral condition except for a region near an interface with the first semiconductor absorption layer. A relationship between the thickness Wd and the thickness Wp satisfies 0.47≤Wp/(Wp+Wd)≤0.9.
US10978604B2
A method for fabricating a photovoltaic device includes forming a polycrystalline absorber layer including Cu—Zn—Sn—S(Se) (CZTSSe) over a substrate. The absorber layer is rapid thermal annealed in a sealed chamber having elemental sulfur within the chamber. A sulfur content profile is graded in the absorber layer in accordance with a size of the elemental sulfur and an anneal temperature to provide a graduated bandgap profile for the absorber layer. Additional layers are formed on the absorber layer to complete the photovoltaic device.
US10978598B2
An antenna electrode including a first electrode that includes a core and a first conductive surface; a second electrode that includes a second conductive surface; and an electrical tunnel junction between the first conductive surface and the second conductive surface, the tunnel junction having a gap width greater than about 0.1 nm and less than about 10 nm.
US10978591B2
A nanowire semiconductor device having a high-quality epitaxial layer. The semiconductor device may include: a substrate; one or more nanowires spaced apart from the substrate, wherein the nanowires each extend along a curved longitudinal extending direction; and one or more semiconductor layers formed around peripheries of the respective nanowires to at least partially surround the respective nanowires, wherein the respective semiconductor layers around the respective nanowires are spaced apart from each other.
US10978590B2
Methods and apparatus to remove epitaxial defects in semiconductors are disclosed. A disclosed example multilayered die structure includes a fin having a first material, where the fin is epitaxially grown from a first substrate layer having a second material, and where a defect portion of the fin is etched or polished. The disclosed example multilayered die structure also includes a second substrate layer having an opening through which the fin extends.
US10978587B2
The present examples relate to a semiconductor device used in an electric device or high voltage device. The present examples improve Rsp by minimizing drift region resistance by satisfying breakdown voltage by improving the structure of a drift region through which current flows in a semiconductor device to provide optimal results. Moreover, a high frequency application achieves useful results by reducing a gate charge Qg for an identical device pitch to that of an alternative technology.
US10978582B2
Disclosed herein are quantum dot devices with patterned gates, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, a quantum dot device may include gates disposed on a quantum well stack. In some embodiments, the gates may include a first gate with a first length; two second gates with second lengths arranged such that the first gate is disposed between the second gates; and two third gates with third lengths arranged such that the second gates are disposed between the third gates; and the first, second, and third lengths may all be different. In some embodiments, the gates may include a first set of gates alternatingly arranged with a second set of gates, spacers may be disposed between gates of the first set and gates of the second set, and gates in the first or second set may include a gate dielectric having a U-shaped cross-section.
US10978578B2
Scalable quantum dot devices and methods are described. An example quantum dot device may comprise one or more repeated cells of a repeating quantum dot structure. The repeated cells may be arranged as a linear array of quantum dots. A single repeated cell may comprise a plurality of quantum dots. The repeated cells may be configured to cause movement of a single electron between adjacent quantum dots. A repeated cell may also comprise a charge sensor for readout of the plurality of quantum dots.
US10978571B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to techniques for forming a self-aligned contact liner using metal-insulator transition materials. The self-aligned contact architecture described herein prevents a short between the gate and the source/drain, even when the self-aligned contact (SAC) cap has eroded to the point where the gate is exposed. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a dielectric cap is formed over a conductive gate. A source or drain region is formed adjacent to the conductive gate. A dielectric liner is formed over the dielectric cap and the source or drain region such that a first portion of the dielectric liner is on a surface of the source or drain region. The dielectric liner includes a metal-insulator transition material. The first portion of the dielectric liner is metalized via germanium oxide sublimation.
US10978561B2
A layer according to one embodiment of the present invention may exhibit a first number of electron states in a low-level electron energy range in a conduction band, and exhibit a second number of electron states in a high-level electron energy range higher than the low-level electron energy level in the conduction band, wherein localized states may exist between the low-level electron energy range and the high-level electron energy level.
US10978554B2
A method of forming elevationally-elongated conductive structures of integrated circuitry comprises providing a substrate comprising a plurality of spaced elevationally-extending conductive vias. Conductive material is formed directly above and directly against the conductive vias. The conductive material has an upper surface and a first sidewall that are directly above individual of the conductive vias in a vertical cross-section. The conductive material has a second sidewall that is not directly above the individual conductive vias. Covering material is formed directly above individual of the upper surfaces and against individual of the first sidewalls directly above the individual conductive vias. The covering material comprises a composition different from that of at least some of the conductive material. Etching is conducted completely through at least some of the covering material that is directly above the individual upper surfaces to the conductive material directly there-below and etching is conducted into said conductive material. The covering material that is against the individual first sidewalls masks the individual first sidewalls from being etched during said etchings. Structure that may be independent of method is disclosed.
US10978551B2
A method for forming a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor on a semiconductor substrate is presented. The method includes forming a first electrode defining columnar grains, forming a dielectric layer over the first electrode, and forming a second electrode over the dielectric layer. The first and second electrodes can be titanium nitride (TiN) electrodes. The dielectric layer can include one of hafnium oxide and zirconium oxide deposited by atomic layer deposition (ALD). The ALD results in deposition of high-k films in grain boundaries of the first electrode.
US10978548B2
A method of forming an integrated capacitor on a semiconductor surface on a substrate includes etching a capacitor dielectric layer including at least one silicon compound material layer on a bottom plate which is above and electrically isolated from the semiconductor surface to provide at least one defined dielectric feature having sloped dielectric sidewall portion. A dielectric layer is deposited to at least partially fill pits in the sloped dielectric sidewall portion to smooth a surface of the sloped dielectric sidewall portion. The dielectric layer is etched, and a top plate is then formed on top of the dielectric feature.
US10978541B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light emitting display device, the method includes forming a thin film transistor (TFT) in an active area of a substrate and forming a signal pad and a first pad electrode, connected to the signal pad, in a pad area of the substrate, forming a passivation layer on the TFT and the first pad electrode, forming a planarization layer on the passivation layer, removing a certain region of the passivation layer to simultaneously form an area, through which the TFT is exposed to the outside, and an area through which the first pad electrode is exposed to the outside, forming a first anode electrode connected to the TFT, a first auxiliary electrode spaced apart from the first anode electrode, and a second pad electrode that is connected to the first pad electrode and covers the exposed first pad electrode; and forming a second anode electrode, covering a top and a side surface of the first anode electrode, and a second auxiliary electrode covering a top and a side surface of the first auxiliary electrode.
US10978540B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: forming an auxiliary electrode including: a first conductive layer; and a second conductive layer disposed on the first conductive layer, the second conductive layer having a resistance higher than a resistance of the first conductive layer; forming a first intermediate layer on the auxiliary electrode; exposing the first conductive layer includes forming a first opening in the first intermediate layer and an opening portion in the second conductive layer by removing a portion of the first intermediate layer and a portion of the second conductive layer of the auxiliary electrode; and forming an opposite electrode on the first intermediate layer and the first conductive layer, wherein the opposite electrode is disposed contacting the first conductive layer exposed through the first opening of the first intermediate layer and the opening portion of the second conductive layer.
US10978537B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate, a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate, a plurality of transmissive windows spaced apart from the pixels, and a light blocking member disposed between one of the pixels and one of the transmissive windows. The pixels display an image, and light is transmitted through the transmissive windows. Each pixel includes a transistor including a plurality of electrode members disposed in different layers on the substrate. The light blocking member includes a plurality of light blocking sub-members respectively disposed in the same layers as the plurality of electrode members.
US10978533B2
An array substrate structure is provided, which includes a substrate with a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A first TFT is on the first surface of the substrate, and a second TFT is on the second surface of the substrate. A through via passes through the substrate, and the first TFT is electrically connected to the second TFT through the through via.
US10978532B2
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel which comprises a thin-film transistor (TFT) device layer and a light-emitting layer disposed on the thin-film transistor device layer. A reflection-enhancing layer provided between the thin-film transistor device layer and the light-emitting layer includes an insulating layer disposed on the thin-film transistor device layer, a plurality of reflecting electrodes disposed on the insulating layer in a matrix manner and corresponding one-to-one to each emitting area of the organic light-emitting diode display panel, and a planarization layer disposed on the insulating layer and covering the plurality of reflecting electrodes. A plurality of anodes of the light-emitting layer are disposed on the planarization layer, and the plurality of anodes of the light-emitting layer are positioned opposite to the plurality of reflecting electrodes.
US10978530B2
A method of manufacturing a pixelated structure may be provided. The method may comprising providing a donor substrate comprising the plurality of pixelated microdevices, bonding a selective set of the pixelated microdevices from the donor substrate to a system substrate; and patterning a bottom conductive layer of the pixelated microdevices after separating the donor substrate from the system substrate. The patterning may be done by fully isolating the layers or leaving some thin layers between the patterns.
